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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Robert Sapolsky: 3 Brain Systems That Control Your Behavior: Reptilian, Limbic, Neo Cortex
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Robert Stickgold: Why Sleep?
[10:37] Why do we spend so much of our lives not awake? [Video and text source: Closer To Truth YouTube channel]…
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V.S. Ramachandran: Fending off faith based claims with too much class!
[1:13:54] V. Ramachandran is considered one of the foremost neuroscientist in the world. He has made numerous path-br…
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David Eagleman on Choice
[32:11] David Eagleman at the FQXi SETTING TIME ARIGHT conference in 2011, an interdisciplinary meeting investigati…
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V.S. Ramachandran: Capgras Delusion
[11:24] V.S. Ramachandran solves the mystery for David who when looking at his mother assumes she is an impostor but who …
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BJ Casey: The Effects of Early Life Stress on Brain and Behavior
[18:05] Yale University’s BJ Casey shares an in-depth look into the detrimental effects on the brain resulting …
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Sonja Lyubomirsky: The How of Happiness
[41:11] Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and author of The How of H…
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Lisa Feldman Barrett: How Emotions Are Made
[1:02:50] Until recently, emotions were considered mere physical reflexes to experience. But research is gradually …
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The Female Orgasm, Explained with Science Projects
[1:55] The male orgasm is an explosive affair, but the female orgasm? Now, that’s a different story. Find out what’…
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