Alphachimp Studio animated drawings on TEDMED session I was in

Storification of my talk (and responses to it) at #TEDMED

I made a "storification" of my talk at TEDMED.

Some pics from the Kennedy Center ore #tedmed

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Am hoping #tedmed security at the Kennedy Center lets me in w/ my friends

Amazing - Renaissance Hotel in DC has decorated lobby w/ giant microbes #tedmed

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Crowdsourcing some facts for my upcoming #Tedmed talk on #microbes on #humans

OK all I am looking for some help here is finding out some latest pieces of information about the microbes that live in and on people for my Tedmed talk next week Some things I could use

• 1. What is the number of species of microbes found on one person across their entire body (gut, skin, mouth, etc)? 

•  2. What is the number of species of known human pathogens (that are microbes) 

•  3. What human ailments are now thought to be possibly caused by disturbances in the microbiome? 

•  4. How many viruses (kinds and numbers) are found in the human microbiome? 




•  5. What is a good source of open (e.g., creative commons) images of the microbes found in / on people? 

 I am going to post these each as a comment below so people can respond to each one ... Thanks

More fun w/ WordClouds: Cloud of Talk Titles for #TedMed

Well, getting more and more excited about speaking at TedMed next week.  The list of speakers and talk titles is quite impressive and unusual.  So - rather than list the details I thought I would make a word cloud using Wordle.  I think it captures the spectrum of talks pretty well. Here is one from just the talk titles (link to Wordle version here).