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Ted Links

VS Ramachandran on your mind | Video on TED.com

...chandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/vilayanur_ramachandran_on_your_mind.html

Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds | Video on TED.com

Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnett syndrome -- when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients...
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/oliver_sacks_what_hallucination_reveals_about_our_minds.html

Diane Benscoter on how cults rewire the brain | Video on TED.com

Diane Benscoter spent five years as a "Moonie." She shares an insider's perspective on the mind of a cult member, and proposes a new way to think about today's most troubling conflicts and extrem...
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ex_moonie_diane_benscoter_how_cults_think.html

Philip Zimbardo prescribes a healthy take on time | Video on TED.com

Psychologist Philip Zimbardo says happiness and success are rooted in a trait most of us disregard: the way we orient toward the past, present and future. He suggests we calibrate our outlook on ti...
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/philip_zimbardo_prescribes_a_healthy_take_on_time.html

Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory | Video on TED.com

Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happin...
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_experience_vs_memory.html

Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with music | Video on TED.com

In this fun, 3-min performance from the World Science Festival, musician Bobby McFerrin uses the pentatonic scale to reveal one surprising result of the way our brains are wired.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/bobby_mcferrin_hacks_your_brain_with_music.html

Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds | Video on TED.com

Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks about how her mind works -- sharing her ability to "think in pictures," which helps her solve problems that neurotypic...
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/temple_grandin_the_world_needs_all_kinds_of_minds.html

Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see | Video on TED.com

Beau Lotto's color games puzzle your vision, but they also spotlight what you can't normally see: how your brain works. This fun, first-hand look at your own versatile sense of sight reveals how ev...
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/beau_lotto_optical_illusions_show_how_we_see.html

Helen Fisher on TEDTalks | TED Blog

Helen Fisher is an anthropologist with Rutgers University, specializing in gender differences and the evolution of human emotions. Her most recent book is Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of R...
http://blog.ted.com/2006/09/helen_fisher_on.php

Stroke of insight: Jill Bolte Taylor on TED.com | TED Blog

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions...
http://blog.ted.com/2008/03/jill_bolte_tayl.php

See inside your brain in real time: Christopher deCharms on TED.com | TED Blog

From last month's TED conference: Neuroscientist Christopher deCharms demos an amazing new way to use fMRIs to watch the brain in action. Using this technology, if you move your arm, get angry, fee...
http://blog.ted.com/2008/03/christopher_dec.php

Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds | Video on TED.com

...e motives and feelings of others is a natural talent for humans. But how do we do it? Here, Rebecca Saxe shares fascinating lab work that uncovers how the brain thinks about other peoples' thoughts -- and...
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/rebecca_saxe_how_brains_make_moral_judgments.html

Tom Wujec on 3 ways the brain creates meaning | Video on TED.com

Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections...
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/tom_wujec_on_3_ways_the_brain_creates_meaning.html

Steven Pinker chalks it up to the blank slate

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Dean Ornish on the world's killer diet | Video on TED.com

Stop wringing your hands over AIDS, cancer and the avian flu. Cardiovascular disease kills more people than everything else combined -...
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dean_ornish_on_the_world_s_killer_diet.html

Hans Rosling on HIV: New facts and stunning data visuals | Video on TED.com

Hans Rosling unveils new data visuals that untangle the complex risk factors of one of the world's deadliest (and most misunderstood) diseases: HIV. He argues that preventing transmissions -- not d...
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/hans_rosling_the_truth_about_hiv.html

Emily Oster flips our thinking on AIDS in Africa | Video on TED.com

Emily Oster re-examines the stats on AIDS in Africa from an economic perspective and reaches a stunning conclusion: Everything we know about ...
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/emily_oster_flips_our_thinking_on_aids_in_africa.html

Mary Roach: 10 things you didn't know about orgasm | Video on TED.com

"Bonk" author Mary Roach delves into obscure scientific research, some of it centuries old, to make 10 su...
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/mary_roach_10_things_you_didn_t_know_about_orgasm.html

Malcolm Gladwell | Profile on TED.com

Detective of fads and emerging subcultures, chronicler of jobs-you-never-knew-existed, Malcolm Gladwell's work is toppling the popular understanding of bias, crime, food, marketing, race, consumers...
http://www.ted.com/speakers/malcolm_gladwell.html

Sendhil Mullainathan: Solving social problems with a nudge | Video on TED.com

MacArthur winner Sendhil Mullainathan uses the lens of behavioral economics to study a tricky set of social problems -- those we know how to solve, but don't. We know how to reduce child deaths due...
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sendhil_mullainathan.html

Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows | Video on TED.com

Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvi...
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of_crows.html

http://www.ted.com/speakers/michael_shermer.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/james_randi.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/eve_ensler_on_happiness_in_body_and_soul.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sunitha_krishnan_tedindia.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/adam_savage_s_obsessions.html

22:42 Posted: Sep 2008

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