Rationally Speaking #128 - 5th Anniversary Live Show

Rationally Speaking Podcast

New York City Skeptics

Society & Culture, Skepticism, Science, Philosophy

4.6 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2015

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This episode marks the fifth anniversary of the Rationally Speaking podcast! To commemorate the occasion, Massimo and Julia hold a live-streaming Q&A in which they respond to questions submitted via Twitter. Topics include: What's the best book to read to improve your rationality? What's the biggest problem with the skeptic community? How can we get politicians to be reasonable? And how can you be so sure that other people exist? Halfway through the show, Massimo makes a surprising and poignant announcement.

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0:00.0	Hey there, rationally speaking listeners. Get your tickets today for the seventh annual nexus.
0:05.7	That's the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism, being held in New York City this April 9th through 12th.
0:12.4	The keynote speaker is Bill Nye, and he'll also be the guest star on The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, Skeptical Extraravaganza, a two-hour stage show being held on the
0:21.8	evening of April 10th. We've got lots of great speakers and panels lined up for the rest of the
0:27.1	weekend, not to mention a live taping of the Rationally Speaking podcast. Looking forward to seeing
0:32.5	you there, get your tickets today at www. nexus.org. That's n-c-s-s-s. That's necSS.org. See you there. Rationally speaking is a presentation of New York City Skeptics
0:57.2	dedicated to promoting critical thinking,
0:59.8	skeptical inquiry, and science education.
1:02.4	For more information, please visit us at explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense. I am your host, Massimo Piliuchi, and with me as always is my co-host, Julia Galev. Julia, what is it that we're up to today?
1:30.5	So I don't really know what we're gonna talk about today, Massimo,
1:33.8	because today, in honor of the fifth anniversary
1:38.2	of the rationally speaking podcast,
1:39.8	we are trying a little experiment.
1:41.7	I know, woohoo!
1:43.5	So we're streaming live right now. This is a Google Hangout, and it's being broadcast on YouTube as well. We're doing an unstructured Q&A live episode. So we'll be, we're following our Twitter account right now at RS Podcast on Twitter. And we've invited all of our listeners to
2:04.0	submit questions to us on Twitter that we will then answer at our discretion live on the show.
2:10.2	This could be dangerous.
2:12.0	Yeah. It's an experiment. We'll see. So because it's live, you know, people can ask
2:16.6	follow-ups or, you know, challenge us on our answers to various questions, unlike having people submit questions in advance.
2:24.8	Splend it.
2:25.6	So this is going to be fun.
2:26.4	And also, just to advise our listeners, there's going to be a somewhat major announcement you think about halfway, maybe through the podcast or something like that.
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