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Predictably Irrational

Posted in Science, Soul, tagged , on May 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Image via CrunchBase We love to be told we’re smarter than we thought we were, but a surprise bestseller by an MIT professor has a less happy message: We’re consistently irrational much of the time. While there’s no cure, there’s hope – if we can learn to outsmart ourselves. Dan Ariely is an Israeli professor [...]

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Wonderful Presentation by Jill Bolte Taylor at TED 2008 : Stroke of insight

Posted in Science, Soul on March 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I was watching this presentation on my way home in my iPod and telling to myself – I have to blog this as soon as I reach home. It’s a fascinating presentation. If you are interested in theories of human cognitive behavior pattern; if you like to know about ‘how brain works’ – you will [...]

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Decoding the future with genomics

Posted in Awareness, Science on September 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Stumbled upon this interesting and persuading video of Juan Enriquez ‘s presentation at the TED conference from 2004 entitled “Decoding the future with genomics”. Juan talks about the need to utilize the Genomic data generated from the labs around the world and ended the presentation with views about knowledge-based economy determining the fate of nations. [...]

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The science of love

Posted in Science, Soul on September 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Helen Fisher is an anthropology professor and human behavior researcher at the Rutgers University and considered the world’s leading expert on the topic of love. Presently, Fisher is the most referenced scholar in the love research community. In 2005, she was hired by match.com to help structure the chemistry.com pair-matching website using both hormonal-based and [...]

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