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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Michael Shermer: Why Skepticism Is the Right Approach to the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
[7:55] Bear with us for a second, but do you know the Belinda Carlisle song “Heaven is a Place on Earth”? It&…
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Robert Sapolsky: 3 Brain Systems That Control Your Behavior: Reptilian, Limbic, Neo Cortex
[7:37] [Video and text source: Big Think YouTube channel]…
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Where Are Memories Stored?
[6:27] How does my brain store memories again?? Great question! There are a lot of questions about how memories are stor…
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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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David Eagleman on Choice
[32:11] David Eagleman at the FQXi SETTING TIME ARIGHT conference in 2011, an interdisciplinary meeting investigati…
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Lisa Feldman Barrett: Pain in the brain
[16:44] Lisa Feldman Barrett is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, whe…
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Why do we feel nostalgia?
[4:08] Nostalgia was once considered an illness confined to specific groups of people. Today, people all over the worl…
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The Best Way to Train Your Brain: A Game
[1:16] Johns Hopkins University researchers tested the two leading brain training exercises and found one works much …
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Secret Life Of The Brain – Losing Time
[43:48] The brain has a remarkable, virtually limitless capacity to astonish us with its mysteries. One tiny bit of dam…
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