Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny
[7:45] Why are babies cute? Why is cake sweet? Philosopher Dan Dennett has answers you wouldn’t expect, as he sha…
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Lawrence Krauss: The Universe Doesn’t Give a Damn about Us
[2:22] THE UNIVERSE DOES’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT US…..As millions of people still want to hang onto the idea th…
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V.S. Ramachandran: Consciousness, Qualia, and Self
[8:15] Dr. V.S. Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at UCSD, discusses consciousness, quali…
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Bruce McCandliss: The Neuroscience of Learning
[21:19] Bruce McCandliss, professor in Stanford’s Graduate School of Education and the director of the Stanford Ce…
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Christopher Boehm: Violence in Human Evolution – Warfare and Feuding in Pleistocene Society
[20:03] In this talk, Christopher Boehm (USC) discusses how today’s hunter-gatherers are used to portray likely pa…
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Robert Kelly: Violence in Human Evolution – Do Hunter-Gatherers Tell Us About Human Nature?
[20:00] When many people want to discover the core of human nature, they turn to those people who allegedly are or repres…
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Steven Pinker: The Human Brain
[1:22:33] Steven Pinker is one of the world’s leading authorities on language and the mind. His popular and high…
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The Neural Origins of Breathing
[3:56] Breathing is automatic. You don’t have to think in order to breathe, but breathing does require brainwork. An…
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Your Brain Changes All the Time, but Being a Mom Changes It Forever
[4:14] Mother’s bodies go through tons of changes before and after giving birth, but so do their brains! What rea…
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Brian Greene asks Richard Dawkins … Does God Exist?
[4:32] Richard Dawkins and Brian Greene discuss their notions on God in the context of evolution and science. Does one e…
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