We sit down with Brian Brushwood to discuss how he put together this most recent season of The World's Greatest Con, his podcast about incredible scams. This season is all about how two teenagers pulled off an incredible hoax called Project Alpha, a con job and a publicity stunt, meant to improve scientific rigor and methodology when it comes to studying the ... Show More
Nov 24
327 - The Trolley Solution - Joshua Greene
<p>Philosopher, neuroscientist, and psychologist, Joshua Greene tells us how the brain generates morality and how his research may have solved the infamous trolley problem, and in so doing created a way to encourage people to contribute to charities that do the most good, and, in ... Show More
1h 19m
Nov 10
326 - The Origin of Language - Madeleine Beekman
<p>We sit down with Dr. Madeleine Beekman, a professor emerita of evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology at the University of Sydney, Australia, whose new book, The Origin of Language, presents a completely new and fascinating theory for how language emerged in homo sapiens, ... Show More
46m 11s
Dec 2022
David McRaney || How Minds Change
Today we welcome David McRaney. He is a science journalist fascinated with brains, minds, and culture. In 2012, he created the podcast You Are Not So Smart based on his 2009 internationally bestselling book of the same name and its follow-up, You Are Now Less Dumb. David is also ... Show More
1h 5m
Oct 2022
PT364 – Jamie Wheal – Burning Man, Psychedelic Maturity, and Radical Hope
In this episode, David interviews Jamie Wheal: author of Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex and Death In a World That's Lost Its Mind, and Founder of performance research/training organization: the Flow Genome Project. www.psychedelicstoday.com
1h 16m
Mar 2023
The Science of Magic w/ Dean Radin, PhD #404
<p>Have you ever experienced psychic phenomena?<br>
How about an experience that could only be regarded as “magic”?<br>
It’s more than likely you have, considering a survey conducted where over 90% of participants, all being scientific academics, reported to have had at least one ... Show More
1h 39m
Jun 2010
Science Fiction, Science Fact
Special guests Jonathan Ross, graphic novelist Alan Moore and string theorist Brian Greene, join Brian Cox and Robin Ince on stage for a special edition of the science show that boldly goes where no other science show has been before. In a special science fiction themed programme ... Show More
27m 43s