Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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A new experiment is trying to marry the best of health monitoring technology and organs grown from stem cells.
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We've reached a phase in computer development when everything old is new again. And this approach can work. Up to a point.
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We evolved to be social animals that live in close-knit communities. But sharing minds via brain implants with our fellow humans may be far too much for us right now.
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One of the biggest limitations on the computing power of our spacecraft is shielding them from radiation.
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Technophobes are confusing normal neuroplasticity and poor impulse control for black technological magic.
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There's a fine line between being an expert trying to simplify a complex topic and an arrogant snob lecturing down to your audience. TED's all-stars are starting to cross that line.
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Advanced prosthetics are making an appearance at the Olympics and showing how inhuman form can restore human function.
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A popular philosophical objection to life extension is that it would allow terrible people to live longer. The problem is that there will always be terrible people.
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People are trying to scan their brains into computers neuron by neuron to continue life as machines.
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Xanadu was the ultimate nightmare project for any programmer. And we're lucky it was never completed, much less lived up to its lofty goals.