Brain Circuit Shows How Dopamine Controls Animal Behavior
[2:47] Salk Institute researchers discovered how a neural circuit in roundworms balance learning and risk-taking be…
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Madeline Lancaster: Growing mini brains to discover what makes us human
[14:24] Madeleine Lancaster delves into the age-old question of what makes us human with a new approach — by grow…
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Simon LeVay: My Brain Made Me Gay – Sexual Orientation, Science, and Society
[1:07:56] A Whom You Love presentation by Simon LeVay, Ph.D. [Video source: Whom YouLove2012 You Tube channel]…
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Marlene Zuk: What we learn from insects’ kinky sex lives
[11:58] Marlene Zuk delightedly, determinedly studies insects. In this enlightening, funny talk, she shares just so…
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Wegstock lectures 7: Nick Epley – Social interaction
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Why the insect brain is so incredible
[4:22] The human brain is one of the most sophisticated organs in the world, a supercomputer made of billions of neurons …
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Michael Shermer: Science and Justice – Free Will and Moral Responsibility in a Secular Society
[52:09] If the universe is determined by the laws of nature, and people are a part of this determined universe, then we ca…
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Man With His Wild Cousin The Mountain Gorilla
[3:23] An incredible chance encounter with a troop of wild Mountain Gorillas in Uganda. Check blog.commonflat.com fo…
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Art by Animals
[3:59] UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology is hosting an exhibition of art works from several species of animal, inclu…
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Crash Course Philosophy #42: Non-Human Animals
[9:46] Today we are taking all the things we have learned this year about doing philosophy and applying that to moral con…
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