Michael Brant Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, executive director of The Skeptics Society, and founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, a publication focuses on investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. We discuss the limitations of certainty in science, the pitfalls of reliance upon consensus, and the benefits and dangers of supernatural beliefs, and the association of science with state-crafting.

(00:08:08) real ASK

(00:09:12) Patreon Ask

(00:24:58) Is Woo Stuff Good for People?

(00:32:23) Replication Crisis & Misplaced Faith in Science

(00:50:09) Trust the Science

(01:02:12) Centralizing Narratives

(01:13:17) Marker 15

(01:22:26) What's in the water?

(01:37:30) There's more to life than Algebra

(01:45:13) Rationality isn't everything

(01:55:18) Nurturing intuition

(02:04:55) Mass hysteria

(02:16:44) The Overswing

(02:28:15) Closing thoughts

Bernie Taylor is a Naturalist, Archaeoastronomer and Author who has written extensively about the true stories of human evolution, as told through the mythological portrayals in rock art found across Europe and Africa. Through a comparative examination of the rock art found in Spain’s El Castillo cave, at the Rock of Gibraltar, and in South Africa’s Rising Star Cave, Taylor paints a picture of a highly mobile, artistic tribe of humans that completed massive migrations and carried with them the cultural imprint of their celestial maps of meaning. Check out Bernie’s work at Beforeorion.com, on his Youtube Channel  @beforeoriondotcom  and support the podcast by checking out his books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3s4DmNv

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Dr. Li Min is a professor of prehistoric and Bronze Age Chinese archaeology at UCLA, who focuses on state formation, social memory, and story telling. He is also a key player in the excavation of Shimao, a site on the Yellow River in Northwest China that displays iconography from four thousand years ago that looks strikingly Mesoamerican. We discuss the context in which Shimao rose to become a major regional power, the heady interaction sphere between the city and the shamanic Steppe and Altai cultures that surrounded it, the persistence of imagery unchanged across thousands of years, and much more. Dig into Dr. Li Min’s work by reading up on Social Memory and State Formation in Early China, available for purchase in a way that supports the podcast: https://amzn.to/3s0UG6p

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Samo Burja is a research fellow at the Long Now Foundation, the founder of Bismarck Analysis, and originator of the Great Founder theory, who is driven by a simple question. Why have all prior civilizations failed, and how can ours escape the same fate? Our conversation focuses on the ways in which getting good data is almost impossible. Civilizations rise, fall, and their skeletons get scavenged to nourish what comes next. Floods sweep the landscape clean of the best laid plans, and rising sea levels bury the rest. We talk about the future of the academy, the search for buried treasures, and informed searches for long-lost cultures. Note - we had some technical difficulties at the end here, and so the audio for the last 20 minutes is pretty choppy. Apologies! We're working on making sure it doesn't happen again.

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Dr. Ogi Ogas is a computational neuroscientist, former Harvard scholar, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire contestant. He’s the author of two published books - "This is What it Sounds Like," about the cognitive signatures of individual music preferences, and "A Billion Wicked Thoughts," an analysis of human sexuality through the impartial lens of web searches. who has previously appeared on the DemystifySci podcast to explain how we’ve had a solution to the hard problem of consciousness for decades, and is back to discuss his upcoming book, "Large Gods for Small Children," a memoir where he lays out his lifelong relationship with Intex, and extraterrestrial intelligence. Ogas explains how his relationship with these cosmic minds has granted him insight into the mathematics of consciousness, a deeper understanding of the nature of the universe, and insight into the cosmic battles waged between distant advanced civilizations. Ogas explains how these interactions have led him to the mathematics of consciousness, an understanding of how the universe is made of minds, and perspective on the cosmic conflicts.

This week our friend, and one of our favorite people in the Universe, Mr. Douglas Lee, joins us LIVE in the studio for a conversation about the future of our country and the world. In particular, we explore solutions for the aging bureaucracies, bridges, and financial institutions. Doug is a civil engineer who designs railway systems for major government projects on the West Coast. He has a brilliant way of seamlessly transitioning between the mechanical and civil aspects of engineering that inspires all the best dreams of what could be.

Jon White is the creator behind the Crecganford channel on YouTube, which explores ancient Indo-European mythology with a keen eye for how these stories converge upon a picture of some of civilization's most embryonic moments. Our conversation considers the roots of language, poetry, music, myth, and all things essential to our modern conception of humanity in all its riches and rags.

Creon Levit is an R&D director at Planet Labs, where he mines satellite imagery data to find answers to myriad questions about the changing landscape, climate, and behaviors of humanity here on Earth. Our conversation explores our society's, and perhaps humanity's, persistent struggle to update our knowledge base and construct newer, more functional narratives about the world.

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Gregg Braden is an author and independent researcher who has spent a lifetime working to bridge the gap between science and spirituality. Our discussion centers upon the inevitable institutional corruptions that appear in any aging system but moreover imagines what a more functional structure might look like. Along the way we discuss the origins of humanity, the tech revolution, and our bifurcating species.

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Dr. Michael Hudson is a professor of Economics at the University of Missouri Kansas City, political consultant, commentator, and journalist. His career has focused on the study of debt, both external and internal, with an eye on what happens when the exponentially growing debts of a society outstrip the profits from the real economy. In the second part of our conversation we talk about modern monetary theory, the path towards debt forgiveness, and the foundational rules of a more perfect society that is not getting devoured by the rentier class. Support the podcast by check out Dr. Hudson’s books through our amazon affiliate link: https://amzn.to/44F6J7n00:00:00 Go!