Point of Inquiry is the Center for Inquiry's flagship podcast, where the brightest minds of our time sound off on all the things you're not supposed to talk about at the dinner table: science, religion, and politics.
Guests have included Brian Greene, Susan Jacoby, Richard Dawkins, Ann Druyan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Eugenie Scott, Adam Savage, Bill Nye, and Francis Collins.
My recent favorite is a discussion with Steven Pinker on his latest book, The Decline of Violence.
If you want to save time, you can concentrate on minutes 8 to 14 of the podcast (you can view the interview on youtube here) for a list of the 5 main reasons violence has declined in our societies, according to Pinker.
Hint to economists: his explanations involve prisoner dilemma game theory...
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