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80: Guantanamo's Most Tortured Prisoner: Mohamedou Ould Salahi Nov 08, 2021

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Today, we’ve got a classic On the Edge interviewee, in the form of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who was detained in Guantanamo Bay for 14 years and is considered by some to be Guantanamo’s most tortured prisoner. Raised in the African country of Mauritania, before moving to Germany, Mohamedou was suspected of having links to terrorism after 9/11.
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78: True Crime 2: Swedish Killer Twin Sisters Oct 31, 2021

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In the second episode of our Halloween trilogy, Dr. Sohom Das explains what really went on in the minds of Swedish twin sisters Ursula and Sabina Eriksson, who terrified motorists, before one of them killed a man.
Dr. Sohom Das links:

A Psych for Sore Minds YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU2T2mo13y0&ab_channel=APsychForSoreMinds
http://www.drdas.co.uk
https://twitter.com/Dr_S_Das

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79: True Crime 3: The Broadmoor Cannibal Oct 31, 2021

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In our final installment of the three Halloween Specials, Dr. Sohom Das takes us into the mind of the Broadmoor Cannibal, Peter Bryan.
Dr. Sohom Das links:

A Psych for Sore Minds YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU2T2mo13y0&ab_channel=APsychForSoreMinds
http://www.drdas.co.uk
https://twitter.com/Dr_S_Das

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77: True Crime 1: Anders Breivik Oct 31, 2021

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Journalist Andrew Gold and forensic psychiatrist Dr. Sohom Das from A Psych for Sore Minds take a look inside the minds of perpetrators in three scary and fascinating true crime cases. We start with Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people - the most ever fatalities by a single gunman.
Dr. Sohom Das links:

A Psych for Sore Minds YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU2T2mo13y0&ab_channel=APsychForSoreMinds
http://www.drdas.co.uk
https://twitter.com/Dr_S_Das

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76: Why you're hung larger than a gorilla - Dr. Chris Ryan Oct 29, 2021

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He’s back! It’s part 2 with podcaster and evolutionary sex expert Dr. Chris Ryan, author of Sex at Dawn and Civilized to Death. He writes all about the way societal expectations have been encroaching on our natural ways of doing things, particularly sex, but much much more. Today, we’ll be looking at the human penis, and comparing it to those of other monkeys and such things.
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Chris Ryan links:

https://chrisryanphd.com/category/tangentially-speaking/
Tangentially Speaking podcast: https://podfollow.com/566908883
Sex at Dawn book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sex-Dawn-Stray-Modern-Relationships/dp/1491512407
Civilized to Death book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Civilized-Death-What-Lost-Modernity/dp/1451659105
https://twitter.com/ThatChrisRyan
https://www.instagram.com/thatchrisryan

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76: How our ancestors REALLY had sex - Dr. Chris Ryan Oct 25, 2021

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Today I have one of the biggest names to ever grace the stage of this podcast, in the form of Chris Ryan. Chris is known for many things, but is perhaps most notable for his book Sex at Dawn, which he co-wrote with his partner Cacilda Jethá. It challenges the conventional views on sex by diving deep into our ancestors’ history. It provides a fascinating look at hunter gatherers, and what we were once like.
Chris Ryan links:

https://chrisryanphd.com/category/tangentially-speaking/
Tangentially Speaking podcast: https://podfollow.com/566908883
Sex at Dawn book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sex-Dawn-Stray-Modern-Relationships/dp/1491512407
Civilized to Death book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Civilized-Death-What-Lost-Modernity/dp/1451659105
https://twitter.com/ThatChrisRyan
https://www.instagram.com/thatchrisryan

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75: Virtue Signalling, Courage & Death: Julian Baggini (Philosopher) Oct 18, 2021

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I met acclaimed philosopher Julian Baggini in Bristol for a coffee upon first arriving in the city, and it was a pleasure. Julian is a member of the Bristol Humanist Society, where I’ll be doing a talk about journalist from a humanist perspective on the first of November…so it was great to chat about all things philosophical, and I thought wow, he’d make for a really wonderful podcast guest. He didn't disappoint.
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Julian Baggini links:

Life: A User's Manual: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Users-Manual-Philosophy-Eventuality/dp/1529104521
https://twitter.com/JulianBaggini
https://www.julianbaggini.com/

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74: Black Widow: 'Prison with Myra Hindley for murder I didn't do' Oct 11, 2021

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Linda Calvey is known as the Black Widow, because all of her lovers ended up dead or in prison. Wikipedia has her down as an armed robber and murderer, and while she contests the latter, she did spend 18 years in Holloway Prison alongside such notorious serial killers as Myra Hindley and Rose West – names that strike fear into the hearts of most Brits who hear them – but people all the same that Linda had to share living spaces with, even giving Hindley a slap, before later having to do her hair.
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Linda Calvey links:

The Black Widow: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Widow-Crimes-Linda-Calvey/dp/0755310365
The Locksmith (out now in paperback): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Locksmith-bravest-voice-fiction-Martina/dp/1787397556/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

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73: Our dead loved ones are still out there in spacetime - astronomer Colin Stuart Oct 04, 2021

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I’ve been determined to find someone who could explain TIME in a really digestible and easy to understand way, as though I’m a child. That man is Colin Stuart, whose book Time: Ten Things You Should Know is out now in all the usual places. I devoured it in just a few days, which would seem like the blink of an eye to someone standing near a black hole.
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Colin Stuart links:

Time: 10 Things You Should Know: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Things-You-Should-Know/dp/1841884928
https://twitter.com/skyponderer
https://www.colinstuart.net

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72: Do genes and eugenics cause inequality?: Dr. Paige Harden Sep 27, 2021

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Today on the show is the real gene Jeanie, as David Bowie would put it, Dr. Kathryn Paige Harden. Not only does she go by Paige, but her book The Genetic Lottery is a real page turner. See what I did there? The book, which is out now, is causing controversy for its focus – or Paige’s focus – on the effects DNA has on equality.
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Dr. Harden links:

The Genetic Lottery: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190808/the-genetic-lottery
https://twitter.com/kph3k
New Yorker Article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/can-progressives-be-convinced-that-genetics-matters

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