On this week’s episode of Stay Tuned, “Consciousness & COVID Ethics,” Preet answers listener questions about Republican-appointed judges, Dr. Fauci’s blocked testimony, and John Bolton’s inapropos tell-all book. Then, Preet is joined by Sam Harris, neuroscientist, author, and host of the Making Sense podcast, to explore the nature of consciousness and the awakened mind. 

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THE Q&A:“Rules of Procedure United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary,” Senate Judiciary CommitteeOral Arguments in Judiciary Committee v. Don McGahn, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, En Banc, 4/28/2020Paul Kane and Seung Min Kim, “Trump’s judicial nominee clashes with Democrats over his comments critical of health care law,” Washington Post, 5/6/2020Quint Forgey, “Trump Says Fauci Will Testify Before Senate, Blasts ‘House’ Set-Up,” Politico, 5/5/2020Preet’s Retweet of Michael Isikoff’s Bolton Book Update, Twitter, 5/4/2020

THE INTERVIEW:Sam Harris, the Making Sense PodcastSam Harris, the Waking Up AppSam Harris, Waking Up: Spirituality Without Religion, Simon & Schuster, 2014 Andrew Anthony, “Sam Harris: The New Atheist With a Spiritual Side,” The Guardian, 2/16/2019 

MEDITATION:Sam Harris, “Mindfulness Meditation,” YouTube, 2015Caren Osten Gerszberg, “My Week of ‘Noble Silence’,” New York Times, 12/6/2019“Sam Harris Explains Why There’s No Free Will,” Inside the Hive with Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 10/25/2019

COVID-19Sam Harris and Paul Bloom, Making Sense Episode #198, 3/16/2020Chris Conover, “How Economists Calculate The Costs And Benefits Of COVID-19 Lockdowns,” Forbes, 3/27/2020Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Tweet on Price of Human Life, Twitter, 3/24/2020Jennifer Merceciera, “When Trump says he was being ‘sarcastic,’ it’s just part of his gaslighting,” Washington Post, 4/25/2020

GENETICS:Charles Murray and Sam Harris, “Forbidden Knowledge,” Making Sense, 4/22/2017Ezra Klein and Sam Harris, “The Sam Harris-Ezra Klein Debate,” Vox, 4/19/2018Sam Harris, “Ezra Klein: Editor-at-Large,” SamHarris.org, 3/27/2018

THE BUTTON: Heather Roney, Twitter, 4/4/2020McKinley Corbley, “3D-Printing Teen Makes Hundreds of Ingenious Devices to Alleviate Ear Pain for Healthcare Workers,” Good News Network, 4/23/2020Betty Nguyen, “Brooklyn teen making 3D-printed face shields for NYC hospitals amid COVID-19 crisis,” PIX11, 4/23/2020Tameem Akhgar, “Ventilator from old car parts? Afghan girls pursue prototype,” AP News, 4/19/2020Brent Crane, “The High Schooler Who Became a COVID-19 Watchdog,” The New Yorker, 3/20/2020

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