Yuval Noah Harari: The Future of Humanity
[28:20] Dr Yuval Noah Harari explains how revolutions in technology and society will transform our bodies and minds. T…
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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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Matthew Lieberman: The social brain and its superpowers
[17:58] Neuroscientist Matthew Lieberman explains that through his studies he’s learned that our kryptonite …
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The scale of the universe
[3:49] Carl Sagan told us that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all of the Earth’…
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How does something come from nothing?
[4:43] In what many call a “golden age of cosmology”, astronomers can now observe the universe with unprecedented …
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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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V.S. Ramachandran & B. Alan Wallace: The brain, the mind and our potential
[41:43] What makes us human? How does the mind influence the brain? How can we explain the placebo effect? How does infor…
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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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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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