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A moon/candle in the dark night / Corona Special / For members / pleasure of knowledge / Saturday with Budthu (SwB)
by Bala Prasad · Published December 30, 2020 · Last modified January 13, 2021
In this special episode of the Science Salon podcast, the last of 2020, Dr. Michael Shermer offers some reflections on 2020, starting with race and the Black Lives Movement, putting it into perspective from other books he read this year, along with podcast guests who appeared in 2020,...
A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / pleasure of knowledge / View from Giants' shoulder
by Bala Prasad · Published December 23, 2020
In this 100th episode of the Science Salon podcast Dr. Shermer gives a brief overview and history of the salon and how it evolved from the Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech, which began in 1992, along with the founding of the Skeptics Society, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit science...
A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / Saturday with Budthu (SwB) / View from Giants' shoulder
by Bala Prasad · Published December 19, 2020
This lecture is part of a course that Dr. Shermer teaches at Chapman University called Skepticism 101 Dr. Michael Shermer explains how we arrived at the Left-Right spectrum, both historically and evolutionarily, and the numerous metaphors used to wrap our minds around such complex systems as politics and...
A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / Saturday with Budthu (SwB) / View from Giants' shoulder
by Bala Prasad · Published December 19, 2020
Dr. Michael Shermer considers the characteristics of cults, how they differ from sects, religions, and myths, the role that myths and religions play in culture and people’s lives, and what Scientologists really believe
A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / pleasure of knowledge / View from Giants' shoulder
by Bala Prasad · Published December 18, 2020
n 2005 the American Dialect Society’s word of the year was “truthiness,” popularized by Stephen Colbert on his news show satire The Colbert Report, meaning “the truth we want to exist.” In 2016 the Oxford Dictionaries nominated as its word of the year “post-truth,” which it characterized as...
A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / pleasure of knowledge / Saturday with Budthu (SwB) / View from Giants' shoulder
by Bala Prasad · Published December 18, 2020
https://www.skeptic.com/tag/skepticism-101-lectures/ Skepticism 101: How to Think Like a Scientist covers a wide range of topics, from critical thinking, reasoning, rationality, cognitive biases and how thinking goes wrong, and the scientific methods, to actual claims and whether or not there is any truth to them, e.g., ESP, ETIs, UFOs,...
A moon/candle in the dark night / Quest to share / Saturday with Budthu (SwB) / View from Giants' shoulder
by Bala Prasad · Published December 18, 2020
Dr. Michael Shermer reviews the many ways that our attempts to understand the truth about the world are derailed by cognitive biases, including the anchoring bias, the representative bias, the availability bias, the confirmation bias, the hindsight bias, the self-serving bias, and even the bias bias. This lecture...
A moon/candle in the dark night / Corona Special / For members / pleasure of knowledge / View from Giants' shoulder
by Bala Prasad · Published December 17, 2020
What’s the difference between being a skeptic and believing in conspiracy theories? How do you remain skeptical without falling down a rabbit hole? On this episode of StarTalk Radio, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice catch up with Michael Shermer, Founding Publisher of Skeptic Magazine and...
Corona Special / For members / pleasure of knowledge / Quest to share
by Bala Prasad · Published December 17, 2020
Scientists across the world are working together to fight the novel coronavirus. Nature looks at three fields of research which are vital to keeping this outbreak under control: epidemiology, virology and biomedical science. Research in these areas will be key, alongside collaboration and the open sharing of data...
Corona Special / For members / pleasure of knowledge / Saturday with Budthu (SwB) / View from Giants' shoulder
by Bala Prasad · Published December 12, 2020
Nicholas Christakis is a physician and sociologist at Yale University who explores the ancient origins and modern implications of human nature. Christakis’ research focuses on the social, mathematical and biological rules that form social networks as well as the implications of human connection that influences thoughts, feelings and...
