Barbara Oakley: Brain Bias: Why You Shouldn’t Emulate Geniuses and Their Rigid Thinking Processes
[6:34] How do you get out of a mental feedback loop? The smartest people—call them geniuses or what you will—tend to …
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Dan Ariely: Beware conflicts of interest
[5:35] In this short talk, psychologist Dan Ariely tells two personal stories that explore scientific conflict of int…
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Eliezer Yudkowsky: Heuristics and Biases
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Dexter Dias: Why HUMANS HURT Each Other
[6:59] We want to believe that there are some things we would never do. But how can we be sure? Human rights barrister and r…
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Paul Rulkens: Why the majority is always wrong
[11:25] This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Paul Rulkens is an exp…
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What Has Yale Become?
[12:35] WHAT HAS YALE BECOME? http://www.themindvoyager.com/yale-elite-universities-become/ There are so ma…
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Dean Buonomano: “Your Brain is a Time Machine”
[1:02:16] In YOUR BRAIN IS A TIME MACHINE, UCLA neuroscientist Dean Buonomano investigates the relationship between …
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Dean Buonomano: Your Brain Tells You Time Is Real — But Is It Lying to You?
[4:43] If you’re here to indulge in some mind-bending talk about time travel, neuroscientist Dean Buonomano is …
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Crazy Circle Illusion!
[1:45] Perceptions, illusions and much more… [Video and text source: brusspup YouTube channel] …
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Peter Tse: How Brain Scientists Think About Consciousness
[13:01] Is consciousness a scientific problem to be solved? Or a philosophical problem that will remain a mystery? Wha…
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