FOREIGN FILM SHORT: 2 + 2 = 5
What happens when truth and power collide?
Can power destroy truth?
Does power have the force to destroy truth when they are at odds with each other?
Nominated as Best Short Film, Bafta Film Awards. Farsi with English & Polish subtitles.
ANIMATION: A young man named Carl is faced with a decision that will change his life completely. With all options equally good, bad, and unclear, he’s faced with the impossible task and responsibility of inventing himself. Learn an important insight into what turns a hard decision into a great one.
What is really real? What do you think is real? Pondering the difference may be philosophy’s most daunting pursuit. How could you ever know the difference? Fortunately, our world provides some helpful guides for this journey. Join Hank’s “Crash Course” in exploring Plato’s “Myth of the Cave” and other sources of insight.
If you say what you think, what happens to you is your happening. If you lie to get your way, it’s not your way that you get, it’s the way of the lie.
Declarative sentences used to declare things to be true, as opposed to other things that are, “like totally,” not”? What has happened to our convictions on what is true and what is not?
Jihadists always use the phrase, “We love death more than you love life.” How can we face down such an enemy? The answer is to say, “There is nothing wrong loving life this much. If you wish to worship death, be our guest, we may even help you. But we will not apologize for loving life and fighting for life.”
First, we believe. Afterwards, we doubt, analyze, verify. “Truth-Default Theory” studies this natural habit and its dangerous pitfalls. Learn ways to rise above it.
WHO KNEW? While few people intentionally purchase products involving enslavement and exploitation of workers, the harsh reality is our global supply chain relies on 40.3 million victims trapped in slavery.
VIDEO+TRANSCRIPT: What are the best food sources of lutein, the primary carotenoid antioxidant in the brain?
SHORT COMEDY: One determined math teacher takes on post-truth America.
Why may those who consume meat have up to three times the risk of developing dementia compared with vegetarians? AGEs may be one explanation.
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