Two for Tea Podcast
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82 - Aella - Sex Work in the Digital Age [Public Limited Version]
March 14, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 38.5 MBYou can find Aella’s blog here: https://knowingless.com/about/ Follow Aella on Twitter @aella_girl Mother-of-three says her sons were expelled from Catholic school because of her OnlyFans account: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/mother-only-fans-account-catholic-school-expelled-b1806998.html Other Life with Aella - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A15tiMRM8dE Blocked and Reported: Let's Talk About Sex (And Hanukkah And Bad Journalism), Baby (feat. @Aella_Girl) (fireside....
82 - Aella - Sex Work in the Digital Age
March 14, 2021 11:00 - 59 minutes - 82.3 MBYou can find Aella’s blog here: https://knowingless.com/about/ Follow Aella on Twitter @aella_girl Mother-of-three says her sons were expelled from Catholic school because of her OnlyFans account: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/mother-only-fans-account-catholic-school-expelled-b1806998.html Other Life with Aella - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A15tiMRM8dE Blocked and Reported: Let's Talk About Sex (And Hanukkah And Bad Journalism), Baby (feat. @Aella_Girl) (fireside....
81 - David Sloan Wilson - Against Individualism [Public Limited Version]
March 07, 2021 12:00 - 40 minutes - 55.5 MBDavid’s book Atlas Hugged: The Autobiography of John Gault III can be found here: https://atlashugged.world/ Home - Evolution Institute (evolution-institute.org): https://evolution-institute.org/ NESCent: The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center: https://nescent.org/ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957) B. F. Skinner, Walden Two (1948) Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness (2009) Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (1976) Massive M...
81 - David Sloan Wilson - Against Individualism
March 07, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 119 MBDavid’s book Atlas Hugged: The Autobiography of John Gault III can be found here: https://atlashugged.world/ Home - Evolution Institute (evolution-institute.org): https://evolution-institute.org/ NESCent: The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center: https://nescent.org/ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957) B. F. Skinner, Walden Two (1948) Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness (2009) Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (1976) Massive M...
80 - Tom Chivers - Intelligences Artificial and Human [Public Limited Version]
February 28, 2021 13:00 - 27 minutes - 38 MBTom Chivers, The AI Does Not Hate You: Superintelligence, Rationality and the Race to Save the World (2019); alternative title The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity’s Future Follow Tom on Twitter @TomChivers Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014) Toby Ord, The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity (2020) Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality: From AI to Zombies (2015) Fantasia(1940) -...
80 - Tom Chivers - Intelligences Artificial and Human
February 28, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 88.2 MBTom Chivers, The AI Does Not Hate You: Superintelligence, Rationality and the Race to Save the World (2019); alternative title The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity’s Future Follow Tom on Twitter @TomChivers Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014) Toby Ord, The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity (2020) Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality: From AI to Zombies (2015) Fantasia(1940) -...
79 - Michael Story - Superforecasting [Public Limited Version]
February 21, 2021 12:00 - 34 minutes - 48 MBFor more on Michael visit: https://michaelwstory.com/ Follow Michael on Twitter @MWStory Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (2015) Tom Chivers, The AI Does Not Hate You: Superintelligence, Rationality and the Race to Save the World (2019) Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—but Some Don't (2012) James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few (2005) Amos Tversky and Daniel ...
79 - Michael Story - Superforecasting
February 21, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 124 MBFor more on Michael visit: https://michaelwstory.com/ Follow Michael on Twitter @MWStory Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (2015) Tom Chivers, The AI Does Not Hate You: Superintelligence, Rationality and the Race to Save the World (2019) Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—but Some Don't (2012) James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few (2005) Amos Tversky and Daniel ...
78 - Greg Lukianoff - Defending Free Speech
January 31, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 197 MBGreg’s book, Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate (2012): http://www.unlearningliberty.com/ His booklet, Freedom from Speech (2014): https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/freedom-from-speech/ Greg’s blog, The Eternally Radical Idea Archives: https://www.thefire.org/category/newsdesk/eternally-radical-idea/ For more on FIRE: https://www.thefire.org/ Follow Greg on Twitter @glukianoff; follow FIRE on Twitter @TheFIREorg Further References Greg Lukianoff and...
