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Episode 38 of Graying Rainbows: Coming Out LGBT+ Later in Life features Minnesota educator Tress Ahles. She share the ups and downs of her coming out journey including the tension between the joy of embracing authenticity and the guilt of hurting those she loves.
Read MoreI have released the second edition of Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty. It has sold well on Amazon but you can buy it where ever you like. A free audio excerpt is available in episode 173 of Brain Science.
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Read MoreThis month’s episode of Books and Ideas is an interview with David Shariatmadari author of "Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language." We explore some of the common myths about language. This includes a follow up of our recent discussion on Brain Science about the evidence against the assumption that language is an instinctive.
Read MoreEpisode 76 of Books and Ideas features Jeremy Sherman, author of Neither Ghost nor Machine: The Emergence and Nature of Selves. We explore the mystery of how purpose arose in a purposeless universe. (Hint: the answer is not supernatural!)
Read MoreEpisode 75 of Books and Ideas is an interview with Amanda Poppei, President of the Unitarian Universalist Humanist Association. We talk about the longstanding relationship between Humanism and Unitarian Universalism.
Read MoreThis month's episode of Books and Ideas is an interview with astronomer Brian Keating about his memoir Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor. His book is a first hand look at the hard work behind the scientific effort to determine how the universe really began, but as the title implies, it also contains a candid account of how striving for the Nobel Prize can be both motivating, but strangely counterproductive.
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