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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Monday, December 20, 2010
QualiaSoup: Why live?
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Qualiasoup 3rd video with TheraminTrees. A response to the wonderful ReligiousFiction's video, 'Atheists: Why Live?'
Friday, December 17, 2010
The Red Headed Neanderthal
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Science writer Carl Zimmer speaks at Yale Medical School about how new discoveries about Neanderthals are helping us better understand what it means to be human. For more information, see http://carlzimmer.com
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Brad Laner - Brain
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http://home-tapes.com/Hometapes/HAUS_HT031.html
PJ Harvey - Written On The Forehead
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From the new album to be released in Feb. 2011. http://bit.ly/dSuOOz
Friday, December 3, 2010
Neuroscience and Free Will - Libet's Experiment
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Libet
Scifri Videos: Desktop Diaries: Oliver Sacks
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Many of us spend more waking hours at our desk than anywhere else. Writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks explains what his desk means to him. From lumps of metal to lemurs, Sacks describes some of his treasures, his preferred method for writing his books and why he takes comfort in dense metals.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
American Exceptionalism
American Exceptionalism
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The Washington Post recently touched on the fascinating topic of American Exceptionalism, since it appears to be increasingly used as a distinction in American politics as to who is a patriot and who isn’t (which of course is hardly a new battle). It certainly is comical to see some people drape themselves in it as [...]
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
TEDxSF - David Shenk - The Genius In All Of Us
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Inherited Responses? Epigenetics, Courage & Resilience.
David Shenk is the author of six books, including Data Smog (indispensable—The New York Times), The Immortal Game (superb— The Wall Street Journal), and the bestselling The Forgetting (a remarkable addition to the literature of the science of the mind.—The Los Angeles Times ). He has contributed to National Geographic, Slate, The New York Times, Gourmet, Harpers, The New Yorker, The American Scholar, and National Public Radio. Shenks work inspired the
Berkeley: History 5 /26: World War Two: Holocaust and Rebuilding
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European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present