Dangerous Ideas

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Wisconsin Public Radio

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4.7 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The atom bomb's ability to kill people makes it a literal dangerous idea. But there are other kinds of dangerous ideas -- ideas that are contrary, counterintutive and just plain unconventional. It's that kind of dangerous idea that we explore in this hour. Anatomy of a Dangerous Idea; Listener Dangerous Idea on Black Education; The Harm of Coming Into Existence; Dangerous Idea: Your Child is Not a Special Snowflake; Listener Dangerous Idea on Mythmaking; Chuck Palahniuk Talks Dangerous Writing; Listener Dangerous Idea on Teaching.

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0:00.0	Support for WPR comes from People's Food Co-op of La Crosse and Rochester, offering a wide selection of local and organic flour, sugar, butter, and other supplies for all your holiday baking needs. PFC.C. C OOP.
0:18.5	It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Champs.
0:21.6	There are good ideas, bad ideas, and then there are dangerous ideas.
0:30.0	Fasten your seat, bills.
0:31.9	It's going to be a bumpy night.
0:35.9	I said I wish I'd never been born I'd rather not have existed
0:39.3	I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
0:47.3	Dangerous ideas
0:49.3	A billion husbands are about to be replaced
0:53.3	Oh The intellectual thrill Sex. A billion husbands are about to be replaced. Oh, oh.
0:56.0	The intellectual thrill ride of the year.
0:59.0	Dangerous.
1:00.0	Ideas.
1:01.0	So what makes an idea dangerous?
1:06.0	They could kill people. The atom bomb was certainly a dangerous idea.
1:14.6	It could unleash people.
1:16.6	Think of what voting rights and vibrators did for women.
1:19.6	Or it could just challenge conventional wisdom.
1:22.6	Over the past year, we've aired dozens of dangerous ideas from contributors.
1:26.6	Today, we're going to of dangerous ideas from contributors.
1:28.8	Today, we're going to hear some of yours.
1:34.7	But first, a few years back, Harvard's rock star cognitive psychologist Stephen Pinker suggested asking a whole bunch of leading scientists and thinkers one question.
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