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Lectures in the Life and Social Behavior category
Michael Shermer : The pattern behind self-deception
Release Date: Jun 15, 2010 Category: Life and Social Behavior Lectures Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things -- from alien abductions to dowsing rods -- boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, ... |
The Male Brain : Understanding How Men and Boys Think
Release Date: Jun 08, 2010 Category: Life and Social Behavior Lectures Neurobiologist Louann Brizendine follows up her bestselling The Female Brain with a discussion on her latest book, The Male Brain: A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think.... |
The Genius in All of Us
Release Date: Apr 29, 2010 Category: Life and Social Behavior Lectures Are genes just "blueprints" that doom some and bless others? Integrating cutting-edge research from a wide swath of disciplines, David Shenk explains why everything you think you know about genetics, ... |
Eve Ensler : I Am an Emotional Creature
Release Date: Mar 18, 2010 Category: Life and Social Behavior Lectures Writer of the groundbreaking Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler has been a strident voice for women and girls across the globe for over a decade. In this talk with author Daniel Handler, she discusses daily struggle... |
Srikumar Rao : Plug into your hard-wired happiness
Release Date: Mar 15, 2010 Category: Life and Social Behavior Lectures Srikumar Rao says we spend most of our lives learning to be unhappy, even as we strive for happiness. At Arbejdsglaede Live! 2009, he teaches us how to break free of the "I'd be happy if ..." mental m... |
Daniel Kahneman : The riddle of experience vs. memory
Release Date: Mar 10, 2010 Category: Life and Social Behavior Lectures 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... |
Michael Pollan on Food Rules : An Eater's Manual
Release Date: Feb 18, 2010 Category: Life and Social Behavior Lectures Michael Pollan, one of the best-known names in food-related issues, offers a guide about health and food. Food Rules: An Eater's Manual is a handy, pocket-size resource is for people who would like to become mo... |
Robert Sapolsky : The uniqueness of humans
Release Date: Jan 11, 2010 Category: Life and Social Behavior Lectures At Stanford University, primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a fascinating and funny look at human behaviors which the rest of the animal kingdom would consider bizarre.... |
JK Rowling : The fringe benefits of failure
Release Date: Jan 08, 2010 Category: Life and Social Behavior Lectures At her Harvard commencement speech, "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems "worth mor... |
Deepak Chopra : How to Create a New Self
Release Date: Nov 19, 2009 Category: Life and Social Behavior Lectures Spiritual guru Deepak Chopra discusses his latest book, "Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul." Chopra outlines three keys to creating the self you desire: the soul shift, the subtle action, an... |