Asking Hunter-Gatherers Life's Toughest Questions
In briefA travel vlogger asks the leader of the Hadza hunter-gatherers in Tanzania some big life questions just before a baboon hunt. The short answers touch on meat, honey and what matters in life.
Life, Mind & Health
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Slavoj Žižek | Why Be Happy When You Could Be Interesting? | Big Think
In briefA two-minute Big Think clip of Slavoj Zizek arguing that happiness is a conformist, even unethical goal. He asks why one would want to be happy when one could be interesting.
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The Science of Thinking
In briefA Veritasium explainer on how the brain works and how we learn. It is inspired by Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow and covers System 1 and System 2 thinking and why harder learning builds skill.
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How to start a movement | Derek Sivers
In briefIn a six-minute TED talk, Derek Sivers uses footage of a dancing man at an outdoor festival to show how a movement starts. He argues the first follower is what turns a lone nut into a leader.
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Your Body's Molecular Machines
In briefVeritasium short showing Drew Berry's scientifically accurate animations of the molecular machines that drive cell division. It walks through mitosis, chromosomes and motor proteins.
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Primary Series Ashtanga with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
In briefA 1993 Yoga Works video of the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series led by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, with senior students demonstrating. The class is filmed in classic style from the back of the room.
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How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains | Mary Lou Jepsen
In briefInventor Mary Lou Jepsen demonstrates using red light and sound to see inside the body and brain, aiming at tumor detection and neural activity measurement, and potentially a cheaper wearable MRI replacement.
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Movie reconstruction from human brain activity
In briefJack Gallant's lab demonstrates reconstructing movie trailer clips a subject watched from fMRI brain activity, using regression models trained on hours of viewing data. The video shows the original clip beside the reconstruction.
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Ken Stanley: Discovery Without Objectives
In briefA 92-minute RMIT University seminar in which Ken Stanley argues that setting an objective can block achieving it. He presents objective-less, novelty-driven search as an alternative approach to innovation and discovery, drawing on evolutionary computation.
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Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert
In briefElizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, reflects on the pressure placed on artists to be geniuses. She proposes the older idea that creative people have a genius that visits them rather than being one.
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Hal fixing a light bulb (from Malcolm in the Middle S03E06 - Health Scare)
In briefA short scene from Malcolm in the Middle in which Hal tries to fix a light bulb and is pulled into a growing chain of side repairs.
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What Microplastics Are Doing to the Brain, Body, and Reproductive Systems
In briefA FoundMyFitness episode on how microplastics and associated chemicals such as BPA and PFAS accumulate in the body, including the brain and reproductive systems. It also discusses ways to reduce exposure.
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Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week
In briefA Half as Interesting explainer on the US program that drops millions of sterile screwworm flies over Panama every week to keep the parasite out of North America.
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How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins
In briefA short TED-Ed animated lesson by Anita Collins on what happens in the brain when people play a musical instrument. It argues that playing engages many brain areas at once, like a full-body workout, with long-term benefits.
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Westworld - Consciousness does not exist, Anthony Hopkins
In briefA two-minute Westworld scene in which Robert Ford and Bernard Lowe discuss whether consciousness exists. Ford argues that the self is a fiction for hosts and humans alike.
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DNA Testing and Privacy (Behind the scenes at the 23andMe Lab) - Smarter Every Day 176
In briefDestin of Smarter Every Day goes behind the scenes at the 23andMe lab to show how genotyping works. He also discusses DNA testing and privacy.
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Prof. Robert Lustig - 'Sugar, metabolic syndrome, and cancer'
In briefPediatric endocrinologist Robert Lustig talks at Low Carb Denver 2020 about sugar, metabolic syndrome and cancer. He lays out the case that metabolic dysfunction drives disease.
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QI | No Such Thing As A Fish
In briefA short clip from the British panel show QI in which the panel discusses why there is no such thing as a fish as a biological category.
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We Need to Rethink Exercise (Updated Version)
In briefKurzgesagt explains why exercise alone does little for weight loss, since the body compensates by adjusting its total energy expenditure. It argues exercise is still very valuable for health.
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Is the Universe a Simulation? | 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
In briefThe 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate, moderated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, in which a panel of physicists and philosophers debates whether the universe is a simulation. Participants include David Chalmers, Zohreh Davoudi and James Gates.
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The Hidden Rules of Conversation
In briefTom Scott explains Gricean maxims, the unwritten guidelines that shape how we understand each other. He uses examples such as why 'asbestos-free cereal' sounds suspicious.
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Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder and CEO Social Capital, on Money as an Instrument of Change
In briefChamath Palihapitiya's Stanford GSB View From The Top talk on money as an instrument of change. HN mostly knows it for his remarks on social media's dopamine-driven feedback loops and regrets about Facebook.
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Exercise Is Really Good for You. Like, REALLY Good for You.
In briefA Healthcare Triage episode summarizing the evidence on the health benefits of exercise, made in response to people misreading the host's column on exercise and weight. It argues exercise offers large benefits.
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Extraordinary Octopus Takes To Land | The Hunt | BBC Earth
In briefA BBC Earth clip from The Hunt showing an octopus species from northern Australia that leaves the water at low tide to hunt crabs on land.
