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    The Michael Shermer Show

    The Michael Shermer Show

    The Michael Shermer Show

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    Length:
    430 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    The Michael Shermer Show is a series of long-form conversations between Dr. Michael Shermer and leading scientists, philosophers, historians, scholars, writers and thinkers about the most important issues of our time.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 430 episodes

    Title

    An AI... Utopia? (Nick Bostrom, Oxford)

    Nick Bostrom’s previous book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, changed th...

    105 minutes
    		Apr 16, 2024

    Life on Mars? (Robert Zubrin)

    When Robert Zubrin published his classic book The Case for Mars a quarter century ago, ...

    100 minutes
    		Apr 13, 2024

    Robots and the People Who Love Them

    Shermer and Herold discuss: social robots, sex robots, robot nannies, robot therapists ...

    73 minutes
    		Apr 09, 2024

    The Formation, Diversification, and Extinction of World Religions

    Thousands of religions have adherents today, and countless more have existed throughout...

    121 minutes
    		Apr 06, 2024

    The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Uncertain

    In an era of terrifying unpredictability, we race to address complex crises with quick,...

    89 minutes
    		Apr 02, 2024

    The End of Race Politics (Coleman Hughes)

    As one of the few black students in his philosophy program at Columbia University years...

    94 minutes
    		Mar 30, 2024

    How to Repair America’s Broken Democracy

    Order the Artificial Intelligence issue of SKEPTIC magazine at https://www.skeptic.com/...

    67 minutes
    		Mar 26, 2024

    Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up (Abigail Shrier)

    In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z’s mental health is worse than that o...

    68 minutes
    		Mar 23, 2024

    An Unfinished History of the Holocaust

    The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are m...

    96 minutes
    		Mar 19, 2024

    The Weirdness of the World

    Do we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structu...

    123 minutes
    		Mar 16, 2024