Sherry Turkle (TED talks): Connected, but alone?
As we expect more from technology, do we expect less from each other? Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication — and asks us to think deeply about the new kinds of connection we want to have.
TED Talk - Oliver Sacks ; What hallucination revelas about our minds
Charles Bonnett Syndrome - when blind or highly visually impaired individuals experience visual hallucinations.
Author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (a must read).
“Why Kermit? Kermit the frog means nothing to me!”
How it feels to have a stroke
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.
Richard Wilkinson - How economic inequality harms societies
If you want to live to the American Dream, you should move to Denmark.
