TBPN

Inside the OpenAI vs. Elon Musk Courtroom

There are people who genuinely love Elon or are genuinely worried about the end of the world happening.

Code Switch

How your vote became your identity

There was a time when our party was a thing that we voted for, and, you know, we felt psychologically connected to the party. The party wins, we feel good. If the party loses, we feel bad. But there's still all these other parts of our identity that we have that are linked to our, you know, sense of self-esteem and our place in the world.

Code Switch

How your vote became your identity

What's happened in the US over the last many decades is that these really important identities like racial and religious identities have become associated in our minds with our party identity. So when we go vote in an election, we're not just feeling like our party wins or loses, we're feeling like our party and our racial group and our religious group and all these big parts of what makes us who we are, all of those things get wrapped up in the outcome of the election also.

Hidden Brain

Group Think

our group loyalties affect us more than we realize, and can even shape our basic senses of sight, taste and smell

TED Radio Hour

Curious stories of coexistence

Every day we hear about nations, different groups of people struggling to get along. Humanity seems unable to overcome its differences. But what can we learn from more unusual examples of strange bedfellows?