Posted: Apr 23rd, 2008 | Comments: 3
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 ...
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
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
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
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
John Ratey, associate clinical professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University, discusses his book Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. He is in conversation with ...
Posted: Jan 16th, 2008 | Comments: 0
"Dark retreat" (muntsam) -- a form of solitary retreat that usually takes
place in a cabin or cave and may last up to a few years -- is known to a
number ...
Posted: Jan 12th, 2008 | Comments: 1
Author Michael Shermer discusses his latest book, THE MIND OF THE MARKET: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics, about how the latest brain ...
Posted: Jan 9th, 2008 | Comments: 0
"New York's Uninsured: A History of Good Intentions and Unintended Consequences" and "Public Sector Experiments: Mandates, Medicaid, and Markets" are the two panels in this far-reaching forum. Participants include James ...
Posted: Dec 11th, 2007 | Comments: 0
The Secret History of the War on Cancer
Devra Davis discusses her new book about how cancer research has been diverted and distorted. Davis is the director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University ...
Posted: Nov 16th, 2007 | Comments: 0
Language as a Window into Human Nature
Harvard University Psychologist Steven Pinker discusses the relationship between language and human nature. What do the names we give things -- and even the prepositions and tenses we use ...
Posted: Oct 5th, 2007 | Comments: 0
