What Is Something?
AdultsPhysicsSpacePhilosophy...What is something? On the most fundamental level thinkable, what are things? Why are things? And why do things behave the way they do?
Is life a video game? | Elon Musk | Code Conference 2016
AdultsGamingLifePsychology...Is our life a simulation? Elon Musk has thought about this a lot.
Did The Past Really Happen? Vsauce
AdultsHistoryWorldPhilosophyGreece is full of wonderful new things and wonderful old things. But when WE become old things, will our ruins also be tourist attractions?
What is Random?
AdultsInternet CultureMathPhilosophy...Is the future of the universe already determined?
How To Count Past Infinity
AdultsMathSciencePhilosophyI'm very grateful to mathematician Hugh Woodin, Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at Harvard, for taking the time on multiple occasions to discuss this topic with me and help me wrap my (finite) head around it.
4 Logical Paradoxes!!
AdultsInternet CulturePhilosophyScience4 Logical Paradoxes That Will Boggle Your Mind
How a Bout of Depression Led to Dwayne Johnson's Career-Defining Moment
AdultsPhilosophyPsychologySportsAfter playing football for four years at the University of Miami, Dwayne Johnson was passed over by the NFL. While he played for the Canadian Football League for a short time, he was ultimately cut from his team, the Calgary Stampeders, and sent packing. At 23, Dwayne found himself living in his parents' small apartment, battling depression
How do you know you exist?
AdultsLifePhilosophyArtHow do you know you're real? Is existence all just a big dream? Has some mad scientist duped us into simply believing that we exist? James Zucker investigates all of these questions (and more) in this mind-boggling tribute to Rene Descartes's "Meditations on First Philosophy."
The famously difficult green-eyed logic puzzle
AdultsCreativityPhilosophyOne hundred green-eyed logicians have been imprisoned on an island by a mad dictator. Their only hope for freedom lies in the answer to one famously difficult logic puzzle. Can you solve it? Alex Gendler walks us through this green-eyed riddle.
What makes a hero?
AdultsLifePhilosophyPsychologyWhat trials unite not only Harry Potter or Frodo Baggins but many of literature's most interesting heroes? And what do ordinary people have in common with these literary heroes? Matthew Winkler takes us step-by-step through the crucial events that make or break a hero.
How to build a fictional world
AdultsCreativityPhilosophyBooks...Why is J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy so compelling? How about The Matrix or Harry Potter? What makes these disparate worlds come alive are clear, consistent rules for how people, societies -- and even the laws of physics -- function in these fictional universes. Author Kate Messner offers a few tricks for you, too, to create a world worth exploring in your own words.
What are the universal human rights?
AdultsPhilosophyPoliticsSociety...The basic idea of human rights is that each one of us, no matter who we are or where we are born, is entitled to the same basic rights and freedoms. That may sound straightforward enough, but it gets incredibly complicated as soon as anyone tries to put the idea into practice. What exactly are the basic human rights? Who gets to pick them? Who enforces them-and how? Benedetta Berti explores the subtleties of human rights.
Would You Rather Be Rich Or Happy?
AdultsPhilosophySocietyKids say the darndest things - but sometimes they offer some serious insight. We played "Would You Rather" with kids ages 3 to 11 to see if they had anything to teach us adults. Visit aplus.com/s/readresssuccess for more.
Former President of Uruguay
AdultsPhilosophyPoliticsJose Mujica, nicknamed Pepe Mujica, was President of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. A former Tupamaros freedom fighter in the 60s and the 70s, he was detained, like a hostage by the dictatorship between 1973 and 1985. He advocates a philosophy of life focused on sobriety: learn to live with what is necessary and fairest.
Our Greatest Delusion
AdultsLifePhilosophyI am working on some big new projects I'm excited to share with you!
A three year old delivers the most intense motivational speech of all-time
AdultsLeadershipPhilosophyThis might have been inspired by Shia LeBeouf's performance of Joshua Parker's script.
Experiment Shows That All Of Us Are Naturally Altruistic
AdultsHumanPhilosophySociety...Put to work at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, Alan Alda finds out how children will help, and like it, while chimps are less inclined to offer enthusiastic assistance.
Simply Delicious Thoughts with Cookie Monster
AdultsFoodPhilosophyEntertainmentCookie Monster Has Some deep Thoughts On The Philosophy Of Food.
Exploring other dimensions - Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan
AdultsPhysicsScienceBooks...Imagine a two-dimensional world -- you, your friends, everything is 2D. In his 1884 novella, Edwin Abbott invented this world and called it Flatland. Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan take the premise of Flatland one dimension further, imploring us to consider how we would see dimensions different from our own and why the exploration just may be worth it.