Annaka Harris: Interview – Challenge Everything
Consciousness is exactly as mysterious as it seems to be [2:29] Annaka defines what consciousness is [4:54] Tom and Ann…
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The Biology of Addiction
[1:01:47] Drugs of abuse target discrete collections of nerve cells—called circuits—in the brain that normally …
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Are any Animals Truly Monogamous?
[3:12] [YouTube channel source, text and viewing credit: MinuteEarth] …
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Giles Yeo: Do Your Genes Make You Fat?
[57:48] Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/bhmpsxXIi_U While the obesity epidemic is a contemporary problem…
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Julia Sliwa: Comparing human and monkey neural circuits for processing and social scenes
[4:11] Julia Sliwa, The Rockefeller University [Video and text source: Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines (CBM…
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Learning Songs with the Help of Dopamine
[3:54] For more information, see Xiao et al., Neuron 98/1, http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S…. Circui…
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Richard Dawkins: Evolution of the laryngeal nerve of a giraffe
[4:04] Richard Dawkins and team demonstrate how the laryngeal nerve of a giraffe evolved and showing that evolution is …
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Genevieve Von Petzinger: The Roots of Religion
[19:32] A PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Victoria, Genevieve Von Petzinger’s main area of int…
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Learning from experience: How our brains remember the past and shape our future
[1:11:09] Dr. Daphna Shohamy’s research explores how different parts of the brain work together to support learnin…
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How Close Are We to Resurrecting Extinct Species?
[7:51] Bringing extinct animals back to life sounds like science fiction, but gene-editing techniques are making it p…
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