Why Does Your Mom Love Alternative Medicine?
[14:39] Why Does Your Mom Love Alternative Medicine? We all know a mom who loves alternative medicine. She may call hers…
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Fabrizio Benedetti: Placebo explained
[18:50] Fabrizio Benedetti, Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience at the University of Turin Medical School, joi…
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Is Homosexuality in Your Genes?
[2:01] Scientists have identified two new genetic connections to homosexuality. Does this confirm that there are pre…
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Jordan Peterson & Iain McGilchrist in Conversation: The Master and His Emissary
[29:51] A fascinating conversation about the roles of the left and right brain hemispheres where Iain McGilchrist h…
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Derren Brown Demonstrates the Barnum Effect
[8:24] Derren Brown gives readings via “astrology.” From “Trick of the Mind,” S03E01. Ast…
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Russel Brand & Sam Harris: What’s The Biggest Threat To Freedom – Islam Or Consumerism?
[2:03:06} In a bumper 2-hour episode neuroscientist, author and fellow podcaster Sam Harris and I discuss the effects …
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Free Will – Debunked
[8:08] This is Free Will – Debunked. [Video and text source: Rationality Rules YouTube channel]…
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Michael Shermer & Ralph Lewis: Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
[1:23:06] In this wide-ranging conversation, Michael Shermer talks with the author of the new book Finding Purpose in …
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Fabrizio Benedetti: Placebo and nocebo: on the pharmacology and toxicology of words and rituals
[1:00:04] [Video and text source: Institute for Complem. and Integrative Medicine USZ YouTube channel]…
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Johann Hari: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression
[58:25] One in four people in Britain is suffering from depression or anxiety in any given year – but have we been taugh…
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