The Meaning of Life: Richard Dawkins and Ricky Gervais
[10:27] Why does an atheist bother to get up in the morning? That’s the question Richard Dawkins seeks to answer a…
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Why We Tell Stories: The Science of Narrative
[1:35:46] Stories have existed in many forms—cave paintings, parables, poems, tall tales, myths—throughout hi…
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Edward Bernays: Propaganda – How to Control What People Do
[8:30] This is an animated book summary video of Propaganda written by Edward Bernays. He was Sigmund Freud’s ne…
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Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain
[50:00] Steven Pinker – Psychologist, Cognitive Scientist, and Linguist at Harvard University How did humans …
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“Congo Dandies’’ devote their lives to high fashion while living in deep poverty
[2:05] In the Republic of Congo “the Sapeurs” are devoted to dressing up in expensive designer clothes. The moveme…
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Disproving Gods with Science and History
[39:42] In this lecture, Dr. Richard Carrier quickly surveys the history of major religions, and lays out a collection …
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Camille A. Brown: The history of African-American social dance
[4:52] Why do we dance? African-American social dances started as a way for enslaved Africans to keep cultural traditi…
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Michael Shermer: What is Truth?
[2:22] Defining ‘truth’ is an ancient question that in the age of science should find resolution and agre…
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The paradox of value
[3:45] Imagine you’re on a game show and you can choose between two prizes: a diamond … or a bottle of water. It’s an …
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When and Why Did Men Start Getting Circumcised?
[7:08] Having served variously as a mark of virility, servility and gentility, circumcision has throughout the centu…
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