The Magic in Neuroscience - How our brain fools us - Keith Barry

An excellent example of how the brain is NOT trained to understand illusions or deceptions and why we continue to be deceived.

Sebastian Seung, Professor, Computational Neuroscience, MIT and his Search for the River as Opposed to Stream of Consciousness

Sebastian Seung, Professor of Computational Neuroscience, MIT is mapping a massively ambitious new model of the brain that focuses on the connections between each neuron. He calls it our "connectome," and it's as individual as our genome -- and understanding it could open a new way to understand our brains and our minds.

The History of TED and How It Operated for 22 Years as a Closed System

This is a fascinating presentation on the development of a contemporary learning experience and its global evolution. Let's track it for the next decade. My prediction is that it will decrease in intellectual rigour and value and become a regular up-market speakers bureau.

Gregg Fraley on Creativity and Innovation at TED NASA

Author, speaker, humorist and futurist, Gregg Fraley is an innovation consultant to Fortune 500 companies. An idea generator, he looks at topics through the lens of creativity. Fraley explores the behaviors that empower creativity, and discusses how to maximize creative potential.