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  • Matt Killingsworth: Want To Be Happier? Stay In The Moment

    Matt Killingsworth: Want To Be Happier? Stay In The Moment

    When are humans most happy? To gather data on this question, Matt Killingsworth built an app called “Track Your Happiness” that allows people to report their feelings in real time. Among the surprising results he discored that we’re often happiest when we’re lost in the moment. And the flip side is that the more our mind wanders, the less happy we can be. More than anything else, people want happiness. The reason we want a big house, a new car, [...]

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  • The Chemistry of Addictions

    The Chemistry of Addictions

    In this documentary Hank describes how our brains respond biochemically to various addictive substances and behaviors and how those behaviors originate. Humans have figured out how to make their brains experience pleasure without having to be engaged in any activity. Sometimes the craving for that feeling can become larger than life. That’s the reason why the term addiction is not limited to drugs. There are many behaviors such as gambling, sex, or eating that can be pathologically addictive too. They [...]

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  • Daphne Bavelier: Your Brain on Video Games

    Daphne Bavelier: Your Brain on Video Games

    How do fast-paced video games affect the brain? Step into the lab with cognitive researcher Daphne Bavelier to hear surprising news about how video games– even action-packed shooter games– can help us learn, focus, and multitask. Brain scientists are constantly trying to find ways to make the human brain smarter, better, faster, and stronger. What they have found is that 90% of school aged children play video games and 70% heads of household also play video games. In fact, the [...]

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  • Drugs Inc – Ketamine

    Drugs Inc – Ketamine

    Considered an essential drug in the healthcare system by the World Health Organization due to its several uses around a hospital, it also has become popular in the party scene, where it is known as “Special K.”

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  • Dog Whisperer

    Dog Whisperer

    Meet Cesar Millan: the dog whisperer. Cesar has become world famous for his revolutionary dog training techniques. Many people who watch his show are astounded by how quickly he can take even the most aggressive dogs and tame them.  Enjoy hours of “wow, I can’t believe that worked” moments.

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  • Born to Rage?

    Born to Rage?

    Born to Rage: are some people born to be violent? An extraordinary discovery suggests they are. A single gene has been associated with violent behavior. It has ignited debate.National Geographic takes you inside the Warrior Gene. 45 minutes long. Watch Now!

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  • Are You Good or Evil?

    Are You Good or Evil?

    What makes us good or evil? It’s a simple but deeply unsettling question. One that scientists are now starting to answer. Horizon meets the researchers who have studied some of the most terrifying people behind bars – psychopathic killers.

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  • Why Reading Matters

    Why Reading Matters

    Science writer Rita Carter tells the story of how modern neuroscience has revealed that reading, something most of us take for granted, unlocks remarkable powers.

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  • Stress, Portrait of a Killer

    Stress, Portrait of a Killer

    Stress: Portrait of a Killer follows the quest of Stanford neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky to understand the possibly deadly effects of stress.

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  • Horizon: Is Seeing Believing?

    Horizon: Is Seeing Believing?

    Horizon explores the strange and wonderful world of illusions – and reveals the tricks they play on our senses and why they fool us.

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  • Horizon: The Secret You

    Horizon: The Secret You

    Professor Marcus du Sautoy goes in search of answers to one of science’s greatest mysteries: how do we know who we are?

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  • Brain Story

    Brain Story

    This eye-opening six-part series explores the grand themes emerging from the latest brain research that is producing a whole new model of brain function. In each program, renowned neuroscientist Susan Greenfield, biologists, psychologists, linguists, and other experts investigate the physiological basis of why people think, feel, and act as they do.

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  • Status Anxiety

    Status Anxiety

    Status Anxiety discusses the desire of people in many modern societies to “climb the social ladder” and the anxieties that result from a focus on how one is perceived by others.

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  • Secret of the Wild Child

    Secret of the Wild Child

    A documentary on Genie, a girl who spent the first thirteen years of her life locked in a room.

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  • Feral Children

    Feral Children

    A jungle boy raised by monkeys. Twin girls nurtured by wolves. Are these stories true? National Geographic takes a scientific look at the tales of feral children raised in the wild.

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  • What Are Dreams?

    What Are Dreams?

    Psychologists and brain scientists have new answers to an age-old question.

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