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Rationally Speaking #169 - Owen Cotton-Barratt on "Thinking About Humanity's Far Future"

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Rationally Speaking #168 - Don Moore on "Overconfidence"

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Rationally Speaking #167 - Samuel Arbesman on "Why technology is becoming too complex"

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Rationally Speaking #166 - Eric Schwitzgebel on "Why you should expect the truth to be crazy"

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Rationally Speaking #165 - Robert Frank on "Success and Luck"

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Rationally Speaking #164 - James Evans on "Using meta-knowledge to learn how science works"

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Rationally Speaking #163 - Gregg Caruso on "Free Will and Moral Responsibility"

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Rationally Speaking #162 - Sean Carroll on "Poetic Naturalism"

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Rationally Speaking #161 - Tom Griffiths and Brian Christian on "Algorithms to Live By"

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Rationally Speaking #160 - Live at NECSS -- Jacob Appel on "Tackling bioethical dilemmas"

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Rationally Speaking #159 - Colin Allen on "Do fish feel pain?"

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Rationally Speaking #158 - Dr. George Ainslie on "Negotiating with your future selves"

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Rationally Speaking #157 - Dr. Herculano-Houzel on "What made the human brain special?"

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Rationally Speaking #156 - David McRaney on "Why it’s so hard to change someone’s mind"

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Rationally Speaking #155 - Uri Simonsohn on "Detecting fraud in social science"

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Rationally Speaking #154 - Tom Griffiths on "Why your brain might be rational after all"

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Rationally Speaking #153 - Dr. Vinay Prasad on "Why so much of what we 'know' about medicine is wrong"

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Rationally Speaking #152 - Dan Fincke on "The pros and cons of civil disagreement"

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Rationally Speaking #151 - Maria Konnikova on "Why everyone falls for con artists"

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Rationally Speaking #150 - Elizabeth Loftus on "The malleability of human memory"

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Rationally Speaking #149 - Susan Gelman on "How essentialism shapes our thinking"

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Rationally Speaking #148 - David Kyle Johnson on "The Myths that Stole Christmas"

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Rationally Speaking #147 - Andrew Gelman on "Why do Americans vote the way they do?"

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Rationally Speaking #146 - Jesse Richardson on "The pros and cons of making fallacies famous"

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Rationally Speaking #145 - Phil Tetlock on "Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction"

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Rationally Speaking #144 - Bryan Caplan on "Does parenting matter?"

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Rationally Speaking #143 - Scott Aaronson on "The theorem that proves rationalists can't disagree"

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Rationally Speaking #142 - Paul Bloom on "The case against empathy"

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Rationally Speaking #141 - Dan Sperber on "The Argumentative Theory of reason"

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Rationally Speaking #140 - Kenny Easwaran on "Newcomb's Paradox and the tragedy of rationality"

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Rationally Speaking #139 - Eric Schwitzgebel on "Moral hypocrisy: why doesn't knowing about ethics make people more ethical?"

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Rationally Speaking #138 - Ian Morris on, "Why the West rules -- for now"

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Rationally Speaking #136 - David Roodman on Why Microfinance Won't Cure Global Poverty

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Rationally Speaking #135 - Robin Hanson on: "Most human behavior is signaling"

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Rationally Speaking #134 - Michael Shermer on: "Science drives moral progress"

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Rationally Speaking #128 - 5th Anniversary Live Show

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Rationally Speaking #127 - Elise Crull on Philosophy of Physics

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Rationally Speaking #126 - Preston Bost on Crazy Beliefs, Sane Believers

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Rationally Speaking #125 - The Quantified Self

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Rationally Speaking #116 - Jim Baggott and Massimo on Farewell to Reality

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Rationally Speaking #112 - Race: Just a Social Construct?

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Rationally Speaking #111 - Human Nature

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Rationally Speaking #137 - Marc Lipsitch on, "Should scientists try to create dangerous viruses?"

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Rationally Speaking #133 - Sean Carroll on "The Many Worlds Interpretatioln Is Probably Correct"

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Rationally Speaking #132 - Live From NECSS 2015

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Rationally Speaking #131 - James Randi on Being An Honest Liar

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Rationally Speaking #130 - The Atheists Own 10 Commandments

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Rationally Speaking #129 - Would the World Be a Better Place Without Religion?

