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Boobs, theory of everything, ethics, brains, and saving the world. But mainly boobs.

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• A comment on Talk: Chip Kidd: Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is.

  Jun 8 2013: Master presenter. He embodies his work.
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  A comment on Talk: Ji-Hae Park: The violin, and my dark night of the soul

  Jun 8 2013: Such passion, such spirit. The intellectual balanced with pure spirit is limitless.

• A comment on Talk: Andrew Solomon: Love, no matter what

  Jun 8 2013: She left as suddenly as she came. I came here because of love, and love answered as quickly as I came.
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  A comment on Talk: Damon Horowitz: Philosophy in prison

  Dec 15 2011: This is why we have to do away with the prison system. It doesn't help fix a ruined life by ruining another life. I'd say people who have done tremendous wrongs have something more to contribute than the mainstream gas guzzling reality tv watching apathetic crowd. Those who have done wrongs know what it means to lose something. They've had plenty of time to reflect. They have the motivation to do some good.
  
  I applaud Damon for resuscitating people who are essentially already dead. Great speaker and great speech.

• A reply on Talk: Annie Murphy Paul: What we learn before we're born

  Dec 13 2011: If they were considering homeopathy, and it works as a placebo, then by doing the research, they would have undone that effect.
  
  And therein lies the catch-22 of placebo therapy. You can't ask somebody if they want to try placebo therapy like you can't ask somebody who's asleep whether or not they want to be woken up.
  
  I did see a documentary before about alternative medicines, and what they noticed was that the homeopathy "doctors" had a lot more time to spend when their patients and to talk with them about their ailments. So I could imagine that somebody might want to do homeopathy treatment for that reason, even knowing fully that it's a placebo, and it still might help their condition. And of course, knowing that it's placebo, they would also seek scientific medical help.
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  A comment on Talk: Iain McGilchrist: The divided brain

  Nov 9 2011: I kept thinking about the atheist-theist schism during this talk. Seems like the theists tend to be more right brain oriented, often not expressing themselves as precisely as left brained people because they are talking about right brain stuff.
  
  Atheists, who tend to be more left brained, prey on those imprecisions to reject everything the theist is saying, including those indescribable things that are important to us all.
  
  Like the speaker said, we need both points of view for complete fulfillment.

• A comment on Conversation: A Universal Language...

  Apr 2 2011: You may want to look into the work of Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker. Chomsky approached language from the "mathematical/analytical" side to find a universal grammar, and Pinker's work backed up that theory with the biological/neurolinguistic approach.
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  A comment on Talk: Sebastian Thrun: Google's driverless car

  Apr 2 2011: I think this technology could save a lot of marriages:
  
  1) Everyone knows that modern couples just don't have enough time for "one of Maslow's basics".
  2) You could put curtains up.
  3) It's exciting!
  4) There's no chauffeur to snoop in the rear view mirror (which could be a plus or a minus, I guess.)
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  A reply on Talk: Eythor Bender demos human exoskeletons

  Mar 28 2011: Yes, I noticed that too. I also noticed that everyone felt awkward about clapping for the soldier. Bunch of lefty wusses! ;-P

• A reply on Talk: Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education

  Mar 19 2011: That's *exactly* what I thought. What server do you play on? =)
  
  /trade This talk gave me such a massive boner, I ran out of skin.