Artistic Footprint

If you’ve got some time to kill, I highly recommend the following lectures, mostly found from Ted.com’s best of the web.

some of these are pretty long, but totally worth your time, and are rated by me as “Life Changing”

A.J. Jackobs abides by over 700 rules set by the bible for a year

Sam Harris: Science can Answer Moral Questions

Robert Sapolsky: The Uniqueness of Humans

Douglas Adams: Parrots, the Universe, and Everything

Elaine Morgan: An Old Woman’s lifetime acheivement of proving that humans evolved from Aquatic Apes, yet to be embraced by the scientific community:

Vilayanur Ramachandran: On Phantom Limb Syndrome and how humans learn by watching.

(search for more from Vilayanur. This guys on to something.)

Christopher DeCharms: Invents a realtime MRI that allows the brain to relieve pain and “program ourselves”

Noah Feldman says Politics and Religion manipulable technologies

Barbara Egnrenreich: Teaches us about how optimism masks our true necessary response

And Check out this clip from Season 5 episode 5,  of Rescue Me from FX networks, Sheila Keefe played by Callie Thorne, a NYFD firefighter’s widow after 911.