I migliori Michael Shermer podcast (2024)

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The Science of Happines 1:48:24

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We all want to be happier, but our brains often get in the way. When we’re too stuck in our heads we obsess over our inadequacies, compare ourselves with others and fail to see the good in our lives. In The Science of Happiness, world-leading psychologist and happiness expert Bruce Hood demonstrates that the key to happiness is not self-care but co…

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Bruce Hood — The Science of Happiness: 7 Lessons for Living Well

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https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss427_Bruce_Hood_2024_04_30.mp3 Download MP3 We all want to be happier, but our brains often get in the way. When we’re too stuck in our heads we obsess over our inadequacies, compare ourselves with others and fail to see the good in our lives. In The Science of Happiness, world-leading psychologist a…

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How Rhetoric Shapes Your Opinions 1:11:13

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Robin Reames breaks down the major techniques of rhetoric, pulling back the curtain on how politicians, journalists, and “journalists” convince us to believe what we believe—and to talk, vote, and act accordingly. Understanding these techniques helps us avoid being manipulated by authority figures who don’t have our best interests at heart. It also…

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Robin Reames — The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times

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https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss426_Robin_Reames_2024_04_27.mp3 Download MP3 The discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand years. Only recently has its perceived importance faded. In this book, renowned rhetorical scholar Robin Reames argues that, in today’s polarized political climate, we …

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Viva Frei on Tik Tok Censorship, and Trump 1:44:08

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The mighty Viva Frei pops by to talk about the 100 billion bill that rescues Ukraine and Israel - and enables more censorship moves in the wake of the uniparty’s Tik Tok victory. Viva shares the podcasting load with Trish, still recovering. Also, they recite the serenity prayer — a helper through these difficult times. Support the new Tamara Lich D…

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Accomplishment and Happiness (Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker) 1:23:18

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We push ourselves toward the highest-paying, most prestigious jobs, seeking promotions and public recognition. As Adam Gopnik points out, the result is not so much a rat race as a rat maze, with no way out. Except one: to choose accomplishment over achievement. Achievement is the completion of the task imposed from outside. Accomplishment, by contr…

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Protest and Prison 1:21:52

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Canada slides into a dark epoch as a jury verdict in three of the Coutts blockade cases portends jail time and an uncertain future for civil disobedience. Marco Van Huigenbos, who protested harmful C-19 policies, was convicted this week and tells Trish that he is prepared to do his time. Please forgive any minor technical issues you might notice. W…

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Should We Prepare for Nuclear War? (Annie Jacobsen) 1:14:41

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Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen investigated this ticking-clock scenario, based on dozens of exclusive new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons, been privy to the response plans, and are responsible for those decisions should they need to be made. Shermer and Jacobsen discuss: surviving a nuclear explosion…

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Annie Jacobsen — What Happens Minutes After a Nuclear Launch?

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https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss424_Annie_Jacobsen_2024_04_20.mp3 Download MP3 Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These investigations are vital to how we understand the world we really live in—where one nu…

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An AI... Utopia? (Nick Bostrom, Oxford) 1:45:45

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Nick Bostrom’s previous book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, changed the global conversation on AI and became a New York Times bestseller. It focused on what might happen if AI development goes wrong. But what if things go right? Bostrom and Shermer discuss: An AI Utopia and Protopia • Trekonomics, post-scarcity economics • the hedo…

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Nick Bostrom — Life and Meaning in a Solved World

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https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss423_Nick_Bostrom_2024_04_16.mp3 Download MP3 Nick Bostrom’s previous book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, changed the global conversation on AI and became a New York Times bestseller. It focused on what might happen if AI development goes wrong. But what if things go right? Suppose t…

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Life on Mars? (Robert Zubrin) 1:40:43

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When Robert Zubrin published his classic book The Case for Mars a quarter century ago, setting foot on the Red Planet seemed a fantasy. Today, manned exploration is certain, and as Zubrin affirms in The New World on Mars, so too is colonization. From the astronautical engineer venerated by NASA and today’s space entrepreneurs, here is what we will …

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Robert Zubrin — How What We Can Create on the Red Planet Informs Us on How Best to Live on the Blue Planet

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https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss422_Robert_Zubrin_2024_04_13.mp3 Download MP3 When Robert Zubrin published his classic book The Case for Mars a quarter century ago, setting foot on the Red Planet seemed a fantasy. Today, manned exploration is certain, and as Zubrin affirms in The New World on Mars, so too is colonization. From the…

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Robots and the People Who Love Them 1:13:15

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Shermer and Herold discuss: social robots, sex robots, robot nannies, robot therapists • flying cars, jetpacks and The Jetsons • Masahiro Mori • emotions, animism, mind • emotional intelligence • artificial intelligence • large language lodels • ChatGPT, GPT-4, GPT-5 and beyond • the alignment problem • robopocalypse • robo soldiers • robot sentien…

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Lance Grande — The Formation, Diversification, and Extinction of World Religions

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https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss420_Lance_Grande_2024_04_06.mp3 Download MP3 Thousands of religions have adherents today, and countless more have existed throughout history. What accounts for this astonishing diversity? This extraordinarily ambitious and comprehensive book demonstrates how evolutionary systematics and philosophy c…

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The Formation, Diversification, and Extinction of World Religions 2:01:25

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Thousands of religions have adherents today, and countless more have existed throughout history. What accounts for this astonishing diversity? This extraordinarily ambitious and comprehensive book demonstrates how evolutionary systematics and philosophy can yield new insight into the development of organized religion. Lance Grande―a leading evoluti…

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Maggie Jackson — Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure

