Showing posts with label TED talks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TED talks. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The anti-Sam Harris points to a real moral operating system

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Google Engineering Director Damon Horowitz tackles the idea of using numbers and science to make ethical decisions and comes up with ...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Is goodness possible without empathy?

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Penn State Sociologist Sam Richards just took attendees at a TED conference on an experiment in empathy. Richards argues that sociology i...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Compassion as technology

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NPR's Krista Tipplett reinvents the concept of "compassion" during a TED Talk. See more.
Friday, December 31, 2010

Rules & incentives strangle society

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Barry Schwartz , Swarthmore College psychology and economics professor, tells us how rules and incentives undermine society and make us fe...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Brene Brown answers my questions

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Storyteller and social work researcher Brene Brown answers my questions in my search for goodness, or at least most of them. I have asked:...
Friday, May 28, 2010

How to turn a child into a murderer

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I know that some people may disagree with me, particularly some of my friends, but I believe that to understand goodness, you also have to u...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Social networks & goodness

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Interesting. Nicholas A. Christakis: "Social networks are fundamentally related to goodness, and what I think the world needs now is m...