The DemystifySci Podcast
Episodes
After Civilization's Collapse - Dr. Shane Simonsen, Zero Input Agriculture
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Shane Simonsen is an author, plant breeder, bet-hedger, who left the academic world to start a zero-input agriculture farm that he writes about fo...
Fundamental Motions of the Universe - David de Hilster, Dissident Science
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David de Hilster is the creator of the Dissident Science YT channel and president of the John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society, and he's got a bone...
Consciousness Physics - Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Essentia Foundation
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bernardo Kastrup has a PhD in philosophy and another in computer science, and is interested in a theory of consciousness that by necessity emerges fro...
Headless Horsemen of Regulatory Deviance: Making Medicine Safe - Dr. David Healy, McMaster U.
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Adverse drug events are now the fourth leading cause of death in hospitals. Dr. David Healy joins us to discuss his numerous ideas and books on topics...
Authority, Violent AI, & Myth of Self - Dr. Thomas Metzinger, J. Gutenberg University of Mainz
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Thomas Metzinger is a renowned philosopher and professor of theoretical philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. He also serves a...
Death, Drugs, & Corruption at the FDA - Dr. Mikkael Sekeres, University of Miami
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when the FDA approves a drug that doesn't work? Say it gets accelerated approval from the regulatory body, but further clinical trials de...
Planetary Formation, Dynamic Instabilities, Cosmic Mysteries- Dr. Erik Petigura, UCLA Astronomy
08 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UCLA's Erik Petigura comes with the insights! We talk about all things planetary science - stories of solar system formation, the birth and death of t...
Climate or Corruption? - Spencer Roberts, The Intercept
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when corrupt incentive structures and incorrect ecological assumptions crash into each other? A billion crabs vanish, and everyone blames...
Consciousness First Universe - Dr. Jude Currivan, Cosmological Archeologist
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Could the universe be shaped by consciousness, rather than the other way around? Most researchers working under the classical paradigm would say no - ...
Ancestors of the Americas - Dr. David Carballo, Archeologist, Boston University
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. David Carballo is back for another round with DemystifySci, this time all about the timeline of the peopling of the Americas. We talk about the ti...
Precognition & Consciousness First Cosmology - Dr. Julia Mossbridge, Institute of Noetic Sciences
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is it possible to view the future before it happens? A buttoned-up academy scientist would probably say no, but Julia Mossbridge, founding executive d...
Universe Conspires to Create Life - Dr. Nick Lane, University College London
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is life inevitable? Or are we the unbelievable result of an against-all-odds game that has produced a pair of eyeballs capable of unravelling the myst...
Cycles Theory of Everything - Ray Tomes, Cycles Research Institute
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At the very bottom of all our attempts to explain nature there is a single question. Why is there anything at all? What are the forces that take an en...
Resonant Structures of the Mind - Dr. Joseph Arpaia & Dr. Lobsang Rapgay
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Fundamentally, this is a conversation about applied consciousness. We talk about the way that the "self" emerges from the resonant "structures" of the...
AIRWAVES #6 - Paradigm Shifts Searching for Extraterrestrial Life - Dr. Adam Frank, Planetary Scientist
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Frank has had a wide-ranging career in everything from computational information theory to astrobiology. Our conversation with him is equally wid...
Cosmic Rays, Electric Weather, & Stellar Anomalies - Dr. Nir Shaviv, Astrophysicist
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
These days, spring comes at strange times, winter barely arrives, and summer seems like it will never end. Conventional wisdom points to a single mole...
AIRWAVES #5 - The Science of an Unjust Law - Dr. Paul DeLespinasse, Political Scientist
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Paul DeLespinasse is the innovator of a Periodic Table of Associations, which allows one to easily triage and understand the legitimacy of laws ba...
The New Laws of Robotics - Dr. Karl Friston, Cognitive Neuroscientist
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Karl Friston is the most widely-cited neuroscientist in the world, known for his development of parametric mapping, a method for comparing brain s...
New Light in an Old Universe - Dr. Brian Keating, Cosmologist, UCSD
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Science is the source of modern myths, and cosmology - the study of the cosmos and our place in them - is the foundation on which the house of science...
AIRWAVES #4 - Mastering Mainstream Cosmology - Dr. Ethan Siegel, Starts with a Bang!
19 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
DemystifySci is a show of opposites, and in the court of Science it is vital that we present both sides of any debate. To balance our tendency to favo...
