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Capitalism 2.0 Will Include a Healthy Dose of Socialism | Eric Weinstein | Big Think
Capitalism 2.0 Will Include a Healthy Dose of Socialism Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- America is falling behind when it comes to leadership, and it’s pretty much directly … Continue reading
The Physicist Who Travels Across Disciplines, Space and Time
A playful polymath who is prone to leaping from string theory to Proust in mid-conversation, Vijay Balasubramanian of the University of Pennsylvania is a physicist, computer scientist and neuroscientist. He has made fundamental contributions to theories of black holes and … Continue reading
Trust your unconscious | Iain McGilchrist and John Cleese on neuroscience and creativity
Part 3 of an exclusive How To Academy talk. Watch part 4 here: https://youtu.be/ef0VOc5XQKg Live on stage, John Cleese and Dr Iain McGilchrist come together to explore the place of imagination in our lives and culture, drawing both comedy, … Continue reading
BBC Radio 4 – The Language Exchange, Daljit Nagra & Erica McAlister
Meetings between poets and scientists who share language & ideas and create new work. This week Daljit Nagra meets Erica McAlister. One of Daljit Nagra’s earliest poetic memories was reading ‘The Fly’ by William Blake. Here he goes to the Natural … Continue reading
Radical Love
Radical Love explores the subversive political activism and deep connection of Michael and Eleanora Kennedy, a husband-and-wife legal team who represented a who’s who of the 1960s’ politically subversive class.
Does Kirk die when he goes through the transporter?
[…] Does Captain Kirk die when he goes through the transporter? Is he just converted into a different medium, sent elsewhere, and reassembled? Or does the original die and a copy of him is created elsewhere? What does this question … Continue reading
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