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Skeptic Check: Your Inner Lab Coat

Big Picture Science

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

ENCORE Sherlock Holmes doesn’t have a science degree, yet he thinks rationally – like a scientist. You can too! Learn the secrets of being irritatingly logical from the most famous sleuth on Baker Street. Plus, discover why animal trackers 100,000 years ago may have been the first scientists, and what we can learn from about deductive reasoning from today’s African trackers. Also, the author of a book on teaching physics to your dog provides tips for unleashing your inner scientist, even if you hated science in school. And newly-minted scientists imagine classes they wish were available to them as grad students, such as “You Can’t Save the World 101.” Guests: Louis Liebenberg - Co-founder and Executive Director of Cybertracker Conservation, associate of human evolutionary biology, Harvard University Maria Konnikova - Psychologist, journalist and author of Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. Her weekly blog on psychology is at com. Chad Orzel - Physicist and astronomer at Union College, and author of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog and Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist And newly-minted scientists Michael Kemp, Toni Lyn Morelli, Ilona Kotlewska, and Yonatan Lipsitz First released February 9, 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You're listening to an airwave media podcast.

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The corporate world is like the ocean.

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It's alluring, but it's also full of deadly creatures that can shredd you to pieces.

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It becomes kind of like a game of

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throne's political arena where everyone's trying to

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murder you to get your job.

0:17.3

My family doesn't come from corporate background,

0:19.2

so I didn't have any sort of guidance in that.

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This is not your typical work podcast.

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Sometimes you need to be empathetic.

0:25.4

And then there are times that you ask for input,

0:27.4

but you don't really give a shit.

0:28.8

Listen to the Amby Award Nominated Podcast,

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surfing corporate.

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What is the yoga class?

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