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[7:54] Dacher Keltner, the UC Berkeley psychology professor and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center, …
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[1:12:34] Presented by Professor Moses Schanfield. Of all species on the face of the earth, humans are the most dispers…
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[13:31] The human brain is puzzling — it is curiously large given the size of our bodies, uses a tremendous amount …
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[4:04] In our story, Jimmy Moran was with peers when he committed his crime, so Alan visited with Dr. Larry Steinberg of T…
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[3:48] During the filming of “Brains on Trial with Alan Alda,” Alan made a special stop in a mock fMRI scann…
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[6:43] This Ask the Expert video provides an overview of Asperger’s Syndrome and offers insights into the chara…
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[29:21] “The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away …
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