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Richard Dawkins: LIVE at the Reason for Change Conference
Richard Dawkins: LIVE at the Reason for Change Conference
This week, Point of Inquiry welcomes Richard Dawkins for a special episode recorded before a live audience at the Cente... Read more
22 Jun 2015
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1hr 9mins
Ranked #2
Trying to Throw Science at Them: Yvette d'Entremont and Kavin Senapathy on Food, Fads, and Fear
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We are living in a land of confusion, as the band Genesis warned us back in 1986, but even they could not have predicted... Read more
30 Dec 2017
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59mins
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Lawrence Krauss - A Universe from Nothing
Lawrence Krauss - A Universe from Nothing
Host: Chris Mooney We had Lawrence Krauss on Point of Inquiry less than a year ago, to discuss his recent book on the sc... Read more
7 Feb 2012
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Chris Hayes - Twilight of the Elites
Chris Hayes - Twilight of the Elites
Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week is Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC's Up With Chris Hayes and editor at large of The N... Read more
19 Jun 2012
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Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
Host: Chris Mooney Why is it that some of us are religious, some of us not... some of us liberal, some of us not? If you... Read more
19 Mar 2012
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Sarah Posner: How Trump Got His Hands on the Religious Right
Sarah Posner: How Trump Got His Hands on the Religious Right
How did a man living an ostensibly godless, hedonistic life become the champion of the very groups who one would expect... Read more
11 Apr 2017
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Daniel Dennett: The Magic of Consciousness…Without the Magic
Daniel Dennett: The Magic of Consciousness…Without the Magic
Daniel C. Dennett is one of the most influential philosophers of our time, perhaps best known in cognitive science for h... Read more
17 Jan 2017
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Be Not Constrained: James Croft on Humanists’ Responsibility to Fight Oppression
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The modern conception of secular humanism arose in large part as a response to the horrors of Nazism and the Holocaust, ... Read more
24 Aug 2017
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David Niose - Nonbeliever Nation
David Niose - Nonbeliever Nation
Host: Chris Mooney Can people who care about secularism take America back from the religious right? Of all the questions... Read more
16 Jul 2012
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Neil deGrasse Tyson - Space Chronicles
Neil deGrasse Tyson - Space Chronicles
Host: Chris Mooney This week, Point of Inquiry is thrilled to welcome back one of our most popular guests: Neil deGrasse... Read more
2 Apr 2012
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Sam Harris: Seeking Transcendence Without Religion
Sam Harris: Seeking Transcendence Without Religion
It’s been ten years since the publication of Sam Harris’s book The End of Faith kicked off the cultural phenomenon of “n... Read more
2 Sep 2014
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D.M. Murdock - The Christ Conspiracy
D.M. Murdock - The Christ Conspiracy
Host: Robert Price D.M. Murdock, who also goes by the pen name "Acharya S.," is the author of The Christ Conspiracy, the... Read more
28 Jun 2011
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1hr 3mins
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Dan Ariely - The Honest Truth about Dishonesty
Dan Ariely - The Honest Truth about Dishonesty
Host: Indre Viskontas There is no doubt that our world is populated with cheats and liars. Most of us, slaves to the ava... Read more
25 Sep 2012
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: A Country Built on Black Bodies
Ta-Nehisi Coates: A Country Built on Black Bodies
This week on Point of Inquiry, our guest is Ta-Nehisi Coates, a renowned journalist and celebrated essayist on culture, ... Read more
3 Aug 2015
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Dawkins on his new Book Outgrowing God
Dawkins on his new Book Outgrowing God
Richard Dawkins is the recipient of a number of awards for his writing on science, including the Royal Society of Litera... Read more
12 Dec 2019
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Ask a Mortician: Caitlin Doughty on the Death Industry's Dirty Secrets
Ask a Mortician: Caitlin Doughty on the Death Industry's Dirty Secrets
Point of Inquiry welcomes Caitlin Doughty, creator of the cult classic web series Ask A Mortician, which gives unvarnish... Read more
8 Sep 2014
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30mins
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Will Gervais - This is Your Brain on Religion
Will Gervais - This is Your Brain on Religion
Host: Chris Mooney In late April, a study came out in Science that really got the secular blogosphere hopping. It was a ... Read more
4 Jun 2012
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Temple Grandin - The Science of Livestock Animal Welfare
Temple Grandin - The Science of Livestock Animal Welfare
Host: Indre Viskontas According to the USDA, Americans produce and consume more beef, veal, and chicken than any other n... Read more
28 Aug 2012
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Ranked #19
Marlene Zuk: The Paleo Delusion
Marlene Zuk: The Paleo Delusion
We evolved to eat berries rather than bagels, to live in caves rather than condos, to sprint barefoot rather than wear s... Read more
23 Jun 2014
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Elizabeth Kolbert on Coming to Grips with a Warming Planet
Elizabeth Kolbert on Coming to Grips with a Warming Planet
We want to believe that climate change can be stopped, that humanity can summon the political will to take decisive and ... Read more
12 Jun 2017
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