Annaka Harris: Interview – Challenge Everything
Consciousness is exactly as mysterious as it seems to be [2:29] Annaka defines what consciousness is [4:54] Tom and Ann…
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Quirkology – 10 Amazing Illusions
[2:36] WHICH OF THE 50 CORONAVIRUS CONSPIRACY THEORIES IS THE ‘REAL ONE’? :O We are in lockdown in Cyprus l…
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Big Questions in Free Will
[1:37:05} Do we have free will? After so many centuries of debate by so many great thinkers, can we still make progress in …
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Dan Gilbert: The Surprising Science of Happiness
[21:19] Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don…
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Are We All Racists?
[6:32] Novelists offer deep insights into human psychology that often take psychologists years to test. In his 1864 &#…
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Beau Lotto: The Neuroscience of Creativity, Perception, and Confirmation Bias
[6:44] To ensure your survival, your brain evolved to avoid one thing: uncertainty. As neuroscientist Beau Lotto poin…
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Mind Field 1: Isolation
[34:45] What happens when your brain is deprived of stimulation? What effect does being cut off from interaction with t…
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Do You Hear “Yanny” or “Laurel”?
[2:58] Yanny vs. Laurel audio illusion solved! PHEW FINALLY! [Video and text source: AsapSCIENCE YouTube channel]…
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Robert Desimone: How the Brain Pays Attention
[1:32:24] [Video and text source: Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM) YouTube channel]…
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Aphantasia: The lack of visual experience in the mind
[5:26] A lot of us can stop and visualise things in a flash – a rainbow, your breakfast table, your Mum’s 80s ha…
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