PermAnence via Video
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- Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco flies us all to Saturn
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- Brian Cox on CERN's supercollider
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- Paul Stamets and, 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
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- Steven Pinker and, the myth of violence
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- Susan Blackmore, Memes and "Temes" - Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to keep itself alive.
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- Mark Bittman weighs in on what's wrong with the way we eat now.
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- "Renegade lunch-lady," Ann Cooper talks school lunches.
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- Michael Pollan's plant's-eye View.
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- Susan Savage-Rumbaugh on Apes
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- Erin McKean and the Dictionary: As the CEO and co-founder of new online dictionary Wordnik, McKean is reshaping not just dictionaries, but how we interact with language itself.
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- Steven Levitt shares data that shows car seats are no more effective than seatbelts in protecting kids from dying in cars; however, during the question and answer session, he makes one crucial caveat
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- Adam Grosser and the sustainable fridge
- Sugata Mitra's experiments have shown that, in the absence of supervision or formal teaching, children can teach themselves and each other, if they're motivated by curiosity and…
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- Linguist Steven Pinker questions the very nature of our thoughts -- the way we use words, how we learn, and how we relate to others.
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- Chris Abani on Humanity
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- Nellie McKay
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- Patricia Burchat shedding light on Dark Matter
- Garrett Lisi, physicist and surfer, presents a controversial new model of the universe
- Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning.
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Acclaimed Chilean economist Manfred Max-Neef; he won the Right Livelihood Award in 1983, two years after the publication of his book Outside Looking In: Experiences in Barefoot Economics.
