Why I open-sourced cures to my cancer: Salvatore Iaconesi at TEDGlobal 2013

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"This was my cancer," TED Fellow Salvatore Iaconesi begins his TEDGlobal talk, showing a slide of brain scans taken last summer, when he was diagnosed with brain cancer at age 39.

Since the moment Iaconesi heard the word "cancer" come out of his doctors' mouth, he noticed something -- that the way people related to him turned on a dime.

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Cancer was a big part of our last year. This story is remarkable.

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Year

What a year it has been.

So much…..good, even great and wonderful,…..and so much heart ache…..

Thankful that we can still look for the good in it all.

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Copperhead

My cousin found a visitor curled up on the porch step yesterday evening.

Helpful link: snake id website.

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Harlem

We got our city fix this weekend with a trip to New York.

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Sun

We took a morning walk in Central Park before heading home.

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High

We spent a rainy morning yesterday in NYC going to see the High Line Park.

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Scat

From yesterday: RT said while walking to the school bus: don’t step in that scat. #livinginthewoods #wildlife #learnedthatinGirlScouts

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