Threshold Model of Light - Eric Reiter, Experimental Physicist
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Photons don't exist, and the experimental results that got Clauser and Aspect a Nobel prize are a result of an incorrect interpretation of the data. S...
AIRWAVES#3 Unified Growth Theory - Dr. Oded Galor, Brown University Economics
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Most economic theories are what one would call "bounded," which is to say that they are based on a narrow window of human activity, be that time, or p...
Civilizations in Collapse: Lost City of Teotihuacan - Dr. David Carballo, Archeologist
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Living at the end of an era, what are the historical lessons can we learn from civilizations in collapse? We speak with David Carballo, Boston Univers...
AIRWAVES#2 How the Left Brain Kidnapped Civilization - Dr. Iain McGilchrist
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why are you the way that you are? Why do you hurry, or focus on the technical details, or let your mind drive up anxiety and worry? Do you know? Or, d...
How Bell's Theorem got the Photon Wrong - Dr. Carver Mead, Caltech Physicist
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What if we're wrong about entanglement? This is the question that's been driving Carver Mead, Caltech Physicist and veteran of the semiconductor indus...
Creating Aliens in a Lab - Dr. Lee Cronin, University of Glasglow
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Lee Cronin is an organic chemist, but he isn't just interested in the usual research path of describing new chemicals, though he does do tha...
Intragalactic Geology - Dr. Chris Kirkland, Geologist, Curtin University
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is Earth's crustal formation influenced by its position in the galaxy? And how would we know? It's obvious there are many celestial cycles, from the e...
Underworld Economy & Wall Street Create Tent Cities - Sam Quinones, The Least of Us
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Untold numbers of people across North America have been caught up in the wake of the opioid crisis - loved ones lost, lives interrupted, cities overru...
Seeing the Most Distant Galaxies - Dr. Steven Finkelstein, Astronomer, U.T. Austin
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Astronomer, Dr. Steven Finkelstein, joins us for the third week of astro/cosmo discussions centered around the new James Webb (JWST) data. Dr. Finkels...
Modified Physics v. No Big Bang - Dr. John Moffat, Theoretical Physicist
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second installment of three episodes this month in the astro/cosmo department at DemystifySci. This is John Moffat, Cambridge cosmologist ...
Many Roads to New Planets - Dr. Konstantin Batygin, Caltech Planetary Institute
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A rockin' conversation with Professor Batygin about his perspectives on modern cosmology, how paradigms shift, and what the field looks like at the ve...
Lost Electric Tech of the Ancients - Cliff Dunning, Earth Ancients Radio
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why are there electric anomalies at so many ancient structures? Why do structures built outside the classical periods of complex civilizations fail to...
The Shocking Origins of Epidemiology - Dr. Jim Downs, Gettysburg College
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We take for granted today that public health systems around the world have the capacity to trace the progression of outbreaks, to determine how cancer...
Material Atomics and Electric Weather - Dr. Gerald Pollack, University of Washington
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we have Dr. Gerald Pollack on the show, who is here to tell us about the role of electricity in weather - but to get there, we have to go al...
How Psychedelics Rewire Your Brain - Dr. Matthew Johnson, Johns Hopkins University
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Matthew Johnson searches for safe and powerful ways to utilize mind-altering drugs for positive change in psychiatric patients' lives. His psych l...
Is NASA Warming to the Electric Universe? - Dr. Lika Guhathakurta, NASA Heliophysics
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Madhulika Guhathakurta is a leader in heliophysics development at NASA who is very much interested in expanding the questions and paradigms being ...
Revolutionizing Nuclear Architecture - Edo Kaal, Structured Atom Model
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Edo Kaal believes that it would be more useful to think about the atomic nucleus in terms of architecture rather than abstract mathematics. His Struct...
AIRWAVES#1 Life in the Deep Hot Underworld - Dr. Karen Lloyd, University of Tennessee
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Did life emerging from the Earth itself? This week on AIRWAVES we talk to Dr. Karen Lloyd about the mysterious world of the deep, hot biosphere. Miles...
Did True Polar Wander Cause the Ice Ages? - Lance Weaver, Utah Geology
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Support the scientific revolution with a monthly donation: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB We've all heard the popular theories explaining the clockwork cycl...
Announcing AIRWAVES! A new series from DemystifySci
31 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
AIRWAVES is a new audio-only series from DemystifySci where we explore topics that don't yet fit into the dialogues we're releasing here every week. L...
