TED Talks
Ray Kurzweil: The accelerating power of technology
Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness.
TED Talks
Craig Venter: Sampling the ocean's DNA
Genomics pioneer Craig Venter takes a break from his epic round-the-world expedition to talk about the millions of genes his team has discovered so far in its quest to map the ocean's biodiversity.
TED Talks
Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularity
Ray Kurzweil's latest graphs show that technology's breakneck advances will only accelerate -- recession or not. He unveils his new project, Singularity University, to study oncoming tech and guide it to benefit humanity.
Curated Video
Enumerating Possibilities
Historian David Armitage (Harvard) uses the example of international intervention to show how history can help us guide today's decisions.
Curated Video
Enlarging The Conversation
Historian David Cannadine, University of Princeton, describes how he believes the time is ripe for historians to increasingly interact with geneticists and neuroscientists in an attempt to better address the fundamental question of what...
Bloomberg
How the Human Genome Project Transformed Medicine
Sep.06 -- Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, explains how mapping the human genetic code has advanced medicine. He speaks to David Rubenstein on "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations."