US President Obama talks with Astronauts on Space Station

President Barack Obama and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi hear a message from International Space Station Commander Koichi Wakata, flanked by NASA astronauts Steve Swanson and Rick Mastracchio, while visiting Miraikan, national museum for emerging science and innovation on April 24, 2014 in Tokyo, Japan. 

President Obama is on an Asian tour where he is due to visit Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Philippines. 

Credit: The Asahi Shimbun

Dalai Lama Talks to Neuroscientists

When the Dalai Lama Meets the Neuroscientists

More and more, the Dalai Lama has been developing an interest in what modern science has to say about human emotion — or, more particularly, how neuroscience makes sense of meditation and compassion. Partly as a result, Stanford University has launched The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, which is delving deeper into these questions. The clip above features Daniel Goleman, the bestselling science journalist (Emotional Intelligence and Destructive Emotions), talking about the Dalai Lama’s work on this front. You can find the full conversation with Goleman at Bigthink.com, a good resource for thought-provoking video.

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