226. Suzanne Nossel on defending free speech for all, based on her book Dare to Speak
Online trolls and fascist chat groups. Controversies over campus lectures. Cancel culture versus censorship. The daily hazards and debates surrounding free speech dominate headlines and fuel social me...
13 Nov 20211h 35min
225. Nancy Segal — Deliberately Divided: Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted Apart
In the early 1960s, the head of a prominent New York City Child Development Center and a psychiatrist from Columbia University launched a study designed to track the development of twins and triplets ...
9 Nov 20211h 46min
224. Bobby Duffy on The Generation Myth: Why When You're Born Matters Less Than You Think
Boomers are narcissists. Millennials are spoiled. Gen Zers are lazy. We assume people born around the same time have basically the same values. But, do they? Michael Shermer speaks with social researc...
6 Nov 20211h 50min
223. Paul Bloom on the pleasures of suffering and the meaning of life
We go to movies that make us cry, or scream, or gag. We poke at sores, eat spicy foods, immerse ourselves in hot baths, run marathons. Some of us even seek out pain and humiliation in sexual role-play...
2 Nov 20212h 24min
222. Suzanne O'Sullivan on psychosomatic disorders and other mystery illnesses
Michael Shermer speaks with award-winning Irish neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan about her work exploring the complexity of psychogenic illness affecting people all around the world. Her book The Sleepi...
30 Okt 20211h 35min
221. Antonio Damasio — Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the problem of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings across multiple scientific di...
26 Okt 20211h 42min
220. Charles Foster on Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness
Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, natural history, agriculture, medical law and ethics, Charles Foster, in Being a Human, makes an audacious attempt to feel a connection with 45,000 years of human...
23 Okt 20211h 57min
219. In-Person Conversation (in Shermer's Home) with Steven Pinker on Rationality: What it is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why it Matters in Shermer's Home
In this conversation with Steven Pinker on his new book Rationality, the Harvard psychologist and Michael Shermer discuss how today humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding — and a...
19 Okt 20211h 49min
