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13:12 minutes · Filmed Sep 2014 · Posted Oct 2014 · TEDMED 2014 As founder of the Ig Nobel awards,…
Along with a crew of technologists and scientists, Jorge Soto is developing a simple, noninvasive, open-source test that looks for…
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French economist Thomas Piketty caused a sensation in early 2014 with his book on a simple, brutal formula explaining economic…
Pia Mancini and her colleagues want to upgrade democracy in Argentina and beyond. Through their open-source mobile platform they want…
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17:40 minutes · Filmed Mar 2014 · Posted Oct 2014 · TED2014 Brain imaging pioneer Nancy Kanwisher, who uses fMRI…