Take a placebo to be more creative
[0:57] The placebo effect not only works in medicine, it can also boost cognitive ability, unleashing creativity and d…
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Christof Koch: Our future with AI
[21:52] Watch a GeekWire Summit “Power Talk” in which Christof Koch, chief scientific officer at the All…
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Sleep and Aging – Research on Aging
[58:47] Why do we sleep and how does it affect our bodies? Jose S. Loredo, MD, MS, MPH, FCCP, FAASM shares how you can get be…
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Bret Weinstein: The Paradox of Headaches
[5:53] Why are humans wired to feel pain about which we can do very little? [Video and text source: Bret Weinstein YouTub…
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Gary Marcus: Never too late to learn something new!
[14:40] Gary Marcus is a Cognitive Scientist at NYU and author of the New York Times Bestseller, Guitar Zero. Co-editor …
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Robert Stickgold: Why Sleep?
[10:37] Why do we spend so much of our lives not awake? [Video and text source: Closer To Truth YouTube channel]…
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CRITICAL THINKING – Cognitive Biases: Reference Dependence and Loss Aversion
[5:57] Laurie Santos, a psychologist at Yale University, explains two of our classic economic biases: reference depe…
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BJ Casey: The Effects of Early Life Stress on Brain and Behavior
[18:05] Yale University’s BJ Casey shares an in-depth look into the detrimental effects on the brain resulting …
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Barry Smith: What is Consciousness Good For?
[22:22] What is Consciousness Good For? How much of what we do is driven by the automatic and the unconscious? Science ha…
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Neil degrasse Tyson: Alien vs Human Intelligence
[4:47] An interesting comparison made by Neil deGrasse Tyson between us and possible advanced life forms in the univer…
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