www.ted.com Tal Golesworthy is a boiler engineer — he knows piping and plumbing. When he needed surgery to repair a life-threatening problem with his aorta, he mixed his engineering skills with his doctors’ medical knowledge to design a better repair job.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, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, 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. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http If you have questions or comments about this or other TED videos, please go to support.ted.com
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Astronaut, Jeff Barton returns from a successful and much – heralded orbit of the planet Venus. His heroic exploit earns him full command of a proposed space flight to colonize Mars. But before funds for the project can be appropriated, General Barton must appear before the Senate Committee, with a complete report.All is well, until unexpected physiological changes begin to occur which dramatically affect Barton’s appearance and well-being. In a dream, he relives an encounter with a Venus Creature he is beginning to resemble. All the facilities of space medicine are applied to effect a cure. They are only partially successful until coupled with the power of love manifest by the astronaut’s wife. If he recovers in time to testify convincingly to the Senate Committee, he’ll write a new chapter in Man’s history in space.
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www.euronews.com A French medical team has developed an innovative prototype artificial heart, which could be tested in humans in two years. The device weighs just 900 grams and with an external battery, should last for five years. The man behind the concept, Alain Carpentier, told us: “I wanted everything to be incorporated in a single prosthesis which could be put inside the patient. That was the real tour de force, to miniaturise everything to the point where it could be inside the body.” Find us on: Youtube bit.ly Facebook www.facebook.com Twitter twitter.com