Aporia Podcast

Torill Kornfeldt is a Swedish science journalist, author and speaker focusing on biology and biotechnology. She is the author of two books. The first, The Re-Origin of Species, discusses the reconstruction of extinct animals using gene modifications. However, in this conversation we mostly speak about Torill’s second book, The Unnatural Selection of Us. We talk about the power of CRISPR, why China is winning the tech race, designer babies, longevity, and the obligatory mention of Jurassic Park.   My links:   Substack: https://ideassleepfuriously.substack.com  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep  Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep

Nicholas Colangelo is a world-famous scholar in gifted education. He is the author of numerous articles on counselling gifted students and acceleration. He has edited three editions of the Handbook of Gifted Education. He co-authored the famous national report “A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America’s Brightest Students.  My links:   Substack: https://ideassleepfuriously.substack.com  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep  Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep

What you’re about to watch or listen to is my most important podcast so far. Today I’m speaking with Zac Kriegman.  Zac is a former director of data science at Thomson Reuters, perhaps the world’s most important news organisation. He’s a former director because he was fired after sharing research on the company's internal social media platform showing that American police killed more unarmed white people than black people as a proportion of the population. This wasn’t just one statistic thrown carelessly into a group chat. Zac compiled a 12,000 word report with the rigour you’d expect from a director of data science earning 350,000 a year. In that report, he also pointed out that the Black Lives Matter movement are probably responsible for the deaths of thousands. He also noted Thomson’s biased coverage when it came to BLM.  As you can imagine, several outspoken white knights pounced on Zac’s bravery. And soon he was no more. Zac is obviously taking legal action and you can support him in that fight, too. This case really is a litmus test for America and the western world. A billion people read or see Reuters news every day. And as you’re about to hear, they aren’t exactly getting the impartiality Reuters claim to offer.   Apologies for the slight hiss on the recording today, but without further ado, I give you my most important guest to date: Zac Kriegman. Zac's Substack: https://kriegman.substack.com/ My links:   Substack: https://ideassleepfuriously.substack.com  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep  Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep

John Jost talks about his childhood, education, cowboys and Indians, the psychology of political conservatism and system justification, the horseshoe theory of political orientation, ideological asymmetries, political polarization, capitalism, fear of socialism, the existence of racial microaggressions, being misunderstood by the left and the right, and the work of Ezra Klein, Mahzarin Banaji, Joshua Greene, Kurt Gray, Dan Kahan, Jonathan Haidt, and Jordan Peterson.   My links:   Substack: https://ideassleepfuriously.substack.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep  Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep

Peter is a Visiting Research Associate at King's College London and a PhD candidate at Sheffield University. He is a multi-award-winning author for Bloomsbury Education and author and editor for Crown House Publishing on The Philosophy Foundation Series of books. He is a commissioning editor for The Philosophers' Magazine.  Peter read philosophy at University College London and Birkbeck College, completing his MA in 2004. He has been working with children in education since 1993 and has been doing philosophy with children since 2002. To read more about him and his work, click here:  https://www.philosophy-foundation.org/executive-officers My links:   Substack: https://ideassleepfuriously.substack.com  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep  Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep

Emil Kirkegaard is a social scientist and prominent blogger focussing on a range of topics deemed controversial (and therefore interesting), from intelligence, to crime and migration. He publishes a very popular blog and Substack (links below). https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/  https://kirkegaard.substack.com/  My links:   Substack: https://ideassleepfuriously.substack.com  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep  Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep

Bo Winegard received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Florida State University in 2018 under the supervision of Professor Roy Baumeister. Winegard became an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Marietta College in 2018; he was fired in 2020. In this podcast, Bo shares his story. We talk about all things controversial in psychology and much, much more.  You can find Bo's writing here: https://quillette.com/author/bo-winegard/ If you'd like to subscribe to my Substack and learn about giftedness, stupidity, and other interesting things: https://ideassleepfuriously.substack.com If you'd like to get your name in the credits, early access to videos, livestreams, and private Zoom calls, you can support the show on Patreon from just $1:  https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep

John Zerzan (born August 10, 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist ecophilosopher and author. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocates drawing upon the ways of life of hunter-gatherers as an inspiration for what a free society should look like. Subjects of his criticism include domestication, language, symbolic thought (such as mathematics and art) and the concept of time.  His six major books are Elements of Refusal (1988), Future Primitive and Other Essays (1994), Running on Emptiness (2002), Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections (2005), Twilight of the Machines (2008), and Why hope? The Stand Against Civilization (2015).   ------------   If you'd like to subscribe to my Substack and learn about giftedness, stupidity, and other interesting things: https://ideassleepfuriously.substack.com   If you'd like to get your name in the credits, early access to videos, livestreams, and private Zoom calls, you can support the show on Patreon from just $1:  https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep  TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep

Jason Miller is an American communications strategist, political adviser and CEO, best known as the chief spokesman for the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign and transition of Donald Trump. He was a Senior Adviser to the Trump 2020 re-election campaign. In March 2021, Miller became a contributor for Newsmax. Miller left his position as Trump's spokesman in June 2021 to become the CEO of GETTR, a micro-blogging social network with a conservative user base.

Ed Dutton is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at Asbiro University in Poland. Find out more about him here: https://edwarddutton.com/  If you'd like to subscribe to my Substack and learn more about giftedness, stupidity, and other interesting things: https://ideassleepfuriously.substack.com  If you'd like to get your name in the credits, early access to videos, livestreams, and private Zoom calls, you can support the show on Patreon from just $1:  https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep  Twitter:  https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep