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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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Whistle-Blowing
Activist investors face challenges convincing regulators to face the facts, with William Ackman, Pershing Square Capital Management and David Einhorn, Greenlight Capital Management
Via CNBC

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Eric Schmidt at HIMSS
From: Google
Eric Schmidt gives the keynote speech at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Annual Conference in Orlando, on February 28, 2008.
Swivelchair comment: Doctor problems with patients’ use of the internet for health knowledge, and the issue of authority.

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Abusive Customers: Customer Service Training : When Customer Tries to Pick a Fight
Abusive Customers: Customer Service Training : Empathize: Customer Service Tips
From: expertvillage

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Kozinski on the Dating Game
From: tdurden04
This is a video of the Honorable Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal

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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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Google Maps: Draggable Driving Directions
From: Google
Swivelchair note: I remember going to AAA and getting the “tripticks” which was a series of paper maps with purple highlighter, when you wanted to take a road trip. Forget that. Look at this.  Google knows how people think, and that people want to make changes or [...]

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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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Investors want answers from Google
Interview of Visesh Kumar, financial writer, from The Street.com
Note- how much psychology is discussed in the interview, and how many presumptions about the way people think are discussed.

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Wall Street Journal, “WSJ.com” (see also — Neurological Correlates comment) - scroll over title and click, redirects to WSJ video
HIDDEN TRAUMA -Studies Cite Head Injuries As Factor in Some Social Ills
Brain Researchers Link
Mental Woes, Alcoholism
To Long-Ago Blows
By THOMAS M. BURTON
January 29, 2008; Page A1
“New research indicates hidden traumatic brain injuries can cause social or [...]

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WIRED SCIENCE | Lie Detectors | PBS
Preview of show on PBS Channel via YouTube

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Cramer: I Stand By My CNBC Rant
It is just amazing to me that the ratings agencies inflated the grades of the bundled subprime debt, and then this was packaged and sold — and people bought it.

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Jim Cramer from CNBC explains (click on link to go to video) the psychology behind the failure to account for the financial stocks — the same people go to the same country clubs, and don’t want to make social waves.
This jibes with my experience.
The trouble is the bond insurers — why invest in a muni [...]

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Microexpression analysis by Paul Eckman, demonstration.

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Advertisement, Capital One, “Viking in the Plane,”
Whoever made this knew their evolutionary genetics –
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el0RFkSPk-o&rel=1]

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IMVU - www.IMVU.com - has a video about an instant messaging service which can be done in 3-D.
We have been discussing empathy over at “The Top Two Inches” — and I wonder if empathy can be projected onto 3-D images of yourself (or who you create yourself to be).
(Note, this isn’t an advert, [...]

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Jason Zweig, author of Your Money and Your Brain

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSHCxL7CQno&rel=1]

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This is your brain on a Ford GT 500 Commercial via Youtube.
From: neuroscott

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Vernon Smith, Nobel Prize Winner, on CNBC discuses having Asperger’s Syndrome (via Youtube)

From: christschool

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