The philosophy of Stoicism
[5:29] What is the best life we can live? How can we cope with whatever the universe throws at us and keep thriving nonethe…
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Michael Patrick Lynch: How to see past your own perspective and find truth
[14:26] The more we read and watch online, the harder it becomes to tell the difference between what’s real and wh…
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Robert Sapolsky: Are Humans Hardwired to Be Cruel to Each Other?
[6:40] Robert Sapolsky has a bone to pick with oxytocin, or rather the public’s perception of oxytocin. It is the …
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Barbara Oakley: Is It Really Possible to Change Someone’s Beliefs?
[4:49] It’s hard to know how you can change a person’s mind or opinion. And the reality is you can’t. I mean a change …
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How To Be A Man
[4:32] The idea of manliness has grown indelibly associated with the idea of being cool. We’d be wiser to shift the mas…
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Cheetah Man
[45:32] Olivier Houalet – whose looks are reminiscent of Tarzan – is just 27-years-old and had no specialist t…
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Christopher Hitchens on the Origin of Religion
[6;25] Hitch points out that even if arguments for god are sound (they aren’t), the conclusion that Christianit…
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The Self: A Necessary Illusion?
[3:47] Would humans be better off without a concept of the self? Many of our most lauded virtues–generosity, com…
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Giulio Tononi: Is Consciousness Entirely Physical?
[8:12] Giulio Tononi tackles the hard problem, this time explaining Integrated Information Theory and various axiom…
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Yuval Noah Harari on the myths we need to survive
[1:27:14] Filmed at the Royal Geographical Society on 23rd September 2015. Myths. We tend to think they’re a thing of …
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