Paul Bloom: The Psychology of Everything
Hello, my name is Paul Bloom and I’m a Professor of Psychology at Yale University. And what I want to do today is present a...
How Art Can Change Society, with Sarah Lewis
One of the reasons that I love writing about the arts, you know, curating work is not even so much that you’re able to honor...
What if all humanity had to do to save itself was listen? | Dustin Yellin
I think that everything is invented, right? So I think civilization is a hallucination, or civilization is a sculpture. Everything that we experience we’ve also...
Does our society incentivize disinformation? | Daniel Schmachtenberger
So if I’m in a competitive game and I have some information about reality, the reality of the playing field that I’m in then that...
How STEM Was Born: And Why Scientists Needs Humanists | Earl Lewis
A number of commentators over the last decade maybe two decades have talked about what I think of as skills development meaning do you have...
The death of democracy? Why unintelligent protest may wreck society
Society-wide, people are becoming ever more tribal. And tribalism is as old as social groups, which is older than humans. So it’s no surprise that...
Brad Templeton: Today’s Surveillance Society is Beyond Orwellian
We went, and by we I meant all of us, we went and built this wonderful Internet thing you’ve heard of. And we’re all using...
Do Humans Have Free Will, Or Are We Programmed By Society? | Joscha Bach
Like consciousness, free will is often misunderstood because we know it by reference, but it’s difficult to know it by content, what you really mean...
The incredible reason spotted hyena society is ruled by females | Lucy Cooke
So, very recently, during the whole Harvey Weinstein scandal, Weinstein was compared to a hyena. This is one of those instances where I just shook...
Michio Kaku on the Evolution of Intelligence
Some people think that intelligence is the crowning achievement of evolution. Well if that’s true there should be more intelligent creatures on the planet Earth....