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# 60 Dr. nicholaS a. chriStaKiS:
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a
Good Society
# 59 caSS r. SUnStein:On Freedom
# 58 Ben ShaPiro: The Right Side of
History: How Reason and Moral Purpose
Made the West Great
# 57 Dr. FranS de Waal:When
Animals Weep (& laugh, love, fight, are
afraid, get angry, seek revenge, & other
human-like emotions)
# 56 Dr. tyler coWen:
How an Economist Views the World
ask Me anything #4 Dr.MichaelSher-
Mer:The Problem of Evil
# 55 Dr. DaviD Sloan WilSon: This
View of Life: Completing the Darwinian
Revolution
#53 aDaM hiGGinBothaM: China
Syndrome II: The True Story of What
Happened at Chernobyl
# 52 BrUce Schneier: Hacked!
Security and Survival in a Hyper-
Connected World
# 51 GreGG hUrWitZ: Into the Light:
Myths, Narratives, Archetypes, and
Trump
ask Me anything # 3:
Dr. Michael SherMer
# 50 Dr. rachel KleinFelD: A Sav-
age Order: How the World’s Deadliest
Countries Can Forge a Path to Security
ask Me anything # 2:
Dr. Michael SherMer
# 49 Dr. GaD SaaD: Doing Gad’s Work
# 48 SirMartin reeS:
on the Future: Prospects for Humanity
0# 47 Dr. SUSan BlacKMore:
Altered States/Conscious Beings# 46 Zac Sechler interviews Michael
SherMer: Why People Believe in God
# 45 Daniel De viSé: Comebacks in
Sports & Life
# 44 Dr.DaviD BaraSh: Human Nature
Through a Glass Brightly
# 43 Dr. Jonathan haiDt: Coming
Apart
# 42 Dr.clay roUtleDGe:The Mean-
ing of Life, the Universe, and Everything
# 41 Dr. DeBra lieBerMan: That’s
Disgusting! Objection: Disgust, Morality
and the Law
# 40 Dr. KWaMe anthony aPPiah:
Who Am I? Who Are You? The Lies That
Bind: Rethinking Identity
# 39 heather Mac DonalD: The Di-
versity Delusion: How Race and Gender
Pandering Corrupt the University and Un-
dermine Our Culture
# 38 Dr. yUval noah harari:
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
# 37 Dr. neilDeGraSSe tySon:
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance
Between Astrophysics and the Military
# 36 Dr. Jonathan haiDt: The Cod-
dling of the American Mind: How Good
Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up
a Generation for Failure
# 35 Dr. tali Sharot:The Influential
Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our
Power to Change Others
# 34 colin McGinn: Paradoxes,
Puzzles, and Philosophy
# 33 DaviD QUaMMen:TheTangled
Tree: A Radical New History of Life
# 32 nina teicholZ: The Big Fat
Surprise About Diet and Nutrition
# 31 aMy alKon: Unf*ckology: A FieldGuide to Living with Guts and Confidence
# 30 Dr. ralPh leWiS: Finding Mean-
ing in a Meaningless Universe
# 29 colin McGinn: Mysterianism, Con-
sciousness, Free Will, and God
ask Me anything # 1 Dr. Michael
SherMer:
# 28 Dr. eDWarD J. larSon: On Faith
& Science
# 27 Dr. charleS S. cocKell: The
Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes
Evolution
# 26 Dr. StePhen t. aSMa: Why We
Need Religion
# 25 richarD rhoDeS: energy: a
human history
# 24 Dr.alan Stern & Dr.DaviD
GrinSPoon: chasing New Horizons:
Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
# 23 Dr. Kenneth r. Miller: The
Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have
Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will
# 22 Dr. GreGory BernS: What It’s
Like to Be a Dog...and Other Adventures
in Animal Neuroscience
21 Dr. leonarD MloDinoW: Elastic
—Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change
# 20 Dr. carol tavriS talks with Dr.
Michael SherMer on his book Heav-
ens on Earth: The Scientific Search for
the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
# 19 BILL NYE the Science Guy
Saves the Worldon netflix
#18 Dr.Bart ehrMan:How a Forbidden
Religion (Christianity) Swept the World
#17 Dr. KiP thorne:Gravitational
Waves, Black Holes, Time Travel, and
Hollywood
# 16 Dr. roBert triverS:Evolutionary Theory & Human Nature
# 15 Dr. Don Prothero & tiM
callahan: UFOs, Chemtrails & Aliens
# 14 Dr. nancy SeGal:
Twin Mythconceptions
# 13 Dr. Walter ScheiDel: The
Great Leveler: the History of Violence
and Inequality
# 12 Derren BroWn: Magic, Happi-
ness, and Skepticism
# 11 Dr. anDreW ShtUlMan:
Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories
About the World Are So Often Wrong
# 10 Dr. carol tavriS: Mistakes Were
Made (But Not by Me)
# 9 Gary taUBeS: case against Sugar
# 8 Dr. PriyaMvaDa nataraJan: Map-
ping the Heavens: the Radical Scientific
Ideas That Reveal The Cosmos
# 7 Dr. BenJaMin BerGen: What the
F: What Swearing Reveals About Our
Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
# 6 Dr.StePhon alexanDer: The
Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Be-
tween Music and the Structure of the
Universe
# 5 Dr. Janna levin: Gravitational
Waves, Black Holes, and the Nature of
the Cosmos
# 4 Dr. Sean B. carroll: The
Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover
How Life Works
# 3 Dr. arthUr BenJaMin: The Magic
of Math: Math tricks that will make you
look like a genius!
# 2 Michelle FeynMan: The
Quotable Feynman, With Dr. leonarD
MloDinoW
# 1 Dr. liSa ranDall: Dark Matter and
the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Inter-
connectedness of the Universe