We sit down with Brian Brushwood to discuss how he put together this most recent season of The World's Greatest Con, his podcast about incredible scams. This season is all about how two teenagers pulled off an incredible hoax called Project Alpha, a con job and a publicity stunt, meant to improve scientific rigor and methodology when it comes to studying the possibility of the existence of psychic phenomena.
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227 - Imaginable - Jane McGonigal
226 - The World's Greatest Con - Brian Brushwood
225 - Blindsight and Neuromarketing
224 - The Conversation Lab - Misha Glouberman
223 - To Persuade is Human?
222 - The Power of Surprise - Michael Rousell
221 - Conversations and Conversions at the Portable Planetarium
220 - A Very Short History of Life on Earth - Henry Gee
219 - Irrational Labs - Evelyn Gosnell
218 - Unwinding Anxiety - Jud Brewer
217 - Livewired - David Eagleman (rebroadcast)
216 - Shape - Jordan Ellenberg
215 - Jerks at Work - Tessa West
214 - Exploring Genius
213 - Vaccine Hesitancy
212 - The Power of Us - Jay Van Bavel
211 - QAnon and Conspiratorial Narratives
210 - Julia Shaw - The Memory Illusion (rebroadcast)
209 - Masks (rebroadcast)
208 - The Extended Mind - Annie Murphy Paul
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