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Jon Ronson talks to me about cancel culture, public shaming and Louis Theroux. Jon is also known for writing The Psychopath Test and So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, a book about the way we publicly humiliate others for minor transgressions. There’s a lot of discourse about that today, but Jon was ahead of the curve when that book came out in 2015. In his work, he often documents his time with extreme figures, including Alex Jones, David Icke and Islamic militant leader Omar Bakri Muhammed.
Today, he's talking about his new podcast, Things Fell Apart, about the beginnings of all our different culture wars.
Jon Ronson links:
http://www.jonronson.com
https://twitter.com/jonronson
https://www.instagram.com/jonronson
Things Fell Apart podcast on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m0011cpr
Things Fell Apart on Apple (worldwide release 25th Jan): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/things-fell-apart-by-jon-ronson/id1592984136
Andrew Gold links:
http://youtube.com/andrewgold1
http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok
http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok
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Richard Dawkins is one of the biggest names in science. His The God Delusion, which contends that a supernatural deity does not exist, flipped the world upside down in 2006 when it came out, bringing both science and atheism into the mainstream.
I interview him today alongside former ecstasy mob boss Shaun Attwood, before a free bonus section with Professor Paul Bloom of Yale and Toronto.
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Richard Dawkins links:
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution -https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08QBGS4VQ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1Books Do Furnish A Life: An Electrifying Celebration of Science Writing - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08KXNF4ZF/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1Richard's Website: https://richarddawkins.netTwitter: https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins
Prof Paul Bloom links:
The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sweet-Spot-Pleasures-Suffering-Meaning/dp/0062910566Twitter: https://twitter.com/paulbloomatyaleWiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bloom_(psychologist)Official Website: https://paulbloom.net
Shaun Attwood Links:
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/derickatt
Twitter: https://twitter.com/shaunattwood
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shaunattwood
Andrew Gold links:
http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_okhttp://andrewgoldpodcast.com -
Award-winning science writer David Robson's work has appeared in the Guardian, the Atlantic, Aeon and many many others. He was features editor at New Scientist for five years, before working as a senior journalist at BBC Future.
His book, The Expectation Effect, is a vivid trip into the fallacies and complexities of the human psyche. Our expectations can have very real effects on outcomes, whether it be life spans, illnesses or anything else. So try to think positively.
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David Robson Links:https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-robson-5761791btwitter.com/d_a_robsonBuy The Expectation Effecthttps://davidrobson.me/
Andrew Gold links:
http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_okhttp://andrewgoldpodcast.com -
I've been spending a lot of time on my own recently, while my girlfriend has been away and I've been working on the podcast. Don't worry, I'm perfectly happy, and I'm off to Argentina soon for a holiday.
But it made me wonder about the folk out there - listeners of this show - who might be feeling a little lonesome right now (especially amid all the showing off on Instagram). So I just turned the mic on and started talking about this year's podcast.
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Popular science writer, journalist and Yale University Professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry Carl Zimmer is joining me to finally answer the late Beatle George Harrison's question: what is life.
Sign up on Apple Podcasts or http://patreon.com/andrewgold for the bonus bits.
Prof. Carl Zimmer links:
http://carlzimmer.comhttps://twitter.com/carlzimmerLife's Edge book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08QJM2CJY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Andrew Gold links:
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Have you ever wondered if your furry friend might be partial to a beer or two? Did you know that koalas smoked pipes and dolphins get high on pufferfish? Here to tell us all about the weird and wonderful world of intoxicated animals and humans too is Oné Pagan, a university professor and researcher with a PHD in Pharmacology with an emphasis on Neurobiology from Cornell University.
Sign up on Apple Podcasts or http://patreon.com/andrewgold for the half-hour bonus chat.
Like how the episode sounded? Get an MV7 just like mine here: https://shu.re/ontheedge-mv7. Receive 20% off anything from their website with the code ONTHEEDGE20.
Oné Pagán links:
https://twitter.com/Baldscientisthttp://baldscientist.com/ (official website)https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25233610-500-what-intoxicated-animals-can-teach-us-about-our-vices/ (New Scientist Article)https://www.amazon.com/Drunk-Flies-Stoned-Dolphins-Intoxication/dp/1950665372 (Drunk Flies and Stoned Dolphins book!)
Andrew Gold links:
http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_okhttp://andrewgoldpodcast.com -
William Costello is a writer and an academic in the field of Evolutionary Psychology who has specialised in incel culture and things like beauty and attraction. He's also a lovely, charming man, a great laugh and really informative.
