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August 02, 2015 — Robert Wright & Karl Giberson
The Wright Show
Why Adam is crucial to Christian theology
What happens when the Biblical Adam encounters modern genetics
The "slippery slope" of critical inquiry
What do you need to believe to be a Christian?
Trying to reconcile God as Creator with natural selection
Evolutionary psychology and the doctrine of original sin
June 22, 2018 — Robert Wright & David Pearce
The Meaning of Future Life
Defining transhumanism
Why David is pessimistic about the Singularity
Becoming happier by shifting our "hedonic set points"
Could we phase out suffering by tackling its genetic roots?
Can chemicals deliver enduring happiness?
Why David has never tasted meat
Is transhumanism a secular religion?
March 20, 2017 — Robert Wright & S. Matthew Liao
The Meaning of Future Life
Changing the human genome to combat climate change
Will new technologies stratify society genetically?
Military and civilian uses of memory-changing technology
The army's plans for deep brain simulation
Matthew's book The Right to Be Loved
September 24, 2015 — Robert Wright & David Sloan Wilson
The Wright Show
David's new book, Does Altruism Exist?
Human society as an organism that evolves
Why Bob disagrees with David's worldview
People are nicer than economists think they should be
How cultural evolution is like genetic evolution
The butterfly effect and group-selection theory
July 19, 2015 — Robert Wright & David Sloan Wilson
The Wright Show
How understanding evolution can improve the real world
Is human nature mismatched to the modern environment?
Why we believe kooky things
"Meaning systems"--religious or secular, everyone's got one
Can science and religion form a unified meaning system?
David's latest book, Does Altruism Exist?
December 04, 2016 — Brendan Foht & George Church
George's project to synthesize the human genome
Fighting climate change by resurrecting the mammoth
Applying gene editing to human reproduction
Can gene tech make up for stagnation in pharmaceutical research?
The role of chance in genetic engineering breakthroughs
December 16, 2016 — Philip Menchaca & Erik Vance
Erik's new book Suggestible You
When snake oil actually works
How your beliefs can change your body
Why do people respond differently to the same placebo?
How the discovery of "placebo genes" could transform medicine
The fuzzy line between placebos and real medicine
Erik's visit to a Mexican witch doctor
April 25, 2017 — Josh Summers & David Barash
David's fusion of existentialism, Buddhism and biology
Triangulating the meaning of life
Buddhist doubts about the existentialist view of freedom
Free will and the hard problem of consciousness
The myth of Sisyphus
Being an existentialist bio-Buddhist
August 25, 2017 — Robert Wright & Lisa Feldman Barrett
Emotions and the Brain
Lisa's new book How Emotions are Made
Can we truly feel an emotion before we can name it?
Is it true that the !Kung people feel no fear?
Fear in the body, the brain, and in concept
Do animals have emotions as we know them?
Lisa's advice for young scientists: Keep it empirical
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