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Diederik Jekel: Use science to analyze fear
Scientific journalist Diederik Jekel proves something as objective as physics can become very personal in his talk about fear.
Barry Schwartz: “I can’t help it. It’s in my nature.”
Barry Schwartz on the nature of human nature.
Louise Vet: Marriage between ecology and economy
Louise E.M. Vet is a professor of Evolutionary Ecology at Wageningen University and director of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO), the largest institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). She is a biologist with a
Human Nature Forecast: Fail, or fail harder
Tim Harford spoke at TEDGlobal 2011 and pleads to embrace experimental research. Read on to find out why failure is the playing field for success.
Video: Sarah Darwin “The Footsteps of a great great granddaddy”
Like the usual family pressure is not enough, having Charles Darwin as your great great grandfather must hardly be an easy feat. That said, rather than hide from it, Sarah Darwin embraces it openly and audaciously retraces the “emotional”
Video: Prof. Dr Gerardus ‘t Hooft “Stay away from black holes!”
If you thought the future is a mystery, Gerardus ‘t Hooft made us think again. With a solid foothold in realism and an extraordinary insight into scientific and technological developments, Nobel laureate Professor Gerard ‘t Hooft separated
Atomic passion makes smashing story
This is absolutely the week of LHC. Every newspaper, every television show and nearly every tweet has something to do with the world’s biggest and most ambitious experiment ever: the large Hadron Collider in Cern, Switzerland. You probably kno
(Re) read philosophy books (Nico Baken)
Interview with Nico Baken (Senior strategist at KPN and part-time professor at TU Delft) Taken from the book “Breakthrough”, special edition for TEDxAmsterdam 2009. The world has found itself in crisis, but we do not know the extent of
TED talk: The Brain and Moral Judgments
One of the most wonderful things about TED is the way that it can introduce you to a completely new idea. Embarrassingly young and brilliant cognitive neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe ran us through how we form moral judgements about other people and how
Prof. dr. Robbert Dijkgraaf
Before Professor doctor Robbert Dijkgraaf started teaching mathematical physics at the University of Amsterdam he taught at Princeton University in New Jersey in the United States. After studying math and physics, Dijkgraaf attended the Gerrit Rietve
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