Aperture

Aperture

By UnderknownSociety & Culture
Download on the App Store

Aperture episodes

  • Dopamine: The Most Controversial Hormone

    If you’re watching this on your phone, chances are that before I’m done talking, you’ll get a notification. A text from a friend, a like on a recent post you just shared, or a new follower or subscriber. When this happens, do you feel a rush? A sense of validation and excitement? We tend to check our social media, our texts, our phones in search of a reward. And when that reward doesn’t come and we are faced with a blank screen with no notifications, we’re left saddened and let down. 


    Stay connected with Aperture:

    Website: https://aperture.gg/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApertureScience

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theapertureyt/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheApertureYT

    Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch


    12 min
  • The Gig Economy is Terrible: Here's Why

    Everything can be done with an app these days, and companies are looking more and more like they want to offer “gig” as opposed to full-time employment. So, where are we headed? Is there any proof in the pudding, or is "independent contractor" just a more merciful sounding version of "very, very expendable"? Welcome to the world of the gig economy.


    Stay connected with Aperture:

    Website: https://aperture.gg/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApertureScience

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theapertureyt/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheApertureYT

    Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch


    13 min
  • The Flow State: How to Supercharge Your Life

    Flow is a tool we can seek out to improve our lives. It is a mindset to help us boost productivity, conquer challenging tasks, and lean into our creativity. The promise of being able to turn off the outside world and turn on the most positive parts of our inner world is alluring and something to strive for. But as soon as we get too fixated on achieving these feelings, we might lose what flow is really about.


    Stay connected with Aperture:

    Website: https://aperture.gg/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApertureScience

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theapertureyt/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheApertureYT

    Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch


    13 min
  • How to Buy Happiness With Money

    Evelyn Adams was the first person in American history to ever win multiple million-dollar prizes. Basically overnight, she went from working in a convenience store to being worth more than some CEOs. With her newfound wealth, Adams paid off bills, set up a college fund for her daughter, bought a car, and lavished friends and family with gifts. You’d think a story like this would come with a happily ever after finale, but you’d be very wrong.


    Stay connected with Aperture:

    Website: https://aperture.gg/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApertureScience

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theapertureyt/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheApertureYT

    Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch


    13 min
  • Death

    At some point, we all experience the sting of death. A grandparent. A parent. A friend. A lover.

    But here's what nobody talks about: what death does to the living.

    Why does grief physically hurt? Why do some people never recover while others transform? And why is the one thing every human will face still the thing we're least prepared for?

    🎧 This episode confronts what we spend our whole lives avoiding.

    🔔 Subscribe for episodes that ask the questions most people are afraid to.💬 Send this to someone. They'll know why.

    #Death #Grief #Psychology #Philosophy #Consciousness #Loss #MentalHealth #Afterlife #SelfAwareness #Podcast

    15 min
  • The One Thing That Could End Humanity

    We’ve gotten so good at adapting to our surroundings that at this point, most natural disasters don’t pose much of a threat to our species as a whole. But what couldn’t we withstand? What, if it happened tomorrow, could end the human story instantly and infinitely? These are the biggest threats our species faces. The threats which seek to make us history, like the 99% who came before us. These are the most dangerous things in the Universe.


    Stay connected with Aperture:

    Website: https://aperture.gg/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApertureScience

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theapertureyt/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheApertureYT

    Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch

    13 min
  • Synesthesia: The 6th Sense

    In 1812, a physician by the name of Georg Tobias Ludwig Sachs was writing about the nature of albinism, having had the condition himself. Color was a recurring topic in his analysis of albinism and as such, in discussing his own experience, he mentioned that “colored ideas” appeared to him. They were “intimate and recurring” and couldn’t be “reckoned with usual sight,” according to Sachs. Sachs is now regarded as the first medically documented case of Synesthesia, a neurological condition in which a sensation in one of the senses evokes a sensation in another. The term quite literally means a “cross-mingling” of the senses, exactly opposite to the more familiar word “anesthesia,” which means “no sensation.”


    Stay connected with Aperture:

    Website: https://aperture.gg/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApertureScience

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theapertureyt/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheApertureYT

    Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch

    14 min
  • The Psychology Of The Anti-Hero

    I have a pretty serious confession to make. I don’t like Superman. Before you destroy me in the comments, I know this is an unpopular opinion, but the Man of Steel has just never resonated with me. The problem for me has always been that he is too strong. I mean, one of his primary powers is invulnerability. Talk about a tension killer. The conflict is never if Superman will save the day, only how.


    Stay connected with Aperture:

    Website: https://aperture.gg/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApertureScience

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theapertureyt/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheApertureYT

    Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch

    15 min
  • Nanotechnology: A New Frontier

    Nanotechnology is ironically becoming larger by the day, but not literally. As a field, Nanotechnology impacts each and every one of us more every single day. What is Nanotechnology? Why should you care about it? Well, I have a few reasons.


    Stay connected with Aperture:

    Website: https://aperture.gg/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApertureScience

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theapertureyt/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheApertureYT

    Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch

    14 min
  • A.I is getting too good (Chat GPT, AI Art)

    Have you ever wondered how an evil artificial intelligence might try to take over the world? Well first, the AI would attempt to gain access to as many technological systems as possible. Then, it’d study us, gathering data and identifying our weaknesses. Next, it would execute various strategies to disrupt human society including sabotaging infrastructure and spreading propaganda. This would be implemented alongside the creation and deployment of a robot army capable of launching attacks around the globe. Finally, once humanity was successfully subjugated, the AI would establish a new world order in which it controlled every facet of our lives.


    Stay connected with Aperture:

    Website: https://aperture.gg/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApertureScience

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theapertureyt/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheApertureYT

    Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch

    14 min

About Aperture

From the publisher's feed

Become a Paid Subscriber: https://bit.ly/ApertureSpotify

More shows like Aperture

Philosophize This! by Stephen West

Philosophize This!

15,234 Listeners

Secular Buddhism by Noah Rasheta

Secular Buddhism

2,644 Listeners

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast by Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

2,110 Listeners

Making Sense with Sam Harris by Sam Harris

Making Sense with Sam Harris

26,264 Listeners

Philosophy For Our Times by Institute of Art and Ideas

Philosophy For Our Times

316 Listeners

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett by DOAC

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

8,306 Listeners

Modern Wisdom by Chris Williamson

Modern Wisdom

4,078 Listeners

The Michael Shermer Show by Michael Shermer

The Michael Shermer Show

935 Listeners

The Daily Stoic by Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

The Daily Stoic

4,949 Listeners

Within Reason by Alex J O'Connor

Within Reason

1,625 Listeners

Urgency of Change • The Krishnamurti Podcast by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust

Urgency of Change • The Krishnamurti Podcast

236 Listeners

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal by Theories of Everything

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

18 Listeners

Why This Universe? by Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman

Why This Universe?

384 Listeners

Huberman Lab by Scicomm Media

Huberman Lab

29,164 Listeners

Crash Course Pods: The Universe by Crash Course Pods, Complexly

Crash Course Pods: The Universe

572 Listeners