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Your Attention Span Is Ruining Your Life | Richard Cytowic 20 min
Your Attention Span Is Ruining Your Life | Richard Cytowic
Your brain isn’t broken, but it may seem like that because of how the screen age overwhelms your biology.
Learn These 3 Triggers To Navigate Conflict Like an Expert 7 min
Learn These 3 Triggers To Navigate Conflict Like an Expert
“What did you win? You won awkward silence. You won their contempt. You won the first to apologize. When you win an argument, you will lose their confidence, you will lose their respect...
Your Reality Narrows After Trauma — Here’s How To Expand It 7 min
Your Reality Narrows After Trauma — Here’s How To Expand It
What if the way you see the world is shaped by trauma you haven’t fully processed?
Is It Too Late for Us to Slow Climate Warming? | Hannah Ritchie, PhD 6 min
Is It Too Late for Us to Slow Climate Warming? | Hannah Ritchie, PhD
“I think the key point is that doesn't mean game over. That doesn't mean we're flipped into a world, and to a point of no return.”
I Went to Space and Discovered an Enormous Lie | Ron Garan 8 min
I Went to Space and Discovered an Enormous Lie | Ron Garan
What astronaut Ron Garan saw in space changed his life forever – here’s what it taught him.
What the News Won't Tell You about Climate Change | Hannah Ritchie, PhD 13 min
What the News Won't Tell You about Climate Change | Hannah Ritchie, PhD
"You can find examples of really big environmental problems that we've already solved.” Climate change is solvable, argues Hannah Ritchie.
Try Psychedelics, Access Transcendence | James Fadiman 6 min
Try Psychedelics, Access Transcendence | James Fadiman
Expert James Fadiman explains how psychedelics have the power to expand consciousness, enhance creativity, and deepen our connections to the world.
Male Inequality, Explained by an Expert | Richard Reeves 16 min
Male Inequality, Explained by an Expert | Richard Reeves
Modern males are struggling. Author Richard Reeves outlines the three major issues boys and men face and shares possible solutions.
The Friendship Recession | Richard Reeves 9 min
The Friendship Recession | Richard Reeves
Why friendships are becoming rarer in America, explained by author Richard Reeves.
Anthropologist Debunks Darwin’s Most Abused Idea | James Suzman 9 min
Anthropologist Debunks Darwin’s Most Abused Idea | James Suzman
James Suzman lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.
How to Optimize Your Gut and Brain Bacteria | Dave Asprey 7 min
How to Optimize Your Gut and Brain Bacteria | Dave Asprey
The importance of the microbiome has really come to the fore in the last five years. Viome, a company that analyzed the feces of 100,000 people, has discovered 10,000 new types of gut...
What is Trauma? The Author of “The Body Keeps the Score” Explains 8 min
What is Trauma? The Author of “The Body Keeps the Score” Explains
In Part 1, Bessel van der Kolk talks about trauma. In Part 2, he talks about 6 ways to heal trauma without medication.
Social Media Addiction - How It Changes Your Brain | Luke Burgis 5 min
Social Media Addiction - How It Changes Your Brain | Luke Burgis
By definition, mimetic desire means that we're adopting another person's desire as our own, usually without even realizing that we're doing it. Social media has given us millions of...
The 10 Tactics of Fascism | Jason Stanley 10 min
The 10 Tactics of Fascism | Jason Stanley
"Never Again?" How fascism hijacks democracies over and over.
6 Ways to Heal Trauma without Medication, from the Author of “The Body Keeps the Score, ” Bessel van der Kolk 9 min
6 Ways to Heal Trauma without Medication, from the Author of “The Body Keeps the Score, ” Bessel van der Kolk
Conventional psychiatric practices tell us that if we feel bad, take this drug and it will go away. But after years of research with some of the top psychiatric practitioners in the...
