Joseph Campbell: Why Myth?
[3:45] Joseph Campbell explains the importance of a healthy understanding of history and mythology. [Video and text s…
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Robert Wright & Michael Shermer: The purpose of evolution
[1:14:28] 1:31 Bob’s NY Times article on evolution and purpose 23:23 Was evolution likely to produce the Internet? 3…
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Conformity and groupthink
[7:34] How and why conformity arises. [Video and text source: Khanacademymedicine YouTube channel]…
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Steven Pinker: The Elephant, the Emperor, and the Matzo Ball
[43:38] William James Fellow Award Address recorded May 2016 in Chicago at the 28th Annual Convention of the Associati…
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Bessel van der Kolk: Learn the Signs and Symptoms of PTSD
[7:15] One of the world’s foremost psychiatrists specializing in PTSD, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk visits Big Think …
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What our Wedding Vows should Say
[5:38] Some of the trouble of long-term relationships comes from the vows we say at the beginning. We should learn to ref…
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How We See Ourselves Through The Eyes Of Others
[3:50] “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.” – Chuck Pala…
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Empathy, Is It All It’s Cracked Up to Be?
[56:43] Empathy is typically seen as wonderful, central to cooperation, caring, and morality. We want to have empathi…
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Tom Whipple: How to Win Games and Beat People
[57:48] It’s the not the taking part that counts, it’s the winning. Tom Whipple has spoken to preposterously overq…
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Leah Remini on Finding Out About Xenu
[12:32] Leah Remini talks about reaching OT III and having Scientology’s origin story revealed to her. Taken fr…
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