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[4:13] Have you ever felt unsatisfied with the explanation of a strange event? Find out why we often come up with and beli…
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[4:54] Psychologist and writer Maria Konnikova looks at the mechanisms of human nature that have allowed con artists, …
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[7:57] It took me 8 months to learn how to do this, but I was only picking up the bike and running to the end of the driveway an…
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[5:47] Have you ever wondered how accents work? Tune in to this episode of BrainStuff to find out about the ever-evolvin…
MOREIn Search of Human Uniqueness
[1:45:54] Speakers: Professor Michael Tomasello, Professor Rita Astuti, Dr Alex Gillespie Chair: Professor Sandra …
MOREMichael Tomasello – What Makes Us Human?
[3:11] “What makes us really different is our ability to put our heads together and to do things that neither one o…
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[15:57] YOU SIMPLY ARE NOT IN CONTROL….. of your thoughts….. The lucky thing is that most of the automatic …
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[8:57] Agriculture and the domestication of animals 10,000 years ago in the Near East creates larger communities and n…
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[1:41] Today, the word “meme” is typically used to describe a funny photo with text that gets passed aroun…
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[1:05:26] Lecture given during The Shalem Center’s Psycho-ontology Conference, December, 2011. Philosophe…
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