Rationally Speaking #117 - Maria Konnikova on How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

Rationally Speaking Podcast

New York City Skeptics

Society & Culture, Skepticism, Science, Philosophy

4.6 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2014

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Want to learn how to use your logical, reflective side in everyday life? It's elementary, my dear listeners! Maria Konnikova, the author of the bestselling Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes is the special guest on this episode of Rationally Speaking. Konnikova has a Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University and writes about science for publications including the New Yorker, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and more. Julia and Massimo ask her for tips on Holmesian thinking, and debate her on questions like: Is your unreflective, "Watsonian" side really so bad? And did Sherlock make some mistakes in his famous quotes about thinking?

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0:00.0	Hey there, rationally speaking listeners. Come join me and Massimo for a live podcast taping in New York City on Sunday, September 28th at 2 p.m. Our special guest will be Steve Novella, and we'll all be talking about the scope of scientific skepticism. Basically, what's the state of the skeptic movement? What topics should we be focusing our energies on and what topics, if any, should we consider off limits to skeptical inquiry or activism?
0:24.6	The taping is free and open to the public, and there will be a Q&A with the audience afterwards.
0:29.2	You can find out more information on the New York City Skeptics website, nycceptics.org.
0:33.9	Hope to see you all there.
0:49.7	Thank you. Hope to see you all there. Rationally speaking is a presentation of New York City Skeptics dedicated to promoting critical thinking,
0:55.7	skeptical inquiry, and science education.
0:58.3	For more information, please visit us at NYCCEptics.org.
1:16.5	Welcome to Rationally Speaking, the podcast where we explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense.
1:18.4	I'm your host, Massimo Piliucci.
1:21.2	And with me, as always, is my co-host, Julia Galev.
1:23.3	Julia, what are we going to talk about today?
1:26.4	Massima, today I am pleased to welcome our guest.
1:45.1	Maria Konnikova is a science writer with a PhD in Psychology. She's been published in a bunch of publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, and more. She writes a weekly column for The New Yorker on psychology and science. And last year, she published her first book, Mastermind, How to Think sherlock Holmes which became a new york times bestseller rio welcome to the show thank you so much for
1:50.2	having me so maria i'm sorry go for it you first mastermind okay i'll go first age before beauty
1:57.8	uh wait a minute. Okay.
2:01.5	Fine.
2:02.1	I'll take it.
2:04.5	Also, because it's true.
2:08.9	So, Maria, I'm a big Sherlock Holmes fan.
2:12.9	I have read all of the canon and, in fact, more than once.
2:20.7	And I, of course, also read outside of the canon and watched movies and the series, including the current one, the BBC with Benedict Camberbatch.
2:22.6	So I was really excited about this thing.
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