263: Is cash the best way to help the poor? (Michael Faye)
262: Humanity on the precipice (Toby Ord)
261: Dangerous biological research – is it worth it? (Kevin Esvelt)
260: Why we’re polarized (Ezra Klein)
259: The genetic lottery (Kathryn Paige Harden)
258: How to reason about COVID, and other hard things (Kelsey Piper)
257: “Price gouging” in emergencies (Raymond Niles and Amihai Glazer)
256: How to be a data detective (Tim Harford)
255: Are Uber and Lyft drivers being exploited?
254: Unfair laws / Why judges should be originalists (William Baude)
253: Intellectual honesty, cryptocurrency, & more (Vitalik Buterin)
252: Understanding moral disagreements (Jonathan Haidt)
251: The case for one billion Americans, & more (Matt Yglesias)
250: What’s wrong with tech companies banning people? (Julian Sanchez)
249: The case for racial colorblindness (Coleman Hughes)
248: Are Democrats being irrational? (David Shor)
247: The moral limits of markets / The problem with meritocracy (Michael Sandel)
246: Deaths of despair / Effective altruism (Angus Deaton)
245: Are Boomers to blame for Millennials’ struggles?
244: Seeing other perspectives, with compassion (Stephanie Lepp & Buster Benson)
243: The case for open borders (Bryan Caplan)
242: Why consciousness is an illusion (Keith Frankish)
241: Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment (Thibault Le Texier)
240: Goodhart’s Law and why metrics fail (David Manheim)
239: The debate over whether male and female brains are different (Saloni Dattani)
238: Stuff I’ve been wrong about (Razib Khan)
237: Is screen time bad for you? (Andy Przybylski)
236: Why are the prices so d*mn high? (Alex Tabarrok)
235: Why people think their violence is morally justified (Tage Rai)
234: Global poverty has fallen, but what should we conclude from that? (Dylan Matthews)
233: The culture of coding, and how it’s changing the world (Clive Thompson)
232: Defending big business against its critics (Tyler Cowen)
231: Misconceptions about China and artificial intelligence (Helen Toner)
230: Big picture journalism – covering the topics that matter in the long run (Kelsey Piper)
229: Erisology, the study of disagreement (John Nerst)
228: Is Elsevier helping or hurting scientific progress? (William Gunn and Alex Holcombe)
227: Dissent and free speech (Sarah Haider)
226: An updated view of the best ways to help humanity (Rob Wiblin)
225: The case for charter schools (Neerav Kingsland)
224: The long-term effects of lead on crime (Rick Nevin)
223: The Mohists, ancient China’s philosopher warriors (Chris Fraser)
222: Ask a Mathematician, Ask a Physicist (Spencer Greenberg and Seth Cottrell)
221: Is philanthropy bad for democracy (Rob Reich)
220: Tough choices on privacy and artificial intelligence (Peter Eckersley)
219: A skeptical take on behavioral economics (Jason Collins)
218: Good and bad critiques of economics (Chris Auld)
217: The problem of false, biased, and artificial news (Aviv Ovadya)
216: Being a transhumanist evolutionary psychologist (Diana Fleischman)
215: The long-term future of humanity (Anders Sandberg)
214: Predicting the future of science and tech, with Metaculus (Anthony Aguirre)
213: The causes of scientific and artistic genius (Dean Simonton)
212: How to invent game-changing technologies (Ed Boyden)
211: The case against beauty in physics (Sabine Hossenfelder)
210: Conceptual objections to IQ testing (Stuart Ritchie)
209: Collective intelligence and the ethics of A/B tests (Christopher Chabris)
208: Thinking in Bets (Annie Duke)
207: The wrong way to think about parenting (Alison Gopnik)
206: Change My View (Kal Turnbull)
205: Are ideas getting harder to find? (Michael Webb)
204: Reforming psychology, and self-awareness (Simine Vazire)
203: Where is everybody? Solutions to the Fermi Paradox (Stephen Webb)
202: The case against education (Bryan Caplan)
201: The cybersecurity dilemma (Ben Buchanan)
200: How much should tech companies moderate speech? (Timothy Lee)
199: Why people should have the right to self-medicate (Jessica Flanigan)
198: Private truths, public lies (Timur Kuran)
197: Why people think some things can’t be quantified – and why they’re wrong (Doug Hubbard)
196: Weird ideas and opaque minds (Eric Schwitzgebel)
