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Why Consciousness Needs a Body
Racism and White Guilt: Has America Changed More Than We Admit? | Shelby Steele & Eli Steele
Would You Want to Know If You Were Wrong?
Does Consciousness Break the Laws of Physics?
Jared Diamond: How Much Can One Person Change History?
Why America Failed to Stop 9/11 | Gerald Posner & Michael Shermer
Why Be Honest When Cheating Pays?
Is the Future Unknowable? Uncertainty, Free Will, and the Limits of Science
Why We Want to Believe in Aliens and Why We Still Haven't Found Them
Is There a Second Arrow of Time? A New Law of Evolution, Information, and Complexity
Why Good People Disagree About Right and Wrong
Are We Building a God? AI, Superintelligence, and the Coming Singularity
Can You Trust Wikipedia? Co-Founder Larry Sanger on Wikipedia's Bias and Why He Was Banned
How to Think Clearly About a World in Crisis: Iran, China, Russia, and the West's Economic Pessimism
The Truth About Sex Differences (Steve Stewart-Williams)
America at 250: What Did the Founders Get Right?
When History Goes on Trial: Demjanjuk, Eichmann, and Justice After Atrocity
Why I Joined the Government UAP Science Advisory Council
Massimo Pigliucci on Doubt, Moral Courage, and Living Without Illusions
Cathy Young: Why Free Societies Need Free Speech
The Zodiac Killer Wasn't Real
How Algorithms Use Your Data to Control You
Batya Ungar-Sargon: Why the Left Sees Jews Differently Now
From Equality to Equity: How Social Justice Becomes Ideology
Can Science Fix Criminal Justice?
Gad Saad: When Empathy Becomes Dangerous
Why We Cling to Certainty, Conspiracies, and Bad Predictions
Neil deGrasse Tyson on UFOs, Government Files, and the Physics of Alien Claims
From Newspapers to Influencers: Who Controls Reality Now? (Ashley Rindsberg)
The New War on Free Speech: Why Power Turns Everyone Into a Censor
The UFO Files Were Declassified Today
Why Everything Falls Apart—And How to Keep It Going (Stewart Brand)
The Scientist Who Tried to Prove Reincarnation
Why Do We Exist? Hakeem Oluseyi
Shermer Says 9: The "Dead Scientists," Explained
Not Monsters. Not Madmen. Just Men.
Flourishing in the Age of Algorithms
What Really Prevents Cognitive Decline
How Christianity Made America—and How America Remade Christianity
What Turns Sand Into Cells? How Nonliving Matter Becomes Alive
Shermer Says 8: Easter Without the Miracle
Debra Soh on Why Men and Women Are Drifting Apart, Dating Apps, and Gen Z
The Psychology of Gaslighting, Bullying, Cults, and Coercion
Did Jesus Really Change Western Morality? Bart Ehrman
Lionel Shriver on Immigration, Religion, and the Decline of the West
The Biggest Blind Spot of the Climate Movement: Nuclear Energy
DOGE, Government Fraud, and AI Audits
Heretics: The Scientists Who Were Mocked But Later Proven Right
Shermer Says 7: Responding to Fan Mail … "Who Was Jesus?"
Why the Same Childhood Doesn't Affect Everyone the Same Way
Who Gets to Edit Culture? Sensitivity Readers & Censorship in Book Publishing
Filming Corey Feldman & "Corey's Angels": The Weird World Behind the Curtain
Can a Skeptic Believe in God?
Shermer Says 6: Jeffrey Epstein and Me
The Evolutionary Roots of Love, Sex, and Jealousy
Truth Still Matters (And Here's Why)
Shermer Says 5: What Went Wrong in Minnesota? Protests, Panic, and Personal Responsibility
Government Transparency & UFOs: Inside Military Programs and Classified Briefings
The Hardest UFO Cases to Dismiss: Something Is Flying Around and We Don't Know What It Is
Why Survival Isn't Enough: The Deep Human Need to Matter
Shermer Says 4: Venezuela, ICE in Minnesota, UFOs & UAPs, and Social Norms Around Single-Sex Spaces
Mental Health: More Diagnoses, Fewer Answers?
What Makes You "You" When Everything Is Just Atoms?
Rethinking the Discovery of DNA
How One Black Man Dismantled the KKK, One Conversation at a Time
The Collapse of Open Inquiry: Sacred Victims and Forbidden Questions
The Future of Brain Implants: Restoring Speech, Regaining Mobility, Treating Pain
The Original Alien Craze: When People Believed in Martians
How AI Sees Science Differently Than We Do
Can You Spot a Killer? The Dangerous Fantasy of Criminal Profiling
Why Wars Last Longer Than Experts Predict
The Emergent Mind: From Ant Colonies to Human Thought to Artificial Intelligence
Are We Meant to Leave Earth? Why Humanity May Have No Choice but to Go to Space
Cosmology, Creation, and the Evidence for God
Why Eastbound Flights Are Faster, and Other Strange Things About Wind (Simon Winchester)
Logic, Creativity, and the Limits of AI: How Humans Think in Ways Machines Never Will
The Psychology of War: Could YOU Make a Moral Choice in Wartime?
Tribes, Teams, and Cults: How Groups Shape What We Believe
Shermer Says 3: Weird Experiences, the Meaning of Dreams, and What Mark Twain Knew About Reality
A Former Spy Explains How AI is Changing Espionage
Did Lost Civilizations Really Exist? An Archaeologist Explains
Charles Murray: Why I'm Taking Religion Seriously
The Myth of Human Exceptionalism: Why Humans Aren't as Special as We Think
Shermer Says: Why Secularists Are Turning to Religion, The Substitution Hypothesis, Sleep Paralysis
The Serial Killer Era of the 70s/80s: Lore, Patterns, and Plausible Explanations
Shermer Says: Debate Skills, 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, Autism, Vaccines, ANTIFA, Bari Weiss & CBS News
When Rationality Becomes Irrational
The Science of Revenge: Why Getting Even Feels So Good
Why No One Thinks They're in a Cult
Was Benjamin Franklin America's First Scientist?
COVID-19: What We Learned (and Didn't) About Masks, Lockdowns, and Vaccines
The Power of Common Knowledge: Steven Pinker on Language, Norms, and Punishment
Jim Lampley on Hosting the Super Bowl, Calling Tyson's Fights, and His Friendship with O.J.
The Assassination of Charlie Kirk: Shermer Reflects on Political Violence
The Fate of Nations: Why Ignoring Human Nature Dooms Politics
How to Protect Children from Social Media and AI
The Future of Space Exploration Amid NASA Mission Shutdowns
Why Do Humans Speak?
Depopulation: The Silent Global Emergency
Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion