This morning, just like any other day in America, more than a quarter of the population of this nation is in classrooms of some kind, going about the business of educating. The business, perhaps – but is there yet a science of educating?

Brains R Us brings together researchers, educators, policymakers, parents, and students in a town...

a conversation with Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman.

• Einstein,
• charm,
• education,
• politics

Leon M. Lederman is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois and Professor of Science at...

• Classrooms,
• Curriculum,
• Policy by Opinion,
• School,
• Science of Educating,
• Social Interactions,
• TDLC,
• Teaching,
• education,
• neuroscience,
• science literacy

moderated by Roger Bingham

• Common Language,
• Connections,
• Funding,
• Learning,
• Project Proposal,
• Science of Learning,
• education

with philosopher Daniel Dennett

• Enlightenment,
• education,
• meaning of life,
• philosophy,
• religion

Daniel C. Dennett, the author of Breaking the Spell; Freedom Evolves; and Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, is University...

with Nobel Laureate James D. Watson

• Behavior,
• Communication,
• Culture,
• How to,
• Physics,
• Strategy,
• education,
• genetics,
• religion

James D. Watson is a molecular biologist celebrated for his discovery of the structure of DNA with Francis Crick for which he received the Nobel...

with neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran

• India,
• consciousness,
• discovery,
• education,
• mathematics,
• neuroscience

V.S. Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Professor with the Psychology Department and the Neurosciences Program at...

with neurophilosophers Pat and Paul Churchland

• Aristotle,
• Early life,
• Plato,
• education,
• neuroscience,
• philosophy

Patricia Smith Churchland, UC President’s Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego, focuses on neuroethics and attempts to understand choice,...

• Brain Dynamics,
• Brain Region,
• Caveat Emptor,
• Cooperative Research Structure,
• Cortical Thickness,
• Dentate Gyrus,
• Development,
• Dyslexia,
• Exercise,
• I.CAN,
• Imaging,
• Institute for Child and Adolescent Neuroscience,
• Learning,
• Lobe,
• Long Range Synchronization,
• Longitudinal Assessment,
• Model,
• Neural Plasticity,
• Neuropsychology,
• Perspective,
• SILC,
• Salk Institute,
• Synapse,
• TDLC,
• Technology,
• Timing,
• education,
• genetics,
• neuroscience

This is Your Brain on Politics, continued

• Policy,
• Public Policy,
• This is Your Brain on Politics,
• education,
• politics,
• science education,
• science literacy

Leon Lederman is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois and Professor of Science at...

Social Interaction

• Children,
• RUBI,
• Robots,
• education

Javier Movellan from UC San Diego: Learning to teach: Updates on adaptive tutoring systems and social robots

"Developmental Changes in the Cortical Dynamics of Lexical Semantic Processing"

• Learning,
• Lexical Semantic Processing,
• Linguistics,
• cognition,
• education,
• vision

"School-age Development of the Cortical Dynamics of Lexical Semantics"

• Cognitive Development,
• Cognitive Neuroscience,
• Lexical Semantics,
• Linguistics,
• education,
• vision

A conversation with Lord Julian Hunt

• Newton,
• Social Policy,
• cities,
• climate change,
• education,
• natural disaster,
• weather

Filmed at Calit2 Studios at UC San Diego. 

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• SIN Network,
• Social Interaction,
• education,
• neuroscience

Kaya de Barbaro (UC San Diego, Cognitive Science Department)
Cory Reith (UC San Diego, Psychology Department) ...

A conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson

• Astrology,
• Astronomy,
• Carl Sagan,
• Economy,
• Hayden Planetarium,
• NOVA Science Now,
• Newton,
• Pluto,
• education,
• science literacy

Neil deGrasse Tyson is the Frederick P. Rose Directorship of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. His research interests include the structure...

A conversation with Cynthia Breazeal

• Elder care,
• Interaction,
• Robot,
• education,
• physical therapy,
• social robotics

Cynthia Breazeal is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is founder and Director of...

A conversation with Sara Mednick

• Caffeine,
• Meditation,
• REM,
• Remote Associates Task,
• School Policy,
• Sleep Deprivation,
• Social Policy,
• Starbucks,
• education,
• napping,
• sleep

Sara Mednick is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. Her research is...

• Behavior,
• Ethics,
• Evolution,
• Obesity,
• Sleep Deprivation,
• Social Policy,
• education,
• health,
• sleep

David Dinges is a Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and Chief of the Division of Sleep and Chronobiology at the University of...

• Adequate Sleep,
• Children,
• Chronobiology,
• Neurobiology,
• Residency,
• Sleep Deprivation,
• Social Policy,
• circadian rhythm,
• education,
• health,
• sleep

Charles Czeisler is the Baldino Professor of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief and Senior Physician in the Division...

A conversation with Amita Sehgal

• Sleep Deprivation,
• Social Policy,
• circadian rhythm,
• education,
• literacy,
• sleep

For a continuation of this discussion see Sleepless at the...

• Biological Clock,
• Gene Cycle,
• Sleep Deprivation,
• Social Policy,
• circadian rhythm,
• education,
• genetics,
• narcolepsy,
• sleep

Allan Pack is the John Miclot Professor in the Department of Medicine and Director of the Center for Sleep and Respiratory...

A conversation with Murray Gell-Mann at home

• Ecology,
• Environment,
• Global Warming,
• Social Policy,
• climate change,
• education,
• politics

In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Santa Fe Institute and Murray Gell-Mann's eightieth birthday, TSN visited Murray at...

Santa Fe Institute

• Autotroph,
• Emergence,
• Evolution,
• Origin of Life,
• education,
• genetics,
• language,
• metabolism,
• science literacy

Harold Morowitz was a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards from 1951 to 1953, on the staff of the National Heart Institute from 1953 to...