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The Inner Trench: A Brief Anatomy of the Culture War
Since World War 2, the wars waged in the West have trended toward the symbolic: the proxy scuffles of the cold war, the “wars” on drugs and terror, the…
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The Modern Struggle: Will Humanity Overcome Its Creations?
The tools we create tend to fill us with fascination and fear alike.They provide enjoyment and upgrade our abilities. But they also contain new traps…
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Is Darwinism a Dehumanizing Philosophy? A Dive Into Evolutionary Theory With Award-winning Historian and Scholar, Dr. Richard Weikart
Once upon a time, human beings believed in creation myths. The basic pattern was this: in the beginning, divine forces brought order to chaos, infusing…
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Closing the Gratitude Gap
Here’s a headline you’ll never read: “This just in: we are living in the best time ever for humanity.”
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The Price of Truth, With Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist, Author and Lawyer Glenn Greenwald
The truth can be an elusive thing. From early on, we learn that it’s easier to get things wrong than to get them right. When we understand something, we…
Steven Pinker’s Case for Rational Optimism
Research shows that human beings have an inborn negativity bias: we tend to learn from, and use negative information far more than positive information…
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The Science of Optimal Experience: A Conversation With NYT Best-selling author Steven Kotler
We’re all familiar with the glib screensaver dream: “a hammock on the beach, between two palm trees, cocktail in hand, looking out over the turquoise…
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Shut Up And Move! A conversation With Movement Philosopher, Ido Portal
Life is movement.From one state to another. Order to chaos. Stillness to action. The flow never ends.But still, we work to contain it inside static…
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Why We Love Conspiracy Theories : A Deep Dive Into the Psychology Research
Here are the seven reasons based on my evidence-based dive into the literature.
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Why Do Generations Clash? A Conversation With Social Psychologist and Author Dr. Jean Twenge
For most of history, the realm of culture changed very slowly. The memes we shared – not cute social media gifs, but the “units of cultural…
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Optimizing Our Mental Frames: A Conversation With Unicorn Entrepreneur and Founder of Impact Theory, Tom Bilyeu
There’s a word that gets thrown around so much these days, many falsely assume it’s a flakey term straight out of the New Age book section. The word is…
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The Practical Learning Playbook, With Author, Podcaster and Serial Entrepreneur James Altucher
Mark Twain once wrote, “I’ve never let schooling interfere with my education.”In that spirit, some of our most successful entrepreneurs were either bad…
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