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Rationally Speaking #124 - Stoicism

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Rationally Speaking #123 - Daniel Lakens on P-Hacking and Other Problems in Psychology Research

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Rationally Speaking #122 - The Science and Philosophy of Humor

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Rationally Speaking #121 - Benjamin Todd on 80,000 Hours

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Rationally Speaking #120 - Nihilism

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Rationally Speaking #119 - Aaron James on Assholes (and Bitches)

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Rationally Speaking #118 - Live From Baruch College With Dr. Steven Novella

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Rationally Speaking #117 - Maria Konnikova on How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

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Rationally Speaking #115 - Maarten Boudry and Massimo On the Difference Between Science and Pseudoscience

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Rationally Speaking #114 - Massimo and Julia Go Freestyle

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Rationally Speaking #113 - The Turing Test

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Rationally Speaking #110 - Scientia, the Unity of Knowledge

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Rationally Speaking #109 - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on Plato at the Googleplex

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Rationally Speaking #106 - Live From NECSS With Lawrence Krauss

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Rationally Speaking #105 - Greta Christina on Coming Out Atheist

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Rationally Speaking #104 - Edward Frenkel on Love and Math

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Rationally Speaking #103 - Neil deGrasse Tyson on Why He Doesn't Call Himself an Atheist

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Rationally Speaking #102 - Zach Weinersmith on His "SMBC" Webcomic

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Rationally Speaking #101 - Max Tegmark on the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

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Rationally Speaking #100 - Live Q&A: Massimo and Julia Answer Everything!

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Rationally Speaking #99 - Judith Schlesinger Exposes the Myth of the Mad Genius

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Rationally Speaking #98 - Jerome Wakefield on Psychiatric Diagnoses: Science or Pseudoscience?

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Rationally Speaking #97 - Peter Singer on Being a Utilitarian in the Real World

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Rationally Speaking #96 - Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld on the Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience

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Rationally Speaking #95 - Gerard O'Brien On the Computational Theory of Mind

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Rationally Speaking #94 - Maarten Boudry on Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem

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Rationally Speaking #93 - Dr. Michael E. Mann On The Science Of Climate Change

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Rationally Speaking #92 - Dr. Paul Offit On Believing in Magic

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Rationally Speaking #91 - Kendrick Frazier On Skeptical Inquiry

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Rationally Speaking #90 - On Wine, Water, and Audio

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Rationally Speaking #89 - Online Dating

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Rationally Speaking #88 - Mario Livio on Brilliant Blunders

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Rationally Speaking #87 - Sean Carroll on Naturalism

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Rationally Speaking #86 - Live From NECSS With Jim Holt On Why Does the World Exist?

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Rationally Speaking #85 - Live From NECSS With Michael Shermer On the Role of Science in Morality

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Rationally Speaking #84 - Stephen Asma On the Myth of Universal Love

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Rationally Speaking #83 - Samuel Arbesman On The Half-Life of Facts

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Rationally Speaking #82 - It's Not Easy Being Green

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Rationally Speaking #81 - Live! Ben Goldacre on Bad Pharma

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Rationally Speaking #80 - Dear Abby

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Rationally Speaking #79 - Chris Mooney on The Republican War on Science

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Rationally Speaking #78 - Intelligence and Personality Testing

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Rationally Speaking #77 - Victoria Pitts-Taylor on Feminism and Science

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Rationally Speaking #76 - Crowdsourcing and the Wisdom of Crowds

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Rationally Speaking #75 - When Scientists Kill

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Rationally Speaking #74 - Live! John Shook on Philosophy of Religion

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Rationally Speaking #73 - Answers for Aristotle

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Rationally Speaking #71 - On Science Fiction and Philosophy

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Rationally Speaking #70 - Graham Priest on Buddhism and Other Asian Philosophies

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Rationally Speaking #68 - Applied Rationality

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Rationally Speaking #67 - Freudianism as Pseudoscience, With Assorted Comments on Masturbation and Castration...

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Rationally Speaking #66 - Matthew Hutson on The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking