Academic+Talk

Fiorenzo Omenetto: Silk, the ancient material of the future
Fiorenzo Omenetto, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, demonstrates new high-technology applications of silk.

Honor Harger: A history of the universe in sound
Honor Harger is interested in the use of radiotechnology in transforming noises from the space into audible sounds.

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Sean Carroll: Distant time and the hint of a multiverse
A theoretical physicist Sean Carroll discusses some fundamental questions concerning the nature of our universe and speculates on plausible scenario of its future.

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David Christian: Big history
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Stephen Hawking asks big questions about the universe
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Kelvin Kelly tells technology's epic story
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Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything
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Murray Gell-Mann on beauty and truth in physics
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Aaron O'Connel: Making sense of a visible quantum object
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Brian Cox on CERN's supercollider
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Brian Green on string theory
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Patricia Burchat sheds light on dark matter
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Andrea Ghez: The hunt for a supermassive black hole
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Angela Belcher: Using nature to grow batteries
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Harvey Fineberg: Are we ready for neo-evolution
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Ed Boyden: A light switch for neurons
Ed Boydon, the leader of the Synthetic Neurobiology Group at the MIT Meedia Lab, talks about the technology of implanting brains with optical fibers that can enable repair of various disorders.

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James Watson on how he discovered DNA
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Steven Cowley: Fusion is energy's future
Steven Cowley, the director of the UK's leading fusion research center, sees nuclear fusion as a main source of cheap and nearly limitless carbon-free energy.

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Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulb
Harald Haas demonstrates a new type of light bulb that can transmit data in a very efficient way.

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