Michael Shermer on Cognitive Biases & How Thinking Goes Wrong (and Right!)
[1:51:09] Dr. Michael Shermer reviews the many ways that our attempts to understand the truth about the world are derai…
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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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Steven Pinker: The Philosophy of Free Will
[24:05] Steven Pinker is a Canadian-born American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He …
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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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Metaphorical Truth Bomb | A New Way to Understand Religion (Bret Weinstein)
[14:18] Stephen Woodford offers up another great episode promoting Brett Weinsteins Atheistic, yet supportive view …
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Is Violence Ever Justified? – Full Debate: Steven Pinker, Tariq Ali, Elif Sarican
[42:25] From the French and Russian Revolutions to the Suffragettes, violent action has been instrumental to creatin…
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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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Robert Sapolsky on Life and Free Will
[10:39] Robert Sapolsky tackles the contemplation of how a future world would react when accepting that we do not h…
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Paul Bloom: The Science of Bias, Empathy, and Dehumanization
[4:49] Empathy moves us, but it may move us to make an unethical decision. Conversely, says Bloom, dehumanization is no…
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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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