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A screen grab from the Garbage Island documentary by Vice

Video

Garbage Island

A infographic showing the balance needed between efficiency and effectiveness when dealing with the environment.

Infographic

Efficiency vs. effectiveness in the Circular Economy

The cover of the DVD for Contact, the film adaptation of Carl Sagan's book on humanity's first contact with extraterrestrials

Film

Contact

A screenshot from an animation showing the distance from Earth to Mars

Website

Distance to Mars

Sandrine Thuret presenting her TED talk on we can grow new neurons (brain cells)

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You can grow new brain cells. Here’s how.

An infographic showing how memory works, including details on the brain, how to improve your memory and how memories are created

Infographic

How memory works

Didier Sornette presenting his TED talk on how to predict the next financial crisis

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How can we predict the next financial crisis?

An image of space for The Big History Project, a free online course on the history of the Universe

Website

The Big History Project

The cover of the DVD for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, the 2014 follow-up to Carl Sagan's original series on the Universe

TV Series

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

The ruins of an Ancient Greek building, perhaps a gymnasium

Article

The Gymnasium

The cover of the book Heat by George Monbiot

Book

Heat

A screenshot from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation video on creating a Circular Economy

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Re-thinking Progress: The Circular Economy

Episode 117 of the Tim Ferriss Podcast with Dom D'Agostino talking about the ketogenic diet

Podcast

Tim Ferriss Podcast #117: Dom D’Agostino

The cover of The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Book

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

The title for the What I've Learned video on how to improve willpower through heart rate variability

Video

Improve Willpower in 5 Minutes

The cover of the DVD for The Animatrix, a set of short films detailing the back story to The Matrix

Film

The Animatrix

The cover of the book How Bad are Bananas? by Mike Berners-Lee

Book

How bad are bananas?

The cover of The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

Book

The Hidden Life of Trees

Daniel Kahneman presenting his TED talk on experience vs. memory

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The riddle of experience vs. memory

An infographic showing Cognitive Biases, created by John Manoogian III

Infographic

Cognitive Bias Codex

The title for the Crash Course video on the power of motivation

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Crash Course: The Power of Motivation

The cover of the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Book

Sapiens

An infographic showing the fight or flight response, the body's response to stress

Infographic

The Fight or Flight Response

The title for the Crash Course video on how we make memories

Video

Crash Course: How We Make Memories

An infographic from Information is Beautiful showing the size of the codebases of different types of software

Infographic

Million Lines of Code

Episode 313 of the Tim Ferriss Podcast with Michael Pollan as a guest

Podcast

Tim Ferriss Podcast #313: Michael Pollan on pyschedelics

The cover of the book Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

Book

Homo Deus