Profiling Cyber Crime Victims

Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid

[+] What would happen if we could generate power from our ...

[-] What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that could make that possible, and how questioning our notion of 'normal' can lead to extraordinary breakthroughs.

TED Talks - Charles Limb: Your brain on improv

[+] Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works ...

[-] Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation -- so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.

TED Talks - David Brooks: The social animal

[+] Tapping into the findings of his latest book, NYTimes columnist ...

[-] Tapping into the findings of his latest book, NYTimes columnist David Brooks unpacks new insights into human nature from the cognitive sciences -- insights with massive implications for economics and politics as well as our own self-knowledge. In a talk full of humor, he shows how you can't hope to understand humans as separate individuals making choices based on their conscious awareness.

TED Talks - Ed Boyden: A light switch for neurons

[+] Ed Boyden shows how, by inserting genes for light-sensitive proteins ...

[-] Ed Boyden shows how, by inserting genes for light-sensitive proteins into brain cells, he can selectively activate or de-activate specific neurons with fiber-optic implants. With this unprecedented level of control, he's managed to cure mice of analogs of PTSD and certain forms of blindness. On the horizon: neural prosthetics. Session host Juan Enriquez leads a brief post-talk Q&A.

TED TAlks - Michael Merzenich on re-wiring the brain

[+] Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich looks at one of the secrets of ...

[-] Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich looks at one of the secrets of the brain's incredible power: its ability to actively re-wire itself. He's researching ways to harness the brain's plasticity to enhance our skills and recover lost function.

TED Talks - Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds

[+] Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles ...

[-] Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnet syndrome -- when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of this under-reported phenomenon.

TED Talks: Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds

[+] Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks about ...

[-] Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks about how her mind works -- sharing her ability to "think in pictures," which helps her solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss. She makes the case that the world needs people on the autism spectrum: visual thinkers, pattern thinkers, verbal thinkers, and all kinds of smart geeky kids

HTML

[+] HTML is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML ...

[-] HTML is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML is the basic building-blocks of webpages....... source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html

Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov

[+] Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov was a pair of famous ...

[-] Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov was a pair of famous six-game human-computer chess matches played between the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue and the World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov.

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