Psychopaths

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James Gleick, Paul Ekman, James Fallon

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Are You a Psychopath? Take the Test.

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5 min

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bigthinkeditor

James Gleick on the Common Character Traits of Geniuses

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3 min

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James Gleick

Here’s How to Catch a Liar, If You Really Want To

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6 min

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Paul Ekman

The Supergenius: Inside the genius brain

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2 min

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Michio Kaku

Is Your Partner a Psychopath? Here’s How to Tell and What You Can Do.

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3 min

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with

Kevin Dutton

Would You Vote for a Psychopath?

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4 min

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James Fallon

Discovering One’s Hidden Psychopathy, With James Fallon

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14 min

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James Fallon

Superhumans: The remarkable brain waves of high-level meditators

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3 min

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Daniel Goleman

How to spot high-conflict people before it’s too late

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5 min

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Bill Eddy

We’ve been wrong about happiness. Here’s what philosophy says

“I think happiness is not a smiling face, it’s more a smiling soul.”

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5 min

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Jonny Thomson

A man in a black suit sits on a chair against a white backdrop, surrounded by several monarch butterflies on a bright blue background.

Your life is at the mercy of seemingly random tiny events

“It’s a true fact, but a bizarre one, that the reason why hundreds of thousands of people died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki rather than Kyoto and Kokura, is because of a 19-year-old vacation and a passing cloud.”

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01:36:26 min

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Brian Klaas

The question nobody’s asking about space colonization

“There is interesting ethical questions about how we should actually conduct ourselves in [a space colonization] exploration phase.”

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9 min

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David Kipping

How close are we to finding alien life?

“There’s a long history of people claiming planets which look Earth-like, Earth 2.0, Earth twins.”

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19 min

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David Kipping

Conflict, crisis, consumption: What’s eating our nation?

“The more uncertain and scary things get in the world, the more we as humans are drawn to simple dichotomies.”

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01:18:14 min

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Amanda Ripley