Very Bad Wizards

Science Podcasts

Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each...

Episodes

The Lotus Eaters Episode 7: Lying Odysseus [unlocked]

Episode 340: The Sublime Folly of Hope

The Lotus Eaters Episode 6: Psyches [unlocked]

The Lotus Eaters Episode 5: Circe, Cyclops, and Psychedelics (Oh My!)

Episode 339: On Hating and Despising Philosophy

The Lotus Eaters Episode 4: I Am Odysseus [unlocked]

The Lotus Eaters Episode 3: The Halfway House to Humanity [unlocked]

The Lotus Eaters Episode 2: Intangible as Wind

The Lotus Eaters Episode 1: The Journey Begins

Episode 338: The Lotus Eaters (Nolan's "The Odyssey")

Episode 337: First Contact? (Tarkovsky's "Solaris")

Episode 336: That Oceanic Feeling (Stanisław Lem's "Solaris")

Episode 336: The Wright Stuff

Let's Get Metaphysical

Episode 333: P-hacking the Mind

Episode 332: Talking to Myself ("The Other" by Jorge Luis Borges)

Episode 331: Who's Your Law Daddy? (Plato's "Crito")

Episode 330: A Fact-Based Podcast (Gogol's "The Overcoat")

Episode 329: Why We Suffer

Episode 328: Weapons Free