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The Humble User Interface Comes of Age
John Underkoffler points to the future of UI »
First synthetic cell created at Venter Institute
Dr. J. Craig Venter and his team at the Venter Institute have synthesised the first cell to have its DNA artificially engineered by a computer, rather than generated from a “parent” cell or parent organism. It is a major step in gene manipulation which has been variously compared to other great feats such as the cloning... »
My Top 10 TED.com talks
1. Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight 2. Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything 3. Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds 4. Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions 5. Carolyn Porco flies us to Saturn 6. VS Ramachandran on your mind 7. Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny 8. Adam Savage’s obsessions 9. Emily Levine’s theory of... »
Stephen Wolfram shifts it up a gear … then hits the turbo boost button!
It’s a modest goal really. Wolfram only wants to be able to model the universe with computational knowledge. Hold on to your socks – they’re about to be blown off . . . »
Collateral Murder in Iraq [video]
Come on, let us shoot! This video clip was brought to my attention the other day from Wikileaks. It shows what can only be described as as massacre of more than a dozen people including two Reuters journalists by US troops in Iraq. You will get a bird’s eye view of the “action” from the... »
Why We Believe in Gods
Andy Thomson gives his talk titled ‘Why We Believe in Gods‘ at the American Atheist 2009 convention in Atlanta, Georgia. J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., M.D. is Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction (CSMHI), Staff Psychiatrist at the University of Virginia Student Health Services and in private practice. In this... »
Origins Symposium > Lawrence Krauss
Lawrence Krauss is a physicist and cosmologist, but is best known as a popularizer of science. In this lecture, the finale of the Origins Symposium, he describes the progress made to date in Cosmology – including the amazing fact that we can now put a very accurate date on the age of the Universe! 13.7 billion... »
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