Groundbreaking chemist defines all of life in 2 words | Lee Cronin
AdultsLifePhilosophy...What is life, really? Despite our scientific advancements, we still don’t really know.
The Boltzmann Paradox
YouthHumanPhilosophy...How do you know you’re a person rather than a just-formed brain full of artificial memories?
The Newsroom - New Hit TV Show
AdultsPhilosophyTVBeginning scene of the new HBO series The Newsroom explaining why America's Not the Greatest Country Any Longer... But It Can Be.
The Origin of Consciousness
AdultsHumanPhilosophy...Consciousness is perhaps the biggest riddle in nature. In the first part of this three part video series, we explore the origins of consciousness and take a closer look on how unaware things became aware.
End of Space – Creating a Prison for Humanity
AdultsHumanPhilosophy...Space travel is the most exciting adventure for humanity, but in an irony of history we may stop ourselves from going into space the more we do it.
How far would you have to go to escape gravity?
AdultsPhilosophyScience...Every star, black hole, human being, smartphone and atom are all constantly pulling on each other due to one force: gravity.
What Is A Paradox?
AdultsMathPhilosophyA paradox is a statement that, despite apparently sound reasoning from true premises, leads to an apparently self-contradictory or logically unacceptable conclusion.
A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place
AdultsPhilosophyPsychology...Why should you care about the well-being of people half a globe away?
Open offices are overrated
AdultsPhilosophyWork...If you work in an office, there's a good chance it's an open one. How did we get here? And why is it so bad?
How to use rhetoric to get what you want - Camille A. Langston
AdultsHistoryPhilosophyHow do you get what you want, using just your words? Aristotle set out to answer exactly that question over two thousand years ago with a treatise on rhetoric. Camille A. Langston describes the fundamentals of deliberative rhetoric and shares some tips for appealing to an audience's ethos, logos, and pathos in your next speech.
LITERATURE - Voltaire
AdultsCreativityHistory...Voltaire was one of the wisest, funniest and cleverest people of the 18th century. He continues to have lots to teach us about toleration, modesty and kindness.
Who am I? A philosophical inquiry - Amy Adkins
AdultsPhilosophyPsychology...Throughout the history of mankind, the subject of identity has sent poets to the blank page, philosophers to the agora and seekers to the oracles. These murky waters of abstract thinking are tricky to navigate, so it's probably fitting that to demonstrate the complexity, the Greek historian Plutarch used the story of a ship. Amy Adkins illuminates Plutarch's Ship of Theseus.
The philosophy of Stoicism - Massimo Pigliucci
AdultsHistoryPhilosophyWhat is the best life we can live? How can we cope with whatever the universe throws at us and keep thriving nonetheless? The ancient Greco-Roman philosophy of Stoicism explains that while we may not always have control over the events affecting us, we can have control over how we approach things. Massimo Pigliucci describes the philosophy of Stoicism.
PHILOSOPHY - Nietzsche
AdultsPhilosophySelfNietzsche believed that the central task of philosophy was to teach us to 'become who we are'. Find out more by reading our book 'Life Lessons from Nietzsche '
The economics of beard popularity in the US
AdultsEconomyPhilosophy...We may have reached "peak beard."
Would you sacrifice one person to save five?
AdultsLifePhilosophy...Imagine you're watching a runaway trolley barreling down the tracks, straight towards five workers. You happen to be standing next to a switch that will divert the trolley onto a second track.
Post-Truth: Why Facts Don't Matter Anymore
AdultsPhilosophySocietyWhy we can't seem to agree on what's true when it's easier than ever to check.
Plato's best (and worst) ideas
AdultsHistoryPhilosophyFew individuals have influenced the world and many of today's thinkers like Plato. He created the first Western university and was teacher to Ancient Greece's greatest minds, including Aristotle.