77 - Sean B. Carroll - Revolutionising Our Understanding of Evo Biology [Public Limited Version]
January 24, 2021 13:00 - 28 minutes - 64.7 MBNote: Sean B. Carroll the evolutionary biologist and Sean M. Carroll the quantum physicist are both equally awe-inspiring. They are not the same person. Sean’s new book A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You (2020) can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fortunate-Events-Chance-Making-Planet/dp/0691218900/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1611219491&sr=1-1 Sean’s classic book Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and ...
77 - Sean B. Carroll - Revolutionising Our Understanding of Evo Biology
January 24, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 142 MBNote: Sean B. Carroll the evolutionary biologist and Sean M. Carroll the quantum physicist are both equally awe-inspiring. They are not the same person. Sean’s new book A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You (2020) can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fortunate-Events-Chance-Making-Planet/dp/0691218900/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1611219491&sr=1-1 Sean’s classic book Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and ...
76 - Visakan Veerasamy - A Friendly Ambitious Nerd [Public Limited Version]
January 17, 2021 11:45 - 32 minutes - 73.7 MBYou can find Visa’s book here: https://gumroad.com/l/friendlynerdbook Subscribe to Visa’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/visa Follow Visa on Twitter @visakanv Further References The wisdom of crowds concept is well described in Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner’s Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (2015) See @naval’s Twitter account, whose approach I compare with Visakan’s Sonke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes (2017) The Karate Kid (1984); Cobra Kai (20...
76 - Visakan Veerasamy - A Friendly Ambitious Nerd
January 17, 2021 11:45 - 1 hour - 260 MBYou can find Visa’s book here: https://gumroad.com/l/friendlynerdbook Subscribe to Visa’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/visa Follow Visa on Twitter @visakanv Further References The wisdom of crowds concept is well described in Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner’s Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (2015) See @naval’s Twitter account, whose approach I compare with Visakan’s Sonke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes (2017) The Karate Kid (1984); Cobra Kai (20...
75 - Fred Martin - French Secularism (Laïcité) [Public Limited Version]
January 10, 2021 11:42 - 32 minutes - 73.5 MBErratum: The attack on Charlie Hebdo took place in 2015, not 2017 (I misspoke). References Fred’s open letter following Charlie Hebdo: In defence of Charlie Hebdo: https://samsholli.blog/2017/09/01/in-defence-of-charlie-hebdo-open-letter-to-an-american-friend/ Fred on the face coverings ban: The burqa ban: https://samsholli.blog/2017/09/02/the-burqa-ban-thoughts-and-clarifications/ Follow Fred on Twitter @fred_connection Further References La République en actes : discours et conférence...
75 - Fred Martin - French Secularism (Laïcité)
January 10, 2021 11:42 - 1 hour - 225 MBErratum: The attack on Charlie Hebdo took place in 2015, not 2017 (I misspoke). References Fred’s open letter following Charlie Hebdo: In defence of Charlie Hebdo: https://samsholli.blog/2017/09/01/in-defence-of-charlie-hebdo-open-letter-to-an-american-friend/ Fred on the face coverings ban: The burqa ban: https://samsholli.blog/2017/09/02/the-burqa-ban-thoughts-and-clarifications/ Follow Fred on Twitter @fred_connection Further References La République en actes : discours et conférence...
74 - William Costello - Compassion for Incels
January 03, 2021 13:09 - 1 hour - 197 MBReferences William’s article, “Step Your Dick Up: Why Incels Deserve Better Advice”: https://williamcostello.medium.com/step-your-dick-up-why-incels-deserve-better-advice-307879d7c97b William’s other discussions of this topic can be found here: Incel: 36: “Step Your Dick Up” w/ William Costello on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/36-step-your-dick-up-w-william-costello/id1469915971?i=1000489484162 ICMI20: William Costello - Step Your Dick Up: Incels and Men Generally...
73 - Nick Clairmont - The Language of Wokeness [Public Limited Version]
December 29, 2020 12:45 - 46 minutes - 108 MBNick’s writing for Arc Digital: https://medium.com/@nickclairmont Nick’s “Word of the Week” column for the Washington Examiner: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/word-of-the-week-brand Nick on wokese for Tablet: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/woke-language-privilege Some particularly relevant essays of Nick’s: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/word-of-the-week-community https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/word-of-the-week-intersection/ar...
73 - Nick Clairmont - The Language of Wokeness
December 29, 2020 12:45 - 1 hour - 273 MBNick’s writing for Arc Digital: https://medium.com/@nickclairmont Nick’s “Word of the Week” column for the Washington Examiner: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/word-of-the-week-brand Nick on wokese for Tablet: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/woke-language-privilege Some particularly relevant essays of Nick’s: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/word-of-the-week-community https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/word-of-the-week-intersection/ar...
