Steve Novella: Science-Based Medicine – Beyond Integrated Medicine
[21:52] Steve Novella gives a talk on the importance of science-based medicine. [Source: NECSSConference YouTube…
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Greg Gage: How to Control Someone Else’s Arm with Your Brain
[5:52] Greg Gage is on a mission to make brain science accessible to all. In this fun, kind of creepy demo, the neuroscien…
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Nature or Nurture – Are People Born Gay?
[5:17] The differing sexual orientation of identical twins is an opportunity to investigate one of science’s most c…
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PHILOSOPHY – Friedrich Nietzsche
[6:56] Nietzsche believed that the central task of philosophy was to teach us to ‘become who we are’. [Sou…
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Naked Science – Telepathy
[49:55] Does telepathy exist? Scientists have argued for years about the existence of telepathy, the claimed ability …
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Michael Shermer: The Believing Brain
[1:08:46] In this talk, Dr Michael Shermer presents his comprehensive and provocative theory on how humans form belie…
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Mind and Machine: The Future of Thinking
[1:25:27] Creative thought is surely among our most precious and mysterious capabilities. But can powerful computer…
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A social neuroscience take on adolescent risk taking
[1:23:01] Dr. Laurence Steinberg, the Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychol…
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Intelligence Squared Debates: Genetically Modify Food
[1:43:00] Genetically modified (GM) foods have been around for decades. Created by modifying the DNA of one organism t…
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The Limits of Understanding
[1:32:59] Participants: Gregory Chaitin, Mario Livio, Marvin Minsky, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Original Progra…
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