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Even though adultery is punishable by death in some societies, it still occurs regularly. This tells Dr. Helen Fisher there is probably a genetic predisposition toward cheating on your partner.
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Today’s video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival.
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As long as anti-abortion activists oppose social welfare programs, which provide a safety net for children after they are born, the former governor will no longer refer to them as pro-life.
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Scientific discovery is more complex than simply observing the physical world. How we observe and how we draw conclusions is driven by the human imagination, says Mr. Shatner.
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Chief film critic A.O. Scott discusses how virtual reality may change the movie-going experience. People have predicted the death of cinema over and over, he says, but people still love going to the movies.
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Religious practices run deep in many cultures and their influence will be slow to fade away. But this shouldn’t deter a scientific outlook from helping us make practical decisions in life.
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Today’s video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival.
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Scientific advancement is more than a series of experiments: it is often a debate among scientists with fundamentally different points of view. Niels Bohr knew this firsthand thanks to Einstein.
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The achievements of the Millennial generation are already obvious, says playwright and comedian Lewis Black. And whatever their negative qualities, they pale in comparison to older generations.
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Companies succeed when they invest in human capital, which used to just mean a company’s employees. Today, it means investing in the company’s customers as well.
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It’s no longer car companies innovating the future of the automobile. Driving is becoming a computerized technology, says Brad Templeton, who consulted Google on its autonomous cars.
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Today’s video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival.
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Passion is what fuels our skills and talents, allowing us to make concrete changes in the world. But not all passions are created equal, says cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman.
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Our biggest goals are unlikely to be accomplished in our own lifetime, says New Jersey Senator Cory Booker. That’s why forming coalitions and keeping a positive attitude are so essential.
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As a science educator, Bill Nye the Science Guy has needed artistic conventions to communicate knowledge and information to his audience. That’s just one reason why we need art, he says.
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“No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity,” says activist Maajid Nawaz. We should interrogate the intellectual justification of all ideas and preserve the dignity of all people.
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The legendary actor, author, and recording artist describes in touching detail how his relationship with Leonard Nimoy changed his life forever, still affecting Shatner today.
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The angriest of comedians shares a joke about the current Oscars dilemma and why he finds discussing it such a frustrating experience.
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Novelist and “Life of Pi” author Yann Martel explains how travel confronts you with facts you cannot ignore and suggests that multilingualism makes us richer individuals.
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Chosen as host long before the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, Chris Rock’s prominent presence at the Academy Awards risks appearing as compensation for inequality in Hollywood.
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Today’s video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival.
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Philosophy is a worthwhile endeavor, says Bill Nye the Science Guy, though the answers it offers are frequently limited by human rationality. Science, on the other hand, surprises us!
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Comics are free to write jokes about whatever they want and, if they’ve done their homework, any topic can be made funny. Political correctness discourages lazy joke writing, says comic Paul F. Tompkins.
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The real problem with bypassing the iPhone’s security features is bigger than violating the privacy rights of Americans. It’s coming to terms with how governments around the world would react.
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The disenfranchisement of convicted felons has altered the outcome of governors races, key senate races, and even presidential elections, says political science professor Marie Gottschalk.
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Named by The New York Times as a potential nominee to the Supreme Court, Cory Booker points out that strict constitutionalists should want a new appointee put forward before too long.
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Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders: The biology of their brains is different from one another, which shows in their speech, behavior, and in who their supporters are.
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Bill Nye the Science Guy tackles the perennially challenging topic of time travel. Whether we can ultimately travel through time may depend on the speed of our yet-to-be-invented time machine.
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Assessment in the form of standardized tests isn’t wrong on its face, says Howard Gardner, creator of the multiple intelligences theory. But when we measure only one kind of intelligence, that is a problem.
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