Neurology and Psychiatry. BBC Horizon (2011) - What is Reality? (complete, uncut) Science, biology, sociology, neuroscience. Neuroscience. The Learning Brain Gets Bigger. With age and enough experience, we all become connoisseurs of a sort.
After years of hearing a favorite song, you might notice a subtle effect that’s lost on greener ears. Perhaps you’re a keen judge of character after a long stint working in sales. Or maybe you’re one of the supremely practiced few who tastes his money’s worth in a wine. Whatever your hard-learned skill is, your ability to hear, see, feel, or taste with more nuance than a less practiced friend is written in your brain. But where, and how, exactly? One classical line of work has tackled these questions by mapping out changes in brain organization following intense and prolonged sensory experience. But don’t adopt that slogan quite yet. Battle of the Brains. Can you think of 100 different uses for a sock?
How would you cope with glasses that turn everything upside down? The Brain: A Secret History. In a compelling and at times disturbing series, Dr Michael Mosley explores the brutal history of experimental psychology.
Mosley embarks on three journeys to understand science's last great frontier - the human mind - as he traces the history of the attempts to understand and manipulate the brain. Experiments on the human mind have led to profound insights into how our brain works - but have also involved great cruelty and posed some terrible ethical dilemmas. Mind Control. To begin, Michael traces the sinister ways this science has been used to try to control our minds. Brain Story. Why do we think and feel as we do?
For years man has sought to understand the workings of the mind. Now, with advances in modern-day technology and developments in neuroscience, a whole new world of brain research is opening up. Understanding our minds is becoming a reality. Guided by top neuroscientist Susan Greenfield, Brain Story attempts to answer the question "What is my mind and who am I? " We talk to philosophers, clinicians, neurosurgeons and their patients to discover quite what a finely balanced and complex machine the brain is. All in the Mind. Secrets of the Occult.
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The hidden dimensions of the mind. Neurocognition and education. Reference. Ben Stein’s Flunked: No Intelligence Applied. Expelled : No Intelligence Allowed subjected viewers to the fact burning, logic twisting, psychedelic head trip of Intelligent Design propagandists and their conspiracy-theory ravings.
This under-appreciated exposé by YouTubes own PrometheusWithLight delves into the seedy underworld of ID and it's noisy, clumsy, paper trail laying transmutation from Creation Science, meticulously dismantling claims of Academic Intolerance. ID propagandists continually whine that Mainstream Science is suppressing evidence of Forethought and Design in nature, and that ID research is being similarly suppressed. The reality? They conduct NO research; They submit NO studies for publication. Lucid Dreaming. By lucid dreaming, you can gain complete control over the one place that no one will ever care about: your imagination.
Just The Facts Lucid dreaming is a scientifically proven phenomenon. Because I Dare - Watch the Documentary Film for Free. The Illuminated Chakras.
National Geographic – Extreme Universe – Is Anyone Out There? The Brain: Our Universe Within. Forty years ago, American anthropologist Doctor Ralph Selecki explored the caves at Shanidar where he unearthed an image of ancient man that profoundly changed the way we saw our ancestors.
The professor discovered a skull - a Neanderthal skull. Strangely, it was covered with microscopic pollen from the flowers of thistle, groundsel, spiraea and hollyhock, among others. The same pollen dust covered the rest of the weathered skeleton, suggesting that his family and friends had deliberately gathered the flowers and laid them in bunches on the dead body. These mourners left behind the earliest known signs of man's awareness of death. Based on Doctor Selecki's findings, Neanderthals seemed to possess what we have come to call a mind. The Beauty of Diagrams. Series in which mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explores the stories behind some of the most familiar scientific diagrams.
Vitruvian Man - He looks at Leonardo da Vinci's world-famous diagram of the perfect human body, which has many layers from anatomy to architecture, and defines our species like no other drawing before or since. The Vitruvian Man, drawn in the 1480s when he was living and working in Milan, has become one of the most famous images in the world. Leonardo's drawings form a vast body of work, covering every imaginable subject in spectacular detail: from feet, skulls and hands to muscles and sinews; from hearts and lungs to buildings, bridges and flying machines. Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension. Mysteriously beautiful fractals are shaking up the world of mathematics and deepening our understanding of nature.
You may not know it, but fractals, like the air you breathe, are all around you. Their irregular, repeating shapes are found in cloud formations and tree limbs, in stalks of broccoli and craggy mountain ranges, even in the rhythm of the human heart. In this film, we takes viewers on a fascinating quest with a group of maverick mathematicians determined to decipher the rules that govern fractal geometry. For centuries, fractal-like irregular shapes were considered beyond the boundaries of mathematical understanding. Now, mathematicians have finally begun mapping this uncharted territory. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space.
The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph, they can become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on this scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatred.
