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Do we need shame for social progress? | Sophie Scott-Brown and Peter Tatchell on cancel culture
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Should we trust the specialists? | David Healy and Nick Lane go head to head
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The 'spooky' side of quantum physics | Tim Maudlin on astonishment and fear in #quantumphysics
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Electricity creates consciousness | Nick Lane
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Is it particle physics or a fairytale? PART 2 | Sabine Hossenfelder, Gavin Salam, Bjørn Ekeberg
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Biology beyond the genome | Denis Noble
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Could communal living be the way forward? | Kristen Ghodsee | Utopian living
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Why I'm an anarchist | Sophie Scott-Brown full interview | Anarchy and democracy
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Daniel Dennett: Arc of Life | Full interview
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We need capitalism to save the planet | Rebecca Henderson on the reasons why #capitalism
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IN FULL Yanis Varoufakis welcomes us to the age of Technofeudalism | Full interview
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Fascist Passions | Judith Butler responds to questions
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Can we really make progress? | John Mearsheimer and Steven Pinker clash
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Roger Penrose on quantum mechanics and consciousness | Full interview
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The unselfish gene | Denis Noble challenges Richard Dawkins
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Consciousness and material reality | Avshalom Elitzur | Consciousness and material reality
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Why Trump befriended Putin | The life and philosophy of Fiona Hill
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Scientists disagree on the origin of #life | Addy Pross, Chrisantha Fernando, Kate Adamala
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Should we believe in free will? | Roger Penrose, Galen Strawson, Brian Greene, Daniel Dennett...
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Physics at the limits of reality | Sabine Hossenfelder in conversation with Hilary Lawson | In full
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Science fiction for a dystopian present | Cory Doctorow full interview
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What is progress? | Rory Sutherland, Angus Deaton, Arlie Hochschild | The tears of the West
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Rethinking the future of conservatism | The life and philosophy of Rory Stewart
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How destructive is Big Tech? | Aaron Bastani and Kenneth Cukier go head to head
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Why you can't buy a house | Kristen Ghodsee, Anna Minton, Liam Halligan, Tom Copley
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Best of Slavoj Žižek | On cynicism, pleasure, philosophy, and more
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The future of physics | Suchitra Sebastian, Dominic Walliman
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Redrawing the global order | Bill Browder, Yuan Yang, Sergei Guriev
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Why we believe conspiracies | Dan Ariely and the secrets of irrationality
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Why you've been saying "Amen" wrong | Rupert Sheldrake | Discovering the world beyond science
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Mind-body dualism and being transgender | Sophie Grace Chappell full interview
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The end of objective morality? | Peter Singer and Daniel Markovits clash over impartiality
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The end of good and evil | Slavoj Žižek, Rowan Williams, Maria Balaska, Richard Wrangham
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The dark side of feminism | Tommy J Curry
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Solving the meaning crisis | John Vervaeke
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The dream and danger of AI | Liv Boeree in conversation with Dominic Walliman
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Reality's challenge to physics | Michio Kaku, Avshalom Elitzur, Tim Maudlin and Jimena Canales
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Are we indulging Putin? | Fiona Hill full interview
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Why music can't change the world | Billy Bragg in conversation with Myriam François
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Can we explain consciousness with emergence? | Philip Goff goes head to head with Suchitra Sebastian
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The death of ideology | John Mearsheimer [Full Interview]
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Steven Pinker vs John Mearsheimer debate the enlightenment | Part 1 of FULL DEBATE
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Gravity and the universe | Sabine Hossenfelder, Erik Verlinde, Priyamvada Natarajan [FULL DEBATE]
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What is sexually moral? | Steven Bonnell and Myriam François go head to head on sex & relationships
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Should we save capitalism? | Slavoj Žižek, Paul Krugman, Yanis Varoufakis, Shoshana Zuboff, and more
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Beyond the left and right | Yanis Varoufakis, Fiona Hill, Daniel Markovits, Aaron Bastani and more!
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TikTok: Should we be scared? | Cindy Yu | The TikTok uprising
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Why economics needs to be bolder | Yanis Varoufakis responds to Vicky Pryce
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The biggest ideas of 2023 | Slavoj Žižek, Fiona Hill, Roger Penrose and more!
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The secrets of quantum emergence | Suchitra Sebastian
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The god desire | David Baddiel
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Destiny and the new world of internet politics | Steven Bonnell full interview
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How black holes change our sense of the cosmos | Priyamvada Natarajan
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We need a scientific revolution | Eric Weinstein full interview
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The economics of almost everything | Daniel Markovits, Martin Wolf, Madeleine Pennington
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HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2024 | Official Festival Trailer
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On the nature of reality | Iain McGilchrist and Rowan Williams
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Žižek psychoanalyses himself | The life and philosophy of Slavoj Žižek
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Marxism vs Capitalism | Aaron Bastani and Matthew Lesh
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The life and philosophy of Denis Noble | rival of Richard Dawkins
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The life and philosophy of Slavoj Žižek | Interview
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Is established religion fundamentally flawed? | Sophie-Grace Chappell takes on Michael Shermer
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Debunking new-age spirituality | Slavoj Žižek, Rupert Sheldrake, John Vervaeke and more
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Confronting the Enlightenment's mistakes | Kehinde Andrews full interview
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Rupert Sheldrake | Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
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Untangling Space and Time | Tim Maudlin | IAI
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Is the hard problem of consciousness really that hard? | Brian Greene and Pat Churchland lock horns.
