Besides having sex for pleasure and cooking food before ingestion, there is one other way in which humans differentiate from the rest of the animal kingdom: our big, believing brains. Michael Shermer, ...

Patt Morrison delves into an hour of science with Scientific American columnist and Skeptic Society founder Michael Shermer. Together they delve into the innermost places in the brain, where it turns ...

For fifteen years, Michael Shermer has written a column for Scientific American magazine that synthesizes scientific concepts and theory for a general audience. His trademark combination of deep ...

"We have the answer: 2013," Michael Shermer told the 500 attendees of his lecture "Why People Believe Weird Things" given at Augustana College Thursday. "The Mayan calendar comes to an end exactly ...

SPEARFISH | From crop circles to global warming, from conspiracy theories to out-of-body experiences, Michael Shermer is ready to question the status quo. Shermer will speak at Black Hills State ...

Skeptic Magazine founder and New York Times best-selling author Michael Shermer talks about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., climate change, doomer attitudes, the state of the media, and conspiracy theories, in ...

One of my favorite sites is the Skeptic put out by Michael Shermer. Shermer used to race bicycles in his youth and had a role in organizing what has now become the premier cross-country bike race, the ...

Science or religion: which is responsible leading us into a more moral world? Today we speak with Michael Shermer who argues in his new book,The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity Toward ...

If you’d been born a few thousand years ago, before the invention of the state, every decade you’d have stood a 1-in-20 chance of a violent death. Today, your skull might be on display in a museum ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Michael Shermer is a Founding Publisher for the Skeptic Magazine with 24 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1999 Forum as an Executive Director for ...