#2322 - Rebecca Lemov

Shane is a comedian, co-host of “Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast” with Matt McCusker, a creator and star of Netflix’s comedy series “Tires,” and one half of the sketch comedy duo “Gilly and Keeves” with John McKeever.www.shanemgillis.com https://gillyandkeeves.tvhttps://www.youtub ...  Show more

Jay Anderson is the host and creator of the YouTube program and podcast Project Unity, which focuses on UFO and UAP phenomenon, human origins, ancient mysteries, and other topics. www.youtube.com/@ProjectUnity http://www.patreon.com/ProjectUnity Perplexity: Download the app or ask ...  Show more

Rebecca Lemov (The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion) is a historian of science, author, and professor at Harvard. Rebecca joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the meet cute with her husband at the cafe where she was struggling to write her ...

In this episode, first aired in 2012, we have two stories of brains pushed off-course. We relive a surreal day in the life of a young researcher hijacked by her own brain, and hear from a librarian experiencing a bizarre and mysterious set of symptoms that she called “gravitat ...

Cultural historian Elsa Richardson discusses her book, Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut. It looks at our relationship over the centuries with a very intimate part of the body but one for which many know little more about than having a general gut feeling. Richardson is Lectu ...  Show more

Today we uncover an invisible killer hidden, for over a hundred years, by reasonable disbelief. Science journalist extraordinaire Carl Zimmer tells us the story of a centuries-long battle of ideas that came to a head, with tragic consequences, in the very recent past. His late ...