Ben Goldacre Talks Bad Science [Poptech2010]
Ben Goldacre Talks Bad Science Author of the Guardian's weekly "Bad Science" column and Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks, British physician Ben Goldacre dismantles the questionable science behind an assortment of drug trials, court cases, and events of our time. View the Original...
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Amishi Jha : Building Attention (Pop!Tech 2010)
Original Website : PopTech.org www.poptech.org Amishi Jha is a brain scientist who is working on ways to train brains to pay better attention. How can mindfulness training help people in high-stress situations -- from medical staff to soldiers -- better navigate their challenging environments? Vi...
John Legend LIVE at PopTech 2010 performing "Shine"
John Legend performing Shine at the 2010 PopTech in Camden,Maine. www.poptech.org/
Nina Dudnik at PopTech 2010
- seedinglabs
- Length: 4:58
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Amro Hamdoun: Cell Self-Defense (PopTech-2010)
Cell biologist Amro Hamdoun seeks to understand the systems that cells and embryos use to protect themselves against chemical pollution. Why do some "bad" chemicals make it into cells, and how can we predict which ones will as we develop even more chemicals? Original Website : PopTech.org www.pop...
- carvakan
- Length: 6:20
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- Tags: Cell biologist Amro Hamdoun poptech pop tech creative commons carvakan talk Assistant Professor Scripps Oceanography University California San Diego cells embryos protect chemical pollution cellular defenses human environmental health regulation multidrug efflux transporters National Institutes K99/R00 Career Development Award and his work PNAS Science research chemists ecologists biomedical contaminants
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LeilaJanah PopTech 2010 m4v
- leilacjanah
- Length: 6:17
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Ben Goldacre - Poptech 2010
Recorded on July 29, 2009 using a Flip Video camcorder.
- brianmerchant
- Length: 1:09
- Views: 389
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The Best Things in Life Aren't Things: Elizabeth Dunn at PopTech 2010
University of British Columbia psychologist and 2010 PopTech conference speaker Elizabeth Dunn made cash "rain from trees" to examine the relationship between money and happiness. Turns out that, for most of us, giving money away makes us happier than spending it on ourselves, and experiences—not...
- fordcochran
- Length: 5:55
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- Tags: money wealth cash happiness pleasure joy Ford Cochran psychology poptech Maine
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Kim Cobb on Climate Confusion and Certainties at PopTech 2010
Geochemist, climate scientist, and 2010 PopTech Science Fellow Kim Cobb discusses what we know and don't know about human-induced climate change, and the sources of public confusion around global warming. National Geographic sponsored PopTech's new Science and Public Leadership Fellows program.
- fordcochran
- Length: 6:31
- Views: 266
- Tags: climate science global warming climate change poptech National Geographic natgeo
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JustinGallivan PopTech 2010 HD
- poptech
- Length: 6:25
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Imogen Heap: Hide and Seek (PopTech)
Imogen Heap plays a stripped-down version of what she says is her most popular song, "Hide and Seek." It came together by accident one night when her computer died and she was forced to look at her instruments in a new way. Original Website : PopTech.org www.poptech.org Biography : Imogen Heap (p...
John Fetterman; Reviving Braddock 2/2 (PopTech)
Title : John Fetterman: Reviving Braddock Found at : www.poptech.org http Description : Braddock, Pennsylvania Mayor John Fetterman is fighting for the future of his rust belt town's future. Braddock has lost ninety percent of its buildings and most of its population. Yet Fetterman's ambitious pl...
Heather Knight's Rube Goldberg infatuation
An element of chance and an air of tension draw Heather Knight and her colleagues at Syyn Labs to construct Rube Goldberg contraptions. PopTech followed Knight to get her take on the Rube Goldberg that they created to kick off PopTech 2010. And with bated breath, we watched the apparatus come to ...
- poptech
- Length: 2:13
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Patrick Meier & Josh Nesbit: The Haiti 4636 Story
To commemorate the first anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, today we're releasing the PopTech 2010 talk from Patrick Meier, director of crisis mapping at Ushahidi, and Josh Nesbit, executive director of Medic Mobile (formerly FrontlineSMS: Medic). They describe their organizations' collaborativ...
- poptech
- Length: 15:37
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- Tags: poptech2010 Mobile Innovation Disaster data Activism
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Carlo Ratti: Oil-absorbing Robots
Director of MIT's SENSEable City Lab Carlo Ratti wondered if there was a way to create a small, inexpensive, scalable, self-organizing system to help remove the oil after the Gulf oil spill. He discusses the inception of Seaswarm, a fleet of low-cost oil-absorbing robots in his PopTech 2010 talk.
- poptech
- Length: 7:59
- Views: 387
- Tags: poptech2010 Ecology Environment water
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Reggie Watts: Humor in music
Reggie Watts is an entertainer who combines stream-of-consciousness improvisational comedy with music to create a wholly original experience. A PopTech veteran, Watts knows this audience well and he handled them like a pro, getting big laughs with a smart blend of sarcasm and self-deprecation dur...
- poptech
- Length: 15:38
- Views: 271676
- Tags: comedy Music poptech2010
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Kathryn Schulz: Being Wrong
Kathryn Schulz is an expert on being wrong. The journalist and author of "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margins of Error," says we make mistakes all the time. The trouble is that often times being wrong feels like being right. What's more, we're usually wrong about what it even means to make mis...
- poptech
- Length: 20:31
- Views: 18996
- Tags: poptech2010 Culture Business Psychology
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David Eagleman on Possibilianism
Neuroscientist and best-selling author David Eagleman introduces the concept of Possibilianism, a new philosophy that simultaneously embraces a scientific toolbox while exploring new, unconsidered uncertainties about the world around us.
- poptech
- Length: 20:35
- Views: 12043
- Tags: poptech2010 psychology
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