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319. Why We Love Superheroes: What They Tell Us About Ourselves

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318. What Makes a Great Actor? The Secrets Behind Incredible Performances

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317. Why Fantasy Football Becomes an Obsession (with Adam Aizer)

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316. Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey': Who Was Odysseus and Why Does He Still Matter?

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Is God Good? Rethinking the Bible's Most Difficult Question

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Preconceived is on YouTube!

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315. What If? The Psychology of Regret and Life's Biggest Decisions

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314. The Navy SEAL - Rethinking Mental Toughness

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313. The Truth About Cocaine

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312. The Neuroscience of Thriving: Emotional Fitness, Social Connection & Why Your Brain Feels Off

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311. What is Normal Penis Size? Male Sexual Performance and Anxiety

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310. Can Science Fully Explain Consciousness?

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309. Can a Chemical Make You Moral? The Science of Oxytocin

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308. Is AI Coming For Your Job?

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Why Do People Cut Themselves?

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307. Why Do People Deny the Holocaust? Understanding Holocaust Denialism

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306. The Art of War Explained: Sun Tzu’s Strategy in Today’s World

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305. Can You Fall In Love With AI?

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304. Do People Feel Guilty After Cheating?

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What Is Life Really Like In North Korea?

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303. Why Do People Become War Journalists - and What Does It Do To them?

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302. Defensive Pessimism - Are There Some Benefits to Negative Thinking?

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301. Is Democracy Dying?

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300. The Wokeness Debate - Unpacking Gender Identity and Cultural Shifts

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299. The Essence of Invention

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298. Forced Fatherhood - Male Reproductive Rights

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297. Good Vibrations - The Neuroscience of Music

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296. BDSM - More Common Than You Think

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Taylor Swift - In a League of Her Own

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295. Achieving Elite Performance

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294. History's Famous Druggies

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293. The Myths of Modern Love

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292. Titanic - A Tragedy of Hubris?

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291. Protecting Kids in the Digital Age

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Christianity - Compelling Truth or Indoctrination?

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290. Born Remembering - When Kids Recall Past Lives

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289. Genocide in Gaza? (Part 2 - An Argument in Defence Of Israel)

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288. Genocide in Gaza? (Part 1 - An Argument Against Israel)

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Winning Survivor - A Glimpse into Reality TV

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287. The Immigration Debate: The Challenges of Multiculturalism

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286. Can You Drink In Moderation? The Alcohol Debate

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285. Legacy Media in the Age of Everyone's a Journalist

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284. The Case Against DEI

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283. Cutting Ties - Why Kids are Walking Away from their Parents

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Torture: Necessary Evil or Moral Failing?

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282. In the Age of Options, Why is Dating so Hard?

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281. The Russian Perspective on Ukraine

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280. Everest

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279. What's in the Food You're Eating?

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The Housing Market - To Buy or To Rent?

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278. 'The AI War' in Israel and Gaza

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277. Genomic Engineering - The Quest for the Perfect Human

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276. Freud - Sex, Psychoanalysis, and the Unconscious

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Leg Lengthening - Extreme Measures to Become Taller

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275. The pope

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274. The Verdict on Juries (The Juror Part 3)

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273. Forensic Fallacies (The Juror Part 2)

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272. Are Juries too Biased? (The Juror Part 1)

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The War Correspondent

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271. Tariffs and Trade Wars

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270. Health Scare

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269. Selective Abortion - A Down Syndrome Dilemma

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Changing Career Paths

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268. How to Change Your Behaviour

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267. The LA Wildfires

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266. Life on the Moon

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265. Laziness

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264. Gen Z Explained

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263. Stand-Up Comedy

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Whole Body MRI - The Dangers of Over Testing

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262. Is there an Afterlife?

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261. Alternative 'Medicine'

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260. 'My Child Has Cancer'

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The Benefits of Getting A Bit Drunk

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259. How To Debate

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258. Hitler and Trump - A Comparison

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257. Regret and Decision Making

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256. Could our 'Peaceful World' Devolve Back into War?

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255. Too Much Therapy?

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254. 'Purity Culture' - No Sex Before Marriage

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253. Optimism

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Memory - How Reliable Is It?

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252. 'God is Good'

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251. Apologies and Forgiveness

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250. Reflections

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249. The Olympics - 'Heroes in Our Midst'

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248. Is Islam Violent?

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247. 'Wisecracks' - Can a Joke Go Too Far?

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Fall of the Aztecs

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246. The Only Child

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245. Is a Bachelor of Arts Degree Useful?

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244. Travel - The Joys and Complexities

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243. Stockbrokers- Do You Need Them?

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242. Zionism - Two Perspectives

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Is it Normal to Have Pets?

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241. Inheritance

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240. 'Make It Stick' - The Science of Successful Learning

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239. Thirty Years to Live

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238. Iran - Ideology, Nuclear Capability, and Threat to the West

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237. 'Sickboy' - How to not be Awkward around Sick People!