A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numberswith neuroscientist V.S. RamachandranMay 24, 2006Topics: Speakers: V.S. Ramachandran Run Time: 45 minutes In A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness, Ramachandran guides readers through one of the strangest and mysterious places in the natural world - the... |
Liars, Lovers & Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Arewith Terry SejnowskiSeptember 14, 2006Topics: Speakers: Terrence Sejnowski Run Time: 56 minutes Liars, Lovers, and Heroes combines cutting-edge findings in neuroscience with examples from history and the headlines to introduce the new science of... |
Cybernetics, hallucinations, and the mathematics of the mindwith mathematician Jack CowanJanuary 17, 2006Topics: Speakers: Jack Cowan Run Time: 57 minutes Jack Cowan is Professor of Mathematics and Neurology at The University of Chicago. His research is concerned with understanding how circuits in the... |
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Naturewith psychologist Steven PinkerSeptember 10, 2008Topics: Speakers: Steven Pinker Run Time: 1 hours 02 minutes Filmed at Warwick's in La Jolla, California.In The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, Pinker explores how the mind works by... |
For over a decade, TSN has been delivering the stories of science told by the world’s leading thinkers. What are they exploring and why? Why did they become scientists? How do they see science as part of the larger culture? And what lies ahead?
Our new podcast, Talking Science on TSN brings you their conversations with Roger Bingham from the TSN archive and fresh from the bench.
Find the podcast on your favorite podcast app, Soundcloud, iTunes, Stitcher, and RSS.
The Science Network has been available free of charge and without advertising for the past decade.
Gifts from Patrons, Benefactors - and people like you - have made this possible.
As we celebrate TSN@10, we acknowledge past and present donors, including:
SUSTAINING PATRONS
Diane and Rob Zeps
PATRONS
Mary Jane and Robert Engman
BENEFACTORS
The National Science Foundation
The Glenn Foundation
The Dana Foundation
The Kavli Foundation
The ResMed Foundation
The Swartz Foundation
Richard C. Atkinson
Shalom M. Blitz
Peter Farrell
Ernest W. Moody
Jennifer A. Moores
Gerry Ohrstrom
Andrew and Erna Viterbi