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Oncologist Mitchell Gaynor on how eating right and meditating can help prevent breast cancer.
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Gaynor explains how to prevent breast cancer and the major warning signs of breast cancer.
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Gaynor talks about observing stress and relaxation and provides both.
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Learn about the basic software of your mind and you will develop moral humility.
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Despite its faults, politics still gives Jonathan Haidt reason to hope.
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According to Haidt, we are the products of a complex evolutionary story that we do not fully grasp.
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Because thinking is for doing, we search for evidence that supports our opinions, not the other way around.
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The Enlightenment’s focus on the individual has left us feeling all alone.
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Happiness requires more than extended periods of pleasure.
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Jonathan Haidt speaks about happiness and how nothing is good or bad.
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Philosophy does not explain the meaning of life, psychology does.
No dysfunction needed: a normal childhood led to Jonathan Haidt’s exploration of happiness.
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The media squashed voices of opposition, says Williams, and those voices are still attempting to be heard.
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Williams thinks that the Internet will not incite a communication revolution.
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Williams talks about his favorite poem, The Foundation, and reads one of his other favorite poems, The Singing.