videos tagged daily life

Thanks to Bob for the pointer to this interesting talk. "Can we create new life out of our digital universe?" asks Craig Venter. And his answer is, yes, and pretty soon. He walks the TED2008 audience through his latest research into "fourth-generation fuels" -- biologically created fuels with CO2 as their feedstock. His talk covers the details of creating brand-new chromosomes using digital technology, the reasons why we would want to do this, and the bioethics of synthetic life. A fascinating Q&A with TED

This is amazing. Please watch.

Alan Watts is always intriguing.

Good video showing how the infection spread. More info here.

From SNL.

Fascinating, interesting, humorous, and thought-provoking. And notice at the beginning he opens a Moleskine notebook. Worth watching

Amazing lens---this goes out to Scott. More info here.

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