Brian Klaas

A lot of people in Britain looked at what they saw as an extremely momentous world event of Princess Diana dying. And the idea that a car accident, something so banal and so arbitrary as a car accident could be behind this was so unsatisfying that a lot of people, when they were being studied for their beliefs on what had actually happened,

A lot of people in Britain looked at what they saw as an extremely momentous world event of Princess Diana dying. And the idea that a car accident, something so banal and so arbitrary as a car accident could be behind this was so unsatisfying that a lot of people, when they were being studied for their beliefs on what had actually happened,

will happily take large explanations, even if they're mutually contradictory. So people who are conspiratorial thinkers will sometimes say that, yes, we think that she's still alive, and also we think that she was killed by the government. And both of those can't be true, but they're totally unsatisfied with the notion of an arbitrary or an accidental explanation.

will happily take large explanations, even if they're mutually contradictory. So people who are conspiratorial thinkers will sometimes say that, yes, we think that she's still alive, and also we think that she was killed by the government. And both of those can't be true, but they're totally unsatisfied with the notion of an arbitrary or an accidental explanation.

will happily take large explanations, even if they're mutually contradictory. So people who are conspiratorial thinkers will sometimes say that, yes, we think that she's still alive, and also we think that she was killed by the government. And both of those can't be true, but they're totally unsatisfied with the notion of an arbitrary or an accidental explanation.

Yeah, but if you go back further, all of this is this intersection of tiny events. I mean, sometimes I'll say things like, have you ever heard of Albert Einstein's grandmother? It's like, no. Well, she was really important because if she didn't exist, Albert Einstein doesn't exist.

Yeah, but if you go back further, all of this is this intersection of tiny events. I mean, sometimes I'll say things like, have you ever heard of Albert Einstein's grandmother? It's like, no. Well, she was really important because if she didn't exist, Albert Einstein doesn't exist.

Yeah, but if you go back further, all of this is this intersection of tiny events. I mean, sometimes I'll say things like, have you ever heard of Albert Einstein's grandmother? It's like, no. Well, she was really important because if she didn't exist, Albert Einstein doesn't exist.

So you sort of, the more that you end up looking for explanations, you end up in what's called an infinite regress, which is where there's another explanation. And then that has another explanation behind it. And that has another explanation behind it.

So you sort of, the more that you end up looking for explanations, you end up in what's called an infinite regress, which is where there's another explanation. And then that has another explanation behind it. And that has another explanation behind it.

So you sort of, the more that you end up looking for explanations, you end up in what's called an infinite regress, which is where there's another explanation. And then that has another explanation behind it. And that has another explanation behind it.

And what you ultimately end up with when you're making truthful assessments of what happened is that there's an infinite number of causes, many of them tiny, but all of them essential because if you take them away, you probably wouldn't end up with the same outcome.

And what you ultimately end up with when you're making truthful assessments of what happened is that there's an infinite number of causes, many of them tiny, but all of them essential because if you take them away, you probably wouldn't end up with the same outcome.

And what you ultimately end up with when you're making truthful assessments of what happened is that there's an infinite number of causes, many of them tiny, but all of them essential because if you take them away, you probably wouldn't end up with the same outcome.

This is one of my favorite sections of my research is that I'm looking at all these crazy aspects of human evolution where, but for this one thing, we wouldn't exist. My favorite is the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs because the best science we have today suggests that an oscillation in this part of space called the Oort cloud fluctuates

This is one of my favorite sections of my research is that I'm looking at all these crazy aspects of human evolution where, but for this one thing, we wouldn't exist. My favorite is the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs because the best science we have today suggests that an oscillation in this part of space called the Oort cloud fluctuates

This is one of my favorite sections of my research is that I'm looking at all these crazy aspects of human evolution where, but for this one thing, we wouldn't exist. My favorite is the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs because the best science we have today suggests that an oscillation in this part of space called the Oort cloud fluctuates

flung a space rock towards Earth and it hit in the worst possible place from the perspective of the dinosaurs and the best possible place from the perspective of humans, just off the Yucatan Peninsula in what is this rock that is very rich with gypsum. And so the impact creates obviously some devastation, but what really wiped out the dinosaurs was this toxic gas along with the heat.

flung a space rock towards Earth and it hit in the worst possible place from the perspective of the dinosaurs and the best possible place from the perspective of humans, just off the Yucatan Peninsula in what is this rock that is very rich with gypsum. And so the impact creates obviously some devastation, but what really wiped out the dinosaurs was this toxic gas along with the heat.

flung a space rock towards Earth and it hit in the worst possible place from the perspective of the dinosaurs and the best possible place from the perspective of humans, just off the Yucatan Peninsula in what is this rock that is very rich with gypsum. And so the impact creates obviously some devastation, but what really wiped out the dinosaurs was this toxic gas along with the heat.