Sift

Series produced by Bishop Sand

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Sift sorts through deep topics with the help of people who routinely run into them. Ideas and stories run through physics, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, economics, anthropology and common-sense.

Each episode breaks down the deeper ideas that shape our way of thinking about ourselves and the rest of the world. Both expert and non-expert guests are asked similar questions. Their answers are stitched together in a collage of discussion and sound. In between episodes, 'Sift Shorts'-- smaller independent pieces (5-15 minutes) that didn't make their way into the episode--are available .


24 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
Paradoxes
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Paradoxes - What are they? What do they mean? How should we think about them? Experts weigh in.

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 36:09
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The Liar Paradox
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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This paradox resists a solution and inspires major advances from Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing.

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 08:50
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The Three Card Monte
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Should we resolve inconsistent beliefs... or let them be?

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 08:00
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The Twin Paradox
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Step into the weird world of relativity as we walk through the Twin Paradox with help from some great physics teachers.

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 09:03
  • Purchases: 2
Schrödinger's Cat
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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We dive into the Schrödinger's Cat paradox and ask what it reveals about the nature of quantum mechanics and physics in general.

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 09:48
  • Purchases: 2
Exiting
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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How does death shape our behavior? Why do we grieve? How do we cope? What do we fear? and how can we accept our own exiting? Experts share their th...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 42:30
  • Purchases: 1
Callous
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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In this short episode we hear about a terrifying phlebotomy experience and the callouses doctors must develop to protect themselves from death.

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 2
Euthanasia
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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A Vet describes a euthanasia and we wonder how we should consider human euthanasia.

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 09:11
  • Purchases: 1
Biological Death
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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We consider an unusual understanding of death - a biological one. Prof. Tyler Volk describes organisms tuning their lifespan to their surroundings,...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 1
A Buddhist's Obsession
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Michelle discovers Buddhism through a friend's death and tries to improve her mental control.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 08:18
ALS
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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We’ve all gone through some grief. Daniel faces a very different kind because his father has ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). Daniel talks about his tho...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 15:55
  • Purchases: 1
Causation 1
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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In this episode we attempt to define causation - a concept that is central to the way we think.

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 13:46
  • Purchases: 1
Innate Cause
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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How engrained is cause in our psyche? ... and in our fields of study? Experts and experiments explain.

  • Added: Sep 30, 2011
  • Length: 28:06
Levels of Cause
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Cause and effect seems so easy to grasp but is often slippery when we think about it in detail. In this show, we hang on to the slippery topic and ...

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 29:49
  • Purchases: 1
The Sound of Chaos
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Why can’t you predict the weather in a few days in advance? In this short, we explore the fundamental unknowable nature of chaotic systems. Then we...

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 14:51
  • Purchases: 1
Top-Down Cause
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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We stroll through the history of causal thought in medicine (and science) and entertain an alternative approach that is getting some traction in ph...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2011
  • Length: 12:08
  • Purchases: 2
Define Life
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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What is life? In the first installment of our "origin of life" topic, hear various attempts to define life and ponder the life of the internet.

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 14:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Size of Life
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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How small and how large can life be? Hear scientists consider various answers to these questions and even attempt to convince you that life can be ...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2012
  • Length: 10:49
  • Purchases: 2
Origin Stories
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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We all want to explain our origins. Hear a greek origin myth alongside our modern scientific origin stories. Then take a step back to realize that ...

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2012
  • Length: 17:31
  • Purchases: 2
Origins Research Motives
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Life is everywhere and we have a tough time killing it when sending our spacecraft off to Mars. However, in the lab, life is elusive. We look at th...

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  • Added: Aug 26, 2012
  • Length: 15:03
  • Purchases: 2

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