Psychology
My Top 10 TED.com talks
1. Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight 2. Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything 3. Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds 4. Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions 5. Carolyn Porco flies us to Saturn 6. VS Ramachandran on your mind 7. Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny 8. Adam Savage’s obsessions 9. Emily Levine’s theory of... »
Posthumous apology to Alan Turing
The British Government today issued an apology to Alan Turing Click here for UK Gov statement BBC coverage here »
Lest we forget.
photo credit: la picarita Michael Jackson is gone and I’m not sad. I guess that makes me as much of a freak as he was, given the massive media explosion of coverage on a wretch of a man whose megalomania apparently knew no bounds. I will try my best in the coming days and weeks... »
Why We Believe in Gods
Andy Thomson gives his talk titled ‘Why We Believe in Gods‘ at the American Atheist 2009 convention in Atlanta, Georgia. J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., M.D. is Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction (CSMHI), Staff Psychiatrist at the University of Virginia Student Health Services and in private practice. In this... »

