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If You Want to Map Every Connection in Your Brain You Have to Crack the Connectome
Small teams of neuroscientists at universities across the world have, of late, gravitated toward a young field of neuroscience called “connectomics.”
The $8 Billion iPod: Rhapsody Founder Rob Reid on How Copyright Math Doesn't Add Up
The inevitable backlash over the online uprisings that foiled controversial pro-copyright bills SOPA and PIPA earlier this year is slowly rising to a boil. Last week, the content industries managed to strike a "backroom deal":https://www.eff.org...
Peace Is Every Dubstep: Meet the Deprivation Chamber Instrument That Will Chill TED Out
Music has been central to meditation for thousands of years, in part because it helps "chill people out":http://news.health.com/2010/03/19/music-soothes-anxiety-as-well-as-massage-does/. But the artist and technologist Jay Vidyarthi is trying to flip...
Why We Want To Believe Things That Are Totally Absurd
As founder and publisher of Skeptic Magazine, Michael Shermer, who's the star of this TED talk, has exposed fallacies behind intelligent design, 9/11 conspiracies, the low-carb craze, alien sightings and other hilarious and really very sad beliefs...
Ones and Zeros: God Particles, GDP and Penile Length
_It looks like particle colliders are finding more and creating apocalyptic black holes less_ h3. One: "God Particle, Dark Matter, Secrets Of the Universe: CERN To Hold Major Press Conference Monday":http://www.newsbad.com/story/god-particle-dark...
TED Talk On How to Give the Best TED Talk Ranked as Best TED Talk
In a February 2010 TED Talk, Sebastian Wernicke used the tools of statistical analysis to come up with a metric for creating "the optimum TEDTalk" based on user ratings. Appropriately, on a handy "spreadsheet":https://spreadsheets.google.com...
Everything You Need to Know About the Future of Medicine
We spend most of our money on the last 20% of life, explains Daniel Kraft in this TED video. What if we could turn that around, empower patients, and cure the well before they become ill? We'd be living in the future. h5. Connections "So Does Your...
E-G8: THE GIANT SUCK OF AN ELITIST INTERNET SUMMIT
It would be with great pleasure if I could report that the latest bubble has popped. But an inflationary spirit, it seems, is alive and well in the latest site for exuberant over-investment: the summit bubble.
You're Trapped in a Filter Bubble, and Your News Feed Isn't Really News
You may not have seen one of the most important TED talks this year, by Eli Pariser, because Google or Facebook, our ever-so-helpful information tailors, have sealed you inside one of these pesky filter bubbles. Or, as one comment on YouTube puts it...
A MacBook May Have Given Roger Ebert His Voice, But An iPod Saved His Life (Video)
Speaking through a computer and wearing a newly designed facial prosthesis, Roger Ebert - who lost his voice and his jaw and nearly his life after a battle with cancer and a ruptured carotid artery - closed the TED Conference, improbably, with a laugh...
The History of the Universe, From the Big Bang to the Internet
Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes. This is "Big History": an enlightening, wide-angle look at complexity, life and humanity, set...
Eric Whitacre's 2,000 Person YouTube Choir
Composer Eric Whitacre created his first virtual choir in 2009, 185 voices from around the world singing his composition "Lux Aurumque" via YouTube videos of themselves edited together into one gorgeous piece. He calls it his "virtual choir...