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Parasite Mind Control
- By: Kelly Weinersmith, Rachel Hamburg
- Length: 14 mins
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What can parasites teach neuroscientists about the brain? Dr. Kelly Weinersmith tells us about three parasites who have mastered the minds of their hosts with incredible precision, at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC. About the Speaker: Dr. Kelly Weinersmith is an ecologist specializing in parasite and host behaviors. She is a Huxley Fellow at Rice University.
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Hilariously Scientific
- By Tia M. MacCornack on 06-19-20
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Parasite Mind Control
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 14 mins
- Release date: 08-29-16
- Language: English
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Lovelace's Legacy
- By: Walter Isaacson, Rachel Hamburg
- Length: 10 mins
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Will increasingly advanced machines replace us? Biographer Walter Isaacson showcases some great thinkers on computers and intelligence, from Ada Lovelace to Alan Turing. Plus, what's our current approach to intelligent machines? Find out, in this lecture from Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival. About the Speaker: Walter Isaacson is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute. He is the author of several books, including The Innovators and Steve Jobs.
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An Interesting Excerpt...
- By Miriam on 02-18-21
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Lovelace's Legacy
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 07-18-16
- Language: English
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Engineering the Atmosphere
- By: David Keith, Rachel Hamburg
- Length: 12 mins
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What do you do when cutting carbon emissions doesn't cut it? Dr. David Keith discusses why re-engineering the atmosphere may be crucial to stopping climate change, at the Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC. About the Speaker: Dr. David Keith is a physicist who has worked on climate science, energy technology, and public policy for 25 years. He is a professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a professor of Applied Physics at the Harvard Paulson School.
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A Great Addition for fellow Science Blurb Nerds
- By Alexis Gold on 08-08-21
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Engineering the Atmosphere
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 08-08-16
- Language: English
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Quantum Woman
- By: Shohini Ghose, Rachel Hamburg
- Length: 14 mins
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Why is Quantum Woman the greatest superhero of all time? Dr. Shohini Ghose explains the incredible powers of quantum particles at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC. About the Speaker: Dr. Shohini Ghose is an Associate Professor of Physics and Computer Science at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she serves as Director of the Center for Women in Science. She is also an affiliate of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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Quantum Woman
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 14 mins
- Release date: 07-25-16
- Language: English
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Precision Medicine
- By: Eric Green, Rachel Hamburg
- Length: 14 mins
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How will advances in genomics - and advances in smartphones - shape the future of medicine? Dr. Eric Green describes the Precision Medicine Initiative, at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC. About the Speaker: Dr. Eric Green is the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health.
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Precision Medicine
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 14 mins
- Release date: 07-04-16
- Language: English
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Do We Matter?
- By: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
- Length: 11 mins
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Do we matter? Does mattering matter? In this talk at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC, philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein asks these questions and more. Find out why mattering matters so much to us from this MacArthur “genius” grant winner.
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Horrid
- By wbiro on 04-23-18
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Do We Matter?
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 09-20-17
- Language: English
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Nature Portal
- By: W. John Kress, Rachel Hamburg
- Length: 8 mins
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In an increasingly urban world, how can we maintain our relationship with nature? Dr. W. John Kress describes a few tools that can serve as windows into the natural world, at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC.
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Nature Portal
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 06-20-16
- Language: English
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File Under "X"
- By: Chris Carter
- Length: 10 mins
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Ever wonder how great science fiction television gets made? This episode steps outside science and technology to give a glimpse behind the scenes of one of the great science fiction franchises, The X-Files. In this interview at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC, series creator Chris Carter talks about sneaking a stand out episode by the network suits, how the show got funny, and whether we’ll be seeing more of Mulder and Scully.
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File Under "X"
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 09-20-17
- Language: English
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Cognitive Exoskeletons
- By: Bill Casebeer, Rachel Hamburg
- Length: 8 mins
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How can we harness the huge power of data? Dr. Bill Casebeer describes the "cognitive exoskeleton", which he sees as a way to help our brains navigate a complex and increasingly data-rich world, at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC. About the Speaker: Dr. Bill Casebeer is a Research Area Manager in human systems optimization for Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Laboratories.
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Cognitive Exoskeletons
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 07-11-16
- Language: English
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A History of the Future
- By: Nicholas Negroponte
- Length: 10 mins
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Where will technology take us next? As an author, co-founder of the MIT Media Lab, and serial investor, Nicholas Negroponte has been imagining the future for his entire career, and with no small degree of accuracy. In this talk at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC, Negroponte details not juts his successful past predictions, but those he’s still betting on.
