Raoul Martinez: Life is Just a Lottery
[7:00] Life is Just a Lottery with Raoul Martinez. Informed by over a decade of research, Martinez lifts the veil on the m…
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Lucy Crehan: Surprising Truths from Global Classrooms
[6:33] Lucy Crehan, teacher and education consultant, set off on a personal educational odyssey through Finland, Jap…
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What if There Were Only One Prison on Earth?
[7:08] We’re all familiar with the idea of prisons. They’re used to separate the “bad guys” from the “good gu…
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Peter Tse: Search for Meaning
[4:57] To search for meaning, God or something like God is often involved. But this need not be so. How can meaning be foun…
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Why do people join cults?
[6:26] Today, there are thousands of cults around the world. Broadly speaking, a cult is a group or movement with a share…
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Afua Hirsch: ‘Faith schools harm integration’
[1:48] Faith schools are bad for integration and should be banned, argues writer and broadcaster Afua Hirsch in this Vi…
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Bruce Hood: Why Do We Believe the Unbelievable?
[16:26] Bruce Hood speaks about the concept of ‘essentialism’ which he demonstrates by offering £50 to an audien…
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All Realities Are Virtual
[3:15] “Reality” is just a word and you shouldn’t use it without quotation marks around it anyway. …
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Stacy Smith: The data behind Hollywood’s sexism
[15:44] Where are all the women and girls in film? Social scientist Stacy Smith analyzes how the media underrepresents …
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Meik Wiking: The Dark Side of Happiness
[19:21] While Denmark has been regularly awarded the rewarding title of “Happiest Country in the World” over the p…
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