Giving the Devil His Due: a conversation with Michael Shermer & Brian Keating (#038)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Brian Keating Interviews Skeptic Magazine publisher and author of “Giving The Devil His Due” Michael Shermer. Get Michael Shermer’s Books here: GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE HEAVENS ON EARTH THE MORAL ARC: Find Show Notes and Links here Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the host of the Science Salon Podcast, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. For 18 years he was a monthly columnist for Scientific American. He is the author of New York Times bestsellers Why People Believe Weird Things and The Believing Brain, Why Darwin Matters, The Science of Good and Evil, The Moral Arc, and Heavens on Earth. His new book is Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist. Follow Michael on Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaelshermer and Brian Keating here: https://twitter.com/drbriankeating Michael regularly contributes opinion editorials, essays, and reviews to: the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Science, Nature, and other publications. He wrote 214 consecutive monthly columns for Scientific American. He appeared on such shows as The Colbert Report, 20/20, Dateline, Charlie Rose, Oprah, and Larry King Live (but, proudly, never Jerry Springer!). He has been interviewed in countless documentaries aired on PBS, A&E, Discovery, The History Channel, The Science Channel, and The Learning Channel. Dr. Shermer was the co-host and co-producer of the 13-hour Family Channel television series, Exploring the Unknown. His two TED talks, seen by millions, were voted in the top 100. Dr. Shermer received his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University, M.A. in experimental psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and his Ph.D. in the history of science from Claremont Graduate University. He has been a college professor since 1979, also teaching at Occidental College, Glendale College, and Claremont Graduate University, where he taught a transdisciplinary course for Ph.D. students on Evolution, Economics, and the Brain. Watch Michael Shermer discuss Losing the Nobel Prize with Brian Keating on SCIENCE SALON # 70 Topics discussed in this extended interview include: M Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic.
0:04.4	Five, four, three, two, one. on.
0:18.8	The Arthur C. Clark Center for Human Imagination into the Impossible Podcast
0:21.7	Inside of COVID quarantine, day, I think this is day 26 or something like that for the state of California, where Michael is.
0:31.0	You're up in Santa Barbara, Michael?
0:32.6	Yep.
0:33.9	So yeah, we've been under lockdown,
0:35.6	but we're trying to do some fun things
0:38.5	for the audience out there, keep everybody entertained
0:41.4	while this lasts, hopefully not too much longer.
0:43.7	I think this will be renamed the year of the Zoom or something.
0:46.8	We'll have to change the way we orchestrate these years.
0:50.6	But you know, you've written so many books, actually I think, you know the long you've written so many books actually I think you know with I can't see your hands but I assume you're writing another book as we're speaking because this is what you're 60 how many books have you written? Yeah 16 books if you can't the essay
1:04.2	collections and and edited volumes and so on I think it's 12 or 13 just solo
1:11.0	regular trade books like this.
1:13.0	Yeah, well, I've always wanted to be a writer.
1:16.7	I like writing.
1:18.1	I got to the point where if I don't do it, I feel anxious in the same way where you know I'm a long time lifelong
1:25.5	cyclist yeah competitive cyclists if I don't ride every day or work out every day
1:29.8	pretty much six seven days a week I start to feel anxious and it feels like that for me I
1:34.6	always like to have writing projects something such that when I'm consuming content
1:38.8	myself which I like to do like like like most of us now particularly in isolation you know just grinding through
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