Sign up on Apple Podcasts or http://patreon.com/andrewgold for the half-hour bonus chat.
Like how the episode sounded? Get an MV7 just like mine here: https://shu.re/ontheedge-mv7. Receive 20% off anything from their website with the code ONTHEEDGE20.
William Costello links:
https://twitter.com/CostelloWilliamhttps://william05227.wixsite.com/website (official website)https://twitter.com/costellowilliam/status/1463139125935198215? (do his survey on how to be attractive!)
Andrew Gold links:
http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_okhttp://andrewgoldpodcast.com -
Nafees Hamid talks about what makes people into terrorists and other forms of extremists…and how we might be able to persuade them or talk them down. He is a research fellow at ARTIS International, an associate fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague, and a Frederick Bonnart-Braunthal Trust scholar in the University College London's Department of Security and Crime Science.
Watch my follow-up interview later that night as host of the Shaun Attwood show: https://youtu.be/LqFj9ig657Q.
Nafees Hamid Socials:
Twitter: @NafeesHamid
Instagram: nafees_hamid_
Videos:
NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/opinion/domestic-terrorism-jihadists.html
Netflix (S2E6): https://www.netflix.com/title/81098586
Articles:
The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/the-neuroscience-of-terrorism-how-we-convinced-a-group-of-radicals-to-let-us-scan-their-brains-114855
NYRB: https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/nafees-hamid/
Andrew Gold links:
http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_okhttp://andrewgoldpodcast.com -
Kelly Thiel was once a member of the notorious NXIVM cult. For those of you who – like me – don’t or didn’t know much about this sect, you’re in for a bit of a shock – not least in how that bunch of capital letters are supposed to be pronounced. But I’ll let Kelly explain that part.
The cult was on the surface a multi-level marketing group that had various levels of memberships. Its members would learn a lot about self-help stuff, such as how to find purpose and be happy. Its methods were said to have been somewhere between those of Tony Robbins and the cult of Scientology, and there was even some stuff about going back to your childhood or past lives.
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Kelly Thiel links:
https://www.instagram.com/thekellythiel/https://kellythiel.com
Andrew Gold links:
http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_okhttp://andrewgoldpodcast.com -
Today’s guest is Hassan al-Kontar, an absolute gem of a person who found himself in one of the most unique and unusual positions imaginable: living in an airport for seven months. As a Syrian refugee, Hassan had been working in the United Arab Emirates, when civil war broke out in Syria. Refusing to return there to join the Syrian military (knowing he might be arrested upon arrival), he stayed abroad, and Hassan’s passport renewal was later denied, leaving him stranded in Kuala Lumpar International Airport in Malaysia.
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Hassan Al Kontar links:
https://www.instagram.com/kontar_81https://twitter.com/Kontar81https://www.amazon.co.uk/Man-Airport-Social-Life-One-Syrians-ebook/dp/B094YLT5FF
Andrew Gold links:
http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_okhttp://andrewgoldpodcast.com -
Why do we like to suffer? Canadian-American Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science Paul Bloom believes he has the answer. Or at least, some of the answers to what is a profound and complex question. In his book The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning, he explores exactly that – that Goldilocks point just between too much suffering – such as with last week’s guest, Guantanamo’s most tortured prisoner Mohamedou Ould Salahi – and a life without enough self-imposed suffering.
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Prof Paul Bloom links:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sweet-Spot-Pleasures-Suffering-Meaning/dp/0062910566https://twitter.com/paulbloomatyalehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bloom_(psychologist)https://paulbloom.net
Andrew Gold links:
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Today, we’ve got a classic On the Edge interviewee, in the form of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who was detained in Guantanamo Bay for 14 years and is considered by some to be Guantanamo’s most tortured prisoner. Raised in the African country of Mauritania, before moving to Germany, Mohamedou was suspected of having links to terrorism after 9/11.
Sign up on Apple VIP or http://patreon.com/andrewgold for the half-hour bonus chat.
Mohamedou Ould Salahi links:
https://twitter.com/MohamedouOuldhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamedou_Ould_Salahihttp://guantanamodiary.com/
Andrew Gold links:
http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_okhttp://andrewgoldpodcast.com -
In our final installment of the three Halloween Specials, Dr. Sohom Das takes us into the mind of the Broadmoor Cannibal, Peter Bryan.
