"Humans Seeing Humans: How the Brain Perceives Other Minds" shows that despite the realistic human characteristics displayed in the faces of dolls, computer animations, or other inanimate objects, Dartmouth Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences Thalia Wheatley shows how her recent research proved that most details are irrelevant since there is only one feature that is a true window to a soul.

In "Learning to See the Social, or How to Read a Graphic Novel" Dartmouth College Associate Professor of English Michael Chaney presents a survey of contemporary graphic novels. Showing that the graphic novel is a complicated medium that makes abstractions visible through distortion and caricature,Chaney reveals that a panel is not always what it seems.

In an examination of recent occurrences of genocide, Associate Professor of Government Ben Valentino helps us to understand what happens when "When Bad Men Combine." Valetino explores what happens when a small, radical, unrepresentative group gains power and what we can do to prevent it.

Dartmouth Board of Trustee member, Bill Helman '80, discusses what his years as an investor has taught him about the qualities it takes to be a founder.

Dartmouth freshman, Alex Arnold '14, performs at TEDxDartmouth. The piano piece and lyrics were composed and written by Arnold.

Dartmouth senior, Anise Vance '11, explores how a desire for identity led him to his father's hometown of Hartford, CT where he found a problem far beyond his imagination and a solution more empowering than he could have ever imagined.

Dean of the Thayer School of Engineering Joseph Helble discusses the importance of technological literacy, broadly and globally, in the 21st century - in government and in the citizenry- and why we should care.

Professor of Strategic Management at the Tuck School of Business Richard D'Aveni discusses the increasing need of strategic capitalism in the United States in the changing landscape of global competition.

In a hilarious exploration of modern language and its consistencies - and inconsistencies- Senior Lecturer in Classics and Linguistics Timothy Pulju shows the "Uncanny Science of Linguistic Reconstruction" and raises a dead language right before our eyes.

Spoken word artist, Bobby Esnard '14, performs two spoken word pieces.

In a hilarious exploration of modern language and its consistencies - and inconsistencies- Senior Lecturer in Classics and Linguistics Timothy Pulju shows the "Uncanny Science of Linguistic Reconstruction" and raises a dead language right before our eyes.

Dartmouth Board of Trustees member, Harvard University law professor and Pulitzer Prize winning author, Annette Gordon-Reed '81, explores the importance of history and the relevance it continues to have our lives today and in the future.

As speculation of who the 2012 GOP candidate will be and with Dartmouth College set to host the GOP debates in October, Dartmouth senior, Harry Enten '11, says all current speculation is for nil. In Enten's eyes, even without a GOP candidate, we already know who will win.

Health care has been front and center in the American collective consciousness. Everyone agrees that we need to fix health care -- improve its quality and make it safer, assure that it produces measurably better health, and reduce its cost. There are many proposals about the "how" of fixing health care, but not enough discussion about the "who." Al Mulley, Director of the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, shows that you may know the person who will fix care a lot better than...