Yoann Bourgeois: Fugue / Trampoline sur Metamorphosis II
[6:35] “Acrobate, acteur, jongleur, danseur Yoann Bourgeois est avant tout Joueur.”…
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Mahzarin Banaji: Evaluations of Talent
[13:06] Harvard Prof. Mahzarin Banaji on objective music perception, failing at assessing people, and arranged marr…
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Carol Tavris: Who’s Lying Who’s Self-Justifying
[41:33] Social psychologist and author Carol Tavris on “Who’s Lying? Who’s Self-Justifying?: O…
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Dean Buonomano: Consciousness Is a Narrative Created by Your Unconscious Mind
[4:19] American neuroscientist Dean Buonomano believes that your brain might be processing the world around you in a t…
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Stephen Chorover: How Brain Scientists Think About Consciousness
[10:15] Is consciousness a scientific problem to be solved? Or a philosophical problem that will remain a mystery? Wha…
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Nicholas A. Christakis: What Do We Learn from Our Networks?
[7:26] In his lab at Yale, Nicholas A. Christakis investigates the biological origins of our social networks, the web o…
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Robert Sapolsky: 3 Brain Systems That Control Your Behavior: Reptilian, Limbic, Neo Cortex
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Steven Pinker: The Past, Present, and Future of Violence
[21:59] Why do humans engage in violence? Why do we cooperate in peace? How has violence changed over the course of human …
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David Eagleman on Choice
[32:11] David Eagleman at the FQXi SETTING TIME ARIGHT conference in 2011, an interdisciplinary meeting investigati…
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Anjan Chatterjee: How your brain decides what is beautiful
[14:48] Anjan Chatterjee uses tools from evolutionary psychology and cognitive neuroscience to study one of nature&…
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