The Michael Shermer Show

Long-form conversations on science, philosophy, history and ideas KI-Zusammenfassung

Michael Shermer Zur Website › Science · EN · 647 Folgen · zuletzt 07.11.2026

Platz 3400
0 Aufwertungen, 0 Abwertungen
0

Worum es geht

The Michael Shermer Show is a series of long-form conversations between Dr. Michael Shermer and leading scientists, philosophers, historians, scholars, writers and thinkers about the most important issues of our time.

Beschreibung des Anbieters, unverändert aus dem Podcast-Feed übernommen.
The Skeptics Society. All rights reserved.

Anhören

Der Podcast läuft bei diesen Anbietern — der RSS-Feed funktioniert in jeder Podcast-App.

Neueste Folgen

  1. 07.11.2026 · 1 Std. 22 Min. · Folge 641

    By the summer of 1945, Japan's cities were burning, its people were starving, and its military leaders were preparing for a final battle on home soil. Even the destruction of Hiroshima did not bring an immediate…

  2. 31.10.2026 · 1 Std. 11 Min. · Folge 640

    We tend to explain success by looking at what people did right, while overlooking everyone who made the same choices and failed. Philosopher Duncan Pritchard joins Michael Shermer to discuss his book, Tempting Fate: A…

  3. 17.10.2026 · 1 Std. 20 Min. · Folge 638

    Why does being alive feel like something? Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio argues that the answer begins with the body's need to stay alive. Hunger, thirst, pain, and pleasure tell us how we're doing and push us to act.…

  4. 10.10.2026 · 42 Min. · Folge 637

    Can fighting racism end up reinforcing it? Shelby Steele grew up under segregation and became a Black militant in the 1960s. Today, he argues that White guilt has created a different racial problem: treating Black…

  5. 28.09.2026 · 1 Std. 38 Min. · Folge 636

    What do you make of an experience you can't explain? A strange light in the sky, a book flying off a desk, a coincidence that feels too improbable to be chance? Social psychologist Barry Markovsky joins Michael Shermer…

  6. 22.09.2026 · 46 Min. · Folge 635

    If we could explain everything happening in your brain, would there still be something left to explain about you? Physicist Avshalom Elitzur thinks so—and argues that accounting for consciousness may require changing…

  7. 15.09.2026 · 1 Std. 29 Min. · Folge 634

    Would World War II have happened without Hitler? Would someone else have built Apple without Steve Jobs? Jared Diamond joins Michael Shermer to ask how much history depends on particular people. From Darwin's…

  8. 11.09.2026 · 43 Min.

    How did 19 hijackers evade the world's most advanced intelligence apparatus despite years of warnings? Twenty-five years after 9/11, journalist Gerald Posner joins Michael Shermer to explain the security failures that…

  9. 09.09.2026 · 1 Std. 45 Min. · Folge 632

    Most of us think of ourselves as honest. But would we still tell the truth if lying got us what we wanted—and nobody would ever find out? Philosopher Christian Miller joins Michael Shermer to discuss his new book The…

  10. 01.09.2026 · 1 Std. 24 Min. · Folge 631

    What if uncertainty isn't a temporary problem science will eventually solve, but a fundamental feature of reality? Neuroscientist Stuart Firestein joins Michael Shermer to make the case that the universe may be far less…

Angaben zu den Folgen aus dem Feed des Anbieters. Abspielen beim Anbieter.

Angaben des Anbieters

Älteste Folge im Feed
11/2015 · seit gut 10 Jahren
Typische Länge
1 Std. 28 Min.
Aufbau
Fortlaufende Folgen Neueste zuerst, Folgen einzeln hörbar

Für Podcast-Betreiber

Gehört dir dieser Podcast? Dann weise es nach — danach kannst du Angaben korrigieren, das Widget für deine Website holen und bekommst Bescheid, wenn dein Podcast nominiert wurde oder gewonnen hat.

Ohne Konto geht es über eine E-Mail-Adresse auf der Domain deiner Sendung — das Konto legen wir dabei an. Die anderen Wege brauchen eine Anmeldung.