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  A comment on Talk: Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

  Mar 1 2013: A very humble kind man!
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  A reply on Talk: Michael Hansmeyer: Building unimaginable shapes

  Jul 27 2012: I think the difference is imagination of an artist vs. imagination of a mathematician. With this mathematic algorithms can have concrete shapes, which up till now were only equations, but now we can actually see those equations.
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  A comment on Talk: Michael Hansmeyer: Building unimaginable shapes

  Jul 27 2012: This talk gives rise to an interesting question - How to visualize algorithms. Mathematics is the language of the natural processes. Can we use algorithms to manifest those processes. It may have applications in theoretical physics and things that we cannot see with naked eye but most likely are present all around us! Thanks for this talk. It was beautiful!

• A comment on Talk: Seth Shostak: ET is (probably) out there -- get ready

  Jun 15 2012: Considering the recent ideas in Theoretical Physics, especially multiple dimensions in spaces closer to us but harder to see/measure/fathom, could it be that we are looking in the wrong place. Alternate forms of life might be specs of energy (or something similar unknown yet to mankind and the laws of physics/biology that govern our understanding) in places much closer to us. No I am not talking about bacteriae, viruses. - Just a thought!
  
  Thanks for this talk. It was entertaining!
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  A comment on Talk: Juan Enriquez: Will our kids be a different species?

  Jun 11 2012: I think that has always been the case, humans have controlled their own evolution with their behaviors, intelligence. Now its really accelerated and going a step further. So in a sense the intelligence is the real winner here. Our bodies are just a medium and always were a stepping stone to something greater we cannot yet imagine (may be beyond comprehension/imagination)
  
  Thank you for this talk!
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  A comment on Talk: Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career

  May 27 2012: One of the most inspiring talks I have heard. The difference between this one and others is Mr. Smith does not give a pre-planned program/recipe but improvises in the end with the word "unless" to find answers for ourselves, which I believe is the only and only way to a path to greatness in anything! If you focus on "unless" hard enough, long enough, you will (should) be able to peel off the layers of doubt/s one by one. Well still if you don't, you won't be great! UNLESS!! Thanks Mr. Smith!
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  A comment on Talk: Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies

  May 23 2012: I love this talk. I couldnt agree more. It has the data to prove what I felt all along while studying medicine. While I realize the amazing breakthroughs that medicine has made in the past decades, I soon realized that most of our medicine is symptomatic treatment. The root cause of our illnesses (especially chronic diseases which form 70% or more of our healthcare burden) lies in psychosocioeconomic factors. Sometimes I feel stupid watching all those battles regarding healthcare reform and what not! The solutions lie much closer than we realize.

• A comment on Talk: Brian Greene: Is our universe the only universe?

  May 21 2012: Questions
  
  Why is a White Hole different from the so called Big Bang? We know what is on this side of a Black Hole but I heard very little on the other side? Probably matter disintegrating and giving rise to pure energy and new possiblities on the other side?
  
  Black Hole in our universe is different from the Black Hole in another universe (Different String Dimensions, Dark Energy)
  
  Just Thinking!
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  A comment on Talk: Brené Brown: Listening to shame

  Apr 12 2012: So what does shame lead to? Leadership I guess. I know the presenter said that shame is highly co-related with violence, abuse etc... But isnt that a feature of people in power (relativistic speaking)
  
  Good talk. Enjoyed the first one too.

• A comment on Talk: Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives

  Mar 15 2012: It can also be interpreted in different terms - Vishnu as the Preserver of stability as long as there is no repression. Shiva the destroyer because stability is lost only because the ones at the top edged from stability towards dictatorship/repression (social, moral, psychological). So we can interpret that the ones at the top in a way destroyed the stability because had they been fair enough to trickle down the fruits of order fairly among everyone there would be very less likelihood of a revolution by the ones at the bottom (They are the Vishnus here). Or it could be role reversal over time!