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Drinking your favorite song
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- Drinking your favorite song
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- 1:41
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Ever wanted to find out what your favorite song tastes like? Japanese inventors at NOMLAB have created a machine that does just that.
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- Int-Ball: The cute floating Japanese camera on the ISS
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- JAXA, Japan’s space agency, has sent a new robot to the International Space Station called Int-Ball. It's a floating ball-shaped camera robot, controlled by a team on Earth using a series of propellers.
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- Baymax from Big Hero 6 is real. Here's who created him.
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- 5:39
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Chris Atkeson, the creator of Big Hero 6's Baymax, wants to bring soft robots to the world.
Atkeson is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh.
He works with soft robotics, which as its name suggests, is predicated on a simple challenge: how to build robots out of soft materials. For robots to effectively operate in our world, they’re going to have to be as squishy as we are.
This video is part of Machines With Brains, a series about what it means to be human in a world that’s increasingly filled with robots.
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- A soft silicone 3D-printed heart
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- 1:16
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Swiss researchers have come a step closer to building a better artificial heart. It’s a squishy prototype that’s 3D-printed from silicone.
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- The snakey, viney robot that can go almost anywhere
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- 1:44
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Researchers at Stanford University developed a squishy, soft robot that "grows" like a vine and can squeeze through tight spaces.
It can also lift heavy objects, which makes the technology potentially ideal for search and rescue operations.
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Here's the original study: http://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/2/8/eaan3028.full
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- The Jambato frog was extinct. Then it wasn't.
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Ecuador's Jambato frog was supposed to be extinct. But scientists just bred its species back to life. The Jambato hadn't been seen since the late 1980s.
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- A beached whale in Paris
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- 1:26
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- It's fake. A group of Belgian artists staged a fake dead whale on the banks of the Seine in Paris. Their goal was to raise environmental awareness. They ended up fooling a lot of people.
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- An "anatomically correct" Scarlett Johansson robot
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- 4:49
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Ricky Ma has no formal training in robotics. He spent three years and $50,000 building a robotic Scarlett Johansson.
Ricky is a graphic designer from Hong Kong. With no formal training in robotics, he spent three years building "Mark One," an extremely lifelike robot that looks exactly like Scarlett Johansson, out of hardware store supplies. Oh, and it's not a sex robot.
This video is part of Machines With Brains, a series about what it means to be human in a world that’s increasingly filled with robots.
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- The 2017 World Snail Racing Championships
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- 1:44
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- 135 snails competed in the 2017 World Snail Racing Championships in Congham, England on July 15. The snails were placed in a circle and timed to see how quickly they could slither past the finish line 13 inches away. Snails of all sizes, sporting vibrant shell decals, were brought out to the competition, including a snail named Uslime Bolt.
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- Intrepid: MIT's sexual assault-detecting sticker
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- What if a smart device could detect if somebody else took your clothes off? MIT researcher Manisha Mohan created Intrepid, a smart sticker that’s intended to detect, communicate, and, ideally, prevent sexual assault. It connects to your phone via Bluetooth and it can attach to any piece of clothing.
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- The story of Replika, the AI app that becomes you
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- 10:36
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Replika is a chatbot that creates a digital representation of you. It's strange and fascinating -- but the story behind it is even better.
Eugenia Kuyda’s best friend died in 2015. Using a chatbot structure she developed, she entered their messaging history into a Google-built neural network, creating a bot she could interact with. It was the earliest version of Replika, a bot that, as you interact with it, turns into a digital representation of you. Read more: https://goo.gl/9nR4tt
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- The Jones Act: The 100-year-old law that makes traffic worse
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- 3:15
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The Jones Act is a 100-year-old maritime law, designed to protect the US shipping industry. But it also makes highway traffic way worse.
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For many Americans, the experience of driving on a coastal highway like Interstate 5 in California can be a nightmare of dodging massive trucks hauling cargo between US cities. In Europe, not so much. That's because, for decades, European nations have turned to the sea rather than the road to transport goods across the continent. In fact, over 40% of Europe's domestic freight is shipped along so-called motorways of the sea. In the US, it’s a measly 2%. And one big reason why is an obscure law, enacted right after World War I, called the Jones Act. Read more: https://goo.gl/GTBq5q
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This video is part of the Quartz Index, a series about how the global economy is fundamentally c...
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- How sea sponges could cure tuberculosis
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Sponges might contain the cure to one of the world's deadliest diseases. Researchers at the University of Central Florida are working to isolate chemical extracts in sea sponges that could kill tuberculosis bacteria.
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- Why China is putting robots in nursing homes
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- 4:08
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- China has more than 230 million senior citizens. To keep them company, it's encouraging nursing homes to buy companionship robots.
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Long Shan Nursing Home in Chongqing is one of a few dozen early testing sites for caregiving robots in China. It’s been experimenting with them since August 2016. As fewer Chinese are able to care for their aging parents, the number of retirement homes nationwide is mushrooming. And since China can’t rely on the one-child generation to care for its large and growing elderly population, it needs another solution. So the government has started encouraging private business to invest in AI. Read more: https://goo.gl/TNreyy
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This video is part of Machines With Brains, a series about what it means to be human in a world increasingly filled with robots.
