10 Amazing videos you don’t want to miss!
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TED talks
Stephen Petranek: In 2002 he predicted staph infections mutating and becoming resistant to antibiotics 5 years later (today), and here they are: More schools reporting drug-resistant staph. Kids are dying. Also, you’re as likely to die from astroid impact as plane crash or lightning, and we can prevent asteroids…among many other amazing points.
Steven Pinker: The world is acutually the least violent it’s ever been.
Dan Dennett: We have immune systems against bad ideas, some cultures immune systems aren’t as strong:
Jeff Hawkins: How the brain actually works, and how we’ll build truly intelligent machines:
Dan Gilbert: People make their own happiness, they synthesize it in their own minds…
Aubrey de Grey: We can and should end aging.
Wade Davis: We’re making strides to save the forrests and save animals protecting that diversity, but ethnic/cultural diversity is being decimated. Many languages are being lost and will never ever be heard again.
among others…
Some from the conference I helped at SENS3
Zheng Cui: This man cures cancer in mice, permanently cures, with only white blood cells!
Ray Kurzweil: How the accelerating acceleration of change leads to unanticipated changes
Rutledge Ellis-Behnke: Nanotech bandaid which stops bleeding faster than any other method known (saves lives.) Also used in the brain to provide scaffolding for brain/nerves to grow into and actually repair what was previously unrepairable. We’re talking, cut the spinal cord, and watch it grow back.
David Gardiner: Experiments growing 3 arms where one used to be on salamanders, and how it will lead to human limb regeneration.
October 21st, 2007 at 11:24 am
Great collection. Thanks.
Minor typo: Hawkins. Not Hawnkins.