Narz
keeping it real
Yeah, both of them, I think I even started a thread about one (or both) of them once.
I also thought the prison study could have been explained better but I know these guys are on a time budget.
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I also thought the prison study could have been explained better but I know these guys are on a time budget.
Elta
我不会把这种
Yeah in my Soc 101 class this semester we spent the whole 4 hours on watching a video about it and discussing it.
Narz
keeping it real
Cool, I think I saw that video available online somewhere but it was like $100. Was it any good?
Elta
我不会把这种
Entertaining and educational, but filmed with very poor old old school home video cameras. Not worth 100 bones though ...
Semi off topic:
Everyone who took part in the experiment was skinny, very skinny - sickly even.
My professor said that the only way to garuntee that you wouldn't get drafted (Vietnam) was to maintain a 3.0 in college or to be under weight to be sent to boot camp. The under weight was 120 LBS .... so all these kids starved themselves to stay out
Mise
isle of lucy
I actually think the content of the talk itself wasn't as good as reading about it online. The pictures and the visual aspect of the speaker were brilliant though - he brought it alive with his mannerisms and demeanour.
Homie
Anti-Lefty
Sherwin Nuland: My history of electroshock therapy
I recommend this one. It deals with how electroshock therapy is used to cure depression and mental illness in general. But this talk is really about more than that. It is an old, accomplished man who shares his personal experience with depression and how he overcame it, even though it still rears its ugly head from time to time.
I like the talks that deal with the human mind, and especially happiness/depression. So if you like those talks, you should check this one out.
I recommend this one. It deals with how electroshock therapy is used to cure depression and mental illness in general. But this talk is really about more than that. It is an old, accomplished man who shares his personal experience with depression and how he overcame it, even though it still rears its ugly head from time to time.
I like the talks that deal with the human mind, and especially happiness/depression. So if you like those talks, you should check this one out.
I've been watching a few of them since 06'
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
Sir Ken Robinson's one of my all time favourite, he talks about education today.
I'm a bit too tired to dig up and list the others at the moment. maybe later.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
Sir Ken Robinson's one of my all time favourite, he talks about education today.
I'm a bit too tired to dig up and list the others at the moment. maybe later.
How it feels to have a stroke. Jill Bolte Taylor, neuroanatomist, describes how it feels to have a stroke which shuts down the left brain and removes the filters on moment-to-moment perception of reality.
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I think I got the link to this one from somewhere else on CFC, but this hit some of my interests, Dr. Venter (of Human genome fame) talking about designing synthetic life and how that might be an alternate route to solving issues like improved biofuels.
http://www.ted.com/talks/craig_venter_is_on_the_verge_of_creating_synthetic_life.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/craig_venter_is_on_the_verge_of_creating_synthetic_life.html
Speaking of which, the Synthetic Biology Conference 4.0 was just held. I couldn't find any videos of the talks, but Conference 3.0 has their talks online now!
Homie
Anti-Lefty
Wow, that was nuts. Describing her experience she seems like a Hippie describing how it is "tripping" on some drug. Her experience seems really similar to testimonials I've read from people who have taken strong, hallucinogenic drugs.
Homie
Anti-Lefty
Yeah, definitively. It surely was a unique TED talk.
I didn't like it.
It's tough to explain, but she wasn't getting the 'raw feed', she was just getting things improperly/incompletely interpreted. We can't really experience the raw feed, since 'you' are higher up in the brain hierarchy than the downstream interpretation. And it can't be circumvented ... er, at least, not with a stroke.
I'm not done the current page, but I really like the guy talking about the mathematics of desire. Lots of common sense there.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_gilbert_researches_happiness.html
I'm kinda meh on the 'life on mars' and 'what scientists do' talks.
It's tough to explain, but she wasn't getting the 'raw feed', she was just getting things improperly/incompletely interpreted. We can't really experience the raw feed, since 'you' are higher up in the brain hierarchy than the downstream interpretation. And it can't be circumvented ... er, at least, not with a stroke.
I'm not done the current page, but I really like the guy talking about the mathematics of desire. Lots of common sense there.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_gilbert_researches_happiness.html
I'm kinda meh on the 'life on mars' and 'what scientists do' talks.
The end of her video annoyed me. "Become one with the universe" and all that stupid crap. god, I hate when people talk like that.
Homie
Anti-Lefty
Likewise. I hate hippies. But I did think it was interesting how she had this really weird, almost religious experience from having her brain partly disabled. When people talk about "being one with the universe" based on nothing, it is annoying. But she said that she got that feeling from her brain being messed up, and that perception changed into something that she tried to, but probably couldn't really explain. That there is this other strange way of seeing and comprehending things is really interesting. Things that are beyond our comprehension and even imagination because we haven't experienced it is really interesting to me. This oneness was an actual feeling, something physical and real, not mushy hippie talk. Although she probably was a lefty.
Ditto.El Mac said:
The one on happiness is a new one, thanks for posting, I'll have to check it out later. Happiness is one of the keywords I frequently use when searching for talks, so I thought I had seen them all (in that category).
There's a good one recently on the 'buggy moral code'.
Does anyone know how to tell how many times a talk has been viewed? I'm especially intersted in the one from Robert Fischell on medical inventing
Does anyone know how to tell how many times a talk has been viewed? I'm especially intersted in the one from Robert Fischell on medical inventing
LucyDuke
staring at the clock
I was kinda disappointed with that one. I mean, yeah, it was great for what it was, but I think I expected more from the title, not just "sometimes we think it's okay to cheat".
