An interesting Harvard experiment shows that 75% of people don't notice changes in their environment unless they're focusing on the element that changes.
posted by JesseoftheNorth
1 decade 5 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 1,617 views
So interesting
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Stuff that I find interesting.
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Science and Humanities, in a tree, K I S S I N G!
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posted by benjee
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From TED: "Mark Roth studies suspended animation: the art of shutting down life processes and then starting them up again. It's wild stuff, but it's not science fiction. Induced by careful use of an otherwise... continue reading
posted by Crake 1 decade 4 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,451 views
The search for Earth-like planets is reaching a fever-pitch. Does the evidence so far help shed light on the ancient question: Is the galaxy filled with life, or is Earth just a beautiful, lonely aberration?... continue reading
posted by geo321
1 decade 4 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 1,716 views • 21:29
Coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the shocking state of the ocean today: Overfished, overheated, polluted, with indicators that things will get much worse.
posted by Crake 1 decade 4 years 10 months 1 week ago • 811 views
An interesting and well researched talk on conformity and the effects of repetition and social pressure to create a false majority, based on psychosocial and neurological experiments. "Conformity [...]... continue reading
posted by hpqp
1 decade 4 years 10 months ago • 1,067 views • 9:58
Duration 28 minutes 19 seconds. I haven't even watched all of this but it's a brilliant talk ranging from why certain games rake in millions of dollars, the nature of escapism to our need for authenticity... continue reading
posted by Deano
1 decade 5 years 2 weeks ago • 3,543 views
posted by dystopianfuturetoday
1 decade 4 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,486 views
1 decade 4 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,486 views
Talk on how business tends to overlook details.
posted by marinara 1 decade 4 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,137 views
Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things -- from alien abductions to dowsing rods -- boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they... continue reading
posted by SlipperyPete 1 decade 4 years 9 months ago • 3,599 views • 19:01
It's mental. Of course i don't agree that islam is a brainworm but anyway ;)
posted by MINK 1 decade 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 3,371 views
YT Description: Excerpts from Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. More specifically, from the chapter titled A Universe Not Made For Us. I edited together the audio from... continue reading
posted by BicycleRepairMan 1 decade 4 years 8 months 1 week ago • 6,979 views
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Witten
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By now, we're used to letting Facebook and Twitter capture our social lives on the web -- building a "social layer" on top of the real world. At TEDxBoston, Seth Priebatsch looks at the next layer in progress:... continue reading
posted by smiley
1 decade 4 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,692 views • 15:33
V.S. Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Professor with the Psychology Department and the Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego. A former BBC Reith... continue reading
posted by bleedmegood 1 decade 4 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 745 views
Abstract for this talk: Can machines think about themselves? One of the most unique and fascinating aspects of intelligent living systems is their ability to self-reflect: To reconstruct models of their... continue reading
posted by bleedmegood 1 decade 4 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 1,312 views
From YT: It's the most famous science equation in history... but E=mc² is not technically correct.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 4 years 4 months ago • 5,255 views
From YT: Medical ethicist Harvey Fineberg shows us three paths forward for the ever-evolving human species: to stop evolving completely, to evolve naturally -- or to control the next steps of human evolution,... continue reading
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