Point of Inquiry
Science, Skepticism, Rationalism, Humanism -- The Podcast and Radio Show of the Center for Inquiry
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Greta Christina - Why Are You Atheists So Angry?
Our guest this week is Greta Christina, a leading atheist ...
Our guest this week is Greta Christina, a leading atheist blogger, speaker, and commentator, and a regular contributor to AlterNet.org. Christina is author of the new ebook Why Are You Atheists So Angry?: 99 Things that Piss Off the Godless,...
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M.G. Lord - The Accidental Feminist
Host: Indre Viskontas In developed countries at least, the status ...
Host: Indre Viskontas In developed countries at least, the status of women has improved considerably in the last century. But in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), they remain underrepresented in all but one field, according to a recent...
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Naomi Oreskes - Neoliberalism and the Denial of Global Warming
Host: Chris Mooney This week at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ...
Host: Chris Mooney This week at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a conference convened entitled "Science Writing in the Age of Denial." The keynote speaker was a former Point of Inquiry guest and a very popular one—Naomi Oreskes, co-author...
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Austin Dacey - The Future of Blasphemy
Host: Chris Mooney This week, our guest is a return ...
Host: Chris Mooney This week, our guest is a return one: Austin Dacey. He's a philosopher, a writer, and a human rights activist, and the creator of the Impossible Music Sessions, which we featured in a past show. Austin's books include The...
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Chris Mooney - The Republican Brain
Guest Host: John Shook In this special episode of Point ...
Guest Host: John Shook In this special episode of Point of Inquiry, we interview our host himself—about his new book, The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science and Reality. From climate change to evolution, the rejection...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson - Space Chronicles
Host: Chris Mooney This week, Point of Inquiry is thrilled ...
Host: Chris Mooney This week, Point of Inquiry is thrilled to welcome back one of our most popular guests: Neil deGrasse Tyson, the famed astrophysicist and Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. Last time we had...
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David Morrison - Cosmic Impact Hazard
Host: Indre Viskontas The end is nigh. 2012 is a ...
Host: Indre Viskontas The end is nigh. 2012 is a banner year for doomsday prophecies, though there still seems to be debate concerning precisely how life as we know it will be snuffed out. Hollywood seems to prefer the 'death from the skies' scenario,...
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Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
Host: Chris Mooney Why is it that some of us ...
Host: Chris Mooney Why is it that some of us are religious, some of us not... some of us liberal, some of us not? If you've been paying attention, then by now you might have noticed that this doesn't really have a lot to do with the intellectual...
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Ari Rabin-Havt - The Fox Effect
Host: Chris Mooney If there's one thing Point of Inquiry ...
Host: Chris Mooney If there's one thing Point of Inquiry is concerned about, it's ensuring a rational, sensible conversation in politics, in public life. And you simply can't have such a conversation if the culture is awash in political, and...
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Sean Faircloth - Attack of the Theocrats
Host: Chris Mooney A common goal of freethinkers, humanists, skeptics, ...
Host: Chris Mooney A common goal of freethinkers, humanists, skeptics, and atheists is to preserve Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation" between church and state. But we haven't always been successful in this area—help from the courts...
