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Learning English with Human Beans — 67 episodes

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#74 – The Psychology Years

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#73 — Selfish or Altruistic. What is our true nature?

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#72 – Is Utopia the Narcissus of politics?

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#71 – What Does It Mean to Live in De-Hope?

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#70 – Mikasa Ackerman's Psychological Journey

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#69 – Music! Music!! Music!!!

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#68 – Understanding Narcissism Through Barney Stinson.

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#67 – Do We Really Want What We Desire?

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#66 – The End of Reading? (Pt. 3 – Reader, Come Home)

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#65 – The End of Reading (Pt. 2 – Why Deep Reading Saves Democracy?)

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#64 – The End of Reading? (Pt. 1 – The Hemorrhage of Patience)

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#63 - When Paradise Becomes Prison (Pluribus - Review)

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#62 – Born to Kill? (The Science of Evil)

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#61 – Why Do Smart People Hate Small Talk? (Need for Cognition and Intellectual Stimulation)

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#60 – Why Your Intelligent Brain Exhausts You Chasing the "Best" ?

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#59 – Does Concrete Have a Soul? (The Brutalist - Review).

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#58 – Why Does Your Libido Ghost You When You’re Naked?

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#57 – Is Your Identity Just Another Fiction? (The Don Quixote Syndrome)

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#56 – Can You Heal Your Brain With Stories? (Bibliotherapy & The Proteus Effect)

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#55 – Do you become someone else when you read? (The Experience Taking)

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#54 – Why Are Dragons More Reassuring Than Humans?

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#53 – Is Your Best Friend Imaginary?

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#52 – Why Do You Pay to Have Nightmares?

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#51 – Does Culture Control Your Emotions? (The Engineering of Surprise – Part 3/3)

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#50 – Why Do You Love Spoilers? (The Engineering of Surprise – Part 2/3)

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#49 – Why Does Your Brain Love Being Tricked? (The Engineering of Surprise - Part 1/3)

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#48 – What If You Were Already Dead and No One Told You?

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#47 – Why Do You Suddenly Want to Throw Your Baby Out the Window?

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#46 – Post-Orgasmic Shame: Why Do You Become a Puritan Philosopher in 3 Seconds?

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#45 – Who Is Driving the Bus When You Scroll?

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#44 – What Happens When You Do Nothing?

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#42 – Do the words you use change how you feel?

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#41 – Why you are an entire universe that is dying out, and why that's okay.

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#40 – Why is it physically impossible to admit that you're wrong?

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#39 – Does it hurt, or do you think it hurts?

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#38 - Are you sure you're awake?

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#37 - Why are incompetent people so confident? (And why you doubt yourself)

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#36 - Why do you think everyone is looking at you? (Escaping Social Paranoia)

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#35 - Why do you treat your future self like a stranger? (The science of procrastination)

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#34 - Does analysis paralyze genius? (Or why overthinking kills art)

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#33 - Understanding Metacognition Through Mindfulness

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#32 - Deconstructing "It Was Better Before" - Pt. 4

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#31 - Deconstructing "It Was Better Before" - Pt. 3

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#30 - Deconstructing "It Was Better Before" - Pt. 2

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#29 - Deconstructing "It Was Better Before" - Pt. 1

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#28 - Walter White - Anatomy of a Tragic Overcompensation

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#27 - Wolf Children

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#26 - Sentimental Value

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#25 - The Genius Illusion - Pt. 3

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#24 - The Genius Illusion - Pt. 2

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#23 - The Genius Illusion - Pt. 1

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#22 - ADHD: A Journey into the Distracted Mind

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#21 - The Universe Inside - "The Life of Chuck"

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#20 - The Age of Possibilities - Young Adulthood

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#19 - Understanding Grief

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#18 - Spinoza's Philosophy

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#17 - The Male Identity Crisis in the 21st Century

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#16 - Minds in Motion: Recovery, Creativity, and Growth

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#15 - The Quest for Meaning

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#14 - The Feeling Brain: How Emotions Drive Our Decisions

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#13 - The Science of Sleep

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#12 - The Authority Paradox

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#11 - What If...? - Exploring Counterfactual Thinking

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#10 - The Mind-Body Connection

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#9 - The Einstein Enigma - Review

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#8 - Meaningless on the Clock: The Bullshit Jobs Theory

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#7 - 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman - Review