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Rationally Speaking is the bi-weekly podcast of New York City Skeptics. Join host Julia Galef and guests as they explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense, likely from unlikely, an...
The idea of giving poor people cash, no strings attached, is "very unappealing" for most donors, admits economist Michael Faye -- but it's s...
Humanity could thrive for millions of years -- unless our future is cut short by an existential catastrophe. Oxford philosopher Toby Ord exp...
Kevin Esvelt, a scientist at MIT, argues that research intended to prevent pandemics is actually putting us in a lot more danger. Also discu...
Ezra Klein explains how Republican and Democrats in the US became so different from each other, ideologically and demographically, and why t...
Kathryn Paige Harden, author of "The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality" explains what scientists have learned about how o...
Journalist Kelsey Piper (Future Perfect / Vox) discusses lessons learned from covering COVID: What has she been wrong about, and why? How mu...
Every time there's an emergency, the prices of certain goods skyrocket -- like masks and hand sanitizer during COVID -- and the public gets...
When you see a statistic reported in the news, like "10% of University of California Berkeley students were homeless this year," how do you...
How much do Uber and Lyft drivers really earn, after expenses? Are they getting a raw deal by being classified as 'independent contractors'...
Is there any justification for seemingly unjust laws like "qualified immunity," which allows cops to get away with bad behavior? William Bau...
Julia and guest Vitalik Buterin (creator of the open-source blockchain platform Ethereum) explore a wide range of topics, including: Vitalik...
Julia and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt (The Righteous Mind) discuss his moral foundations theory and argue about whether liberals shou...
Matt Yglesias talks about One Billion Americans, his book arguing that it's in the United States' national interest to dramatically boost it...
Companies like Twitter and Facebook are increasingly willing to ban users -- and even if you agree with their decisions, is it worrying that...
Coleman Hughes explains why he favors a "colorblind" ideal and why the "race-conscious" camp disagrees with him. Coleman and Julia also disc...
Data scientist David Shor discusses some of the bad choices made by Democratic political campaigns. What's the cause of the errors? Is it ir...
Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel argues with Julia about human dignity, consensual cannibalism, and the case in his new book, The Tyranny...
Economist and Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton discusses the rise in "deaths of despair" in the U.S. – deaths from drugs, alcohol or suicide. Wha...
Rationally Speaking returns from hiatus with a look at a clash between two generations: Millennials, and their parents' generation, the Baby...
This episode features a pair of interviews on a similar topic: First, Stephanie Lepp (host of the Reckonings podcast) discusses what she's l...
The idea of open borders -- letting people move freely between countries, taking a job wherever they can find a job they want -- is still a...
Philosopher of mind Keith Frankish is one of the leading proponents of "illusionism," the theory that argues that your subjective experience...
The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most famous psychology experiments in history. For decades, we've been told that it proves how...
If you want to understand why things go wrong in business, government, education, psychology, AI, and more, you need to know Goodhart's Law:...
Several recent books have argued there's no difference between male and female brains. Saloni Dattani, a PhD in psychiatric genetics, discus...
It's rare for public intellectuals to talk about things they've gotten wrong, but geneticist Razib Khan is an exception. He recently publish...
It's common wisdom that spending a lot of time on your smartphone, or checking social media like Facebook and Twitter, takes a psychological...
Over the last two decades, the prices of consumer goods like toys and electronics have gone way down, but the prices of health care and educ...
We typically think of violence as being caused by a lack of control, or by selfish motives. But what if, more often than not, violence is in...
The global poverty rate has fallen significantly over the last few decades. But there's a heated debate, between people like psychologist St...
Technology writer Clive Thompson discusses his latest book, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World. Topics Clive an...
Economist Tyler Cowen discusses his latest book, "Big Business: A love-letter to an American anti-hero." Why has anti-capitalist sentiment i...
Helen Toner, the director of strategy at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), shares her observations from the l...
This episode features journalist Kelsey Piper, blogger and journalist for "Future Perfect," a new site focused on topics that impact the lon...
This episode features John Nerst, data scientist and blogger at everythingstudies.com, discussing a potential new field called "erisology,"...
In the wake of the University of California's decision to end their contract with Elsevier, the world's largest scientific publisher, a lot...
This episode features Sarah Haider, the president of Ex-Muslims of North America. Julia and Sarah discuss why it's important to talk about t...
If you want to do as much good as possible with your career, what problems should you work on, and what jobs should you consider? This episo...
This episode features Neerav Kingsland, who helped rebuild New Orleans' public school system after Hurricane Katrina, converting it into the...
This episode features Rick Nevin, an economist who is known for his research suggesting that lead is one of the main causes of crime. Rick a...
Not enough people know about the Mohists, a strikingly modern group of Chinese philosophers active in 479-221 BCE. This episode features Chr...
This episode features the hosts of "Ask a Mathematician, Ask a Physicist," a blog that grew out of a Burning Man booth in which a good-natur...
This episode features political scientist Rob Reich, author of "Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy, and How it Can Do Better...
This episode features Peter Eckersley, an expert in law and computer science, who has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the...
In this episode, economist Jason Collins discusses some of the problems with behavioral economics: Why governments have started to rely too...
In this episode, economist Chris Auld describes some common criticisms of his field and why they're wrong. Julia and Chris also discuss whet...
Aviv Ovadya, an expert on misinformation, talks with Julia about the multiple phenomena that get lumped together as "fake news." For example...
On this episode of Rationally Speaking, professor Diana Fleischman makes the case for transhumanist evolutionary psychology: understanding o...
This episode features Anders Sandberg, a researcher at Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, explaining several reasons why it's valuable t...
This episode features physicist Anthony Aguirre discussing Metaculus, the site he created to crowd-source accurate predictions about science...