Society, Ethics & Social Issues
599: Spencer Roberts | The Dirty Truth About Corporate Greenwashing
Spencer Roberts (@Unpop_Science) is an ecologist, photovoltaic engineer, musician, and writer who specializes in exposing corporate science propaganda and greenwashing. What We Discuss with Spencer Roberts: Is there really such a thing as sustainable seafood in industrial nations? Logistically, how “dolphin safe” can a can of tuna be (and how endangered is that tuna)? Will […]
VIEW EPISODE596: Andrew Gold | Exorcisms On the Edge
Andrew Gold (@andrewgold_ok) is an award-winning BBC and HBO journalist who interviews the world’s most controversial and inspiring figures in his On the Edge with Andrew Gold podcast. What We Discuss with Andrew Gold: What Andrew discovered while making a documentary about someone claiming to be a modern-day exorcist. Is professional wrestling “real?” What you […]
VIEW EPISODE594: Joshua Fields Millburn | Love People, Use Things
Joshua Fields Millburn (@JFM) is best known as one half of The Minimalists, where he and Ryan Nicodemus write about living a meaningful life with less stuff. Their latest book is Love People, Use Things: Because the Opposite Never Works. What We Discuss with Joshua Fields Millburn: How Joshua found that having more stuff — […]
VIEW EPISODE593: Steven Pinker | Why Rationality Seems Scarce
Steven Pinker (@sapinker) is a psychology professor at Harvard, one of the world’s leading authorities on language and the mind, and an author of several bestsellers. His latest is Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. What We Discuss with Steven Pinker: Why, by most metrics, older generations are mistaken when […]
VIEW EPISODE590: Andy Norman | The Search for a Better Way to Think
Andy Norman (@drandyno) directs the Humanism Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University, is the founder of CIRCE, and is the award-winning author of Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think. What We Discuss with Andy Norman: Like our bodies, our minds and cultures have immune systems, and they can […]
VIEW EPISODE588: Sammy “The Bull” Gravano | Mafia Underboss Part Two
Sammy “The Bull” Gravano (@gravanothebull) is the host of the Our Thing podcast, former second-in-command of the Gambino organized-crime family who played a major role in prosecuting “Teflon Don” John Gotti, and subject of Peter Maas’ Underboss: Sammy “The Bull” Gravano’s Story of Life in the Mafia. [This is part two of a two-part episode. […]
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