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Transform Your Mind, Change Your Brain

In this conversation, Richard J. Davidson should examine last scientific research on the neuroscience of positive person qualities and how they may be cultivated owing to contemplative practice. Differences among distinct forms of contemplative practices should be introduced and they should be shown to have distinct neural and behavioral consequences, as well as significant consequences for physical health in both long-term and novice practitioners.

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Seth Godin on Standing Out

Seth Godin thinks that days of status quo marketing through the TV industrial complex are coming to an end. People are always too busy to pay attention to the nonstop advertising of middle products for middle people. What captures people’s attention is something wonderful, or quiet something value making a note about.

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Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature

Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature pairs centric texts from Western philosophical tradition (containing labors by Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Hobbes, Kant, Mill, Rawls, and Nozick) with last results in cognitive science and related fields. The video course is structured around three intertwined sets of topics: Happiness and Flourishing; Morality and Justice; and Political Legitimacy and Social Structures.

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Wilderness Survival: Building a Survival Kit

We’ll cover:
-approapriate attire for wilderness activities ("cotton kills")
-how not to get lost :-)
Once lost:
-signaling for assistance (both day and night)
-building land markers to indicate direction
-choosing a location for shelter
-building shelters

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Dr. Dean Ornish on Healing

In this conversation from the TED conference, holistic healing physician Dr. Dean Ornish talks about simple and efficient methods that you may prevent heart sickness and other illnesses by dint of changes in lifestyle and diet. He also points to the multiple ways in which diet and exercise may actually help to treat existing sickness including cancer.

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Teaching of the Dalai Lama: Introduction to Buddhism

His Holiness the Dalai Lama gives an introductory lecture to Buddhism at Emory on October 21, 2007.by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Depression, The Secret We Share by Andrew Solomon

"The contrast of depression is not happiness, but liveliness, and it was liveliness that seemed to leak out away from me in that minute". In talk equal parts eloquent and destructing, author Andrew Solomon takes you to the darks corners of his mind during the years he fought depression.

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Barry Schwartz: The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz, writher of The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, get conversation some of the observations he does in his book in this discussion from the TED conference. He proves that the huge explosion of choices in the advanced capitalist communities has led to increased paralysis in terms of making decision and eventually decreased satisfaction.

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A Course on Death by Shelly Kagan

There is only one thing I could be sure of: sooner or later I am going to die. But what am I to do of this fact? This course will explore a number of issues that emerge once we start to reflect on our mortality. The opportunity that death cannot actually be the end is considered. Are we, in some sense, immortal?

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Tim Ferriss on The 4-Hour Chef

Tim Ferriss stops by the Googleplex to talk about his latest book and his philosophy on learning. What if you could become world-class in anything in 6 months or less? The 4-Hour Chef isn’t just a cookbook. It’s a choose-your-own-adventure guide to the world of rapid learning.

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