I gave a TEDx talk (and so did Nina)

Last week Nina and I both gave separate TEDx talks in Maastricht, Netherlands. Maastricht is very nice! Lots of bicycles, very few cars. If you've seen my Molecules book tour talk you won't see much new in this video, but if not, it's a concise 18-minute summary of my views on natural vs. synthetic chemicals (hint, I'm in favor of them).

That is the definition of science: There's stuff out there, and we want to know why it is that way. Let's revive the child in ourselves and let's start asking why again. [Filmed at TEDxMaastricht] Theodore Gray Theo Gray is the winner of the 2002 Ig Nobel humorous prize for Improbable Research in Chemistry for constructing a wooden "Periodic Table" table.

Nina talked about how copyright is brain damage:

Ideas aren't good or bad because of what licenses people slap on them. Just relate to the ideas themselves. [Filmed at TEDxMaastricht] Nina Paley made her first animation when she was 13 and has been making animated movies and cartoons ever since.