Podcast Episodes
Back to Search143. Nicholas Christakis — Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
Episode 143
Apollo's Arrow offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020, and of how the recov…
5 years, 9 months ago
142. Philip Goff — Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness
Episode 142
Understanding how brains produce consciousness is one of the great scientific challenges of our age. Some philosophers argue that consciousness is so…
5 years, 9 months ago
141. Richard Kreitner — Break it Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union
Episode 141
The provocative thesis of Break It Up is simple: The United States has never lived up to its name—and never will. The disunionist impulse may have fo…
5 years, 10 months ago
140. Rebecca Wragg Sykes — Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
Episode 140
The common narrative of Neanderthals is that they were a group of dullard losers whose extinction 40,000 years ago was due to smarter competition and…
5 years, 10 months ago
BONUS: James Randi—A Report from the Paranormal Trenches (1992)
This classic lecture on skepticism was given by James Randi on March 22, 1992 at the inaugural session of the Distinguished Science Lecture Series ho…
5 years, 10 months ago
139. 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 months ago