How can we improve political dialog? with Saul Perlmutter

How can we improve political dialogue, and what does this have to do with the discovery that the universe behaves differently than expected? Why do we cling to beliefs even when evidence pushes against them? What if the biggest problem facing humanity could be solved with practice? Join Eagleman today with Saul Perlmutter, a Nobel-prize winning astrophysicist, but instead of the cosmos we talk about the inner cosmos: why polarization happens and how we might address it with a different kind of thinking.

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Saul Perlmutter, John Campbell, Robert MacCoun. Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense.

Saul Perlmutter at NobelPrize.org

Saul Perlmutter at Wikipedia

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