Machiavelli's Mistake

Nuland talks about four landmark books that helped shape medical thought and teaching: Vesalius, "On the working of the human body"; Harvey," On the circulation of blood," Morgagni, "causes of disease as shown by anatomy," and Gray's Anatomy.

Terrence W. Deacon delivers a lecture on the neuroscience and development of the human capacity for language and musical perception.

Celebrating the Bollingen Prize for Poetry at Yale, nearly all the living winners of this prestigious prize are brought together for a group reading sponsored by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Whitney Humanities Center.

A conversation reflecting on thirty years of Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center with Peter Brooks, Founding Director, and Founding Fellows Kai Erikson, Geoffrey Hartman, and Robert Shulman is held as part of the Whitney’s 30th Anniversary celebration.

Mark A. Peterson discusses Galileo’s study of mathematics in relation to the arts. Prof. Peterson argues that Galileo the mathematician, steeped in the art and literature of his day, needs to be better known, separate from his work as an astronomer.

In this lecture, cognitive neuroscientist Jamshed Bharucha discusses the ways that music creates emotion and how these emotions work within human interactions and relationships.

Samuel Bowles gave three public lectures where he presented evidence that explicit incentives and constraints often diminish ethical motivations. This is the second lecture of a three-part series.

Mark Turin, research scholar in the South Asia Studies Council, talks about the World Oral Literature Project to preserve endangered languages by recording living speakers and digitizing records that have already been collected.

Samuel Bowles gave three public lectures where he presented evidence that explicit incentives and constraints often diminish ethical motivations. This is the third lecture of a three-part series.

Samuel Bowles gave three public lectures presenting evidence that explicit incentives and constraints often diminish ethical motivations. This is the first lecture of a three-part series.