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How to make a tabletop telepresence robot to beam yourself into meetings

How to make a tabletop telepresence robot to beam yourself into meetings

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I manage TED’s online community from my home on the West Coast, and while many of my interactions are with people based all over the world, the majority of my colleagues are based across the country at TED HQ in New York City. As anyone who works remotely knows, attending meetings as a giant videoconferencing head-on-the-wall isn’t […]

Ellen Jorgensen on what you can do in a DIY biotech lab

Ellen Jorgensen on what you can do in a DIY biotech lab

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[ted id=1568]“It’s a great time to be a molecular biologist,” Ellen Jorgensen says in today’s TED Talk, given at TEDGlobal 2012. The realm of biotechnology is growing fast, she says, and advances are coming down the pipeline at a rapid clip. And yet, scientists aren’t so good at communicating to the public what is going […]