The Laws of Human Nature

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The Laws of Human Nature

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Dec 17, 2018

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We talk to author Robert Greene, most known for the bestselling The 48 Laws of Power, about his new book The Laws of Human Nature.

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Dec 17, 2018

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Each week Inquiring Minds brings you a new, in-depth exploration of the space where science, politics, and society collide.We’re committed to the idea that making an effort to understand the world around you though science and critical thinking can benefit everyone—and lead to better decisions. We endeavor to find out what’s true, what’s left to discover, and why it all matters with weekly coverage of the latest headlines and probing discussions with leading scientists and thinkers.

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25 Neil deGrasse Tyson - Finally, Science Is Cool: Last week, Fox's and National Geographic's new Cosmos series set a new milestone in television history. According to National Geographic, it was the largest global rollout of a TV series ever, appearing on 220 channels in 181 countries, and 45 languages. by Inquiring Minds
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5 Dan Kahan and Stephan Lewandowsky - How Do You Make People Give a Damn About Climate Change?: As two top researchers studying the science of science communication—a hot new field that combines psychology with public opinion research—Dan Kahan and Stephan Lewandowsky agree about most things. There's just one problem. The little thing that they dis by Inquiring Minds
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9 Michael Mann - From Computer Geek to Political Giant Slayer: On the show this week we talk to climate researcher Michael Mann about how he, as a self-described math and computer nerd working in an esoteric field known as paleoclimatology, wound up front and center in a nationally watched political campaign. His si by Inquiring Minds
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2 Alan Weisman - Can We Finally Have a Serious Talk About Population?: This week, Chris Mooney talks to environmental journalist Alan Weisman, who explains why, following on his 2007 New York Times bestseller The World Without Us, he decided to centrally take on the issue of human population. For his just-published book Cou by Inquiring Minds
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1 Marsha Ivins - What It's Like To Spend 55 Days in Space: There aren't many people on Earth who have spent more of their life in space than Marsha Ivins. A veteran of five space shuttle missions, Ivins has spent a total of 55 days in orbit, on missions devoted to such diverse tasks as deploying satellites, cond by Inquiring Minds
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19 Kari Byron - How to Safely Blow Stuff Up When You're Pregnant: Most expecting women ask their doctors whether it's okay to eat blue cheese, or have the odd glass of wine, while they're pregnant. Or maybe whether to stay away from fish, because of the mercury. When she was pregnant with her daughter several years ago by Inquiring Minds
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13 Ara Norenzayan - Why Do Atheists Exist?: Americans don't like atheists much. It's something we get reminded of every December, as Fox News commentators decry a secularist "war on Christmas." But the distrust spans seasons: Barely half of Americans say they would vote for an atheist for presiden by Inquiring Minds
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4 Randy Schekman - This 2013 Nobel Laureate Says College Is Way Too Expensive: This week we talk to Randy Schekman, the University of California-Berkeley cell biologist who was just awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine for his work on how cells regulate the protein “traffic” that is at the core of their communication with other by Inquiring Minds
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8 Alison Gopnik - We All Start Out as Scientists, But Some of Us Forget: This week we feature a conversation with psychologist Alison Gopnik, recorded live at the 2013 Bay Area Science Festival. Gopnik talks about her latest book, The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life by Inquiring Minds
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33 David Amodio - The Science of Prejudice: When the audio of LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling telling his girlfriend not to "bring black people" to his team's games hit the Internet, the condemnations were immediate. It was clear to all that Sterling was a racist, and the punishment was swift: t by Inquiring Minds
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6 Jonathan Haidt - This is Why Your Political Opponents Hate You: Why is America so polarized? Why are our politicians so dysfunctional? Why do they sometimes even seem to downright hate each other? In this episode of Inquiring Minds, moral psychologist and bestselling The Righteous Mind author Jonathan Haidt explains by Inquiring Minds
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3 Sylvia Earle - Why the Oceans Are Not Too Big to Fail: This week we talk to scientist and explorer Sylvia Earle, a woman who has spent almost a year of her life under water. She explains why the oceans are "not too big to fail." But she also says that just maybe, we're growing wise enough to save them. Earle by Inquiring Minds
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7 George Johnson - Why Most of What You've Heard About Cancer is Wrong: This week, we speak with veteran science journalist George Johnson, whose new book The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery helps turn much traditional thinking about cancer on its head. It's a provocative and also a personal explorati by Inquiring Minds
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10 Simon Singh - How the Simpsons Have Secretly Been Teaching You Math: Simon Singh isn't exactly your average fan of Fox's The Simpsons. He has a Ph.D. in particle physics from Cambridge, and made an award-winning documentary about Fermat's Last Theorem. Let's be frank: He's a math geek. But then, so are a surprisingly larg by Inquiring Minds
