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- -: TEDxUChicago 2011 - Susan Goldin-Meadow - What Our Hands Can Tell Us About Our Minds

May 13, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)

Susan is the chair of Developmental Psychology at the University of Chicago. In 2001, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a James McKeen Cattell Fellowship which led to her two recently published books. She has found that deaf children whose profound hearing losses prevent them from learn...

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- -: Dan Dennett: Can we know our own minds?

May 3, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)

http://www.ted.com Philosopher Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don't we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are actively fooling us. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the worl...

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- -: Laurie Santos: How monkeys mirror human irrationality

July 29, 2010 (over 13 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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- -: Authors@Google: Ray Kurzweil

July 3, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)

Ray Kurzweil visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "The Web Within Us: When Minds and Machines Become One." This event took place on July 1, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series. At the onset of the 21st century, it will be an era in which the very nature of w...

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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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- -: Reza Aslan - How Al Qaeda Spins America's Image Abroad

September 10, 2007 (over 16 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1544 Reza Aslan, religion scholar and Middle East Analyst for CBS News, discusses how Al Qaeda and related terrorist groups use the idea of "jihad" to distort the image of the United States in the eyes of global muslims. ----- The Face of...

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Temple Grandin: The World Needs All Kinds of Minds

February 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)

Temple Grandin sheds light on how different and unique minds could be nurtured through properly attending to their unique learning styles.

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Source: TED

Anil Gupta: India's Hidden Hotbeds of Invention

November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)

Anil Gupta exposes brilliant minds in India that when tapped, can greatly change our world's economy.

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Source: TED

Inge Missmahl: Inge Missmahl Brings Peace to the Minds of Afghanistan

July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)

Inge Missmahl advocates psycho-social counseling to address the social problems and emotional concerns of the Afghan people.

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