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- -: TEDxBROADWAY - Juan Enriquez - Macroeconomics
February 23, 2012 (over 11 years ago)Juan Enriquez, Managing Director of Excel Venture Management, is a bestselling author of As the Future Catches You (an Amazon best book of year; The Untied States of America (Miami Herald's book of the decade), Homo evolutis: a Tour of the Next Human Species (with Steve Gullans and TED). Rem Koo...
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- -: TEDxBROADWAY - Steve Gullans - The Future of Social Networking
February 23, 2012 (over 11 years ago)Steve Gullans, PhD, is an innovator, entrepreneur, and investor who enjoys translating scientific breakthroughs into products and services that transform people's lives. As a professor at Harvard Medical School for nearly 20 years he focused on applying advanced technologies to human diseases. H...
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- -: Juan Enriquez: Decoding the future with genomics
May 16, 2007 (about 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Scientific discoveries, futurist Juan Enriquez notes, demand a shift in code, and our ability to thrive depends on our mastery of that code. Here, he applies this notion to the field of genomics. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TE...
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- -: Juan Enriquez: Why can't we grow new energy?
November 15, 2007 (over 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Juan Enriquez challenges our definition of bioenergy. Oil, coal, gas and other hydrocarbons are not chemical but biological products, based on plant matter -- and thus, growable. Our whole approach to fuel, he argues, needs to change. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the b...
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- -: Juan Enriquez: Tech evolution will eclipse the financial crisis
February 17, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Even as mega-banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reboot is yet to come. But don't look for it on your ballot -- or in the stock exchange. It'll come from science labs, and it promises keener bodies and minds. Our kids are going to be ... different. TEDTalks is a daily vid...
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- -: Ed Boyden: A light switch for neurons
May 17, 2011 (about 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Ed Boyden shows how, by inserting genes for light-sensitive proteins into brain cells, he can selectively activate or de-activate specific neurons with fiber-optic implants. With this unprecedented level of control, he's managed to cure mice of analogs of PTSD and certain forms...
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Ed Boyden: A Light Switch for Neurons
March 1, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Ed Boyden tells how light can change the way the brain neurons works. He gives some possibilities of how this concept can change the way brain disorders are treated.
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Anthony Atala: Printing a Human Kidney
March 1, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Anthony Atala demonstrates a new technology that prints 3D organs which can be used for transplants. Though still in the experimentation stage, the results are astonishingly miraculous, especially since organ banks are in shortage of organs for transplants.
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Juan Enriquez: Mindboggling Science
February 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Juan Enriquez shows how science, biological engineering and evolution can surprise the world in an ultimate reboot of what we now call the present.
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Juan Enriquez: Wanting to Grow Energy
September 1, 2007 (almost 16 years ago)Juan Enriquez talks about how energy from biofuels can be preserved for the future generations wihtout compromising the energy needs of the present.
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Juan Enriquez: Genomics and Our Future
February 1, 2003 (over 20 years ago)Juan Enriquez talks about how important the impact of sequencing genomes can be in the course of life now and in the future.
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Sarah Jones: One-Woman Global Village
February 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Sarah Jones introduces people in her life through her superb storytelling and mimicry.
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George Dyson: The Birth of the Computer
March 1, 2003 (over 20 years ago)George Dyson helps make appreciation of the history of computers easier and even humorous despite the fact that it is one of the reasons bombs have become so successfuly used today.
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