Jimmy Carr & Joe Rogan: The Jester & the Khan
Joe Rogan, the Great Khan of podcasting, is once again receiving a travelling jester at court. This time it is Jimmy Carr who arrives bearing gifts: pop evolutionary psychology, dubious history factoi...
17 Aug 2h 54min
Lab Leak Groundhog Day: COVID Origins in 2026 with Worobey, Andersen, and Holmes
With the Trump administration’s newest political persecution of Anthony Fauci and three years after our first lab-leak special, now seemed like a useful time to return to the topic. Fortunately, you d...
10 Aug 1h 44min
Supplementary Material 53: Matthew the Succulent, Bin-faced Politicians, and Very Very Tired Economists
We endure the ravages of time to deliver you this exhausted Supplementary Material. Bowed but never broken, the decoders persist.The full episode is available to Patreon subscribers (Full Episode: 2hr...
21 Jul 31min
Supplementary Material 52: Under-Optimized Academics, Tired Economists, and Bailiwick Clarifications
Two absolutely shattered academic heroes heroically drag themselves through yet another supplementary episode to bring you the important guru news in between their restorative breaks.The full episode ...
9 Jul 22min
Decoding Academia 36: Revenge of the Chimpanzees *Patreon Series*
In this Decoding Academia episode, we venture into comparative psychology, focusing on a fascinating line of work by Fumihiro Kano and colleagues on social intelligence and theory of mind in great ape...
8 Jul 27min
Professor Jiang, Part 2: Cosmic Jiang's Jenga Tower of Bullshit
We return for Part 2 of our coverage of “Professor” Jiang, the internet’s favourite new geopolitical prophet, secondary-school sage, and proud owner of an ever-expanding box of educational props. Havi...
3 Jul 1h 31min
Professor Jiang, Part 1: Geopolitical Pantomime
On Decoding the Gurus, we regularly get to hear a lot of truly “high-level” ideas, but the much-requested subject of this episode’s decoding is up there with the best of them. We are talking, of cours...
30 Jun 2h 32min
Supplementary Material 51: Parasitic Palate Cleansers, Selective Understanding, and the "Context"
We exercise good faith and grapple with the ever-versatile context window in this unintentionally thematic episode.Supplementary Material 51 The full episode is available to Patreon subscribers (Full ...
20 Jun 31min
