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Michael Shermer - Why people believe strange things

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Why do people see the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich or hear demonic lyrics in "Stairway to Heaven"? Using video and music, skeptic Michael Shermer shows how we convince ourselves to believe -- and overlook the facts.

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Season 2006
S2006E01 - Al Gore: Averting the climate crisis
27 juin 2006
S2006E02 - Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen
27 juin 2006
S2006E03 - Sir Ken Robinson - How schools kill creativity
27 juin 2006
S2006E04 - Majora Carter - Greening the ghetto
27 juin 2006
S2006E05 - David Pogue - When it comes to tech, simplicity…
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S2006E06 - Tony Robbins - Why we do what we do, and how we…
27 juin 2006
S2006E07 - Julia Sweeney - Letting Go of God
10 juillet 2006
S2006E08 - Joshua Prince-Ramus - Designing the Seattle…
1 février 2006
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18 juillet 2006
S2006E10 - Rick Warren - Living a life of purpose
18 juillet 2006
S2006E11 - Larry Brilliant - Help stop the next pandemic
25 juillet 2006
S2006E12 - Cameron Sinclair - Open-source architecture to…
25 juillet 2006
S2006E13 - Jehane Noujaim - Unite the world on Pangea Day
25 juillet 2006
S2006E14 - Nicholas Negroponte - The vision behind One…
1 août 2006
S2006E15 - Jeff Han - Unveiling the genius of multi-touch…
1 août 2006
S2006E16 - Sirena Huang - Dazzling set by 11-year-old…
8 août 2006
S2006E17 - Jennifer Lin - Magical improv from 14-year-old…
8 août 2006
S2006E18 - Amy Smith - Simple designs that could save…
15 août 2006
S2006E19 - Ross Lovegrove - The power and beauty of organic…
15 août 2006
S2006E20 - Richard Baraniuk - Goodbye, textbooks; hello,…
21 août 2006
S2006E21 - Jimmy Wales - How a ragtag band created Wikipedia
21 août 2006
S2006E22 - Mena Trott - How blogs are building a friendlier…
25 août 2006
S2006E23 - Ze Frank - What's so funny about the Web?
25 août 2006
S2006E24 - Eve Ensler - Finding happiness in body and soul
6 septembre 2006
S2006E25 - Helen Fisher - The science of love, and the…
6 septembre 2006
S2006E26 - Richard Dawkins - The universe is queerer than we…
12 septembre 2006
S2006E27 - David Deutsch - What is our place in the cosmos?
12 septembre 2006
S2006E28 - Malcolm Gladwell - What we can learn from…
12 septembre 2006
S2006E29 - Steven Levitt - Why do crack dealers still live…
19 septembre 2006
S2006E30 - Barry Schwartz - The paradox of choice
26 septembre 2006
S2006E31 - Dan Gilbert - Why are we happy? Why aren't we…
26 septembre 2006
S2006E32 - Eva Vertes - My dream about the future of medicine
2 octobre 2006
S2006E33 - Aubrey de Grey - Why we age and how we can avoid…
2 octobre 2006
S2006E34 - Jacqueline Novogratz - Investing in Africa's own…
10 octobre 2006
S2006E35 - Iqbal Quadir - The power of the mobile phone to…
10 octobre 2006
S2006E36 - Ashraf Ghani - How to fix broken states
18 octobre 2006
S2006E37 - Sasa Vucinic - Why a free press is the best…
18 octobre 2006
S2006E38 - Burt Rutan - Entrepreneurs are the future of…
25 octobre 2006
S2006E39 - Ben Saunders - Three things to know before you…
25 octobre 2006
S2006E40 - Robert Fischell - Finding new cures for…
31 octobre 2006
S2006E41 - Bono - Join my call to action on Africa
31 octobre 2006
S2006E42 - Edward Burtynsky - Share the story of Earth's…
31 octobre 2006
S2006E43 - Peter Donnelly - How juries are fooled by…
8 novembre 2006
S2006E44 - Michael Shermer - Why people believe strange…
8 novembre 2006
S2006E45 - Kevin Kelly - How does technology evolve? Like we…
14 novembre 2006
S2006E46 - Ray Kurzweil - How technology's accelerating…
14 novembre 2006
S2006E47 - Peter Gabriel - Fighting injustice with a…
6 décembre 2006
S2006E48 - Rives - If I controlled the Internet (a poem)
14 décembre 2006
S2006E49 - Richard St. John - Secrets of success in 8 words,…
14 décembre 2006
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14 décembre 2006

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