Stuart Kauffman: What Causes Religious Belief?
[2:09] Religious belief is everywhere. Why so pervasive, ubiquitous across diverse human cultures? What motivates t…
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Oliver Sacks on Ripe Bananas
[6:27] “I’m very interested in how people adapt to extremes” – Oliver Sacks on July 28, 1996 The renow…
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Michael De Dora: International Blasphemy Rights Day
[19:34] Michael De Dora, director of the Center for Inquiry’s Office of Public Policy and head representative t…
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10 Times Non-Believers Arguments Blew Our Minds
[12:09] 1. Neil DeGrasse Tyson 2. Penn Jillette 3. Christopher Hitchens 4. Steven Weinberg 5. Lawrence Krauss 6. Matt D…
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What Do You Think is Normal?
[4;42] What do we mean by “normal”? Cognitive scientists have found that your notion of normality is shap…
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Dan Dennett: Dangerous memes
[17:24] Starting with the simple tale of an ant, philosopher Dan Dennett unleashes a devastating salvo of ideas, makin…
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Daniel Dennett: Information, Evolution, and intelligent Design
[1:01:44] Daniel Dennett explores the first steps towards a unified theory of information, through common threads in …
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Daniel Dennett & Steven Pinker: Unlearning Violence
[1:41;55] As part of the February 2014 conference, “Unlearning Violence: Evidence and Policies for Early Chil…
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The Plastic Age: A Documentary feat. Pharrell Williams
[17;44] We all talk about the Stone Age, the Iron Age and the Bronze Age, but what era are we living in right now? People are …
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David Voas: Why there is no way back for religion in the West
[15:53] Religion is in decline across the Western world. Whether measured by belonging, believing, participation in …
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