Nalini Nadkarni explores canopy worlds
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http://www.ted.com A unique ecosystem of plants, birds and monkeys thrives in the treetops of the rainforest. Nalini Nadkarni explores these canopy worlds -- and shares her findings with the world below, through dance, art and bold partnerships. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where ... Read more
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- -: Nalini Nadkarni explores canopy worlds
March 4, 2009 (about 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com A unique ecosystem of plants, birds and monkeys thrives in the treetops of the rainforest. Nalini Nadkarni explores these canopy worlds -- and shares her findings with the world below, through dance, art and bold partnerships. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talk...
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- -: Laurie Santos: How monkeys mirror human irrationality
July 29, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Why do we make irrational decisions so predictably? Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in "monkeynomics" shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too...
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- -: Authors@Google: Chip Kidd
December 9, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Chip Kidd visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan." This event took place on November 13, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthol...
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- -: Matt Ruff With Bad Monkeys
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks September 19, 2007 ABSTRACT Matt Ruff With Bad Monkeys. Matt reads sections of a very interesting book written by a woman that is involved in a group that wipes out men that don't deserve to live. Credits: Speaker:Matt Ruff
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- -: Elbows-Deep in Ebola Virus - Richard Preston
July 11, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/12/Richard_Preston_Panic_in_Level_4 "The Hot Zone" author Richard Preston tells the story of a U.S. Army Lt. Colonel's life-threatening experience while researching a strain of deadly Ebola virus. ----- Richard Preston talks about Panic in Level 4: Can...
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- -: Our Chimp Ancestry - Frans Lanting and Christine Eckstrom
January 28, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Husband and wife team Frans Lanting and Christine Eckstrom describe their experiences, from eating termites to battling sweat flies, studying the fascinatingly sophisticated chimpanzees of Fongoli, Africa. EG is the celebration of the American entertainment industry. Since 1984, Richard Saul Wur...
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- -: Positive Selection: Is the Human Genome Evolving?
October 14, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/03/Dr_Katherine_Pollard_What_Makes_Us_Human UCSF biostatistics professor Dr. Katherine Pollard describes The Chimp Genome Project, which lists 15 genes associated with human diseases that originate in chimps. While some people have the "new human version...
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- -: The Human-Chimp Split: A Closer Look at the Fossil Record
February 12, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/12/Todd_Disotell_A_New_Tale_of_the_Primate_Split Todd Disotell, a professor of anthropology at NYU, examines the human-chimp split in relation to bipedal fossils that date back to the time period during which many scientists believe the evolutionary leap...
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- -: What Can Five Wet Monkeys Teach Us About Creativity?
August 25, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/chq_creativity_innovation Col. Casey Haskins, an accomplished military officer and professor at West Point Academy, argues that one of the biggest obstacles to creativity is a reliance on the status quo. "We do lots of stuff that we have no idea why w...
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Laurie Santos: A Monkey Economy as Irrational as Ours
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Laurie Santos uses monkeys to imitate human markets to determine if humans really have an innate ability to make the same mistakes or humans simply get distracted by complications and technologies.
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