72 - Matthew Browne - Why People Gamble
December 22, 2020 22:21 - 1 hour - 172 MBFor more on Matt’s work on gambling see: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew_Browne You can find his podcast with Chris Kavanaugh, “Decoding the Gurus” here and on most reputable podcast apps: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm Follow Matt on Twitter @arthurcdent Further References Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow (1990) George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life (1871–72); Daniel Deronda (1876) Stuart J. Ritchie, Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence an...
72 - Matthew Browne - Why People Gamble [Public Limited Version]
December 22, 2020 22:21 - 34 minutes - 78.8 MBFor more on Matt’s work on gambling see: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew_Browne You can find his podcast with Chris Kavanaugh, “Decoding the Gurus” here and on most reputable podcast apps: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm Follow Matt on Twitter @arthurcdent Further References Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow (1990) George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life (1871–72); Daniel Deronda (1876) Stuart J. Ritchie, Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence an...
71 - Ralph Leonard - Claiming the Birthright of Humanity [Public Limited Version]
December 13, 2020 21:08 - 38 minutes - 87.5 MBReferences Ralph Leonard, a writer for UnHerd: https://unherd.com/author/ralph-leonard/ See esp: Why are we racialising Beethoven? - The Post (unherd.com) https://unherd.com/thepost/why-are-we-racialising-beethoven/ and Stop apologising for cultural appropriation - UnHerd: https://unherd.com/2020/07/cultural-appropriation-is-progressive-and-anti-racist/ Ralph Leonard, Author at Areo (areomagazine.com) https://areomagazine.com/author/herrera96/ Ralph Leonard, Author at Uncommon Ground (unc...
71 - Ralph Leonard - Claiming the Birthright of Humanity
December 13, 2020 21:08 - 1 hour - 153 MBReferences Ralph Leonard, a writer for UnHerd: https://unherd.com/author/ralph-leonard/ See esp: Why are we racialising Beethoven? - The Post (unherd.com) https://unherd.com/thepost/why-are-we-racialising-beethoven/ and Stop apologising for cultural appropriation - UnHerd: https://unherd.com/2020/07/cultural-appropriation-is-progressive-and-anti-racist/ Ralph Leonard, Author at Areo (areomagazine.com) https://areomagazine.com/author/herrera96/ Ralph Leonard, Author at Uncommon Ground (unc...
70 - Adam Burgoyne - Recovery From Addiction
December 06, 2020 14:35 - 1 hour - 241 MBFollow Adam on Twitter @adamdavid85
69 - Ewan Morrison - Utopias and Dystopias [Public Limited Version]
November 29, 2020 19:19 - 35 minutes - 82.2 MBTo follow Ewan’s work: https://www.ewanmorrison.com/ His 2012 collection, Tales from the Mall, can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tales-Mall-Ewan-Morrison/dp/1908885017 His 2019 novel, Nina X, can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nina-X-Ewan-Morrison/dp/0708899013 His 2013 book Close Your Eyes can be found here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/109/1091019/close-your-eyes/9780099565758.html His 2005 collection The Last Book You Read can be round here: https://www.amazon.c...
69 - Ewan Morrison - Utopias and Dystopias
November 29, 2020 19:19 - 1 hour - 204 MBTo follow Ewan’s work: https://www.ewanmorrison.com/ His 2012 collection, Tales from the Mall, can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tales-Mall-Ewan-Morrison/dp/1908885017 His 2019 novel, Nina X, can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nina-X-Ewan-Morrison/dp/0708899013 His 2013 book Close Your Eyes can be found here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/109/1091019/close-your-eyes/9780099565758.html His 2005 collection The Last Book You Read can be round here: https://www.amazon.c...
68 - Kat Rosenfield - Dating in the Digital Age
November 15, 2020 21:39 - 1 hour - 236 MBKat is the author of two novels—Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone (2012); Inland (2014)—and the co-author of A Trick of Light: Stan Lee's Alliances (2020). You can find out more about her writing here: https://katrosenfield.com/. You can listen to the Feminine Chaos podcast here (and elsewhere): https://bloggingheads.tv/programs/feminine-chaos. Kat is also the agony aunt at Yascha Mounk’s Persuasion, available on substack, here: https://www.persuasion.community/ The following articles of Ka...
