Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives
[18:39] Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, wheth…
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The power of the placebo effect
[4:37] The placebo effect is an unexplained phenomenon wherein drugs, treatments, and therapies that aren’t suppo…
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Sam Harris: The Self is an Illusion
[6:52] Sam Harris describes the properties of consciousness and how mindfulness practices of all stripes can be used t…
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Tim Urban: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator
[14:03] Tim Urban knows that procrastination doesn’t make sense, but he’s never been able to shake his ha…
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CRITICAL THINKING – Cognitive Biases: Mental Accounting
[3:36] The psychologist Laurie Santos (Yale University) explains the phenomenon of mental accounting: why we don…
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CRITICAL THINKING – Cognitive Biases: Pricing Biases
[3:40] Laurie Santos (Yale University) examines how people’s economic choices tend to confuse price and value…
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Eastern Philosophy – Lao Tzu
[5:29] Lao Tzu (老子 Lǎo zi, 6th century BC) was one of the most famous Chinese philosophers. Not much is known of the d…
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Quirkology: Stare at the dot!
[1:16] A quirky optical illusion from Richard Wiseman which makes a black and white image seem like it is colour. [Sourc…
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Quirkology: The Floating cork
[1:19] Richard Wiseman presents another quirky optical illusion. [Source: Quirkology YouTube link]…
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James Randi: Secrets of the Psychics Documentary
[54:17] James “The Amazing” Randi is the perfect mix of Science and Magic, a true conjurer of visual machi…
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