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Stewart Brand has spent a lifetime thinking about tools, systems, civilization, and the long future. Best known as the creator of the Whole...

Can memories survive death? It sounds like the kind of question skeptics usually dismiss before the conversation even starts. But Ian Steven...

Astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi has lived a life that sounds almost impossible: a childhood marked by poverty, violence, and constant upheaval...

A viral story is spreading across media: a mysterious string of scientists connected to UFOs, nuclear weapons, aerospace, and defense work h...

What kind of person helps build a regime like the Third Reich? A monster? A madman? Or something far more unsettling? Michael Shermer sits d...

What actually makes a life feel meaningful? In this conversation, Daniel Coyle joins Michael Shermer to talk about why fulfillment rarely co...

What actually causes cognitive decline, and how much of it can we do something about? In this episode, Michael talks with neurologist and ne...

Why does religion still dominate American politics when so many other wealthy democracies secularized long ago? In this episode, Michael She...

How does something living emerge from something that isn't? In this episode, Lee Cronin pushes the question back even further: before cells,...

On Easter Sunday, Michael asks whether the resurrection should be understood as history, myth, or something deeper.

Fewer people are having sex, fewer are forming lasting relationships, and many feel more isolated than ever. Why? Michael Shermer sits down...

What do gaslighting, bullying, cults, and coercion have in common? In this episode, Michael Shermer speaks with Jennifer Fraser about the ps...

How much of what we call "basic morality" is actually inherited from Christianity? Bart Ehrman joins Michael Shermer for a wide-ranging conv...

Michael Shermer sits down with novelist and essayist Lionel Shriver for a wide-ranging conversation about what happens when old political la...

Zion Lights used to be deep inside the environmental movement: protests, arrests, road blockades, the whole thing. Then she started looking...

Jeremy Jones joins Michael Shermer to talk about DOGE AI, government fraud, and the strange reality that some of the biggest problems in pub...

Why do some world-changing ideas get ignored, attacked, or buried for years before anyone takes them seriously? Michael Shermer sits down wi...

Michael Shermer responds to a remarkable letter from a group of eighth graders at a Christian school in Texas who say they've been praying f...

For decades, developmental psychologist Jay Belsky has focused on one of the biggest questions in human development: how do early experience...

Publishing likes to imagine itself as a marketplace of ideas with a strong immune system: good arguments win, bad ones fade, and editors act...
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