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Radio Interview with McCain's Brain!

2008-10-12T02:22:05Z

Lazer1033.3's Morning Moose of Des Moines Iowa did an exclusive interview with the brains behind McCain's Brain - want the Brain to appear on your show?? Contact us at our website: www.SecretSauce.TV

Check out McCain's Brain #1: Checking Out Sarah Palin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qUVQDmLf7s&feature=PlayList&p=0392F3711026F31D&index=3

Check out McCain's Brain #2: Cindy & The View
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYKT4lbjmN4&feature=PlayList&p=0392F3711026F31D&index=2

Check out McCain's Brain #3: The First Debate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sGjAWSUCNQ&feature=PlayList&p=0392F3711026F31D&index=1

Check out McCain's Brain #4: The Second Debate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWrZgsPk-Qc&feature=PlayList&p=0392F3711026F31D&index=0

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McCain's Brain #4: The Second Debate

2008-10-12T02:22:05Z

We offer you the chance to view the second debate between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama, but through the earpiece of McCain's Brain.

Episode 4 was edited, written & produced in less than 8 hours by Andy Signore, Daniel Hartley, Arthur Gradstein and John Carreon on 10/7/08

McCain's Brain #1: Checking Out His VP Sarah Palin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qUVQD...

McCain's Brain #2: Cindy & The View
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYKT4l...

McCain's Brain #3: The First Debate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sGjAWSUCNQ

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Steven Pinker: Chalking it up to the blank slate

2008-10-12T02:40:30Z

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 some people found it incredibly upsetting.

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Marvin Minsky: Health, population and the human mind

2008-10-12T02:40:30Z

www.ted.com Listen closely -- Marvin Minsky's arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety: wit, wisdom and just an ounce of wily, is-he-joking? advice.

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McCain's Brain #3: The First Debate with Obama

2008-10-12T02:22:05Z

We offer you the chance to view the first debate between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama, but through the earpiece of McCain's Brain. Episode 3 was edited, written produced in less than 8 hours by Andy Signore, Daniel Hartley and Arthur Gradstein on 9/26/08

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Jonathan Haidt: The real difference between liberals and con

2008-10-12T02:40:31Z

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most.

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Authors@Google: Michael Gurian

2008-10-12T02:46:14Z

Author Michael Gurian visits Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA, to discuss his book "Leadership and the Sexes". This event took place September 10, 2008, as a part of the Authors@google series. For more info, please visit www.michaelgurian.com

Leadership and the Sexes presents brain science tools with which readers can look into the brains of men and women to understand themselves and one another. The book also provides five Gender Tools, which can be used immediately in executive, management, design, and marketing teams. The gender science presented in this book has been used successfully by such diverse corporations as IBM, Nissan, Proctor & Gamble, Deloitte & Touche, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Brooks Sports, and many others. This gender science helps leaders increase their organization's competitive edge, profits, and bottom line.

Michael Gurian is a thought-leader, corporate consultant, family therapist, and the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-five books, including Leading Partners, The Wonder of Girls, Boys and Girls Learn Differently!, The Wonder of Boys, and The Minds of Boys. The co-founder of the Gurian Institute, he has spearheaded a national effort to provide communities and corporations with training in brain-based gender issues.
Link to the Gurian Institute: www.gurianinstitute.com

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Authors@Google: Daniel Levitin

2008-10-12T02:46:16Z

Daniel Levitin visits Google's San Francisco, CA office to discuss his book "The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature." This event took place on August 22, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.

An unprecedented blend of science and art, Daniel Levitin's debut, This Is Your Brain on Music, was an extraordinary success. Now in what is being called a tour de force by his peers, he showcases his audacious theory of "six songs," illuminating how the brain evolved to play and listen to music in six fundamental forms—for friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion, and love.

Blending cutting-edge scientific findings with his own sometimes hilarious experiences as a musician and music-industry professional, Levitin's sweeping study also incorporates wisdom gleaned from interviews with icons ranging from Sting and Paul Simon to Joni Mitchell and David Byrne, along with classical musicians, poets, anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists.

Daniel J. Levitin runs the Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition, and Expertise at McGill University. Before becoming a research scientist, he was a record producer and professional musician. As a producer, he has a number of gold records to his credit, and has worked on albums by artists such as Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, Midnight Oil, and kd lang. He has played professionally with Mel Torme, Blue Oyster Cult, and David Byrne, and has published extensively in scientific journals such as Science and Neuron and audio trade journals such as Grammy, Billboard, and Audio.

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Ian Dunbar: Dog-friendly dog training

2008-10-12T02:40:33Z

www.ted.com Speaking at the 2007 EG conference, trainer Ian Dunbar asks us to see the world through the eyes of our beloved dogs. By knowing our pets' perspective, we can build their love and trust. It's a message that resonates well beyond the animal world.

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Authors@Google: Louann Brizendine

2008-10-03T20:43:33Z

Louann Brizendine visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss her book "The Female Brain." This event took place on August 7, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Pioneering neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, M.D., brings together the latest findings to show how the unique structure of the female brain determines how women think, what they value, how they communicate, and who they love. While doing research as a medical student at Yale and then as a resident and faculty member at Harvard, Louann Brizendine discovered that almost all of the clinical data in existence on neurology, psychology, and neurobiology focused exclusively on males. In response to the overwhelming need for information on the female mind, Brizendine established the first clinic in the country to study and treat women's brain function. In The Female Brain, Dr. Brizendine distills all her findings and the latest information from the scientific community in a highly accessible book that educates women about their unique brain/body/behavior.

