How Not to Age
When Dr. Michael Greger, founder of NutritionFacts.org, dove into the top peer-reviewed anti-aging medical research, he realized that diet could regulate every one of the most promising strategies for...
16 Dec 20232h 3min
How to Cultivate Your Imagination as an Adult
Imagination is commonly thought to be the special province of youth―the natural companion of free play and the unrestrained vistas of childhood. Then come the deadening routines and stifling regimenta...
12 Dec 20231h 34min
Nobel Prize Winner Explains Inequality and Capitalism
When economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the early 1980s, he was awed by America's strengths and shocked by the extraordinary gaps he witnessed between people. In th...
5 Dec 20231h 18min
The Purpose of the Universe
Why are we here? What's the point of existence? On the 'big questions' of meaning and purpose, Western thought has been dominated by the dichotomy of traditional religion and secular atheism. In his p...
2 Dec 20231h 57min
How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation
Why are so many of us wrong about so much? From COVID-19 to climate change to the results of elections, millions of Americans believe things that are simply not true―and act based on these mispercepti...
28 Nov 20231h 41min
JFK 60th Anniversary of the Assassination
A conversation with Warren Commission Assistant Counsel Burt W. Griffin, Case Closed author and Lee Harvey Oswald scholar Gerald Posner, and JFK conspiracy theory debunker Michel Gagné. Shermer, Griff...
22 Nov 20231h 55min
The Scientific Search for Alien Life
Everyone is curious about life in the Universe, UFOs and whether ET is out there. Over the course of his thirty-year career as an astrophysicist, Adam Frank has consistently been asked about the possi...
18 Nov 20231h 37min
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Converted to Christianity
On November 11, 2023, my friend, colleague, and hero Ayaan Hirsi Ali released a statement explaining "Why I am Now a Christian". What follows is my response, "Why I am Not a Christian," and why in any...
15 Nov 202330min
