Debunked
6 Myths Debunked About The Human Body
Just how unique are your fingerprints? Appendix’s purpose? Why aren’t we totally human? How do we really taste things?
Debunked
The Left Brain Right Brain Myth
Can a dominant side of your brain dictate your personality. LOGICAL vs CREATIVE? The Theory goes that if you are more creative and artistic then you are ‘right-brained’ and if you’re more methodical and better with numbers then you are...
Debunked
Can You Survive A Nuclear Blast In A Fridge?! #SURVIVAL #MYTHS
A nuclear blast is about to detonate! Where do you hide?! Indiana Jones opted for a lead lined fridge and survived, but just how safe would it really be?
Debunked
4 Common Movie Myths About Space Debunked | Explosions, Speed, Sound and Asteroids.
Movies take a lot of dramatic license where science is concerned, but who's getting it all wrong on the silver screen. From the g-force you would suffer when achieving lightspeed to what a nuclear bomb would sound like in space we...
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Different Domains
UC Berkeley historian Martin Jay contrasts the political domain with the scientific one, explaining that it’s important to recognize that the two are distinct, believing it would be a very bad idea to try to recreate politics in the...
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Frege and Functions
Philosopher Scott Soames (USC) traces the origins of our modern computer age to Gottlob Frege’s application of functions to logic.
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Truth and Totalitarianism
Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) discusses how it is dangerous in politics to believe that we should be heading towards some version of absolute truth.
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Marcel Danesi - Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories
Marcel Danesi, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, was born in Lucca, Italy. He was professor of semiotics and anthropology at Victoria College, University of Toronto, he directs the semiotics and communication theory programs. Danesi also holds...
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Dangerous Purity
Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) discusses how societal purification movements to eliminate truth often have terrible consequences.
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What Everyone Thinks AI Is vs Reality
What stereotypes do you believe about AI? Let me know in the comments and we can discuss :)
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Deconstructing Machiavelli
UC Berkeley historian Martin Jay relates the rich web of ironies and subtleties surrounding the influence, past and present, that the renowned Renaissance political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli has had on our views on the truth in politics.
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Towards Historical Truth?
UC Berkeley historian and Byzantine specialist Maria Mavroudi gives her candid view that a historian’s principal task is to try to recover as much of the truth as possible despite the fact that we can naturally never recover the whole...
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The Rhetoric Wars
Intellectual historian Quentin Skinner (QMUL), describes the tensions between the Renaissance's rhetorical culture and the Scientific Revolution’s pursuit of absolute truth.
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Listening To Other Voices
Historian David Armitage (Harvard) describes the importance of looking at a conflict from a variety of different perspectives.
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Combining Perspectives
Philosopher Susan Wolf (UNC Chapel Hill) gives us a sense of Aristotle's famous endoxic method, an approach which seems as relevant today as it was in ancient Athens.
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Arendt in the Background
Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) discusses how his reflections on lying in politics were likely influenced by reading and re-reading essays by Hannah Arendt.
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History and Morality
Historian Martin Jay, UC Berkeley, describes how a study of history can sharpen our moral understanding, showing that, rather than adhering to inflexible rules of behaviour, each situation presents a unique set of “competing moral...
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Deceptive Language and Theatrical Metaphors
Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) highlights the importance of wrestling with the subtle and often deceptive nature of language in order to fully appreciate the cultural values of any particular society.
Señor Jordan
The Direct Objects Song! (Spanish Lesson) - Lo, la, los, & las
I wrote the lyrics to this one and put it to the tune of a familiar kids' song. I think it turned out well! Notice that this is for the direct objects: it/them (lo,la,los,las). This video doesn't cover when a direct object is a person:...
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Jeremy Utley - Demystifying Innovation
Jeremy is the Director of Executive Education at the d.school, and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford’s School of Engineering, where he has earned multiple “favorite professor” distinctions from graduate programs. He holds a BBA with...
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02 Spanish Lesson - Preterite - Irregulars - decir
This video lesson covers yet another verb that is irregular in the preterite: decir (to say, tell).
Professor Dave Explains
Logic in Late Ancient Philosophy
Previously we outlined Aristotle's enormous contributions in establishing logic as a formal field of inquiry. So what happened after that? How did the minds that followed, many directly in his lineage, develop this field further? What is...
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Struggle for Power Among the Sons of Emma and Cnut
When Cnut the Great died, the sons of Emma and Cnut as well as the sons from each of their first marriages argued for control of various parts of the kingdom. This video covers the complexities of these competing claims, political...
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Letting the Truth Suck You In
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) describes how theorists need to get in the right vicinity of the truth and not fight its pull.