Attack of the Lucid Hallucinations – Charles Bonnet Syndrome | @OliverSacks
I’ve been fascinated with neuroscience all my life. As a child, I wanted to be a psychologist or psychiatrist, and study rare conditions. I remember seeing the film Awakenings and thinking how remarkable and mysterious the brain really is. The Science Channel had a short series documenting odd and rare neurological cases. One of them … Read more
TED – Brian Cox: Why we need the explorers @ProfBrianCox
Professor Brian Cox has always been one of my heroes growing up and even today in my young adulthood. He has made science and cosmology chic and trendy. He has spurred the fascination of science to a new generation and appears regularly on documentaries attempting to answer the greatest mysteries in science. Currently, working with … Read more
TED – Sheena Iyengar on the art of choosing
http://www.ted.com/talks/sheena_iyengar_on_the_art_of_choosing.html Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices — and how we feel about the choices we make. At TEDGlobal, she talks about both trivial choices (Coke v. Pepsi) and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking research that has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our decisions. For info on Sheena Iyengar – Psycho-economist: http://www.ted.com/speakers/sheena_iyengar.html http://www.columbia.edu/~ss957/
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