10 Amazing videos you don’t want to miss!
Thursday, October 18th, 2007If you listen even half attentively, some of these ideas could change the way you think forever.
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.
