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The world's weirdest science

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October 25, 2014

Marc Abrahams: The world's weirdest scientific studies

13:12 minutes · Filmed Sep 2014 · Posted Oct 2014 · TEDMED 2014

As founder of the Ig Nobel awards, Marc Abrahams explores the world’s most improbable research. In this thought-provoking (and occasionally side-splitting) talk, he tells stories of truly weird science -- and makes the case that silliness matters.

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  A horrible cocktail of Orwell's captivity and Huxley's irrelevance? I would have thought we were already near that point, but then comes along Susan Etlinger with this brilliant and actually quite soothing talk. Thank you.

It seems she's working more in the field of social data mining, but her insights are clearly applicable, or should be recommended, in other data mining fields (pun intended) as well.

"...frankly, data doesn't create meaning, we do.""

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