1. Dr. Lisa Randall — Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the UniverseMichael Shermer
4. Dr. Sean B. Carroll — The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It MattersMichael Shermer
6. Dr. Stephon Alexander — The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the UniverseMichael Shermer
7. Dr. Benjamin Bergen — What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and OurselvesMichael Shermer
8. Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan — Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal The CosmosMichael Shermer
11. Dr. Andrew Shtulman — Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often WrongMichael Shermer
13. Dr. Walter Scheidel — The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the 21st CenturyMichael Shermer
14. Dr. Nancy Segal — Twin Mythconceptions: False Beliefs, Fables, and Facts about TwinsMichael Shermer
15. Donald Prothero & Timothy Callahan — UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens: What Science SaysMichael Shermer
20. Dr. Michael Shermer — Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and UtopiaMichael Shermer
22. Dr. Gregory Berns — What It’s Like to Be a Dog…and Other Adventures in Animal NeuroscienceMichael Shermer
23. Dr. Kenneth R. Miller — The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free WillMichael Shermer
24. Dr. Alan Stern and Dr. David Grinspoon — Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to PlutoMichael Shermer
35. Dr. Tali Sharot — The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About our Power to Change OthersMichael Shermer
36. Dr. Jonathan Haidt — The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for FailureMichael Shermer
37. Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the MilitaryMichael Shermer
39. Heather Mac Donald — The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our CultureMichael Shermer
40. Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah — Who Am I? Who Are You? The Lies That Bind: Rethinking IdentityMichael Shermer
50. Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld — A Savage Order: How the World’s Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to SecurityMichael Shermer
53. Adam Higginbotham — China Syndrome II: The True Story of What Happened at ChernobylMichael Shermer
54. Dr. Michele Gelfand — Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our WorldMichael Shermer
58. Ben Shapiro — The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West GreatMichael Shermer
61. Dr. Richard Wrangham — The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human EvolutionMichael Shermer
AMA-5. Dr. Michael Shermer — “Are the Miracles of Jesus Unbelievable?” Debate PostmortemMichael Shermer
63. Dr. Hector A. Garcia — Sex, Power, and Partisanship: How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political DivideMichael Shermer
66. Dr. Christian List — Why Free Will is Real: A response to Sam Harris, Jerry Coyne, and Other DeterministsMichael Shermer
70. Dr. Brian Keating — Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest HonorMichael Shermer
73. Andrew Seidel — Busting the Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-AmericanMichael Shermer
74. Shaili Jain, M.D. — The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD ScienceMichael Shermer
76. William Poundstone — The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the UniverseMichael Shermer
77. Dr. Lee McIntyre — The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and PseudoscienceMichael Shermer
78. Dr. Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth From Our EyesMichael Shermer
82. Phil Zuckerman — What it Means to be Moral: Why Religion is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical LifeMichael Shermer
84. Christof Koch — The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness is Widespread but Can’t Be ComputedMichael Shermer
92. Tim Samuels — Future Man: How to Evolve and Thrive in the Age of Trump, Mansplaining, and #MeTooMichael Shermer
98. Robert Pennock — An Instinct for Truth: Curiosity and the Moral Character of ScienceMichael Shermer
99. Bobby Duffy — Why We’re Wrong About Nearly Everything: A Theory of Human MisunderstandingMichael Shermer
101. Hugo Mercier — Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We BelieveMichael Shermer
104. Judith Finlayson — You Are What Your Grandparents Ate: What You Need to Know About Nutrition, Experience, Epigenetics and the Origins of Chronic DiseaseMichael Shermer
106. Daniel Chirot — You Say You Want a Revolution? Radical Idealism and its Tragic ConsequencesMichael Shermer
107. Fred Kaplan — The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear WarMichael Shermer
108. Brian Greene — Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving UniverseMichael Shermer
109. Neil Shubin — Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNAMichael Shermer
114. Katherine Stewart — The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious NationalismMichael Shermer
118. Stuart Russell — Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of ControlMichael Shermer
119. Howard Bloom — Einstein, Michael Jackson, and Me: A Search for the Soul in the Power Pits of Rock and RollMichael Shermer
120. Andrew Rader — Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the StarsMichael Shermer
121. Maria Konnikova — The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and WinMichael Shermer
122. Walter Scheidel — Escape from Rome: The Failure of the Empire and the Road to ProsperityMichael Shermer
125. Bjorn Lomborg — False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the PlanetMichael Shermer
127. William Perry and Tom Collina — The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to TrumpMichael Shermer
128. Michael Shellenberger — Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us AllMichael Shermer
130. Debra Soh — The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths About Sex and Identity in Our SocietyMichael Shermer
131. Stuart Ritchie — Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for TruthMichael Shermer
133. Michael E. McCullough — The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral CodeMichael Shermer
134. Joe Henrich — The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly ProsperousMichael Shermer
