120 - The Backfire Effect - Part Four
Last year on this show, we did three episodes about the backfire effect, and by far, those episodes were the most popular we’ve ever done.In fact, the famous web comic The Oatmeal turned them into a s...
29 Jan 20181h 10min
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 time with Holocaust deniers, young Earth creationists...
15 Jan 201839min
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 documentaries and writing books aimed at helping us to ma...
1 Jan 201857min
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 behind the things that our amazing brains do poorly.I...
18 Des 201747min
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 has developed a new theory of consciousness that, ...
4 Des 20171h
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 it.In this episode we explore how machine learning...
20 Nov 201754min
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 see things your way?New research by sociologist Ro...
5 Nov 201752min
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 persuasive narratives are those that transport us. On...
23 Okt 201736min
