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Science Is Not About Certainty: A Philosophy Of Physics | Conversation | Edge

Science Is Not About Certainty: A Philosophy Of Physics | Conversation | Edge

Big Think Interview With Atul Gawande

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Nathan Wolfe: What's left to explore?

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BioTechniques - Scientists Turn DNA into Hard Drives

BioTechniques - Scientists Turn DNA into Hard Drives

BioTechniques - Google Goes Cancer

BioTechniques - Google Goes Cancer

Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain

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BioTechniques - mRNA Methylation Widespread and Likely Functional

BioTechniques - mRNA Methylation Widespread and Likely Functional

Tali Sharot: The optimism bias

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JP Rangaswami: Information is food

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http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1783

http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1783
www.ted.com/talks/what_we_learned_from_5_million_books.html
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/theory-knowledge/201205/knowledge-science-and-beliefs-about-evolution

BioTechniques - No Two Cancer Cells Are Alike

BioTechniques - No Two Cancer Cells Are Alike
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evil-deeds/201104/what-is-courage-existential-lessons-the-cowardly-lion http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evil-deeds/201203/stress-psychosis-and-the-creator-kony-2012 http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evil-deeds/201102/reading-the-red-book-how-cg-jung-salvaged-his-soul http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evil-deeds/201204/essential-secrets-psychotherapy-what-is-the-shadow?page=2

Ray Kurzweil TED Talk - Singularity University

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Which Way Next? with Guest Dr. Sebastian Thrun - Episode 001

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the new yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/04/30/120430fa_fact_auletta?currentPage=all

inheritance

inheritance of cultural tendencies....can these be overcome
reason only or reason and emotion....are "emotions" prompters behind the "reason" actors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:World_energy_consumption
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amory_Lovins http://www.rmi.org/reinventingfire
http://www.ted.com/talks/amory_lovins_a_50_year_plan_for_energy.html
humans...limitless potential....
i think we are all born "polymath" like. due to societal conditioning and our own choices we lose this ability as we grow older. we have to be childlike to retain creativity, comparatively possess less fear of other people's opinions, biases and prejudices.

evelyn glennie

http://www.evelyn.co.uk/evelyn-glennie.html

how do the hearing impaired feel music

taught kids an inspiring story about... evelyn dennie who was hearing impaired but became a musician. apparently if the nerves for hearing are imapired... the nerves in the rest of the body pick up vibrations, that is how the hearing impaired feel music..
finite (that can be counted, limited) versus infinite (??) !
consciousness as a product of brain activity..........
http://www.singularity.com/

motivation

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-brain-and-emotional-intelligence/201112/motivation-what-moves-us

Bill Gates Speech at Harvard (part 1)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Argumentative_Indian

founders of you tube

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube

founder of wikipedia

http://jimmywales.com/
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erwin_Schrodinger

TEDx Brussels 2010 - Stuart Hameroff - Do we have a quantum Soul?

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A Key To Understanding Consciousness

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final frontier...the brain ?

statistics...

outliers and the average....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_state_of_consciousness
BIOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY!!!!!!