What we learned from 5 million books
http://www.ted.com Have you played with Google Labs' NGram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million ...
TED
Dan Dennett: Responding to Pastor Rick Warren
http://www.ted.com Philosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion -- all religion -- to be taught in schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon.
TED
Steven Pinker on Good Writing, with Ian McEwan
Want to join the debate? Check out the Intelligence Squared website to hear about future live events and podcasts: http://www.intelligencesquared.com
Intelligence Squared
Steven Pinker: On Free Will | Big Think
Steven Pinker: On Free Wil New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: ...
Big Think
Steven Pinker: Language and Consciousness, Part 1 Complete: Thinking Allowed w/ J. Mishlove
http://www.thinkingallowed.com/2spinker.html This is Part 1 of a four part, two-hour Thinking Allowed DVD. Are our thoughts shaped by the language we use?
ThinkingAllowedTV
What hallucination reveals about our minds | Oliver Sacks
Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnett syndrome -- when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations.
TED
Understanding Human Nature with Steven Pinker - Conversations with History
Visit: http://www.uctv.tv) Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard's Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, for a discussion of his ...
University of California Television (UCTV)
How the Languages We Speak Shape the Ways We Think
Visit: http://seminars.uctv.tv/) Do speakers of different languages think differently? Does learning new languages change the way you think? Do bilinguals think ...
UCTVSeminars
The Stuff of Thought | Steven Pinker | Talks at Google
Renowned linguist Steven Pinker speaks at Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters about his book "The Stuff of Thought." This event took place on ...
Talks at Google
What you don't know about marriage | Jenna McCarthy
http://www.ted.com In this funny, casual talk from TEDx, writer Jenna McCarthy shares surprising research on how marriages (especially happy marriages) really ...
TED
Steven Pinker - The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews
Richard Dawkins interviews Steven Pinker for "The Genius of Charles Darwin", the Channel 4 UK TV program which won British Broadcasting Awards' "Best ...
Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science
Introduction to RIBOCA2 online series of talks and conversations
LV and RU below/ In light of our current situation, the 2nd edition of Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA2), and suddenly it all blossoms, ...
RIBOCA
Hilarious examples of awful language usage - Steven Pinker
Excerpted from his lecture at the Royal Institution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV5J6BfToSw Steven Pinker is a professor in the Department of ...
Gravitahn
Steven Pinker: Human nature and the blank slate
http://www.ted.com Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate argues that all humans are born with some innate traits. Here, Pinker talks about his thesis, and why ...
TED
Prof. Tajana Simunic Rosing, Learning & Acceleration in loT Systems
Learning & Acceleration in IoT Systems With the emergence of the Internet of Things, devices will generate massive data streams demanding services that pose ...
Samsung Strategy & Innovation Center
High-Dimensional Computational Geometry
Computing with massive and high-dimensional data is critical to a large and diverse set of applications, including multimedia and hyperlinked databases (the ...
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