Bonnie Bassler: The secret, social lives of bacteria

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http://www.ted.com Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria “talk” to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning implications for medicine, industry — and our understanding of ourselves.

See this INTERVIEW with Bonnie Bassler, “the Bacteria Whisperer” on the TED Blog: http://blog.ted.com/2009/04/the_secret_soci.php

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Google container data center tour

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First presented at the Google Efficient Data Centers Summit, hosted at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA on April 1, 2009.

For more information about the event or Google’s data center efficiency efforts, please visit: http://www.google.com/corporate/green/datacenters/summit.html

Google data center water treatment plant

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First presented at the Google Efficient Data Centers Summit, hosted at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA on April 1, 2009.

For more information about the event or Google’s data center efficiency efforts, please visit: http://www.google.com/corporate/green/datacenters/summit.html

Google Efficient Data Centers Summit – 2 of 3

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Google Efficient Data Centers Summit, hosted at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA on April 1, 2009.

– Best Practices (James Hamilton, Amazon Web Services)
– Google Data Center Video Tour (Jimmy Clidaras, Google)
– Best Practices Q&A
(Luiz Barroso, Moderator, Google;
Ken Brill, Uptime Institute;
James Hamilton, Amazon Web Services;
Olivier Sanche, Green Grid;
Bill Tschudi, LBNL)

For more information about the event or Google’s data center efficiency efforts, please visit: http://www.google.com/corporate/green/datacenters/summit.html

Google Efficient Data Centers Summit – 1 of 3

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Google Efficient Data Centers Summit, hosted at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA on April 1, 2009.

– Welcome (Urs Hoelzle, Google)
– Standards from The Green Grid (John Tuccillo, Green Grid)
– Insights Into Google’s PUE (Chris Malone & Ben Jai, Google)
– What’s Next for the Data Center Industry (Andrew Fanara, EPA)

For more information about the event or Google’s data center efficiency efforts, please visit: http://www.google.com/corporate/green/datacenters/summit.html

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita predicts Iran’s future

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http://www.ted.com Bruce Bueno de Mesquita uses mathematical analysis to predict (very often correctly) such messy human events as war, political power shifts, Intifada … After a crisp explanation of how he does it, he offers three predictions on the future of Iran.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10