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The Open Mind

Season 2020 · Episode 5

The Science and Necessity of Friendship

0.030mFebruary 3, 2020

Science journalist Lydia Denworth on the evolution, biology, and power of friendship.

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Episode 1Baldwin and Buckley: Advocating and Denying Civil Rights
Episode 2The Battle for the Constitution and Pelosi's Originalism
Episode 3Grand Strategy for the Campus Commons and Beyond
Episode 4Bias, Bigotry, and Tyrannical Discourse
Episode 5The Science and Necessity of Friendship
Episode 6Unbecoming a Democracy
Episode 7The Kremlin’s Hack Attacks
Episode 8Democratizing the Jury
Episode 9Facts and Fears of a Pandemic
Episode 10Breaking Up and Deradicalizing the Socials
Episode 11Knowing the Enemy of Truth
Episode 12The FEC is AWOL
Episode 13Big Tech = Dystopia Incorporated
Episode 14The Cult of QAnon
Episode 15American Demagogue
Episode 16Gen Z in the Heartland
Episode 17The Revolution is Online
Episode 18The Alchemy of Us
Episode 19@V2019N
Episode 20Hiding in Plain Sight
Episode 21The Youth Vote in 2020
Episode 22The Pandemic’s Prophet
Episode 23Army of the Decent
Episode 24Dystopia for Realists
Episode 25Renewing Democracy for Today
Episode 26Will COVID Paralyze the Vote in November?
Episode 27American Hospitals...Surviving and Treating the Pandemic
Episode 28America Without Law
Episode 29John Lewis and The Third Reconstruction
Episode 30How to Speak Justly and Bridge Divides
Episode 31Gaslighting 2020 and Comorbidities of the GOP
Episode 32Will the Pandemic Mean Justice in America?
Episode 33Political and Personal Accountability
Episode 34Calling Bull____ and the Threat of a Show Vaccine
Episode 35Will There Be a Legitimate 2020 Election?
Episode 36Supercharging Antibodies for a COVID Vaccine
Episode 37Will Trump Hoax the Nation on Election Night?
Episode 38American Autocracy
Episode 39After 200K+ Dead, Vote For Your Life
Episode 40Four More Years of Social Media Failure
Episode 41Voting is the Civil Rights Movement of 2020
Episode 42The Flight of Humane Poetics
Episode 43Chinese Hegemony
Episode 44Our Brains on Totalitarianism
Episode 45Republicanism vs. Trumpism
Episode 46The Strongman in the USA