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Neuroscientist Mark Solms - Was Freud Right?
Pioneering neuropsychologist Mark Solms reveals how science is proving Freud correct and explores what this might mean for our mental healthcare syst…
2 months, 1 week ago
Zakia Sewell Meets Jeremy Deller - The Quest for a Hidden Britain
Writer and broadcaster Zakia Sewell is on a mission to uncover an alternative spirit of Britain – found in otherworldly folk songs, ancient legends, …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Peter Jones - The Secret History of the Seven Deadly Sins
In 2026 the Seven Deadly Sins have become a bit of harmless fun, more associated with ice creams and videogame villains than the immortal soul. But i…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin — How to Harness the Power of Music
Daniel Levitin returns to How To Academy to explore how music can transform our health and wellbeing—repairing our bodies, calming our minds, and hea…
3 months ago
Ayala Panievsky–Fighting Censorship in the Age of Populism
Heavy-handed censorship is unnecessary when one can manipulate people to censor themselves…
From the birth of 'the strategic bias', to weaponizing li…
3 months ago
Oren Harman - The Human History of Metamorphosis
As a boy, Oren Harman set up his own bedroom "laboratory" to uncover the caterpillar's transformation into a butterfly. But these marvellous creature…
3 months ago
Dr Gavin Francis – Making Sense of Mental Health
Between a quarter and a fifth of young people in the UK now suffer from a mental disorder. One in four adults are prescribed psychiatric medication. …
3 months, 1 week ago
C. Thi Nguyen - How to Stop Playing Someone Else's Game
C. Thi Nguyen considers games of all kinds to be an art form, no less beautiful than cinema, literature, or music: but the qualities that make games …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Keza MacDonald - How Nintendo Changed the World
Guardian journalist and lifelong Nintendo superfan Keza MacDonald is the author of a new history of that reveals how the company's unique culture tra…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Neuroscientist Paul Goldsmith – How to Thrive in a World We Weren’t Made For
In a world transformed beyond recognition, the neural systems that once kept our ancestors alive now leave us overwhelmed, distracted, and dissatisfi…
3 months, 3 weeks ago