Rationally Speaking #7 - Peter Woit discusses whether string theory is "not even wrong"
We are taking on fundamental physics! Our guest, Peter Woit, is a physicist in the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University and author of "Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the ...
25 Apr 201033min
Rationally Speaking #6 - Fluffy Thinking
Fluffy Thinking is a peculiar type of uncritical thinking that sounds sophisticated, and is next to impossible to criticize frontally both because it barely has anything to do with empirical evidence,...
10 Apr 201033min
Rationally Speaking #5 - Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Need for a Space Program
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson joins Massimo and Julia to discuss the need for a space program. Many scientists (and most people in the skeptic community) simply assume that funding outlets like NASA are a g...
28 Mar 201033min
Rationally Speaking #4 - The Great Atheist Debate Over the Limits of Science
"Accommodationist" is a word that began to appear in recent months during public debates over science and religion. The derogatory term has been applied to atheists and rationalists like Eugenie Scott...
14 Mar 201031min
Rationally Speaking #3 - Can History Be a Science?
Our guest, Prof. Peter Turchin from the University of Connecticut, joins Massimo and Julia to discuss whether history can be studied and understood in a scientific manner. In an article in Nature (3 J...
28 Feb 201028min
Rationally Speaking #2 - Love, a Skeptical Inquiry
Will science ever really be able to explain love? Science has already found correlations between particular hormones and certain forms or stages of love. However, no matter how many correlations we fi...
14 Feb 201033min
Rationally Speaking #1 - Why be rational?
Why is "speaking rationally" a worthwhile goal anyway? It's not self-evident, at least not to many people. Human beings certainly don't seem made for it. Aristotle may have famously dubbed us "the rat...
21 Jan 201032min
