Brandon K. Gauthier on his book: Before Evil
Brandon K. Gauthier (@bk_gauthier) wrote Before Evil, about the childhoods of six of the twentieth century’s most notorious dictators, to show that even the most vile among us share a…
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John Gleason (Godless Engineer) on Jesus mythicism and online activism
John Gleason is known online as the Godless Engineer (@GodlessEngineer Facebook) and has spent the past decade debunking religious apologists and anti-science beliefs. Leslie asks John about his journey to…
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Emma Allen-Vercoe on the importance of microbes to human health
Dr. Allen-Vercoe (@EmmaAllenVercoe) talks with Leslie about how to think of microbe populations across different people, and why they are important for digestion and overall health. They discuss research on…
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David Good on the Yanomami and the Good Project
David Good is the son of an American anthropologist father and a Yanomami mother. David shares with Leslie what it is like to have one foot in two very different…
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Steven Pinker on Rationality and Humanist Values
Even as a young teenager, Dr. Steven Pinker (@sapinker) prized rationality as a virtue, and considered himself an anarchist. He changed that belief, however, when evidence indicated that anarchy was…
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