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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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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Scientists Are Giving People Psychedelics to Understand Consciousness
[3:41] Some people claim they reach a higher state of consciousness when they take psychedelics, but is this really wha…
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Robert Wright & David Chalmers conversation: What is consciousness for?
[1:07:11] 00:00 Why consciousness is so weird 09:40 Is consciousness like your brain’s shadow? 17:21 If David was a z…
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Thomas Metzinger: The transparent avatar in your brain
[16:26] Thomas Metzinger is a German philosopher. As of 2000 he holds the position of director of the theoretical philo…
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Tali Sharot: Why We Fear What We Can’t Control: Airplanes, Hospital, Old Age
[6:55] Fear is a motivator—often, when we’re scared, we feel that we want to leave a situation. That so-called …
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Lisa Welling: It’s not you, it’s my hormones Testosterone Influences
[16:24] My research finds that increases in testosterone is associated with increased preferences for sexually dimo…
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Does Expensive Wine Really Taste Better?
[3:58] Is there really a big difference between expensive wine and cheap wine? Trace is joined by Nick Uhas to discuss wh…
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