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By Adam Rifkin

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Fermi Paradox: Where Be Aliens?

Science deconstructs humor: What makes some things funny?

How South Park Pushed Language and the Boundaries of Censorship over 20 Years

Rick and Morty, Existential Sisyphus, and Finding Meaning in Life

Ancient Wisdom Reveals 6 Rituals That Will Make You Happy

Why Panpsychism Is Probably Wrong

Remember when Elon Musk said we're living in a computer simulation? This cartoon explains.

Indifference is power: As legions of warriors and prisoners attest, Stoicism isn't grim resolve but a way to wrest happiness from adversity.

Philosophy Referee Hand Signals

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new. ~Socrates

There's no such thing as free will. But we're better off believing in it anyway.

9 of history's great philosophers happiness quotes: Russell, Nietzsche, Mill, Socrates, Confucious, Seneca, Lao Tzu, Kierkegaard, Thoreau...

Harvard Professors Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh Say There's A Way to Be Happier Through Great Chinese Thinkers From Long Ago

Ghost in the Shell, over two decades old, remains our most challenging film about technology.

Friedrich Nietzsche: On Love And Hate

Does My Goldfish Know Who I Am? Scientists and Writers Answer Little Kids’ Big Questions about How Life Works | Brain Pickings

How to Use Philosophy as a Personal Operating System: From Seneca to Musashi, by Tim Ferriss

What is Something? by Kurzgesagt

Bill Murray gives a surprising and meaningful answer when Charlie Rose asks him what he wants...

Your Brain Isn't a Computer. It's a Quantum Field.

The free online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has achieved what Wikipedia can only dream of...

Laurie Santos of Yale on Alief Automatic Belief-Like Attitudes, a Source of Cognitive Biases in Critical Thinking

There Is No Theory of Everything, by Simon Critchley

Alan Watts on Acceptance of Death

The Wisdom of Seneca: A Lawyer’s Advice For Life In The Fast Lane

Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle. ~Plato

Aristotle on How to Avoid Criticism, by Bob Sutton

Never let the future disturb you. ~Marcus Aurelius

Do We See Reality As It Is? TED March 2015 Donald Hoffman

Why half of the life you experience is over by age 7: We perceive time by comparing it with our lifespan.

Two philosophers explain what Inside Out gets wrong about the mind and memory...

Eastern Philosophers vs Western Philosophers: Epic Rap Battles of History Season 4

The Poison of Subjectivism by C.S. Lewis Doodle

A practical not ideological approach to human rights - Straits Times

Nathaniel Branden Obituary

T.S. Eliot's famous "objective correlative" theory— it's basically show don't tell.

Philosopher Alain de Botton on "Status Anxiety"

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. ~Socrates

Mind and Cosmos: Philosopher Thomas Nagel’s Brave Critique of Scientific Reductionism | Brain Pickings

Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness?

The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology - Nicholas Shackel

Self-Scrutiny Applied with Kindness: Epictetus Wisdom on Happiness and How Philosophy Helps Us Answer the Soul’s Cry | Brain Pickings

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. ~Aristotle

Know Thy Self — Really - NYTimes.com

11 Quotes From Alan Watts That Will Change Your Life

50 Great Teachers: Socrates, The Ancient World's Teaching Superstar : NPR

Four Reasons Why Plato Matters

Not Everyone Wants to Be Happy

Study finds intoxicated people tend towards utilitarian ideolgy

The Cold Logic of Drunk People

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