Rene Descartes - 1000WordPhilosophy, Meditations on Philosophy 1-3 Explained
Descartes Meditations on Philosophy
Our Epistemological Crisis by Roger Berkowitz, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. 22 April 2021
David Epstein Knows Something About Everything. Freakonomics. 9 July 2021.
Google Arts and Culture Experiments
Hidden Brain. The Story of Stories. Why is my friend late? How does nuclear fission work? What occurs when I sneeze? We all need to understand why certain things happen. Some researchers think the drive to explain the world is a basic human impulse, similar to thirst or hunger. This week on Hidden Brain, we begin a three part series on why we tell stories. Psychologist Tania Lombrozo discusses how explanations can lead to discovery, delight, and disaster. 52 min listen
Olga, Kazhan. A Failure of Empathy - The Moral Machine. The Atlantic. 20 Sept 2021. 7 min read.
Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon. 4 min video
Questions no one knows the answers to. how many universes are there?; where are all the other life forms? 4 min video
Julian Baggini "How To Love A Less Free Will." Sydney Writer's Festival. 10 July 2016. 21 minutes audio. Do we have free will or not? What does free will really mean today? 10 minutes of Q and A after the main talk - 29 minutes total.
Dan Ariely. TED talk - "Are We In Control of our Decisions?" 9 May 2009. 17 minute video. About visual and cognitive illusions. He uses human science experiments as justification for his premise. He is a behavioral economist. FYI, he was severely burned in an explosion, when, as a child, he was preparing a traditional Israeli celebration that involved combustible materials.
Kathryn Schulz, On Being Wrong Ted Talk 2011. 17 minute video on what it is to be wrong, why we avoid it, why it is part of being human and makes the world wondrous.
Bainbridge and Prasad. "New Study Seeks to explain the Mandela Effect." The Conversation. 23 Sept 2022.
"Is the Western Way of raising kids weird?"
Why People Believe in Conspiracy Theories. Scientific American. 1 Sept 2013.
The Daily: The Alex Jones Verdict and the Fight Against Misinformation