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089 - Connections - James Burke
Legendary science historian James Burke returns to explain his newest project, a Connections app that will allow anyone to "think connectively" about…
9 years, 11 months ago
088 - Moral Arguments
In this divisive and polarized era how do you bridge the political divide between left and right? You do you persuade the people on the other side to…
9 years, 11 months ago
087 - Paranoia
Jesse Walker is the author of The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory, a book that explores the history of American conspiracy theories go…
9 years, 11 months ago
086 - Change My View
For computer scientist Chenhao Tan and his team, the internet community called Change My View offered something amazing, a ready-made natural experim…
10 years ago
085 - Misremembering - Julia Shaw (rebroadcast)
Julia Shaw's research demonstrates the fact that there is no reason to believe a memory is more accurate just because it is vivid or detailed. Actual…
10 years ago
084 - Getting Gamers - Jamie Madigan
Why do people cheat? Why are our online worlds often so toxic? What motivates us to "catch 'em all" in Pokemon, grinding away for hours to hatch eggs…
10 years, 1 month ago
083 - Idiot Brain - Dean Burnett
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…
10 years, 1 month ago
082 - Crowds (rebroadcast)
This episode’s guest, Michael Bond, is the author of The Power of Others, and reading his book I was surprised to learn that despite several decades …
10 years, 2 months ago
081 - The Climate Paradox
In this episode, psychologist Per Espen Stoknes discusses his book: What We Think About When We Try Not to Think About Global Warming.
Stoknes has dev…
10 years, 2 months ago
080 - Deep Canvassing
Oddly enough, we don’t actually know very much about how to change people’s minds, not scientifically, that's why the work of the a group of LGBT act…
10 years, 3 months ago