Podcast Episodes
Back to Search109. Neil Shubin — Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
Episode 109
The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth …
6 years, 1 month ago
108. Brian Greene — Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Episode 108
Until the End of Time is Brian Greene's breathtaking new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to find meaning in the face of this vast expanse. Gr…
6 years, 1 month ago
107. Fred Kaplan — The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
Episode 107
From the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war —…
6 years, 1 month ago
106. Daniel Chirot — You Say You Want a Revolution? Radical Idealism and its Tragic Consequences
Episode 106
Why have so many of the iconic revolutions of modern times ended in bloody tragedies? What lessons can be drawn from these failures today, in a world…
6 years, 2 months ago
105. Diana Pasulka — American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology
Episode 105
More than half of American adults and more than 75 percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief riva…
6 years, 2 months ago
104. Judith Finlayson — You Are What Your Grandparents Ate: What You Need to Know About Nutrition, Experience, Epigenetics and the Origins of Chronic Disease
Episode 104
In this wide ranging conversation Judith Finlayson reviews the research she writes about in her new book that takes conventional wisdom about the ori…
6 years, 2 months ago
103. Robert Frank — Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work
Episode 103
Psychologists have long understood that social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, often for the worse. But social …
6 years, 2 months ago
102. Christopher Ryan — Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress
Episode 102
Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending — balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, …
6 years, 3 months ago
101. Hugo Mercier — Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe
Episode 101
Not Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe — and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions. …
6 years, 3 months ago
100. AMA-6. Episode Special: Ask Me Almost Anything
Episode 100
In this 100th episode of the Science Salon podcast Dr. Shermer gives a brief overview and history of the salon and how it evolved from the Distinguis…
6 years, 3 months ago