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A History of the Future
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 09-20-17
- Language: English
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Slumber Party
- By: Matt Walker, Rachel Hamburg
- Length: 15 mins
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What does sleep have to do with emotion and memory, and why does the future of sleep mean a return to the past? Dr. Matt Walker explains what's going on behind the scenes when we close our eyes for the night, at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington DC. About the Speaker: Dr. Matt Walker is a professor of psychology and neuroscience, and director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory.
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Slumber Party
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 15 mins
- Release date: 08-01-16
- Language: English
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Who Invented the Internet?
- By: Vinton Cerf
- Length: 12 mins
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Have you ever Googled the phrase “who invented the internet?” Vinton G. Cerf’s name is in the top results. Granted, he does work at Google, but as the Co-designer of TCP/IP protocols and the basic architecture of the Internet, his claim is pretty legit. In this talk at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC, Vinton not only recounts the birth of this thing we now totally take for granted, how he uses it to keep teenagers out of his wine cellar, and where he sees it going in the future.
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Who Invented the Internet?
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 09-20-17
- Language: English
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Ocean Optimism
- By: Nancy Knowlton, Rachel Hamburg
- Length: 9 mins
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How can we help save Planet Ocean? Dr. Nancy Knowlton says we should consider the shark. She shares the shark success story, as well as others that are helping the conservation movement grow, at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC. About the Speaker: Dr. Nancy Knowlton is a marine biologist and serves as the Sant Chair in Marine Science at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
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Ocean Optimism
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 06-27-16
- Language: English
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The Smartest Creatures in The Universe
- By: Seth Shostak
- Length: 11 mins
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Think we're smart? In this talk at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC, Seth Shostak explains why we’re probably not the smartest creatures in the universe, how SETI is going about looking for aliens, and the probability that life exists outside of our solar system.
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11 Min Decription of the future evolution of life.
- By Skyking on 02-20-22
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The Smartest Creatures in The Universe
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 09-20-17
- Language: English
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Ancient Brains
- By: Briana Pobiner
- Length: 12 mins
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Does brain size matter? In this talk at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC, research scientist Briana Pobiner explains how our enormous brains define us as a species, why beards are sexier during a recession, and why smallpox might some day make a comeback.
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Ancient Brains
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 09-20-17
- Language: English
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It's All About Rocks
- By: Kirk Johnson
- Length: 6 mins
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Can geology help predict earthquakes? Kirk Johnson certainly thinks they can do that, and much more— Johnson calls himself “Chief Rock Collector” at the world’s largest museum. In this talk at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC, Johnson explains how earth’s geology can predict the future, helped create technology, and helps us imagine life on Mars.
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It's All About Rocks
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 6 mins
- Release date: 09-20-17
- Language: English
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Lovebots
- By: Beth Phillips, Rachel Hamburg
- Length: 10 mins
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Would you ever date a robot? What about fall in love with a robot? Beth Phillips explains why the future of love and sex with robots is pretty much inevitable, at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC. About the Speaker: Beth Phillips is a PhD candidate who studies teamwork between humans and robots at the University of Central Florida.
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Lovebots
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 08-15-16
- Language: English
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In The Beginning
- By: John Mather
- Length: 9 mins
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How did we get here? In this talk at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC, Nobel Laureate John Mather walks us through the Big Bang, Dark Matter, and the essential instability of the universe. Sound terrifying? Don’t worry, Mather actually thinks the future will be much like the present… only more so.
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In The Beginning
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 09-20-17
- Language: English
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Volcanic Respiration
- By: Elizabeth Cottrell
- Length: 9 mins
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What makes volcanoes erupt? This talk from Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC is all about active volcanoes — and not just they might spew fire and destruction across a hundred mile radius. Instead, Elizabeth Cottrell, Director of Smithsonian’s Global Volcanism Program discusses an often overlooked facet of how Volcanoes function: their breathe.
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Volcanic Respiration
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 09-20-17
- Language: English
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Digging Up Whales
- By: Nick Pyenson
- Length: 10 mins
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How do you 3-D model whale fossils? In this talk at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC, Nick Pyenson gives us the down low on digitizing a whale fossil graveyard with the “Laser Cowboys” and why too much data can be a good thing… eventually.
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Digging Up Whales
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 09-20-17
- Language: English
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