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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.

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8mins
A University of Oxford professor explains how conscious machines are possible.
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6mins
This is not your average dream interpreter. Nightmares, as explained by a neuroscientist.
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5mins
You might suppress your emotions when you walk through the door at work. But your colleagues can still feel them.
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4mins
“If intelligence is the ability to respond to any argument, wisdom lies in knowing which parts of an argument to respond to.” Harvard debate coach Bo Seo explains how to argue better.
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5mins
“All the plausible paths to a really great future, involve the development of machine superintelligence at some point.”
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5mins
Expert Louise Perry discusses the idea of sexual disenchantment, the commodification of sex, and the impact of the online porn industry on society.
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5mins
This network scientist is creating a map of the human genome, and it could revolutionize the future of healthcare.
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9mins
Kids are more anxious and depressed than ever. Is identity politics to blame?
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8mins
Experimental neuroscientist Patrick McNamara on how we can harness spiritual experiences to explore alternate realities in our minds, and transform our models of the self.
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8mins
Americans without friends have increased 400% in recent years. Here’s why.
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6mins
What beavers and earthworms can teach us about working with, not against, Mother Nature.
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6mins
How to make money in business, with $100-million Salesforce pioneer Aaron Ross.
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8mins
What makes some scientists culturally significant, while others remain in obscurity? Well, there’s a science to it.
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3mins
No one is teaching us how to be online. That’s a problem.
9mins
Your sexual education was probably inadequate. Here’s the information you always needed.
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9mins
It has perhaps never been easier to feel as if you’ve fallen behind in life. From the anxieties of comparing yourself to others online to our fetishization of success, it […]
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1hr 19mins
Steven Pinker explains how to cultivate greater rationality in today's complex world.
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7mins
Find food, have sex, not die. That’s pretty much all we need to do — but why do we make it so complicated?
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7mins
Sexual attitudes are more man-like than ever. Here’s what that means for women.