511 Episodes

  1. 126. Sarah Scoles — They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers

    Published: 7/28/2020
  2. 125. Bjorn Lomborg — False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet

    Published: 7/21/2020
  3. 124. David J. Halperin — Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO

    Published: 7/14/2020
  4. 123. Gerald Posner — Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America

    Published: 7/7/2020
  5. 122. Walter Scheidel — Escape from Rome: The Failure of the Empire and the Road to Prosperity

    Published: 6/30/2020
  6. 121. Maria Konnikova — The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win

    Published: 6/23/2020
  7. 120. Andrew Rader — Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars

    Published: 6/16/2020
  8. 119. Howard Bloom — Einstein, Michael Jackson, and Me: A Search for the Soul in the Power Pits of Rock and Roll

    Published: 6/9/2020
  9. 118. Stuart Russell — Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

    Published: 6/2/2020
  10. 117. Matt Ridley — How Innovation Works: and Why It Flourishes in Freedom

    Published: 5/26/2020
  11. 116. Howard Steven Friedman — Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life

    Published: 5/19/2020
  12. 115. Matthew Cobb — The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience

    Published: 5/12/2020
  13. 114. Katherine Stewart — The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism

    Published: 5/5/2020
  14. 113. Dave Rubin — Don’t Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

    Published: 4/28/2020
  15. 112. Ann Druyan — Cosmos: Possible Worlds

    Published: 4/21/2020
  16. 111. Scott Barry Kaufman — Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization

    Published: 4/14/2020
  17. 110. Bart Ehrman — Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife

    Published: 3/31/2020
  18. 109. Neil Shubin — Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA

    Published: 3/24/2020
  19. 108. Brian Greene — Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

    Published: 3/17/2020
  20. 107. Fred Kaplan — The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War

    Published: 3/10/2020

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