195: Emerging technologies that’ll improve and/or ruin everything (Zach Weinersmith)
194: Why Buddhism is true (Robert Wright)
193: Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor? (Eric Jonas)
192: The problem with implicit bias tests (Jesse Singal)
191: What the internet can tell us about human nature (Seth Stephens-Davidowitz)
190: Pascal’s wager and other low risks with high stakes (Amanda Askell)
189: What causes obesity? (Stephan Guyenet)
188: Being strategically wrong (Robert Kurzban)
187: Do people vote based on self-interest? (Jason Weeden)
186: Why we evolved the urge to explain (Tania Lombrozo)
185: The role of ideology in politics (Hans Noel)
184: What caused the industrial revolution? (Gregory Clark)
183: Transformative experiences (L. A. Paul)
182: How online research can be faster, better, and more useful (Spencer Greenberg)
181: Moral uncertainty (Will MacAskill)
180: The worm wars (David Roodman)
179: Is economics more art or science? (Dani Rodrik)
178: Trying to live well, as semi-rational animals (Tim Urban)
177: The science and ethics of kidney donation (Dylan Matthews)
176: Against democracy (Jason Brennan)
175: Do sweatshops reduce poverty? (Chris Blattman)
174: What happened to evidence-based medicine? (John Ioannidis)
173: What can we learn from the election? (Brendan Nyhan)
172: Why science needs openness (Brian Nosek)
171: The ethics and strategy of vote-trading (Scott Aaronson)
170: Social justice and political philosophy (Will Wilkinson)
169: Thinking about humanity’s far future (Owen Cotton-Barratt)
168: Overconfidence (Don Moore)
167: Why technology is becoming too complex (Samuel Arbesman)
166: Why you should expect the truth to be crazy (Eric Schwitzgebel)
165: Success and luck (Robert Frank)
164: Using meta-knowledge to learn how science works (James Evans)
163: Free will and moral responsibility (Gregg Caruso)
162: Poetic naturalism (Sean Carroll)
161: Algorithms to Live By (Tom Griffiths and Brian Christian)
160: Live at NECSS – Tackling bioethical dilemmas (Jacob Appel)
159: Do fish feel pain? (Colin Allen)
158: Negotiating with your future selves (George Ainslie)
157: What made the human brain special? (Suzana Herculano-Houzel)
156: Why it’s so hard to change someone’s mind (David McRaney)
155: Detecting fraud in social science (Uri Simonsohn)
154: Why your brain might be rational after all (Tom Griffiths)
153: Why so much of what we “know” about medicine is wrong (Vinay Prasad)
152: The pros and cons of civil disagreement (Dan Fincke)
151: Why everyone falls for con artists (Maria Konnikova)
150: The malleability of human memory (Elizabeth Loftus)
149: How essentialism shapes our thinking (Susan Gelman)
148: The Myths that Stole Christmas (David Kyle Johnson)
147: Why do Americans vote the way they do? (Andrew Gelman)
146: The pros and cons of making fallacies famous (Jesse Richardson)
145: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Philip Tetlock)
144: Does parenting matter? (Bryan Caplan)
143: The theorem that proves rationalists can’t disagree (Scott Aaronson)
142: The case against empathy (Paul Bloom)
141: The argumentative theory of reason (Dan Sperber)
140: Newcomb’s paradox and the tragedy of rationality (Kenny Easwaran)
138: Why the West rules – for now (Ian Morris)
137: Should scientists try to create dangerous viruses? (Marc Lipsitch)
136: Why microfinance won’t cure global poverty (David Roodman)
135: Most human behavior is signaling (Robin Hanson)
134: Science drives moral progress (Michael Shermer)
133: The Many Worlds Interpretation is probably correct (Sean Carroll)
131: Being an honest liar (James Randi)
130: The atheists’ own 10 commandments
129: Would the world be a better place without religion?
128: Fifth anniversary live show
127: Philosophy of physics (Elise Crull)
126: Crazy beliefs, sane believers (Preston Bost)
123: P-hacking and other problems in psychology research (Daniel Lakens)
122: The science and philosophy of humor
121: 80,000 Hours (Benjamin Todd)
119: On Assholes (Aaron James)
118: Live from Baruch College (Steven Novella)
117: How to think like Sherlock Holmes (Maria Konnikova)
116: Farewell to reality (Jim Baggott)
115: The Difference Between Science and Pseudoscience (Maarten Boudry)
114: Massimo and Julia go freestyle
112: Race – just a social construct?
