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Philosophy's Not Boring
The big questions, and how we've tried to answer them.
Philosophy, psychology and religion as one big family of questions about how we make sense of things. Some have one answer, some have several worth comparing, and some nobody has ever settled. We tell you which is which.
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What was the monkey fairness experiment?
Have you ever felt completely outraged when a friend or sibling got a bigger piece of cake than you? You probably yelled, "That is NOT fair!" But did grown-ups invent the rules of fairness, or were we born already knowing them? Join Mira and Finn on an…
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