The Kingdom of David - 24 30 Minute Lectures

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This is a perfect a coarse delve into iconic stories of the bible tho the eyes of historians and archaeologists. Discover how their findings bring fascinating and revealing perspectives to the world shaping texts of scripture. If you listen to him at one point two speed, like i do, you can get through em in about 20 to 22 minutes each. So go to ondrium, w n d r i u m dot com slash shermer. S g r, m, e r, just go to it. Scrape. All right, thanks for listening. And here's the show.

xtraordinary advances in psychology and neuroscience have proven that emotions are as critical to our well-being as thinking. In this conversation, Shermer and Mlodinow explore the new science of feelings.

Journeying from the labs of pioneering scientists to real-world scenarios that have flirted with disaster, Mlodinow shows us how our emotions can help, why they sometimes hurt, and what we can learn in both instances.

Shermer and Mlodinow discuss: the difference between emotions and feelings/moods/drives/passions; how the scientific understanding of emotions has changed; thought vs. feeling; system 1 vs. system 2 cognition; mind-body connection: how does our physical state influence what we think & feel?; the neuroscience of emotions: how the brain constructs emotions; Lisa Feldman Barrett challenge to Paul Ekman’s theory of universal emotions; Schachter-Singer theory of emotion; the effects of social context on emotions; and more…