Bonnie Bassler: The secret, social lives of bacteria
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http://www.ted.com Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria "talk" to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning implications for medicine, industry -- and our understanding of ourselves. See this INTERVIEW with Bonnie Bassler, "the Bacteria Whisperer" on the TED Blog: http://... Read more
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- -: Bonnie Bassler: The secret, social lives of bacteria
April 8, 2009 (about 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria "talk" to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning implications for medicine, industry -- and our understanding of ourselves. See this INTERVIEW with Bonnie Bassler,...
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- -: TEDxDelft - Lodewijk van den Berg - How a crystal growth scientist became an astronaut
December 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Lodewijk van den Berg (1932) was the first Dutch-born astronaut, a fact that is often overlooked in the Netherlands because he was a naturalized American and no longer a Dutch citizen at the time of flight. Van den Berg and his colleagues designed the EG&G Vapor Crystal Growth System experiment...
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- -: The Semantic Chemical Web: GoogleInChI and other Mashups
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks September 13, 2006 Peter Murray-Rust is Reader in Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge and Senior Research Fellow of Churchill College. ABSTRACT The millions of scientific papers published each year are an amazing source for scientific discovery but in most of ...
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- -: WMD Attack by 2013? - Jim Talent
January 22, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/01/08/World_at_Risk_with_Jim_Talent_and_Graham_Allison Former Senator Jim Talent (R-MO) summarizes the government's current terrorist threat assessment for the United States. Talent states that "within five years it is probable that there will be a successf...
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- -: Toxicology: What Chemists Don't Know Might Hurt You
March 26, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/10/Chasing_Molecules_The_Promise_of_Green_Chemistry Elizabeth Grossman, author of Chasing Molecules, marvels at the fact that learning basic toxicology is not a requirement for a degree in chemistry. "Chemists are never required to take a course," she sa...
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- -: Julia Whitty: BP Spill Surface Damage Just Tip of 'Oilberg'
July 29, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/07/14/Julia_Whitty_Deep_Blue_Home Former wildlife filmmaker and author Julia Whitty discusses the environmental impact of the BP oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico and beyond, calling surface damage merely "the tip of the 'oilberg.'" The majority of the damage...
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- -: DIY Chemistry: How to Make Nylon
December 6, 2010 (over 13 years ago)wComplete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/06/Wonderfest_2010_Synthetic_Biol_vs_Industrial_Chemistry Stanford University chemist Richard Zare demonstrates how to make nylon in a beaker, live on stage at Wonderfest 2010. ----- This program was recorded at the 12th Annual Wonderfest, the San Fr...
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