Rationally Speaking #79 - Chris Mooney on The Republican War on Science
Can science denialism be blamed on a "Republican brain"? In other words: is there something about the psychology of Republicans that makes them inclined to reject the scientific consensus on topics li...
27 Jan 201350min
Rationally Speaking #78 - Intelligence and Personality Testing
What's your IQ? Are you an ENTJ, or maybe an ISFP? What's your Openness score, your Conscientiousness score, your Neuroticism score? And just how seriously should you take all those test scores, anywa...
13 Jan 201351min
Rationally Speaking #77 - Victoria Pitts-Taylor on Feminism and Science
In this episode, Massimo and Julia discuss sociology and feminism, with special guest Victoria Pitts-Taylor, professor of sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Victoria ...
30 Des 201255min
Rationally Speaking #76 - Crowdsourcing and the Wisdom of Crowds
What do Linux, Netflix, and the Oxford English Dictionary have in common? They've all benefited from the power of crowdsourcing, in which a task is outsourced to a group of hundreds or thousands of di...
16 Des 201250min
Rationally Speaking #75 - When Scientists Kill
We look to scientists to keep us informed about risks, such as: is this medicine effective? Is that level of toxicity harmless? How severe should we expect this upcoming storm to be? But when lives ar...
2 Des 201249min
Rationally Speaking #74 - Live! John Shook on Philosophy of Religion
Massimo and Julia visit Indianapolis for a heated debate, in this live episode of Rationally Speaking. At a symposium organized by the Center for Inquiry (CFI), they join up with John Shook, Director ...
18 Nov 201248min
Rationally Speaking #73 - Answers for Aristotle
In this episode Julia interviews Massimo about his new book, Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to A More Meaningful Life. Massimo's central idea is that a combination of sc...
4 Nov 20121h 13min
Rationally Speaking #72 - Graham Priest on Paradoxes and Paraconsistent Logic
Can a statement be simultaneously true and false? That might seem like sheer nonsense to you -- but not to certain modern logicians. In this episode Massimo and Julia are joined again by philosopher a...
21 Okt 201246min
