Ben Goldacre Talks Bad Science [Poptech2010]


Ben Goldacre Talks Bad Science Author of the Guardian's weekly "Bad Science" column and Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks, British physician Ben Goldacre dismantles the questionable science behind an assortment of drug trials, court cases, and events of our time. View the Original: poptech.org About PopTech: PopTech is a unique innovation network -- a global community of cutting-edge leaders, thinkers, and doers from many different disciplines, who come together to explore the social impact of new technologies, the forces of change shaping our future, and new approaches to solving the world's most significant challenges. We are known for our thriving community of thought-leaders, breakthrough innovation programs, visionary annual conferences and deep media and storytelling capabilities Held every October, in the beautiful seaside village of Camden, Maine, USA, the PopTech Conference brings together 700 influential participants for one of the world's best thought leadership events: a shared exploration of the issues, trends and technologies that will shape the future of our businesses, economy, society and world. Each PopTech conference offers unparalleled networking, jaw-dropping demos of breakthrough technologies, amazing artistic performances, and an incredible array of new ideas presented in an intimate and informal setting.


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Amishi Jha : Building Attention (Pop!Tech 2010)


Original Website : PopTech.org www.poptech.org Amishi Jha is a brain scientist who is working on ways to train brains to pay better attention. How can mindfulness training help people in high-stress situations -- from medical staff to soldiers -- better navigate their challenging environments? Video source file : HD Video (.MOV) e1.simplecdn.net Quicktime Video (.M4V) e1.simplecdn.net Audio (.MP3) e1.simplecdn.net External links : www.poptech.org All PopTech videos have a Creative Commons license : Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported creativecommons.org as mentionned here www.poptech.org Music : Track 2-Radha song (Adha & tintal) 16,09mn www.jamendo.com By karim amari : www.jamendo.com Tabla (Main), Composer (Main), Sitar (Main), Author (Main), Composer (Main), Arrangement Credits for the album "shruti" www.jamendo.com * karim amari : Publisher, Label, Arrangement, Producer, Label, Producer music under a Creative Commons license : Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported creativecommons.org This track was certified by SafeCreative www.safecreative.org


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John Legend LIVE at PopTech 2010 performing "Shine"


John Legend performing Shine at the 2010 PopTech in Camden,Maine. www.poptech.org/


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Amro Hamdoun: Cell Self-Defense (PopTech-2010)


Cell biologist Amro Hamdoun seeks to understand the systems that cells and embryos use to protect themselves against chemical pollution. Why do some "bad" chemicals make it into cells, and how can we predict which ones will as we develop even more chemicals? Original Website : PopTech.org www.poptech.org Biography : Assistant Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego Cell biologist Amro Hamdoun seeks to understand the systems that cells and embryos use to protect themselves against chemical pollution. Amro is particularly interested in how chemicals can elude these protective systems, and the implications of failure of cellular defenses for human and environmental health. He currently focuses on the function and regulation of multidrug efflux transporters in embryos. He won the National Institutes of Health K99/R00 Career Development Award and his work has appeared in PNAS and Science. His research provides a critical link between environmental chemists, ecologists and biomedical researchers working in multidisciplinary ways to reform policy and practice concerning control of environmental contaminants. www.poptech.org Video source file : HD Video (.MOV) e1.simplecdn.net Quicktime Video (.M4V) e1.simplecdn.net Audio (.MP3) e1.simplecdn.net All PopTech videos have a Creative Commons license : Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported creativecommons.org as mentionned here www.poptech.org Background Music : Rise www <b>...</b>


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The Best Things in Life Aren't Things: Elizabeth Dunn at PopTech 2010


University of British Columbia psychologist and 2010 PopTech conference speaker Elizabeth Dunn made cash "rain from trees" to examine the relationship between money and happiness. Turns out that, for most of us, giving money away makes us happier than spending it on ourselves, and experiences—not possessions—bring lasting joy.


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Kim Cobb on Climate Confusion and Certainties at PopTech 2010


Geochemist, climate scientist, and 2010 PopTech Science Fellow Kim Cobb discusses what we know and don't know about human-induced climate change, and the sources of public confusion around global warming. National Geographic sponsored PopTech's new Science and Public Leadership Fellows program.


