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Where Does Life Begin?

Where Does Life Begin?

Together artist and astrobiologist construct an organism and a conversation using ZOOB, a building toy designed by Michael Joaquin Grey and inspired by biological and social networks. For the ...
Posted: May 26th, 2010 | Comments: 0
What Makes the Mindset of a Radical?

What Makes the Mindset of a Radical?

Writer Stephen Batchelor + neurophilosopher Owen Flanagan The author of Confession of a Buddhist Atheist argues that the Buddha was a radical innovator. What is it in our brains ...
Posted: Apr 14th, 2010 | Comments: 1
How Do Our Brains Cope with Long-term Stress?

How Do Our Brains Cope with Long-term Stress?

Arjia Rinpoche + Bruce S. McEwen A survivor of the Chinese Cultural Revolution talks to the Rockefeller University neuroendocrinologist about how stress hormones act on the ...
Posted: Mar 10th, 2010 | Comments: 0
Red Book Dialogues: Matthew Weiner

Red Book Dialogues: Matthew Weiner

In the spirit of RMA's exhibition The Red Book of C.G. Jung, personalities from many different walks of life will be paired on stage with a ...
Posted: Feb 10th, 2010 | Comments: 0
Fear Itself

Fear Itself

Choed teacher Tsultrim Allione meets with New York University neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux to discuss the sources of fear and to explore how Buddhist practice seeks to master these ...
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2008 | Comments: 3
Groove Factor

Groove Factor

Celebrated musician Moby discusses the feeling of being “in synch” while making music with Dr. Petr Janata, a scientist who has made a study of this mental state ...
Posted: Mar 26th, 2008 | Comments: 0
Welcome to Your Brain

Welcome to Your Brain

Visionary film and theater director Julie Taymor joins Sam Wang, associate professor of neuroscience at Princeton University, and Sandra Aamodt, editor-in-chief of Nature Neuroscience, in an exploration ...
Posted: Mar 10th, 2008 | Comments: 2
You Must Remember This

You Must Remember This

Jeff Watt, director of the Himalayan Art Resources and a curator of Bon: The Magic Word, talks with psychologist Lila Davachi about iconography in Himalayan art as a mnemonic device. ...
Posted: Feb 23rd, 2008 | Comments: 1
The Tibetan Book of the Dead

The Tibetan Book of the Dead

What happens in our brains as we die? Explore this question from the Tibetan Buddhist perspective, with Tibet scholar Dr. Ramon Prats, expert on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, ...
Posted: Feb 9th, 2008 | Comments: 0
High Crimes

High Crimes

Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Kodas launches his new book, High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed, concerning the allure, danger, and criminal element of attempting ...
Posted: Feb 6th, 2008 | Comments: 0
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