The Michael Shermer Show

How Algorithms Use Your Data to Control You

Batya Ungar-Sargon: Why the Left Sees Jews Differently Now

From Equality to Equity: How Social Justice Becomes Ideology

Can Science Fix Criminal Justice?

Gad Saad: When Empathy Becomes Dangerous

Why We Cling to Certainty, Conspiracies, and Bad Predictions

Neil deGrasse Tyson on UFOs, Government Files, and the Physics of Alien Claims

From Newspapers to Influencers: Who Controls Reality Now? (Ashley Rindsberg)

The New War on Free Speech: Why Power Turns Everyone Into a Censor

The UFO Files Were Declassified Today

Government-released UFO files fail to provide credible evidence of extraterrestrial visitation, consisting primarily of grainy imagery, anecdotal reports, and heavy redactions. The "unidentified" status of these objects does not imply alien origin, as most sightings remain consistent with terrestrial phenomena like bal...

Why Everything Falls Apart—And How to Keep It Going (Stewart Brand)

Maintenance serves as the fundamental mechanism for sustaining life and civilization against the inevitable pull of entropy. Stewart Brand, co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, argues that keeping systems functional—whether biological bodies, mechanical vehicles, or global infrastructure—is the primary task of human ...

The Scientist Who Tried to Prove Reincarnation

Why Do We Exist? Hakeem Oluseyi

Shermer Says 9: The "Dead Scientists," Explained

Not Monsters. Not Madmen. Just Men.

Flourishing in the Age of Algorithms

What Really Prevents Cognitive Decline

How Christianity Made America—and How America Remade Christianity

What Turns Sand Into Cells? How Nonliving Matter Becomes Alive

Shermer Says 8: Easter Without the Miracle