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Imogen Heap: Hide and Seek (PopTech)


Imogen Heap plays a stripped-down version of what she says is her most popular song, "Hide and Seek." It came together by accident one night when her computer died and she was forced to look at her instruments in a new way. Original Website : PopTech.org www.poptech.org Biography : Imogen Heap (pronounced /ˈɪmədʒɨn ˈhiːp/) (born 9 December 1977 in the London Borough of Havering)[2] is a Grammy Award-winning British singer, composer and songwriter from Romford, Havering. She is known for her work as part of the musical duo Frou Frou and her solo albums, which she writes, produces, and mixes. In 2006, Heap was nominated for two Grammy Awards. She has produced three solo albums, the latest of which is 2009's Ellipse, which was a North American chart success and earned Heap two Grammy nominations, winning Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. en.wikipedia.org External Links : www.imogenheap.com Video source file : HD Video (.MOV) e1.simplecdn.net Quicktime Video (.M4V) e1.simplecdn.net Audio (.MP3) e1.simplecdn.net All PopTech videos have a Creative Commons license : Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported creativecommons.org as mentionned here www.poptech.org


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John Fetterman; Reviving Braddock 2/2 (PopTech)


Title : John Fetterman: Reviving Braddock Found at : www.poptech.org http Description : Braddock, Pennsylvania Mayor John Fetterman is fighting for the future of his rust belt town's future. Braddock has lost ninety percent of its buildings and most of its population. Yet Fetterman's ambitious plans include repurposing abandoned lots and fostering numerous arts and community initiatives. Video source file : e1.simplecdn.net Under Creative Commons License : Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported creativecommons.org


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Heather Knight's Rube Goldberg infatuation


An element of chance and an air of tension draw Heather Knight and her colleagues at Syyn Labs to construct Rube Goldberg contraptions. PopTech followed Knight to get her take on the Rube Goldberg that they created to kick off PopTech 2010. And with bated breath, we watched the apparatus come to life -- with a little help from some friends.


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Carlo Ratti: Oil-absorbing Robots


Director of MIT's SENSEable City Lab Carlo Ratti wondered if there was a way to create a small, inexpensive, scalable, self-organizing system to help remove the oil after the Gulf oil spill. He discusses the inception of Seaswarm, a fleet of low-cost oil-absorbing robots in his PopTech 2010 talk.


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Reggie Watts: Humor in music


Reggie Watts is an entertainer who combines stream-of-consciousness improvisational comedy with music to create a wholly original experience. A PopTech veteran, Watts knows this audience well and he handled them like a pro, getting big laughs with a smart blend of sarcasm and self-deprecation during his performance.


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Kathryn Schulz: Being Wrong


Kathryn Schulz is an expert on being wrong. The journalist and author of "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margins of Error," says we make mistakes all the time. The trouble is that often times being wrong feels like being right. What's more, we're usually wrong about what it even means to make mistakes--and how it can lead to better ideas.


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David Eagleman on Possibilianism


Neuroscientist and best-selling author David Eagleman introduces the concept of Possibilianism, a new philosophy that simultaneously embraces a scientific toolbox while exploring new, unconsidered uncertainties about the world around us.


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Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Cancer Puzzle


Siddhartha Mukherjee's fascination with cancer is rooted not just in how to fight it, but in where it originated. Discovering almost nothing on the subject, the cancer physician and researcher wrote "Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," that explores the history of the disease that causes one quarter of all American deaths.


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Stephanie Coontz: On Marriage


What makes an ideal marriage? Stephanie Coontz, a professor of history and family studies and author of "Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage," says that marrying for love is a radical idea. Ironically, as marriage is becoming a more emotionally satisfying relationship, it is also becoming less stable as an institution.


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Dan Ariely: Adaptive Responses


Adaptation has to do with how we learn to interpret signals. Behavioral economist Dan Ariely has based his career working through these types of issues as they relate to adaptation to pain and social adaptation. In his talk, he explores how we're drawn to partners with a similar level of attractiveness and how exposure to pain alters how people perceive pain in the future.


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Adrian Owen: Search for Consciousness


What if you were completely conscious but couldn't move or speak? Neuroscientist Adrian Owen and his team have been using brain-imaging techniques to determine levels of consciousness in vegetative patients. By giving simple commands and then measuring brain activity, Owen has learned some patients are completely aware despite being entirely unable to communicate or move their limbs.


