Taking Responsibility for Your Happiness: Insights from Contemporary Psychology (AynRandCon 2016)

In this talk, delivered at Ayn Rand Student Conference 2016, Gena Gorlin discusses how psychological strategies from contemporary psychology can be of assistance when exercising one's free will to choose and shape the form of one's own happiness. Gorlin, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, spoke on Sunday, November 6, 2016, in Atlanta, Georgia.

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The Flourishing Man Episode 5 | Objectivism 101

In this episode I present the 101 on Objectivism. I present a primer of the philosophy. The Objecivist Wiki comes in very handy for the content of this episode. wiki.objectivismonline.net/Main_Page

James "The Amazing" Randi Lecture at Princeton: The Search for the Chimera

James "The Amazing" Randi in his visit to Princeton University in 2001, gives us his classic style of scientific scepticism mixed with his ability to expose the most irritating flaws in our society, and the fakers who push their tricks and gimmicks like a cheap drug. 

"The Amazing" Randi is the perfect mix of Science and Magic, a true conjurer of visual machinations that can fool our senses while, at the same time, explaining to us how our senses are fooled.
In my opinion this is the best example of a "human mind debugger", he gets right into the machinations of analog tricks and sees how our brains mistakenly manifests them as a possible reality. Randi also teaches us that illusion and trickery may be comforting to the human mind, but truth is far much more wonderful as it shows us the machinations from the chaos, the sense as well as the awe in both the tricks and the real world.

For several decades, Randi has gone on to expose hundreds of psychics and teach millions across the globe about how they could be fooled into believing in a system which could potentially make them vulnerable to trickery and perhaps psychical harm. 

Randi is not afraid to go against popular opinion, as shown in his battle against so-called psychic Uri Geller in the late 1970's and early 1980's. 
Randi has also gone against the bizarre practise of faith "healing" and contacting the deceased, and has exposed the cruel, callous and cynical nature of the people who claim to be performing "God's will", such as Peter Popoff.
Randi has also warned us time and time again about the fraudulent practise that is homoeopathic medicine and how it is essentially water solution, dished out as hocus-pocus medicine. 

James Randi is the founder of The James Randi Educational Foundation, an organisation that attempts to bring reason to world by luring potential psychics into a trap, baited by a million dollar prize to prove their psychic "powers". "powers" here is a kind of vague term,as Randi knows, so the tests are usually on the so-called psychic's terms. No self-acclaimed psychic has ever won the prize.
Whether or not some form of psychic power exists is still an open question, however many psychics often do not properly gauge their so-called skills and instead brag about them, hence scepticism about such claims should not be so strange to their ears. Unfortunately the vast amount of psychic powers they have seem to remove all self-esteem as many psychics are often uneasy about Randi's reasonable request and attractive reward.

Regardless, psychic frauds come and go in droves but there will only ever be one James "The Amazing" Randi. 
Enjoy this lecture and help share his noble message of skepticism and critical thinking of irrational claims.

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Richard Dawkins in conversation with Penn Jillette at Live Talks LA

Richard Dawkins in conversation with Penn Jillette at Live Talks Los Angeles, October 1, 2015, discussing his memoir, "Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science." The talk was held at the Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre at New Roads School.

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