'Universal Basic Income is a Brilliant Idea'. Here's Why. | Yanis Varoufakis 4 min
'Universal Basic Income is a Brilliant Idea'. Here's Why. | Yanis Varoufakis
The welfare state is an ineffective and expensive system that hurts and targets the poor more than it helps. Universal basic income is a better alternative that could work. The question...
How Psychedelics Work: Fire the Conductor, Let the Orchestra Play | Michael Pollan 6 min
How Psychedelics Work: Fire the Conductor, Let the Orchestra Play | Michael Pollan
Michael Pollen explains the ego's "location" in the brain: It would be the default mode network, where much of your self-critical mind chatter happens. Taking psychedelics down-regulates...
How to Defeat Moral Grandstanders (and Stay Classy while Doing It) | Brandon Warmke 7 min
How to Defeat Moral Grandstanders (and Stay Classy while Doing It) | Brandon Warmke
These effective strategies can minimize harmful moral grandstanding – in yourself and in others.
Climate Denial Isn’t Stopping Climate Action. Here’s What Is. | David Wallace-Wells 4 min
Climate Denial Isn’t Stopping Climate Action. Here’s What Is. | David Wallace-Wells
Climate change denial draws headlines. But is it actually an obstacle to climate action?
3 Great Untruths to Stop Telling Kids—and Ourselves | Jonathan Haidt 6 min
3 Great Untruths to Stop Telling Kids—and Ourselves | Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt explains three areas where we need to update our understanding of the world.
How Overparenting Backfired on Americans | Jonathan Haidt 5 min
How Overparenting Backfired on Americans | Jonathan Haidt
Being raised indoors might the reason young Americans struggle in the adult world. - American childhood is going, going… gone, says Professor Jonathan Haidt. - In the mid-'90s there was...
Trump’s Not the Problem. He’s a Symbol of 4 Bigger Issues. - Ian Bremmer 7 min
Trump’s Not the Problem. He’s a Symbol of 4 Bigger Issues. - Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer: The problem is not Trump. Trump is a symptom. If the problem were Trump it wouldn’t be happening in other places around the world. We actually see all sorts of countries...
Jeremy Rifkin on the Fall of Capitalism and the Internet of Things 10 min
Jeremy Rifkin on the Fall of Capitalism and the Internet of Things
Economic theorist and author Jeremy Rifkin explains his concept of The Internet of Things. Rifkin's latest book is The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the...
Capitalism 2.0 Will Include a Healthy Dose of Socialism - Eric Weinstein 12 min
Capitalism 2.0 Will Include a Healthy Dose of Socialism - Eric Weinstein
Eric Weinstein: I get asked a lot about the state of capitalism and I think that for those members of society of a certain age we think of capitalism as being locked in an ideological...
Right-Wing Politics has a New Secret Weapon. Can the Left Harness It? - Jeremy Heimans 7 min
Right-Wing Politics has a New Secret Weapon. Can the Left Harness It? - Jeremy Heimans
The election of Donald J. Trump surprised many, most of all the Democrats. Jeremy Heimans, a political activist and the Founder of the online media company Purpose, explains it simply...
Why Controlling the Masses Through Media No Longer Works - Jordan Greenhall 9 min
Why Controlling the Masses Through Media No Longer Works - Jordan Greenhall
When television took over from print and radio as the dominant media in the second half of the 20th century, a hierarchy evolved in which the privileged few with TV camera access spoke...
Is the Trump Presidency a Religious Cult? - Reza Aslan 9 min
Is the Trump Presidency a Religious Cult? - Reza Aslan
Are fundamentalist Christians a dangerous religious cult? Possibly. The controversial author and religious scholar Reza Aslan posits that President Donald Trump has much of his...
Slavoj Žižek: Political Correctness is a More Dangerous Form of Totalitarianism 12 min
Slavoj Žižek: Political Correctness is a More Dangerous Form of Totalitarianism
Slavoj Žižek doesn't buy into political correctness. In fact, it frightens him. The famed philosopher and social critic describes political correctness as a tacit form of...
