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TEDx: "Drugs, 'Thugs,' and other Things We're Taught to Fear"
Gabriel sayegh, the state director of the Drug Policy Alliance, says its creating a system of mass incarceration, which he says is having extremely negative consequences on society. ...
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TEDx: "The birth of Jezebel"
Daring to escape the comfort of a steady paycheck from the largely male-dominated industry she had come to know and disdain, Anna Holmes left her work with women’s magazines to begin the ...
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TEDx 2014 covers Bitcoin, Jezebel, drug policy
Mathematician Hannah Fry, actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson, drug policy advocate gabriel sayegh (who chooses not to capitalize his first or last name), entrepreneur Sebastian Walker, engineer Jeff Garzik, editor Anna Holmes and doctoral ...
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TEDx: "Alternative Futures of Science Funding"
Eisenkop discussed websites like Experiment.com, which take the same approach as the website Kickstarter to fund science research projects. The sites enable donors to contribute to the projects that they think have ...
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TEDx: "The Mathematics of Love"
Hannah Fry, a mathematician and complexity scientist at the University College London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, discussed ‘the mathematics of love’ during her TEDx talk at Binghamton University. ...
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TEDx: "Bitcoin: the organism"
For Jeff Garzik, core developer for Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency may be the biggest game changer since the Internet. ...
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TEDx: "The Greatest Spectacle You've Never Seen"
Highlighting that it’s more than just a sport from “Downton Abbey,” Sebastian Walker presented cricket as having the power to unite cultures during his TEDx talk on Sunday. ...
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Binghamton University professor talks weed and wellness
One professor at Binghamton University says that it’s time to figure out the goals, not the tactics, of marijuana legalization. ...
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Palestinian professor recounts time as a refugee
A Palestinian refugee spoke on campus Monday, recounting the hardships he and his family faced and discussing what it will take to achieve a peaceful solution on the ground. ...
Science & Research
Students, faculty share their research at Binghamton University
Every year, BU professors, graduate students and undergraduates work together and separately to engage in high-level research projects with the goal of publishing their work. ...