Podcast Episodes
Back to Search139. Shelby Steele — Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country & the film What Killed Michael Brown?
Episode 139
The United States today is hopelessly polarized; the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing any …
5 years, 6 months ago
138. Douglas Murray — The Madness of 2020
Episode 138
In this special episode of the Science Salon Podcast, Michael Shermer catches up with Douglas Murray one year after the publication of his bestsellin…
5 years, 6 months ago
137. Marta Zaraska — Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism, and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100
Episode 137
From the day her daughter was born, science journalist Marta Zaraska fretted about what she and her family were eating. She fasted, considered adopti…
5 years, 6 months ago
136. Gad Saad — The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
Episode 136
There's a war against truth and if we don't win it, intellectual freedom will be a casualty. The West's commitment to freedom, reason, and true liber…
5 years, 6 months ago
135. Paul Halpern — Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect
Episode 135
Does the universe have a speed limit? If not, some effects could happen at the same instant as the actions that caused them — and some effects, ludic…
5 years, 7 months ago
134. Joe Henrich — The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Episode 134
WEIRD: Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic.
Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, WEIRD people are…
5 years, 7 months ago
133. Michael E. McCullough — The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code
Episode 133
In this sweeping psychological history of human goodness — from the foundations of evolution to the modern political and social challenges humanity i…
5 years, 7 months ago
132. Leonard Mlodinow — Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics
Episode 132
One of the most influential physicists of our time, Stephen Hawking touched the lives of millions. Recalling his nearly two decades as Hawking's coll…
5 years, 7 months ago
131. Stuart Ritchie — Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
Episode 131
Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures in peer review and mistakes in statistics have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies …
5 years, 8 months ago
130. Debra Soh — The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths About Sex and Identity in Our Society
Episode 130
Is our gender something we're born with, or are we conditioned by society? In The End of Gender, neuroscientist and sexologist Dr. Debra Soh uses a r…
5 years, 8 months ago