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What Navalny Meant (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)

Bloggingheads.tv - February 20, 2024 22:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Nikita’s memories of Navalny’s emergence as a political force ... The time Nikita was detained for protesting election fraud ... Navalny’s success as a political organizer ... What did Navalny represent? ... Navalny’s courageous post-poisoning return to Russia ... Heading to Overtime (plus:...


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Trauma Release Exercises for Awakening and Nondual Realization with Christina Guimond | Living Mirrors #125

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke - February 17, 2024 14:48 - 1 hour
Chris Guimond is an awakening and nondual realization guide who works with the Trauma Release Exercises that I’ve previously spoken about on the podcast. You can listen to my interview with the creator of the TRE approach, David Bercelli (episode 64), if you want more detail on the practices. Chr...

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Ukraine’s War, Putin’s Worldview (Robert Wright & Leonid Ragozin)

Bloggingheads.tv - February 15, 2024 22:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
What MSM missed about Carlsons' Putin interview ... Putin’s litany of grievances against the West ... Russia gets the upper hand in Ukraine ... Why Zelensky hasn’t paved the way for peace talks ... Putin’s mafia-inspired approach to negotiations ... Do most Russians support the war? ... W...

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Is the 'Age' Issue Old News? (Matt K. Lewis & Matt K. Lewis)

Bloggingheads.tv - February 15, 2024 06:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Does the NY-03 special election have national import? ... Will the special counsel report sink Joe Biden? ... Was Jon Stewart's monologue on the mark? ...

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Inside the Mind of AI (Robert Wright & Nora Belrose)

Bloggingheads.tv - February 13, 2024 21:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Nora’s low score on the AI doomer test ... The messy math of AI alignment ... Teaching and (unteaching) concepts to LLMS ... Do we really want human-like AI? ... How the AI “mind” works ... How to change an AI’s mind ... Are LLMs reverse-engineering the human mind? ... Heading to Overtime ...

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Sean B. Carroll – he told some good stories

Night Science - February 12, 2024 06:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Sean Carroll is a world-renowned scientist, author, educator, and an Oscar-nominated film producer. Sean sees storytelling as the key to all he does. Similar to how musicians get inspiration by listening to other people’s music, Sean attributes his own creativity to his ...


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Balancing Acts: Navigating the Utility of Religion and Facing the Abyss with Terence

Beyond the Physics - February 09, 2024 05:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
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Conspiracy Theories and True Fictions (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Bloggingheads.tv - February 09, 2024 01:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Bob’s bad newsletter news for Paul ... Fast Car's moving Grammy moment ... Music, female orgasms, and other evolutionary enigmas ... The Moral Animal turns 30—how has it aged? ... How AI (barely) helps Paul work ... Is America real? ... Bob tries to drag Paul down the JFK rabbit hole ... L...

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GOP Chaos (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher)

Bloggingheads.tv - February 08, 2024 17:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
The import of Chapman-Combs ... "An embarrassing day for Republicans" ... How immigration wrecked the GOP ... What's Nikki Haley doing? ... The 3rd party X factor ...

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GOP Chaos (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher)

Bloggingheads.tv: The DMZ - February 08, 2024 17:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
The import of Chapman-Combs ... "An embarrassing day for Republicans" ... How immigration wrecked the GOP ... What's Nikki Haley doing? ... The 3rd party X factor ...

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The Truth About Effective Altruism (Robert Wright & Robert Wiblin)

Bloggingheads.tv - February 06, 2024 00:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Effective altruism (EA) and Rob’s 80,000 Hours podcast ... BF’s fall = EA’s public relations problem ... What went wrong for (and with) SBF? ... Virtue as a utilitarian shortcut ... What drove EA’s longtermist (r)evolution? ... EA, AI, and the miscalculation of existential risk ... Did EA ...

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AMA: Fear of Death, Sources of Wisdom, Experiencing Fear in the Body

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke - February 02, 2024 16:31 - 10 minutes
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What’s Next for Gaza and Israel? (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)

Bloggingheads.tv - February 02, 2024 02:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Another high-synergy collaborative episode ... Do mainstream Israelis support ethnic cleansing? ... Biden’s electoral (mis?)calculations on Israel-Palestine ... What does a left-wing foreign policy vision look like today? ...

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Rightwing Paranoia and Taylor Swift (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher)

Bloggingheads.tv: The DMZ - February 01, 2024 04:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
Why do conservatives think the NFL is working with the Deep State? ... Can the border-Ukraine deal pass Congress? ... Who will Trump pick as VP? ...

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Rightwing Paranoia and Taylor Swift (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher)

Bloggingheads.tv - February 01, 2024 04:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Why do conservatives think the NFL is working with the Deep State? ... Can the border-Ukraine deal pass Congress? ... Who will Trump pick as VP? ...

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Michael Levin on the intelligence of life| Living Mirrors #124

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke - January 30, 2024 21:13 - 1 hour
Michael Levin is a developmental and synthetic biologist and a professor at Tufts University. He is known for co-discovering Xenobots which are living robots made from frog skin cells but his research is wide ranging, contributing to fields such as regenerative medicine and the treatment of cance...

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An Israeli Looks at Gaza (Robert Wright & Russ Roberts)

Bloggingheads.tv - January 30, 2024 01:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
How Israelis think about civilian casualties in Gaza ... Is the war spawning a new generation of terrorists? ... Explaining versus justifying bad behavior ... Can Hamas and other extremist groups be moderated? ... Is the world biased against Israel? ... Cognitive biases that inflame tribal...



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Nigel Goldenfeld and the jazz of impossible problems

Night Science - January 29, 2024 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Nigel Goldenfeld is the Chancellor's Distinguished Professor in Physics at the University of California at San Diego. In this episode, he talks with us about how research is an art form, and how he tries to help graduate students make the transition from being a “classic...

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Nigel Goldenfeld and the jazz improvisations of science

Night Science - January 29, 2024 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings
Nigel Goldenfeld is the Chancellor's Distinguished Professor in Physics at the University of California at San Diego. In this episode, he talks with us about how research is an art form, and how he tries to help graduate students make the transition from being a “classical musician”, where the g...

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It's Trump's Party (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher)

Bloggingheads.tv - January 24, 2024 18:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Why there was so much wishcasting analysis about Nikki Haley ... Was Trump always going to be the nominee? ... Why the electability argument failed ... Why the ageist argument failed ...

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It's Trump's Party (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher)

Bloggingheads.tv: The DMZ - January 24, 2024 18:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
Why there was so much wishcasting analysis about Nikki Haley ... Was Trump always going to be the nominee? ... Why the electability argument failed ... Why the ageist argument failed ...

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Claudine Gay, MLK, and GLENN'S NEW BOOK (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)

Bloggingheads.tv - January 22, 2024 16:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Preorder Glenn’s forthcoming memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative ... Why Glenn wrote a memoir (and why you should order it now) ... A ringing endorsement from John ... What does Martin Luther King Jr. Day mean in 2024? ... Preserving King’s belief in “the content of ...

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The Biden-Trump Catastrophe (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Bloggingheads.tv - January 21, 2024 16:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Fear and loathing on the campaign trail 2024 ... Haley’s shortcomings, Trump’s cognitive decline ... Who’s the perfect Democrat to run against Biden? ... How Biden could stop the Gaza war ... Why the Houthis are hard to neutralize ... Could Trump sabotage the border security deal? ... Doct...

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Wuhan Lab Leak, Effective Altruism, and Other Media-distorted Issues (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Bloggingheads.tv - January 19, 2024 01:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Bob saves Paul from some very bad influences ... What makes Hitler more evil than Stalin and Mao? ... New lab leak evidence—what will come of it? ... Correcting the record on effective altruism ... Is “self-plagiarism” really plagiarism? ... The dishonesty researcher accused of academic dish...

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Trump's Iowa Win Exposes Fake GOP Primary (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher)

Bloggingheads.tv - January 17, 2024 16:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Did the media rig Iowa for Trump? ... Is Trump's lead insurmountable? ... Should Haley want a two-person race? ...

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Trump's Iowa Win Exposes Fake GOP Primary (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher)

Bloggingheads.tv: The DMZ - January 17, 2024 16:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
Did the media rig Iowa for Trump? ... Is Trump's lead insurmountable? ... Should Haley want a two-person race? ...