86: Do animals get drunk and high? - Oné Pagán
Have you ever wondered if your furry friend might be partial to a beer or two? Did you know that koalas smoked pipes and dolphins get high on pufferfish? Here to tell us all about the weird and wonder...
20 Dec 20211h 10min
85: Lonely, Sexless Men (Incels) - William Costello
William Costello is a writer and an academic in the field of Evolutionary Psychology who has specialised in incel culture and things like beauty and attraction. He's also a lovely, charming man, a gre...
13 Dec 20211h 21min
84: Why people become terrorists: Nafees Hamid
Nafees Hamid talks about what makes people into terrorists and other forms of extremists…and how we might be able to persuade them or talk them down. He is a research fellow at ARTIS International, an...
6 Dec 20211h 23min
83: NXIVM Sex-Trafficking Cult Survivor Kelly Thiel
Kelly Thiel was once a member of the notorious NXIVM cult. For those of you who – like me – don’t or didn’t know much about this sect, you’re in for a bit of a shock – not least in how that bunch of c...
29 Nov 20211h
82: I lived in an airport for 7 months: Hassan Al Kontar
Today’s guest is Hassan al-Kontar, an absolute gem of a person who found himself in one of the most unique and unusual positions imaginable: living in an airport for seven months. As a Syrian refugee,...
22 Nov 20211h 11min
81: Why we like to suffer - Prof. Paul Bloom
Why do we like to suffer? Canadian-American Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science Paul Bloom believes he has the answer. Or at least, some of the answers to what is a profound and complex ques...
15 Nov 20211h 9min
80: Guantanamo's Most Tortured Prisoner: Mohamedou Ould Salahi
Today, we’ve got a classic On the Edge interviewee, in the form of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who was detained in Guantanamo Bay for 14 years and is considered by some to be Guantanamo’s most tortured pri...
8 Nov 20211h 16min
78: True Crime 2: Swedish Killer Twin Sisters
In the second episode of our Halloween trilogy, Dr. Sohom Das explains what really went on in the minds of Swedish twin sisters Ursula and Sabina Eriksson, who terrified motorists, before one of them...
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