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Crisis in Perception
Crisis in Perception is a long-form educational podcast examining how we misunderstand the world around us. Using books as entry points, each episode explores history, psychology, economics, science, and power structures to reveal how systems actually work—and why our perceptions so often fail. Clear, evidence-based, and non-tribal. Crisis in Perception uses AI-assisted tools for narration and synthesis in service of long-form educational analysis.
Episodes
Crisis in PerceptionUltimate Physics: From Quarks to the Cosmos — The Collapse of Objective Reality
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American Editors This episode explores Ultimate Physics…
Crisis in PerceptionMars: A New Era of Exploration — The Contamination Paradox of Mars
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American This episode explores Mars: A New Era of…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Science of Elections — Why Rational Voting Breaks
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American This episode explores The Science of Elections by…
Crisis in PerceptionInspired! The Science of Creativity — Why Genius Requires Breaking the Brain’s Filters
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Editors of Scientific American This episode explores Inspired! The…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Showman — Why Modern Wars Depend on Attention More Than Firepower
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Simon Shuster This episode explores The Showman by Simon Shuster as a…
Crisis in PerceptionIn Concert: How Music Affects the Brain — Why Music Rewires Perception
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American / Scientific American editors This episode…
Crisis in PerceptionTruth, Lies, and Technology — Why Falsehood Spreads Faster Than Truth
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American This episode explores Scientific American’s…
Crisis in PerceptionScientific American: The Math of Life — Why More Data Can Produce Worse Predictions
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American Editors This episode explores Scientific American…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Origins of Humanity — Why Human Survival Depends on Outsourced Intelligence
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Editors of Scientific American This episode explores The Origins of…
Crisis in PerceptionChallenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space — Why Warnings Failed
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Adam Higginbotham This episode explores Challenger: A True Story of…
Crisis in PerceptionEveryone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis — The Border as Blowback
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Jonathan Blitzer This episode explores Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here…
Crisis in PerceptionLatinoLand — The System Behind America’s Invented Identities
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Marie Arana This episode explores LatinoLand by Marie Arana as a…
Crisis in PerceptionPaper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order — Trust as Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Saleha Mohsin This episode explores Paper Soldiers: How the…
Crisis in PerceptionA Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America — The Myths Dividing America
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Richard Slotkin This episode explores A Great Disorder: National Myth…
Crisis in PerceptionEbola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus — The Ecology Behind Outbreaks
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: David Quammen This episode explores Ebola: The Natural and Human…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Despot’s Apprentice — Why Democracies Depend on Unwritten Rules
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Brian Klaas This episode explores The Despot’s Apprentice by Brian…
Crisis in PerceptionScientific American June 2020: Coronavirus Special Report — Why Lean Systems Collapse
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American This episode explores the coronavirus material…
Crisis in PerceptionIn My Own Way — Why the Self May Be a Social System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Alan Watts This episode explores In My Own Way by Alan Watts as a…
Crisis in PerceptionBuddhism: The Religion of No-Religion — Why the Ego Cannot Fix Itself
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Alan Watts This episode explores Buddhism: The Religion of No-Religion…
Crisis in PerceptionGrowth: A History and a Reckoning — Who Steers the Economy?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Daniel Susskind This episode explores Growth: A History and a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence — The Brain’s Hidden Systems
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Carl Sagan This episode explores The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan as…
Crisis in PerceptionScientific American: Reproductive Rights — When Biology Collides With Legal Systems
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American Contributors This episode explores this 2024…
Crisis in PerceptionFluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters — The System Behind Randomness
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Brian Klaas This episode explores Fluke by Brian Klaas as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Furies — Why Systems Punish Unauthorized Survival
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Elizabeth Flock This episode explores The Furies by Elizabeth Flock as…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, AOC, and the Rise of the New Left — The System Behind Institutional Distrust
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Joshua Green This episode explores The Rebels by Joshua Green as a…
Crisis in PerceptionOur Moon — Why Earth’s Stability Depends on a Hidden System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Rebecca Boyle This episode explores Our Moon by Rebecca Boyle as a…
Crisis in PerceptionSuperfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex — Why “Natural” Thinking Distorts Reality
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Dr. Joe Schwarcz This episode explores Superfoods, Silkworms, and…
Crisis in PerceptionLimits of the Known — The System That Eliminated the Unknown
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: David Roberts This episode explores Limits of the Known by David…
Crisis in PerceptionSing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water — The Hidden Infrastructure of the Ocean
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Amorina Kingdon This episode explores Sing Like Fish by Amorina…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Introvert Advantage — Why Modern Institutions Reward Extroverts
