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Biology

Eva Vertes on TEDTalks: Is cancer caused by the body’s own repair system?

Eva Vertes is a Princeton student recognized as a teenager for her research on Alzheimer’s, and now embarking on a career focused on n...

Oct 4, 2006
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Investing in the long term

San Francisco investor Peter A. Thiel (co-founder of PayPal) is putting $3.5 million into the antiaging research pioneered by TED speaker Au...

Sep 19, 2006
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Richard Dawkins on TEDTalks

Richard Dawkins is Oxford University’s “Professor for the Public Understanding of Science.” Author of the landmark 1976 bo...

Sep 12, 2006
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Jill Sobule's musical tribute to Helen Fisher

At TED2006, Helen Fisher delivered an unforgettable talk (now available online) focusing largely on love: Its evolution, its vital importanc...

Sep 6, 2006
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Helen Fisher on TEDTalks

Helen Fisher is an anthropologist with Rutgers University, specializing in gender differences and the evolution of human emotions. Her most ...

Sep 6, 2006
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Tokyo is under attack!

At the University of Chicago, Professor Michael C. LaBarbera has prepared a comprehensive analysis of the Biology of B-Movie Monsters. In it...

Sep 1, 2006
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TEDPrize winner Larry Brilliant on TEDTalks

TEDPrize winner Larry Brilliant is an epidemiologist who presided over the last case of Smallpox on the planet. He also founded the Seva Fou...

Jul 25, 2006
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guerrilla gardening: green interventions

Re-watching Majora Carter reminded me of another project committed to green spaces in the inner city; Guerrilla Gardening, people who go and...

Jul 17, 2006
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The jury's still out on Aubrey de Grey's anti-aging claims

Aubrey de Grey‘s claims that aging can be defeated, which he voiced at TEDGLOBAL last year and at TED2006, "exist in a kind of an...

Jul 12, 2006
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