Annaka Harris: Interview – Challenge Everything
Consciousness is exactly as mysterious as it seems to be [2:29] Annaka defines what consciousness is [4:54] Tom and Ann…
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Steven Pinker: The Philosophy of Free Will
[24:05] Steven Pinker is a Canadian-born American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He …
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Michael Shermer with Brian Greene: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
[1:12:41] Until the End of Time is Brian Greene’s breathtaking new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to find mea…
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The Biology of Addiction
[1:01:47] Drugs of abuse target discrete collections of nerve cells—called circuits—in the brain that normally …
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Big Questions in Free Will
[1:37:05} Do we have free will? After so many centuries of debate by so many great thinkers, can we still make progress in …
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The Royal Institution Lecture: What Makes Me, Me?
[56:55] What makes humans human? And what makes every person an individual? [YouTube channel source, text and viewing…
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Are any Animals Truly Monogamous?
[3:12] [YouTube channel source, text and viewing credit: MinuteEarth] …
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Robert Sapolsky on Life and Free Will
[10:39] Robert Sapolsky tackles the contemplation of how a future world would react when accepting that we do not h…
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Giles Yeo: Do Your Genes Make You Fat?
[57:48] Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/bhmpsxXIi_U While the obesity epidemic is a contemporary problem…
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Nancy Segal: Twins – A window into human nature
[11:42] Twins tell us about our humanity – who we are and where we came from, says Nancy Segal. In her fascinating a…
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