01:46

How pooping makes you more human.

02:10

Is Jesus's resurrection easily explained by heat stroke?

02:13

Jesus and the Devil have eerily similar stories

04:17

Kropotkin's beef with Social Darwinism

05:27

What is genocide?

04:08

The radical roots of "Be the Change"

02:12

Utopias aren't boring

04:11

What is agnostic atheism?

02:37

The atheist argument for Santa Claus

03:23

The trippy science behind how we see

01:35

Anti-Despair Reading List: Kurt Vonnegut

04:09

Does time as we know it exist?

02:24

Facing fear with curiousity, not bravery

02:59

If you're struggling with political despair

03:18

When your five-year-old starts asking about Nazis

01:56

Bluey's Parents Alter-Egos

04:14

How to spot a genocidal ideology

02:25

If gods aren't real, why do all cultures invent them?

02:36

What it's like to live through civilizational collapse

02:59

How chaos worshippers can help you understand your brain

03:07

Most people are actually pretty smart!

02:59

On the ethics of having kids in dark times

02:58

No we don't "probably live in a simulation"

01:42

The revolutionary potential of potatoes

04:36

How a different understanding of time can help you cope

01:51

Why we like dystopias

04:09

John Carpenter's "They Live" and our shallow influencer culture

04:20

How to make sense of the world right now

03:01

How democratic governments manufacture consent

02:39

How to love an unlovable place

02:37

How to get involved in mutual aid efforts

03:30

How to build a sustainable economy

02:59

How to believe in magic as an atheist

02:55

Hope vs. optimism

03:00

More on psychogeography!

02:38

Psychogeography and the power of just wandering

03:18

When your kid starts asking questions about the Third Reich

03:08

Lord of the Flies was wrong

02:31

Hot damn, it's the Loveland Frog!

03:01

How lobster went from taboo trash food to a delicacy

01:49

"A library is lost when an old man dies"

02:55

Alan Moore's "Jerusalem" and fighting despair

02:58

Are humans inherently good?

02:34

The Flaw in the Golden Rule

03:00

Feeling bad about the world? Get off the internet!

02:48

Don't call librarians heroes

03:01

How people came together during COVID

03:43

Anti-Despair Reading List, Part 4

02:56

Birding as an anti-depressant

02:30

How to find cheap books (without supporting Amazon!)

02:58

Chumbawamba was the best band of the 90's

03:00

The Anti-Despair Reading List: Climate Edition

02:39

The Anti-Despair Reading List, Part 2

02:57

The Anti-Despair Reading List

03:00

What modern dystopias get wrong

02:59

Not all dystopias suck!

02:57

Against dystopias