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Cultural Practices
4mins
Americans believe they can outthink suffering. Historian Kate Bowler explains how our obsession with self-help, optimization, and positivity became a kind of secular religion.
53mins
Sam Kean examines how rogue archaeologists are recreating the sounds, tastes, smells, and practices of the ancient past.
13mins
“All information technologies up to the 21st century were organic networks based on our organic brain.”
6mins
Biology plays an important role in emotional reactions, but neuroscientist Kristen A. Lindquist posits that our culture is just as influential.
Unlikely Collaborators
4mins
Why do so many cultures celebrate holidays at the same time of year?
John Templeton Foundation
4mins
Rituals come as much from religion as they do from the way Earth spins around the Sun.