290. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo — Eat like a Pig, Run Like a Horse
Shermer and de Salcedo discuss: her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis at age 27 • her long-term psychological strategy for living with a serious illness • what "eating like a pig" actually means • our 7...
2 Aug 20221h 35min
289. James Kirchick — Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
This episode is sponsored by Wren. Signup at wren.co/shermer and Wren will plant 10 trees in your name. Start a monthly subscription to fund climate solutions. Shermer and Kirchick discuss: archives a...
26 Jul 20221h 40min
288. Lucy Cooke — Bitch: On the Female of the Species
Since Charles Darwin, evolutionary biologists have been convinced that the males of the animal kingdom are the interesting ones dominating and promiscuous, while females are dull, passive, and devoted...
19 Jul 20221h 6min
287. Bobby Azarian — Life, the Universe, and Cosmic Complexity
In this conversation based on his new book, The Romance of Reality, cognitive neuroscientist Bobby Azarian explains how for centuries the question Why do we exist? was the sole province of religion an...
12 Jul 20222h 7min
286. Kevin McCaffree — How Societies Change and Why
Since the dawn of social science, theorists have debated how and why societies appear to change, develop and evolve. Today, this question is pursued by scholars across many different disciplines and o...
9 Jul 20221h 45min
285. Helen Joyce — Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
Biological sex is no longer accepted as a basic fact of life. It is forbidden to admit that female people sometimes need protection and privacy from male ones. In an analysis that is at once expert, s...
5 Jul 20221h 55min
284. Yoram Hazony on Traditional Conservatism vs. Enlightenment Liberalism
In this conversation based on his new book, political theorist Yoram Hazony argues that the best hope for Western democracy is a return to the empiricist, religious, and nationalist traditions of Amer...
28 Jun 20221h 50min
283. Michael Strevens — The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
Shermer and Strevens discuss: irrationality and how it drives science • the scientific method • the knowledge machine • irrationality • the replication crisis, what caused it, and what to do about it ...
25 Jun 20221h 32min
