Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
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Why People Believe Weird Things Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
Total Duration: 3:28
Faced with the rapid changes and anxieties of modern life, many people are turning to the alluring comforts of pseudoscience and the occult. In Why People Believe Weird Things, Michael Shermer explores the very human reasons we find these otherworldly phenomena, conspiracy theories, and cults so appealing.
In this program, Shermer shows how the eternal search for meaning and spiritual fulfillment often results in our thinking being led astray by extraordinary claims and controversial ideas-particularly in the realms of superstition and the supernatural.
A compelling portrait of our immense capacity for self-delusion, Why People Believe Weird Things celebrates the scientific spirit and the joy to be found in rationally exploring the world's greatest mysteries, even if many of the questions remain unanswered.
At 9a.m on 31st December a man gets onto the packed escalator of a metro station and fires a silenced machine gun through a paper bag. In the confusion, he escapes without being spotted. A note is delivered to the mayor of Washington, D.C. demanding $20 million. If no payment is made, the writer will instruct the gunman to strike again at 4p.m., 8p.m. and midnight. The mayor decides to pay up. But then a man is killed in a hit and run accident – his fingerprints match the prints on the note. With the brains behind the operation dead, there’s no way of stopping the gunman from killing again, and again, and again...
The Singing Butler by Alexis Zegerman and Ron Butlin. BBC Radio, Arts & Drama.
Радиоспектакль BBC "Поющий дворецкий" по пьесе Alexis Zegerman и Ron Butlin.
Забавная история о мужчине и женщине, танцующих на незащищённом от ветра пляже, в то время как их дворецкий и горничная прилагают все усилия, чтобы оградить пару от неприятностей.
An imagining of the story behind Jack Vettriano's famous image of a man and a woman dancing on a windswept beach while their butler and maid do their best to shield the pair from the elements.
160 kbps, Stereo, 50,3 mb, 44 min.
Well, That's One Way of Looking at It by Brenda Gilhooly. BBC Radio, Arts & Drama.
Радиоспектакль BBC "Хорошо, это единственный способ посмотреть на это" по пьесе Brenda Gilhooly.
Три различных интерпретаций (жены, мужа и его любовницы) одной и той же ситуации.
A wife, a husband and his mistress show just how differently three people can interpret the same situation.
160 kbps, Stereo, 50,1 mb, 44 min.
Deepak Chopra, «Escaping the Prison of the Intellect: A Journey from Here to Here»
This recording shows why Deepak Chopra is considered one of the great
pioneers in the field of mind-body medicine. Here he offers compelling
answers to the eternal questions of identity, origin, and meaning.
Chopra's thesis is that people rely on their senses to define their
experience of reality — limiting their experience of the material world
and making them prisoners, out of touch with realities that lie beyond
the material. He explains that there is no difference between observer
and observed; it is all one shared experience. Realizing this truth,
says Chopra, frees people from their sensory-created prison to
experience a more nurturing and fulfilling life.
The author's calm, uplifting voice gives these ideas heft and power,
and his inclusion of relaxed guitar interludes let listeners pause to
contemplate more deeply. Chopra expands the discussion by citing T. S.
Eliot, Nietzsche, Rumi, Tagore, and Patanjali, as well as scientific
experiments and spiritual texts.