135. Paul Halpern — Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and EffectMichael Shermer
137. Marta Zaraska — Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism, and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100Michael Shermer
139. Shelby Steele — Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country & the film What Killed Michael Brown?Michael Shermer
141. Richard Kreitner — Break it Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect UnionMichael Shermer
143. Nicholas Christakis — Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We LiveMichael Shermer
150. Daniel Lieberman — Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and RewardingMichael Shermer
152. Politics & Truth — Michael Shermer Responds to Critics of His Commentary “Trump & Truth”Michael Shermer
153. Kevin Dutton — Black-and-White Thinking: The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex WorldMichael Shermer
155. Martin Sherwin — Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945–1962Michael Shermer
160. Abigail Shrier — Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our DaughtersMichael Shermer
161. Roy Richard Grinker — Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental IllnessMichael Shermer
163. Helen Pluckrose — Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms EverybodyMichael Shermer
164. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Cosmic Queries: StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re GoingMichael Shermer
165. John McWhorter — The Elect: Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and Their Threat to a Progressive AmericaMichael Shermer
166. Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives (Michael Heller & James Salzman)Michael Shermer
167. Gary Taubes — The Case for Keto: Rethinking Weight Control and the Science and Practice of Low-Carb/High-Fat EatingMichael Shermer
168. Daniel Dennett & Gregg Caruso — Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (moderated by Michael Shermer)Michael Shermer
171. John Mueller — The Stupidity of War: American Foreign Policy and the Case for ComplacencyMichael Shermer
175. Brian Keating — How it All Began: Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse, and the Nature of Scientific ProofMichael Shermer
176. Minouche Shafik — What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better SocietyMichael Shermer
178. James Hunter & Paul Nedelisky on religious vs. secular morality — Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of MoralityMichael Shermer
180. Andy Norman — Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to ThinkMichael Shermer
181. David Buss — When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and AssaultMichael Shermer
182. A Conversation With UFOlogist Alan Steinfeld on How Believers and Skeptics Think About UFOsMichael Shermer
185. Stephen Meyer — Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries that Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe (and why Shermer remains skeptical)Michael Shermer
186. William Nordhaus on the Economics of Global Warming, Pandemics, and Corporate MalfeasanceMichael Shermer
188. Legendary Undersea Explorer Robert Ballard — Into the Deep: A Memoir From the Man Who Found TitanicMichael Shermer
194. John Mackey (Founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market) on Conscious Capitalism & Conscious LeadershipMichael Shermer
201. Michael Shermer on Evolution, I.D. Theory, Consciousness, Morality, Gullibility, and Nothing (AMA # 7)Michael Shermer
202. Julia Galef — The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’tMichael Shermer
203. Lee McIntyre — How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy ReasonMichael Shermer
204. Carole Hooven on T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides UsMichael Shermer
205. Richard Dawkins on evangelizing for evolution, science, skepticism, philosophy, reason, and rationality, based on his book Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing ScienceMichael Shermer
209. Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein on Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life, Based on Their New Book a Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st CenturyMichael Shermer
210. Leidy Klotz on doing more with less, based on his book Subtract: The Untapped Science of LessMichael Shermer
211. Ashley Rindsberg — The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter HistoryMichael Shermer
212. Gale Sinatra & Barbara Hofer — Science Denial: Why It Happens and What to Do About ItMichael Shermer
213. Mike Rothschild — The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of EverythingMichael Shermer
215. Mary Eberstadt on God, Religion, Secularization, Sexual Revolution, and Identity PoliticsMichael Shermer
217. Mary Grabar on the 1619 Project, Howard Zinn, Historical Revisionism, and PseudohistoryMichael Shermer
219. In-Person Conversation (in Shermer’s Home) with Steven Pinker on Rationality: What it is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why it Matters in Shermer’s HomeMichael Shermer
220. Charles Foster on Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of ConsciousnessMichael Shermer
224. Bobby Duffy on The Generation Myth: Why When You’re Born Matters Less Than You ThinkMichael Shermer
225. Nancy Segal — Deliberately Divided: Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted ApartMichael Shermer
228. Steven Koonin on what climate science tells us, what it doesn’t, and why it matters, based on his book UnsettledMichael Shermer
229. Fritjof Capra on Patterns of Connection: Is there a Tao of physics? Is life a web? Is humanity at a turning point?Michael Shermer
230. Bart Ehrman — Did the Christmas Story Really Happen? The Birth of Jesus in History & LegendMichael Shermer
239. Richard Firth-Godbehere — A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We KnowMichael Shermer
242. Jonathan Gottschall — The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them DownMichael Shermer
243. Sally Satel on Addiction, the Opioid Crisis, Deaths of Despair, and How Psychiatry Has Gone WokeMichael Shermer
244. Johnjoe McFadden — Life is Simple: How Occam’s Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the UniverseMcFadden — Life is Simple: How Occam’s Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the UniverseMichael Shermer