Transhumanism Makes Hominid Speciation Inevitable - David Pearce, Philosopher
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What will the world look like when humans step into technological maturity and take evolution into their own hands? Philosopher and transhumanist Davi...
An Electrical Path to Grand Unification - Wallace Thornhill, Electric Universe
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wal Thornhill, the Chief Advisor for the Thunderbolts Project, has spent his life working on an electrical solution to the problem of grand unificatio...
Mathematical Proof for Consciousness - Dr. Donald Hoffman, Cognitive Neuroscientist UC Irvine
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does the emergence of consciousnesses have to do with the fact that spacetime is doomed? Well, even after decades of experimentation, no one had ...
Element Transmutation, Electric Sun, and Biophotons - Dr. Michael Clarage, Safire Project
04 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Michael Clarage is a founding member of the SAFIRE project who has recently turned his attention to the nascent field of biophotonics, which has h...
Electric Harmonics of Consciousness - Andrés Gómez Emilsson, Qualia Research Institute
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is the dividing line between the feeling of sitting in a fluorescently lit cubicle vs flying down the Gold Coast, sea foam in your hair and music...
The Crumbling Line Between Planets and Stars - Dr. Gibor Basri, Astrophysicist U.C. Berkeley
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
UC Berkeley professor Gibor Basri studies brown dwarves - cool objects that are not quite planets, not quite stars. But before we could get to the str...
Layout of Ancient Cities Evidence of a Wandering North Pole? - Mario Buildreps, Antiquity Reborn
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What do ice ages, geology, crust shifts and super ancient civilizations have to do with each other? Well, when taken together, they tell the story of ...
NASA Scientist on Changing Paradigms in Stellar Evolution - Dr. Michelle Thaller, Astronomer
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NASA's Dr. Michelle Thaller sees the story of star birth, life, and death as an unfinished puzzle. We talk about the angular momentum paradox, the pit...
Impossibly Old Artifacts - Michael Cremo, Forbidden Archaeology
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you explain a gold chain pulled from a 300 million year old lump of coal, a perfectly crafted brass bell pulled from a mine in the Appalachians...
NASA Scientist Reveals Planets Are Powerful Beings - Dr. David Grinspoon, Astrobiologist
22 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We normally think of planets as inanimate balls of nickel and silicon, animated by the molten rumbling of the inner core. How does our world change wh...
Ministry of Truth Has Come for My Medical License - Dr. Meryl Nass, Physician/Researcher
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Ministry of Truth wants Dr. Meryl Nass' medical license, but she's not going to give it up without a fight. In this week's episode we talk about t...
The Crisis of Mass Formation Psychosis - Dr. Mattias Desmet, Ghent University
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are three steps to mass formation psychosis, and signs point to the fact that we are living through the very last stage. In this week's conversa...
Did Aliens Just Crash Into the Pacific? - Dr. Avi Loeb, Harvard Astrophysics
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Did an Alien Craft crash into the Pacific Ocean near Papua New Guinea? Dr. Avi Loeb, Harvard University astronomer, certainly seems to think so. We ha...
Witches, Gods, and Voices - Dr. Tanya Luhrmann, Stanford Anthropology
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What makes the voice of god real? This is the question that has driven Tanya Luhrmann's research for the last twenty years. She has lived with witches...
Decompressing Earth vs. Plate Tectonics - Dr. Marvin Herndon, Geochemist
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What if plate tectonics isn't settled science? Consensus suggests Earth's crust has been going through relatively constant supercontinent cycles...
First Hand Food - Tamar Haspel, The Washington Post
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Supply chain collapse and food shortages are on everyone's mind these days. Is the answer to homestead, to prep, to drop out? Most likely not - it's n...
A Universe Beyond Time - Dr. Julian Barbour, Theoretical Physicist
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Julian Barbour's latest book, The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time takes us on a wild hallucinatory ride through the story of everything ever, all at...
Thinning Atmosphere Explains Flying Dinos - Dr. Donald Pettit, NASA Astronaut
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Astronaut Donald Pettit champions a theory he developed while studying under Octave Levenspiel at Oregon State University. In short, it is apparent th...
Natural Selection Isn’t the Whole Story - Dr. Richard Watson, University of Southampton
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is competition really all there is? If you take the word of those who insist that natural selection is solely responsible for all of life on earth, th...