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John Legend: Wake Up


Accompanied only by his piano, Grammy award-winning recording artist and philanthropist John Legend performs the soulful "Wake Up" and "Shine" from his album, Wake Up, including a song that appears on the soundtrack to the documentary Waiting for Superman.


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Brian Hare: Peaceful as a Bonobo?


What can human society learn from bonobo behavior? Brian Hare studies primates' and non-primates' social skills and asks whether areas of their evolution have surpassed our own.


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Patrick Flanagan: Robot Drums


The one-man band, Jazari, consists of machines that play a variety of hand percussion instruments, all under the control Patrick Flanagan, who wields a custom-built controller and a Wii remote to create improvised jam sessions. After performing, Flanagan walked the crowd through the technical process of how his system works.


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OK Go's Synchronized Sounds


OK Go's eccentricities and music videos are undeniably captivating. But there's no denying that they are incredible musicians too. OK Go took to the PopTech stage with acoustic performances of "White Knuckles," "Return," (performed with bells) "This Too Shall Pass" and "Here It Goes Again."


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Sean Gourley: Tracking innovation


Sean Gourley is a mathematician who has spent the last seven years using math to understand war and insurgency. He is now applying that understanding to develop ways to map technology companies -- in search of the "technology genome."


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Sound and science with Jad Abumrad


From crayfish hairs to monkey neurons, Radiolab host and producer Jad Abumrad shares examples of how sound has been used to make scientific strides. Along the way, he explains how audio can convey failure or express error.


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Chris Chabris: When Intuition Fails


Psychologist and neuroscientist Chris Chabris studies how rarely we see the world as it really is. A creator of the famous "gorilla experiment" and co-author of "The Invisible Gorilla: and Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us," Chabris' work reveals how relying on our institutions is a perilous decision-making strategy.


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Elizabeth Dunn: Happiness and Money


Elizabeth Dunn conducts experimental research on self-knowledge and happiness with a focus on how people can more effectively use their money to increase well-being. Dunn determined that by rethinking how we spend our money, we can "change the world, increase our happiness, or win a game of dodgeball."


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Pieter Hoff's Groasis waterboxx


Dutch bulb grower, Pieter Hoff has an idea about how to make deserts bloom: capture the humidity in the air, store it in a box, and use that condensation to water plants. He calls this box the Groasis waterboxx and he thinks it can change how we feed the world and reduce greenhouse gases.


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Alan Rabinowitz: Saving Big Cats


Alan Rabinowitz overcame a debilitating stutter to lend his voice on behalf of big cats. After creating the world's first jaguar sanctuary and world's largest tiger reserve, the wildlife biologist now calls for new models of conservation that rely on wildlife corridors to allow humans and animals to coexist more peacefully.


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Riley Crane: Crowdsource win


Riley Crane, a postdoctoral fellow at the MIT Media Lab, found out about the DARPA Red Balloon Challenge four days before it started (find ten balloons placed in ten different locations around the country). Four days, eight hours, and 52 minutes later his team had won the competition. Watch him talk about how they did it and the challenges they encountered in the process.


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Orlagh O'Brien: Illustrating How You Feel


Designer Orlagh O'Brien gave a simple emotion-specific quiz to a group of 250 people. Asking respondents to describe five emotions -- anger, joy, fear, sadness, and love -- in drawings, colors, and words, O'Brien ended up with a set of media she used to create Emotionally}Vague, an online graphic interpretation of the project's results.


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Sinan Aral: Social Contagion


Sinan Aral's two areas of interest are behavioral contagions and causality. He believes that if we can understand how behavior is spread in a population, there's the potential to promote good behaviors such as condom use and tolerance and to deter behavior like smoking and violence.


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April Smith and The Great Picture Show


April Smith and the Great Picture Show serve up an exuberant blend of vintage-inspired music that drips with emotion and grace. The group recently released their first CD, a fan-financed project called Songs for a Sinking Ship.


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Eli Pariser on the Filter Bubble


Eli Pariser explores how ideas move in the networked economy. As the board president of MoveOn.org, he pioneered many practices of online organizing. Now, Pariser is focused on the social and political impact of the personalized web, examining the role that filters -- both cognitive and software-based -- have in shaping what information spreads, which he refers to as the Filter Bubble.


