Psychology: Mind Reading for Beginners – What’s your number?
[5:43] Mind Readers like Derren Brown do not really read your mind. They mainly use magic tricks. But sometimes they als…
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Ray Kurzweil: Biotechnology Will Stop Aging
[5:13] The coming biotechnology revolution will allow us, in the next 15 to 20 years, to reprogram our genes to resist bo…
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Peter Singer: How to Live an Ethical Life
[5:09] Peter Singer tackles poverty and the environment. [Video source: Big Think YouTube link]…
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10 Strangest Things People Have Done While Sleepwalking
[7:45] Sleepwalking is actually pretty goddamn scary… [Source: Top Trending YouTube link]…
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Steven Novella – Research on acupuncture
[4:52] Do sticking needles into the body help to heal or just another placebo. Steve Novella offers his researched opin…
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The Neuroscience behind Moral Judgments
[5:18] Alan met with Rebecca Saxe of MIT’s McGovern Institute. Saxe has been researching how people make moral j…
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The adulteration of food for convenience
[3:25] Dr. Robert Lustig elucidates how the fast-food industry is draining the nutrition from our food, and how there n…
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How Bad Is The Catholic Church’s Sex Abuse Problem?
[2:48] Pope Francis instituted a tribunal to address the Catholic Church’s coverups of child abuse. So we were curio…
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Neil deGrasse Tyson on religious people
[9:25] Excerpt from a speech at TAM 6 in Las Vegas. [Source: Freidenker Zentralschweiz YouTube link]…
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