Michael Shermer: Why Skepticism Is the Right Approach to the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
[7:55] Bear with us for a second, but do you know the Belinda Carlisle song “Heaven is a Place on Earth”? It&…
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Gary Marcus: Never too late to learn something new!
[14:40] Gary Marcus is a Cognitive Scientist at NYU and author of the New York Times Bestseller, Guitar Zero. Co-editor …
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Sonja Lyubomirsky: The How of Happiness
[41:11] Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and author of The How of H…
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Lisa Feldman Barrett: How Emotions Are Made
[1:02:50] Until recently, emotions were considered mere physical reflexes to experience. But research is gradually …
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Christian Welzel: Moral Progress – Expanding the Human Mind
[16:44] Counter-intuitive as it may seem in the face of rising populism, Dr. Christian Welzel will show fascinating da…
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Lawrence Krauss: Something essential
[4:22] “We force the way we view reality to depend upon the evidence of reality.” Lawrence Krauss [Video a…
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Robert Speth: So there is no free will. Now what?
[12:18] With the sequencing of the human genome and advances in neuroscience, along with discoveries in the fields of e…
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) for depression and more
[1:52] As the number of people suffering from depression rises, doctors are looking for new, more targeted ways to trea…
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The inspirational Mandy Harvey
[6:06] Deaf singer follows her dreams and earns a Golden Buzzer from Simon Cowell with her original song “Try.&#…
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Why do we feel nostalgia?
[4:08] Nostalgia was once considered an illness confined to specific groups of people. Today, people all over the worl…
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