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John Fetterman; Reviving Braddock 1/2 (PopTech)


Title : John Fetterman: Reviving Braddock Found at : www.poptech.org http Description : Braddock, Pennsylvania Mayor John Fetterman is fighting for the future of his rust belt town's future. Braddock has lost ninety percent of its buildings and most of its population. Yet Fetterman's ambitious plans include repurposing abandoned lots and fostering numerous arts and community initiatives. Video source file : e1.simplecdn.net Under Creative Commons License : Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported creativecommons.org


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Ned Breslin: Fixing the Water Crisis


Is water still running?" is perhaps the most important question when considering water initiatives worldwide, concludes Water for People CEO Ned Breslin. He's tired of seeing broken hand pumps and taps litter Africa, Asia, and Latin America. These signs of failed projects underscore the critical need to overhaul water aid for real impact.


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Kevin Starr: Lasting Impact


Kevin Starr, Mulago Foundation director, looks for the best solutions to the biggest problems in the poorest countries. He thinks all projects need to answer four questions: Is it needed? Does it work? Will it get to those who need it? Will they use it correctly when they get it? Too many bad ideas are using up our limited resources and that needs to change.


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Susan Casey: In Awe of Waves


Susan Casey wrote her latest book, The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean, after researching the beautiful, mysterious and terrifying behavior of waves for the past three years. Casey recounted astonishing tales of misfit waves from around the world and what drew her to confront them firsthand.


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Tom Darden: Make It Right


Tom Darden is the Executive Director of the Make It Right Foundation, an organization founded by actor Brad Pitt to build 150 green, high design homes in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward, a neighborhood devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Darden said he wants to take what has been a local conversation about green construction to the national level.


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Daryl Collins on $2 a day living


Daryl Collins asked families in developing countries who live on $2 a day to track their income and expenses in a financial diary. She learned that these families have rich financial lives but are confronted with sporadic cash flow and lack of appropriate financial tools. As a result, this inhibits their ability to manage money and plan for future generations.


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Lisa Gansky: The Future is Sharing


Technology entrepreneur Lisa Gansky believes that the growing ubiquity of networked information and relationships are leading to what she calls a "mesh" economy of shared services and products. This "meshiness" not only rewards sharing over ownership, but it is also fundamentally changing our relationship with things from product to experience.


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Donald Ingber: Serendipitous science


Donald Ingber explains how taking an undergraduate sculpture course while learning how to culture cells led to an unexpected breakthrough in understanding cellular construction. He believes an open mind for serendipity correlates to innovations in a diverse range of fields — from the "lung-on-a-chip" to "DNA origami."


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Brian Elliot: Friend Power


Brian Elliot founded Friendfactor to unlock the power of friendship to accelerate legal freedoms for LGBT people. Friendfactor's innovative social networking platform shifts the focus of gay rights from ideology towards a far more personal concept: friends making a difference in their gay friends' lives.


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Stephen Vitiello: Intimate Listening


From composing electronic music to scoring experimental videos to making larger-scale public installations that create immersive soundscapes, sound artist Stephen Vitiello invites his audience to reinterpret sound. He took us on a sonic tour of his work including recordings from a 1999 residency at the World Trade Center and his sound installation at New York City's High Line, "A Bell for Every Minute."


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Graham Hill: Life Edited


Treehugger founder Graham Hill announced the launch of a new online design competition, Life Edited, and asked all interested parties to weigh in on how he can best design his new 420 square foot New York City apartment. Offering up to $70000 in prizes, Life Edited is raising the stakes for low-impact designers.


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Beth Shapiro: What Goes Extinct?


Evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro explores the influences of climate and humans in determining species extinction. Why did brown bears survive while giant beavers didn't? Her cutting-edge DNA research is helping us make informed decisions about how to preserve the species that are currently under threat.


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Ryan Smith: Sewage Into Plastic


Ryan Smith is co-founder and chief technical officer of Micromidas, Inc., a biotech company that uses an innovative microbial process to convert raw sewage into high-quality plastics. A non-petroleum plastic made from organic waste that completely degrades in six months to a year? What's not to love?


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