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  • Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventor (Part II)

    Musical artist Bobby McFerrin performs for a live audience using a variety of vocal improvisations during the 2009 World Science Festival, as part of Notes & Neurons: In Search of...

  • Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventor (Part I)

    Musical artist Bobby McFerrin performs for a live audience using a variety of vocal improvisations during the 2009 World Science Festival, as part of Notes & Neurons: In Search of...

  • The Ultimate Computer

    Can we ever build a machine like “Data” from Star Trek: The Next Generation? Is it only a matter of time before we’re living amongst artificial beings who appear to act, think,...

  • Mind Control: Introducing BrainGate

    Moving objects with one’s mind is the fodder of sci-fi, magic tricks, and futuristic visions. But John Donoghue explains how, in some ways, such dreams are a reality. He’s...

  • The Mathemagician

    In this highly entertaining performance combining math with magic, Arthur Benjamin—aka, the the “Mathemagician”—displays amazing feats of mental mathematical gymnastics and...

  • The Power of the Pentatonic Scale

    We don’t know much about the human brain on music. Do people instinctively know the sound patterns of the pentatonic scale? Is there a base level of musical knowledge in all of...

  • Sudoku on Steroids

    The Mathemagician demonstrates how to create a magic square—a special grid of numbers in which all rows, columns, and diagonals sum to the same constant—using a birthday from...

  • Introducing the Real-Life Holodeck

    One of the most exciting and intriguing technologies portrayed in Star Trek was the holodeck, a virtual interactive environment where characters could live out scenarios more...

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