Hi, I'm Tom from Shutl. This is what the web looked like at the time of the world's first e-commerce transaction. I don't know if you guys remember Yahoo!. They were indexing...
In the entire universe the two greatest scientific mysteries are first of all the origin of the universe itself. And second of all the origin of intelligence. Believe it or not, sitting on our...
[music] [music] I always say to people about the mentality of a bodybuilder, you have to have--something has to be triggered inside of you. You can't be normal. [music] You know, you have to...
I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period. I...
[APPLAUSE] SIMON ROGERS: Good afternoon. I feel like, for once, I'm in a room where lots of people already get this. So it goes. But my job is at the Guardian Datastore and Datablog....
I'm tempted to say smart, creative people have no particularly different set of character traits than the rest of us except for being smart and creative, and those being character traits....
The first rule of microresolutions is it's easy. You absolutely have the power to keep it. And why do you have the power to keep it? It's reasonable, it's limited and you know...
The United States is an extremely militaristic culture right now and we are armed to the teeth and we are very aggressive in pursuing our interests violently around the world. Until recently we were...
Isaac Asimov was my favorite science fiction writer and his favorite science fiction story talked about an era far in the future when our bodies would be in pods and we would mentally control beings,...
There are different forms of adversarial collaboration. So one form is that you have people who disagree on some theoretical issue trying to conduct experiments that will resolve their differences or...