Jun 24, 2020
The disproportionate murder of people of colour by police forces, and poverty has triggered a series of Black Lives Matter protests around the world.
Are the police racist, or merely policing a structurally racist inequality?
Will the arrest of "a few bad apples" fix the problem?
Does "playing the race card" and...
May 17, 2020
The Beyond Binary team debates whether it's possible to be a conscious consumer, how evolutionary psychology, social media, and a desire to succeed and be conscious drive us all to be more conspicuous in our spending habits, and whether the scorn of this all is helpful. From Zizek to Kim Kardashian via Elon Musk,...
Apr 13, 2020
From harmless tales of Bigfoot and aliens, a mistrust of everything, and social media has mutated conspiracy theories into a monster. The Beyond Binary Thinking crew are joined by Jonny Miller to discuss how scientific illiteracy, skepticism, algorithms and echo chambers have us dying from preventable diseases, burning...
Apr 4, 2020
We invite knowledgeable and eloquent guests for a beyond binary
discussion, and we knew we'd outdone ourselves as soon as we
started talking with Philosopher Lewis Williams from our favourite
podcast Searching for It.
What followed was a free and open conversation, following the most
interesting tangents intersecting...
Mar 20, 2020
The current pandemic is so controversial, we had to abort our first attempt at recording this episode. It devolved into a pretty heated argument.
So we came back vaccinated against disinformation, and ready for a calmer, more entertaining discussion, on how skepticism in the face of social media clickbait, our stone-age...