Abstract: In the headlong dash of daily life, we often lose sight of the damage that this roadrunner form of living does to us....
Abstract: In Pennsylvania, it costs 60,000 dollars to keep people in jail, while it's 40,000 dollars to build the University of...
Abstract: The oceans are 75 percent of the planet. When you stand at the beach or see images of the ocean, you look out at thi...
Abstract: What I wanted to show you is that scientists, using their from the outside, third-person methods, can tell you things...
Abstract: We all make decisions every day; we want to know what the right thing is to do -- in domains from the financial to th...
Abstract: The argument has always been made, and it will always be made, that we know enough about the universe. And it's made ...
Abstract: This is a speech made by a politician. His topic is How do we make things better without spending more money? Because...
Abstract: Graphic design has gotten a lot simpler in the last five years or so. It's gotten so simple that it's already startin...
Abstract: Aimee Mullins is a double amputee and she was born without fibulas in both legs. She won a full academic scholarship ...
Abstract: Throwaway plastics take a lot of space and don't biodegrade. Plastics are also hard to recycle. The amount of packagi...
Abstract: My work is about the behaviors that we all engage in unconsciously on a collective level. What I'm trying to do with ...
Abstract: There are about 10,000 species of ants. They all live in colonies consisting of one or a few queens. All the ants you...
Abstract: From the entry of "disabled", it would seem that I was born into a world that perceived someone like me to have nothi...
Abstract: I think that the most profound and life-changing experiment that I've done is my most recent experiment, where I spen...
Abstract: Ben Saunders planned an expedition of skiing solo to the North Pole. He wanted to go right across, on his own, from R...
Abstract: Computation is easy to relearn, provided you have a strong grounding in math reasoning. This is hard to teach. This i...
Abstract: Without the specific knowledge that's needed to survive the ongoing challenges of the universe, we won't survive them...
Abstract: African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we ...
Abstract: Having grown up in a segregated city, Baltimore, Maryland, I go around America with a tape recorder to interview peop...
Abstract: My work is so personal and so strange that I have to invent my own lexicon for it. And I work a lot in what I call re...