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Episode 184: Tainted Glove

David and Tamler start off talking about the infamous Richard Dawkins eugenics tweet. What does...

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Episode 183: Accept the Mystery (with Paul Bloom)

VBW favorite Paul Bloom takes a short break from his Sam Harris duties to help us break down the...

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Episode 182: The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar)

Podcasting legend Yoel Inbar (from Two Psychologists Four Beers) joins us to break down Tal...

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Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

Our whole lives we’ve been frauds. We’re not exaggerating. Pretty much all we’ve ever done is try...

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Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Eleventh Century Japan. A samurai and his wife are walking through the forest and come across a...

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Episode 179: Talking Shit

David and Tamler wrap up the decade with an episode on trash-talking that morphs into a debate...

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Episode 178: Borges' Obsession-Obsession ("The Zahir")

David and Tamler happen across Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Zahir” and now they can’t stop thinking...

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Episode 177: Pure Linguistic Chauvinism

Tamler learns something new about menstruation. David weighs in on the democratic debates and the...

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Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness

David and Tamler discuss famous 'split brain' experiments pioneered by Roger Sperry and Michael...

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Episode 175: At Least We Didn’t Talk About Zombies (Nagel’s “What is it Like to be a Bat?”)

We try (with varying success) to wrap our heads around Thomas Nagel’s classic article “What is it...

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Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)

Is character destiny, or can fluky decisions or tiny shifts in weather patterns fundamentally...

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Episode 173: Talking to Your (Alternate) Self [Ted Chiang's "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom"]

David and Tamler dive back into the Ted Chiang well and explore the fascinating world described...

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Episode 172: Are You Free (to like the Chappelle special)?

David and Tamler start out with a discussion of the new Chappelle special and the negative...

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Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)

David and Tamler dive back into the Bible, this time to the perplexing and poetic Book of Job....

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Episode 170: Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking

Is social psychology just a kid dressing up in grown-up science clothes? Are the methods in...

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Episode 169: A Bug's Life (Kafka's "The Metamorphosis")

David and Tamler try to control their emotions (with varying success) as they go deep into Franz...

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Episode 168: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 2)

It's Part 2 of the Lebowski vs. Pulp Fiction showdown. This time we focus on the Dude, Walter,...

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Episode 167: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 1)

There are only two kinds of people in the world, Pulp Fiction people and Big Lebowski people. Now...

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Episode 166: Total Recall

Memory is highly selective and often inaccurate. But what if we had an easily searchable video...

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Episode 165: Life With No Head (With Sam Harris)

Sam Harris returns to the podcast to talk about meditation and his new Waking Up meditation app....

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