67 - Francesca Minerva - Controversial Ideas, including about Beauty
November 08, 2020 00:34 - 1 hour - 246 MBFind out more about Francesca, including her academic publications, here: https://www.francescaminerva.com/ For more on the Journal of Controversial Ideas, co-edited with Peter Singer: https://journalofcontroversialideas.org/ Her interview with Jay Shapiro can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScOeJnLiCb4 For more on Francesca’s controversial paper with Francesco Giubilini: https://jme.bmj.com/content/39/5/261.short Her 2004 paper in Bioethics on academic freedom can be fou...
66 - Stuart Ritchie - Hype, Bias & Fraud in Science
November 01, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 219 MBStuart is the author of Intelligence: All that Matters (2015): https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/stuart-ritchie/intelligence-all-that-matters/9781444791808/ and Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science (2020): https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1117290/science-fictions/9781847925657.html You can find some of his academic publications listed here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/stuart-ritchie Follow Stuart on Twitter: @StuartJRitchie Further References Charles ...
65 - Helen Pluckrose - Cynical Theories and Their Liberal Opponents
October 11, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 197 MBHelen’s book, co-written with James A. Lindsay, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody (2020) can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cynical-Theories-Scholarship-Everything-Identity/dp/1634312023. Helen’s writing for Areo magazine can be found here: https://areomagazine.com/author/hpluckrose/ For more on the Sokal Squared hoax, which Helen perpetrated, alongside James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian see: ht...
64 - Azra Raza - A Better Way to Fight Cancer
September 27, 2020 06:52 - 1 hour - 241 MBFor more about Azra, see her website: https://azraraza.com/ The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last is available here: https://www.amazon.com/First-Cell-Human-Pursuing-Cancer/dp/1541699521 Her book with Sara Suleri Goodyear, Ghalib and the Epistemologies of Elegance is available here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7502220-ghalib Her physician profile can be found here: https://cancer.columbia.edu/azra-raza-md Follow Azra on Twitter: @AzraRazaMD Further Ref...
63 - Ayishat Akanbi - Styles of Identity
September 14, 2020 17:02 - 1 hour - 261 MBYou can find out more about Ayishat by visiting her website: https://ayishatakanbi.com/ Follow Ayishat on Twitter: @ayishat_akanbi Further Notes Ayishat on the Triggernometry podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuAd_IAkOl4 Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness (1928) Timestamps 3:40 How Ayishat first became a professional cultural commentator. How we communicate through dress and how we communicate through ideas. 5:35 Changes to Ayishat’s worldview after her brother’s death 15:38 ...
62 - Scott Barry Kaufman - What We Are Capable of Becoming
August 09, 2020 10:42 - 1 hour - 180 MBYou can find out more about Scott’s work here: https://scottbarrykaufman.com/ Scott’s book, Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualisation: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/552566/transcend-by-scott-barry-kaufman-phd/9780143131205 Scott’s interview on Sam Harris’ Making Sense podcast: https://samharris.org/podcasts/209-a-good-life/ Scott’s interview with Sean Carroll: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/04/06/91-scott-barry-kaufman-on-the-psychology-of-transcendence/...
61 - Diana Fleischman
July 28, 2020 17:30 - 1 hour - 209 MBFor updates on Diana’s work, see her website: https://dianaverse.com/ My favourite other interview of Diana’s can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YmTPATEArM Follow Diana on Twitter: @sentientist Further References Daniel Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2009) J. Michael Bailey, The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism (2003) Jorge Luis Borges, “Funes el Memorioso” (1944): https://www.literatura.us/borges/funes...
61 - Diana Fleischman - How We Have Evolved to Manipulate Each Other
July 28, 2020 17:30 - 1 hour - 209 MBFor updates on Diana’s work, see her website: https://dianaverse.com/ My favourite other interview of Diana’s can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YmTPATEArM Follow Diana on Twitter: @sentientist Further References Daniel Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2009) J. Michael Bailey, The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism (2003) Jorge Luis Borges, “Funes el Memorioso” (1944): https://www.literatura.us/borges/funes...
60 - Liam Kofi Bright - The Search for Truth
July 12, 2020 07:00 - 2 hours - 296 MBYou can find out more about Liam’s academic credentials here: https://www.liamkofibright.com/ Liam’s talk on “Why Scientists Lie” can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNs1sumAT68 Remco Heesen and Liam on “Is Peer Review a Good Thing”?: https://philpapers.org/rec/HEEIPR Listen to Liam’s interview with Sean Carroll on the nature of truth here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNs1sumAT68 Listen to Liam’s interviews with Andrew Lynn Lewis here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k...
