The inspirational Mandy Harvey
[6:06] Deaf singer follows her dreams and earns a Golden Buzzer from Simon Cowell with her original song “Try.&#…
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Lawrence Krauss: Why Schools Should Teach Skepticism Above Obedience
[5:37] “You can can get more information in your cell phone now than you can in any school, but you can also get more misi…
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Why do we feel nostalgia?
[4:08] Nostalgia was once considered an illness confined to specific groups of people. Today, people all over the worl…
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How does stress affect a teenager’s brain?
[2:26] Ever wonder what is going on in the brain of a teenager, especially one who is stressed out? UCLA Psychologist Adr…
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Robert Sapolsky: The biology of our best and worst selves
[15:51] How can humans be so compassionate and altruistic — and also so brutal and violent? To understand why we d…
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Why Humanity Destroyed Itself
[5:23] The real reason we may destroy ourselves isn’t really to do with politics or economics or even warfare. It has t…
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Barbara Oakley: Brain Bias: Why You Shouldn’t Emulate Geniuses and Their Rigid Thinking Processes
[6:34] How do you get out of a mental feedback loop? The smartest people—call them geniuses or what you will—tend to …
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Sam Harris: Human Values
[8:24] “Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.” Sam Harris [Video and text…
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Markus Heilig: Addiction in the Age of Brain Science
[17:13] The talk presents how a new science of addiction is emerging, and opening up for new methods for effective treat…
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Patricia Churchland: The Brains Behind Morality
[19:16] What happens when we accept that everything we feel and think stems not from an immaterial spirit but from elect…
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