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Jennifer Golbeck
Your social media "likes" expose more than you think
3:53
Vance Kite
Urbanization and the evolution of cities across 10,000 years
8:00
Maria Bezaitis
Why we need strangeness
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John McWhorter
Txtng is killing language. JK!!!
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Read Montague
What we're learning from 5,000 brains
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain
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Hannah Fry
Is life really that complex?
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David Pizarro
The strange politics of disgust
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Georgette Mulheir
The tragedy of orphanages
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Tali Sharot
The optimism bias
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Sherry Turkle
Connected, but alone?
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Jeffrey Kluger
The sibling bond
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Paul Zak
Trust, morality -- and oxytocin?
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Shawn Achor
The happy secret to better work
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Sam Richards
A radical experiment in empathy
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How the Internet enables intimacy
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Steven Pinker
The surprising decline in violence
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