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Today: #127 in Science on our combined chart.
Today: #127 in Science, United Kingdom on our combined chart.
Today: #107 in Science, Canada on our combined chart.
Today: #92 in Science, Australia on our combined chart.
Today: #93 in Science, Brazil on our combined chart.
Today: #64 in Science, New Zealand on our combined chart.
Today: #86 in Science, India on our combined chart.
Today: #66 in Science, Philippines on our combined chart.
Today: #69 in Science, South Africa on our combined chart.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts | Castbox |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21 | #127 | #111 | — |
| Oct 20 | #128 | #112 | — |
| Oct 19 | #121 | #97 | — |
| Oct 18 | #118 | #102 | #95 |
| Oct 17 | #100 | #73 | #83 |
| Oct 16 | #108 | #88 | #84 |
| Oct 15 | #111 | #93 | #98 |
Latest episodes
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350 - Pluralistic Ignorance
October 12, 2026 · 1 hr 24 minThere are several ways to define pluralistic ignorance, and that’s because it’s kind of a brain twister when you try to put it into words. Strange and harmful behavior can follow from the fact that, on certain issues, most people believe…
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349 - AI Risk - Jesse Richardson
September 28, 2026 · 1 hr 13 minJesse Richardson wants to improve our critical thinking about AI risk through the gamification of our rampant speculation. In this episode he explains AI safety isn't just one thing, there are a bunch of different risk profiles and each…
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348 - The Dress - Decoder Ring
September 14, 2026 · 44 minWe return to The Dress and the psychological lessons offered by one of the most viral moments in the history of the internet via an episode of Decoder Ring in which David McRaney shares some insights from his book, How Minds Change, with…
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347 - Under Alien Skies - Phil Plait
August 31, 2026 · 1 hr 10 minAstronomer Phil Plait joins us to discuss his new book, Under Alien Skies, in which he describes what it would be like (through human eyes and real physical experiences) to actually travel to Saturn, Mars, asteroids, and distant stars…
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346 - No Nocebo Effect - Helen Pilcher
August 17, 2026 · 60 minThe suffering is real, but the source may not be what you assume. That's the essence of the nocebo effect, the placebo effect's evil twin. As neuroscientist Dr. Helen Pilcher explains, illness is not simply a matter of biology. Our…
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345 - A Pox on Fools - Thomas Levenson
August 3, 2026 · 1 hr 6 minMIT professor Thomas Levenson, the author of the book A Pox on Fools, takes us through the same repeating patterns throughout history which have led to antivaxxers and vaccine hesitancy since the very first vaccines. Previous…
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344 - Intellectual Humility - Tenelle Porter
August 3, 2026 · 1 hr 8 minCan intellectual humility be measured? What influences it and affects it, limits it and enhances it? What even is it, scientifically speaking? We explore all of this and then play an episode of How to Be A Better Human featuring…
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343 - Misguided - Matthew Facciani
July 6, 2026 · 1 hr 9 minWhat is misinformation? How does it differ from disinformation or just plain ‘ole propaganda? How do we protect ourselves from people with nefarious intentions using all of these things to affect our thoughts, feelings, and behavior?…
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342 - The Conspiracy Theorist Who Changed His Mind
June 22, 2026 · 47 minTim Harford of the podcast Cautionary Tales sits down with David McRaney to hear a story from David's book, How Minds Change, about how (and why) a prominent conspiracy theorist realized he was wrong. Charlie Veitch was certain that 9/11…
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341 - Positive Rants - Heather Barnes
June 8, 2026 · 45 minCommunications professor Heather Barnes teaches us how to use what she learned teaching at Second City, managing the Museum of Science and Industry, and taking classes at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science to truly engage with…
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340 - Thinking Sideways - Jennifer Shahade
May 25, 2026 · 1 hr 3 minThere are more possible chess moves than atoms in the universe, and chess champion Jennifer Shahade tells us how we can borrow from the best chess players' decision-tree approach to avoid considering every possible option and instead…
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339 - Enlightened Disagreement
May 11, 2026 · 1 hr 29 minNorthwestern University just launched the Litowitz Center for Enlightened Disagreement, a real-world institution devoted to "research-backed approaches to cultivating open-mindedness, identifying one’s own cognitive biases, working…
About the show
You Are Not So Smart is a show about psychology that celebrates science and self delusion. In each episode, we explore what we've learned so far about reasoning, biases, judgments, and decision-making.