I got my Ph.D. studying honeybee health.

So that's one way that we know the queen isn't directing the behavior of the colony.

We wanted to reduce that by 80 percent, which is exactly what we've done.

Romantic love is one of the most powerful sensations on Earth.

(Applause) So we met Dan about three years ago, three and a half years ago, when we started working at Tewksbury.

And then I go to this picture here, which is the one that I started with.

One for animals, including domestic animals and I have to say,

We started this study a year ago.

You know, where are we actually going to start with this?

What you're looking at over here is actually the first unit that I know of of non human currency.

In fact, before my research moved on to the greater glory of fixing bugs in programs,

I studied one single virtue trustworthiness.

Well there was a little piece of that Women's Health Initiative that went to National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, which is the cardiology part of the NlH.

So that's what we want to test.

I have been on a 10 year quest for the perfect cup of coffee.

He was a senior fellow at the Bremming Institute for 12 years, then went off the grid.

I'm leery of labs.

I used to talk really slowly.

What kind of shit research are you doing?

So we got one of these robots.

Well, the answer is yes, and I'm going to show you how.

I got my start in writing and research as a surgical trainee, as someone who was a long ways away from becoming any kind of an expert at anything.

Well actually I started, oddly enough, studying stock market prices.

Don Burke and Colonel Mpoudi Ngole, we went to actually start this work in Central Africa, to work with hunters in this part of the world.

So, actually, I started working on what's called the mantis shrimp a few years ago because they make sound.

I'm investigating things that begin with the letter M.

Initially we said, what can we do to shrink the fudge factor?

He worked out of Harvard.

He worked out of Harvard.

At that time, I was really interested in neuroscience and wanted to do a research project in neurology specifically looking at the effects of heavy metals on the developing nervous system.

I was afraid that I was going to become bedridden.

So that's really the crux of the research, and to do that, we need to go one more step.

That's the Pacific Gyre.

SARS emerged in Asia.

And News, which I just mentioned, was started by a researcher.

Weak.

He wants to know what are some interesting trends in SLAM research these days.

Culturomics is similar.

The Laboratory

All of it? The research, the blogs.

(Laughter)

He proceeds to build the first ever liquid metal battery of this chemistry.

So building community among those students, very important.

I think this is an extraordinary example of how curiosity based research we just wondered how they climbed up something can lead to things that you could never imagine.

So in about seven years of doing nuclear research,