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YANSS 339 – How a new organization devoted to the science of debate, conversation, and deliberation plans to “save disagreement from polarization.”

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YANSS 338 – How to avoid the Ladder of Misinference in a world of sophisticated misinformation machines

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YANSS 337 – How to maintain your critical thinking and avoid cognitive surrender when using AI to solve problems, make decisions, and learn new things

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YANSS 336 – The science behind how to organize successful protests, boycotts, sit-ins and other forms of civil resistance

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YANSS 335 – How parts work works, and how it can lead to better debates with yourself and others (but most of all yourself)

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YANSS 334 – How magical thinking can lead us to deceive each other by first deceiving ourselves

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YANSS 333 – How can so many people watch the same event yet “see” so many different realities?

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YANSS 332 – Why resistance to facts we would rather not believe can be stronger than susceptibility to lies we wish were true

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YANSS 331 – The wicked problems that often emerge during debate, disagreement, and deliberation

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YANSS 330 – How to ask the kinds of questions that lead to innovations, discoveries, and breakthroughs

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YANSS 328 – The science behind a game (you can start playing today) that turns heated arguments into productive conversations

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YANSS 328 – The hidden geometry that shapes everything from pandemics to democracy

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YANSS 327 – How save ourselves from ourselves by solving the trolley problem inside us all

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YANSS 326 – The surprising, boney, bipedal, baby-driven origins of human language

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YANSS 325 – How cognitive dissonance can lead us to believe wrong is now right and right has always been wrong

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YANSS 324 – Why cults often grow stronger after their leaders turn out to be wrong

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YANSS 323 – The real (psychological) reason why you are unhappy at work and what you can (psychologically) do about it

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YANSS 322 – How the humbling science behind our general lack of intellectual humility can make us better humans

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YANSS 321 – How to glue life back together and craft a new self after setbacks, breakups, and fractures in your mental health leave you in pieces

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YANSS 320 – The difference between misinformation and disinformation and how to protect your brain from both

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