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CRITICAL THINKING / FREE WILL?

[5:06] Imagine a group of people. How big do you think the group would have to be before there’s more than a 50% chance th…

[6:55] Fear is a motivator—often, when we’re scared, we feel that we want to leave a situation. That so-called …

[13:29] When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world ̵…

[3:58] Is there really a big difference between expensive wine and cheap wine? Trace is joined by Nick Uhas to discuss wh…

[1:19:32] For all that Darwin contributed to our understanding of the biological world, he was haunted by one vexing qu…

[3:01] What do scientists mean when they call the laws and regularities of nature beautiful? On the largest supra-cosm…

[6:34] Humans naturally create stories and narratives, says Oliver Sacks. [Video and text source: Big Think YouTube c…

[4:31] There’s the morality we aspire to and the morality we play by day-to-day, says Ariely. [Video and text sou…

[6:44] Science is humankind’s magnificent achievement, the way of thinking to discern facts and truths and to r…

[10:10] Science is humankind’s magnificent achievement, the way of thinking to discern facts and truths and to …