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119 - The Unpersuadables
Our guest for this episode, Will Storr, wrote a book called The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science.
In that book, Storr spends ti…
8 years, 3 months ago
118 - Connections (rebroadcast)
In this episode of the YANSS Podcast, we sit down with legendary science historian James Burke.
For much of his career, Burke has been creating docume…
8 years, 4 months ago
117 - Idiot Brain (rebroadcast)
In this episode we interview Dean Burnett, author of "Idiot Brain: What Your Brain is Really Up To." Burnett's book is a guide to the neuroscience be…
8 years, 4 months ago
116 - Reality (rebroadcast)
Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? For our guest in this episode, cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman, that's his day job.
Hoffman…
8 years, 5 months ago
115 - Machine Bias
We've transferred our biases to artificial intelligence, and now those machine minds are creating the futures they predict. But there's a way to stop…
8 years, 5 months ago
114 - Moral Arguments (rebroadcast)
In this divisive and polarized era how do you bridge the political divide between left and right? How do you persuade the people on the other side to…
8 years, 6 months ago
113 - Narrative Persuasion
One of the most effective ways to change people’s minds is to put your argument into a narrative format, a story, but not just any story. The most pe…
8 years, 6 months ago
112 - Change My View (rebroadcast)
For computer scientist Chenhao Tan and his team, the internet community called Change My View offered something amazing, a ready-made natural experim…
8 years, 7 months ago
111 - Collective Intelligence
If you wanted to build a team in such a way that you maximized its overall intelligence, how would you do it? Would you stack it with high-IQ brainia…
8 years, 7 months ago
110 - Sleep Deprivation and Bias
If you could compare the person you were before you became sleep deprived to the person after, you’d find you’ve definitely become...lesser than.
Whe…
8 years, 8 months ago