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The sexual desire masterclass, with Dr. Emily Nagoski

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The ultimate guide to rationality

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a painting of a woman and a man with the words is it liberation?.

Has the sexual revolution backfired?

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3 rules of persuasion for empathic leaders

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How to think creatively on command

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Play this card game to solve your team’s biggest problem

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Our primordial drive for sex and love

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Why you shouldn’t hire the smartest job candidate

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Why psychopaths rise to power

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How to smell a weak argument coming

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How America lost its mind — and how to get rationality back

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3 game theory tactics, explained

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How to live after your soulmate has died

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Michelle Thaller

Stoicism: How to turn your sadness into strength

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The 10 biggest world threats of 2023, ranked

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How to double your brain power

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Harvard professor argues for rationality

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The mind-blowing stats on male inequality

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The “heroic dose” of psychedelics, according to Johns Hopkins

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Matthew W. Johnson

The Universe in 90 minutes: The Multiverse, time, free will, God, & more

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The Multiverse is real — just not in the way you think it is

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9 tactics to build a stronger memory and mind

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The bizarre history of exercise explained in 8 minutes

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Daniel Lieberman

Anthropologist debunks Darwin’s most abused idea

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Why geniuses hunt demons for sport

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The psychology of keeping secrets inside

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Michael Slepian

The incredible science behind dogs’ sense of smell

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The big lesson Carl Sagan taught his daughter

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metaverse

The metaverse explained in 14 minutes

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history of music

40,000 years of music explained in 8 minutes

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Michael Spitzer

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Finding the world’s next “hidden genius”

What makes some scientists culturally significant, while others remain in obscurity? Well, there’s a science to it.

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9 min

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Albert-László Barabási

a pink brain with the words extend your mind.

The critical productivity skill nobody teaches you

No one is teaching us how to be online. That’s a problem.

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The sexual desire masterclass, with Dr. Emily Nagoski

Your sexual education was probably inadequate. Here’s the information you always needed.

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Embrace the “dark horse” mindset to find success

It has perhaps never been easier to feel as if you’ve fallen behind in life. From the anxieties of comparing yourself to others online to our fetishization of success, it […]

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Sarah Robb O’Hagan

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The ultimate guide to rationality

Steven Pinker explains how to cultivate greater rationality in today's complex world.

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