The Spark of Ages - Part 4: The Moral Awakening That Defined History
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The ethical foundations that shaped human history.
Ethics
WWII Science & Technology: The Race That Changed Everything - Part 4: Operation Paperclip: The Moral Calculus of Hiring Your Enemy's Monsters
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The uncomfortable truth about America's space program: it was built by men who designed weapons for Hitler. Operation Paperclip recruited Nazi scientists to win the Cold War—and buried their pasts. Was it justified? The answer is more disturbing than the question.
WWII Science & Technology: The Race That Changed Everything - Part 2: The Scientists Who Refused: When Genius Said No to War
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The untold story of scientists who faced history's most consequential choice: build the ultimate weapon for a genocidal regime, or find ways to fail. Heisenberg's mysterious 'miscalculations' and the scientists who chose conscience over career.
When Disaster Strikes - Part 3: The Sacrifice Calculus
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Every disaster forces brutal choices about who to save and who to abandon. These decisions—explicit in crisis, implicit in policy—reveal society's true values.
The Inconvenient Math of Mortality: Ethical Decisions on Life, Death, and Intergenerational Justice
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Exploring how bounded rationality and time inconsistency warp our ethical decisions about life, death, and intergenerational justice through the lenses of behavioral economics and bioethics.