Bret Weinstein: The Personal Responsibility Vortex
[16:33] Bret Weinstein is an evolutionary theorist and member of the faculty at The Evergreen State College. In “…
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Hugo Mercier: The Function of Reason
[6:54] Many of us believe our capacity to reason helps us to acquire knowledge and make better decisions – but wha…
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Robert Sapolsky: Why You Don’t Have Free Will: Your Breakfast Food, Biology, and Culture
[3:35] ‘Societal conditioning’ might sound like either a grim Orwellian brainwashing technique or a fa…
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Why We Are All Addicts
[4:13] We tend to imagine that we can only become addicted to a few sorts of things. But real addiction is about using some…
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How adults should communicate with the young
[5:02] This judge mindful and inspirational with his style of communication, especially with the young and vulnera…
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Robert Speth: So there is no free will. Now what?
[12:18] With the sequencing of the human genome and advances in neuroscience, along with discoveries in the fields of e…
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Molly Crockett: How Morally Outraged Are You? Well, That Depends on Who’s Watching
[4:55] Outrage on the internet is very, very easy to find. It seems that everyday someone has done something that other p…
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Infants know what we like best
[2:36] Infants know what we like best. Behind the chubby cheeks and bright eyes of babies as young as 8 months lies the smo…
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Alexander Todorov: Your Face Makes the First Impression—What Does It Say? Bias, Evolution, Trust
[9:18] Ever seen someone and immediately thought that they look “shady”? Well, it could be based on cultu…
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Opia: The Ambiguous Intensity of Eye Contact
[2:36] opia – n. the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive a…
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