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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Joseph Campbell: Why Myth?
[3:45] Joseph Campbell explains the importance of a healthy understanding of history and mythology. [Video and text s…
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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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Walter Sinnott-Armstrong: Is God Temporal or Timeless?
[6:29] Is God temporal, existing in time as we humans do? Or is God outside of time, eternal, and living a radically diffe…
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Leah Remini on Finding Out About Xenu
[12:32] Leah Remini talks about reaching OT III and having Scientology’s origin story revealed to her. Taken fr…
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Daniel Dennett: Memes 101 – How Cultural Evolution Works
[7:04] We are what we are because of genes; we are who we are because of memes. Philosopher Daniel Dennett muses on an idea …
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Peter Kivisto: Sociology of Religion
[14:54] Why is the attitude to religion changing with time? What it depends on with different cultures? Why is religion …
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13 Things You Didn’t Know About Medieval Era
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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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