You Are Not So Smart
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Philosopher, neuroscientist, and psychologist, Joshua Greene tells us how the brain generates morality and how his research may have solved the infamous trolley problem, and in so doing created a way to encourage people…
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What have scientists learned about the social infrastructure of megachurches that not only explains their growth but also their resilience, and how can what we've learned be applied to institutions that are not…
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We explore why strange and harmful behavior can follow from the fact that, on certain issues, most people believe that most people believe what, in truth, few people believe.
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Jesse Richardson wants to improve our critical thinking about AI risk through the gamification of our rampant speculation. In this episode he explains AI safety isn't just one thing, there are a bunch of different risk…
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We return to The Dress and the psychological lessons offered by one of the most viral moments in the history of the internet via an episode of Decoder Ring in which David McRaney shares some insights from his book, How…
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Astronomer Phil Plait joins us to discuss his book, Under Alien Skies, in which he describes what it would actually be like to travel to Saturn, Mars, asteroids, and distant stars.
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The suffering is real, but the source may not be what you assume. That's the essence of the nocebo effect, the placebo effect's evil twin. As neuroscientist Dr. Helen Pilcher explains, illness is not simply a matter of…
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MIT professor Thomas Levenson, the author of the book A Pox on Fools, takes us through the same repeating patterns throughout history which have led to antivaxxers and vaccine hesitancy since the very first vaccines.
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Can intellectual humility be measured? What influences it and affects it, limits it and enhances it? What even is it, scientifically speaking?
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What is misinformation? How does it differ from disinformation or just plain ‘ole propaganda? How do we protect ourselves from people with nefarious intentions using all of these things to affect our thoughts, feelings,…
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Publisher details
- Oldest episode in feed
- 04/2012 · over 14 years
- Typical length
- 1 hr 1 min
- Format
- Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone
- Keywords
- health, psychology, neuroscience, culture, mental health, brain, business, mind
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