Wednesday, April 12, 2023

should we ban A.I.

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https://bernardmarr.com/is-artificial-intelligence-ai-dangerous-and-should-we-regulate-it-now/
Tuesday, May 17, 2022

The Uses of Delusion: Why It’s Not Always Rational to Be Rational

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Shermer and Vyse discuss: What is a delusion? • veridical perception • perceptual illusions and irrationalities • Kahneman vs. Gigerenzer: r...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Jesse Singal on Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills

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Michael Shermer and Jesse Singal discuss: how social scientists determine causality • Primeworld: cognitive priming and how it works (and do...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Whatever Happened to Reasoned Discussion and Respectable Disagreement?

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Shermer speaks with Ravi Gupta, the Founder and CEO of  Lost Debate , a new non-profit media company that launched in October 2021 to fight ...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them, including in the United States

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Political violence rips apart several towns in southwest Texas. A far-right militia plots to kidnap the governor of Michigan and try her for...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media

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Hailed as the “first freedom,” free speech is the bedrock of democracy, and it is subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democra...
Saturday, February 05, 2022

The Science Behind Why Some of Us Can't Grow Big Muscles After Turning 50

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There is perhaps no better way to see the absolute pinnacle of human athletic abilities than by watching the Olympics. But at the Winter Gam...
Wednesday, February 02, 2022

The 30 Best Ways to Get a Flat Stomach

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Losing the fat around your midsection can be a battle. In addition to being a risk factor for several diseases, excess abdominal fat may mak...

UAPs, UFOs, Conspiracies, and Cover-ups

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Shermer speaks with author, journalist, and TV personality Nick Pope about: what it was like working for the Ministry of Defense as their UF...

Pandemic Politics: How 2020 Impacted Americans’ Social and Political Attitudes

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BY ANONDAH SAIDE, KEVIN MCCAFFREE, AND MARSHALL MCCREADY I n mid-2020, the Skeptics Society launched the   Skeptic Research Center 1   (SRC)...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Life is Simple: How Occam’s Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe

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Centuries ago, the principle of Ockham’s razor changed our world by showing simpler answers to be preferable and more often true. In   Life ...

Trans Reality “I Didn’t Know There Was Another Side”

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A merican culture is prone to psychological and medical contagions. An idea catches fire, seeming to be a plausible and important explanatio...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

Addiction, the Opioid Crisis, Deaths of Despair, and How Psychiatry Has Gone Woke

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Shermer and Satel discuss: how political correctness has corrupted medicine; how wokeness and social justice activism has corrupted psychiat...
Thursday, January 06, 2022

A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know

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We humans like to think of ourselves as rational creatures, who, as a species, have relied on calculation and intellect to survive. But many...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us

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Does power corrupt, or are corrupt people drawn to power? Are entrepreneurs who embezzle and cops who kill the result of poorly designed sys...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike — either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. ...
Sunday, December 19, 2021

The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World

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Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order. But laws were not simply instruments of power and social control. They also offere...