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Demography Takeaway
Joel Cohen
A human hand is positioned palm up below a floating anatomical model of a human brain against a plain light blue background.
3mins
Perception Box
How humans create reality through language and beliefs
Agustín Fuentes, Daniel Dennett & Ethan Kross
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A split image showing the left half of a woman's face and the right half as a digital brain with neural connections and data waves.
7mins
Perception Box
Trauma, healing, and your nervous system explained
Wendy Suzuki, James Doty & Bessel van der Kolk
Unlikely Collaborators
An older man with glasses stands next to a diagram of a brain highlighting the “core imprint of trauma” with a red dot and an arrow.
6mins
Perception Box
Trauma makes your world feel small — here’s how to open it up again
Bessel van der Kolk
Unlikely Collaborators
A person with short dark hair and a beard sits indoors wearing a brown jacket and dark shirt. The background features blurred indoor elements and a tree.
8mins
Perception Box
Dhar Mann on failure, fatherhood, and the spreadsheet that changed his life
Dhar Mann
Unlikely Collaborators
Illustration featuring an eye, an ear, and a hand, each encircled by overlapping multicolored circles.
7mins
Perception Box
How to step out of your inner monologue and understand the world better
David Eagleman
Unlikely Collaborators
A person with long, curly blonde hair wearing a dark green blouse stands against a plain background.
7mins
Perception Box
How to navigate loneliness, according to neuroscience
Kasley Killam
Unlikely Collaborators
A pencil fills in the first answer bubble on a multiple-choice test sheet, option "1" for question 90.
1mins
The Well
The big problem with how we measure “intelligence”
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
A melting clock drapes over a bare tree branch in a surreal, barren landscape with simple geometric shapes and muted colors.
7mins
The Well
Is there a second arrow of time? New research says yes
Robert Hazen
John Templeton Foundation
A man with dreadlocks standing in front of a bush.
6mins
Perception Box
Shaka Senghor explains how he found inner peace after life in prison
Shaka Senghor
Unlikely Collaborators
A man in a black shirt with speech bubbles that say trauma comics art.
6mins
Perception Box
Comics, trauma and art: the origin story of Jim Lee
Jim Lee
Unlikely Collaborators
A man with glasses and a brain in front of a yellow background.
6mins
Perception Box
Can you trust your memory? This neuroscientist isn’t so sure
André Fenton
Unlikely Collaborators
5mins
Perception Box
Michael Oher on what “The Blind Side” didn’t show
Michael Oher
Unlikely Collaborators
An image of a woman sitting in a chair in front of an auditorium.
Perception Box
Can you trust your own brain? Neuroscientist Heather Berlin explains
Heather Berlin
Unlikely Collaborators
Black and white illustration of a plant stem cross-section with honeycomb-like cell structure, shown on a green background.
8mins
The Well
Can cells think?
Michael Levin
A surreal painting shows a large distorted human face with closed eyes, supported by sticks, floating above a calm landscape with a boat and building in the background.
4mins
The Well
The evolutionary significance of dreaming
Patrick McNamara
A hand pinches a small spiral galaxy between its fingers against a background of stars in space.
4mins
The Well
Can you separate science from the scientist?
Agustín Fuentes
The text "8 BILLION" appears with an illustrated globe replacing the "O" in "BILLION" on a black background.
6mins
The Well
Humans & planet Earth: Do we really know our place?
Agustín Fuentes
A painting showing a large open-mouthed face with miniature people and boats entering the mouth; the scene is dark and surreal.
5mins
The Well
Can we condition ourselves to be heroes?
Robert M Sapolsky
5mins
Personal Growth
Why divergent thinkers beat geniuses in the real world
David Epstein
Workforce automation
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Jamie Merisotis
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post secondary education
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Sludge: How paperwork, wait times, and confusion degrade our well-being
Cass Sunstein
Sleeping beauty sleeps in an enchanted forest.
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Happiness and why “happily ever after” is a myth
Tal Ben-Shahar
Thinking
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Life
About that “A-word”
Mark Moring

Cohen explains that population, economics, and environment are a dynamic, interconnected system – and that no single element holds the key to solving the world's problems.

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