Eric Schwitzgebel: How Belief Systems Affect Believers
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The Feynman Technique: How to Study Way More Effectively
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The Uncomfortable Effort of Thinking
[12:10] How the brain works, how we learn, and why we sometimes make stupid mistakes. [Video and text source: Veritasiu…
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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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William MacAskill: Want to make a difference? Don’t Work for a Charity
[17:12] William MacAskill makes a clever plea to those young graduates who want to improve the lives of others: Want to c…
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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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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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Attached: The Science of Attachment – Anxious and Avoidant Loving
[5:07] In the book “Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How it can Help You Find and Keep Love”…
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