Point of Inquiry
Science, Skepticism, Rationalism, Humanism -- The Podcast and Radio Show of the Center for Inquiry
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Jared Diamond - The World Until Yesterday
Note: You can watch this episode on Youtube. In this ...
Note: You can watch this episode on Youtube. In this special episode of Point of Inquiry, Chris and Indre speak with the Pulitzer Prize winning Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel. Dr. Diamond is Professor of Geography at the...
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Mary Roach - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Host: Indre Viskontas In the science section at your local ...
Host: Indre Viskontas In the science section at your local bookstore, you'll find plenty of books on everything from the brain, to the climate, to the cosmos. But how many books will you find that take you on a tour of the digestive tract—from...
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Scott Atran - What Makes a Terrorist?
Host: Chris Mooney Back in the summer of 2011—just before ...
Host: Chris Mooney Back in the summer of 2011—just before the 10 year anniversary of 9/11—this show welcomed on Scott Atran, an anthropologist who is a leading expert on terrorism and violent extremism. Now, in the wake of the Boston...
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Neil Gross - Why Are Professors (and Scientists) So Liberal?
Host: Chris Mooney We've all heard the claim: Academia is ...
Host: Chris Mooney We've all heard the claim: Academia is liberal. And it indoctrinates students. It kills their religious faith and basically—or at least, so the allegation goes—transforms them into unkempt, pot-smoking hippies. As it...
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A.C. Grayling - The God Argument
Host: Chris Mooney Remember all the greatest hits of religious ...
Host: Chris Mooney Remember all the greatest hits of religious apologists—the ontological, cosmological, and teleological arguments for God's existence? You may have learned how to refute them in college—but not, perhaps, with the zest and...
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Frans de Waal - The Bonobo and the Atheist
Host: Chris Mooney You hear it a lot from religious ...
Host: Chris Mooney You hear it a lot from religious believers: Faith is about doing good works, bringing about good in the world, and showing compassion. In fact, some go further and argue that you can't really be moral without religion. Well, says...
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Carol Tavris - The Science of Sex and Gender
Host: Indre Viskontas Back in February, Yahoo! President and CEO ...
Host: Indre Viskontas Back in February, Yahoo! President and CEO Marissa Mayer made a decision that pushed gender issues and the work/life balance back into the headlines: she mandated that her employees can no longer work from home. It's a decision...
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Amanda Marcotte - Skepticism Needs Feminism
Host: Chris Mooney Later this year, May 17 to 19 ...
Host: Chris Mooney Later this year, May 17 to 19 in Washington, D.C., the Center for Inquiry will convene its second "Women in Secularism" conference. There are a host of great speakers, many of whom we've had on this show before, like Susan Jacoby,...
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Mark Lynas - Science and the Left
Host: Chris Mooney I'm a big defender of the proposition ...
Host: Chris Mooney I'm a big defender of the proposition that when it comes to abusing science, the political left and the political right are very different beasts. But that doesn't make the left innocent of science abuses—and one man who knows...
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Matthew Hutson - The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking
Host: Indre Viskontas Even the hard-core skeptics believe in magic, ...
Host: Indre Viskontas Even the hard-core skeptics believe in magic, says Matthew Hutson in his new book The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep us Happy, Healthy and Sane which has just been released in paperback. Most of us have...
