A fact based view of the world

Hans Rosling has put together an awesome site gapminder.org where you can get an impressive statistics tool for understanding the world.

Terror management theory

I never heard of this before listing to the last episode of Reasonable Doubts podcast.
Terror management theory gives an interesting explanation to some of the irrational behaviors we meet sometime.

Motivation science has a deep insight into human nature

Some very interesting research shows deep flaws in the (american) business model of human motivation.
Dan Pink on Motivation at TED
This also links with the behavior economics from Edge Video.