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The Monkey Dance — 52 episodes

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46 | Are we thinking about stress the wrong way?

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45 | Human migration as a complex system

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A10 | Investigating systemic corruption

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A5 | The evolution of cooperation

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A6 | Can we hold AI accountable for its actions?

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44 | Voting under autocracies

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43 | What makes a war?

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A4 | Does fairness exist?

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42 | Who deserves human rights?

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41 | Gangs providing services

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40 | Where does morality come from?

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39 | How to make a curious mind

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38 | How do we change norms?

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37 | Why do people disagree?

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36 | What makes us engage with content?

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35 | Why do some conflicts become violent?

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A2 | What does it mean to have power?

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34 | How do infants process information?

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33 | Early childhood memories and visual cognition

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32 | When curiosity is limited by our biases

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31 | Who has the rights to resources?

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30 | How do we decide who to learn from?

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29 | Exploring curiosities

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28 | Whose fault is it?

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27 | Student protests in Serbia

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26 | How does the brain understand comic books?

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25 | How does toxicity shape conversations?

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24 | What does it mean to be open minded?

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23 | Why do we show emotion?

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22 | How do we experience music?

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21 | Resisting narratives that justify inequality

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20 | How do emotions impact cognition?

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19 | Manipulating memory: How event structure impacts recall

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18 | How do we construct our realities?

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17 | Does imagination help us learn about the world?

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16 | Can we increase democratic empowerment through decentralization?

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15 | On Nostalgia: Memory, personal histories, and decolonizing narratives

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14 | Elements of thought: Carving out reality through conceptual engineering

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13 | On Collaboration: How we work together on convergent goals

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12 | How long have humans being lying?

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11 | What does Democracy get us?

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10 | Investigating systemic corruption

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9 | How does art impact cognition?

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8 | Should different scientific fields work to integrate?

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7 | On Culture: From systems to components

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6 | Can we hold machines accountable?

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5 | How did cooperation evolve?

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4 | Can anything ever really be fair?

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3 | How is identity constructed?

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2 | What does it mean to have power?

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1 | How do we deal with information?

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0 | On Cognitive Science: What led us to it and how it’s a useful lens