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July 2, 2018 | 27
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Episode 1: Carol Tavris on Mistakes, Justification, and Cognitive Dissonance

July 9, 2018 | 6
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Episode 2: Carlo Rovelli on Quantum Mechanics, Spacetime, and Reality

July 10, 2018 | 11
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Episode 3: Alice Dreger on Sexuality, Truth, and Justice

July 11, 2018 | 7
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Episode 4: Anthony Pinn on Humanism, Theology, and the Black Community

July 12, 2018 | 5
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Episode 5: Geoffrey West on Networks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life

July 16, 2018 | 5
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Episode 6: Liv Boeree on Poker, Aliens, and Thinking in Probabilities

July 23, 2018 | 5
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Episode 7: Yascha Mounk on Threats to Liberal Democracy

July 30, 2018 | 4
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Episode 8: Carl Zimmer on Heredity, DNA, and Editing Genes

August 6, 2018 | 8
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Episode 9: Solo — Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing?

August 13, 2018 | 23
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Episode 10: Megan Rosenbloom on the Death Positive Movement

August 20, 2018 | 10
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Episode 11: Mike Brown on Killing Pluto and Replacing It with Planet 9

August 27, 2018 | 7
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Episode 12: Wynton Marsalis on Jazz, Time, and America

September 4, 2018 | 5
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Episode 13: Neha Narula on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of the Internet

September 10, 2018 | 11
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Episode 14: Alta Charo on Bioethics and the Law

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Episode 15: David Poeppel on Thought, Language, and How to Understand the Brain

September 24, 2018 | 6
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Episode 16: Coleen Murphy on Aging, Biology, and the Future

October 1, 2018 | 5
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Episode 17: Annalee Newitz on Science, Fiction, Economics, and Neurosis

October 8, 2018 | 3
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Episode 18: Clifford Johnson on What’s So Great About Superstring Theory

October 15, 2018 | 3
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Episode 19: Tyler Cowen on Maximizing Growth and Thinking for the Future

October 22, 2018 | 20
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Episode 20: Scott Derrickson on Cinema, Blockbusters, Horror, and Mystery

October 29, 2018 | 1
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Episode 21: Alex Rosenberg on Naturalism, History, and Theory of Mind

November 5, 2018 | 20
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Episode 22: Joe Walston on Conservation, Urbanization, and the Way We Live on Earth

November 12, 2018 | 3
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Episode 23: Lisa Aziz-Zadeh on Embodied Cognition, Mirror Neurons, and Empathy

November 19, 2018 | 4
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Episode 24: Kip Thorne on Gravitational Waves, Time Travel, and Interstellar

November 26, 2018 | 10
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Episode 25: David Chalmers on Consciousness, the Hard Problem, and Living in a Simulation

December 3, 2018 | 20
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Episode 26: Ge Wang on Artful Design, Computers, and Music

December 10, 2018 | 5
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Episode 27: Janna Levin on Black Holes, Chaos, and the Narrative of Science

December 17, 2018 | 3
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December 24, 2018 | 17
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Episode 28: Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Consciousness, and the Universe

January 7, 2019 | 13
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Episode 29: Raychelle Burks on the Chemistry of Murder

January 14, 2019 | 1
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Episode 30: Derek Leben on Ethics for Robots and Artificial Intelligences

January 21, 2019 | 14
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Episode 31: Brian Greene on the Multiverse, Inflation, and the String Theory Landscape

January 28, 2019 | 7
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Episode 32: Naomi Oreskes on Climate Change and the Distortion of Scientific Facts

February 4, 2019 | 10
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Episode 33: James Ladyman on Reality, Metaphysics, and Complexity

February 11, 2019 | 6
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Episode 34: Paul Bloom on Empathy, Rationality, Morality, and Cruelty

February 18, 2019 | 11
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Episode 35: Jessica Yellin on The Changing Ways We Get Our News

February 25, 2019 | 4
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Episode 36: David Albert on Quantum Measurement and the Problems with Many-Worlds

March 4, 2019 | 22
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Episode 37: Edward Watts on the End of the Roman Republic and Lessons for Democracy

March 11, 2019 | 2
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Episode 38: Alan Lightman on Transcendence, Science, and a Naturalist’s Sense of Meaning

March 18, 2019 | 11
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