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Stanford University’s Brian Knutson is unraveling the mysteries of human desire with state-of-the-art medical imaging. Knutson’s research sheds new light on how individuals make complex financial decisions, and offers new ways for alleviating schizophrenia.
Prof. Brian Knutson’s website:

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Yawns are contagious (cockatoo)
Yawns are contagious (girl makes horse yawn)
Yawning is truly contagious (puppy)
Mei Lan & Lun Lun on a Lazy Summer Day (pandas make each other yawn)
Parelli - Making Rani yawn(girl makes horse yawn)
Yawning ferrets
Smart horse: Gryphon yawns (horse yawns on command)
(Discussion at Neurological Correlates)

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From Channel N (Thanks Sandra!):
http://channeln.blogspot.com/2008/01/science-of-love.html
A good short film about the neuroscience of love.
title The Science of Love
description This cute and funny short film features two professors who fight about a neuroscientific explanation of love but research its pleasures together after a “battle of egos and intellect, swords and [fabulous] stilettos.” It also challenges stereotypes [...]

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 KayRedfield Jamison in 2002

Here’s the description from Sandra at Channel N
title An Unquiet Mind: Personal Reflections on Manic-Depressive Illness
description A captivating speaker, Kay authored many papers and books on the subjects of bipolar, manic depression and recurrent depression and is Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. This public talk is vintage, [...]

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Organic Chemistry Music Video “Resistant to Base”
From: scottkj
An organic chemistry-themed music video parodying Robert Palmer’s 1985 “Addicted to Love.” (lyrics below)

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Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
TED 2006:
About this Talk
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that

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Helen Fisher: The Science of Love and the Future of Women via TED 2006
Anthropologist Helen Fisher studies love: its evolution, its biochemical foundations and its vital importance to

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Jim Coan and the Hand Holding Experiment
From: uvamagazine
Coan and others seek to detect and chart how moods and emotions are embodied in the brain, to map the nexus where the cognitive and the affective meet. Emotion, Coan says, is an organized set of physiological and behavioral responses to environmental stimuli. His [...]

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A pool filled with non-newtonian fluid
From: alesis69
They filled a pool with a mix of cornstarch and water made on a concrete mixer truck. It becomes a non-newtonian fluid. When stress is applied to the liquid it exhibits properties of a solid.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_Newt…

Recorded at Barcelona, Spain.

TV Show: http://www.cuatro.com/microsites/el_h… (less)

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From CIO.com:
How good are you at interpreting facial expressions? Take our test and find out.

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Eric Schmidt at Virginia Business Higher Education Council
From: Google
Swivelchair note: This is a fascinating view of what happens when geography doesn’t matter. Mr. Schmidt presents his view of how learning is changing with the internet. Govenor Tim Kaine also gives insight from the governmental point of view. If you [...]

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Schizophrenia: Heather
“Heather shows all the signs of class schizophrenia.”
From: Neuroslicer

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Towards Defining the Autism Phenotype
From the description:
Joseph Piven is a professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has studied personality, language, and cognitive characteristics in non-autistic relatives of autistic individuals. He argues that these characteristics are genetically related to autism and are a qualitatively similar but milder expression [...]

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Defining the Mind and Minding the Brain
Dr. Sophia Vinogradov of the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. From the description:

Take a look into our current understanding of the function of the human brain and some of the important diseases that cause nervous system dysfunction. On this edition, Dr. Sophia Vinogradov of the San Francisco Veterans [...]

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Conversations with History: Psychology, Political Understanding, Judith Herman
UCTV: UC Berkeley
55 min 22 sec - Mar 11, 2002
www.uctv.tv
Expert who studied post traumatic stress disorder incident to coercive control — such as political, religious, domestic violence, gangs (about 25:00 starts to discuss what happens to people and what is post traumatic stress disorder)

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Dr. John Bowlby talks about Psychoanalysis
Academic lecture
From: 8ears via Youtube

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Authors@Google: Phillip Zimbardo
From the YouTube description:
What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it? Renow-ned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has the answers, and in The Lucifer Effect he explains how—and the myriad [...]

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SIMS 141 - Search, Google, and Life: Sergey Brin - Google
From UC Berkeley channel on Youtube
“. . . Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business. The World Wide Web brings much of the world’s knowledge into the reach of nearly everyone with a computer and an internet connection. The availability of huge quantities of information at [...]

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Dr. Xavier Amador, author of “I Am Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help”
Podium TV
1 hr 51 min 6 sec - Dec 11, 2006
ssns.ca

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2D/3D Medical Animation: TBI - Traumatic Brain Injury Part 2
from Medivisuals, via Youtube (scroll over to open in pop up)
Note: This is apparently a commercial graphic company. The video is a sample of one which could be used by a Plaintiff’s lawyer — I have no connection of any kind to the maker, but [...]

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