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There’s a great talk from Clay Shirky in the latest issue of Edge — about all of our surplus, unused brain power, and what we mi...
Animal fan Nellie McKay sings a sparkling tribute to her dear dog. She suggests we all do the same: “Just go right to the pound/ And f...
Each year, untold numbers of bright young Africans — doctors and nurses, scientists and programmers — leave their home countries...
Remember Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ dazzling demo of Photosynth (one of the Top 10 TEDTalks of all time)? The software has been released t...
Speaking at the 2007 EG conference, trainer Ian Dunbar asks us to see the world through the eyes of our beloved dogs. By knowing our pets...
MIT reports today on the work of professors Yet-Ming Chiang, Angela Belcher and Paula Hammond, who’ve developed a way to build tiny ba...
The rumpled, avuncular Swedish doctor Lennart Green says, “Pick a card, any card.” But what he does with those cards is pure mag...
The photo director for National Geographic, David Griffin knows the power of photography to connect us to our world. In a talk filled with g...
All humans share some common bits of DNA, passed down to us from our African ancestors. Geneticist Spencer Wells talks about how his Genogra...