257. Simon Conway Morris on Design in Evolution & the Possibility of Purpose in the Cosmos
If extraterrestrial intelligences exist, will look anything like us? Are we alone in the cosmos? If we reran the tape of life, would humans appear again? Is there purpose in the cosmos? Shermer speaks...
26 Mar 20222h
256. Imagining the Future with Reality Game Designer and Futurist Jane McGonigal
Shermer speaks with world-renowned future forecaster and game designer, Jane McGonigal, about her book Imaginable in which she draws on the latest scientific research in psychology and neuroscience to...
22 Mar 20221h 9min
255. David Chalmers — Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
Shermer speaks with University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and codirector of the Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness at New York University, Dr. David Chalmers, to discuss: the har...
19 Mar 20221h 51min
254. Ravi Gupta on the Lost Debate: Whatever Happened to Reasoned Discussion and Respectable Disagreement?
Shermer speaks with Ravi Gupta, the Founder and CEO of Lost Debate, a new non-profit media company that launched in October 2021 to fight polarization and misinformation online. The company has seed f...
15 Mar 20221h 38min
253. Jennifer Sciubba on Putin, Russia, Ukraine, National & Global Security, and How Population Demographics Shape Our Future
Shermer speaks with political demographer, former demographics consultant to the United States Department of Defense, and author of The Future Faces of War, Jennifer Sciubba, about her new 8 Billion a...
12 Mar 20221h 19min
252. John Mueller on Putin's War: Russia, Ukraine, and NATO
In this conversation with the renowned Ohio State University political scientist John Mueller, author of The Stupidity of War, Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War, and The Remnants of...
8 Mar 20221h 26min
251. Kelly Weill on Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
Since 2015, there has been a spectacular boom in a nearly 200-year-old delusion — the idea that we all live on a flat plane, under a solid dome, ringed by an impossible wall of ice. It is the ultimate...
1 Mar 20221h 42min
250. Will Sanctions Work? War in Ukraine.
An analysis of Russia's war on Ukraine. Will sanctions work? This episode is a reading from Michael Shermer's post on Substack entitled: "Putin's Problem: The outlawry of war has forced tyrants to con...
25 Feb 202222min
