The Mystery of the Mind

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J.J. Abrams' mystery box

Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce

Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives

James Geary, metaphorically speaking

Steven Pinker on language and thought

Marc Pachter: The art of the interview

Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks | V

Sheena Iyengar on the art of choosing

Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours

David S. Rose on pitching to VCs

Jason Fried: Why work doesn't happen at work

Steven Pinker chalks it up to the blank slate

Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions? | Video

Diane Benscoter on how cults rewire the brain

Dan Ariely on our buggy moral code

Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.

Tim Ferriss: Smash fear, learn anything

Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself

Matthew Childs' 9 life lessons from rock climbing | Video on TED

Ray Zahab treks to the South Pole

Lewis Pugh swims the North Pole

Lewis Pugh's mind-shifting Mt. Everest swim

Jonathan Drori on what we think we know

Barry Schwartz on our loss of wisdom

Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations

Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice

Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy?

Chip Conley: Measuring what makes life worthwhile | Video on TED

Philip Zimbardo shows how people become monsters ... or heroes |

Samantha Power on a complicated hero

Jim Fallon: Exploring the mind of a killer

Nalini Nadkarni: Life science in prison

Steven Pinker on the myth of violence

Tom Chatfield: 7 ways games reward the brain

Rick Warren on a life of purpose

Dan Dennett's response to Rick Warren

A.J. Jacobs' year of living biblically

Billy Graham on technology and faith

Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions | Video on TED.co

Dan Dennett on our consciousness

Dan Dennett on dangerous memes

Michael Shermer on strange beliefs

Richard Dawkins on militant atheism

James Randi's fiery takedown of psychic fraud

Marvin Minsky on health and the human mind

Gregory Petsko on the coming neurological epidemic | Video on TE

Sherwin Nuland on electroshock therapy

Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds | Video

Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight

Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory | Video on

Tom Wujec on 3 ways the brain creates meaning

Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see

Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny

Christopher deCharms looks inside the brain

Demo: Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere | Video on T

Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves

Henry Markram builds a brain in a supercomputer | Video on TED.c

Michael Merzenich on re-wiring the brain

Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome

Gero Miesenboeck reengineers a brain

Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds

Jeff Hawkins on how brain science will change computing | Video

VS Ramachandran on your mind

Helen Fisher tells us why we love + cheat

Helen Fisher studies the brain in love

VS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization | Video on

Marc Pachter: The art of the interview

Charles Limb: Your brain on improv