Dr. Sohom Das links:A Psych for Sore Minds YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU2T2mo13y0&ab_channel=APsychForSoreMindshttp://www.drdas.co.ukhttps://twitter.com/Dr_S_Das
Andrew Gold links:
http://youtube.com/andrewgold1
http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok
http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok
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In the second episode of our Halloween trilogy, Dr. Sohom Das explains what really went on in the minds of Swedish twin sisters Ursula and Sabina Eriksson, who terrified motorists, before one of them killed a man.
Dr. Sohom Das links:A Psych for Sore Minds YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU2T2mo13y0&ab_channel=APsychForSoreMindshttp://www.drdas.co.ukhttps://twitter.com/Dr_S_Das
Andrew Gold links:
http://youtube.com/andrewgold1
http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok
http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok
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Journalist Andrew Gold and forensic psychiatrist Dr. Sohom Das from A Psych for Sore Minds take a look inside the minds of perpetrators in three scary and fascinating true crime cases. We start with Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people - the most ever fatalities by a single gunman.
Dr. Sohom Das links:A Psych for Sore Minds YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU2T2mo13y0&ab_channel=APsychForSoreMindshttp://www.drdas.co.ukhttps://twitter.com/Dr_S_Das
Andrew Gold links:
http://youtube.com/andrewgold1
http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok
http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok
http://andrewgoldpodcast.com -
He’s back! It’s part 2 with podcaster and evolutionary sex expert Dr. Chris Ryan, author of Sex at Dawn and Civilized to Death. He writes all about the way societal expectations have been encroaching on our natural ways of doing things, particularly sex, but much much more. Today, we’ll be looking at the human penis, and comparing it to those of other monkeys and such things.
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Chris Ryan links:
https://chrisryanphd.com/category/tangentially-speaking/Tangentially Speaking podcast: https://podfollow.com/566908883Sex at Dawn book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sex-Dawn-Stray-Modern-Relationships/dp/1491512407Civilized to Death book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Civilized-Death-What-Lost-Modernity/dp/1451659105https://twitter.com/ThatChrisRyanhttps://www.instagram.com/thatchrisryan
Andrew Gold links:
http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_okhttp://andrewgoldpodcast.com -
Today I have one of the biggest names to ever grace the stage of this podcast, in the form of Chris Ryan. Chris is known for many things, but is perhaps most notable for his book Sex at Dawn, which he co-wrote with his partner Cacilda Jethá. It challenges the conventional views on sex by diving deep into our ancestors’ history. It provides a fascinating look at hunter gatherers, and what we were once like.
Chris Ryan links:
https://chrisryanphd.com/category/tangentially-speaking/Tangentially Speaking podcast: https://podfollow.com/566908883Sex at Dawn book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sex-Dawn-Stray-Modern-Relationships/dp/1491512407Civilized to Death book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Civilized-Death-What-Lost-Modernity/dp/1451659105https://twitter.com/ThatChrisRyanhttps://www.instagram.com/thatchrisryan
Andrew Gold links:
http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_okhttp://andrewgoldpodcast.com -
I met acclaimed philosopher Julian Baggini in Bristol for a coffee upon first arriving in the city, and it was a pleasure. Julian is a member of the Bristol Humanist Society, where I’ll be doing a talk about journalist from a humanist perspective on the first of November…so it was great to chat about all things philosophical, and I thought wow, he’d make for a really wonderful podcast guest. He didn't disappoint.
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Julian Baggini links:
Life: A User's Manual: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Users-Manual-Philosophy-Eventuality/dp/1529104521https://twitter.com/JulianBagginihttps://www.julianbaggini.com/
Andrew Gold links:
http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_okhttp://andrewgoldpodcast.com -
Linda Calvey is known as the Black Widow, because all of her lovers ended up dead or in prison. Wikipedia has her down as an armed robber and murderer, and while she contests the latter, she did spend 18 years in Holloway Prison alongside such notorious serial killers as Myra Hindley and Rose West – names that strike fear into the hearts of most Brits who hear them – but people all the same that Linda had to share living spaces with, even giving Hindley a slap, before later having to do her hair.
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Linda Calvey links:
The Black Widow: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Widow-Crimes-Linda-Calvey/dp/0755310365The Locksmith (out now in paperback): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Locksmith-bravest-voice-fiction-Martina/dp/1787397556/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Andrew Gold links:
http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_okhttp://andrewgoldpodcast.com - Mostra di più