Plato’s best (and worst) ideas
[4:48] Few individuals have influenced the world and many of today’s thinkers like Plato. He created the first Weste…
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New York City’s Placebo Buttons and The Post Hoc Fallacy
[1:22] Placebo buttons surround you, pretending to do your bidding, learn more about things like this in You Are Now Les…
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Hector Avalos: Religion & Violence
[54:49] A New Theory for an Old Problem Professor of religious studies at Iowa State University, Dr. Hector Avalos spea…
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Watch The Dots Disappear
[1:00] If you focus very carefully on the blinking red dot in the center of the spinning circle, you will notice somethin…
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Rodolfo Llinás: Is the Person All Material?
[11:13] What makes a human a ‘person’? What provides our sense of unity and continuity? While most assume …
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25 Things Psychology Tells You About Yourself
[8:32] There are few things in existence more fascinating than the human mind. In fact, apart from the depths of space, i…
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Richard Clarke: How some people predict disasters before they happen
[10:09] Noticing a pattern emerge in the aftermath of some of the worst catastrophes in recent years—like Hurricane …
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Jonathan Haidt: What Capitalism Does to Us…And for Us
[1:40:37] Dr. Jonathan Haidt presentation for the John H. Schnatter Center for Free Enterprise at the University of Lo…
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Alex Haslam: The Psychology of Tyranny: Did Milgram Get It Wrong?
[17:49] Professor Alex Haslam’s work reviews the famous Milgram’s experiment to show how tyranny and obedience a…
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