Louann Brizendine is a neuropsychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco, is the founder of the Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic. She was previously on faculty at the Harvard Medical School and is a graduate of the Yale University School of Medicine and the University of California, Berkeley, in neurobiology. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and son.

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Riz Khan - Brain Failure - 05 Aug 08 - Part 2

2008-08-11T02:50:02Z

Riz Khan talks to Jill Bolte Taylor PH.D, a neuro-anatomist at the Indian School of Medicine who suffered brain failure.

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Riz Khan - Brain Failure- 05 Aug 08 - Part 1

2008-08-11T04:51:41Z

Riz Khan talks to Jill Bolte Taylor PH.D, a neuro-anatomist at the Indian School of Medicine who suffered brain failure

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Kwabena Boahen: Making a computer that works like the brain

2008-10-12T02:40:33Z

www.ted.com Researcher Kwabena Boahen is looking for ways to mimic the brain's supercomputing powers in silicon -- because the messy, redundant processes inside our heads actually make for a small, light, superfast computer.

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Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web

2008-10-12T02:40:33Z

www.ted.com At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what's coming in the next 5,000 days?

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Keith Barry: Brain magic

2008-10-12T02:40:34Z

www.ted.com 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.

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Authors@Google: Jonah Lehrer

2008-09-09T02:29:52Z

Jonah Lehrer visits Google's Cambridge, MA office to discuss his book "Proust Was a Neuroscientist." This event took place on June 11, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.

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Helen Fisher: The brain in love

2008-10-10T14:42:22Z

www.ted.com 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.

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Maintaining Memory through Old Age - Emma Shulman

2008-07-24T14:27:04Z

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Emma Shulman, a 95-year-old lecturer and Senior Family Counselor at NYU's Silberstein Institute, discusses how to maximize memory skills as the brain ages.

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NYU's Silberstein Institute (the Aging and Dementia Clinical and Research institute at NYU Langone Medical Center) presents an interview with Emma Shulman, LCSW, MPH with David Hittson of the Silberstein Institute.

Shulman answers questions concerning aging and memory changes. A 95-year-old vibrant speaker in high demand around New York, she has many years of experience working with older people.

After 27 years of service to NYU's William and Sylvia Silberstein Institute for Aging and Dementia, Emma Shulman, L.S.W.,M.P.H., its Senior Family Counselor, has retired at the age of 95 to pursue an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology, her fifth master's degree.
Shulman came to the institute as a 68-year-old volunteer to study aging and add an advanced degree in gerontology to those she had earned in social work, business, and psychology.

In 1980 she joined the staff as research coordinator of an NIA-supported longitudinal study of aging and Alzheimer's disease is still the largest and longest of its kind in the world and co-leader of two caregiver support groups that she and her colleague, Gertrude Steinberg, began at NYU's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center . She also helped launch the New York City chapter of the Alzheimer's Association.

Shulman, who was featured in Business Week 2005 cover story on productive aging, will continue to serve the institute as a part-time consultant. She hasn't decided where she'll enroll for her next degree, but says NYU is a strong possibility. The most important thing to me, as she explains, is that it's a progressive program.

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Re: Dre Powell does Puerto Rico

2008-06-20T01:34:59Z

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Susan Blackmore: Memes and "temes"

2008-09-08T14:20:51Z

www.ted.com Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to keep itself alive

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Does IQ Change Over Time? - Stephen Murdoch

2008-06-18T18:36:42Z

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Author Stephen Murdoch discusses the impacts of IQ testing on sentencing for convicted murder Daryl Atkins, and describes how IQ test results can change for individuals over time.

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Stephen Murdoch, author of IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea, discusses the invention and history of the IQ test and its applications from the past to the present.

Stephen Murdoch has been working as a journalist and writer since 1999. He has written on a wide range of subjects—from legal policy and psychology, to travel and topical commentary. In 2006, Murdoch was a weekly columnist for the Santa Barbara News-Press. He has also contributed to Newsweek, Marketplace (a radio show carried by many NPR stations), The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Lawyer, The Boston Globe and other publications.

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Sen. Byrd Losses It Over Ted Kennedy: "I Love You"

2008-06-15T09:29:59Z

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How it feels to have a stroke

2008-06-17T03:30:36Z

www.ted.com Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

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Christopher deCharms: Looking inside the brain in real time

2008-06-23T14:33:12Z

www.ted.com Neuroscientist and inventor Christopher deCharms demos an amazing new way to use fMRI to show brain activity while it is happening -- emotion, body movement, pain. (In other words, you can literally see how you feel.) The applications for real-time fMRIs start with chronic pain control and range into the realm of science fiction, but this technology is very real.

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Matthieu Ricard: Habits of happiness

2008-07-14T08:33:10Z

www.ted.com What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Buddhist monk, photographer and author Matthieu Ricard has devoted his life to these questions, and his answer is influenced by his faith as well as by his scientific turn of mind: We can train our minds in habits of happiness. Interwoven with his talk are stunning photographs of the Himalayas and of his spiritual community.

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