Yesterday

#2347 - Paul Stamets

Paul Stamets is a mycologist and advocate for mushrooms for helping the overall health of people and planet. His new book, "Psilocybin Mushrooms in Their Natural Habitats: A Guide to the History, Identification, and Use of Psychoactive Fungi," is available now. www.fungi.comwww.h ... Show More

2h 51m

Jul 8

#2346 - Jim Lampley

Jim Lampley is a sports broadcaster and commentator best known for his 30-year run on HBO World Championship Boxing. His new book "It Happened! A Uniquely Lucky Life in Sports Broadcasting," is available now. https://jimlampley.com Visit https://blackriflecoffee.com/joe-rogan and ... Show More

2h 26m

Jul 3

#2345 - Roman Yampolskiy

Dr. Roman Yampolskiy is a computer scientist, AI safety researcher, and professor at the University of Louisville. He’s the author of several books, including "Considerations on the AI Endgame," co-authored with Soenke Ziesche, and "AI: Unexplained, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable. ... Show More

2h 21m

Apr 9

Rebecca Lemov (on brainwashing)

Rebecca Lemov (The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion) is a historian of science, author, and associate professor at Harvard. Rebecca joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the meet cute with her husband at the cafe where she was struggling to wr ... Show More

1h 45m

Feb 2025

Vertigogo

In this episode, first aired in 2012, we have two stories of brains pushed off-course. We relive a surreal day in the life of a young researcher hijacked by her own brain, and hear from a librarian experiencing a bizarre and mysterious set of symptoms that she called “gravitation ... Show More

25m 48s

Jul 2024

Gut Feelings: A History of Our Most Mysterious Organ, with Elsa Richardson

Cultural historian Elsa Richardson discusses her book, Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut. It looks at our relationship over the centuries with a very intimate part of the body but one for which many know little more about than having a general gut feeling. Richardson is Lectu ... Show More

45m 59s

Feb 2025

Revenge of the Miasma

Today we uncover an invisible killer hidden, for over a hundred years, by reasonable disbelief. Science journalist extraordinaire Carl Zimmer tells us the story of a centuries-long battle of ideas that came to a head, with tragic consequences, in the very recent past. His latest ... Show More

35m 31s

Jul 2024

Is This the Death of Harvard? - Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author and Harvard College Professor. One of the world's leading authorities on language and the mind, he is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. P ... Show More

1h 3m

Feb 2025

Agnotology (WILLFUL IGNORANCE) Updated Encore with Dr. Robert Proctor

Yes, there is an -ology for that. And yes, we’re airing this episode -– with a ton of 2025 updates -– because it’s never felt more relevant. Dr. Robert Proctor is a Stanford professor of the History of Science and co-edited the book “Agnotology: The Making & Unmaking of Ignorance ... Show More

1h 20m

Jul 2024

#1213 - The Mystery of Parallel Universes _ Cosmologist Bernard Carr & Sadhguru

Renowned cosmologist Prof. Bernard Carr explores the mystery of parallel universes with Sadhguru in a discussion facilitated by Dr. Bala Subramaniam, Professor of Anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School. The event was hosted by the Sadhguru Center for a Conscious Planet at Beth ... Show More

11m 11s

Feb 2025

Exploring the Hidden Life in the Air around Us with Carl Zimmer

Scientists now agree that COVID spreads via airborne transmission. But during the early days of the disease, public health officials suggested that it mainly did so via close contact. The subsequent back-and-forth over how COVID spread brought science journalist Carl Zimmer into ... Show More

16m 47s

Feb 2025

Does Telepathy Exist? w/ Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell

This week, Scott is joined by Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell—an integrative medical doctor, neuropsychiatrist, and researcher of extraordinary states of consciousness. Dr. Powell's research explores the neuroscience behind psychic phenomena, telepathy, and the incredible abilities of a ... Show More

1h 2m

Mar 2025

Magic, Skepticism, and Success w/ Dr. Richard Wiseman

This week, Scott is joined by Dr. Richard Wiseman, a psychologist renowned for his work on magic, illusion, deception, luck, and self-development. As the UK's only Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, Dr. Wiseman has published ov ... Show More

1h 6m

#2322 - Rebecca Lemov