59 - Clint Margrave - Academic Realities and Fictions
July 11, 2020 10:29 - 1 hour - 150 MBClint’s poetry collection Salute the Wreckage can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Salute-Wreckage-Clint-Margrave/dp/1630450243 His collection The Early Death of Men can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Early-Death-Men-Clint-Margrave/dp/1935520601 His novel, Lying Bastard, can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lying-Bastard-Clint-Margrave/dp/1733352619 Write to Clint: https://letter.wiki/ClintMargrave/conversations Follow Clint on Twitter: @clintmargrave Further Referen...
58 - John R. Wood, Jr and Roderick Graham - Black Lives and the George Floyd Protests
June 08, 2020 07:35 - 1 hour - 140 MBFor more of Rod’s work: https://roderickgraham.com/ Rod’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7yofOWy-IrERYjfkONF3Tw Write to Rod at Letter: https://letter.wiki/RoderickGraham/ Follow Rod on Twitter @roderickgraham For more on John R. Wood’s work: https://braverangels.org/author/johnbetter-angels-org/ John’s philosophy of virtue ethics: https://areomagazine.com/2018/08/14/virtue-ethics-for-the-modern-age/ My previous podcast with John: https://soundcloud.com/user-76117...
57 - Buster Benson - The Value of Arguing
June 08, 2020 07:31 - 1 hour - 170 MBYou can find Buster’s book Why Are We Yelling: The Art of Productive Disagreement here: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Are-We-Yelling-hardcover/dp/0525540105. For my Letter exchange with Buster (one of my two favourite conversations I’ve ever had on the site) see: https://letter.wiki/conversation/225. Buster’s Letter exchange with B. J. Campbell on guns see: https://letter.wiki/conversation/129. Belief tracking: https://busterbenson.com/beliefs/ Write to Buster at Letter: https://letter.wik...
56 - Jonathan Church - White Fragility
May 24, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 173 MBJonathan’s book Reinventing Racism: Why “White Fragility” Is the Wrong Way to Think About Racial Inequality is forthcoming. To join the mailing list for preorders, write to [email protected]. Write to Jonathan and read his correspondence with Matt McManus: https://letter.wiki/JonathanChurch/conversations Jonathan’s 2019 Areo article “An Economy Theory of Whiteness” is here: https://areomagazine.com/2019/11/26/an-economic-theory-of-whiteness/ You can find more of Jonathan’...
55 - Massimo Pigliucci - A Modern Stoic
May 10, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 268 MBMassimo’s books include Phenotypic Plasticity: Beyond Nature and Nurture (Syntheses in Ecology and Evolution) (2001): https://www.amazon.com/Phenotypic-Plasticity-Syntheses-Evolution-2001-07-17/dp/B01K17YKGQ Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology, with co-author Jonathan Kaplan (2006): https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo4100801.html Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (2010): https://www.amazon.com/Nonsense-Stilts-Tell-...
54 - Razib Khan - Why We Were So Ill-Equipped for a Pandemic
April 26, 2020 14:20 - 1 hour - 210 MBRazib’s podcast The Insight can be found here: http://insitome.libsyn.com/website; His blog Gene Expression can be found here: https://www.gnxp.com/ You can find the Brown Pundits blog and podcast here: https://www.brownpundits.com/author/razib_k_khan/. Follow Razib on Twitter: @razibkhan Razib Khan’s previous appearance on this podcast: https://soundcloud.com/user-761174326/09-razib-khan Razib’s article in the City Journal: https://www.city-journal.org/decay-of-the-american-system ...
53 - Matt McManus, Ben Burgis and Marion Trejo - Jordan Peterson: The Man and his Myths
April 19, 2020 09:12 - 1 hour - 271 MBTogether with Conrad Hamilton, Matt, Ben and Marion are the authors of Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson, with an introduction by Slavoj Zizek (2020): https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Mayhem-Leftist-Critique-Peterson-ebook/dp/B085WB8FXF More about Marion: http://itesm.academia.edu/MarionTrejo/CurriculumVitae More about Ben: Ben’s book Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left (2019): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Give-Them-Argument-Logic-Left/dp/1789042100 Ben’s segment on the ...
