Big Ideas Forum

Presenter: Karen [Read More]

Medicine is rapidly becoming information technology, bringing it from science fiction to science fact. Developments like robotic surgery, computer diagnosing, lab-grown replacement organs, and death being optional are well underway. And as genetics, robotics, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence come together, the results may be here much sooner than we think and be more dramatic than we can even fathom. [Read More]

Long before the double helix of the DNA was discovered–and even long after–scientists have been puzzled by the fact that ‘identical twins’–also called single cell twins–develop to become ‘different’ as the grow older…given they have the exact same genetic make-up. [Read More]

Many of us enjoy danger in the form of a good “scary story” which we can experience vicariously while sitting safely in our living room. But what if the danger is real, invisible but present alongside you? [Read More]

The kickoff event of Big Ideas Forum. [Read More]