Psychology
Video: Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions – Series on the evolutionary origins of emotion
See Academic Earth for more. There are various lectures from MIT, Harvard. The rest of the series LECTURE DESCRIPTION This class is an introduction to the evolutionary analysis of human emotions, how they work, why they exist, and what they communicate. In particular, this lecture discusses three interesting case studies, that Read more…
Video: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Liaquat Ahamad discusses the financial crisis of 2009 versus 1929. Liaquat Ahamed discusses his book, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, and covers the 2009 financial crisis. The date of this talk is June 9, 2009 so he may have spoken too soon when he said we Read more…
Health-Fitness
Video: Your Brain at Work
This video is highly recommended if you want to optimize your intellectual output. Links Managing with the brain in mind Neuroscience of mindfulness David Rock's blog
Video
Video: Sita Sings the Blues
Nina Paley (of "Mimi and Eunace" ) animated feature. From Nina's main page: Dear Audience, I hereby give Sita Sings the Blues to you. Like all culture, it belongs to you already, but I am making it explicit with a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License. Please distribute, copy, share, archive, Read more…
Video
Video: The Spy Factory – NSA and 911
The Spy Factory covers some of the eavesdropping techniques available to the NSA.
Economics
Video: Milton Friedmans Free to Choose
​ Milton Friedman is inspiring. This is the first episode of Free to Choose. You will see the rest of the 10 episodes listed to the right side. Friedman's questioners in the post presentation look like naive amateurs in contrast. America's freedom and prosperity derive from the combination Read more…
Milton Friedman
Video: Milton Friedman – Why Drugs Should Be Legalized
Milton Friedman is going to be added as a tag on this blog. If you watch the following video you will understand why.