Posts tagged "Mind"

Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty

www.ted.com TED collaborates with animator Andrew Park to illustrate Denis Dutton’s provocative theory on beauty — that art, music and other beautiful things, far from being simply “in the eye of the beholder,” are a core part of human nature with deep evolutionary origins.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com

7 of 10 UC Berkeley: Gary Taubes 11/7/2007

www.diet-blog.com The Quality of Calories: What Makes Us Fat and Why Nobody Seems to Care November 27, 2007, 04:00PM Sibley Auditorium View watch webcast Gary Taubes is a science journalist who has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, Discover, Esquire, GQ, Science, and many others. He has won the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award three times. His 2001 article, “The Soft Science of Dietary Fat,” published in Science, was followed by “What if It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie?” which saw print in 2002 in the New York Times Magazine. His book, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease, has just been released.

Bedtime Relaxing Music – The Beauty of Nature

Relax and enjoy! My favorite relaxing music, Sundial Dreams