Podcast Episodes featuring John Horgan

Death, Quantum Physics, and Mushrooms (Nikita Petrov & John Horgan)

Bloggingheads.tv - October 06, 2021 21:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
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The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics (Robert Wright & John Horgan)

MeaningofLife.tv - September 07, 2021 22:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
John's recent bout of fever-induced hallucinations ... Does math actually help you understand QM? ... What experiments in QM have and have not verified ... John: All interpretations of QM are bad ... What do we want from science? ... "An operating system for reality" ...

Routine Checkup: Weird Science - Psychedelics, Trepenation and Mysticism with Science Journalist John Horgan

Sickboy - September 01, 2021 04:10 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 463 ratings
This week the fellas are joined by prolific science journalist John Horgan (not the BC Premier) to talk about the interactions between science and mysticism. Altered states of consciousness, psychedelics, the science of drilling holes into peoples heads for enlightenment. We get weird and it's in...

John Horgan, "Pay Attention: Sex, Death, and Science" (MIT Press, 2020)

New Books Network - July 23, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratings
What would it feel like to wake up inside the head of someone who writes about science for a living? John Horgan, acclaimed author of the bestseller The End of Science, answers that question in his genre-bending new book Pay Attention: Sex, Death, and Science (MIT Press, 2020), a stream-of-consci...

The Footsteps of Our Fathers (Nikita Petrov & John Horgan)

Bloggingheads.tv - July 22, 2021 13:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Are we the repetition of our fathers? ... John's horror of nirvana ... Putin owns a float tank ... Putin as a collective hallucination ... Putin as Nietzsche's Superman ... Hemingway's version of masculinity ... Dictators' aesthetic taste, and the tragedy of never learning what you like ....

Russia, Psychedelics, and Politics (John Horgan & Nikita Petrov)

Bloggingheads.tv - February 09, 2021 00:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Nikita Petrov and John Horgan discuss the state of the Russian protest movement, the challenge of finding one’s own path, James Joyce, John Kerouac, psychedelic experiences, and the nature of language.

Society as a Game (John Horgan & Nikita Petrov)

Bloggingheads.tv - January 26, 2021 17:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Navalny’s return ... Putin’s palace ... Anti-Putin protests ... The tastelessness of dictators ... The limits of government control in Russia ... Is FSB competent? ... Giuliani’s part in Borat 2 ... Incompetent doesn’t mean "not dangerous" ... Grown-ups, society as a game ... Gender and ...

A Debate on Solutions with John Horgan | Starting Strength Radio #88

Starting Strength Radio - December 24, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 653 ratings
Mark Rippetoe and science journalist John Horgan have a discussion on possible paths forward for individuals and businesses and debate the question of how much government intervention in an individual's health is too much.

Apocalypse Never (John Horgan & Michael Shellenberger)

Bloggingheads.tv - July 29, 2020 22:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Michael’s new book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All ... Michael: No one has to die from climate change ... Why Michael doesn’t consider himself to be a climate-change skeptic ... The economics of nuclear power... ... …and the politics of nuclear weapons ... Michael...

Politics, Power, and Fireworks (Nikita Petrov & John Horgan)

Bloggingheads.tv - July 02, 2020 21:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Conspiracy theories about fireworks ... John has flashbacks to the late 1960s ... Movements without leaders ... Nikita thinks about buying land in Russia and settling down ... Why some Russians think that Putin doesn't exist ... Is life a game you can win? ... The revived popularity of strongmen...

With John Horgan on COVID19 | Starting Strength Radio #53

Starting Strength Radio - April 24, 2020 05:01 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 653 ratings
Mark Rippetoe and John Horgan discuss the current situation in terms of testing, government overreaction, economic fallout, and future instances of "quarantine" orders from local governments. John Horgan is director of the Center for Science Writings at the Stevens Institute of Technology and fre...

The Cancer Industry with John Horgan | Starting Strength Radio #48

Starting Strength Radio - March 18, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 653 ratings
Mark Rippetoe and John Horgan, director of the Center for Science Writings at the Stevens Institute of Technology, discuss smoking, cancer medicine, and the high cost with marginal benefit of testing and treating some cancers. 00:00 Introduction 04:04 Bad news about the "War on Cancer" 14:38 The...

John Horgan on Mind-Body Problems

EconTalk - December 17, 2018 06:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4K ratings
Science journalist and author John Horgan talks about his book, Mind-Body Problems, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Horgan interviewed an array of scientists, philosophers, and others who have worked on consciousness, free-will, and what it means to be human. Horgan argues that no single soluti...