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 4 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 1,617 viewsSo interesting
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posted by berticus 1 decade 4 years 8 months 1 week ago • 4,025 viewsFrom 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 6 months 1 week ago • 1,451 viewsThe 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 5 months 1 week ago • 1,716 views • 21:29Coral 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 4 months 3 weeks ago • 811 viewsAn 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 4 months 2 weeks ago • 1,067 views • 9:58Duration 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 4 years 7 months ago • 3,543 viewsTalk on how business tends to overlook details.
posted by marinara 1 decade 4 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,137 viewsMichael 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 3 months 2 weeks ago • 3,599 views • 19:01It's mental. Of course i don't agree that islam is a brainworm but anyway ;)
posted by MINK 1 decade 7 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 3,371 viewsYT 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 2 months 3 weeks ago • 6,979 viewshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Witten
posted by Kulpims T'dna (kulpims) 1 decade 4 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 4,213 viewsBy 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 1 month ago • 1,692 views • 15:33V.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 1 week ago • 745 viewsAbstract 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 3 years 12 months ago • 1,312 viewsFrom YT: It's the most famous science equation in history... but E=mc² is not technically correct.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 5,255 viewsFrom 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
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 5 months ago • 1,561 views • 17:22