WEDNESDAY WITTINESS (Funnies, ok?) (I am a Witness to this – I was around when the internet was born, yes I was) In ancient Israel , it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a healthy young wife by the name of Dorothy. Dot Com was […]
How BIG DATA will transform our lives
– Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
and Kenneth Cukier
February 14, 2015 By
“Sometimes the constraints that we live with, and presume are the same for everything, are really only functions of the scale in which we operate.” A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large. Which paint color is most likely […]
A Doctor’s Touch
– Abraham Verghese
August 11, 2014 By
From TED.com Modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool: human touch. Physician and writer Abraham Verghese describes our strange new world where patients are merely data points, and calls for a return to the traditional one-on-one physical exam. In our era of the patient-as-data-point, Abraham Verghese believes in the old-fashioned physical exam, […]
On the Map
– Simon Garfield
July 31, 2014 By
Cartography enthusiasts rejoice: the bestselling author of Just My Type reveals the fascinating relationship between man and map. Simon Garfield’s Just My Type illuminated the world of fonts and made everyone take a stand on Comic Sans and care about kerning. Now Garfield takes on a subject even dearer to our fanatical human hearts: maps. Imagine a world […]
The Brain That Changes Itself
– Norman Doidge
July 29, 2014 By
“The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.” What is neuroplasticity? Is it possible to change your brain? Norman […]
A new strategy in the war on cancer
– David Agus
July 27, 2014 By
From TED.com Too often, says David Agus cancer treatments have a short-sighted focus on individual cells. He suggests a new, cross-disciplinary approach, using atypical drugs, computer modeling and protein analysis to diagnose and treat the whole body. Although a highly-accomplished conventional doctor, David Agus has embraced the future of medicine and is constantly exploring ways that […]
Doctors make mistakes
– Brian Goldman
July 25, 2014 By
From TED.com Every doctor makes mistakes. But, says physician Brian Goldman, medicine’s culture of denial (and shame) keeps doctors from ever talking about those mistakes, or using them to learn and improve. Telling stories from his own long practice, he calls on doctors to start talking about being wrong. (Filmed at TEDxToronto.) Brian Goldman is an […]
Where good ideas come from
– Steven Johnson
July 24, 2014 By
From TED.com People often credit their ideas to individual “Eureka!” moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the “liquid networks” of London’s coffee houses to Charles Darwin’s long, slow hunch to today’s high-velocity web. Steven Berlin Johnson examines the intersection of science, technology and personal experience. Why […]
Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer
– Mina Bissell”
July 14, 2014 By
From TED.com For decades, researcher Mina Bissell pursued a revolutionary idea — that a cancer cell doesn’t automatically become a tumor, but rather, depends on surrounding cells (its microenvironment) for cues on how to develop. She shares the two key experiments that proved the prevailing wisdom about cancer growth was wrong. Mina Bissell studies how […]
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
– Douglas Adams
June 24, 2014 By
“Don’t Panic.” Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.Together this dynamic […]