Exposing Liberal Hypocrisy and Conservative Close-Mindedness - Van Jones 16 min
Exposing Liberal Hypocrisy and Conservative Close-Mindedness - Van Jones
The amount of political disagreement in the nation is matched only by righteous indignation. But in order to disagree without disrespecting each other, we need to look hard at our own...
What the Best Science Really Says about Depression 6 min
What the Best Science Really Says about Depression
For almost the past 100 years, mental health professionals have told us that that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. However, there's a much more realistic theory...
Break Anxiety and Addiction by Examining Your Patterns 4 min
Break Anxiety and Addiction by Examining Your Patterns
Who are you? Good question. Harvard professor Michael Puett explores the idea of the "self", and how what you believe to be your true nature may actually just be patterns you've fallen...
Alan Alda on the Importance of Clear Communication 7 min
Alan Alda on the Importance of Clear Communication
Communication is more than a string of words that gets across static information. The language we use to converse does more than give facts—it can actually offer understanding. Take it...
How Comedy Can Disarm Bullies 3 min
How Comedy Can Disarm Bullies
As long as you're funny, it can get you out of almost anything - even getting mugged, as co-founder of Between Two Ferns Scott Aukerman recounts. Unfortunately, not everyone out there is...
Blockchain Tech Can Redistribute Power and Erase Borders 12 min
Blockchain Tech Can Redistribute Power and Erase Borders
Imagine a world where governments compete for your citizenships. Bitcoin and Blockchain expert Toni Lane Casserly explains how this technology could anoint people over institutions.
Heaven and Hell are Misunderstood Social Constructs 4 min
Heaven and Hell are Misunderstood Social Constructs
A lot of us are banking on heaven for ourselves and hell for certain others, but spiritual teacher Rob Bell urges us to think about those concepts as states of consciousness, and rethink...
Historical Context of Sanctioned Violence Against Black and Brown Bodies 6 min
Historical Context of Sanctioned Violence Against Black and Brown Bodies
Writer and Poet Clint Smith on the moment black lives began to officially matter, and the long history of pre-smartphone police brutality and state-sanctioned racism that preceded it.
1 Absurd Figure About Apples That Captures the Global Food Crisis 3 min
1 Absurd Figure About Apples That Captures the Global Food Crisis
Legendary food critic, author, and restaurant owner Ruth Reichl paints a fascinating portrait of our food crisis and explodes food myths that many of us take for granted.
Jesse Ventura: How About a Maximum Wage? 2 min
Jesse Ventura: How About a Maximum Wage?
How much income is too much? The former Minnesota governor rallies for the living wage and against the greed at the core of income inequality.
Bill Nye: Can We Stop Telling Women What to Do With Their Bodies? 5 min
Bill Nye: Can We Stop Telling Women What to Do With Their Bodies?
The Science Guy argues that most anti-abortion legislation is derived from outdated beliefs that predate smart science by fifty centuries.
Saul Williams on Pop Culture: "We're All Donald Trump's F---ing Apprentice" 5 min
Saul Williams on Pop Culture: "We're All Donald Trump's F---ing Apprentice"
Saul Williams, the "poet laureate of hip-hop," is troubled by society's rising reverence for ignorance and prestige. This is a stark departure from pop culture and music from the past...
A Simple Mind Trick Will Help You Think More Rationally 2 min
A Simple Mind Trick Will Help You Think More Rationally
Emotions can cloud our rational decision-making. By adopting the perspective of an outside advisor, psychologist Dan Ariely says we can inject some rationality into our cognitive...
There Are No Shortcuts, You Find Your Path By Walking It 2 min
There Are No Shortcuts, You Find Your Path By Walking It
Tavis Smiley dictates a letter to a young American with inspiration from his late friend, Maya Angelou. No matter how much you seek the answers to life from external sources, the truth...
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