1. TED Talk Day!!

2. First, pick one of the 4 groups:
• A) Rationality, Irrationality, and Biases
• B) Happiness, Optimism, and Other Emotions
• C) Morality, Politics, and Society
• D) Mapping The Brain: What We Can (And Can’t) Know

3. Ted Talk #1:
Rationality, Irrationality, and Biases
• A) Laurie Santos
– “A monkey economy is as irrational as ours.”
• B) Dan Ariely
– “Are we in control of our own decisions?”
• C) Michael Shermer
– “Why people believe weird things.”
• D) TaliSharot
– “The optimism bias.”

4. Ted Talk #2:
Happiness, Optimism, and Other Emotions
• A) Martin Seligman
– “The New Era of Positive Psychology”
• B) Daniel Kahneman
– “The riddle of experience vs. memory.”
• C) Michael Norton
– “How to buy happiness.”
• D) David Pizarro
– “The Strange Politics of Disgust.”

5. Ted Talk #3:
Morality, Politics, and Society
• A) Jonathan Haidt
– The moral roots of liberals and conservatives.
• B) Dan Ariely
– Our buggy moral code.
• C) SendhilMullainathan
– Solving social problems with a nudge.
• D) Richard Wilkinson
– How economic inequality harms societies.
• E) Sherry Turkle
– Connected, but alone?

6. Ted Talk #4:
Mapping The Brain: What We Can (And Can’t) Know
• A) Gero Miesenboeck
– “Gero Miesenboeck Reengineers A Brain”
• B) Keith Barry
– “Brain Magic”
• C) Molly Crockett
– “Beware Neuro-Bunk”
• D) Matthew Lieberman
– “The Social Brain And Its Superpowers”