August 15, 2022
You go out in the world, armed with facts, and expect to change other people’s minds. But it turns out that minds are strangely resistant to changing. Why is that?
Thursday, August 18, at 7:00 p.m. ET, on the next Skeptical Inquirer Presents live online event, award-winning writer and podcaster Tamar Haspel will join us to explore how humans make decisions and why facts so often seem unpersuasive. The reasons can give us a handle on the polarization that surrounds us and are key to having better conversations with people who disagree with us.
Tamar Haspel writes the James Beard Award–winning Washington Post column “Unearthed,” which looks at how our diet affects us and our planet. She’s also written for Discover, Vox, Slate, Fortune, Eater, and Edible Cape Cod.
Haspel cohosts, with journalist Mike Grunwald, the Climavores podcast, which takes a good, hard, entertaining look at food’s impact on climate and environment. Her book To Boldly Grow is about the good things that happen when you roll up your sleeves, go outside, and get dirty in service of dinner. Getting food firsthand—through gardening, fishing, foraging, hunting—can make your dinner better, but its real power is that it can make you better. It’s the secret to successful self-improvement in a book reviewers are calling “hilarious” and “delightful.”
Free registration is required to take part in this live Zoom event, so sign up right now.