The Unspoken Rules of Society – https://aperture.gg/unspoken Visit http://bit.ly/noom_aperture for your free Noom evaluation! Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch There are no moral handbooks or guides that give us a checklist of the world’s dos and don’ts. It’s not in any constitution or any written rulebook. But somehow, we all follow these rules. […]
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To give workers the best chance of finding dangerous lead in Flint, University of Michigan researchers turned to machine learning. Five years after the water crisis, some residents are reluctant to fully trust the technology. Read more on NOVA: https://to.pbs.org/2Pg029W
What’s it all for? Sometimes we get so caught up in it all that we forget to stop and think about this and decide for ourself.
Dr. Gabor Maté gives a beautiful speech on human nature and the implications culture has on our ability to maintain it. In this segment of the speech, he discusses four different categories of self-alienation, and provides a sentiment of hope to stay in touch with our true nature as we […]
The point isn’t that we should never try to change the world.The point is that we shouldn’t want to change the world for the sake of feeling significant by getting our name in the history books. Change does not always mean improvement, and we must be careful when we say […]
With an extraordinary new technology called CRISPR, we can now edit DNA—including human DNA. But how far should we go? Gene-editing promises to eliminate certain genetic disorders like sickle cell disease. But the applications quickly raise ethical questions. Is it wrong to engineer soldiers to feel no pain, or to […]
This says a lot about our society…. There’s a lot of “deep” content on the internet, and it has always fascinated me, because a lot of the time, it isn’t deep at all. So, I figured I would make a video about it. Get in your submarine because it’s about […]
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