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January 03, 202288: David Robson and the Expectation Effect
Award-winning science writer David Robson's work has appeared in the Guardian, the Atlantic, Aeon and many many others. He was features editor at New Scientist for five years, before working as a senior journalist at BBC Future.

His book, The Expectation Effect, is a vivid trip into the fallacies and complexities of the human psyche. Our expectations can have very real effects on outcomes, whether it be life spans, illnesses or anything else. So try to think positively.

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David Robson Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-robson-5761791b
twitter.com/d_a_robson
Buy The Expectation Effect
https://davidrobson.me/

Andrew Gold links:
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http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok
http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok
http://andrewgoldpodcast.com

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1 hr 1 min
December 30, 2021 87: End of Year Review: On the Edge with 2021
I've been spending a lot of time on my own recently, while my girlfriend has been away and I've been working on the podcast. Don't worry, I'm perfectly happy, and I'm off to Argentina soon for a holiday.

But it made me wonder about the folk out there - listeners of this show - who might be feeling a little lonesome right now (especially amid all the showing off on Instagram). So I just turned the mic on and started talking about this year's podcast.

Let's keep each other company in these cold, dark times!

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33 min
December 27, 202187: Prof. Carl Zimmer - What It Means to be 'Alive'
Popular science writer, journalist and Yale University Professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry Carl Zimmer is joining me to finally answer the late Beatle George Harrison's question: what is life.

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Prof. Carl Zimmer links:
http://carlzimmer.com
https://twitter.com/carlzimmer
Life's Edge book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08QJM2CJY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Andrew Gold links:
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http://andrewgoldpodcast.com

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1 hr 12 min
December 20, 202186: Do animals get drunk and high? - Oné Pagán
Have you ever wondered if your furry friend might be partial to a beer or two? Did you know that koalas smoked pipes and dolphins get high on pufferfish? Here to tell us all about the weird and wonderful world of intoxicated animals and humans too is Oné Pagan, a university professor and researcher with a PHD in Pharmacology with an emphasis on Neurobiology from Cornell University.

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Oné Pagán links:
https://twitter.com/Baldscientist
http://baldscientist.com/ (official website)
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25233610-500-what-intoxicated-animals-can-teach-us-about-our-vices/ (New Scientist Article)
https://www.amazon.com/Drunk-Flies-Stoned-Dolphins-Intoxication/dp/1950665372 (Drunk Flies and Stoned Dolphins book!)

Andrew Gold links:
http://youtube.com/andrewgold1
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http://andrewgoldpodcast.com

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1 hr 11 min
December 13, 202185: Lonely, Sexless Men (Incels) - William Costello
William Costello is a writer and an academic in the field of Evolutionary Psychology who has specialised in incel culture and things like beauty and attraction. He's also a lovely, charming man, a great laugh and really informative.

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William Costello links:
https://twitter.com/CostelloWilliam
https://william05227.wixsite.com/website (official website)
https://twitter.com/costellowilliam/status/1463139125935198215? (do his survey on how to be attractive!)

Andrew Gold links:
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http://andrewgoldpodcast.com

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1 hr 22 min
December 06, 202184: Why people become terrorists: Nafees Hamid
Nafees Hamid talks about what makes people into terrorists and other forms of extremists…and how we might be able to persuade them or talk them down. He is a research fellow at ARTIS International, an associate fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague, and a Frederick Bonnart-Braunthal Trust scholar in the University College London's Department of Security and Crime Science.

Watch my follow-up interview later that night as host of the Shaun Attwood show: https://youtu.be/LqFj9ig657Q.

Nafees Hamid Socials:

Twitter: @NafeesHamid

Instagram: nafees_hamid_

Videos:

NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/opinion/domestic-terrorism-jihadists.html

Netflix (S2E6): https://www.netflix.com/title/81098586

Articles:

The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/the-neuroscience-of-terrorism-how-we-convinced-a-group-of-radicals-to-let-us-scan-their-brains-114855

NYRB: https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/nafees-hamid/

Andrew Gold links:
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http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok
http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok
http://andrewgoldpodcast.com

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1 hr 24 min
November 29, 202183: NXIVM Sex-Trafficking Cult Survivor Kelly Thiel
Kelly Thiel was once a member of the notorious NXIVM cult. For those of you who – like me – don’t or didn’t know much about this sect, you’re in for a bit of a shock – not least in how that bunch of capital letters are supposed to be pronounced. But I’ll let Kelly explain that part.

The cult was on the surface a multi-level marketing group that had various levels of memberships. Its members would learn a lot about self-help stuff, such as how to find purpose and be happy. Its methods were said to have been somewhere between those of Tony Robbins and the cult of Scientology, and there was even some stuff about going back to your childhood or past lives.

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Kelly Thiel links:
https://www.instagram.com/thekellythiel/
https://kellythiel.com

Andrew Gold links:
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http://andrewgoldpodcast.com

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1 hr 1 min
November 22, 202182: I lived in an airport for 7 months: Hassan Al Kontar
Today’s guest is Hassan al-Kontar, an absolute gem of a person who found himself in one of the most unique and unusual positions imaginable: living in an airport for seven months. As a Syrian refugee, Hassan had been working in the United Arab Emirates, when civil war broke out in Syria. Refusing to return there to join the Syrian military (knowing he might be arrested upon arrival), he stayed abroad, and Hassan’s passport renewal was later denied, leaving him stranded in Kuala Lumpar International Airport in Malaysia.

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Hassan Al Kontar links:
https://www.instagram.com/kontar_81
https://twitter.com/Kontar81
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Man-Airport-Social-Life-One-Syrians-ebook/dp/B094YLT5FF

Andrew Gold links:
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http://andrewgoldpodcast.com

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1 hr 12 min
November 15, 202181: Why we like to suffer - Prof. Paul Bloom
Why do we like to suffer? Canadian-American Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science Paul Bloom believes he has the answer. Or at least, some of the answers to what is a profound and complex question. In his book The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning, he explores exactly that – that Goldilocks point just between too much suffering – such as with last week’s guest, Guantanamo’s most tortured prisoner Mohamedou Ould Salahi – and a life without enough self-imposed suffering.

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Prof Paul Bloom links:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sweet-Spot-Pleasures-Suffering-Meaning/dp/0062910566
https://twitter.com/paulbloomatyale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bloom_(psychologist)
https://paulbloom.net

Andrew Gold links:
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http://andrewgoldpodcast.com

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1 hr 10 min
November 08, 202180: Guantanamo's Most Tortured Prisoner: Mohamedou Ould Salahi
Today, we’ve got a classic On the Edge interviewee, in the form of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who was detained in Guantanamo Bay for 14 years and is considered by some to be Guantanamo’s most tortured prisoner. Raised in the African country of Mauritania, before moving to Germany, Mohamedou was suspected of having links to terrorism after 9/11.

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Mohamedou Ould Salahi links:
https://twitter.com/MohamedouOuld
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamedou_Ould_Salahi
http://guantanamodiary.com/

Andrew Gold links:
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http://andrewgoldpodcast.com

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1 hr 17 min

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Journalist Andrew Gold talks to everyone from cult defectors and politicians to mainstream celebrities - people who’ve challenged the expected script and lived with the consequences.