113 - David Spiegel: Hypnosis and Mental Illness
David Spiegel is Willson Professor of Medicine and Associate Chair of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine. He did his undergraduate work at Yale and received his M.D. from Harvard Med...
11 Jul 20231h 32min
112 - Victor Davis Hanson: Revisionist History and the Dying Citizen
Victor Davis Hanson is a renowned classicist, military historian, and political commentator. He is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoov...
9 Jul 20231h 1min
111 - Avi Loeb: Alien Life, Extraterrestrial Spacecraft, and Oumuamua
Avi Loeb is Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science in the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University, and former chair of the department. Before joining Harvard he spent fifteen years working in t...
7 Jul 20231h 50min
110 - Daniel Kahneman: Biases and Flaws in Human Judgment
Daniel Kahneman is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Public Policy at Princeton University. He won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002 for joint work with Amos Tversky in which they reveal...
4 Jul 20231h 6min
109 - Slavoj Žižek: Wokeness, Psychoanalysis, and Quantum Mechanics
Slavoj Žižek is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University, and a senior researcher at the University of...
2 Jul 20231h 36min
108 - Chiara Mingarelli: Supermassive Black Holes & the Gravitational Wave Background
Chiara Mingarelli is a gravitational-wave astrophysicist and a professor in the Department of Physics at Yale University. She studies supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies and their merg...
29 Jun 20231h 31min
107 - Kevin Dorst: Bayesian Reasoning, Irrationality, and Political Polarization
Kevin Dorst is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. He works at the intersection between philosophy and social science, focusing on rationality. In this episode Kevin an...
27 Jun 20231h 45min
106 - David Albert & Sean Carroll: Quantum Theory, Boltzmann Brains, & The Fine-Tuned Universe
David Albert is the Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and Director of the Philosophical Foundations of Physics program at Columbia. David is a prior guest of the R...
25 Jun 20232h 10min
