videos

We’re afraid to talk about money–and that costs us.

“There’s a sense of crisis today that we did not have in the 1980’s or 90’s” — economist Tyler Cowen on progress in America.

How to defeat debaters who deal in distractions, according to a two-time world debate champion.

Male inequality — the enormous cultural shift happening right under our nose.

Why do so many cultures celebrate holidays at the same time of year?

How did complex systems emerge from chaos? Physicist Sean Carroll explains.

Deep secrets don’t explode. They do something worse, explains Michael Slepian.

In 1965, six boys were stranded on an island. Fifteen months later, the survivors were rescued. How many were there?

Climate change. War. Civil unrest. Is it responsible to have kids today?

Our society is in a mental health crisis. Are psychedelics the way out?

If your inner voice is cruel, try these steps to reclaim your mind.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Universe, explained by physicist Sean Carroll.

Our impulse to seek out agreement is stifling us, says world debate champion Bo Seo.

What astronaut Ron Garan saw in space changed his life forever – here’s what it taught him.

Think via Bayes’ rule to become more rational and less brainwashed.

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That old adage roughly sums up the idea of antifragility, a term coined by the statistician and writer Nassim Taleb. The term refers […]

What do physicists actually mean when they talk about the multiverse?

Can psychedelics solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness? A Johns Hopkins professor explains.

Pessimism sounds smart. Optimism sounds dumb. Don’t fall for it, says Wired’s Kevin Kelly.

The real risks of psychedelics, explained by a Johns Hopkins expert.

This scientist collected thousands of secrets. They all had 3 things in common.

We don’t need one Elon Musk. We need 8 billion empathic futurists.

Bo Seo, Harvard’s former debate coach, explains a good argument.

Stress shrinks your brain. Neuroscientist Lisa Genova explains how to strengthen it.

A psychiatrist studied 1,000 near-death experiences. Here’s what he discovered.

Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman debunks the ‘10,000 steps per day’ myth.

He lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.

Short-term thinkers take shortcuts. Take the long path instead, explains futurist Ari Wallach.

CRISPR’s gene drive can defy evolution. Here’s how, explained by Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna.

Should you confess to cheating? A Columbia ethics professor explains.