Science
Duncan Watts
14 mai 2012
Marc Pagel : Infinite Stupidity
13 décembre 2011
Time-lapse video from ISS
14 novembre 2011
Learning from Bacteria about Social Networks
19 octobre 2011
The Sagan and Feynman Series
09 octobre 2011
Will Robots Steal Your Job?
02 octobre 2011
Why Cities Keep Growing, Corporations and People Always Die, and Life Gets Faster by Geoffrey West
16 août 2011
Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity
03 août 2011
Peter Kareiva & J. Stephen Lansing: Conservation in the Real World
13 juillet 2011
References
[1] P. Kareiva, H. Tallis, T.H. Ricketts, G.C. Daily, and S. Polasky, Natural Capital: Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services, Oxford University Press, USA, 2011.[2] J.S. Lansing, Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali, Princeton University Press, 2007.
The Empathic Civilisation by Jeremy Rifkin
30 mai 2011
Kevin Kelly : What Technology Wants
02 décembre 2010
CANCERING: Listening In On The Body's Proteomic Conversation
05 novembre 2010
David Eagleman on Possibilianism
28 octobre 2010
Robert Sapolsky
11 août 2010
Robert Sapolsky on human learning and being open to new experiences from National Humanities Center on Vimeo.
References
[1] Robert Sapolsky Bio page at Edge.org
[2] Robert Sapolsky, Monkeyluv: And Other Lessons in Our Lives as Animals
[3] Robert Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
[4] TOXO A Conversation with Robert Sapolsky
[5] Under Pressure: The Search for a Stress Vaccine
[6] The Brain Eating Vaccine Conspiracy
The new science of morality
11 août 2010
JONATHAN HAIDT TALK:
JOSHUA D. GREENE TALK:
[1] Edge.org
[2] J. Henrich, S.J. Heine, and A. Norenzayan, "The weirdest people in the world?," The Behavioral and brain sciences, vol. 33, 2010, pp. 1-23.
[3] Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
[4] H. Mercier and D. Sperber, "Why do humans reason? Arguments for an argumentative theory," Behavioral and Brain Sciences., 2010.
JOSHUA D. GREENE TALK:
References
[1] Edge.org
[2] J. Henrich, S.J. Heine, and A. Norenzayan, "The weirdest people in the world?," The Behavioral and brain sciences, vol. 33, 2010, pp. 1-23.
[3] Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
[4] H. Mercier and D. Sperber, "Why do humans reason? Arguments for an argumentative theory," Behavioral and Brain Sciences., 2010.
Environment
09 août 2010
References
[1] D.J. MacKay, Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air, UIT Cambridge Ltd., 2009.
[2] S. Brand, Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto, Atlantic Books, 2010.
[3] Edge's page about Stephen Schneider
[4] Age of Stupid
[5] J. Rockström, W. Steffen, K. Noone, A. Persson, F.S. Chapin, E.F. Lambin, T.M. Lenton, M. Scheffer, C. Folke, H.J. Schellnhuber, B. Nykvist, C.A. de Wit, T. Hughes, S. van Der Leeuw, H. Rodhe, S. Sörlin, P.K. Snyder, R. Costanza, U. Svedin, M. Falkenmark, L. Karlberg, R.W. Corell, V.J. Fabry, J. Hansen, B. Walker, D. Liverman, K. Richardson, P. Crutzen, and J.A. Foley, "A safe operating space for humanity.," Nature, vol. 461, 2009, pp. 472-5.
Benoît Mandelbrot
09 août 2010
Stanislas Dehaene
09 août 2010
Informavaore Panel on Edge.org with David Gelernter, Frank Schirrmacher and Andrian Kreye
09 août 2010
Daniel Dennett, Jeff Hawkins & Sebastian Seung, Conscience and brain theory
04 août 2010
References
[1] D.C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained, Penguin Books Ltd, 2007.
[2] J. Hawkins and S. Blakeslee, On Intelligence, St. Martin's Griffin, 2005.
[3] D. George and J. Hawkins, "Towards a mathematical theory of cortical micro-circuits.," PLoS computational biology, vol. 5, 2009, p. e1000532.
[4] Numenta, Inc
Big Bang Briefly
01 août 2010