Sonia Arrison on Emerging Life Phases: Adultlescence
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http://bigthink.com/ Futurist and policy analyst Sonia Arrison predicts that as people live longer, healthy lives, new stages of life will emerge. Directed / Produced by Jonathan Fowler & Elizabeth Rodd
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- -: Sonia Arrison on Emerging Life Phases: Adultlescence
March 19, 2012 (about 12 years ago)http://bigthink.com/ Futurist and policy analyst Sonia Arrison predicts that as people live longer, healthy lives, new stages of life will emerge. Directed / Produced by Jonathan Fowler & Elizabeth Rodd
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February 29, 2012 (about 12 years ago)~~~~~~~~~ http://bigthink.com/ ~~~~~~~~~ John Horgan is no wild-eyed optimistic. True, his belief that the end of war is imminent was based on a moral conviction. But Horgan also points to a body of empirical evidence from scientific investigations of warfare. He writes in a new book called 'Th...
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- -: TEDxRyersonU 2011 - James Smith - Using Biology to Inspire Engineering
February 21, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Dr. James Smith of Ryerson University speaks on how biology can inspire great engineering design.
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- -: TEDxLondonBusinessSchool - Suzanne Lee - BioCouture
February 16, 2012 (about 12 years ago)BioCouture is a research project harnessing nature to propose a radical future fashion vision. We are investigating the use of microbial-cellulose, grown in a laboratory, to produce clothing. Our ultimate goal is to literally grow a dress in a vat of liquid... Suzanne Lee is Director of the proj...
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- -: Simon Berrow: How do you save a shark you know nothing about?
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- -: Tyrone Hayes + Penelope Jagessar Chaffer: The toxic baby?
February 13, 2012 (about 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Filmmaker Penelope Jagessar Chaffer was curious about the chemicals she was exposed to while pregnant: Could they affect her unborn child? So she asked scientist Tyrone Hayes to brief her on one he studied closely: atrazine, a herbicide used on corn. (Hayes, an expert on amphib...
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- -: Jack Horner: Shape-shifting dinosaurs
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February 2, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2012/01/24/Diversity_and_Evolution_of_Coral_Reef_Fishes Luiz Rocha, Assistant Curator and Follett Chair of Ichthyology at the California Academy of Sciences, highlights the evolutionary advantage of the surgeon fish. The surgeon's genes allow them to mimic angel...
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January 23, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Paloma Mas is an Associate Professor at the Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica (CRAG), a CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB consortium. She's qualified in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Valencia and also obtained a PhD degree in Biology at the University of Murcia (CEBAS-CSIC, Murcia) in 19...
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