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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Peter McGraw: What makes things funny
[12:23] Pete McGraw is a leading researcher at the Humor Research Lab at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In this ta…
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Kenya’s Karate Grannies Master Self-Defense
[1:10] These women are fighting off rapists in the Korogocho slum in Nairobi. [Source: AJ+ You Tube channel] …
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Svend Brinkmann: How to Resist the Self-Improvement Craze
[57:18] The pace of modern life is accelerating, and the self-help shelves are groaning with advice on how to keep up – …
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