We see it in thrillers like SPLIT, but does it ever happen in real life? Are there people in this world with multiple personalities? And if so, what does it take to fracture a mind?Covered Topics: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Multiple Personalities, Alters, Billy Milligan, Zoo Man of Knoxville, David Chalmers, Hard Problem of Consciousness, Douglas Hofstadter, Panpsychism, Thales of Miletus, Joseph DeAngeloFurther Reading: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/could-multiple-personality-disorder-explain-life-the-universe-and-everything/https://www.thecut.com/2015/11/blind-woman-had-10-personalities-some-could-see.htmlhttps://www.mentalfloss.com/article/91244/5-criminals-who-claimed-have-multiple-personalities.https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/crazy-not-insane-did-ted-bundy-have-multiple-personalityhttps://www.dispatch.com/article/20071028/NEWS/310289729https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAPPzmRb4r0https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shadow-boxing/202005/the-zoo-man-murdershttps://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/huskey-thomas.htmhttps://ndpr.nd.edu/news/philosophy-of-personal-identity-and-multiple-personality/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-07/david-chalmers-and-the-puzzle-of-consciousness/8679884 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

50 years ago this week, 4 students were killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State. But nobody can agree on who fired first. And the only man who knows the truth is a car salesmen who lives on a mountain. Covered Topics: Kent State, Terry Norman, National Guard, Kent State Shootings, My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, Pontius Pilate, Objective Truth, Friedrich Nietzsche, Eugene Wigner, Massimiliano Proietti, Perspectivism, Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, William SchroederFurther Reading:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y5cftds7-8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN7PUy8ZrQEhttps://www.sciencealert.com/watch-how-repetition-creates-an-illusion-of-truthhttps://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40129https://web.archive.org/web/20080516080032/http://www.tbo.com/life/kentstate.htmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Normanhttps://dks.library.kent.edu/cgi-bin/kentstate?a=d&d=dks20101116-01.2.2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R9QROhm1Sk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When I was a reporter, I got the chance to talk to a man after he died. If you're close enough to someone, perhaps you're carrying a little piece of them inside you. Jump in and let's get weird.Covered Topics: Joe Kupchik, Optography, Wilhelm Kuhne, Erhard Reif, Elva Heaster, Douglas Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach, Recursion, Edgar Allan Poe, Maura MurrayFurther Reading:https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/oh-joseph-kupchik-19-cleveland-12-feb-2006.113513/https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30608/elva-zona-heaster-ghost-who-helped-solve-her-own-murderhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jReX7qKU2ychttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-consciousness/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadterhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201912/how-our-loved-ones-live-after-deathhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWZ2Bz0tS-s Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What is reasonable doubt? Can it be defined? Who does it really help?Covered topics: Caylee Anthony, Reasonable Doubt, Standard of Proof, William Blackstone, Victor V. Nebraska, Rene Descartes, Cartesian DoubtFurther Reading:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvIdgW74LCkhttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-crime-anthony-reaction/anthony-verdict-a-victory-for-reasonable-doubt-experts-say-idUSTRE7646U820110705http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2011/07/nancy_grace_explains_what_the.htmlhttps://abcnews.go.com/US/casey_anthony_trial/casey-anthony-juror-jury-sick-stomach-guilty-verdict/story?id=14005609https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD3rqRwPPckhttps://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/supreme-court-nonunanimous-juries-oral-argument.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/15/magazine/split-jurors.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Not all those who wander are lost. Most of us fantasize about started a new life somewhere. Few of us succeed.Covered Topics: Maura Murray, John List, Patrick McDermott, John J. Nazarian, Evan Ratliff, Alan Watts, Ken Lay, Plato, David HumeFurther Reading:https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trqDnLNRuSc&t=312shttps://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-18-mn-3671-story.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Listhttps://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/list-john-emil.htmhttp://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2009445_2009447_2009502,00.htmlhttps://medium.com/@ephromjosine/after-the-death-of-jeffery-epstein-its-time-we-revisit-ken-lay-69ea22f41545https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/07/07/225351/-Ken-Lay-escapes-life-conviction-by-faking-his-deathhttps://www.wired.com/2009/11/ff-vanish2/https://www.wired.com/2009/08/gone-forever-what-does-it-take-to-really-disappear/https://www.alanwatts.org/life-of-alan-watts/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Wattshttps://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/08/24/alan-watts-this-is-it/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7ufX3VaTJc Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn about the "Mean World Syndrome" and how the world is actually safer than you think.Topics: Mean World Syndrome, George Gerbner, Logical Fallacies, Aristotle, Serial Killer's ApprenticeFurther reading:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndromehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gerbnerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-0E4qHqZ5ohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacyhttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/the-rise-of-mean-world-syndrome-in-social-media/article21481089/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/oscars-la-la-land-moonlight-arab-muslim-actor-audition-terrorist-i-am-done-a7595261.htmlhttps://www.cleveland.com/metro/2010/01/gun_bullets_knives_pulled_from.htmlhttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/05/the-man-who-counts-the-killings/376850/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/obituaries/george-gerbner-86-researcher-who-studied-violence-on-tv-is-dead.htmlhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-citys-murder-rate-hit-new-low-in-2018-11546559793https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/10/17/facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/https://www.txstate.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definitions/Equivocation.htmlhttps://www2.palomar.edu/users/bthompson/Secundum%20Quid.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qb-h0sXkH4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When a crime is committed, a clock begins to tick. If you're not charged before time runs out, you can never be prosecuted. But why?Topics Covered: Ted Conrad, Demosthenes, Statute of Limitations, Phormion, Bill Cosby, Andrea Constand, John Demjanjuk, Amnesty, Thirty Tyrants, Critias, Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, Charles Griswold, Amy MihaljevicFurther Reading:https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1107&context=facpubshttps://www.cleveland.com/metro/2008/01/theodore_john_conrad_the_fbi_h.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlT5Ez_Hfaohttps://people.com/crime/who-is-andrea-constand-bill-cosby-accuser/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/forgiveness/https://www.cleveland.com/crime/2019/10/east-cleveland-event-gives-job-seeking-residents-convicted-of-non-violent-crimes-chance-to-apply-for-amnesty-or-expungement.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The world has changed. A new tool has been created to solve the coldest cases. And if we're not careful, it'll be taken away from us in a heartbeat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the record, police rarely admit to using psychics to solve crimes. But a surprising number of detectives often consult with soothsayers to discover new leads. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the United States, we still execute prisoners for a variety of crimes. We are one of the last civilized societies to do so. Why is capital punishment so popular, here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.