Origin of Complexity in the Universe
MIT Professor Seth Lloyd on the origin of life, the butterfly effect, and the Universe as a quantum computer
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Space
December 30, 2013
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biology
December 28, 2013
DNA Topology
Molecular biologist Maxim D. Frank-Kamenetskii on the round form of DNA, changes in topology caused by topoiso...
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Impact
December 27, 2013
Meritocracy and Topocracy of Networks
Economist Cesar Hidalgo on the meritocratic system, rock star behavior, and market mechanisms
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medicine
December 26, 2013
Nanomedicine for Drug Delivery
Prof. Srinivas Sridhar of Northeastern University on early detection of cancer, drug targeting by nanoparticle...
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Energy
December 25, 2013
Proton – Proton Collisions at High Energy
Physicist Frank Taylor on the Higgs boson, supersymmetry, and physics beyond the Standard Model
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biology
December 24, 2013
Biology of Selenium
Geneticist Vadim Gladyshev on selenoprotein genes, the 21st amino acid, and selenium in human diet
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linguistics
December 23, 2013
Linguistic Theory of Question
Linguist Maria Polinsky on polar questions, strategy of asking in different languages, and cross-linguistic un...
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biology
December 23, 2013
Origin of Birds as Modified Dinosaurs
Biologist Arkhat Abzhanov on Archosaurs, paedomorphosis, and the evolution of birds
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Space
December 20, 2013
Matter and Antimatter Symmetry
Physicist John Doyle on the Big Bang, time-reversal symmetry, and the electric dipole moment of the electron
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neuroscience
December 19, 2013
Social Neuroscience
Neuroscientist Mahzarin Banaji on the role of functional MRI in social neuroscience, ways our brain perceives ...
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economics
December 19, 2013
Mechanism Design Theory
Economist Eric Maskin on privatization of the radio spectrum, history of the field, and mistakes in decision m...
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mathematics
December 19, 2013
Finite Element Method
Mathematician Gilbert Strang on the history of the finite element method, collaborative work of engineers and ...
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