Point of Inquiry
Science, Skepticism, Rationalism, Humanism -- The Podcast and Radio Show of the Center for Inquiry
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Brian Greene - The Fabric of the Cosmos
Point of Inquiry is on a short hiatus right now ...
Point of Inquiry is on a short hiatus right now as we transition to a new podcast team. In the meantime, enjoy these classic episodes from the POI archives, featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, Susan Jacoby, and other luminaries in the science and...
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Temple Grandin - The Science of Livestock Animal Welfare
Point of Inquiry is on a short hiatus right now ...
Point of Inquiry is on a short hiatus right now as we transition to a new podcast team. In the meantime, enjoy these classic episodes from the POI archives, featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, Susan Jacoby, and other luminaries in the science and...
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Susan Jacoby - American Freethought Heritage
Point of Inquiry is on a short hiatus right now ...
Point of Inquiry is on a short hiatus right now as we transition to a new podcast team. In the meantime, enjoy these classic episodes from the POI archives, featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, Susan Jacoby, and other luminaries in the science and...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson - Communicating Science to the Public
Point of Inquiry is on a short hiatus right now ...
Point of Inquiry is on a short hiatus right now as we transition to a new podcast team. In the meantime, enjoy these classic episodes from the POI archives, featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, Susan Jacoby, and other luminaries in the science and...
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Ethan Zuckerman - Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection
Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week is an inspiring ...
Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week is an inspiring thinker whom we've wanted to get on the show for a long, long time: Ethan Zuckerman. He's the director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and works at MIT's Media Lab. He's also the co-founder...
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Mario Livio - Brilliant Blunders From Darwin to Einstein
Host: Chris Mooney One thing we often forget about great ...
Host: Chris Mooney One thing we often forget about great scientists, especially as they are lionized and mythologized: they made mistakes. Sometimes big ones. Sometimes, even, brilliant ones. Charles Darwin, for instance, didn't understand genetics....
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Daniel Dennett - Tools for Thinking
Host: Indre Viskontas Having spent 50 years as an influential ...
Host: Indre Viskontas Having spent 50 years as an influential thinker, Daniel Dennett has earned the right to tell us how to think. His latest book is a collection of 77 tools for thinking, which every self-respecting critical thinker should consider,...
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Stephan Lewandowsky - The Mind of the Conspiracy Theorist
Host: Chris Mooney From 9-11, to the death of Osama ...
Host: Chris Mooney From 9-11, to the death of Osama bin Laden, to the Boston Bombings, there's been a consistently bizarre and troubling reaction by some members of the public. We're referring to the people—a minority, to be sure, but a...
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Katha Pollitt - Is Religion Inherently Sexist?
Host: Chris Mooney Over the weekend, the Center for Inquiry's ...
Host: Chris Mooney Over the weekend, the Center for Inquiry's Women in Secularism II conference unfolded in Washington, D.C.—and we caught up with one of the event's most distinguished speakers, the feminist poet and author Katha...
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Michael Levi - Fracking, Pipelines, and Science
Host: Chris Mooney A few months back on this show, ...
Host: Chris Mooney A few months back on this show, we heard from Bill McKibben, the celebrated environmental writer and, more recently, leader of a mass movement around preventing climate change that has focused on blocking the Keystone XL...
