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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence: Tabetha Boyajian at TED2016

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence: Tabetha Boyajian at TED2016

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Exploring space generates tons of data — so much data that most of it is studied using algorithms, not human eyes. But algorithms are not very good at being creative. What happens when we let humans look at data? Sometimes, even amateurs find things that are surprising, remarkable and weird. Astronomer Tabetha Boyajian came to TED2016 with a story about one of those weird things. The story []