All Pieces for Barry Lam
Do people of opposing political parties believe in different facts? The mantra at the moment is that they do, because of media echo chambers, motiv...
- Added: Jul 25, 2018
- Length: 43:49
Hi-Phi Nation stays overnight at the Brooklyn Public Library during the 2018 Night of Philosophy. From 7pm to 7am on a Saturday night, thousands of...
- Added: Jul 25, 2018
- Length: 45:13
We look at the question of whether addicts have free will, as it played out in a case in the Supreme Court in 1987, and the Massachusetts Supreme C...
- Added: May 31, 2018
- Length: 47:10
A philosophical examination about the nature of religious belief, using the example of creationist and a woman who left fundamentalism.
- Added: May 31, 2018
- Length: 41:20
This show is about past life memories and whether science and philosophy can ever accommodate them.
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 43:48
A history and philosophy of the cover song in the rock music tradition, and how it contrasts with the classical music tradition.
- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 47:28
Some acts of expression are awesome, while others suck, and one philosopher has a new theory about the difference. Using this theory as a guide, we...
- Added: Jan 22, 2018
- Length: 28:21
This week, we look at how a religious cult of number worshipers on the Italian coast gave rise to modern science, mathematics, philosophy, and musi...
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- Added: Jan 22, 2018
- Length: 30:09
- Purchases: 1
A story about mid-life crises and how three people climbed out of them.
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- Added: Jan 11, 2018
- Length: 37:05
- Purchases: 1
We follow a mother's love through the stages of life to seek wisdom about what love is, what love does, and why love happens. We follow five mother...
- Added: May 15, 2017
- Length: 47:06
Documentary film and science do not appear to have much in common, except that, philosophically, they have everything in common. Two men met in 197...
- Added: May 15, 2017
- Length: 48:08
Our ideas of manhood and womanhood determine the ways in which we raise and socialize our children, but how much does gender in a particular societ...
- Added: Mar 21, 2017
- Length: 34:34
- Purchases: 2
One scientist decided to put the entire field of psychology to test to see how many of its findings hold up to scrutiny. At the same time, he had s...
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 41:22
After years of unusual episodes dating back to her childhood, Anita went to the doctor and was told there was nothing medically wrong with her. "Sh...
- Added: Mar 07, 2017
- Length: 42:40
Two records from 1983 achieved minor novelty fame, and then faded away, only to emerge 20 years later as the originators of a curious genre of pop ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2017
- Length: 44:02
With a small gesture of good will toward Syrian refugees, one woman incurred the wrath of evangelical Christians on social media. The resulting cha...
- Added: Feb 13, 2017
- Length: 47:05
An army whistle-blower returns to combat during the height of the surge in Iraq, now surrounded me hostile comrades. We then look at the morality o...
- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 46:14
As a new U.S. administration takes hold, with talk of new military action against ISIS in the Middle East, and the reinstatement of Bush-era tortur...
- Added: Jan 30, 2017
- Length: 45:50
Our lives are controlled by the invisible hand from the grave. Death does not prevent people from influencing the world with their wealth, but such...
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 46:43