Steve Jones: Evolution of humans
[12:48] A quick lesson by Steve Jones on natural selection. [Video and text source Serious Science You Tube channel]…
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David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness: 300 years on
[1:59:10] In this lecture David Chalmers considers a progress in solving the mind-body problem, outlines contempora…
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Us vs Them: Immigration, Empathy and Psychology
[4:43] ALL OF US ORIGINALLY STARDUST and then millions of years of evolution later and here we are as humans with our clos…
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Paul Bloom: Against Empathy
[2:49] Paul Bloom, psychologist and Yale professor, argues that empathy is a bad thing—that it makes the world worse…
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Do Humans Have Mating Dances?
[3:32] Dance is often associated with romance, but can it actually make us feel closer? And why do we even dance in the fir…
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Daniel Dennett: How Human Consciousness Evolved
[6:45] Daniel Dennett has been mulling consciousness over for the last 50 years, and he’s ended up where we began: evo…
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Boy With Mystery Condition Is Worshipped As A God
[2:53] A SIX-YEAR-OLD Indian boy is worshiped by locals who believe he is the reincarnation of the Hindu god Ganesha. Pr…
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Jonathan Haidt: Why Do We Disagree Politically?
[53:13] Politics can be divisive. There is an ‘us,’ and there is a ‘them.’ Author Jonathan H…
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The Master: How Scientology Works
[8:38] FAITH BASED BELIEVERS STATING THEIR CASE in polite phone conversation / debate often say to me “Allow peo…
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Doug Kevilus: Stuck in Patterns – How Your Mind Fools You Every Day
[15:57] YOU SIMPLY ARE NOT IN CONTROL….. of your thoughts….. The lucky thing is that most of the automatic …
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