It's 2021 and we still have secret courts in the United States. What are Grand Juries anyway? How do they work? What are they for? And why are they the worst?

Covered Topics: Breonna Taylor, Grand Juries, Sol Wachtler, Karl Popper, Plato, George Schwartz, Social Contract, George Soros, Tamir Rice

Further Reading:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/breonna-taylor-grand-jury.html

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/29/us/breonna-taylor-grand-jurors/index.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDaNU7yDnsc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7thxae0AFM

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/breonna-taylor-police-killing.html

http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/open-source-open-government-critique-open-politics-0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDrTkvFB6Zk

https://www.businessinsider.com/ohio-prosecutor-tamir-rice-said-to-be-trying-to-lose-2015-12

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-30220700

https://abcnews.go.com/US/tamir-rice-case-prosecutor-abused-manipulated-grand-jury/story?id=35979452

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/breonna-taylor-grand-juror-homicide-charges-police-mistakes/

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We see it in thrillers like SPLIT, but does it ever happen in real life? Are there people in this world with multiple personalities? And if so, what does it take to fracture a mind?

Covered Topics: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Multiple Personalities, Alters, Billy Milligan, Zoo Man of Knoxville, David Chalmers, Hard Problem of Consciousness, Douglas Hofstadter, Panpsychism, Thales of Miletus, Joseph DeAngelo

Further Reading: 

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/could-multiple-personality-disorder-explain-life-the-universe-and-everything/

https://www.thecut.com/2015/11/blind-woman-had-10-personalities-some-could-see.html

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/91244/5-criminals-who-claimed-have-multiple-personalities.

https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/crazy-not-insane-did-ted-bundy-have-multiple-personality

https://www.dispatch.com/article/20071028/NEWS/310289729

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAPPzmRb4r0

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shadow-boxing/202005/the-zoo-man-murders

https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/huskey-thomas.htm

https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/philosophy-of-personal-identity-and-multiple-personality/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-07/david-chalmers-and-the-puzzle-of-consciousness/8679884

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50 years ago this week, 4 students were killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State. But nobody can agree on who fired first. And the only man who knows the truth is a car salesmen who lives on a mountain. 

Covered Topics: Kent State, Terry Norman, National Guard, Kent State Shootings, My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, Pontius Pilate, Objective Truth, Friedrich Nietzsche, Eugene Wigner, Massimiliano Proietti, Perspectivism, Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, William Schroeder

Further Reading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y5cftds7-8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN7PUy8ZrQE

https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-how-repetition-creates-an-illusion-of-truth

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40129

https://web.archive.org/web/20080516080032/http://www.tbo.com/life/kentstate.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Norman

https://dks.library.kent.edu/cgi-bin/kentstate?a=d&d=dks20101116-01.2.2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R9QROhm1Sk

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When I was a reporter, I got the chance to talk to a man after he died. If you're close enough to someone, perhaps you're carrying a little piece of them inside you. Jump in and let's get weird.

Covered Topics: Joe Kupchik, Optography, Wilhelm Kuhne, Erhard Reif, Elva Heaster, Douglas Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach, Recursion, Edgar Allan Poe, Maura Murray

Further Reading:

https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/oh-joseph-kupchik-19-cleveland-12-feb-2006.113513/

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30608/elva-zona-heaster-ghost-who-helped-solve-her-own-murder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jReX7qKU2yc

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-consciousness/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201912/how-our-loved-ones-live-after-death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWZ2Bz0tS-s

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What is reasonable doubt? Can it be defined? Who does it really help?

Covered topics: Caylee Anthony, Reasonable Doubt, Standard of Proof, William Blackstone, Victor V. Nebraska, Rene Descartes, Cartesian Doubt

Further Reading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvIdgW74LCk

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crime-anthony-reaction/anthony-verdict-a-victory-for-reasonable-doubt-experts-say-idUSTRE7646U820110705

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2011/07/nancy_grace_explains_what_the.html

https://abcnews.go.com/US/casey_anthony_trial/casey-anthony-juror-jury-sick-stomach-guilty-verdict/story?id=14005609

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD3rqRwPPck

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/supreme-court-nonunanimous-juries-oral-argument.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/15/magazine/split-jurors.html

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Not all those who wander are lost. Most of us fantasize about started a new life somewhere. Few of us succeed.

Covered Topics: Maura Murray, John List, Patrick McDermott, John J. Nazarian, Evan Ratliff, Alan Watts, Ken Lay, Plato, David Hume

Further Reading:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trqDnLNRuSc&t=312s

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-18-mn-3671-story.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_List

https://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/list-john-emil.htm

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2009445_2009447_2009502,00.html

https://medium.com/@ephromjosine/after-the-death-of-jeffery-epstein-its-time-we-revisit-ken-lay-69ea22f41545

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/07/07/225351/-Ken-Lay-escapes-life-conviction-by-faking-his-death

https://www.wired.com/2009/11/ff-vanish2/

https://www.wired.com/2009/08/gone-forever-what-does-it-take-to-really-disappear/

https://www.alanwatts.org/life-of-alan-watts/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/08/24/alan-watts-this-is-it/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7ufX3VaTJc

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Learn about the "Mean World Syndrome" and how the world is actually safer than you think.

Topics: Mean World Syndrome, George Gerbner, Logical Fallacies, Aristotle, Serial Killer's Apprentice

Further reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gerbner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-0E4qHqZ5o

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/the-rise-of-mean-world-syndrome-in-social-media/article21481089/

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/oscars-la-la-land-moonlight-arab-muslim-actor-audition-terrorist-i-am-done-a7595261.html

https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2010/01/gun_bullets_knives_pulled_from.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/05/the-man-who-counts-the-killings/376850/

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/obituaries/george-gerbner-86-researcher-who-studied-violence-on-tv-is-dead.html

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-citys-murder-rate-hit-new-low-in-2018-11546559793

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/10/17/facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/

https://www.txstate.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definitions/Equivocation.html

https://www2.palomar.edu/users/bthompson/Secundum%20Quid.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qb-h0sXkH4

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When a crime is committed, a clock begins to tick. If you're not charged before time runs out, you can never be prosecuted. But why?

Topics Covered: Ted Conrad, Demosthenes, Statute of Limitations, Phormion, Bill Cosby, Andrea Constand, John Demjanjuk, Amnesty, Thirty Tyrants, Critias, Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, Charles Griswold, Amy Mihaljevic

Further Reading:

https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1107&context=facpubs

https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2008/01/theodore_john_conrad_the_fbi_h.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlT5Ez_Hfao

https://people.com/crime/who-is-andrea-constand-bill-cosby-accuser/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/forgiveness/

https://www.cleveland.com/crime/2019/10/east-cleveland-event-gives-job-seeking-residents-convicted-of-non-violent-crimes-chance-to-apply-for-amnesty-or-expungement.html

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