State of the World, State of Our Bodies
Here are a couple of the latest TED Talks. The first is by Eve Ensler who very poetically expresses where we are: Now take a break before shifting to this under 6 minute talk by Psychologist Philip...
View ArticlePriceless Politics with Jefferson Smith
Here's a good talk by the founder of the Bus Project and an Oregon Representative, Jefferson Smith:
View ArticleAn Encapsulation Of The Human Conditon
Here's a fun look at our current human situation:
View ArticleTV as Social Conscience TED Talk
Here's a TV executive revealing some interesting trends from the last 50 years:
View ArticleHere's Why Teachers in the U.S. of A. Have a Problem
Blog post on how power corrupts when the person wielding it is in a low status position (as teachers are in this country) To elaborate on my point about teachers: Teachers in most traditional schools...
View ArticleBrains are for Movement
Here's a TED Talk by a neuroscientist explaining how important movement is to cognition.
View ArticleProto Life in the Lab
Here's a guy talking about the basic properties of life and how they have been able to produce these basic properties using chemical systems in petri dishes in the lab.
View ArticleEmbodied Mind Neuroscience
Here is Antonio Damasio giving an extremely brief over view of the neurological basis for consciousness. This is a scratch of the surface of his book Self Comes To Mind in which he lays out his view of...
View ArticlePaleolithic Diet Talk
Here's a doctor who got MS then after switching to a Paleolithic diet reversed her disease progression and has conducted research to back her claim:
View ArticleFirst Rights Respecting School Level 2 In UK
I expect to elaborate on it further through my Teach-Kids-Attitude-1st site, but this Rights Respecting School program that is being piloted in the UK is an important movement for education world-wide:...
View ArticleQuantum Wierdness- The Double Slit Experiment
Here's a nice animated explanation of the double slit experiment:
View ArticleThinking about the Military
My family has a history of military service. Both my brothers have served, my dad, my grandfather in WWII, a great uncle in WWI and a probably few others going back further. After being exposed to...
View ArticlePositive Psychology
This is a very funny and informative talk about the emerging practices for positive psychology. The delivery is very rapid, unfortunately, but worthwhile.
View ArticleSystems Improvement Talk by Russ Ackoff
Here's a talk that gives a brief introduction to systems and then provides a critique of the improvement movement that swept industry in the 70's and 80's. The critique is just as pertinent today as it...
View ArticleBlind Spots and Retinal Vasculature "Illusions"
Here's a video that explain the bizarre architecture of our eyes and how we come to see a unified and apparently unobstructed view of the world despite physical barriers to that outcome:
View ArticleScience of Laughter
Here's a TEDx video on the science of laughter" http://youtu.be/1JiUqa8wrUs I did a study of the effects of laughter on memory in school last semester for my class on cognitive psychology.
View ArticleSystems in Medicine (and everywhere else, too.)
Atul Gawande gave this TED Talk about how surgeons are beginning to make a transformation in how they operate by adopting some very simple tools, but with the caveat that the transformation is going...
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