Carl Sagan: Pale Blue dot
[3:30] No words for this. Simply enjoy the late, great Carl Sagan’s wise words. [Source: CarlSaganPortal You…
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Mind Over Masters: The Question of Free Will
[1:23:38] Do we make conscious decisions? Or are all of our actions predetermined? And if we don’t have free will…
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From retina to cortex: An unexpected division of labor.
[3:21] Lee et al. “Topology of ON and OFF inputs in visual cortex enables an invariant columnar architecture…
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Test Your Brain’s “Physics Engine”
[0:55] Play a game developed by researchers at Johns Hopkins University to prove humans have an innate sense of how the p…
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Seeking The Aesthetic Experience
[2:48] “The aesthetic experience is a simple beholding of the object…you experience a radiance. You are held in ae…
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Antonio Damasio: How Our Brains Feel Emotion
[8:52] An emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body. Its purpose is to make life more su…
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Is There A Formula Behind Good Music?
[4:45] What if there was no such thing as bad sounding music? Maybe our opinion of music is conditioned by the sounds we&#…
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The orangutan who can make his own imaginary cocktails
[0:55] By providing a captive orang-utan with its own personal cocktail bar, a group of researchers discovered that th…
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Face Time: How Quickly Do You Judge A Face?
[4:47] By looking at a face for less than a second, we can judge someone’s age, gender, race, emotional state and even t…
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5 tips to improve your critical thinking
[4:29] Every day, a sea of decisions stretches before us, and it’s impossible to make a perfect choice every time. But …
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