Our posturing, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in this universe are challenged by this point of pale light. My Brilliant Brain: Make Me A Genius (Episode 1) Secrets of The Mind. In Secrets of the Mind we gain insights through various tragedies that have affected others, thanks to the logic and insights of Professor Ramachandran regarding what he calls the most complex organized matter in the universe. The documentary begins with "phantom limb syndrome" - pain and sensation in missing body areas.
Ramachandran's reasoning, confirmed through a CAT-scan, is that the brain has a map of various body areas, and that eg. the right arm and right face areas of the brain are adjacent. Thus, missing body areas can lead to interference by those associated brain areas trying to cope with stimulus deprivation - eg. Battle of the Brains.
Thought Files of the Young Broken Reckless. Why do people commit crimes? There are a multitude of reasons, but Dr. David Eagleman believes that it really comes down to states of the brain. There have been many cases in which violent murderers or sick pedophiles are found with tumors in their brain — and in the cases where these tumors are removed, the behavior of these criminals ceases to be criminal, and in fact they often revert back to being healthy and happy members of society. Our desire to punish people comes from lacking understanding of their context. Eagleman makes the point that our system of punishment is limited by our ability to understand the complex biology within people’s brains.
Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation. Michael Shermer: The Believing Brain (Lecture) Re-Wiring the Brain. How Does Your Memory Work? My Brilliant Brain. Scientific evidence for survival of consciousness after death. According to Wikipedia.org, "psychometry" is a psychic ability in which the user is able to relate details about the past condition of an object or area, usually by being in close contact with it. The user could allegedly, for example, give police precise details about a murder or other violent crime if they were at the crime scene or were holding the weapon used. About.com's Paranormal Phenomena website lists information about several of the most convincing psychometrists.
Stefan Ossowiecki, a Russian-born psychic, is one of the most famous psychometrists. Ossowiecki claimed to be able to see people's auras and to move objects through psychokinesis. How to Trick Your Brain for Happiness. This month, we feature videos of a Greater Good presentation by Rick Hanson, the best-selling author and trailblazing psychologist. In this excerpt from his talk, Dr. Hanson explains how we can take advantage of the brain’s natural “plasticity”—it’s ability to change shape over time. gobyg There’s this great line by Ani Tenzin Palmo, an English woman who spent 12 years in a cave in Tibet: “We do not know what a thought is, yet we’re thinking them all the time.” It’s true. In recent years, though, we have started to better understand the neural bases of states like happiness, gratitude, resilience, love, compassion, and so forth. Ultimately, what this can mean is that with proper practice, we can increasingly trick our neural machinery to cultivate positive states of mind.
But in order to understand how, you need to understand three important facts about the brain. Fact one: As the brain changes, the mind changes, for better or worse. My mind on books : books on the mind, consciousness, cognitive science… Science.
Getting started. Soul Science. Social. Science, math related. Newage. A Lesson on Forgiveness. The Buddha was sitting under a tree talking to his disciples when a man came and spit on his face. Winsights, No. 29 (page 1 of 4), "Breathing as a way of life. Buddhism and the Brain ? SEEDMAGAZINE.COM. Credit: Flickr user eschipul. Mantra from the Dalai Lama. Twelve Virtues of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky. By Eliezer Yudkowsky The first virtue is curiosity. A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth.
To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance. 6 Questions That Will Make You Fee Peaceful and Complete. Kochuu - Watch the Documentary Film for Free. Social. Famous Buddhist Quotes & Sayings. Michael Shermer on strange beliefs. Newage. Science.
The science network. Greatest Hits of TED Videos. Science. The Online Learning Blog from Study2U. Supposedly browsing the internet requires more brain power than watching television. Although judging from some of the websites we’ve come across that assumption is cast into doubt. Here’s some of the sites we like that might get your brain to sit up and listen. Ted A conference that started in 1984 bringing together experts in technology, entertainment and design quickly grew into so much more. Wade Davis: Dreams from endangered cultures. Julian Baggini: Is there a real you? Travel. War and Globalization: The Truth Behind 9/11 (Lecture) In this lecture by Michel Chossudovsky, he blows away the smokescreen put up by the mainstream media, that 9/11 was an attack on America by Islamic terrorists.
War and Globalization: The Truth Behind 9/11 (Lecture) Social. Deciphering hidden pattern reveals brain activity. Art in the Stations - Watch the Documentary Film for Free.
Your Brain at Work. Best TED Talks. Steven Pinker on language and thought. Through the Wormhole. Great Expectations - Watch the Documentary Film for Free. The Human Mind. In this three-part documentary, Robert Winston explores all aspects of the human mind – from how we learn, to how we’re able to recognise faces and what makes one person ‘click’ with another. Episode 1: Get Smart. Nature.