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Big Thinkers join us to ruminate on a great question that they may — or may not — have pondered before.

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How to eat if you want to age slowly

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5 min

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Game theory can explain humanity’s biggest problem

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4 min

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Is marriage dying?

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6 min

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The mind-blowing virality of music

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5 min

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Michael Spitzer

Ask a physicist: Do humans have souls?

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5 min

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Sabine Hossenfelder

The physics of entropy and the origin of life

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6 min

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Should you bring a kid into this world?

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What psychedelics can’t explain

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4 min

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Matthew W. Johnson

Debate world champion explains how to argue

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1 in 3 people cheat. Here’s what to do if you’re the 1.

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5 min

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Michael Slepian

Columbia professor: “Drug use is your birthright”

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Can we build a Metaverse that’s GOOD?

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Celebrity CEOs are amazing. Until they backfire.

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dao leadership

DAOs: The end of bosses?

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2 min

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truth bias

Strengthen your internal lie detector

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3 min

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Experiencing flow state

How ‘flow state’ can heal trauma

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Is there an afterlife

Is there an afterlife? Here’s what he saw while he was ‘dead’

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Dr. Bruce Greyson

study tips

4 ways to hack your memory

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childhood trauma

How do you help kids traumatized by violence?

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3 min

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Bessel van der Kolk

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The ultimate psychedelics explainer

Johns Hopkins professor Dr. Matthew Johnson answers 24 huge questions about psychedelics.

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Berkeley professor explains gender theory

Sex, gender, and the debate over identity explained by Berkeley professor Judith Butler.

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