Steven Pinker: A brief history of violence
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http://www.ted.com Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference... Read more
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- -: Steven Pinker: A brief history of violence
September 11, 2007 (over 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the b...
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- -: Henry Markram: Supercomputing the brain's secrets
October 15, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Henry Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved -- soon. Mental illness, memory, perception: they're made of neurons and electric signals, and he plans to find them with a supercomputer that models all the brain's 100,000,000,000,000 synapses. TEDTalks is a daily vi...
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- -: Charles Limb: Your brain on improv
January 5, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation -- so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.
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- -: Augmenting Social Cognition: From Social Foraging to...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks February 15, 2007 ABSTRACT The emergence of Social Web has resulted in a spectrum of collaborative information environments. These social software span from systems with lightweight collaboration that identify faddishness of information (digg.com) to heavyweight collaboration ...
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- -: Charlie Rose - Eric Kandel 01/19/10
January 20, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Eric Kandel of Columbia University Watch episode 4 of the Charlie Rose Brain Series here: http://bit.ly/6simPj www.charlierose.com
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- -: Casey Dunn: Evolving Diversity
November 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Casey Dunn is rethinking where individuality begins. He is fascinated by siphonophores, deep sea superorganinisms comprised of thousands of organisms that are genetically identical but function in different ways. How have evolutionary pressures acted on the siphonophore and the individual organis...
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- -: Chris Chabris: When Intuition Fails
April 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Psychologist and neuroscientist Chris Chabris studies how rarely we see the world as it really is. A creator of the famous "gorilla experiment" and co-author of "The Invisible Gorilla: and Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us," Chabris' work reveals how relying on our institutions is a perilous d...
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- -: TEDxUVM 2011 - Joshua Bongard - The Robot Revolution
November 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)JOSH BONGARD Josh Bongard's work focuses on understanding the general nature of cognition, regardless of whether it is found in humans, animals or robots. This unique approach focuses on the role that morphology and evolution plays in cognition. Addressing these questions has taken him into the f...
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- -: TEDxUVM 2011 - Hugh Garavan - Addiction, the Frontal Lobes, and the Science of Willpower
November 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)HUGH GARAVAN Hugh Garavan's research interest is cognitive neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive control functions. This interest merges naturally into clinical questions regarding the neurobiology underlying control dysfunction. Related research interests concern the processes underlying the d...
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- -: The Secret Lives of the Brain
November 19, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/11/02/David_Eagleman_Will_We_Ever_Understand_the_Brain David Eagleman, neuroscientist and author of Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, discusses the relatively minor role that the conscious mind plays in comparison to the rest of the brain. "The cons...
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