Carol Tavris: “A Skeptical Look at Pseudoneuroscience”
[48:38] Social psychologist Carol Tavris, Ph.D. explores the funny, disconcerting, and dangerous implications of p…
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Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion
[1:43:47] Richard Dawkins talks to the audience about his book ‘The God Delusion’ [Video and text source…
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Daniel Kraft: The future of longevity
[14:59] Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator…
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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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Stephen Stich: The Evolution of Morality?
[56:10] This lecture was hosted by the Murphy Institute at Tulane University on Friday, April 4, 2014. About the Speake…
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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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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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Joe Rogan Smacks Up Milo Yiannopoulos On Religion
[8:27] A comedian and a gay conservative Christian journalist got into an explosive feud over the latter’s sexualit…
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Nihilism & the Postmodern
[27:51] The 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “There can be no doubt that morality will gradual…
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David Cox: Towards an Artificial Brain
[20:43] The fast-advancing fields of neuroscience and computer science are on a collision course. David Cox, Assista…
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