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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.
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Your computer will be an assistant that helps you through the day, will answer your questions before you ask them or even before you realize you have a question
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How can you get individuals to experience a collective flow state – going into deeper contemplation and losing a sense of time?
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Ray Kurzweil is the author of the book How to Create a Mind. The first question we have for him is “why create a mind?”
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The Google Glass opens up new doors for technological and social interactions, but in an era where instant fact checking is possible, will Google Glass enable us to remain honest […]
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People take a narrow view of decision making. They look at the problem at hand and they deal with it as if it were the only problem. Very frequently it’s […]
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There’s an innate drive to move to cities, where people are more clustered. The frequency for interactions is so much higher in a city as opposed to a rural area. […]
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You’ve got to hope somehow that presidents understand that the bully pulpit is still a tool that they possess.
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As François Jacob famously said, evolution is a tinkerer and not an engineer. When you’re a tinkerer, you throw things together to solve the problem at hand.
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An oyster reef costs about the same amount of money – $1 million per mile – as a sea wall. So as an infrastructure investment, it’s a tie. But when […]
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We know that the dark matter has to be pretty cold – moving so slowly that its motion hardly matters – and that allows us to predict in great detail […]
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Eric Siegel never thought he would experience a machine acting in a way that he would subjectively consider to be intelligent. IBM’s Watson, however, changed all of that.
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Gardiner, author of the new book, Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven, has a unique perspective on Bach. He is both a historian and a world-renowned conductor who has […]
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Free always wins over something that costs something.
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In the United States we have shamefully convinced most high school students that they either need to go to Harvard or they need to go to McDonald’s.
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We are seeing students and teachers using technology-enabled tools that make learning more real time, more powerful, and it gives them access to things they wouldn’t have had access to […]
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Insurance is what you buy when you don’t know if something bad is going to happen. Maybe I’ll crash my car. Maybe I won’t. I don’t know. So I’m going […]
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Consider how much more beautiful and authentic and sophisticated and accurate our world would become if we could appreciate the key terminologies of all cultures.
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Why are we so aberrant? It’s because our neurons are lousy processors, so we need big, fat brains to make clever us.
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The hacker Kevin Mitnick says he treated his fugitive status like a big video game.
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Bayes’ Rule is a formalization of how to change your mind when you learn new information about the world or have new experiences.
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Our phones are starting to know us better than we know ourselves. They’re starting to see patterns that we don’t detect on a day-by-day basis, but the phone sees this […]
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