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Step into a universe of sharp wit and deep insights with Fascinating! , where your host Rik from Planet Vulcan explores the dominant narratives shaping our world. Through the lens of evolutionary thinking, Fascinating! deconstructs conventional wisdom on economics, social justice, morality, and more. Each episode cuts through the noise of collective illusions—what Rik calls ecnarongi (ignorance backwards)—and exposes the pervasive hangover of pre-Darwinian thought patterns, often seen in the form of intelligent design or deus ex machina thinking. This outdated framework extends far beyond theistic religion, influencing everything from economic systems to societal structures. Fascinating! offers an intellectually stimulating and often humorous exploration of ideas. If you're ready to see the world through fresh eyes, tune in for conversations that provoke, inform, and enlighten.
Rik hosts Fascinating!: Deconstructing Conventional Wisdom to See the World with New Clarity, a education show with 84 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Protestant Christianity split into many different sects following the big split with the Roman Catholic Church, with the salutary result that oppression by religious authorities, while still a problem wi
Send us Fan Mail Slime mold has been a subject of discussion on the podcast since Season 1. Senior contributing editor Prego de Nada originally used slime mold, aka physarum, as an example of spontaneous emergent order i
Send us Fan Mail Science journalist Ronald Bailey, who is also a trained economist, continues his career of debunking predictions of impending doom, which he began in his 1993 Book "Ecoscam", which demonstrated that pred
Send us Fan Mail Contributing editor Slainte na Zdorovya submits an essay on the much-discussed and widely applicable Dunning-Kruger effect, focusing on its relevance to the theme of evolutionary thinking that is the the
Send us Fan Mail Playing and having fun is a widely observed phenomenon amongst many of Earth's creatures. Why did it evolve? Why do some creatures play and others do not? Contributing editor Prego de Nada has looked int
Send us Fan Mail A review of the 16 podcast essays, and one interview, from Season 5. Hopefully you will find some of the short descriptions in the recap sufficiently interesting so that you will listen to them in their
Send us Fan Mail If you have bought a recent model automobile, you have undoubtedly noticed that you do not have the option of steering the car without some "help" from robot-assisted lane tracking. There is no setting t
Send us Fan Mail In a first for the Fascinating! series, we present an interview. The interviewee is Cary Gray, an up-and-coming young Earthling friend of mine. Cary is first and foremost a poet, and that is his passion.
Send us Fan Mail Frederic Bastiat was an economist and essayist who lived and wrote in France in the early 1800's. He came to prominence at the age of 43 because of his satirical takedown of producers who were arguing fo
Send us Fan Mail Although Marx's labor theory of value has been thoroughly trashed by Occam's razor and no longer enjoys any intellectual respectability, it still persists in the form of a quasi-religious dogma, kept ali
Send us Fan Mail This essay was inspired by a quote from the eminent scientist Edward O. Wilson, the man who coined the term "sociobiology" and wrote a book with that title. The quote was: "The real problem of humanity i
Send us Fan Mail Leviathan is the title of a book written in 1651 by the Englishman Thomas Hobbes during the English Civil War and the Thirty Years War, in which Hobbes argued that in the absence of a powerful sovereign
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Rik calls attention to a very special Earthling, Richard Feynman. Feynman's contributions to the science of physics by itself were enough to place him in the same category as Albert Eins
Send us Fan Mail Thomas Henry Huxley is known to history as "Darwin's bulldog" for his powerful advocacy of Darwinian thinking while Darwin's ideas were being attacked and even ridiculed by those in the entrenched religi
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, senior contributing editor Prego de Nada continues his queries with the chatbot about the evolution of Chinese civilization as Taoism and Confucianism, two opposing philosophies, each fo
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, the first of a two-part series, senior contributing editor Prego de Nada proposes to demonstrate some interesting parallels between the philosophy stemming from Darwinian evolutionary th
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Rik from Planet Vulcan examines the concept of a living wage, something that, incredibly, many otherwise intelligent Earthlings seem to believe is a good idea! Those who advocate living
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Rik from Planet Vulcan reports on the ongoing research into the behavior of Physarum, aka slime mold. The behavior of slime mold is an awe-inspiring and humbling example of the evolved w
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Rik from Planet Vulcan reviews the collaborative effort of Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel to pitch their scheme of confiscatory taxation in their new book, in the name of the nebulous
Send us Fan Mail The short answer to this question is "no". Listen to this episode for details. The Federal Reserve Bank (the "Fed") stands as an example of the collateral messiness, and the distortions, that inevitably
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