#115 Phil Halper & Niayesh Afshordi - What Came Before The Big Bang?
Niayesh Afshordi is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo. Phil Halper is a science communicator and YouTuber. Together, they have authored a book called...
4 Aug 20252h
#114 Simon Blackburn - What is Ethical Emotivism?
Simon Blackburn is well-known both as a writer of popular philosophy introductions (like Think), and also a significant figure in non-cognitivist meta-ethics, having invented the term “quasi-realism” ...
28 Jul 20251h 21min
#113 Sabine Hossenfelder - Superdeterminism: Why Are Physicists Scared of It?
Sabine Hossenfelder is a German theoretical physicist, author, science communicator, and YouTuber. She is the author of Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions. Learn mor...
21 Jul 20251h
#112 Rick Alan Ross - Do Cult Leaders Believe Their Own Lies?
Rick Alan Ross is an American deprogrammer, cult specialist, and founder and executive director of the non-profit Cult Education Institute. Frequently appearing in the news and other media, discussing...
13 Jul 20251h 54min
#111 Helen Bond - The Forgotten Female Disciples of Jesus
Helen Bond is Professor of Christian Origins at the New College, University of Edinburgh, and former head of the School of Divinity there. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 20...
6 Jul 20251h 25min
#110 The Cultural Tutor - Why Modern Love Fails and How to Rescue It
Sheehan Quirke is The Cultural Tutor. A writer on history, art, and architecture with millions of followers, he is also the author of the forthcoming The Cultural Tutor: Forty-Nine Lessons You Wish Yo...
1 Jul 20251h 16min
#109 David Pakman - The New Threat Donald Trump Poses to America
David Pakman is an American progressive political commentator and host of @thedavidpakmanshow . Buy David's book, The Echo Machine here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice...
22 Jun 20251h 8min
#108 Marcus du Sautoy - Do Numbers Exist?
Marcus du Sautoy is a British mathematician, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, Fellow of New College, Oxford and author of popular mathematics and ...
16 Jun 20251h 6min
