Christopher Hitchens: Morality
[3:24] Christopher Hitchens gives his views on morality and where it is derived from. [Video and text source Morphing R…
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We need more of the Ellen DeGeneres types!
[3:23] Ellen DeGeneres receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama. [Source: kricket58 You Tube…
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Abigail Marsh: Why some people are more altruistic than others
[12:21] AMYGDALA….. We all have an amygdala…. It’s a key part within our brain, essential for comp…
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Eric Kandel: The Science of Brain Health and Cognitive Decline
[7:05] The genius that is Eric Kandel offers insight on how to keep the brain healthy. [Source: Big Think You Tube channe…
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Patricia Churchland: Neurophilosophy and moral values
[16:58] Patricia Churchland explains how humans could have formed morality, from the point of evolution where we turn…
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Us vs Them: Immigration, Empathy and Psychology
[4:43] ALL OF US ORIGINALLY STARDUST and then millions of years of evolution later and here we are as humans with our clos…
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Dogs judge humans by how we treat others
[1:06] Both pets and monkeys show a preference for people who help others in experiments, and the results might explain …
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Paul Bloom: Against Empathy
[2:49] Paul Bloom, psychologist and Yale professor, argues that empathy is a bad thing—that it makes the world worse…
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Dan Ariely: The Science of Happiness, Motivation, and Meaning
[7:31] It turns out there’s quite a bit of cognitive dissonance impairing our understanding of motivation and h…
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Cross-Coursera Dishonesty Debate
[1:08:54] Watch the legendary moral philosopher Peter Singer, the distinguished psychologist Paul Bloom, and the ex…
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