When Jon Ronson discovers a twitter account pretending to be him, he sets off to find it's creators.
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Sara Peters has epilepsy, but no drugs seem to help. So she agrees to be hooked up to a machine at the hospital for days, in hopes of inducing the one thing she and her husband, Peter Aguero, dread the most: a seizure. Recorded at TEDMED 2013. Video: tedmed.com/talks/show?id=189377
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A physicist decides that the best way to make progress on his robotics project is to go to Namibia to study termites.
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Moran Cerf's life is spun around when a computer glitch declares him dead -- but that's nothing compared to what happens when a real funeral comes around.
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Jon Ronson: A journalist interviews a robot
Journalist Jon Ronson is excited when he hears about some 'sentient' robots, but when he goes to interview them he finds both less and more than he ever expected.
Read MoreAndre Fenton: The twisting road from basic brain research to helping malaria patients
André Fenton always wanted to do research at the most fundamental level -- to uncover basic truths about memory and how it works, never mind how useful. But a friend's accident unexpectedly leads to him inventing a spectacularly useful, and lifesaving, device.
Read MoreScott Aaronson: A Turing phase
Scott Aaronson’s love of video games led him to discover a world, and an identity, he didn’t know existed.
Read MoreSara Peters: Waiting for a seizure
With her epilepsy medication failing, Sara Peters checks into a hospital with one goal: make the scariest thing in her life happen again.
Read MoreJamy Ian Swiss: The universal personality reading machine
In the IBM pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair, Jamy Ian Swiss encounters a computer that reveals a piece in personality, although maybe not in the way it's inventor intended.
Read MoreMatt Danzico: Strangers on the Internet
In 2007, Matt Danzico engages in a massive project to show that strangers on the internet can be trusted -- and finds himself in the middle of nowhere with a broken-down bus and a stranger with a gun.
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