Rationally Speaking #31 - Vegetarianism
Vegetarianism is a complex set of beliefs and practices, spanning from the extreme "fruitarianism," where people only eat fruits and other plant parts that can be gathered without "harming" the plant,...
27 Mar 201151min
Rationally Speaking #30 - Cordelia Fine on Delusions of Gender
Cordelia Fine joins us from Melbourne, Australia to discuss her book: "Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences." Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory, yet popular boo...
13 Mar 201149min
Rationally Speaking #29 - Q&A Live!
In a continuation of episode 28, Massimo and Julia sit down for a Q&A session in front of a live audience at the Jefferson Market Library in New York City. The audience's questions include whether eco...
27 Feb 20111h 6min
Rationally Speaking #28 - Live! How To Tell Science From Bunk
Massimo and Julia sit down in front of a live audience at the Jefferson Market Library in New York City for a conversation about science, non-science, and pseudo-science. Based on Massimo's book: "Non...
13 Feb 201149min
Rationally Speaking #27 - The Perihelinox Episode, With Historian Timothy Alborn on Anniversaries
In honor of our first anniversary we invited Historian Timothy Alborn to help us understand the arbitrary nature of anniversaries, both those that mark events of personal significance and those that h...
30 Jan 201147min
Rationally Speaking #26 - Is Anthropology Still a Science?
In a recent article in the New York Times, Nicholas Wade reported that the American Anthropological Association had decided "to strip the word 'science' from a statement of its long-range plan." Is th...
16 Jan 201146min
Rationally Speaking #25 - Q&A With Massimo and Julia
Massimo and Julia answer listeners' questions, as they try to stay away from politics. In this installment the topics include: is quantitative research more scientific than qualitative one, can philos...
2 Jan 20111h 3min
Rationally Speaking #24 - Memetics!
The term meme was introduced by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 bestseller "The Selfish Gene."Dawkins was trying to establish the idea that Darwinian evolution is a universal, almost logically necessary p...
19 Des 201047min
