Category: Saturday with Budthu (SwB)

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What Is Mental Immunity and How to Build It-Andy Norman

Andy Norman is an award-winning author and public philosopher who has done extensive research on the evolutionary origins of human reasoning and the norms that make dialogue fruitful. He finds his studies of how ideologies short-circuit minds and corrupt moral understanding a particularly relevant topic in today’s world....

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Something from Nothing-Richard Dawkins & Lawrence Krauss

Critically-acclaimed author and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and world-renowned theoretical physicist and author Lawrence Krauss discuss biology, cosmology, religion, and a host of other topics at this event entitled ‘Something for Nothing’. This video was recorded at The Australian National University on 10 April 2012.

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Mental Immunity & the Search for a Better Way to Think- Andy Norman

In this episode of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Andy Norman, an award-winning author, public philosopher, and prominent advocate for the field of “cognitive immunology,” which studies the mind’s resistance to bad ideas. In this conversation you will learn how mental immunity works, how epidemics of irrationality...

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Sapiens and Pandemic: A Special Discussion with Yuval Noah Harari

Students in Japan engage in a virtual lesson from historian Yuval Noah Harari, author of the best-selling book “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” regarding how clues from the past can be used to forecast what the future has in store. https://youtu.be/9drNVSuyp0w

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Michael Shermer w/ Helen Pluckrose-from Skeptic

Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn’t practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can...

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The Royal Institution -Science lives here

The Royal Institution is a 200 year old independent charity based in London dedicated to connecting people with the world of science through events, education, and the CHRISTMAS LECTURES(Started by Michael Faraday in 1825, and now broadcast on national television every year, the CHRISTMAS LECTURES are the UK’s...