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David Reimer (August 22, 1965 as Bruce Reimer – May 4, 2004) was a Canadian man who was born as a healthy male, but was sexually reassigned and raised as female after his penis was accidentally destroyed during circumcision. Psychologist John Money oversaw the case and reported the reassignment as successful, and as evidence that gender identity is primarily learned. Milton Diamond later reported that Reimer never identified as female, and that he began living as male at age 14. Reimer later went public with his story to discourage similar medical practices. Due to years of severe depression and a dissolving marriage, he committed suicide.

Drugs to improve soldiers abilities? To confuse enemies? Devices controlled by or controlling peoples minds? Will neuroscience provide the weapons of the future? Jonathan Moreno, nationally distinguished bioethicist, discusses the connections between national security and brain research and argues that there is a need to contemplate the ethical, political and social implications of these advances.

Clay Shirky’s lucid and penetrating analysis steers you through the online social explosion asking: what happens when people are given the tools to do things together, without needing traditional organisational structures?

Creativity and play are closely connected, and play can be a form to arrive at collaborative creativity. In this session, Dr Sugata Mitra, known from the ‘Hole in the Wall’ project, will share with us how Indian children have explored new technology and found compelling ways to use it.

Chip Heath, co-author of , talks about what makes certain ideas “naturally sticky.” Chip Heath is a Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. His research examines why certain ideas – ranging from urban legends to folk medical cures, from Chicken Soup for the Soul stories to business strategy myths – survive and prosper in the social marketplace of ideas. These “naturally sticky” ideas spread without external help in the form of marketing dollars, PR assistance, or the attention of leaders.

Paul Tickell (BBC) – Racism: A History

Series looking at how racism impacts on people’s lives

Part 1 – The Colour of Money
Examines to what extent racism is a product of 17th century economic globalisation

Part 2 – Fatal Impacts
Looks at Scientific Racism in the 19th century, which drew on now discredited sciences

Part 3 – A Savage Legacy
When the slavery of African Americans was abolished in 1865, a new age was heralded. Twenty years later these hopes evaporated

Dos experimentos clásicos de psicología social.

Un diario amable explora precisamente la situación del periodismo en el contexto de la crisis económica y la revolución que la internet ha significado tanto para la profesión como para el negocio periodístico en los últimos años.

Dr. George Vaillant shares insights from his decades of following the Grant Study men.

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we’re not as rational as we think when we make decisions.