How diet can affect brain health
[3:22] Michael Mosley meets Professor Mark Mattson. His work with mice at the National Institue on Ageing, has produce…
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Ricky Gervais On Atheism
[6:26] Ricky Gervais sat down with Piers Morgan for an extended interview Friday night, talking about everything from …
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Daniel Kahneman: Moving to California Won’t Make You Happy
[2:18] In some crucial areas of human cognition, we don’t know and we can’t fully trust ourselves. On the b…
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Carl Sagan: Religion
[6:04] Segments about religion from Carl Sagan’s book Pale Blue Dot. Carl Sagan speaks about the garden of eden a…
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Paul Bloom – There Is Nothing Special About Religion
[1:20:21] Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. Paul Bloom is the Broo…
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The Ideas of Socrates
[10:55] In this lecture we examine the ideas of Socrates. We look at his exhortation to ‘care for your soul’…
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Dan Gilbert: Why we make bad decisions
[34:09] Dan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness — sharing some surprising tes…
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Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory
[20:37] Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel K…
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A Guide to Happiness – Seneca on Anger
[24:14] A practical guide to adopting the principles of the Roman philosopher Lucious Annaeus Seneca (4BC — 65A…
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A Guide to Happiness – Epicurus on Happiness
[23:59] Ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 BC) advocated “friends, freedom and thought” as t…
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