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AdultsHealthHumanLife...Being a human in the 21st century often feels frustrating. We are clearly at the high point of our species, while at the same time life is incredibly hard! We are divided, unable to solve our problems while creating new ones, destroying our world in the process.
America is rife with political traps. What’s your escape route? | The Dilemma Ep. 3
AdultsEducationPoliticsPsychology...Can we let go of the need to win arguments without losing a part of who we are?
Why loneliness feels so real, even when it’s not | Kasley Killam
AdultsHealthHumanPsychology...Challenging the loneliness stigma can change your life. Here’s how to start.
How should we measure intelligence? | Mary-Helen Immordino Yang
AdultsHumanPsychologySociety...Our society has an obsession with quantifying everything, often applying measurements and numerical values where they aren't necessary.
How to Disagree with Respect — Not Hate | Spencer J. Cox | TED
AdultsHumanPoliticsPsychology...Spencer J. Cox, Republican governor of the state of Utah in the United States, says that even in these deeply polarized times, it's still possible to disagree without hate or contempt.
Why US Politics Is Broken — and How To Fix It | Andrew Yang | TED
AdultsHumanPoliticsPsychology...The electoral system in the United States needs a redesign, says political reformer Andrew Yang.
How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future
AdultsHumanPoliticsProductivity...In a scorching talk, marketing professor and podcaster Scott Galloway dissects the data showing that, by many measures, young people in the US are worse off financially than ever before.
Why Korea is Dying Out
AdultsHistoryHumanScience...Every two years one million Japanese disappear, China’s population will halve by the end of the century, the median age in Italy has reached 48. All around the world birth rates are crashing – Is humanity dying out? What is going on and how bad is it?
Blindness Isn't a Tragic Binary — It's a Rich Spectrum | Andrew Leland | TED
AdultsBiologyHumanScience...When does vision loss become blindness? Writer, audio producer and editor Andrew Leland explains how his gradual loss of vision revealed a paradoxical truth about blindness -- and shows why it might have implications for how all of us see the world.
Truth Decay
AdultsHistoryLifePsychology...Trust is eroding, in part, due to the over-abundance of opinion-based content; we must all develop better tools and habits for consuming information to regain a shared understanding of what is true.
Is capitalism actually broken?
AdultsBusinessEconomyIndustry...People have become increasingly worried that the threats we face today, like climate change and rising inequality, can’t be solved by a capitalist economic system. So, is that true? And if it is, can we fix capitalism or do we need to tear the system down and build a new one from scratch? Explore the different types of capitalism and the role it plays in our society.