52 - Brian D. Earp - Drugs to Help Us Handle Love
April 12, 2020 07:01 - 1 hour - 185 MBBrian’s book, jointly written with Julian Savulescu, can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Drugs-Chemical-Future-Relationships/dp/0804798192 and here: https://www.amazon.com/Love-Drugs-Chemical-Future-Relationships/dp/0804798192. You can review Brian’s academic work here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brian_Earp Follow Brian YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/earptube Follow Brian on Twitter: @briandavidearp Brian’s previous appearance on this podcast c...
50 - Maarten Boudry - Science and Optimism
March 21, 2020 12:52 - 1 hour - 90.9 MBYou can find Maarten’s scholarly work here: https://ugent.academia.edu/MaartenBoudry Many of Maarten’s more popular articles are available here: https://sites.google.com/site/maartenboudry/blog He is the co-editor with Massimo Pigliucci of the 2013 Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem: https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Pseudoscience-Reconsidering-Demarcation-ebook/dp/B00EARH246/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1381938709&sr=8-1&keywords=boudry+pigliucci And, also with M...
51 - Saloni Dattani - Tackling the Pandemic
March 21, 2020 12:37 - 1 hour - 194 MBSaloni’s article on the UK policy is here: https://unherd.com/2020/03/the-scientific-case-against-herd-immunity/ Follow Saloni on Twitter @salonium Further References More on the UK policy: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf More resources on the Coronavirus: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public https://nextstrain.org/ https://www.nhs.uk/cond...
49 - Nick Cohen - The Left and Its Discontents
March 02, 2020 22:12 - 1 hour - 91.1 MBNick is the author of five books: Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous (1999): https://www.amazon.com/Cruel-Britannia-Reports-Sinister-Preposterous/dp/1859842887 Pretty Straight Guys (2003): https://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Straight-Guys-Nick-Cohen/dp/0571220045 What's Left? How Liberals Lost Their Way (2007): https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Left-How-Lost-its/dp/0007229704 Waiting for the Etonians: Reports from the Sickbed of Liberal England (2009): https://www.amazon...
48 - Colin Wright - No One is Born in the Wrong Body
February 23, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 133 MBYou can find Colin’s Quillette article, “The New Evolution Deniers” here: https://quillette.com/2018/11/30/the-new-evolution-deniers/ And his article with William Malone and Julia Robinson, “No One is Born in the Wrong Body” here: https://quillette.com/2019/09/24/no-one-is-born-in-the-wrong-body/ Colin’s article with Emma Hilton, “The Dangerous Denial of Sex” can be found here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dangerous-denial-of-sex-11581638089?mod=opinion_lead_pos5 You can find Colin’...
47 - David Robert Grimes — Bad Science, Flawed Logic and Misinformation
February 17, 2020 13:20 - 1 hour - 112 MBDavid’s book, The Irrational Ape: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk, and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World (2019) is available here: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/The-Irrational-Ape/David-Robert-Grimes/9781471178252 Additional References Visit Letter here: https://letter.wiki/conversations. Looking for a correspondent? DM @JacksonAEdwards on Twitter or email [email protected]. Emily St Mandel, Station Eleven: A Novel (2014) Steve Stewart-Williams, The Ape that Unde...
46 - Aaron Rabinowitz - Is Civility Overrated?
February 02, 2020 12:58 - 1 hour - 162 MBYou can find Aaron’s podcast, Embrace the Void, here: https://voidpod.com/podcasts; and his podcast, Philosophers in Space, co-hosted by Thomas Smith, here: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/ You can find Aaron’s conversations on Letter and write to him here: https://letter.wiki/AaronRabinowitz/conversations Support Aaron here (I’m a patron!): https://www.patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid Follow Aaron on Twitter: @ETVPod Further References Thomas Chatterton Williams, A Self-Portrait in Black a...
45 - David Ley - Porn, Masturbation and Sexual Integrity
January 23, 2020 22:35 - 1 hour - 103 MBDavid’s latest book, Ethical Porn for Dicks: A Man’s Guide to Responsible Viewing Pleasure (2016) can be ordered here: https://www.amazon.com/Ethical-Porn-Dicks-Responsible-Pleasure/dp/0996485236/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 David’s The Myth of Sex Addiction (2012) can be found here: https://rowman.com/isbn/9781442213067/the-myth-of-sex-addiction David’s 2012 book, Insatiable Wives: Women who Stray and the Men who Love Them can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Insatiable-Wives...