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In this deceptively simple 3-minute talk, Dr. Laura Trice muses on the power of the magic words ‘thank you’ to deepen a friendship, to repair a bond, to make sure another person knows what they mean to you. Try it.
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Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor programme with Israel’s juvenile inmates and was touched by both their intense difficulties and profound successes.
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Philosopher-comedian Emily Levine talks (hilariously) about science, math, society and the way everything connects. She’s a brilliant trickster, poking holes in our fixed ideas and bringing hidden truths to light. Settle in and let her ping your brain.
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Human growth has strained the Earth’s resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognise this and change behavior. His research has found nine ‘planetary boundaries’ that can guide us in protecting our planet’s many overlapping ecosystems.
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Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love, Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of people in love and people who had just been dumped.
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