Sam Harris questions Jordan Peterson’s fixation on Christianity
[5:20] Sam Harris has said that he respects the majority of what Jordan Peterson has to share with the public, however, w…
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Sean Carroll: The Meaning of Life
[7:20] “The world keeps happening in accordance with its rules; it’s up to us to make sense of it and give it …
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Carol Tavris: Who’s Lying Who’s Self-Justifying
[41:33] Social psychologist and author Carol Tavris on “Who’s Lying? Who’s Self-Justifying?: O…
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Richard Dawkins: “The Magic of Reality: How we know what’s really true”
[1:07:49] This Authors@ event was part of Google London’s ‘Science Friday’ event – a famil…
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Dean Buonomano: Consciousness Is a Narrative Created by Your Unconscious Mind
[4:19] American neuroscientist Dean Buonomano believes that your brain might be processing the world around you in a t…
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Nicholas A. Christakis: What Do We Learn from Our Networks?
[7:26] In his lab at Yale, Nicholas A. Christakis investigates the biological origins of our social networks, the web o…
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Michael Shermer: Why Believing in Aliens Is Religion in Disguise
[2:36] Are atheists who believe in aliens falling for one of humanity’s oldest brain biases? In a series of four s…
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Bret Weinstein: The Paradox of Headaches
[5:53] Why are humans wired to feel pain about which we can do very little? [Video and text source: Bret Weinstein YouTub…
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Michael Shermer: Why Skepticism Is the Right Approach to the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
[7:55] Bear with us for a second, but do you know the Belinda Carlisle song “Heaven is a Place on Earth”? It&…
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Sam Harris: Accidents of birth – Religious choice
[3:11] The accidental birthplace choice that is religion, for millions of people. [Video and text source: Morphing Re…
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