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Why is the human phenotype so different from the chimpanzee, even though experts constantly point out how similar the genotypes are? Why are...
Octogenarian scientist Elaine Morgan became the oldest speaker in TED’s history (at the sprightly age of 90) at TEDGlobal 2009 when sh...
Israelian explores distant objects in the universe using spectroscopy. By looking at the spectral signature of distant object, he can infer ...
Mathematician and science communicator Marcus du Sautoy began his talk with the story of Evariste Galois, a Paris revolutionary who died in ...
Marcus du Sautoy used his math and science skills to open Session 6 with a thorough talk about symmetry. Reactions to this talk on Twitter s...
Here’s Session 5’s unedited running notes from our crack team of Open Translation Project translators, taken as they watch the l...
Unedited running notes from TEDGlobal 2009. Our ancestors wondered what stars are. Humans have always yearned to know more — it is a s...
Quantum physicist David Deutsch is at TEDGlobal talking about how the stars shine, reality as conjecture and parallel universes. It’s ...
Aphorist James Geary took the stage at TEDGlobal 2009 this morning. Recognize a pattern? It was his second appearance on the TED stage for t...