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Episode 377
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A stranger insists you "smile more," even as you navigate a high-stress environment or grat…
2 years, 6 months ago
Dan Dennett Looks Back on His Career
Episode 376
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Daniel Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the tho…
2 years, 7 months ago
How the American Right Became Radicalized
Episode 375
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At the height of the John Birch Society's activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a par…
2 years, 7 months ago
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Ways of Thinking That Power Successful People
Episode 374
Shermer and Pompliano discuss: personal journey from college to Fortune to The Profile • what distinguishes the truly exceptional from the merely gre…
2 years, 7 months ago
How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy
Episode 373
Lee McIntyre is Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University. Formerly Executive Director of the Institut…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Law vs. Separation of Church and State
Episode 372
Shermer and Tabash discuss: the history of the relationship between church and state • the founding framers of the U.S. Constitution and their argume…
2 years, 8 months ago
Based on DNA Testing, Only One Twin Was Granted U.S. Citizenship. Why?
Episode 371
This episode is a conversation based on two of Nancy Segal's books The Twin Children of the Holocaust: Stolen Childhood and the Will to Survive and G…
2 years, 8 months ago
Evidence of Aliens? Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb
Episode 370
Did Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb discover the remnants of an interstellar meteor in the form of spherules on the ocean floor? Could they be of alien o…
2 years, 8 months ago
Slavery in the U.S. Analyzed by a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Lawyer and Historian (Ed Larson)
Episode 369
New attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve s…
2 years, 8 months ago