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We've been conditioned to believe that music taste is based on personal preference. But it might just be a lot more complex than that.
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Could an economic revolution end the depression epidemic?
7mins
Yale professor Amy Chua on the identity of nations, why hardened tribes end up in civil wars, and why you can't just replace dictators with democracy.
3mins
Pop quiz! Which NASA mission has been most critical to humanity? (Hint: it's not the Moon landing.)
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Having a goal to change the world for the better is great. But what's more important, says Chelsea Clinton, is having a plan to make it happen.
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If aliens do exist, posits theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, why would they want anything to do with us?
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How do we reconcile American culture when an increasing amount of it is made by sex offenders? It's not a new phenomenon. Actress, author, and whistleblower Rose McGowan is here to tell you that American culture has been screwed up for a long, long time.
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How do you stop domestic violence in a country with a 1%-2.5% conviction rate? Pakistan's first-ever Violence Against Women Center makes it safer for survivors of crime to report and prosecute.
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The scandalous history of the Billboard Hot 100 is the perfect analogy for how Donald Trump's popularity broke the rigid power structure of American politics.
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"Anybody who expected a wonderful happy global community to form on the Internet in which everybody would share cat videos has been gravely disappointed."
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Thanks in no small part to the digitization of our social lives, depression is becoming a bigger and bigger issue in western societies. So how do we reverse it?
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Sending a tiny spaceship to the nearest habitable planet at 20% of the speed of light? No problem, says theoretical physicist Michio Kaku.
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What can cause a ripple in both space and time? Neutron stars colliding. And what can observe that phenomenon? A two-mile-long laser.
6mins
Over the last 50 years, the NRA has gone from reasonable to absolutists, reinterpreting the constitution for all of us along the way.
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Rejection can be soul-crushing, but what if there was an upside? Here's how really listening to the word "no" can make you more successful.
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Why is it awkward to listen to a recording of your own voice? What makes us cringe? A deep study of awkwardness has the answers.
6mins
Grit is something you can't learn in schools, but can only learn in the real world. Or, by watching this video. From Harvard historian Nancy Koehn, here's what great leaders throughout history can tell you about resilience.
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Contrary to what we've been told for decades, depression isn't coming from inside our heads. This author and big thinker tells us that it's coming much more from the society we live in.
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It isn't easy to become a Navy SEAL. First you have to get through 18 months of training… and the appropriately named Hell Week.