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Kwabena Boahen: A Computer That Works Like the Brain

June 1, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)

Kwabena Boahen explores the structure and foundations of the human brain to get data to use for building a computer that works exactly like the human brain.

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Aditi Shankardass: A Second Opinion on Learning Disorders

November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)

Aditi Shankardass shares her and her team's findings on correctly diagnosing learning and developmental disorders in children to give them a better chance at being normal.

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Mary Roach: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Orgasm

February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)

Author Mary Roach shares many unique stories and little known facts about orgasms.

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Ken Robinson: Schools Kill Creativity

February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)

Ken Robinson talks of how our modern education systems have put creativity and the arts on the back burner for quite some time.

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Jill Bolte Taylor: Stroke of Insight

February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)

In this amazing talk, Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor tells us about her stroke of insight. She narrates with vivid detail, what happened when she had a massive stroke. She defined not only how the right and left sides of our brain function, but she also experienced how it was to lose the left s...

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Tan Le: A Headset that Reads Your Brainwaves

July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)

Tan Le intoduces an amazing headset and its accompanying software that can map human brain waves for different functions and applications.

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Mae Jemison: Teaching Arts and Sciences Together

February 1, 2002 (over 22 years ago)

Mae Jemison gives the differences and similarities of science that binds them both as manifestations of the human brain's genius.

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Charles Limb: Your Brain on Improv

November 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)

Charles Limb shows the corelation of creativity, music and science.

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Sebastian Seung: I Am My Connectome

July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)

Sebastian Seung talks about discovering the human connectome and the technological advances it can bring about.

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Diane Benscoter: How Cults Rewire the Brain

February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)

Ex-Moonie Diane Benscoter tells the story of her youth and how she got rid of the "virus" that consumed her during the years of being in a cult.

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