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Title: Our Brains Are Mis-Wired

Author: Al Seckel

Narrator: Al Seckel

Format: Original Recording

Length: 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-26-04

Publisher: TED Talks

Genres: Live Events, Culture

Publisher's Summary:

Al Seckel, a cognitive neuroscientist, explores the perceptual illusions that fool our brains. Loads of eye tricks help him prove that not only are we easily fooled, we kind of like it.

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Title: How We Can Make Crops Survive Without Water

Author: Jill Farrant

Narrator: Jill Farrant

Format: Original Recording

Length: 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-07-01

Publisher: TED Talks

Genres: Live Events, Culture

Publisher's Summary:

As the world's population grows and the effects of climate change come into sharper relief, we'll have to feed more people using less arable land. Molecular biologist Jill Farrant studies a rare phenomenon that may help: "resurrection plants" - super-resilient plants that seemingly come back from the dead. Could they hold promise for growing food in our coming hotter, drier world?

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Title: Your Brain on Improv

Author: Charles Limb

Narrator: Charles Limb

Format: Original Recording

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-19-01

Publisher: TED Talks

Genres: Live Events, Culture

Publisher's Summary:

Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation - so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.

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Title: When Online Shaming Spirals Out of Control

Author: Jon Ronson

Narrator: Jon Ronson

Format: Original Recording

Length: 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-01

Publisher: TED Talks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Live Events, Culture

Publisher's Summary:

Twitter gives a voice to the voiceless, a way to speak up and hit back at perceived injustice. But sometimes, says Jon Ronson, things go too far.

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Title: Don't Eat the Marshmallow!

Author: Joachim de Posada

Narrator: Joachim de Posada

Format: Original Recording

Length: 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-09-01

Publisher: TED Talks

Genres: Live Events, Culture

Publisher's Summary:

In this short talk from TED U, Joachim de Posada shares a landmark experiment on delayed gratification - and how it can predict future success.

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Title: Saving for Tomorrow, Tomorrow

Author: Shlomo Benartzi

Narrator: Shlomo Benartzi

Format: Original Recording

Length: 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-30-01

Publisher: TED Talks

Genres: Live Events, Culture

Publisher's Summary:

It's easy to imagine saving money next week, but how about right now? Generally, we want to spend it. Economist Shlomo Benartzi says this is one of the biggest obstacles to saving enough for retirement, and asks: How do we turn this behavioral challenge into a behavioral solution?

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Title: How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime

Author: Nadine Burke Harris

Narrator: Nadine Burke Harris

Format: Original Recording

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-22-01

Publisher: TED Talks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Live Events, Culture

Publisher's Summary:

Childhood trauma isn't something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect, and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.

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Title: What Do Babies Think?

Author: Alison Gopnik

Narrator: Alison Gopnik

Format: Original Recording

Length: 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-01

Publisher: TED Talks

Genres: Live Events, Culture

Publisher's Summary:

Babies and young children are like the R&D division of the human species, says psychologist Alison Gopnik. Her research explores the sophisticated intelligence-gathering and decision-making that babies are really doing when they play.

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Title: The Danger of Science Denial

Author: Michael Specter

Narrator: Michael Specter

Format: Original Recording

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-01

Publisher: TED Talks

Genres: Live Events, Culture

Publisher's Summary:

Vaccine-autism claims, "Frankenfood" bans, the herbal cure craze: All point to the public's growing fear (and, often, outright denial) of science and reason, says Michael Specter. He warns the trend spells disaster for human progress.

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