How Dogs Interpret Our Praise
[0:59] “Who’s a good boy?” Your dog construes your words and happy tone to know you mean him. [Video source: Scien…
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Beau Lotto: Understanding Perception – How We Experience the Meaning We Create
[4:23] Beau Lotto’s research into perception has shown that we don’t see the real world—just our version of it. I…
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A C Grayling: Man made religion
[6:21] A C Grayling delivering his opening statement in an ‘Intelligent Squared’ debate. [Video sour…
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Susan David: How Forcing Positivity Can Create Despair
[5:36] Think happy, be happy? Maybe not. Harvard psychologist Susan David examines the backlash effect of forced posi…
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Richard Dawkins: Why Coincidences Are Meaningless
[5:42] Experiment demonstrating the triviality of coincidence. [Source: fdhfhg You Tube channel]…
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Are We Who We Think We Are?
[2:08] My world, for anyone that is interested, is not formed by a ‘normal’ run of the mill way of thinking. …
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How We Lie to Ourselves
[5:57] We are masters at knowing how to lie to ourselves. We pay a heavy price for this self-deception. [Source: The Scho…
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We Create Our Reality
[1:19:47] Frederick Travis, PhD, director of the Center for Brain, Consciousness and Cognition, explains that the co…
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In Praise of The Quiet Life
[5:23] Quiet lives feel nowadays like lives of failure and resignation, but they may be no such thing: true ambition can …
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Stay in – or Leave – a Relationship?
[5:07] Should you stay or leave a relationship? Here’s a checklist of questions to ask oneself before heading out too …
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