Episodes (Page 4)
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Cults are defined by high-control dynamics, not just beliefs.
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Benjamin Franklin's impact on science, politics, and philosophy is explored.
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COVID-19 was not the most devastating pandemic possible.
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Common knowledge is vital for social coordination and arbitrary choices.
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Jim Lampley recounts 50 years in sports television.
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Michael Shermer reflects on political violence and radicalization.
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Human nature significantly shapes and destabilizes modern civilization.
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Jean Twenge offers advice on protecting children from technology.
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Alan Stern discusses suborbital flight and space initiatives.
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Human speech evolved from the need to care for children, not hunting or fighting.
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Economist Dean Spears analyzes declining birth rates and global population changes.
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Rebecca Lemov explores how brainwashing and mind control are often unrecognized.
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Sarah McLaughlin details foreign authoritarian influence on U.S. universities.
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Dr. Eric Topol discusses aging, AI in healthcare, and lifestyle factors.
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Isabelle Boemeke advocates for nuclear energy as the best climate solution.
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Eric Heinze argues the left needs a reckoning with its history.
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Traditional religion in the U.S. faces declining affiliation and attendance.
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Historian Sophia Rosenfeld traces the evolution of modern choice.
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Lord Martin Rees reflects on cosmology, aliens, and humanity's fate.
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Steven Sloman discusses consequentialism versus sacred values in decision-making.