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- Title
- Where do you test a Moon rover? In a volcano
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- There’s still a lot we don’t know about the moon. We know it has a core, but we’re not sure exactly what it’s made of. So a team made up of academics, industry experts, and the German Aerospace Center (the German equivalent to NASA) wants to send a robot there that would be able to manipulate and monitor moonquakes. The testing location? One of the world’s most active volcanoes: Mount Etna.
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- Art Aquarium: Hidetomo Kimura's fishy installation
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- One of Tokyo’s most popular summer attractions features LED light displays, impressive glass sculptures, an immersive soundscape and, most importantly, thousands of sea creatures. Japanese artist Hidetomo Kimura's Art Aquarium combines the movements of about 5,000 goldfish with light shows, beautifully crafted fishbowls, and projection mapping.
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- How ants build towers to escape danger
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Fire ants can build towers to get out of trouble. We knew that. But we didn't exactly know how. Scientists at Georgia Tech decided to find out. Turns out that it's a little bit random, a little bit deliberate, and ends up looking like the Eiffel Tower.
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- How a drone could save you from a tornado
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Scientists are using drones — either specially designed for storms, or commercial units fitted with sensing equipment — to predict tornadoes before they happen. Currently, warning systems can only predict severe storms and tornadoes 14 minutes in advance. But using drones, we could raise the warning time to an hour, or even longer.
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- How do we get people to eat bugs?
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- 1:49
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- One day, we're going to have to eat bugs. Polish scientists have been experimenting with ways to make them a more appetizing dish.
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- MetaLimbs: Extra hands you control with your feet
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- A Japanese team of scientists invented an extra set of hands you strap to your back and control with sensors attached to your legs. They're called MetaLimbs.
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- 1,000 Frida Kahlos
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- On July 7, over a thousand people donned unibrows in honor of what would have been the 110th birthday of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, at the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas. Their goal was to set the first Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people dressed like the artist.
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- Shimon, the musical improv robot
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- 1:34
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Shimon is a four-armed robot marimba player built at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He uses machine-learning programs, trained on music theory and a wide range of musical styles, to improvise melodies, sometimes playing chord structures that would be physically impossible for humans to hit.
Read more: https://qz.com/689827/moogfest-shimon-music-robot/
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- Geckos are helping NASA clean up space garbage
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- NASA scientists have created a device that will stick to almost anything. And they did it by studying the forces that make geckos’ feet sticky.
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- The Museum of Capitalism
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- 2:41
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The Museum of Capitalism in Oakland, California is dedicated to "educating this generation and future generations about the ideology, history, and legacy of capitalism." Visitors are asked to reflect on capitalism as if they resided in a post-capitalist era.
Read more: https://qz.com/1015649/a-new-museum-is-preparing-people-for-the-downfall-of-capitalism/
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- Tezi Gabunia's incomplete paintings
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- 1:18
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Georgian artist Tezi Gabunia created life-sized paintings that aren't finished until you interact with them. His work invites visitors to interact with each piece, whether in a game of tug of war or a karate match.
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- The climate change study that got stuck in ice
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- 1:08
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A group of Canadian scientists set out to measure how climate change would impact sea ice in northeastern Canada's Hudson Bay. Their goal was to help prepare local marine industries and the coast guard for what lay ahead. Unfortunately, chunks of Arctic ice blocking their path -- severe conditions caused by climate change -- forced the researchers to abort their expedition.
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- Drones that deliver blood
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- In Rwanda, a San Francisco-based robotics company called Zipline is delivering blood, by drone, to almost half of all the country's blood transfusion centers.
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- The secret to zero-emission factories
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- 1:54
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The world's fifth-largest cement factory is using algae to make one of the most environmentally damaging industries cleaner.
Read more: https://qz.com/1010273/the-algoland-carbon-capture-project-in-sweden-uses-algae-to-help-the-country-reach-zero-emissions/
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- Li Hongbo's paper guns
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Chinese artist Li Hongbo is probably best-known for his classical busts that open into wavy accordion shapes. (Google it.) But his newest installation is much more colorful: 2,000 paper guns.
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- The sausage of the future
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- 2:12
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Carolien Niebling spent three years studying sausages. But she isn't a chef; she's a product designer. After tasting sausages from all over the world, she came up with what she calls the "future sausage." And it has bugs in it.
Read more: https://qz.com/1006276/a-product-designers-three-year-study-of-sausages-led-to-this-the-sausage-of-the-future/
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- This robot is amazing at picking things up
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- It's actually really hard for robots to pick things up. To teach one to be good at it, scientists had to create a database of thousands of weirdly-shaped objects.
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- FabricKeyboard: A soft, stretchy musical instrument
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- 1:10
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- MIT researchers turned a few layers of fabric into a high-tech musical instrument. It generates sound in response to pressure, stretching, and proximity.
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- The Museum of Failure
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- 1:49
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Samuel West is obsessed with failures. And the Museum of Failure, in Sweden, is his public collection of them. West's museum celebrates the absurd and hilarious wrong turns that companies have taken in their product development.
