The Portal Podcast #023: Prof. Agnes Callard – Courage, Meta-cognitive Detachment and Their Limits

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Philosopher and University of Chicago Professor Agnes Callard sits down with Eric on this episode of the portal. Agnes is a champion of the philosophical tradition of attempting to detach the capacity for inquiry and reason from the fog…

The Portal Podcast #022: Ben Greenfield – Wheat From Chaff in Human Fitness

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Eric sits down with leading fitness geek, guru, thinker and human guinea-pig Ben Greenfield to learn how one of the world's most highly regarded trainers and fitness experts cuts through the nightmare that is our medical literature.  The…

The Portal Podcast #021: Ashley Mathews (Riley Reid) – The Mogul & Brains Behind America’s Sweetheart

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Historically, fighting obscenity and indecency charges has always been a central part of the free speech movement. Jim Morrison, Mae West, Lenny Bruce and George Carlin have all been arrested for exciting the public in ways that authorities…

The Portal Podcast #020: Sir Roger Penrose – Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy

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Roger Penrose is arguably the most important living descendent of Albert Einstein’s school of geometric physics. In this episode of The Portal, we avoid the usual questions put to roger about quantum foundations and quantum consciousness.…

The Portal Podcast #019: Bret Weinstein – The Prediction and the DISC

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All of our Mice are Broken. On this episode of The Portal, Bret and Eric sit down alone with each other for the first time in public. There was no plan. There was however, a remarkable story of science at its both best and worst that…