Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy has been blamed for the rise of Nazism. In this video, we explore how his ideas may have contributed to the rise of the Nazi party in a fascinating interview with professor of philosophy Stephen Hicks. Stephen R. C. Hicks is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, Illinois, USA, Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, and Senior Scholar at The Atlas Society. * He has six books: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Scholargy Publishing, 2004; Expanded Edition, 2011) Nietzsche and the Nazis (Ockham’s Razor, 2010) The Art of Reasoning: Readings for Logical Analysis (co-edited with David Kelley, W. W. Norton & Co., 1994, second edition 1998) Entrepreneurial Living (co-edited with Jennifer Harrolle, CEEF, 2016) Liberalism Pro and Con (Connor Court, 2020) Eight Philosophies of Education (co-authored with Andrew Colgan, forthcoming 2023) * His writings have been translated into seventeen languages: Portuguese, Spanish, German, Korean, Persian, Serbo-Croatian, Polish, Swedish, Hindi, Russian, Ukrainian, Cantonese, French, Hebrew, Estonian, Urdu, and Arabic. * He has published in academic journals such as Business Ethics Quarterly, Teaching Philosophy, and Review of Metaphysics, as well as other publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Cato Unbound. * In 2010, he won his university’s Excellence in Teaching Award. * He has been Visiting Professor of Business Ethics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Visiting Professor at Jagiellonian University, Poland, Visiting Fellow at the Social Philosophy & Policy Center in Bowling Green, Ohio, Visiting Fellow at Harris Manchester College at Oxford University in England, Senior Fellow at The Objectivist Center in New York, and Visiting Professor at the University of Kasimir the Great, Poland. * He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Guelph, Canada, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.

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In this episode, Pedro and Marta talk with Nick Pope, a freelance British journalist, media commentator and former civil servant. Whilst an employee at the British Government's Ministry of Defence (MoD), Pope was responsible, among other duties, for investigating UFO phenomena to determine if they had any defence significance..

From 1991 to 1994 he researched and investigated UFOs, alien abductions, crop circles and other strange phenomena, leading the media to call him the real Fox Mulder. His government background and his level-headed views have made him the media, film and TV industry's go-to guy when it comes to UFOs, the unexplained and conspiracy theories.

As the world's leading expert on UFOs, Nick Pope has consulted on, and helped to promote a number of alien-themed movies, TV shows and video games. He has presented, consulted on and contributed to numerous TV shows, has written five best-selling books, and lectures all around the world.

Nick Pope lives in America.

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In this episode, Pedro and Marta talk with Richard Grannon, famous youtuber and author, about what narcissim is and how it is to deal with a narcissistic relationship.

Richard Grannon is passionate about helping others defend themselves, get back on their feet, and finally free themselves from narcissistic abuse. Drawing on numerous forms of psychotherapy, including NLP, cognitive behavioral therapy, zen meditation, psychodynamics, and more, Grannon's unique methodology offers a direct, practical solution to help narcissistic abuse victims reclaim their self-worth.

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In this episode, Pedro and Marta discuss with Jennifer Sciubba how sex, death and migration shape our current world.

Jennifer D. Sciubba is an internationally recognized expert in the field of demographic security. In addition to numerous academic articles, she is the author of 8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World (2022) and The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security (2011), and the editor of A Research Agenda for Political Demography (2021). Dr. Sciubba is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is Vice Chair of the Population Reference Bureau’s Board of Trustees. She is currently a 2022-2023 Wilson Center Fellow, formerly a tenured professor in the Department of International Studies at Rhodes College, one of the country's leading liberal arts colleges. Dr. Sciubba is also affiliated with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She has trained at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and worked for the US Department of Defense (Policy) on demographic and environmental issues. She received her Ph.D. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland and her B.A. from Agnes Scott College (Phi Beta Kappa).

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In this episode, Pedro and Marta discuss with Lee McIntyre about how to combat science deniers, such as anti-vaxxers, flat earthers or conspiracy advocates.

Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and a recent Lecturer in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). He has taught philosophy at Colgate University (where he won the Fraternity and Sorority Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching Philosophy), Boston University, Tufts Experimental College, Simmons College, and Harvard Extension School (where he received the Dean’s Letter of Commendation for Distinguished Teaching). Formerly Executive Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, he has also served as a policy advisor to the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard and as Associate Editor in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

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Named by TIME magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World,” Dean Karnazes has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits. Among his many accomplishments, he has run 50 marathons, in all 50 US states, in 50 consecutive days. He’s run across Death Valley in the middle of summer, and he’s run a marathon to the South Pole.

On ten separate occasions he’s run a 200-mile relay race solo, racing alongside teams of twelve. His list of competitive achievements include winning the World’s Toughest Footrace, the Badwater Ultramarathon, and winning the 4 Deserts Challenge, racing in the hottest, driest, windiest and coldest places on earth.

A NY Times bestselling author, Dean is a frequent speaker and panelist at many running and sporting events worldwide.

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Kate is a biochemist building synthetic cells. Her research aims at understanding the chemical principles of biology, and use artificial cells to create new tools for bioengineering, drug development, and basic research. The interests of the lab span questions from the origin and earliest evolution of life, using synthetic biology to colonize space, to the future of biotechnology and medicine.

She received an MSc in chemistry from the University of Warsaw, Poland, studying synthetic organic chemistry. In grad school, she worked with professor Pier Luigi Luisi from University Roma Tre and Jack Szostak from Harvard University. She studied RNA biophysics, small peptide catalysis, and liposome dynamics, in an effort to build a chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution. Kate's postdoctoral work in Ed Boyden's Synthetic Neurobiology group at MIT focused on developing novel methods for multiplex control and readout of mammalian cells.

Her full first name spells Katarzyna; she goes by Kate for the benefit of friends speaking less consonant-enriched languages.

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In this episode of YOLOTalks Anastacia Marx de Salcedo defends that exercising has a way bigger impact on health than dieting has. She has applied this and claims that she has kept her multiple sclerosis diagnosis at bay for over 13 years by practicing vigorous exercise.

Anastacia Marx de Salcedo  is a nonfiction writer and the author of two books, Eat Like a Pig, Run Like a Horse and Combat-Ready Kitchen: How the U.S. Military Shapes the Way You Eat, also published in Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese. Her essays and articles have appeared in the Atlantic, Salon, Slate, Vice, and on PBS and NPR blogs. She has worked as a public health consultant, news magazine publisher, and public policy researcher. She was born in New York City, graduated from Columbia University, and lives in Boston.

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