(Intermediate) Get Organised with Marie Kondo

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Ellen and Ellie Get Organized with Marie Kondo

(Advanced Documentary SPIN) Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Dieter Dengler, who was born in Germany but had moved to America as a young man, loves aeroplanes and flying more than anything else, even though this passion led to an extremely harsh, half-year-long captivity. His aeroplane was shot down over Laos in 1966. In Werner Herzog’s film, Dengler relives the amazing story of his capture and escape through the jungles.

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Little Dieter Needs to Fly

(Advanced Documentary SPIN) The Doubt Machine

The Doubt Machine: Inside The Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science​

Narrated by esteemed actor Emma Thompson, ​the documentary "The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science" reveals how the Koch Brothers have used their vast wealth to ensure the American political system takes no action on climate change​,​ ​and are​ ​attempting​ to buy the 2016 Congressional elections.

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The Doubt Machine

(Advanced) The Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Like The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, humourless pod people are sucking the joy out of learning, in a monotonous march towards target grades.

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The Invasion of the Body Snatchers

(Advanced) Why we aren't more compassionate?

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Why we aren't more compassionate

Use these notes to discuss the talk: 

a sermon topic

the parable of the Good Samaritan?

our default wiring (we automatically empathize)

a question with the word "you" in it

the Santa Cruz strangler

They're controlled by different parts of the brain

I had to turn that part of me off

a collective blind spot

the elephant in the room

The Hidden Life of Everyday Objects

electronic tagging technology

the periphery of our vision

the subway

simple act of noticing

(Upper-Intermediate) Why you think you're right — even if you're wrong

Perspective is everything, especially when it comes to examining your beliefs. Are you a soldier, prone to defending your viewpoint at all costs — or a scout, spurred by curiosity? Julia Galef examines the motivations behind these two mindsets and how they shape the way we interpret information, interweaved with a compelling history lesson from 19th-century France.

Ted Lesson here:

Why you think you're right — even if you're wrong

(Advanced) Love is Evil

Zizek on Love and everything in between in 2 minutes.

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Love is evil

(Upper-Intermediate) Why do we love?

Ah, romantic love; beautiful and intoxicating, heart-breaking and soul-crushing... often all at the same time! If romantic love has a purpose, neither science nor psychology has discovered it yet – but over the course of history, some of our most respected philosophers have put forward some intriguing theories. Skye C. Cleary outlines five of these philosophical perspectives on why we love.

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Why do we love?

(Advanced) What is Love?

Is love a signal winding through your neural pathways? A cliche? A cult? Love is easy to compare but difficult to define, maybe because we’re fundamentally biased; we try to define love while falling in or out of it. And love feels differently to every person who feels it, but this subjective emotion has evolutionary explanations, too. Brad Troeger takes a shot at the definition of love.

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What is Love?

Super Group

 These guys are such a cool group to teach. Goodbye Belen, Nadine and P.A.. Nice to see you again Ahmed.