Skeptically Curious
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 16 - The Anthropocene with Dr. Will Steffen
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If I were to hazard a guess, the odds are far more likely that someone has heard of climate change than they have of the Anthropocene. While its use h...
Episode 15 - AI Controllability, AGI, and Possible AI Futures with Roman Yampolskiy
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode I was very pleased to be once again joined by Roman Yampolskiy. Dr. Yampolskiy is a professor in the department of Computer Engineeri...
Episode 14 - The Psychopath Whisperer with Dr. Kent Kiehl (Part 2) - Free will, serial killers, and treating psychopathy
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Skeptically Curious features the second interview with Dr. Kent Kiehl, one of the foremost contemporary experts on psychopathy, and au...
Episode 13 - The Psychopath Whisperer with Dr. Kent Kiehl (Part 1)
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rarely does one have the opportunity to interview someone who, without any exaggeration, can be legitimately considered among a handful of leading fig...
Episode 12 - Science-based medicine, science denial as a form of conspiracy theory, and countering vaccine misinformation with Dr. David Gorski
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I was joined by Dr. David Gorski, managing editor and prolific writer at the thoroughly indispensable website, Science-Based Medicine....
Episode 11 - AI Risk with Roman Yampolskiy
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode I was delighted to be joined by Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, a professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of L...
Episode 10 - Enlightenment values with Professor A.C. Grayling
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this milestone tenth episode of Skeptically Curious, I had the immense privilege and unique honour to speak with world-renowned philosopher, Profes...
Episode 9 - Secular Buddhism with Stephen Batchelor
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I have been interested in Buddhism for some years now, and so to further feed my curiosity and broaden my knowledge on the subject I decided to turn t...
Episode 8 - Reflective and Therapeutic Writing with Dr. Gillie Bolton
24 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To many, the thought of writing likely conjures at least some of the following associations: furiously taking down notes in a lecture hall; penning an...
Episode 7 - The Irrational Ape with David Robert Grimes (Part 2)
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this second interview with Dr. David Robert Grimes, author of the indispensably excellent book, The Irrational Ape, I began by asking him about the...
Episode 6 - Expertly Explicating Evolution and Countering Creationist Canards with Dr. Ken Miller
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Even though it has been 162 years since Charles Darwin published his ground-breaking treatise, On the Origin of Species, many misconceptions and outri...
Episode 5 - The Science of Sleep with Dr. Raphael Vallat
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
According to William Shakespeare in Macbeth, sleep “knits up the ravell’d sleave of care.” As with so many other aspects of the human condition,...
Episode 4 - The Idiot Brain with Dean Burnett (Part 2)
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the second interview with neuroscientist Dean Burnett. It is not absolutely imperative that you listen to our first discussion before movin...
Episode 3 - The Idiot Brain with Dean Burnett (Part 1)
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this first of a two-part series of interviews with neuroscientist Dean Burnett, we primarily discussed topics covered in his impressively informati...
Episode 2 - Communicating climate change, countering denialism, and the importance of scientific consensus (with John Cook)
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I spoke to John Cook who, for almost a decade and a half, has tirelessly tried to raise awareness of the seriousness of climate chang...
Episode 1 - The Irrational Ape with David Robert Grimes (Part 1)
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For this first uploaded interview, I was exceedingly pleased to be joined by David Robert Grimes, author of The Irrational Ape. Not only is the book b...
Welcome to Skeptically Curious!
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hello, my name is Ryan Rutherford and welcome to this short introduction for a new podcast, Skeptically Curious. So why this particular name? Let’s ...