"Focusing Illusions" and the Myth of California Happiness
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/11/28/David_Brooks_Speaks_with_Daniel_Kahneman Psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman explains the "Focusing Illusion" theory, a common human tendency to exaggerate the importance of one aspect of an idea or event. For example, says Kahneman, not all Californians are happy simply because of the st... Read more
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- -: "Focusing Illusions" and the Myth of California Happiness
December 9, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/11/28/David_Brooks_Speaks_with_Daniel_Kahneman Psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman explains the "Focusing Illusion" theory, a common human tendency to exaggerate the importance of one aspect of an idea or event. For example, says Kahneman, not a...
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- -: Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs west -- the myths that mystify
November 19, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Devdutt Pattanaik takes an eye-opening look at the myths of India and of the West -- and shows how these two fundamentally different sets of beliefs about God, death and heaven help us consistently misunderstand one another. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks ...
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- -: Cindy Gallop: Make love, not porn (Adult content)
December 2, 2009 (over 14 years ago)At TED2009, audience member Cindy Gallop gave a 4-minute presentation that became one of the event's most talked about. Speaking from her personal experience, she argued that hardcore pornography had distorted the way a generation of young men think about sex. She talked about how she was fightin...
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- -: The Myths of Innovation
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks May 14, 2007 ABSTRACT Much of what we know about innovation is wrong. That's the bet this talk takes, as it romps through the history of innovation, dispelling the mythologies we've constructed about how we got here. This talk, loosely based on the upcoming O'Reilly book (May ...
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- -: Why Does the Media Love Michele Bachmann?
February 7, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/01/10/Thomas_Friedman_on_America_and_China Author and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman praises Anderson Cooper for deconstructing Michele Bachmann's claim on his CNN show that President Obama's trip to India was costing tax payers $200 million a day...
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- -: Why the Human Brain Can't Multitask
June 18, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/ideas_economy_information Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, explains why the human brain struggles to process information that is presented "with the intensity and the quantity and the speed we find ourse...
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- -: Weekly Address: Necessary Reform, Absurd Attacks
August 7, 2009 (over 14 years ago)President Barack Obama calls health insurance reform critical to our nations long-term economic strength and dispels the outlandish rumors being promoted by those who are defending the status-quo. August 8, 2009. (Public Domain)
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- -: Reality Check: The return of the viral email
August 12, 2009 (over 14 years ago)There are quite a few viral emails floating around, making outlandish claims about health insurance reform and pretending to be careful analyses of the bills moving through Congress. Drafted to appear as if they are written by concerned citizens, more often the information comes from organizatio...
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- -: Weekly Address: Myths and Morality in Health Insurance Reform
August 21, 2009 (over 14 years ago)President Obama debunks the myths around health reform, and discusses the public option proposal in which many of them are rooted. But he focuses his address on the stark moral and historical turning point at which we find ourselves. August 22, 2009. (Public Domain)
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