Sam Harris: The brain
[2:43] Sam Harris discusses the brain in reference to the afterlife. [Video source: Morphing Reality YouTube channel…
MORE
Hugo Mercier: The Function of Reason
[6:54] Many of us believe our capacity to reason helps us to acquire knowledge and make better decisions – but wha…
MORE
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…
MORE
Robert Speth: So there is no free will. Now what?
[12:18] With the sequencing of the human genome and advances in neuroscience, along with discoveries in the fields of e…
MORE
Lawrence Krauss: Why Schools Should Teach Skepticism Above Obedience
[5:37] “You can can get more information in your cell phone now than you can in any school, but you can also get more misi…
MORE
Eliezer Yudkowsky: Heuristics and Biases
[42:47] [Video and text source: Skepticon YouTube channel]…
MORE
Does Expensive Wine Really Taste Better?
[3:58] Is there really a big difference between expensive wine and cheap wine? Trace is joined by Nick Uhas to discuss wh…
MORE
Michael Shermer: Why people believe weird things
[14:11] THE EGO – A natural process NOT TO BE CRITICIZED, that helps humanity be critical of others individually …
MORE
Steven Sloman: The Knowledge Illusion
[6:41] How have we achieved so much despite understanding so little? Whilst individuals know very little, the collect…
MORE
Stacy Smith: The data behind Hollywood’s sexism
[15:44] Where are all the women and girls in film? Social scientist Stacy Smith analyzes how the media underrepresents …
MORE