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		<title>Peter Donnelly: How juries are fooled by statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oxford mathematician Peter Donnelly reveals the common mistakes humans make in interpreting statistics -- and the devastating impact these errors can have on the outcome of criminal trials.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.psychlectures.com/?p=389</link>
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		<title>Malcolm Gladwell: What we can learn from spaghetti sauce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce -- and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.psychlectures.com/?p=385</link>
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		<title>Helen Fisher: The science of love, and the future of women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anthropologist Helen Fisher takes on a tricky topic -- love - and explains its evolution, its biochemical foundations and its social importance.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.psychlectures.com/?p=381</link>
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		<title>Al Seckel: Your brain is badly wired — enjoy it!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Al Seckel, a cognitive neuroscientist, explores the perceptual illusions that fool our brains. Loads of eye tricks help him prove that not only are we easily fooled, we kind of like it.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.psychlectures.com/?p=375</link>
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		<title>Jane Goodall: What separates us from the apes?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jane Goodall hasn't found the missing link, but she's come closer than nearly anyone else. The primatologist says the only real difference between humans and chimps is our sophisticated language. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.psychlectures.com/?p=370</link>
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		<title>Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: Apes that write, start fires and play</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology -- and how much by cultural exposure.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.psychlectures.com/?p=364</link>
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		<title>What is Consciousness?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The panel discusses the concept of human consciousness.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.psychlectures.com/?p=552</link>
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		<title>Dan Dennett: Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting with the simple tale of an ant, philosopher Dan Dennett unleashes a devastating salvo of ideas, making a powerful case for the existence of memes -- concepts that are literally alive.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.psychlectures.com/?p=361</link>
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		<title>Steven Pinker: A brief history of violence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.psychlectures.com/?p=357</link>
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		<title>Daniel Goleman: Why arent we all Good Samaritans?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, asks why we aren't more compassionate more of the time. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.psychlectures.com/?p=353</link>
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