Exploring the Surface of the Sun - Dr. Nicky Fox, NASA Heliophysics
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What will we find when we reach out to touch the celestial center of our planetary system? Will we be able to finally explain the pernicious problem o...
Entangled Nature - Dr. Ted Pavlic, Arizona State University
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today's conversation is all about what large-scale patterns in Nature can teach us about the individuals at the helm of decision making within those e...
Erased Civilizations? The Silurian Hypothesis - Dr. Gavin Schmidt, Dir. of GISS, NASA
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss Dr. Schmidt's paper on the Silurean Hypothesis - is it possible that an advanced civilization rose and fell in the far reaching distant pas...
Magnetogenetics - Dr. Jacob Robinson, Rice U.
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does the future of medicine look like? Precision, precision, precision. In the last few decades, neuroengineers have largely relied on optogeneti...
The Weight of What’s Missing in Geology - Dr. Luis Buatois, U. of Saskatchewan
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Buatois is a geologist at the University of Saskatchewan specializing in trace fossils. He responds to our recent short film exploring the cause o...
What Does it Mean to be Quantum Invisible? - Dr. Yair Margalit, Physicist MIT
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss quantum behavior under extreme conditions with MIT Quantum Physicist Dr. Yair Margalit. Topics include the relationship between spin and re...
Bioelectric Networks & Cellular Motivations - Dr. Michael Levin, Synthetic Biologist, Tufts Univ.
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Michael Levin is a developmental and synthetic biologist best known for two things - the creation of xenobots - biological robots created from fro...
The Pleistocene Murders - Forrest Bishop, Paleobiologist
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Forrest Bishop about the Pleistocene Murders - a whodunnit theory that seeks the cause of the megafaunal extinction that rocked th...
A Different Take on "The Glitch" - John Dore, Electrical Engineer
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Followup conversation from "The Silence & the Glitch" with Ivor Catt. Today with John Dore, an associate of Mr. Catt during the famed Glitch years...
Shape-shifting DNA - Dr. Zoe Waller, University College London
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the show we’ve got a conversation with Dr. Zoe Waller, a researcher at UCL, who specializes in the myriad ways that alternative DNA structu...
What Is Electric Current? - Ivor Catt, Electrical Engineer
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second installment of a multipart series with famed electric heretic Ivor Catt. This time, he is here to tell us the story of the Catt que...
Rethinking How Science is Published - Étienne Fortier-Dubois, Founder of JAWWS
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the show we are speaking with Etienne Fortier Dubois about the problems with scientific publishing and what an ideal future might look like: ...
So Many from One? - Dr. Matthew Herron, Georgia Tech
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode is with Dr. Matthew Herron, professor of Evolutionary Biology at Georgia Tech university. He found us through a series of articl...
The Silence & The Glitch - Ivor Catt, Pioneer of Computer Engineering
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first of a multipart series with famed electric heretic Ivor Catt - pioneer of digital electronics and formulator of the infamous “Catt ...
The Plasma Powered Future - Dr. Ian Hutchinson, MIT Nuclear Science & Engineering
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we’re bringing you a conversation with Dr. Ian Hutchinson, professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT’s plasma science and fusion ...
Particles as Ripples in a Universal Material - Dr. Harry Cliff, CERN - LHC
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Harry Cliff is an LHCb particle physicist, Cavendish Fellow, and the writer of an excellent book about subatomic physics called “How to Make an ...
Big Bang or Big Splash? - Dr. Pierre Marie-Robitaille, Father of UHF-MRI
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Pierre-Marie Robitaille is a world-class scientist and engineer responsible for doubling the power of the MRI medical imaging system. His insights...
Is the Sun Not a Gaseous Plasma? - Dr. Pierre-Marie Robitaille, Father of UHF-MRI
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Pierre-Marie Robitaille is a world-class scientist and engineer responsible for doubling the power of the MRI medical imaging system. His insights...
Black Bodies Require A Rigid Lattice - Dr. Pierre-Marie Robitaille, Father of UHF-MRI
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Pierre-Marie Robitaille is a world-class scientist and engineer responsible for doubling the power of the MRI medical imaging system. His insights...
Seeing the World in Radiowaves - Dr. Pierre-Marie Robitaille, Father of UHF-MRI
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Pierre-Marie Robitaille is a world-class scientist and engineer responsible for doubling the power of the MRI medical imaging system. His insights...
