Know Thyself 39: The Connecticut Witch Hangings with Beth Caruso
Beth Caruso, author of "One of Windsor: The Untold Story of America's First Witch Hanging" tells us the stories of Alse Young and Lydia Gilbert, two of the first known victims of Witch Mania in The Co...
5 Juni 201936min
Know Thyself 38: Witch Hunts and Black Mass
Today we stare into the hooked nose of a most troubling historical evidence of our capacity for hysteria: the witch craze. How did witches go from being village wise women and cunning folk to enemy nu...
23 Maj 201945min
Know Thyself 37: Mob Mentality and Morality with Rob Henderson
Today we introduce our series on Mob Madness and Mass Delusions. I speak to Rob Henderson, PhD student in psychology and Gates scholar studying moral psychology (not his own) at Cambridge University. ...
14 Maj 201930min
Know Thyself 36: Ancient Hominin Predators to Modern Man-Eaters
The bones of our ancient relatives and prehistoric ancestors bear the puncture wounds, scrapings, and bite marks that tell a horrifying tale of predation. Who and what we are has been shaped by what w...
3 Maj 201950min
Know Thyself 35: Climate Change and Human History
In this episode we learn that we are tough to kill and hard to keep alive. Within our sphere we are durable and resilient, but that sphere is very narrow indeed. We survive catastrophes, searing heat,...
16 Apr 201940min
Know Thyself 34: The Bugs are Going to Win with Mark Crislip, MD
Our relationship with microorganisms is *ahem* complicated...mostly symbiotic, but often combative and, yes, fatal. In this episode I speak with a physician on the front lines of the battle to the dea...
25 Mars 201940min
Know Thyself 33: Smallpox
The Adapt or Die Series goes Viral... Egyptians, Hittites, Athenians, Romans -- outbreak after outbreak Variola major has been a pox on our house from time immemorial. No other disease has weakened an...
18 Mars 201954min
Know Thyself 32: Plague Life 1347-1351
The puking flea apocalypse! This is one of the rare events in history where the death toll is constantly being revised HIGHER as new data comes in. By recent estimates, possibly 40% of THE WORLD kille...
7 Mars 201954min
