Ideas Worth preading
- Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions: In this talk, you'll hear how science can play a role in the establishment of right, wrong, good and evil — even if that seems against all common logic on the subject.
- Luca Turin on the science of scent: At face value, the difference between a scent you love and a scent you hate might not seem like a big deal. In this talk, however, biophysicist Luca Turin will show you the science behind our sense of smell and what truly goes into creating scents we want to wear.
- Helen Fisher tells us why we love + cheat: Learn about the science that underlies our relationships from anthropologist Helen Fisher. She explains the biochemical reasons we fall in, and out, of love.
- VS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization: Neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran delves into the effects of recently discovered "mirror neurons." These neurons are responsible for allowing us to learn complex social behaviors and may form the biological basis for civilization as we know it.
- Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds: Mind reading sounds like something out of a movie or book, but it's not as far-fetched as it seems, according to Rebecca Saxe. Learn how we read and sense the motives and feelings of others, sometimes without even knowing it, in this lecture.
- Steven Pinker chalks it up to the blank slate: There has always been a great debate about what is born into humans and what they learn through education and experience, a topic that Steven Pinker addresses somewhat controversially in this lecture. Pinker argues that we are indeed born with some innate traits and we are not born as blank slates.
- Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin color: No matter our intention, we all have ideas and feelings about skin color. In this lecture, learn the true science behind skin color and fully understand why it really is only skin deep– a fact that had it been known or believed might have greatly changed history.
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