Modern Wisdom

Modern Wisdom

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Life is hard. This podcast will help. Lessons from the greatest thinkers on the planet with Chris Wi...

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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In this book, Nassim Nicholas Taleb introduces the concept of a 'Black Swan' event – an unpredictabl...

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Written by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, this book explores the two systems that drive the way we ...

The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes

The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes

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In 'The Case Against Reality,' cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that our perceptions of rea...

Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home

Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home

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In 'Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home,' Rupert Sheldrake presents evidence for what h...

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

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Neuroscientist David Eagleman explores the hidden workings of the unconscious mind in 'Incognito,' r...

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The Science of Revenge is a book written by James Kimmel Jr. that delves into the neurological and p...

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

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Written by neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, this book challenges conventional wisdom about emoti...

Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

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In this concise and engaging book, Lisa Feldman Barrett distills decades of neuroscience research in...

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A non-fiction book by James Nestor that delves into the hidden science behind ancient breathing prac...

Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language

Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language

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A book by Robin Dunbar that explores the social brain hypothesis, proposing that human language evol...

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"Bill Nye the Science Guy" is an American educational science television program created by and star...

Morbid Curiosity: The Psychology of Your Darkest Desires

Morbid Curiosity: The Psychology of Your Darkest Desires

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Written by the guest speaker, Colton Scriber, this book explores the psychological underpinnings of ...

The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

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A book by Samuel Arbesman that explores how facts and knowledge change over time, much like radioact...

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A book by Werner Heisenberg, a pioneering physicist and one of the key creators of quantum mechanics...

Marginal Realities: The Paranormal from the Viewpoint of Science

Marginal Realities: The Paranormal from the Viewpoint of Science

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A book by Robert G. Jahn, the former Dean of Engineering at Princeton University and founder of the ...

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A book by James Lovelock, which introduces the Gaia hypothesis, proposing that living organisms inte...

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A biographical drama film directed by Christopher Nolan, released in 2023, depicting the life of J. ...

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A 1944 book by Erwin Schrödinger, the Nobel laureate physicist, that explores the physical aspects o...

A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance

A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance

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A book by Rupert Sheldrake that introduces his controversial theory of morphic resonance, which prop...

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A podcast that gained significant attention for presenting cases of autistic, non-verbal children re...

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