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How ancient technology inspired my award-winning inventions

Macinley Butson · TED

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Macinley Butson has won multiple awards for her inventions, including a device that improves protection from radiation during breast cancer treatment and a project enhancing the effectiveness of solar panels. In this talk, she shares how these forward-thinking endeavors were inspired by centuries-old technology, and how scientists need to shed their preconceptions about each other and their predecessors in order to do good work.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxYouth@Sydney
Speaker
Macinley Butson
Year
2017
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
History
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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