PHILOSOPHY – David Hume
[11:05] David Hume is one of Scotland’s greatest philosophers. His claim to greatness lies in his appreciation of or…
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Check your intuition: The birthday problem
[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…
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Tali Sharot: Why We Fear What We Can’t Control: Airplanes, Hospital, Old Age
[6:55] Fear is a motivator—often, when we’re scared, we feel that we want to leave a situation. That so-called …
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Workshop: Taking on Woo in Martial Arts
[1;28:42] This 1.5 hour workshop presented outside of the main TAM programming features SF Zeigler, David Jones, Bren…
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Ben Goldacre: What doctors don’t know about the drugs they prescribe
[13:29] When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world ̵…
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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…
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Planet of the Humans: The Leap to the Top
[1:19:32] For all that Darwin contributed to our understanding of the biological world, he was haunted by one vexing qu…
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The Paradox of Prayer: Why Praying Is Pointless
[3:15] Certain types of prayer are almost certainly futile. This is plain to see when we consider the purpose of prayer a…
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Fotini Markopoulou: How Does Beauty Color the Universe?
[3:01] What do scientists mean when they call the laws and regularities of nature beautiful? On the largest supra-cosm…
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Oliver Sacks on Humans and Myth-making
[6:34] Humans naturally create stories and narratives, says Oliver Sacks. [Video and text source: Big Think YouTube c…
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