Synopsis
Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the human mind, society, and current events. Sam Harris is the author of The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, Waking Up, and Islam and the Future of Tolerance (with Maajid Nawaz). The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. His writing has been published in more than 20 languages. Mr. Harris and his work have been discussed in The New York Times, Time, Scientific American, Nature, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and many other journals. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Economist, Newsweek, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Annals of Neurology, and elsewhere. Mr. Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.
Episodes
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![#131 - Dictators, Immigration, #MeToo, and Other Imponderables]()
#131 - Dictators, Immigration, #MeToo, and Other Imponderables
03/07/2018A Conversation with Masha Gessen
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![#130 - Universal Basic Income]()
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![#129 - An Insiders View of Medicine]()
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![Bonus Questions: Geoffrey Miller]()
Bonus Questions: Geoffrey Miller
06/06/2018 Duration: 07minGeoffrey Miller is an evolutionary psychologist best known for his books The Mating Mind (2001), Mating Intelligence (2008), Spent (2009), and Mate (2015). He has a B.A. in Biology and Psychology from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Stanford University, and is a tenured associate professor at University of New Mexico. He has over 110 academic publications addressing sexual selection, mate choice, signaling theory, fitness indicators, consumer behavior, marketing, intelligence, creativity, language, art, music, humor, emotions, personality, psychopathology, and behavior genetics. He has also given 180 talks in 15 countries, reviewed papers for over 50 journals, and also worked at NYU Stern Business School, UCLA, and the London School of Economics. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and his research has been featured in Nature, Science, The New York Times, The Washington Post, New Scientist, and The Economist, on NPR and BBC radio, and in documentaries on C
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![#128 - Transformations of Mind]()
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![#127 - Freedom from the Known]()
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![Ask Me Anything #12]()
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![Waking Up Book Club 2]()
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![A Conversation with Dan Harris]()
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![#126 - In Defense of Honor]()
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![#125 - What is Christianity?]()
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![#124 - In Search of Reality]()
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![#123 - Identity Honesty]()
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![#122 - Extreme Housekeeping Edition]()
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![#121 - White Power]()
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![#120 - What Is and What Matters]()
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![Waking Up Book Club 1]()
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![#119 - Hidden Motives]()
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![Ask Me Anything #11]()
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![Bonus Questions: Preet Bharara]()
Bonus Questions: Preet Bharara
01/03/2018 Duration: 08minPreet Bharara is an American lawyer who served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017. His office prosecuted cases involving terrorism, narcotics and arms trafficking, financial and healthcare fraud, cybercrime, public corruption, gang violence, organized crime, and civil rights violations. In 2012, Bharara was featured on TIME‘s “100 Most Influential People in the World.” On April 1, 2017, Bharara joined the NYU School of Law faculty as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence. He is Executive Vice President at Some Spider Studios where he hosts a podcast, Stay Tuned, focused on questions of justice and fairness. Twitter: @preetbharara
