Philosophy
One of the challenges many of Stephen Colbert's guests have, even those who are super educated and smart, is being able to deal with the speed of his wit and sophistry. Of course, philosophers from the time of Socrates have learned how to deal with sophistical arguments, so when neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland visited Stephen last week, what we got was just a lot of awesome fun and the always cool lessons about faithfulness and infidelity among voles :)
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