Science: Natural Sciences

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Top episodes in Science: Natural Sciences

Michael Shermer & Charles Murray 25 Oct 2025 • EN

Charles Murray: Why I’m Taking Religion Seriously

Michael Shermer sits down with Charles Murray (author of The Bell Curve, Coming Apart, and now Taking Religion Seriously) for a riveting 100-minute conversation about Murray’s late-life turn from Harvard-bred agnosticism (“Smart people don’t believe that stuff anymore”) to Bayesian theism (“I put the afterlife at just

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Brian Keating & Avi Loeb 12 Oct 2025 • EN

Does Avi Loeb Have PROOF of Alien Technology?

➡️ WIN A METEORITE:https://briankeating.com/list — Once again, I had the pleasure of speaking to one of the most famous and perhaps the most controversial astrophysicists in the world – Avi Loeb! For those of you who don't know him, Avi is a professor of science at Harvard University, theoretical physicist, astrophysic

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Brian Keating & Steven Pinker 24 Sep 2025 • EN

Steven Pinker on Cancel Culture, Common Knowledge & AI

Get 3 months off the annual plan and start learning faster at shortform.com/impossible In this episode, Steven Pinker unpacks how common knowledge shapes everything from why rational people can’t agree to disagree to why markets boom and bust. We explore the risks of falsifying expert claims, the power of social norms,

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Common knowledge is necessary for coordination, for making arbitrary but complementary choices like driving on the right, using paper currency, and coalescing behind a political leader or movement. It’s also necessary for social coordination. Humans have a sixth sense for common knowledge, and we create it with signals

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Brian Keating & David Deutsch 11 Sep 2025 • EN

David Deutsch Says We Will Build Humans Before We Build AGI

Get My New Book, Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner, for Only $ 0.99! This week only: https://a.co/d/hi50U9U David Deutsch offers his insights into the physics that will impact our future, challenging our new technologies, such as AGI and the development of synthetic humans, as depicted in movies. Join us for this fascina

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Lawrence Krauss & Gad Saad 07 Sep 2025 • EN

Gad Saad: Final Episode of The War on Science Interviews

As The War on Science continues to circulate and reach readers around the world, I had the privilege of closing our Origins mini series, The War on Science Interviews, with my colleague and book contributor Gad Saad. It felt fitting to end the series with a candid and provocative conversation that reflects the spirit o

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