Keith Barry does brain magic | Video on TED.com

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First, Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies -- in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some jaw-dropping (and even a bit dangerous) feats of brain magic.
About Keith Barry
Magician Keith Barry's talents range from sleight of hand to "mind control" -- metal bending, hypnotism and clairvoyance. But his casual style belies a deeper purpose: demonstrating the powers of manipulation.




Keith Barry does brain magic | Video on TED.com

Freeman Dyson says: let's look for life in the outer solar system | TED.com

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Physicist Freeman Dyson suggests that we start looking for life on the moons of Jupiter and out past Neptune, in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud. He talks about what such life would be like -- and how we might find it.
About Freeman Dyson
With Freeman Dyson's astonishing forecasts for the future, it's hard to tell where science ends and science fiction begins. But far from being a wild-eyed visionary,




Freeman Dyson says: let's look for life in the outer solar system | Video on TED.com

A.J. Jacobs' year of living biblically | TED.com

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Speaking at the most recent EG conference, author, philosopher, prankster and journalist A.J. Jacobs talks about the year he spent living biblically -- following the rules in the Bible as literally as possible.
About A.J. Jacobs
Immersing himself in alternate lifestyles and long, hilarious experiments (usually with himself the guinea pig), writer A.J. Jacobs tests the limits of behavior, customs, culture, knowledge





A.J. Jacobs' year of living biblically | Video on TED.com

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Helen Fisher studies the brain in love |TED.com

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Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love, Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of people in love -- and people who had just been dumped.





Helen Fisher studies the brain in love | Video on TED.com

George Lakoff on The Political Mind

The Commonwealth Club of California
San Francisco, CA
Jun 20th, 2008

UC Berkeley Professor George Lakoff discusses concepts from his new book, The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain







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