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Warp your room (not your mind) with this awesome illusion

Via speigl.org via verylowsodium: Instructions: 1. Stare at the image for 10 seconds 2. Look at something — your hand, a book, your fr...

Apr 10, 2009
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Entertainment

Will Wright forms his own think tank, the Stupid Fun Club

A Forbes article points us to an interesting bit of news for star game designer (and TED speaker) Will Wright: [Will Wright] is leaving EA t...

Apr 10, 2009
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Q&A

George Ayittey on "Dead Aid"

Economist George Ayittey gave a blistering talk at TEDGlobal 2007, laying out his case that not only has Western aid not helped in most Afri...

Apr 9, 2009
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More on "Trickster Makes This World"

Emily Levine’s TEDTalk this morning references Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde‘s 1998 book about the trickster figure &#8...

Apr 9, 2009
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Culture

A trickster’s theory of everything: Emily Levine on TED.com

Philosopher-comedian Emily Levine talks (hilariously) about science, math, society and the way everything connects to everything else. She&#...

Apr 9, 2009
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Biology

The secret, social lives of bacteria: Exclusive interview with Bonnie Bassler

In 2002, bearing her microscope on a microbe that lives in the gut of fish, Bonnie Bassler isolated an elusive molecule called AI-2, which s...

Apr 8, 2009
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Biology

Discovering bacteria’s amazing communication system: Bonnie Bassler on TED.com

Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria “talk” to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mo...

Apr 8, 2009
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Bumptop launches!

Via Mashable and ReadWriteWeb: Anand Agarwala’s Bumptop, a viral demo from TED2007, has gone live (for Windows). From Mashable’s...

Apr 8, 2009
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GM and Segway team up to make awesome new two-wheeled urban vehicle

Via an article in the Wall Street Journal: The machine, which GM says it aims to develop by 2012, would run on batteries and use wireless te...

Apr 7, 2009
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