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Shaw is a German-Canadian psychologist and popular science writer who specializes in the fallibility of human memory. She is one of our knowledge heroes, appearing in the BQ lessons to help us to explore the reliability of memory in informing us about the world.

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Selasi is a British-American writer, photographer, and public speaker. Although she is of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin, she prefers to view herself as a “local” of Accra, Berlin, New York, and Rome. She is one of our knowledge heroes, and appears in the BQ lessons to help us explore our own identities, and the myth of nationality.

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Robinson was an inspirational British educational thinker, writer, and international advisor on education in the arts to governments and other organizations. He is one of our knowledge heroes, and appears in the BQ lessons to help us explore what a meaningful education should consist of.

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Plato, a pupil of Socrates, was one of the most influential philosophers in history, helping to lay down the framework for the way we think. He is one of our knowledge heroes, and appears in the BQ lessons to help us explore the nature of knowledge, and how it should be defined.

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Mosley is a British TV journalist and former doctor, who has produced many different documentaries on medicine and psychology. He is one of our knowledge heroes, and appears in the BQ lessons to help us explore the importance of emotion when trying to understand the world.

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Lotto is a neuroscientist and founder of ‘Lotto Lab’ who investigates how we perceive the world with our senses and brains. He is one of our knowledge heroes, and appears in the BQ lessons to help us explore how we construct our perception of the world via our prior experiences.

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Loftus is a world authority on memory, based in part on her landmark study in the 1970s looking at how the recall of past events can be shaped by the way in which witness are asked to describe them. She is one of our knowledge heroes, and appears in the BQ lessons to help us explore whether we should rely on our memory in order to understand the world reliably.

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Hoffman is an American cognitive psychologist and popular science writer. He is based at the University of California, Irvine. He is one of our knowledge heroes, and appears in the BQ lessons to help us explore how we construct our own versions of reality.

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Harris is a philosopher, neuroscientists, and writer who is an advocate of skepticism, and who believes that morality needs a solid foundation. He is one of our knowledge heroes, and appears in the BQ lessons to help us explore how ‘we’ do not exist as independent knowers.

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Galef co-founded the Center for Applied Rationality. She writes and speaks on the topics of rationality, science, technology, and design. She is one of our knowledge heroes, and appears in the BQ lessons to help us explore the way we must sometimes adopt an outsiders perspective to avoid being misled by our own biases.

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Damasio is a Portuguese neuroscientist who works at the University of Southern California. He is one of our knowledge heroes, and appears in the BQ lessons to help us explore the relationship between emotion and reason, and how the latter relies on the former to help us understand the world.

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Descartes was a French physicist and mathematician, and has been dubbed the father of modern philosophy. He is one of our knowledge heroes, appearing in the BQ lessons to help us explore how we learn about the world via rational means.

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Critchlow is a British scientist, writer and broadcaster. Her work focuses on cellular and molecular neuroscience. She is one of our knowledge heroes, and appears in the BQ lessons to help us explore how knowers are affected by bias as they seek to understand the world.

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Byron was an English poet and politician. He was a leading figure of the Romantic period, and is regarded as one of the greatest English poets. He is one of our knowledge heroes, and appears in the BQ lessons to help us understand the need to apply reason to the world.

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Brown is an illusionist, writer, and artist. He is one of our knowledge heroes, appearing in the BQ lessons to help us to explore how the Barnum effect and cold readings help enforce our confirmation biases about the world.

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Bloom is a Canadian American psychologist who works at Yale University. He is one of our knowledge heroes, appearing in the BQ lessons to help us to explore the extent to which we should – and shouldn’t – draw on empathy to arrive at ethical conclusions.

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Blake was English painter, poet, and printmaker. He is considered one of the seminal figures of the Romantic age. He is one of our knowledge heroes, and appears in the BQ lessons to help us explore how the truth can be twisted – and why this is even more damaging than outright lies.

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Baggini is a British philosopher, educationalist, and journalist. He has written many books on philosophy for a general audience. He is one of our knowledge heroes, appearing in the BQ lessons to help us to explore how knowers do not exist independently of their physical and mental worlds.

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Ariely is a behavioural economist, who studies the way we make decisions, with a particular focus on moral choices. His bestselling book, Predictably Irrational investigated the phenomenon of making decisions that seem entirely illogical.