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[6:36] With Mother Teresa’s recent canonization, what better time to examine her life! [Video and text source:…

[3:53] Humans have a number of unusual traits that set us apart from other animals as Steven Pinker explains in this clip …

[4:10] In psychology, the Asch conformity experiments or the Asch Paradigm refers to a series of studies directed by So…

[3:45] Joseph Campbell explains the importance of a healthy understanding of history and mythology. [Video and text s…

[7:34] How and why conformity arises. [Video and text source: Khanacademymedicine YouTube channel]…

[3:50] “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.” – Chuck Pala…

[4:21] We’re used to thinking hugely well of democracy. But interestingly, one of the wisest people who ever lived, S…

[6:29] Is God temporal, existing in time as we humans do? Or is God outside of time, eternal, and living a radically diffe…

[7:04] We are what we are because of genes; we are who we are because of memes. Philosopher Daniel Dennett muses on an idea …

[4:56] There have always been people who did not believe in God, but science today has made it more acceptable to be an ath…