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Sheila Marie Orfano
Can you trust your memory?
4:53
Khalil Ramadi
Electronic pills that could transform how we treat disease
5:02
Masako Tamaki
Can you be awake and asleep at the same time?
4:32
Marianne Schwarz
What causes migraines?
4:43
Sara C. Mednick
How long should your naps be?
18:23
Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care)
5:27
Elizabeth Cox
Can you outsmart the apples and oranges fallacy?
22:25
Lisa Genova
How your memory works -- and why forgetting is totally OK
4:39
Neil R. Jeyasingam
How do antidepressants work?
1:29
Sir Ken Robinson
How would you finish the sentence, "Imagine if..."?
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Melanie E. Peffer
The artist who won a Nobel Prize... in medicine
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Merve Emre
How do personality tests work?
4:53
Seena Mathew
How fast is the speed of thought?
4:44
Claire Wardle
Can you outsmart a troll (by thinking like one)?
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Elizabeth Cox
Can you outsmart the fallacy that started a witch hunt?
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Cindy J. Aaronson
What causes panic attacks, and how can you prevent them?
5:25
TED-Ed
The surprising effects of pregnancy
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Hyunsoo Joshua No
Performing brain surgery without a scalpel
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Daniel L. Schacter
Are all of your memories real?
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Michael Corballis
Evolution's great mystery: Language
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Elizabeth Cox
Can you outsmart the fallacy that fooled a generation of doctors?
4:21
Gareth Gaskell
How do our brains process speech?
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MIT School of Science
On the same wavelength
5:02
Cameron Morin
What do all languages have in common?
8:48
Alice Pailhès
Secrets of the mind and free will -- revealed by magic tricks
8:19
Mike Davis
What causes opioid addiction, and why is it so tough to combat?
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Stefan C. Dombrowski
The dark history of IQ tests
5:04
Judy Grisel
How does alcohol make you drunk?
1:00:41
Matt Walker
Why sleep matters now more than ever
5:15
Todd Dufresne
History vs. Sigmund Freud
5:16
Anees Bahji
What is schizophrenia?
4:21
Gerd Gigerenzer
Why do people fear the wrong things?
5:14
Jay Van Bavel
Do politics make us irrational?
11:06
Julia Shaw
How to support witnesses of harassment and build healthier workplaces
13:04
Lisa Mosconi
How menopause affects the brain
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Anees Bahji
Is marijuana bad for your brain?
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