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  • Jefferson Smith: Priceless politics – The secret to making democracy work
  • Robert Sapolsky: The Origin of Religion
  • Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish
  • Johnny Lee Clary: About Wade Watts
  • Andreas Eenfeldt: The Food Revolution
  • A.J. Jacobs: My year of living biblically
  • John Cleese: Graham Chapman Memorial Service
  • Geoff Burch: Selling a Tank to Genghis Khan
  • Randy Pausch: “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” (The Last Lecture)
  • Steve Jobs: First Apple Macintosh demo
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  • Winston Churchill: We shall fight on the beaches
  • Robert Sapolsky: Depression
  • Dan Savage: The price of admission
  • Steve Jobs: 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
  • Coach Flowers: I am a champion
  • Robert Sapolsky: The Uniqueness of Humans
  • Randy Pausch: "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" (The Last Lecture)
  • Muhammad Ali: I am the greatest
  • Foster Brooks: Roasting Sammy Davis Jr.
  • J.K. Rowling: The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination (Commencement speech at Harvard, 2008)
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  • Robert Sapolsky: Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: Stress and Health
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  • Jon Stewart: 9/11 Hearing
  • Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0
  • Richard Ashworth: No UK Prime Minister ever explained to British people what EU did for them
  • Robert Zubrin: Why we should go to Mars
  • Steven Pinker: Is the world getting worse? A look at the number
  • Frans de Waal: The surprising science of alpha males
  • Alain de Botton: Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person
  • Dan Savage: Swinging and Monogamy
  • Jordan Peterson: Free Speech and Raif Badawi
  • Christopher Clark: How Europe Went to War in 1914
  • Jonathan Pie: Oppression Obsession
  • Owen Stephens: Rebel Lieutenant
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