How Racist Are You? – Jane Elliott’s Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise
[47:00] These 30 people have never met. By the days end, they may wish they never had. For one long day they’ll be at …
MORESusan Blackmore: Fighting the Fakers (and Failing)
[30:44] Susan Blackmore is a psychologist and writer researching consciousness, memes, and anomalous experiences, …
MOREThe Ideas of Socrates
[10:55] In this lecture we examine the ideas of Socrates. We look at his exhortation to ‘care for your soul’…
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[3:59] WARNING: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE. Elevator scene from the film Revolver (2005) Jake and his ego have a fight. One of t…
MORESteven Pinker and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: The long reach of reason
[15:23] Here’s a TED first: an animated Socratic dialog! In a time when irrationality seems to rule both politic…
MOREV.S. Ramachandran: Illusions, delusions and the brain
[1:25:14] This lecture by Prof. V.S. Ramachandran (University of California, San Diego) will focus on body image and m…
MOREMichael Shermer: Baloney Detection Kit
[14:40] With a sea of information coming at us from all directions, how do we sift out the misinformation and bogus claim…
MOREThe Future of God Debate
[1:51:06] A fascinating debate where Sam Harris and Michael Shermer debate on the side of reason. [Source: AllSamHarr…
MOREWho Says Science has Nothing to Say About Morality?
[1:17:11] Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins discuss Who Says Science has Nothing to Say About Morality? Source: Richard D…
MOREHealth Claims: Cluster bluster
[7:01] We’ve seen that what we perceive and remember is literally shaped by our experiences and expectations. T…
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