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FREE WILL: “Sam Harris Says You’re a Slave” ☮
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CRITICAL THINKING: “Why Should You NOT Have any Role Model” / Neil deGrasse Tyson ☮
Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains why it is a bad idea to have a Role model.
REASON: “On Donald Trump?” / Sam Harris ☮
CRITICAL THINKING: “Team USA Athletes are Cupping Themselves at the Rio Olympics for No Good Reason” ☮
If you’ve watched the Olympics, you may have noticed a few big-name athletes — including swimmer Michael Phelps and gymnast Alex Naddour — with large circular welts on their bodies. It’s the result of a process called “cupping,” in which you put suction cups on parts of your body to make the blood flow faster. Or so they think.
CRITICAL THINKING: “What Should We Think About Death?” / Stephen Fry ☮
ENVIRONMENTALISM – ECOLOGY: “Suzanne Simard: How Trees Talk to Each Other” / TEDSummit / June 2016 ☮
“A forest is much more than what you see,” says ecologist Suzanne Simard. Her 30 years of research in Canadian forests have led to an astounding discovery — trees talk, often and over vast distances. Learn more about the harmonious yet complicated social lives of trees and prepare to see the natural world with new eyes.
PHILOSOPHY – CRITICAL THINKING: “Fallacies: Formal, and Informal Fallacies” / Wireless Philosophy / Paul Henne (Duke University) ☮
In this Wireless Philosophy video, Paul Henne (Duke University) describes the distinction between formal and informal fallacies. This distinction is useful for understanding the fallacies in Wi-Phi’s Critical Thinking section.
CRITICAL THINKING: “Thinking Without a Box” ☮
CRITICAL THINKING: “Don’t Waste My Time with Islam; It’s Bullshit!” / The Sceptic Scientist / Christopher Hitchens ☮
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE: “Good News in the Fight Against Pancreatic Cancer” / Ted Talks / Laura Indolfi ☮
Anyone who has lost a loved one to pancreatic cancer knows the devastating speed with which it can affect an otherwise healthy person. TED Fellow and biomedical entrepreneur Laura Indolfi is developing a revolutionary way to treat this complex and lethal disease: a drug delivery device that acts as a cage at the site of a tumor, preventing it from spreading and delivering medicine only where it’s needed. “We are hoping that one day we can make pancreatic cancer a curable disease,” she says.
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