110: Scientia, the unity of knowledge
109: Plato at the Googleplex (Rebecca Newberger Goldstein)
107: Does the future belong to MOOCs?
106: Live from NECSS (Lawrence Krauss)
105: Coming Out Atheist (Greta Christina)
104: Love and Math (Edward Frenkel)
103: Why I don’t call myself an atheist (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
102: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (Zach Weinersmith)
101: The mathematical universe hypothesis (Max Tegmark)
100: Live Q&A – Massimo and Julia answer everything
99: Exposing the myth of the mad genius (Judith Schlesinger)
98: Psychiatric diagnoses – science or pseudoscience? (Jerome Wakefield)
97: Being a utilitarian in the real world (Peter Singer)
96: The seductive appeal of mindless neuroscience (Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld)
95: The computational theory of mind (Gerard O’Brien)
94: Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem (Maarten Boudry)
93: The science of climate change (Michael Mann)
92: Believing in magic (Paul Offit)
91: Skeptical Inquiry (Kendrick Frazier)
88: Brilliant blunders (Mario Livio)
86: Live from NECSS – Why does the world exist? (Jim Holt)
85: Live from NECSS – The role of science in morality (Michael Shermer)
84: The myth of universal love (Stephen Asma)
83: The Half-Life of Facts (Samuel Arbesman)
81: Live! Bad Pharma (Ben Goldacre)
79: The Republican war on science (Chris Mooney)
78: Intelligence and personality testing
77: Feminism and science (Victoria Pitts-Taylor)
76: Crowdsourcing and the wisdom of crowds
74: Live! Philosophy of religion (John Shook)
73: Live! Answers for Aristotle
72: Paradoxes and paraconsistent logic (Graham Priest)
71: On science fiction and philosophy
70: Buddhism and other Asian philosophies (Graham Priest)
69: Metaphysics (James Ladyman)
67: Freudianism as pseudoscience
66: The Seven Laws of Magical Thinking (Matthew Hutson)
65: Philosophical shock tactics
64: Looking beyond human nature (Jesse Prinz)
63: Consilience – the unity of knowledge
62: What neuroscience tells us about morality (Patricia Churchland)
60: Q&A with Massimo and Julia
59: Live at NECSS – The simulation argument (David Kyle Johnson)
56: Science news literacy (Howard Schneider)
52: The Holocaust-deniers’ playbook (Donald Prothero)
51: Economics Without Illusions (Joseph Heath)
49: Denialism of climate change and evolution (Eugenie Scott)
48: Philosophical counseling (Lou Marinoff)
46: The varieties of skepticism
45: Spinoza, Göedl, and Theories of Everything (Rebecca Newberger Goldstein)
41: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding (Robert Zaretsky)
40: Q&A with Massimo and Julia
39: The science and philosophy of free will
38: Evidence-based philanthropy (Holden Karnofsky)
37: The science and philosophy of happiness
36: Why should we care about teaching the humanities?
35: What is philosophy of science good for?
34: Celebrities and the damage they can do
33: Live at NECSS, New dilemmas in bioethics
30: Delusions of Gender (Cordelia Fine)
28: Live! How to tell science from bunk
27: The perihelinox episode, on anniversaries (Timothy Alborn)
26: Is anthropology still a science?
25: Q&A with Massimo and Julia
23: Everybody making mistakes, except us (Carol Tavris)
22: Lies, damned lies, and medical science (Steven Novella)
21: Experimental philosophy (Joshua Knobe)
20: Q&A with Massimo and Julia
19: False beliefs that refuse to die (Brendan Nyhan)
15: Q&A with Massimo and Julia
14: Science, religion, happiness, and other myths
13: Superstition – is it good for you?
12: What about thought experiments?
11: The Creationism and ID wars (Eugenie Scott)
9: When smart people endorse pseudoscience
7: Is string theory “not even wrong”? (Peter Woit)
5: The need for a space program (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
4: The great atheist debate over the limits of science
3: Can history be a science? (Peter Turchin)