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Via speigl.org via verylowsodium: Instructions: 1. Stare at the image for 10 seconds 2. Look at something — your hand, a book, your fr...
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...
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...
Emily Levine’s TEDTalk this morning references Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde‘s 1998 book about the trickster figure ...
Philosopher-comedian Emily Levine talks (hilariously) about science, math, society and the way everything connects to everything else. She&#...
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...
Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria “talk” to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mo...
Via Mashable and ReadWriteWeb: Anand Agarwala’s Bumptop, a viral demo from TED2007, has gone live (for Windows). From Mashable’s...
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...