In the Critterdrug a-life lab, with physics, eyesight and five types of drugs, ported from a Belgian evolution sandbox, you can evolve simple consciousnesses over the course of days. Happy hacking, fla...

Geüpload door AtGoogleTalks op 2 jun 2011 Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Spence spoke to Googlers in Mountain View on May 24, 2011 about his book The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic G... More

Geüpload door DevCentre op 4 dec 2008 Chinese economic prospects for the next 30 years will not be diminished by the international financial crisis, says the author of "Chinese Economic Performance i... More

Geüpload door TheRationalFuture op 9 aug 2011 I found it hard downloading the wmv from overcoming bias. When I finally managed to do so, I decided to upload it here for others to enjoy. See Overco... More

Geüpload door damjerminator op 18 nov 2011 Coast to Coast AM Physics Milestones Date: 11-17-11 Host: George Noory Guests: Clifford Pickover, Bill Mumy, Marc Zicree News segment guests: John Lott... More

Geüpload door TEDtalksDirector op 17 nov 2011 http://www.ted.com What controls aging? Biochemist Cynthia Kenyon has found a simple genetic mutation that can double the lifespan of a simple worm, C. E... More

3 nov 2011 The Duplessis Orphans (French: les Orphelins de Duplessis) were the victims of a scheme in which several thousand orphaned children were falsely certified as mentally ill by the State & Ch... More

27 jan 2008 The Lobotomist, Walter J. Freeman

Professor David Nutt DM, FRCP, FRCPsych, FMedSci, delivered the Ninth Annual Monica Fooks Memorial Lecture entitled "How can we get the media to tell the truth about drugs?" on Wednesday, 23 November 2... More

This is the first of a three-part BBC series in which Dr Adam Rutherford tells the extraordinary story of the scientific quest to discover the secrets of the living cell.

Quantum dots are tiny particles made of semiconductor crystals, and they are being used by the Photonic Network Research Institute of NICT to increase the bandwidth of optical communication systems by ... More

2012 may be the year of 3D printing, when this three-decade-old technology finally becomes accessible and even commonplace. Lisa Harouni gives a useful introduction to this fascinating way of making th... More

Which Way Next? is a Singularity University webcast series of monthly round-table discussions on exponential technologies with leaders in industry, science and technology. This is a recording of our se... More

Cat Laine has made it her mission to find solutions to the problems that face the world’s poor, by merging innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit.

For the moment, Bill Gates is no longer the world's wealthiest man. But he didn't lose the title to Mexico's telecom titan Carlos Slim; he gave it away. And as a result, the businessman-turned-philant... More

Can't have an evidence-based governmental system without evidence-based education.

Stumbled across this when googling "scientocracy"