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Marti Olsen Laney This episode explores The Introvert Advantage by…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Light Eaters: How the Unseen Intelligence of Plants Shapes Our World — The System We Couldn't See
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Zoë Schlanger This episode explores The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger…
Crisis in PerceptionRacism: Confronting Injustice, Bias and Inequality — The System Behind Neutrality
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American This episode explores Racism: Confronting…
Crisis in PerceptionUnderstanding Violence — Why Threat Systems Produce Aggression
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American This episode explores Understanding Violence by…
Crisis in PerceptionGuantánamo Diary — When Intelligence Systems Manufacture Their Own Reality
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Mohamedou Ould Slahi This episode explores Guantánamo Diary by…
Crisis in PerceptionHit ’Em Where It Hurts — Why Emotional Politics Outperforms Rational Debate
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Rachel Bitecofer This episode explores Hit ’Em Where It Hurts by…
Crisis in PerceptionWhy Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms? When My Lab Tests Are Normal — The System Behind “Normal”
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Dr. Datis Kharrazian This episode explores Why Do I Still Have Thyroid…
Crisis in PerceptionConquering Your Agoraphobia — When Safety Becomes Behavioral Imprisonment
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Mona Woodford This episode explores Conquering Your Agoraphobia by…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Joy of Living — Why Survival Systems Quietly Manufacture Suffering
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche This episode explores The Joy of Living by…
Crisis in PerceptionTrump’s War on Capitalism — The System Behind America’s Debt Illusion
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: David Stockman This episode explores Trump’s War on Capitalism by…
Crisis in PerceptionAI in Education — When Schools Measure Artifacts Instead of Thought
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: USC Center for Generative AI and Society This episode explores AI in…
Crisis in PerceptionLive Longer with AI — Why Healthcare Profits More From Disease Than Health
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Tina Woods This episode explores Live Longer with AI by Tina Woods as…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Character of Consciousness — Why Brain Maps Don’t Explain Experience
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: David J. Chalmers This episode explores The Character of Consciousness…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Mole People — When the Underground Becomes the Safer System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Jennifer Toth This episode explores The Mole People by Jennifer Toth…
Crisis in PerceptionHuberman Lab: Neuroscience Protocols — The System Behind Motivation Collapse
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Andrew Huberman This episode explores Huberman Lab content by Andrew…
Crisis in PerceptionDopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence — Why Pleasure Creates Pain
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Anna Lembke This episode explores Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke as a…
Crisis in PerceptionSuperagency: What Could Possibly Go Right? — Why Scarcity Makes AI Inevitable
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato This episode explores Superagency: What…
Crisis in PerceptionComing of Age at the End of Nature — Why Environmental Systems Repeat Failure
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Julie Dunlap and Susan A. Cohen This episode explores Coming of Age at…
Crisis in PerceptionEndurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery — Why Survival Systems Break Humans
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scott Kelly This episode explores Endurance by Scott Kelly as a…
Crisis in PerceptionNever Panic Early — Why survival systems require you to ignore your instincts
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Fred Haise This episode explores Never Panic Early by Fred Haise as a…
Crisis in PerceptionFailure Is Not an Option — Why unreliable systems require human override
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Gene Kranz This episode explores Failure Is Not an Option by Gene…
Crisis in PerceptionPacking for Mars — Why the Human Body Becomes the Limiting System in Space
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Mary Roach This episode explores Packing for Mars by Mary Roach as a…
Crisis in PerceptionLimits to Growth: The 30-Year Update — Why Systems Overshoot Before They See Limits
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Donella Meadows, Jørgen Randers, Dennis Meadows This episode explores…
Crisis in PerceptionA Brief History of Neoliberalism — Why Crisis Strengthens the System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: David Harvey This episode explores A Brief History of Neoliberalism by…
Crisis in PerceptionHow Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature — The System That Stays Invisible
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: George Monbiot This episode explores How Did We Get Into This Mess? by…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Wolf: Culture, Nature, Heritage — The System Behind Human–Nature Conflict
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Edited Collection (2023) This episode explores The Wolf: Culture…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Patient Will See You Now — The System Behind Medical Authority
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Eric Topol This episode explores The Patient Will See You Now by Eric…
Crisis in PerceptionYou’ve Been Played — Why Gamification Becomes Behavioral Control
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Adrian Hon This episode explores You’ve Been Played by Adrian Hon as a…
Crisis in PerceptionOrigin: A Genetic History of the Americas — Why Science Rejects Its Own Evidence
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Jennifer Raff This episode explores Origin: A Genetic History of the…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Hunt for Vulcan — Why Systems Preserve Themselves Over Truth
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Thomas Levenson This episode explores The Hunt for Vulcan by Thomas…
Crisis in PerceptionSurvival of the Nicest — Why systems built on selfishness collapse
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Stefan Klein This episode explores Survival of the Nicest by Stefan…