Podcast – Sam Harris with Robert Sapolsky: The Biology of Good and Evil
[1:38:27] In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Robert Sapolsky about his work with baboons, …
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Robert Sapolsky on Life and Free Will
[10:39] Robert Sapolsky tackles the contemplation of how a future world would react when accepting that we do not h…
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Robert Sapolsky: The Neuroscience Behind Behavior
[55:50] Robert Sapolsky is an American neuroendocrinologist and author. He is currently a professor of biology, and p…
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Robert Sapolsky: 3 Brain Systems That Control Your Behavior: Reptilian, Limbic, Neo Cortex
[7:37] [Video and text source: Big Think YouTube channel]…
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Robert Sapolsky on Oxytocin and Bonding
[3:40] Robert Sapolsky discusses oxytocin and it’s role in bonding. [Video and text source: JRE Clips YouTube c…
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Robert Sapolsky: Why You Don’t Have Free Will: Your Breakfast Food, Biology, and Culture
[3:35] ‘Societal conditioning’ might sound like either a grim Orwellian brainwashing technique or a fa…
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Robert Sapolsky: The biology of our best and worst selves
[15:51] How can humans be so compassionate and altruistic — and also so brutal and violent? To understand why we d…
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Robert Sapolsky: Religion Is Nature’s Antidepressant
[3:17] Of all the strange things that humans have come up with, almost none is stranger—nor more pervasive across sep…
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Robert Sapolsky: Being Human
[36:59] What makes us human? World renowned neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky explores one of the most fundamental ques…
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Robert Sapolsky: The Neuroscience of Lies, Honesty, and Self-Control
[5;26] So when we look at the world’s ills one of the biggest sources of it is us failing to do the right thing when it’s …
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