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047 - Public Shaming - Jon Ronson
Public shaming is back. Once done in town squares, the subjects of our ridicule locked in pillories and unable to avoid the rotten fruit and insults …
11 years, 1 month ago
046 - Inbetweenisode 11 - Steven Novella
In this inbetweenisode you will hear an excerpt from a lecture I gave at DragonCon2014 and an interview with neurologist and host of The Skeptic's Gu…
11 years, 1 month ago
045 - Doctors - Danielle Ofri
In this episode, we talk to Danielle Ofri, a physician and author of "What Doctors Feel" - a book about the emotional lives of doctors and how compas…
11 years, 1 month ago
044 - Inbetweenisode - James Burke And Matt Novak (Rebroadcast)
This episode is a rebroadcast of two interviews from episode 20 all about how we are very, very bad at predicting the future both in our personal liv…
11 years, 2 months ago
043 - Misremembering - Julia Shaw and Dan Simons
Did Brian Williams lie, exaggerate, or misremember? How certain are you that your most vivid memories are real? How easily could someone implant a fa…
11 years, 3 months ago
042 - Bodily Resonance - Lara Maister
Scientists are using rubber hands and virtual reality to transfer people's minds into avatars designed to look like members of groups and subcultures…
11 years, 3 months ago
041 - Inbetweenisode - The Game/Ceiling Crasher
In this episode, two stories, one about a football game that split reality in two for the people who witnessed it, and another about what happened wh…
11 years, 3 months ago
040 - Monkey Marketplace - Laurie Santos
How far back can we trace our irrational behaviors and cognitive biases? Evolutionarily speaking, why do we even do these things? Can we blame our fa…
11 years, 4 months ago
039 - Blind Insight - Ryan Scott
Is it possible to for different parts of your mind to learn how the world works at different rates? Is it possible that the unconscious part of you c…
11 years, 4 months ago
038 - Inbetweenisode - The Halo Effect
One salient trait can cause you to misjudge every other trait when evaluating a new hire, a love interest, a colleague, or even a potential purchase.…
11 years, 5 months ago