Swimming in Denial - Read Montague

Part 2 of Skeptic Check: Swimming in Denial, featuring Read Montague, Director of the Human Neuroimaging Lab at Baylor College of Medicine and author of Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions.

Swimming in Denial - Michael Specter (continued)

Part 3 of Skeptic Check: Swimming in Denial, featuring Michael Specter, writer for The New Yorker and author of Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives.

Swimming in Denial - Crop Circles

Part 4 of Skeptic Check: Swimming in Denial, featuring a discussion on crop circles and how, despite mounting evidence to the contrary, some believe them to be of extra-terrestrial origin.

Swimming in Denial - Spencer Weart

Part 5 of Skeptic Check: Swimming in Denial, featuring Spencer Weart, historian of science, discussing how even scientists at first pooh-poohed plate tectonics, meteorites, and quantum physics, and how the evidence turned them around.

Swimming in Denial - Checkout Line Press

Part 6, the final segment of Skeptic Check: Swimming in Denial, wherein Seth and Molly peruse the tabloids and read that dolphins descended from aliens who came to Earth 100,000 years ago.

Wheel of Stars

Data visualization specialist Jim Bumgardner has created a sidereal time clock called the Wheel of Stars which depicts the night sky as a music box. Based on data from the ESA's Hipparcos satellite, the wheel revolves around Polaris, and as stars cross the line between zero and 180 degrees, they sound off as chimes, based on their BV measurement and magnitude. Moving as fast as the Earth spins, it takes 24 hours to complete a full circle. Further fun with math, music, and circles can be enjoyed with his Whitney Music Box.

Eureka!

From the double-helix to the expansion of the universe, great scientific discoveries reshape our understanding of who we are and how things work. But great discoveries require more than just a great mind. We tour brainy breakthroughs from Archimedes to Darwin, and find out what made their revolutionary insights possible.

Also, why you need more than a stratospheric I.Q. to be a super-achiever. And how the invention of reading re-directed the course of civilization and re-wired our brains in the process.

You can hear it right here!
Part 1 - Alan Hirshfeld
Part 2 - Fog Newton
Part 3 - Angela Duckworth
Part 4 - Richard Holmes
Part 5 - Stanislas Dehaene