"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, changed... continue reading
posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 7 years 1 month 1 week ago • 5,106 viewsBig Ideas
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Thought-provoking, worthy of further study.
Former President Clinton's 'review' of Robert Wright's book, Non Zero.
posted by fissionchips 1 decade 6 years 2 months ago • 4,090 views"A Will Wright interview on Gamespot has that Mr Sims guy saying some clever stuff about Go, not having a degree, and amplifying imagination."
posted by Krupo 1 decade 6 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 1,845 viewsA dynamite TED talk with one of the best formal rhetorical presentations I've seen. From TED: Larry Lessig gets TEDsters to their feet, whooping and whistling, following this elegant presentation... continue reading
posted by eleavitt 1 decade 6 years 2 months ago • 1,932 viewsThe Stanford prison experiment is classic Psych 101 material. See how Dr. Zimbardo's results apply to the real world.
posted by kronosposeidon 1 decade 6 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,690 viewsFrom http://blog.videosift.com/Fedquip *** Mike Gravel on Russia Today tv tells the interviewer that Bush is the worst president in American History. In other news the Warren T. Harding Presidential... continue reading
posted by justinianrex 1 decade 6 years 2 months ago • 2,030 viewsHarvard professor Dan Gilbert discusses why we are especially unsuited to respond to global warming. Update: jwray points out that the frog thing is a myth. As a metaphor it may not be true - but it... continue reading
posted by winkler1 1 decade 6 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 4,441 viewsThe video looks at basic forms of governments, from monarchy, oligarchy, democracy, republic and anarchy. Looking at why the Founding Fathers picked a republican structure for the United States.
posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 3,255 viewsJust this month CIA director Michael Hayden admitted that we've waterboarded three detainees. Former FBI interrogator Jack Cloonan debunks the three biggest myths about torture. From uploader: Former... continue reading
posted by CaptWillard 1 decade 6 years 2 months ago • 4,194 viewsPhilosopher Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don't we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are actively fooling us. As he puts it, our bodies are made... continue reading
posted by BicycleRepairMan 1 decade 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 3,586 viewsBarry Schwartz is a sociology professor at Swarthmore College and author of The Paradox of Choice. In this talk, he persuasively explains how and why the abundance of choice in modern society is actually... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 decade 7 years 2 months 1 week ago • 4,994 views • 20:22Colleges regularly host a function where professor's come to give a lecture as if it were their last. Unfortunately, for Randy Pausch, this probably is his last lecture. He's dying of pancreatic cancer... continue reading
posted by theaceofclubz 1 decade 6 years 7 months ago • 5,574 views • 10:103 TRILLION. Joseph Stiglitz was chief economist at the World Bank until January 2000. Before that he was the chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. He was awarded the Nobel Prize... continue reading
posted by winkler1 1 decade 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 3,068 viewsWhat a brilliant concept...Nonprofit recycles 'obsolete' computer equipment. Side effects: less waste, crossing the digital divide, social equality, skills transfer. A more comprehensive tour of the... continue reading
posted by winkler1 1 decade 6 years 3 weeks ago • 1,710 viewsChris Anderson, the editor of WIRED, explores the four key stages of any viable technology: setting the right price, gaining market share, displacing an established technology and, finally, becoming ubiquitous.... continue reading
posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 1,732 viewsTom Magliozzi has a problem. The wacky cohost of NPR's Car Talk needs to replace his beloved 1952 MG roadster. But in today's car market, where should he turn? Is new technology about to transform the... continue reading
posted by winkler1 1 decade 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 4,350 viewsMy fave quote is the one about telco's core competencies.
posted by winkler1 1 decade 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 952 viewsMade by Avaaz.org (whose name means "Voice" or "Song" in several languages including Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, Nepalese, Dari, Turkish, and Bosnian). It's a terrific call for us all to get past the stereotypes,... continue reading
posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 6 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 1,785 viewsA classical social psychology experiment carried out by S. Asch. The power of conformity
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