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Voter suppression, pandemics, fish, curing Alzheimer’s: Session 2 of TED U at TED2013Voter suppression, pandemics, fish, curing Alzheimer’s: Session 2 of TED U at TED2013

Posted By Helen Walters

TED’s Bruno Giussani is back on the TED stage to invite up this morning’s cadre of audience talks. No long preamble … we’re straight into it:   Jason Pontin, editor and publisher of MIT Technology Review, wants us to think about why we can’t (or think we can’t) solve big problems anymore — what is our generation’s […]

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6 great things microbes do for us6 great things microbes do for us

Posted By Kate Torgovnick

The word ‘microbe’ sounds scary — we associate them with the flu, ebola, flesh-eating disease, you name it. But microbiologist Dr. Jonathan Eisen has given an illuminating TEDTalk that will make you put down the hand sanitizer. As Eisen explains, “We are covered in a cloud of microbes and these microbes actually do us good […]