Point of Inquiry
Science, Skepticism, Rationalism, Humanism -- The Podcast and Radio Show of the Center for Inquiry
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Steven Pinker - Evolutionary Psychology and Human Nature
Steven Pinker, a renowned research psychologist, is Johnstone Professor of ...
Steven Pinker, a renowned research psychologist, is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. His research on cognition and language won the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences and two prizes from the American...
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Barbara Forrest - The Wedge of Intelligent Design
Barbara Forrest is a philosopher and public intellectual at Southeastern ...
Barbara Forrest is a philosopher and public intellectual at Southeastern Louisiana University. Widely praised for her compelling expert testimony in the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial, she is a tireless defender of science...
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Peter Singer - The Way We Eat
Peter Singer has been called "the world's most influential living ...
Peter Singer has been called "the world's most influential living philosopher," by The New Yorker and Time Magazine listed him in "The Time 100," their annual listing of the world's 100 most influential people. One of the most controversial...
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Solomon Schimmel - Specious Proofs for Quranic Divinity
Solomon Schimmel is a psychologist of religion and Professor of ...
Solomon Schimmel is a psychologist of religion and Professor of Jewish Education and Psychology at Hebrew College. He has been a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University and has lectured widely throughout the...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson - Death by Black Hole
Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of America's leading spokespersons for ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of America's leading spokespersons for science. The research areas he focuses on are star formation, exploding stars, dwarf galaxies, and the structure of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. In addition to many scholarly...
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John Shook - Scientific Naturalism and its Discontents
John Shook is Vice President for Research and Research Fellow ...
John Shook is Vice President for Research and Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry Transnational in Amherst, N.Y. He received his PhD in philosophy at the University at Buffalo and was a professor of philosophy at Oklahoma State University for...
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Eugene Burger - Magic and Mystery
Eugene Burger, "universally recognized as perhaps the finest close-up magician ...
Eugene Burger, "universally recognized as perhaps the finest close-up magician in the world," (Stagebill magazine) has written fifteen best-selling books for magicians, starred in a number of instructional videos, lectured widely to magicians' groups...
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Ann Druyan - Carl Sagan and The Varieties of Scientific Experience
Ann Druyan is an author, public lecturer, and TV and ...
Ann Druyan is an author, public lecturer, and TV and movie writer and producer whose work focuses on the worldview of science. She is the widow of Carl Sagan, the great astronomer and public advocate of science and reason. With him, she co-wrote the...
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R. Joseph Hoffmann - The Scientific Study of Religion
Joe Hoffmann, formally at Oxford, is director of Committee for ...
Joe Hoffmann, formally at Oxford, is director of Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion (CSER). He has appeared widely in the media and at venues across the United States speaking on Christian origins, the historical Jesus, the proper...
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Tom Flynn - The Real War on Christmas
Tom Flynn is the Editor of Free Inquiry magazine. A ...
Tom Flynn is the Editor of Free Inquiry magazine. A journalist, novelist, entertainer, and folklorist, Flynn is the author of numerous articles for Free Inquiry, many addressing church-state issues, as well as the best-selling The Trouble With...
