ToriNews.com » PEOPLE http://www.torinews.com Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:38:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours – Laurie Santos (2010) http://www.torinews.com/2010/07/laurie-santos-a-monkey-economy-as-irrational-as-ours-laurie-santos-2010/ http://www.torinews.com/2010/07/laurie-santos-a-monkey-economy-as-irrational-as-ours-laurie-santos-2010/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:54:46 +0000 admin http://www.torinews.com/2010/07/laurie-santos-a-monkey-economy-as-irrational-as-ours-laurie-santos-2010/ Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in “monkeynomics” shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too.
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]]> http://www.torinews.com/2010/07/sheena-iyengar-on-the-art-of-choosing-sheena-iyengar-2010/feed/ 0 Kevin Stone: The bio-future of joint replacement – Kevin Stone (2010) http://www.torinews.com/2010/07/kevin-stone-the-bio-future-of-joint-replacement-kevin-stone-2010/ http://www.torinews.com/2010/07/kevin-stone-the-bio-future-of-joint-replacement-kevin-stone-2010/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:46:42 +0000 admin http://www.torinews.com/2010/07/kevin-stone-the-bio-future-of-joint-replacement-kevin-stone-2010/ Arthritis and injury grind down millions of joints, but few get the best remedy — real biological tissue. Kevin Stone shows a treatment that could sidestep the high costs and donor shortfall of human-to-human transplants with a novel use of animal tissue.
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]]> http://www.torinews.com/2010/07/kevin-stone-the-bio-future-of-joint-replacement-kevin-stone-2010/feed/ 0 Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks – Julian Assange (2010) http://www.torinews.com/2010/07/julian-assange-why-the-world-needs-wikileaks-julian-assange-2010/ http://www.torinews.com/2010/07/julian-assange-why-the-world-needs-wikileaks-julian-assange-2010/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:48:06 +0000 admin http://www.torinews.com/2010/07/julian-assange-why-the-world-needs-wikileaks-julian-assange-2010/ The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who’s reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED’s Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has accomplished — and what drives him. The interview includes graphic footage of a recent US airstrike in Baghdad.
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]]> http://www.torinews.com/2010/07/elif-shafak-the-politics-of-fiction-elif-shafak-2010/feed/ 0 Carl Safina: The oil spill’s unseen culprits, victims – Carl Safina (2010) http://www.torinews.com/2010/07/carl-safina-the-oil-spills-unseen-culprits-victims-carl-safina-2010/ http://www.torinews.com/2010/07/carl-safina-the-oil-spills-unseen-culprits-victims-carl-safina-2010/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:48:01 +0000 admin http://www.torinews.com/2010/07/carl-safina-the-oil-spills-unseen-culprits-victims-carl-safina-2010/ The Gulf oil spill dwarfs comprehension, but we know this much: it’s bad. Carl Safina scrapes out the facts in this blood-boiling cross-examination, arguing that the consequences will stretch far beyond the Gulf — and many so-called solutions are making the situation worse.
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