Read more about the museum: https://qz.com/956795/swedens-museum-of-failure-a-spectacular-catalogue-of-the-worlds-worst-innovations/
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- How to sell movies to China
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- 3:37
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Last year, 17% of all global box office revenue came from China. And that's no accident: Hollywood studios are going after Chinese audiences hard. Here's how they're doing it.
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This video is part of the Quartz Index, a series about how the global economy is fundamentally changing.
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- Dancing with a robot
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- 1:17
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- At Tohoku University, there's now a robot that teaches dance. But the goal isn't to put human dance teachers out of work -- instead, scientists are using the project to gather information on how humans can get comfortably close with with robots. If we're going to spending a lot of time with robots in the future, might as well make it easier.
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- Tattooing a biosensor
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- 1:05
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- MIT and Harvard researchers have created color-changing tattoos that could, in the future, track your pH, glucose, and sodium levels. DermalAbyss replaces typical tattoo ink with biosensors, which respond to changes in the skin’s interstitial fluid that surrounds tissue cells.
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- Put fish skin on your burn
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- 1:24
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The dude in the video above is treating his burns by covering them in the skin of tilapia. Sure, why not. It turns out that tilapia skin is similar to human skin in several key ways, and has both healing and pain-relieving properties, so researchers in Brazil have started using it to treat patients' burns. It's actually cheaper and more effective than many other burn treatments. Unclear how it smells, though.
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- Meet NASA's new class of astronauts
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- 3:03
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- More than 18,300 candidates applied to be astronauts in NASA’s latest class—smashing the record of 8,000 applicants in 1978—and only 12 got the job. Here's who made the cut.
Read more about them here: https://qz.com/1001007
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- Scientists turned a dragonfly into a drone
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- 1:02
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Drones are good. But at a certain point it's hard to make them really small. Scientists figured out a way, though: take a dragonfly and drone-ify it. DragonflyEye is a tiny cyborg dragonfly drone. It's a genetically modified dragonfly with a tiny electronic backpack.
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- Shape-shifting, flat-pack pasta
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- 1:33
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- MIT scientists have invented a new kind of pasta. It starts flat, and pops into shape when you put it in water. One day you might be able to 3D print your own. And it'll take up way less space in the box.
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- How AI will make inequality worse
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- 1:53
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Kai-Fu Lee is China's most famous venture capitalist, the former CEO of Google China, and one of the leading voices on the possibilities of AI. And he thinks AI might make global inequality worse over the next 50 years.
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- A new drug, brought to you by dragon blood
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- 2:36
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Antibiotic resistance is a huge problem for medicine. More and more people are dying from antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and fewer and fewer new antibiotics are being discovered. But scientists just found a new one. And they found it in the blood of Komodo dragons.
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- NASA is finally going to the sun
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- 1:23
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- NASA scientists have wanted to go to the sun since the agency's founding. With the Parker Solar Probe, it's finally happening. Parker will fly right up to the sun's corona. Here's how it will get there.
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- Popsicles made of pollution
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- 0:59
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- A group of art students in Taiwan came up with a weird treat for the heat: popsicles made from polluted water.
They aren't edible (you can not eat polluted sewage popsicles!), but they do make an important point about our environment and water supply.
The art students, from New Taipei City in Taiwan, collected polluted water samples and sewage water which they then froze in molds and preserved in resin.
The Taiwanese art students wanted pollution popsicles to be a form of activism artwork — a way to build awareness.
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- Title
- Why an AI expert finds Westworld scary
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Kai-Fu Lee is China's most famous venture capitalist, the former CEO of Google China, and one of the leading voices on the possibilities of AI. He says that the scenarios raised by HBO's show "Westworld" scare him, but not because he thinks the show will come true.
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- NAFTA explained by avocados. And shoes.
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- 5:55
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Everyone hates NAFTA. But what was NAFTA actually supposed to do? Did it deliver on its promise? To understand that, you have to look at America's relationships with two goods: avocados and shoes.
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- Title
- Fraser Corsan wants to break the wingsuit record
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- 1:23
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Fraser Corsan wants to go faster than a Ferrari F50 and higher than Mount Everest—with nothing but his own two wings to carry him. Corsan is a wingsuit pilot. He wants to break four of the world wingsuit records.
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- Monkey brains are way more like ours than we thought
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- 2:09
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Scientists just found a defining feature of the human brain in monkeys. By taking images of monkeys in an fMRI machine, they were able to look at the neuroscience of how primates interact with others. Turns out, it looks exactly like the brain network that scientists thought made humans special.
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- Ismail Royer was an extremist. Now he wants to make it right
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- 4:20
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Shortly after 9/11, Ismail Royer helped four friends get to an extremist training camp in Pakistan. Royer went to prison for 14 years, where he was in the same unit as convicted terrorists like the Unabomber and Richard Reid. He now wants to use that experience to fight the extremism he once embraced. "I hope to make it up to my country."
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- The future of furniture is a vat of gel
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- 1:46
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- "Rapid Liquid Printing" is a 3D printing technique, created by MIT researchers, that prints things in vats of gel. And one day you could get your furniture from it.
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