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| |  | TED Talks: Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
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Entrepreneurial mycologist Paul Stamets seeks to rescue the study of mushrooms from forest gourmets and psychedelic warlords. The focus of Stamets' research more...is the Northwest's native fungal genome, mycelium, but along the way he has filed 22 patents for mushroom-related technologies, including pesticidal fungi that trick insects into eating them, and mushrooms that can break down the neurotoxins used in nerve gas.
There are cosmic implications as well. Stamets believes we could terraform other worlds in our galaxy by sowing a mix of fungal spores and other seeds to create an ecological footprint on a new planet. less
Added: Jul 5, 08
Views: 300
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| | |  | TED Talks: Erin McKean on Redefining the dictionary
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Is the beloved paper dictionary doomed to extinction? When does a made-up word become real? And could you use "synecdochical" in a sentence, please? In more...this infectiously exuberant talk, leading lexicographer Erin McKean looks at the many ways in which today's print dictionary is poised for transformation in this internet era. (Recorded March 2007 in Monterey, California. Duration: 15:41.) less
Added: Jul 5, 08
Views: 33
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| | | | | | |  | TED Talks: Susan Blackmore- Memes & "Temes"
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Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a more...new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to keep itself alive less
Added: Jun 12, 08
Views: 108
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