Douglas Hofstadter demonstrates numerous analogies and talks about how analogy is at the core of cognition, in this high profile lecture.

A cognitive psychologist (and former rock star) describes an experiment on the expressiveness of music and how musicians use variations in timing and loudness to convey emotion.

Marsha Linehan, the pioneer of Dialectic Behavioural Therapy talks about her research and challenges with treating BPD patients.

The discouraging economics and psychology of online dating sites, explained.

Psychotherapy along with meds is the best approach, says Kay Redfield Jamison, Evelyn Saks, and Eric Kandel.

In a funny and revealing short lecture, behavioural economist Dan Ariely talks about what motivates and what doesn’t motivate people in the workplace.

Our perception of time.

Nobel laureate Dr. John Nash on economic theory.

Musicians performing under stress.

Ira Flatow interviews Eric Kandel.