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mark pagel: how language transformed humanity video on tedcom
Bookmarked 755 weeks ago
ted talks biologist mark pagel shares an intriguing theory about why humans evolved our complex system of language he suggests that language is a piece of quotsocial technologyquot that allowed early human tribes to access a powerful new tool: cooperation

svante paabo: dna clues to our inner neanderthal video on tedcom
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ted talks sharing the results of a massive worldwide study geneticist svante pbo shows the dna proof that early humans mated with neanderthals after we moved out of africa yes many of us have neanderthal dna he also shows how a tiny bone from a baby finger was enough to identify a whole new humanoid species

mark pagel: how language transformed humanity video on tedcom
Bookmarked 753 weeks ago
ted talks biologist mark pagel shares an intriguing theory about why humans evolved our complex system of language he suggests that language is a piece of quotsocial technologyquot that allowed early human tribes to access a powerful new tool: cooperation

ben goldacre: battling bad science video on tedcom
Bookmarked 750 weeks ago
ted talks every day there are news reports of new health advice but how can you know if they

ben goldacre: battling bad science video on tedcom
Bookmarked 749 weeks ago
ted talks every day there are news reports of new health advice but how can you know if they

ben goldacre: battling bad science video on tedcom
Bookmarked 748 weeks ago
ted talks every day there are news reports of new health advice but how can you know if they

ben goldacre: battling bad science video on tedcom
Bookmarked 747 weeks ago
ted talks every day there are news reports of new health advice but how can you know if they

justin hall-tipping: freeing energy from the grid video on tedcom
Bookmarked 747 weeks ago
ted talks what would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes in this moving talk entrepreneur justin hall-tipping shows the materials that could make that possible and how questioning our notion of

ben goldacre: battling bad science video on tedcom
Bookmarked 746 weeks ago
ted talks every day there are news reports of new health advice but how can you know if they

watching plants grow and playing 039mario kart039 with an actual car icymi
Bookmarked 465 weeks ago
today on in case you missed it: the thought of watching a plant grow seems well boring but researchers from the institute of science and technology in austria used lasers fluorescent lights and a microscope to track the growth of a flowering weed039s roots the end result is a close-up 3d video that looks more like a glowing burrowing worm than a plant the researchers also twisted the plate the plants are growing on to see how the roots adjust to changes in gravity which could be helpful when we need to grow food in spacemeanwhile a teenager was able to talk his dad into allowing him and his friends to use the family039s chevy volt as a giant controller for mario kart the team figured out how to extract data from the vehicle039s obd port with a raspberry pi they then mapped the steering wheel accelerator brake high beams and windshield wipers to the racing game running in an emulator on a laptop no word on if this mod helps you avoid the dreaded red shellas always please share any in

alien matter detected by a nasa spacecraft orbiting earth
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alien matter in the solar system shows that the chemical make-up of our solar system differs from that of the surrounding galaxy researchers discuss the possible meaning of this mismatch