Upside-Down Glasses: The Plastic Nature of Reality
In this short clip, watch how a highly creative person adapts relatively quickly to literally having her world upside down.
OCD: The War Inside
This excellent and unpretentious documentary does a great job of bringing home the trials of a life afflicted with OCD. The film focuses less on symptoms than on the impact of the constant internal dialogue. After watching this, you may never joke about OCD again.
Steven Pinker: What our language habits reveal
In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds — and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize.
God is in the Neurons
Well done video on the neuroscience of consciousness. Don’t let the title scare you off if you believe in God. There’s room for everyone in neuroscience
Choice, Happiness, and Spaghetti Sauce: Do We Even Know What We Want?
http://www.ted.com Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry’s pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce — and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.
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