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What's the point of religion? #shorts The case for gap years #shorts The worldwide success gap #shorts Update your brain's software with 'de-centering' #shorts How bacteria invented humanity's most powerful tool Why we all become our parents Are humans really an evolutionary success? The dangers of religion The origins of AI This thought pattern is keeping you miserable How religion creates simulations in our minds Every weak argument lacks this one thing The success myth that nobody talks about Reclaim your calendar with time-blocking How to harness your inner resilience Why aren’t there more intelligent creatures on Earth? Pessimists vs. optimists. Who wins? Discovering the 4th fundamental force of nature How to hack your intuition The neuroscience of acting on autopilot Neil deGrasse Tyson on knowing who you are Exploring the 4th dimension How to explain difficult concepts Reclaim your attention span like this It's okay not to be motivated by money Has American progress flatlined? The evolutionary advantage of friendship How to tame your toxic inner voice How Earth’s axis created human rituals Un-brainwash yourself with Bayesian thinking Why ‘protopia’ is the word you’ve been looking for How to be a good ancestor How almost dying changes you forever What will CRISPR create? “The Body Keeps the Score” author explains trauma What the ‘antifragility’ hype is all about Your brain’s secret productivity on-switch, and how to control it What pro chefs can teach us about changing bad behaviors What are people doing without religion? 1% of our genome explains so, so much It’s suffering that makes life meaningful The problem with our hyper-stress on justice. Hear from theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili on the workings of the Universe.