In a surprisingly funny trip through the teachings of some of history’s great philosophers, TV writer and producer Michael Schur (from hit shows like “The Office” and “The Good Place”) talks through how to confront life’s moral dilemmas — and shows how understanding ethical theories ...
this is the key thing that I want to have an honest, heart-to-heart conversation with you because it’s such an important issue, this question of human addiction. You know, we are animals with theprefrontal cortex. That’s how I think of us. We have theseaddictive instinctsthatgo back ...
Less than an hour after scrambling out the back door of the Columbine High School library on April 20, 1999, Austin Eubanks was lying in a hospital bed, medicated on a variety of painkillers. That was the beginning of a decade-long addiction that led to
Rhetorical Analysis On Ted Talk Addiction is a word that, despite being used on a daily basis, is oftentimes misconstrued by the public. Johann Hari addresses this issue in a Ted Talk he calls, “Everything we know about addiction is wrong,” which he performed to the public in 2015. Mer...
“The names alone that Gell-Mann applies to his new theories and formulations reflect his sense of humor, immensely broad range of interests, and deep understanding. The theories themselves say that much more.”— PBS Murray Gell-Mann’s TED talks 15:45 Murray Gell-Mann Beauty, truth and ...
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In his talk, he examines “the Lucifer effect,” understanding how good people turn evil. Zimbardo discusses his controversial Stanford Prison Experiment and also the case study of Abu Ghraib, including graphic pictures from those trials. He closes with the idea that heroism is the anecdote ...
To call any understanding we have of complexity such as that “Truth” is an act of hubris that borders on stupidity. We can have sometimes useful approximations, and that is as good as it gets. And there are strong evolutionary reasons why we want greater certainty than that, because the...