Want to Upload Your Brain? Science Fiction Comes to Life
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2012/02/13/Sebastian_Seung_Connectome Professor of Computational Neuroscience at MIT Sebastian Seung discusses how the study of "connectomes", a comprehensive map of neural connections in the brain, can help turn science fiction into reality. Seung proposes that through the study of the connectome we can test w... Read more
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- -: Want to Upload Your Brain? Science Fiction Comes to Life
March 16, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2012/02/13/Sebastian_Seung_Connectome Professor of Computational Neuroscience at MIT Sebastian Seung discusses how the study of "connectomes", a comprehensive map of neural connections in the brain, can help turn science fiction into reality. Seung proposes that...
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March 2, 2012 (about 12 years ago)It wasn't long ago that Dr. Keith Miller took the reigns as President of Greenville Technical College in 2008. Two years later, his leadership skills and innovative thinking have helped him progressively transition Greenville Tech into a premier learning institute. Miller and his leadership team ...
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February 15, 2012 (about 12 years ago)x = independently organized TED event Malak Saleh an IB student, who's talk started off as a TOK presentation and then landed at the TEDxYouth@TheNile event, even though it was a last minute decision to talk at the event, Malak Saleh was capable of encouraging the people to challenge themselves t...
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- -: TEDxRideauCanal - James Milner - Integrative Thinking and Solutions for Refugees
February 3, 2012 (over 12 years ago)James Milner advocates an integrative approach to solving the plight of 15M refugees who wait on average 18 years in refugee camps. James Milner has been a researcher, practitioner and policy advisor on issues relating to refugees, peacebuilding, African politics and the United Nations system. H...
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- -: TEDxSantaCruz: Terrie Williams - The Biology of Big
January 14, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Terrie Williams, PhD is a Co-Founder of the Center of Ocean Health and Director of the Marine Mammal Physiology Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has spent her life studying how big animals survive on our changing planet, from Alaskan killer whales to African cheetahs. H...
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- -: The Era of Entanglement: Humanity Is 'Back to the Jungle'
January 10, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/10/24/World_Changing_Ideas Danny Hillis, co-chairman of the technology and design firm Applied Minds, characterizes the present day as a "post-Enlightenment" point in time in which people no longer understand the technology that surrounds them. Branding it ...
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- -: TEDxOxford - Kevin Warwick - Cyborg Interfaces
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- -: The Mystery of Paleontology's "Hobbit"
December 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/12/06/A_Debate_Who_Was_the_Hobbit Ian Tattersall, paleoanthropologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History, describes the discovery of fossil LB1 (nicknamed the "hobbit"), and the mystery surrounding the nearly complete skeleton. ----- Le...
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- -: The Mystery of Palentology's "Hobbit"
December 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/12/06/A_Debate_Who_Was_the_Hobbit Ian Tattersall, paleoanthropologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History, describes the discovery of fossil LB1 (nicknamed the "hobbit"), and the mystery surrounding the nearly complete skeleton. ----- Le...
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- -: On Syria, Turkish Ambassador says human rights trump business interests
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