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If you want to choose a career that helps other people effectively, which should you pick? Medicine?
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Taped in front of a live audience at Baruch College in New York, this episode of Rationally Speaking
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As part of our special mini-interviews series, Massimo talks to Jim Baggott, author of “Farewell to
In our first mini-interview episode Massimo sits down to chat with his colleague Maarten Boudry, a p
In this special episode of Rationally Speaking, Julia and Massimo go rogue: no guest, no pre-set top
Did you know that an artificial intelligence named "Eugene Goostman" recently passed the Turing Test
In this episode, Julia and Massimo talk about the problems with "race" as a genetically-based concep
Ever heard someone sigh, "That's just human nature"? Have you wondered what that meant? In this epis
For all the sniping that goes on between science and philosophy it's easy to forget that both fields
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein -- philosopher, author, and Genius-grant recipient -- returns to the Rat
"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide," wrote Albert Camus. In
Does the future belong to MOOCs? Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs for short, have been hailed a
Rationally Speaking returns to NECSS for a live show with Lawrence Krauss, theoretical physicist and
Atheist activist and author Greta Christina appears on this episode of Rationally Speaking, to discu
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