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Ask a scientist about Hollywood, and you'll probably get eye rolls. But ask someone in Hollywood about science, and they'll see dollar signs: Moviemakers know that science can be the source of great stories, with all the drama and action that blockbusters require. That's a huge mistake, says Randy Olson: Hollywood has a lot to teach scientists about how to tell a story - and, ultimately, how to do science better. With Houston, We Have a Narrative, he lays out a stunningly simple method for turning the dull into the dramatic.

How does the brain work? How different is a human brain from other creatures' brains? Is the human brain still evolving? In this fascinating book, Michael O'Shea provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and findings in current brain research, and gives a sense of how neuroscience addresses questions about the relationship between the brain and the mind.

All social groups have ideals for behavior, even though ethics vary among different cultures and among individuals within each culture. In trying to understand why, Churchland brings together an understanding of the influences of nature and nurture. She looks to evolution to elucidate how, from birth, our brains are configured to form bonds, to cooperate, and to care. Conscience delves into scientific studies, particularly the fascinating work on twins, to deepen our understanding of whether people have a predisposition to embrace specific ethical stands.

What does it actually mean to be rational? The kind of rationality where you make good decisions, even when it's hard; where you reason well, even in the face of massive uncertainty; where you recognize and make full use of your fuzzy intuitions and emotions, rather than trying to discard them. In Rationality: From AI to Zombies, Eliezer Yudkowsky explains the science underlying human irrationality with a mix of fables, argumentative essays, and personal vignettes. These eye-opening accounts of how the mind works (and how, all too often, it doesn't) are then put to the test through some ...

For thousands of years those of Ra have sought to teach the Law of One to seekers of truth on Earth who wished to learn of the unity or oneness of all things. This basic law of all creation is buried deep within each of our hearts because we really are one in love and in light, the building blocks of the universe. We are all manifestations of the one infinite creator. We are the creator. We are not learning this law for the first time but are remembering it yet again as all mystics have taught throughout Earth’s history.

Research is anchored by assumptions. How do we complete research—and why? This book—The Three Monkeys of Research—explores epistemology, ontology and methodology. Tara Brabazon explores how ideas become knowledge, and how arguments are verified, believed and disseminated to scholars, stakeholders and citizens.

Welcome to Edgar Cayce Reflections! Our mission is to introduce listeners to the vast array of information from the Cayce readings, which complements the overall mission of our nonprofit organization to provide individuals from all walks of life, levels of education, and religious backgrounds with tools for personal empowerment and healing at all levels--body, mind, and spirit. Join us as we explore meditation, mindfulness, holistic health, ancient mysteries, perspectives on the afterlife, reincarnation, intuition, psychic development, and much, much more. Guests include expert authors and ...

This is the official interdisciplinary podcast of the Research Ethics Association (REA), hosted by Genetics SIG coordinator Rebekah White. Get a behind-the-scenes look at research ethics across a range of fields, directly from the researchers themselves.Whether you are a well-established researcher, brand new, transitioning into a new discipline, or just generally interested in a topic, we always welcome episode suggestions!Find us at ethics-association.org/podcast. REA aims to provide a platform for education, meaningful dialogue, awareness, and positive engagement with research ethics within...

A podcast in which we take a look at research papers and discuss their results.

From Plato to quantum physics, Walter Benjamin to experimental poetry, Frantz Fanon to the history of political radicalism, The Podcast for Social Research is a crucial part of our mission to forge new, organic paths for intellectual work in the twenty-first century: an ongoing, interdisciplinary series featuring members of the Institute, and occasional guests, conversing about a wide variety of intellectual issues, some perennial, some newly pressing. Each episode centers on a different topic and is accompanied by a bibliography of annotations and citations that encourages further curiosity ...

“A fascinating, thoughtful, and thoroughly enjoyable exploration of a major dimension of human experience.”— Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works A maverick scientist reveals the inconsistent and often paradoxical ways humans think, feel, and behave towards animals in this...

Into the mind is a podcast where academics discuss cutting-edge research on consciousness and its altered states from neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and anthropology. Into the mind is brought you by the ALIUS Research Group. To find out more about our work, head over www.aliusresearchgroup.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Practical Criticism is a series of the Podcast for Social Research. Each episode features a discussion of a different object from the cultural sphere; the catch is that only one participant knows in advance what that object is.

What if God is the best friend we could ever have, the funniest, most huggable, gets all our jokes, including the revelation that God is the REAL LIFE presence of every aspect of life, we are always now and always have been in the perfect presence of a Loving God What if we are the best, funniest and most huggable friend God could ever have and we get all God's jokes, including the revelation we are the REAL LIFE presence of every aspect of God, God is always now and always has been in the perfect presence of our Loving Spirit

Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the book every beginning writer should have on their shelf to prepare them. Less a guide to writing and more a guide to what you need to continue existing as a writer, On Writing and Failure: Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer describes the defining role played by rejection in literary endeavors and contemplates failure as the essence of the writer’s life.

The mission of this podcast is to interview people with ideas and experiences to learn from life.

What was a Buddhist monk doing at the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos lecturing the world's leaders on mindfulness? Why do many successful corporations have a chief happiness officer? What can the chemical composition of your brain tell a potential employer about you? In the past decade, governments and corporations have become increasingly interested in measuring the way people feel: the Happiness index, Gross National Happiness, well-being and positive psychology have come to dominate the way we live our lives.

Day by Day, is a new concept to help you master the whole of Breslov teachings – and make Rebbe Nachman’s guidance and encouragement part of your everyday life. Each day, you’ll spend a short time studying excerpts from ten major Breslov works. On this schedule, you’ll complete all these books in a year’s time. These include the Rebbe’s seminal teachings: The Aleph-bet Book, Rebbe Nachman’s Stories, Tzaddik, and Rebbe Nachman’s Wisdom. Also included are works by Reb Noson which exemplify and illuminate the Rebbe’s teachings: Kitzur Likutey Moharan, Reb Noson’s Prayers, and ...

This is a podcast which is for Freemasons and anyone who wants to know more about Freemasonry. Hosted by Robert Johnson, a member of several appendant bodies within Freemasonry. The show features a weekly episode where Masonic papers are read and discussed, famous Freemasons are explored and Masonic news is shared. Freemasonry for today.

Welcome to the (post-)apocalypse, where long COVID has disabled the masses. Follow disabled philosopher of disability Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril as she explores the landscape of chronic care past and present to better imagine disabled futures. Disability communities are warning us that an age of enhanced eugenics is nigh; people are being told their symptoms are not real; official public health messaging is that the pandemic is over; treating people living with long COVID is far from straightforward. Let a philosopher lead the investigation, if you dare.