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Alien contact will challenge every belief system on Earth | Sara Seager

1:43:42

1177 BC: The vanishing of the first globalized world | Eric Cline: Full Interview

6:30

Your life needs more ‘existential grit.’ Here’s how to find it | Kate Bowler

1:19:02

Quantum entanglement and the illusion of time, in 79 minutes | Jim Al-Khalili: Full Interview

7:52

The chemistry on Earth's sister planet doesn't add up | Sara Seager

13:58

The idea so strange Einstein thought it broke quantum physics | Jim Al-Khalili

53:04

Lost technologies and the secrets they hold, in 53 minutes | Sam Kean: Full Interview

18:38

You’ve probably met a psychopath and didn’t know it | Abigail Marsh

58:13

Love is a skill, not a feeling | Alain de Botton: Full Interview

54:36

The most important piece of technology in your lifetime is this tiny chip | Chris Miller

19:27

Your brain wasn't built to hold this much information | Richard Cytowic

1:03:38

Why SETI might be our most humbling science | Jill Tarter: Full Interview

6:28

Why fearlessness beats experience every time | Steve Stoute for Big Think+

21:41

The surprisingly simple rules most investors break | Barry Ritholtz

8:22

Do reasons for living eventually run out? | Alex O'Connor

1:23:37

Why every computer still follows a 1940s blueprint | David Alan Grier: Full Interview

54:38

The biggest myth about aging, according to science | Morgan Levine: Full Interview

50:19

The problem with pretending quantum mechanics makes sense | Sean Carroll

53:14

Science’s difficult journey to try to understand consciousness | Annaka Harris: Full Interview

25:21

A “progressive Andrew Tate” isn’t the antidote to male radicalization | Richard Reeves

1:51:15

Stoicism for people who don’t want self-help | Massimo Pigliucci: Full Interview

14:59

Why James Bond would fail instantly as a real CIA spy | Andrew Bustamante

25:35

The real reason some people adapt faster than others | George Bonanno

16:56

What actually makes a good life, according to 85 years of data | Robert Waldinger

7:04

3 ways smart people stay stuck in failing patterns | Anne-Laure Le Cunff

54:34

How evolution works, in 54 minutes | Sean B. Carroll: Full Interview

1:23:18

Kids are losing their childhoods to screen addiction | Clare Morell

11:10

Michio Kaku: The impending collapse of digital computing as we know it

47:28

Yuval Noah Harari: Why advanced societies fall for mass delusion

6:17

The art and science of failing well

55:49

Why the next 25 years could surpass anything in modern memory | Peter Leyden: Full Interview

1:42:33

How childhood wiring impacts adult life, in 90 minutes | Becky Kennedy: Full Interview

8:51

3 challenges AI must overcome to unlock major productivity gains | Martin Gonzalez for Big Think +

15:46

The science of delivering cures straight to your cells | Eric Kelsic

2:09:04

How one psychedelic trip can alter an entire lifetime | Matthew Johnson: Full Interview

1:26:10

The strongest arguments for and against the existence of God | Alex O'Connor: Full Interview

57:47

Why you should see the world like a large language model | Dan Shipper: Full Interview

56:55

How two superpowers built fundamentally different futures | Dan Wang and Kmele Foster

41:14

Every major leap in human progress has this in common | Jason Crawford: Full Interview

3:22

How big tech is censoring LLMs

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We are living through a slowdown in human progress | Jason Crawford

1:24:15

Why the body doesn't keep the score: the real science of trauma in 90 mins I George Bonanno

13:25

How evolution works | Sean B. Carroll

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How to break the hidden limits of expertise | Atul Gawande for Big Think+

1:12:16

The illusion of shared reality | Anil Seth & Jonny Thomson

16:58

Sean Carroll: Einstein’s most radical thought

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Your life’s most important moments are flukes, not fate | Brian Klaas

2:53

Not all gratitude is created equal. A psychologist explains