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Have mundane setbacks become catastrophic? | Sarah Garfinkel, Joanna Kavenna, Ian Parker
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Professor Sunetra Gupta on questioning lockdown | from Reality, models, and mayhem
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In pursuit of peace | Richard Wolff, Svitlana Morenets, David Omand
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Narcissism and self-love | Simon Blackburn
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Is love a drug? | Anders Sandberg, Ella Whelan, Rupert Sheldrake
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Is time incompatible with physics? | Avshalom Elitzur and Tim Maudlin take on Michio Kaku
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Is creativity essential to understanding the universe? | Roger Penrose and Iain McGilchrist
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The limits of mathematical models | B. Ekeberg, M. Shermer, S. Gupta | Reality, models, and mayhem
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The broken economics of the sea | Guy Standing
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The importance of bad art | Emma Sulkowicz full interview
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Roger Penrose | The Next Universe and Before the Big Bang | Nobel Prize in Physics winner
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Why there are no more alpha males | Richard Wrangham | The goodness paradox
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Are we inherently evil? | Slavoj Žižek and Rowan Williams battle over human nature
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Do we need to abandon Einstein? | Eric Weinstein and George Ellis go head to head on wormholes
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Rupert Sheldrake v. Michael Shermer | On the edges of knowledge | Full discussion
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Uncertainty: the most fundamental question in physics | Tim Palmer
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Can we make sense of the cosmos? | Iain McGilchrist and Hilary Lawson | Full Discussion
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Free will is not an illusion | Denis Noble
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Slavoj Žižek does a guided meditation, then hits back | with Lisa Miller and Destiny
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The dawn of a new reality? | Massimo Pigliucci, Mazviita Chirimuuta and Anders Sandberg debate VR
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Does beauty deceive physics? | Michio Kaku, Sabine Hossenfelder, Max Tegmark, Juan Maldacena
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Surplus Happiness | Slavoj Žižek critiques pleasure
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What's next for AI? | Roger Penrose, David Chalmers, Susan Schneider, Joanna Bryson and more!
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How to fix a broken system | Thangam Debbonaire
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The reality behind spacetime | Donald Hoffman
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The good, the bad, and the ignored | Peter Singer, Julian Baggini and Sophie Scott-Brown
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Can we understand the universe? | Sheldrake & Hossenfelder go head to head on dark matter IN FULL
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Is rationality as vital as we thought? | Rory Sutherland, Joanna Kavenna, Rebecca Roache
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Is string theory still worth exploring? | Roger Penrose and Eric Weinstein battle Brian Greene
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Why the multiverse makes sense | Laura Mersini-Houghton | The Big Idea
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The dark matter myth | Pavel Kroupa full interview
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Should we play the game of life? | Philosopher Slavoj Žižek and gamer Destiny take on gamification
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Tackling the Climate Crisis: What Will It Take? | Martin Rees, Helen Czerski, Judith Curry and more!
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Beyond the big bang | Bjorn Ekeberg
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How I changed my mind about truth | Simon Blackburn full interview
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A response to trans critics | Peter Tatchell, Bobbi Pickard
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Is this the end of the current world order? | Fiona Hill, Michael Clarke, Peter Hitchens, and more!
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Should we end internet anonymity? | Hugh Tomlinson, Victoria Baines, Stephen Kinsella
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Is string theory a failing model? | Eric Weinstein and Brian Greene go head to head again
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Sex and taboo in the modern age | Zoe Strimpel, Myriam François and Louise Perry
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The secrets of the universe | Harry Cliff
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Physics and the meaning of life PART 1 | Sabine Hossenfelder
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The theory to end all theories | Peter Woit, Becky Parker, Hilary Lawson
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Can experiments settle the free will debate? | Julian Baggini, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Sarah Garfinkel
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Why Dawkins is wrong | Denis Noble interview
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Is virtual reality real? | Anders Sandberg and Massimo Pigliucci clash over David Chalmers' position
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The medicine myth | Denis Noble, Nessa Carey, Guy Brown
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What is the key to consciousness? | Sam Coleman, Donald Hoffman, Hannah Critchlow
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Can the dark matter puzzle be solved? Francesca Chadha-Day and Pavel Kroupa lock horns
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What are the hottest philosophy questions of our time? | Iain Mcgilchrist, Lisa Randall, Denis Noble
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The Future of Cosmology | Roger Penrose
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How philosophy got lost | Slavoj Žižek interview
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What is wrong with current physics | Eric Lerner, Sabine Hossenfelder, Roger Penrose, and more!
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Does consciousness arise from the brain? | Donald Hoffman challenges Hannah Critchlow
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Should we abandon the multiverse theory? | Sabine Hossenfelder, Roger Penrose, Michio Kaku
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The new politics of gender identity | Kathleen Stock
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What is wrong with current physics | Eric Lerner, Sabine Hossenfelder, Roger Penrose, and more!
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Panpsychism, spirituality and consciousness | Rupert Sheldrake
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The Expanding Universe: myths and measurements | Roger Penrose, Sean Carroll, Laura Mersini-Houghton
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Why the rise of a new cloud-based ruling class is crushing democracy | Yanis Varoufakis
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Does multiverse theory make sense? | Roger Penrose takes on Michio Kaku
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The dawn of consciousness | Iain McGilchrist, Donald Hoffman, Eva Jablonka, Michelle Montague
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LIVE: Quantum Physics and the End of Reality | Sabine Hossenfelder, Carlo Rovelli, Eric Weinstein
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How to let go of control with stoicism | Massimo Pigliucci
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