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Neuroscience
9mins
Your chronological age and your biological age aren’t the same thing. This ex-Yale professor explains how to tell the difference.
6mins
From DMT elves, to God, to the figures in our dreams — why are humans so obsessed with the supernatural?
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A University of Oxford professor explains how conscious machines are possible.
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This is not your average dream interpreter. Nightmares, as explained by a neuroscientist.
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Experimental neuroscientist Patrick McNamara on how we can harness spiritual experiences to explore alternate realities in our minds, and transform our models of the self.
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Your sexual education was probably inadequate. Here’s the information you always needed.
5mins
Expert Michael Spitzer explains how culture can “tune” your musical taste.
8mins
Your brain on sex, love, and rejection with biological anthropologist Helen Fisher.
5mins
Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky on the science of temptation, and the limitations of your brain’s frontal cortex.
7mins
Humans are musical animals four million years in the making, explained by music expert Michael Spitzer.
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“What you pay attention to, is your life.” Where do you place precious brain resources?
John Templeton Foundation
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Do humans have souls, or are we just particles? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains.
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Our society is in a mental health crisis. Are psychedelics the way out?
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Universe, explained by physicist Sean Carroll.
4mins
Can psychedelics solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness? A Johns Hopkins professor explains.
9mins
Stress shrinks your brain. Neuroscientist Lisa Genova explains how to strengthen it.
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A psychiatrist studied 1,000 near-death experiences. Here’s what he discovered.
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Futurist Ari Wallach shares how to become future-conscious.
7mins
The ultimate definition of trauma, explained by leading psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk.
John Templeton Foundation
6mins
Debates about the existence of free will traditionally have been fought by two competing camps: those who believe in free will and those who don’t because they believe the Universe […]
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Jimena Canales shares the “demons” that shaped computer science.
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Psychedelic medicines are surging in popularity. Here’s how they work.
8mins
The next time you see your dog sniffing the pavement or another dog’s junk, you should let them. Here’s why.
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Is science destined to crack the code of consciousness—and how would we even go about it?
John Templeton Foundation
We all want to have a good, stable relationship with somebody, says Dr. Helen Fisher. So it's important to understand how intense romantic love affects our long-term goals.
John Templeton Foundation
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What the ‘decade of the brain’ taught us about drug addiction. (Hint, we had it all wrong before.)
The concept is so complex that scientists still argue whether it exists or if it is an illusion.
John Templeton Foundation
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How to see through the lies that surround us.