Why do we dream?
[5:38] In the 3rd millennium BCE, Mesopotamian kings recorded and interpreted their dreams on wax tablets. In the year…
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Antonio Damasio: How Much Can We Really Control Our Minds?
[3:26] Our main mode of control has to do with our degree of knowledge and our understanding of the world. As we change wha…
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What are the Parts of the Brain?
[6:18] Time to fall in lobe! You read that right. Let’s dive into neuroanatomy. It sounds like something a smart perso…
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Brains on Trial: Neuroscience and Law
[1:35:14] What if we could peer into a brain and see guilt or innocence? Brain scanning technology is trying to break its …
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How Power Makes People Selfish
[2:03] “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely,” said the British historian Lord Acton. Unf…
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Michio Kaku on the Science of Dreams
[4:41] Michio Kaku describes how our prefrontal cortex disengages as we dream, thus suppressing the fact-checking co…
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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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The Human Connectome Project: Progress & Prospects (October 2014)
[1:05:38] Presentation by Dr David Van Essen to ICT for Life Sciences Forum, 16 October, 2014 [Video and text source: Co…
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Consciousness: Explored and Explained
[1:31:35] Consciousness is a terrible curse. Or so says a character in screenwriter/director Charlie Kaufman’s Be…
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The Mind After Midnight: Where Do You Go When You Go to Sleep?
[1:25:40] We spend a third of our lives asleep. Every organism on Earth—from rats to dolphins to fruit flies to microo…
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