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Psychologist Paul Bloom explains why morality, the thing that makes cooperation and trust possible, is also what drives cruelty, cycles of revenge, and wars where both sides believe they're the moral ones.
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RapperIce-T on how his career changed, his life expanded, and his perspective shifted over his last six decades of life.
Unlikely Collaborators
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Why does life keep getting more complex? Why doesn't evolution get stuck? Physicist Stephen Wolfram has been working on this for decades. Turns out the answer is more simple (and more strange) than we expected.
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Psychologist Paul Bloom examines why loneliness feels like starvation, why people are drawn to behaving poorly, and why revenge feels righteous until it destroys everything.
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Singer, actress, and daughter of Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson, Carnie Wilson reflects on a life of very public transformation — and what it feels like to finally look back and recognize the person she's become.
Unlikely Collaborators
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We experience only one small slice of the ruliad. What’s the ruliad? Stephen Wolfram explains.
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What do the laws of physics, biological evolution, and your free will have in common? The same mathematical principle runs through all of them. Stephen Wolfram has spent 40 years finding it.
1hr 44mins
Steve Brusatte, the paleontologist behind Jurassic World's science and author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Story of Birds, walks through what fossils actually prove versus what Hollywood invented.
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Zena Hitz argues that the real philosophers are taxi drivers, office clerks, and prisoners: Everyday people who exist outside the cult of academia.
1hr 18mins
In conversation with Kmele Foster, Dan Carlin unpacks the myth of shared reality, the erosion of society, and the history that preceded it.
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Classicist Mary Beard explains why you should read The Odyssey before going to see Christopher Nolan's adaptation of the epic.
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Most ‘theories of everything’ make the universe feel smaller. Physicist Stephen Wolfram's does the opposite.
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Neuroscientist Lisa Genova explains how to protect your brain against Alzheimer's and the science of forgetting.
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We often ask how to reach enlightenment, as if it’s a destination. A better question may be: how do we practice enlightened behavior in everyday life? And once we begin, how does our reality evolve?
Unlikely Collaborators
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Tim Spector breaks down the science of how gut microbes produce the chemicals that shape your mood, your immune system, and your cognitive health.
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We often ask what new technology can do. Yale philosopher L.A. Paul asks a deeper question: what does it do to the people who use it?
1hr 27mins
Charles Duhigg explains why trying to eliminate a bad habit is neurologically futile, and what to do instead.
Our brains give us a usable version of the world, not a complete one. A neuroscience and a physicist show why that gap matters for bias, free will, and the responsibility we carry into whatever happens next.
Unlikely Collaborators
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Transformative experiences don’t just change your perspective or lifestyle, they change the kind of person you are. Yale philosopher L.A. Paul explains.
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Body language expert Vanessa Van Edwards shares her formula to create a lasting first impression.