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The Birth of Jesus in History & Legend (Bart Ehrman)
Is Humanity at a Turning Point? Fritjof Capra on Patterns of Connection
What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters (Steven Koonin)
Richard Nisbett on Thinking & Reason
Defense of Free Speech for All (Suzanne Nossel)
Inside a Disturbing Study of Twins with Nancy Segal
The Generation Myth: Why When You’re Born Matters Less Than You Think (Bobby Duffy)
The Pleasures of Suffering and the Meaning of Life (Paul Bloom)
Psychosomatic Disorders and Other Mystery Illnesses (Suzanne O’Sullivan)
Understanding Consciousness with Antonio Damasio
Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness (Charles Foster on Being a Human)
In-Person Convo with Steven Pinker on Rationality: What it is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why it Matters
The Afghanistan Papers: Why the War Was a Failure (With Craig Whitlock)
Debunking the 1619 Project with Mary Grabar
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (Kathryn Paige Harden)
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