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 | | Daniel Paul Tammet is a British high-functioning autistic savant gifted with a facility for mathematical and natural language learning. |
| | V.S. Ramachandran explores how brain damage can reveal the connection between the physical brain and the mind -- focusing on three startling delusions. |
| | 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. |
| | Neuroscientist and inventor Christopher deCharms demos an amazing new way to use fMRI to show brain activity while it is happening -- thoughts, emotions, pain. (In other words, you can literally see how you feel.) |
| | Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effectively transforms your display into a portal to a virtual environment. The display properly reacts to head and body movement as if it were a real window creating a realistic illusion of depth and space. By Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. For more information and software visit http://johnnylee.net |
| | In a lively show, "mathemagician" Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares, performs a massive mental calculation, and guesses a few birth days. How does he do it? He'll tell you. |
| | Medical animator David Bolinsky presents 3 minutes of stunning animation that show the bustling life inside a cell. |
| | Biologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for "thinking the improbable" by looking at how the human frame of reference limits our understanding of the universe. |
| | In an exclusive preview of his new book, The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language, and the way it expresses the workings of our minds. In what we say and how we say it, we're communicating much more than we realize. |
| | Understanding how the brain really works may bring new potential to computing, says Jeff Hawkins. The brain isn't like a fast processor -- it's more like a memory system that stores and plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will happen. |
| | Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness. |
| | Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase's investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our pockets. He's made some unexpected discoveries along the way. |