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Tricking Bacteria to Attack Early

In this TED talkBonnie Bassler explains how she it working to trick bacteria to attach the body early, before there is enough bacteria to do any permanent damage to the host.  This is a breakthrough, and will help stop bacteria from becoming drug resistant.

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Solar Flares are cool

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World Financial Data Visualization

Humans are image processing machines.  But consuming data is hard.  Watch this TED talk that helps to visualize how (relative) global money is spent, human fear scares, and facebook breakups trends, to name a few.

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization

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Amazing Star Time-lapse Video

Check out this amazing video of a star outburst.  Watch as a giant dust ring expands and transforms.    We have discovered so much about the stars and have so much more to learn.  Being able to see and measure an event like this is truly amazing.

The star is called V838 Monocerotis, and more details can be found on it’s Wikipedia page.

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Magnetic Aurora Borealis

Electromagnetic fields are amazing.  Watch.

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Hercules Special Effects