Seeing Is Believing: How the Brain Interprets Vision
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/24/Seeing_Myself_See_The_Ecology_of_Mind R. Beau Lotto, head of Lottolab Studio in London, explains that the human eye is not capable of seeing actual objects, only light reflecting off of those objects. "The patterns of light that fall onto your eye are meaningless because they could mean anything," he... Read more
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- -: Seeing Is Believing: How the Brain Interprets Vision
November 6, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/24/Seeing_Myself_See_The_Ecology_of_Mind R. Beau Lotto, head of Lottolab Studio in London, explains that the human eye is not capable of seeing actual objects, only light reflecting off of those objects. "The patterns of light that fall onto your eye are...
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- -: Can Video Games Predict the Next Financial Crisis? - Tom Chatfield
February 11, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/12/Fun_Inc_Games_as_the_Business_of_the_21st_Century Fun Inc. author Tom Chatfield presents virtual gaming worlds as laboratories for experimenting with human behavioral tendencies. He argues that in-game economic behavior is a "very, very good model" fo...
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- -: Can Happiness Cure Cancer? Not Likely Says Ehrenreich
February 17, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/11/Smile_or_Die_The_Tyrany_of_Positive_Thinking Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Bright-Sided, argues that a positive outlook has no effect on fighting cancer. Reflecting on her experience with breast cancer, she says she felt like "I had two diseases: one ...
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- -: Plato vs the Arts: Does Fiction Have a Practical Purpose? - Rebecca Goldstein
March 16, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/05/Pinker_and_Goldstein_Reason_Fiction__Faith Rebecca Goldstein, philosopher and author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, discusses her love of Plato and laments his distaste for the narrative arts. She defends fiction as power...
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- -: Dunbar's Number: Why We Can't Have More Than 150 Friends
March 16, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/18/Robin_Dunbar_How_Many_Friends_Does_One_Person_Need Evolutionary anthropologist Robin Dunbar expands on "Dunbar's number," his theory that the maximum number of stable relationships a person can maintain is approximately 150. Time to delete a few hundr...
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- -: Is Monogamy Linked to Brain Size?
March 23, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/18/Robin_Dunbar_How_Many_Friends_Does_One_Person_Need Calling monogamy an "especially taxing" cognitive practice, evolutionary anthropologist Robin Dunbar links large brain size to romantic pairings among mammals. "Maintaining pair bonds," says Dunbar, "...
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- -: Adam Savage Introduces FORA.tv's Top Videos of 2010
December 7, 2010 (over 13 years ago)MythBusters' Adam Savage introduces FORA.tv's end-of-the-year video playlist on the people, ideas, and issues that changed 2010. Here is FORA.tv's full playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSuJM-URcdw&list=PL4AFE111FA592DC1B "LHC First Physics : First collisions in the LHCb's experiment" by...
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- -: Self-Help Skeptics: How to Lead a Slightly Happier Life
February 1, 2011 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/01/13/Oliver_Burkeman_How_to_Become_Slightly_Happier Self-help skeptic and Guardian columnist Oliver Burkeman shares a few forms of self-help that may actually work. ----- How do you solve the problem of human happiness and fulfillment? It is a subject t...
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- -: How Mistakes Drive Innovation
March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/10/04/Kathryn_Schulz_Being_Wrong Kathryn Schulz, author of "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error," discusses how the creative and scientific minds of the Enlightenment both welcomed and accepted doubt and error. Schulz encourages mistakes and imag...
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