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Tom Stewart on the value of a much abused term.
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Our smartphones and other gadgets are just "the warm up acts" of the second machine age.
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One of the most famous branches in plant’s evolution is the difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms, which puzzled Darwin.
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Math is not the opposite of art and poetry. In fact, every formula is a formula of love.
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James Gleick ponders the paradox in information theory that since information is based on surprise, it is also chaotic and in many cases devoid of meaning.
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Inevitably drug laws will be disproportionately enforced against the poor, younger and darker-skinned members of society.
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Rick Smolan: I wonder if 50 years from now we’ll look back, maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state.
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Despite the misgivings of the clergy, Bach’s church cantatas and Passions are full of drama, internalizing and dramatizing “the situation of the individual believer, spectator or hearer.”
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It was an amazing discovery that we’re all related, but it was not obvious. It’s not obvious that I’m related to a strawberry, but I am.
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In the Human Genome Project, multiple countries and thousands of scholars proved how a “grandly large project” could be completed if it has “a very defined goal.”
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If population growth was slower, then fewer people would have come up with all the great ideas that enhance your life today, whether it’s antibiotics or the electric light or […]
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Today's video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y's 7 Days of Genius Festival.
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Typically you have to commit a crime before you are penalized for that crime. But what if Big Data can predict that you have a likelihood of committing a crime?
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Cancer is fundamentally a disease of the genome. What has happened in the past ten years since the end of the Human Genome Project is the recognition that we can […]
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We tend to see kindness as a secondary virtue. Sharon Salzberg asks why kindness is often degraded as a foolish reaction, as compared to the force that it genuinely is.
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Kirk Johnson delivers a complete history of life on Earth in 3 minutes.
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Neutrino physicists are ready and waiting, hoping that one of these days a supernova will explode somewhere in our galaxy, the Milky Way.
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Bach was not simply a compliant servant of the clergy of the church but expressed his own views as to how the Christian doctrine appealed to him and also how […]
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The switch to next generation DNA sequencing has drastically reduced the price of human genome sequencing over the past decade from near a billion dollars to just a few thousand.
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James Bond is probably one of the most nailed down, functional, psychopaths that there is.