801: Circumcision | Skeptical Sunday
While mandated by some religious and cultural traditions for thousands of years, and not without certain benefits to health, is circumcising newborns before they're old enough to consent wrong? Welco...
26 Feb 202338min
800: Can Therapy Wreck a Background Check? | Feedback Friday
Sexually abused by your own brother at a young age, and aware of your own proclivities to possibly abuse others younger than yourself, you wonder if seeking therapy to alleviate how you feel might get...
24 Feb 202356min
799: Marina Nemat | Surviving Inside an Iranian Prison
Marina Nemat (@marinanemat) is a human rights activist who survived torture and imprisonment in Iran after Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution. She chronicled her ordeals in Prisoner of Tehran: On...
23 Feb 20231h 29min
798: Forrest Galante | A Wild Life of Rediscovery
Forrest Galante (@ForrestGalante) is a wildlife biologist, conservationist, co-host of The Wild Times Podcast, and TV presenter for Extinct or Alive and Mysterious Creatures. He is also the author of ...
21 Feb 20231h 15min
797: Ouija Boards | Skeptical Sunday
Every year around Halloween, millions of teenagers, drunk adults, and terrified believers gather around Ouija boards to contact "The Other Side." We've all been a part of it, and we know we weren't mo...
19 Feb 202333min
796: Pervert-in-Law Scammer Belongs in the Slammer | Feedback Friday
Your creepy brother-in-law has been using explicit pictures of you — which he obtained through a nanny cam he secretly installed in your bedroom eight years ago — to anonymously threaten you with blac...
17 Feb 20231h 9min
795: Alastair Smith | The Dictator's Handbook Part Two
Alastair Smith is the Bernhardt Denmark Chair of International Relations at New York University, professor of political science in the Wilf Family Department of Politics, and co-author (with Bruce Bue...
16 Feb 20231h 8min
794: Alastair Smith | The Dictator's Handbook Part One
Alastair Smith is the Bernhardt Denmark Chair of International Relations at New York University, professor of political science in the Wilf Family Department of Politics, and co-author (with Bruce Bue...
14 Feb 20231h 1min