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https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss419_Maggie_Jackson_2024_04_02.mp3 Download MP3 In an era of terrifying unpredictability, we race to address complex crises with quick, sure algorithms, bullet points, and tweets. How could we find the clarity and vision so urgently needed today by being unsure? Uncertain is about the triumph of doin…

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The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Uncertain 1:29:18

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In an era of terrifying unpredictability, we race to address complex crises with quick, sure algorithms, bullet points, and tweets. How could we find the clarity and vision so urgently needed today by being unsure? Uncertain is about the triumph of doing just that. A scientific adventure tale set on the front lines of a volatile era, this epiphany …

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Coleman Hughes — The End of Race Politics

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https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss418_Coleman_Hughes_2024_03_30.mp3 Download MP3 As one of the few black students in his philosophy program at Columbia University years ago, Coleman Hughes wondered why his peers seemed more pessimistic about the state of American race relations than his own grandparents–who lived through segregation…

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The End of Race Politics (Coleman Hughes) 1:34:33

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As one of the few black students in his philosophy program at Columbia University years ago, Coleman Hughes wondered why his peers seemed more pessimistic about the state of American race relations than his own grandparents–who lived through segregation. The End of Race Politics is the culmination of his years-long search for an answer. Coleman Hug…

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Dr. Francis Christian — Is God Our Best Weapon Right Now 2:07:33

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The heartbreak of the Covidian era is leading to a spiritual renewal - and even Joe Rogan is praising Jesus. On this Good Friday — Trish speaks to Dr. Francis Christian — dissident surgeon who paid a high price for warning about about the Covid vaccine for children. He tells us about his devout faith, his recognition of evil in the world and how to…

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NBA Star Blake Griffin. The Forward w/ Lance Armstrong 1:06:42

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Lance catches up with Blake in Austin for a South By Southwest panel. They talk about their love of sports and becoming veteran athletes, balancing sport, and family, and embarking on a 2nd career after sports, including Blakes's passion for humor, TV, and film.

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Critical Extra: Bridge Collapse Details with a Navy SEAL and the Huberman Smear 41:58

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The world woke up to a terrifying video of a bridge collapsing and people and cars falling into the dark, freezing water, near Baltimore. A former Navy skipper and trained SEAL answers our questions about how it happened and the likely fate of the people on the bridge. What will happen to the captain.?And what went wrong? And then Trish on the Andr…

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How to Repair America’s Broken Democracy 1:07:44

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Order the Artificial Intelligence issue of SKEPTIC magazine at https://www.skeptic.com/magazine/archives/29.1/ (available in print or digital format). Looking ahead to the 2024 election, most Americans sense that something is deeply wrong with our democracy. We face extreme polarization, increasingly problematic candidates, and a government that ca…

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Max Stearns — How to Repair America’s Broken Democracy

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https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss417_Max_Stearns_2024_03_26.mp3 Download MP3 Order the Artificial Intelligence issue of Skeptic magazine (in print or digital format). Looking ahead to the 2024 election, most Americans sense that something is deeply wrong with our democracy. We face extreme polarization, increasingly problematic can…

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Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up (Abigail Shrier) 1:08:23

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In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z’s mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not helped the staggering number of kids who are lonely, lost, sad and fearful of growing up. What…

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Martin Kulldorff Leaves Harvard 2:13:44

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Our guest Martin Kulldorff on the end of his Harvard career, the price of truth, and how he is moving forward in his new life. And just as Trish was celebrating Candace Owens' courage on Gaza, Owens is fired from The Daily Wire by Ben Shapiro. Plus a new film further debunks dangerous atrocity propaganda, and we brace for the blowback. Support the …

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An Unfinished History of the Holocaust 1:36:35

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The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked. Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone—Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London—reveals how the idea of …

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Dan Stone — An Unfinished History of the Holocaust

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https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss415_Dan_Stone_2024_03_19.mp3 Download MP3 The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked. Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone—Director of the H…

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Eric Schwitzgebel — The Weirdness of the World

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https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss414_Eric_Schwitzgebel_2024_03_16.mp3 Download MP3 Do we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know virtually nothing? Is consciousness a purely physical matter, or might it require something extra, something nonphysical? According to the p…

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The Weirdness of the World 2:03:15

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Do we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know virtually nothing? Is consciousness a purely physical matter, or might it require something extra, something nonphysical? According to the philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel, it’s hard to say. In The Weirdness of the World, Schwitzgebel argues t…

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Prime Minister Trudeau’s Brother — Kyle Kemper 2:22:53

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Trish has an intimate conversation with the brother of one of the most unpopular prime ministers in history. Kyle Kemper is the younger sibling of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and he couldn’t be more different. He thinks Trudeau was wrong about just about everything from vaccine mandates to his crushing of the trucker convoy. Kemper's ta…

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Midweek Extra: Royal Family Mystery 31:48

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Trish and her friend, journalist Jacquie Bynon unpack the Princess of Wales mystery. They think they’ve uncovered the truth and have determined the proof of life photo is a pastiche — a fake pulled together with old photos. What the hell is going on? Support the new Tamara Lich Documentary HERE: https://www.givesendgo.com/GB14C Follow Trish on X (T…

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The Story of Female Empowerment & Getting Canceled: Elite Commando and Kickboxing World Champion Leah Goldstein 1:28:03

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A conversation with Leah Goldstein on becoming a kickboxing world champion, ultra-endurance cyclist, and an elite commando combating terrorism. For this she was to be honored at the International Women's Day event… until she was disinvited and canceled. This is her story.Di Michael Shermer, Leah Goldstein

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