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How Irrationality Created Modern Science (Michael Strevens)
Hard Problem of Consciousness, the Self, and the Essence of Volition (Anil Seth)
How to Use Data to Get What You Really Want in Life
Party Polarization in the Postwar United States (Sam Rosenfeld)
Deep Time and Big History with Ian Morris
Transhumanism, Interstellar Migrations, the Fate of Our Species, the End of Time (David Christian)
How to Think About Conspiracy Theories, JFK Assassination (Michel Gagné)
Andrew Yang — Not Left. Not Right. Forward.
What Happens to Identity When the Brain Is Assaulted by Disease and Injury? (Noga Arikha)
Sex and Gender Across the Primate Spectrum (Frans De Waal)
The Russian Riddle Wrapped in a Ukrainian Mystery Inside an American Enigma (Cathy Young)
Benefits of Delusion (Stuart Vyse and Michael Shermer)
The Price of Immortality: The Race to Live Forever (Peter Ward)
Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrationality (Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli)
Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution (Richard Dawkins)
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