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December 04, 2016 —
What is your biggest fear for the future of humanity?
MeaningofLife.tv Asks...
February 29, 2016 —
Nikita Petrov & Daniele Bolelli
- Daniele's new book Not Afraid and the practice of cage fighting
- In martial arts, you want to play it safe--but not too safe
- Raising a baby girl: the greater battle
- Other practices: meditation, psychedelics, and life in general
- The changing face and functions of online media
- Daniele's mix-and-match approach to philosophy and religion
June 02, 2019 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Sarah Marshall
Culturally Determined
- Remembering the Satanic ritual abuse panic of the 1980s
- How the McMartin case launched the panic
- Sarah: Recovered memory therapy created the idea of Satanic ritual abuse
- Why hasn't there been a large-scale reckoning with the panic?
- Contemporary resonances: witch hunts and moral panics
- Sarah visits Disney World and thinks about desire
- Why are there so many absent mothers in the Disney canon?
March 08, 2018 —
Stephen Asma & Rami Gabriel
Emotions and the Brain
- Puppet show: Why are human emotions unique?
- Does self-restraint make us human?
- Considering emotions as social constructs
- Stephen: If you have emotions, you have consciousness
- Artificial intelligence doesn't necessarily defer to it its creator
- How insects are like robots
- Does culture change how the brain reads emotion in faces?
April 26, 2018 —
Daniel Kaufman & Crispin Sartwell
Sophia
- Is masculinity treated as a pathology?
- Why girls are outperforming boys in class
- Disentangling gender and sex, culture and biology
- "Girl power" was a success, but at what social cost?
- Crispin's years as a teen revolutionary
- The modern school as a totalitarian institution
- What really explains high-security schools?
- How safe can we reasonably expect to be in society?
- Is the media distorting our narratives of crime and danger?
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