- -: Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception
June 14, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things -- from alien abductions to dowsing rods -- boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how they get us into trouble. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast...
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- -: Laurie Santos: How monkeys mirror human irrationality
July 29, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Why do we make irrational decisions so predictably? Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in "monkeynomics" shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too...
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- -: Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome
September 28, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Sebastian Seung is mapping a massively ambitious new model of the brain that focuses on the connections between each neuron. He calls it our "connectome," and it's as individual as our genome -- and understanding it could open a new way to understand our brains and our minds. ...
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- -: Stefano Mancuso: The roots of plant intelligence
October 12, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Plants behave in some oddly intelligent ways: fighting predators, maximizing food opportunities ... But can we think of them as actually having a form of intelligence of their own? Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso presents intriguing evidence. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast...
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- -: Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty
November 16, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com TED collaborates with animator Andrew Park to illustrate Denis Dutton's provocative theory on beauty -- that art, music and other beautiful things, far from being simply "in the eye of the beholder," are a core part of human nature with deep evolutionary origins. TEDTalks is a...
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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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- -: Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies
February 18, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDxRainier, Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another -- by listening to the humans around them and "taking statistics" on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use...
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- -: David Brooks: The social animal
March 14, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Tapping into the findings of his latest book, NYTimes columnist David Brooks unpacks new insights into human nature from the cognitive sciences -- insights with massive implications for economics and politics as well as our own self-knowledge. In a talk full of humor, he shows ...
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- -: Developing a Theory of the Brain - David Eagleman and Henry Markram
December 1, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/11/02/David_Eagleman_Will_We_Ever_Understand_the_Brain Neuroscientists David Eagleman and Henry Markram debate whether or not it's possible to ever fully understand the workings of the brain. While Eagleman is skeptical, Markram defends his work on the Huma...
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- -: Ellen's Audience Has a Dirty Mind!
March 10, 2011 (about 13 years ago)When Ellen made a joke about her handy new invention, some in the audience interpreted it in a very different -- and very dirty way!
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