Jamie Wheal: Altered States of Consciousness – There’s Nothing Supernatural About It
[5:28] Transcendent experiences that were once attributed to gods, angels, muses, or even possession, are now being d…
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Sean Carroll: Events and the Nature of Time
[6:05] Are events measured by time? Or is time created by sequences of events? Which is more fundamental, events or time…
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Spike Timing in Motor Control
[1:00:32] Abstract: Last two-three decades have convinced the computational neuroscience community that sensory n…
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Why do You Get a Brain Freeze?
[3:43] Why do you get a brain freeze? Sometimes, after ice-cream or a cold drink, it can feel like your skull is squeezing …
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Why You Still Have Time To Change Career
[3:04] We often feel as if we might have run out of time to change career. That’s because we usually have a wrong underst…
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How does your body know what time it is?
[5:08] Being able to sense time helps us do everything from waking and sleeping to knowing precisely when to catch a ball …
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Doug Kevilus: Stuck in Patterns – How Your Mind Fools You Every Day
[15:57] YOU SIMPLY ARE NOT IN CONTROL….. of your thoughts….. The lucky thing is that most of the automatic …
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How We Bounce Back: The New Science of Human Resilience
[1:26:39] Car accidents. Suicide bombers. Earthquakes. Death of a spouse. Why do some people bounce back from traumat…
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Daniel Schacter: The Seven Sins of Memory
[5:41] Daniel L. Schacter is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Schacter received h…
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Sam Harris on “Free Will”
[1:18:51] SAM HARRIS IS THE AUTHOR of the New Work Times bestsellers, The Moral Landscape, The End of Faith and Letter to …
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