Blood vs Machine: The Age of Anti-Human Geopolitics - Noah Harvey, Political Researcher
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Political Scientist Noah Harvey lays out the spiderweb of connections around the world that is determined to undermine the fragile institution of demo...
The Global Politics of Garbage - Dr. Kate O'Neill, UC Berkeley
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Kate O'Neill has spent her career working on the geopolitics of waste, and she's here to tell Micky and Quinn about the future of garbage. She's t...
Changing How We Visualize Math - Dr. Hamish Todd, Data Scientist
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Todd creates games and visual representations of complex ideas to help other scientists communicate their ideas. We spoke with him about the chang...
What Dreams Are Made Of - Dr. Deirdre Barrett, Harvard
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Deirdre Barrett has spent her career working with dreamers both in the clinic and classroom. She is also an accomplished visual artist, focused on...
This Pill Can Cure Your Loneliness - Dr. Moriel Zelikowsky, University of Utah
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We speak with neuroscientist Moriel Zelikowsky about the basic brain science of social isolation. Support us by becoming a Patron: https://www.p...
The Role of Song - Larry Crane, Tape Op
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How did humans come to sing? We dig into the evolution of song to answer this question and shine some light on the adaptive role of song in humans. &n...
To Be Human is To Be Hypnotized - Kevin Stone, The Adaptive Role of the Trance
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can you be human - enjoy a movie, dance, or story - without going under at least a little bit now and then? To be human is to be hypnotized. In th...
The Modern Creation Myth & Stephen Crothers, Checking the Math
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Modern Creation Myth: At the start of the 20th century, mathematical physics, inspired by a series of instrumental discoveries in astrophysics, at...
How Biology Beats Cheaters: A Lesson in Corporate Accountability - DC Attorney, Joel Corcoran
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The tragedy of the commons is a frequent excuse for the often ill effects of efficient corporate industry. Curbing bad behavior can seem impossible - ...
Life After Growth - Dr. Mark Nelson, Biosphere 2
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Some species are boom and bust - but for others, life after growth is a more steady affair. What will it be for humans? If the past informs the future...
The Strangeness of Ordered Water - Dr. Gerald Pollack, University of Washington
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The strangeness of ordered water: Water is usually seen as a solvent, the background against which the reactions of life play out. But sometimes, wate...
The Age of Regeneration: Mars Makes Sense - Fraser Cain, Universe Today
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rather than being a landscape of death and destruction, the next age of planetary development could the age of regeneration - driven by the technologi...
The Tech Company Town: When Corporations Replace the State - Dr. Herb Lin, Stanford's Hoover Institute
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Did you think the world's richest entities were governments? Think again! 71 of the richest 100 organizations are corporations, not countries. Is a hi...
The Appeal of Motivated Reasoning in Anomalistic Psychology - Dr. Chris French
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, we all know that. But Dr. Christopher French, professor of Anomalistic Psychology at the University of...
When the Mind Shapes Reality, Belief is Good For You - Dr. Matthijs Kox
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Medical mystery Wim Hof has put his body to the test, and the science is in: belief is really good for you. Especially if you learn to use the power o...
Sometimes Science is About Power - Jeremy Rys
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There are two opposing forces that steer the course of consensus science - quality of thought on one hand, and narrative control on the other. When yo...
Strength Without Compassion is a Road to Ruin - Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, NYU
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Propaganda, strongmen, and authoritarianism are mainstays across the authoritarian-liberatrian boundary, marked by a lack of democratic and free elect...
What is Good? The Shifting Line Between Wrong & Right - Dr. Cory Clark, U. Penn.
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Environmentalism, equality, gun laws, lockdowns, these are all areas where people are interested in doing the RIGHT thing, but end up with very differ...
How an Obsession with Empiricism Tanked the Spiritual Economy - Dr. Joshua Mitchell, Georgetown University
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Empiricism as the dominant way of knowing the world optimized technological progress, but also alienated humans because it often avoids the spiritual,...
How Cyberwarfare Has Shaped Who You Think You Are - Hoover Institute Fellow Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why would governments and corporations alike be interested in destabilizing society? ªº¬˚∆≤≥≤≥ Join the mailing list http://eepurl.com/g...
How Doing Difficult Things Rewires Your Brain - Wim Hof Researcher, Dr. Vaibhav Diwadkar
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Depressed, anxious, and not sure why? This is the story of how your love of creature comforts may be at the root of your problems - and what the scien...