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16 Deborah Blum - The Science of Poisoning: As a writer, Deborah Blum says she has a "love of evil chemistry." It seems that audiences do too: Her latest book, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, was not only a bestseller, but was just turned in by Inquiring Minds
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11 Maryn McKenna - Our Scary Post-Antibiotic Future: It's flu season. And we're all about to crisscross the country to exchange hugs, kisses and germs. We're going to get sick. And when we do, many of us will run to our doctors and, hoping to get better, demand antibiotics. And that's the problem: Antibiot by Inquiring Minds
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14 Carolyn Porco - Why Seeing Earth From Space Matters: On Valentine's Day 1990, from more than four billion miles away, the Voyager 1 spacecraft snapped our photo. From that distance, there wasn't much to see; the resulting shot simply showed several light beams with a tiny speck in one of them. Earth. But t by Inquiring Minds
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44 David Epstein - The Science Behind the World's Greatest Athletes: What makes a great athlete? Talent? Training? Or is mostly genetic? On the show this week we get some answers from sports writer David Epstein while discussing his new book The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance. Epstei by Inquiring Minds
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15 Mark Ruffalo - Our 100 Percent Clean Energy Future: For Mark Ruffalo, environmental activism started out with something to oppose, to be against: Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. It all began when the actor, perhaps best known for his role as Bruce Banner (The Hulk) in Marvel's The Avengers, was raising by Inquiring Minds
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$15 Mark Ruffalo - Our 100 Percent Clean Energy Future: For Mark Ruffalo, environmental activism started out with something to oppose, to be against: Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. It all began when the actor, perhaps best known for his role as Bruce Banner (The Hulk) in Marvel's The Avengers, was raising$
23 Edward Frenkel - What Your Teachers Never Told You About Math: As Edward Frenkel sees it, the way we teach math in schools today is about as exciting as watching paint dry. So it's not surprising that when he brings up the fact that he's a mathematician at dinner parties, the eyes quickly glaze over. "Most people, u by Inquiring Minds
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21 Steven Novella - No, GMOs Won't Harm Your Health: With historic drought battering California's produce and climate change expected to jeopardize the global food supply, there are few questions more important than what our agriculture system should look like in the future. And few agricultural issues are by Inquiring Minds
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22 Jennifer Francis and Kevin Trenberth - Is Global Warming Driving Crazy Winters?: Just when weather weary Americans thought they'd found a reprieve, the latest forecasts suggest that the polar vortex will, again, descent into the heart of the country next week, bringing with it staggering cold. If so, it will be just the latest weathe by Inquiring Minds
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30 Jared Diamond - The Third Chimpanzee: Jared Diamond, author of a suite of massive, bestselling books about the precarious state of our civilization (including the Pulitzer-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel), calls himself "cautiously optimistic" about the future of humanity. What does that mean by Inquiring Minds
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12 Joshua Greene – The New Science of Morality: It's an old distinction: Science tells us what the world is like, but it can never tell us how we ought to behave in such a world. That's the realm of morality, and here we consult ethicists or perhaps priests—but something other than just data. It's pre by Inquiring Minds
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28 John Hibbing - The Biology of Ideology: Thomas Jefferson was a smart dude. And in one of his letters to John Adams, dated June 27, 1813, Jefferson made an observation about the nature of politics that science is only now, two centuries later, beginning to confirm. "The same political parties w by Inquiring Minds
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31 Mary Roach - The Science of Your Guts: Mary Roach has been called "America's funniest science writer." Master of the monosyllabically titled bestseller, she has explored sex in Bonk, corpses in Stiff, and the afterlife in Spook. Her latest book, now out in paperback, is Gulp: Adventures on th by Inquiring Minds
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17 Michael Pollan - The Science of Eating Well (And Not Falling For Diet Fads): The Paleo diet is hot. Those who follow it are attempting, they say, to mimic our ancient ancestors—minus the animal-skin fashions and the total lack of technology, of course. The adherents eschew what they believe comes from modern agriculture (wheat, d by Inquiring Minds
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24 Jennifer Ouellette - Is The Self an Illusion, or Is There Really a “You” In There?: Who are you? The question may seem effortless to answer: You are the citizen of a country, the resident of a city, the child of particular parents, the sibling (or not) of brothers and sisters, the parent (or not) of children, and so on. And you might fu by Inquiring Minds
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38 Sam Kean - These Brains Changed Neuroscience Forever: We've all been mesmerized by them—those beautiful brain scan images that make us feel like we're on the cutting edge of scientifically decoding how we think. But as soon as one neuroscience study purports to show which brain region lights up when we are by Inquiring Minds
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36 Harry Collins - Why Googling Doesn't Make You a Scientific Expert: Remember "Climategate"? It was the 2009 non-scandal scandal in which a trove of climate scientists' emails, pilfered from the University of East Anglia in the UK, were used to call all of modern climate research into question. Why? Largely because a curs by Inquiring Minds
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