At TED, miracles and fears

• TED conference featured Edward Snowden via telepresence robot


• An NSA deputy director appeared on video to counter Snowden


• Much of conference focused on the startling gains and ethical issues of technology


• Ballroom dancer who lost leg in Boston bombing danced again

Editor's note: Richard Galant is senior editor of Opinion at CNN.com. Follow him on Twitter: @richny

(CNN) -- On Tuesday morning, Edward Snowden materialized on a telepresence robot, beaming in to an auditorium in Canada from an undisclosed location in Russia.

The former National Security Agency contractor assailed agency surveillance programs in an interview with Chris Anderson, curator of the TED2014 conference, and then, via robot, roamed the corridors of the Vancouver Convention Centre, randomly encountering people (including Google co-founder Sergey Brin) attending the conference.

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On Thursday morning, NSA deputy director Richard Ledgett also appeared by video feed at the conference to counter Snowden's remarks, but the video connection was so poor that the session had to be interrupted, to be resumed more than an hour later.

Ledgett ultimately told the conference that Snowden had put lives at risk by disclosing the agency's methods to America's enemies and showed "amazing arrogance" in defying the judgment of the three branches of the U.S. government, which he said had blessed the surveillance programs.

Snowden had argued that surveillance invaded privacy without benefit and that technology companies must encrypt private data (Google announced Thursday that it was increasing the security of Gmail in response to the NSA revelations). People deserve a right to privacy from government oversight when they order a book online, call their families or take a trip, Snowden said.

The contrast, in message and in the power and limits of technology, captured one of the central dynamics of this year's TED conference: the remarkable things people can accomplish with 21st century machines and the very real and often unresolved questions that result.

The 30th anniversary gathering for the organization built around the subjects of its acronym -- technology, entertainment and design -- has been to a large extent focused on the "T" part.

Inventor Ray Kurzweil looked two decades ahead to a time when, he argued, people will use nanobots to connect the capillaries of their brains to the cloud, merging biological thinking with artificial intelligence and enabling a leap in human capabilities equivalent to the great advances of millions of years of evolution. MIT Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte predicted people will learn languages, and the plays of Shakespeare, by ingesting a pill.

NFL punter Chris Kluwe, wearing Google Glass on stage, forecast the rise of virtual reality and augmented reality in pro sports, enabling fans to literally feel the action on the field. Science writer David Epstein showed how technological advances, including synthetic running tracks and high-tech uniforms, help enable today's athletes to zoom past the records of history's great sports figures.

Giving evidence of the power of technology, Hugh Herr, the head of the Biomechatronics research group at the Media Lab, walked confidently on bionic legs around the stage as he gave his TED Talk Wednesday. Herr's legs were amputated after he suffered frostbite from a mountain climbing expedition.

He noted that he can make his height adjustable, from as little as 5 feet, to as tall as he'd like, depending on the occasion. And Herr predicted that bionics will eventually be an everyday tool for many people -- with, for example, exoskeletons designed for running. "Machines attached to our bodies will make us stronger and faster and more efficient."

Dancers Adrianne Haslet-Davis and Christian Lightner at TED2014

In perhaps the emotional highlight of the conference, Herr told the story of a ballroom dancer whose left leg was amputated in last year's bombing at the Boston Marathon. In 200 days, Herr led a team at MIT that created a prosthetic limb, designed especially for her. And, indeed, Adrianne Haslet-Davis danced onstage for the first time since the bombing at the end of Herr's talk.

Herr struck a defiant note against the violence of terrorism, as well as other things that hold people back: "Humans are not disabled; our built environments, our technologies are disabled."

And in the ultimate statement of technological optimism, TED announced that it will help support a new XPrize, which will be presented to "the first artificial intelligence to come to this stage and give a TED Talk compelling enough to win a standing ovation from the audience." TED's Chris Anderson said the aim is to see whether the computing power of a Watson-style computer can be combined with enough creativity to develop ideas, though he conceded it may take decades.

The ethics of technology were just as evident an issue in Vancouver as its possibilities.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web, urged that the Web's 25th anniversary be used as an occasion to develop a Magna Carta that establishes basic rights to privacy and free speech online.

In an interview at TED with Charlie Rose, Google co-founder and chief executive Larry Page said he was "tremendously disappointed" that the U.S. government didn't fully disclose its surveillance programs. Asked about the issue of privacy and data collection by companies like Google, he said "the main thing we need to do on privacy is just provide people choice."

He argued that privacy needs to be balanced with the benefits of sharing information. Page, who suffers from partly paralyzed vocal cords, said, "When I had this problem with my voice, I was scared to share it." He said his Google-co founder Brin encouraged him to go public with the news, and Page said much useful information was exchanged about the condition. "Wouldn't it be great to have medical records online anonymously?" he said, so people could research doctors and treatments.

Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal was also focused on sharing information in his talk. A culture of secrecy is crippling for a team that needs to recognize and respond to threats, he said. "Sharing is power ... I am more afraid of a bureaucrat who keeps information in a desk drawer than of someone who leaks."

The NSA deputy director, Ledgett, said leaks like Snowden's do damage, but also conceded that the NSA hasn't been as transparent on its programs as it should have been. He said the threats the agency combats today include cyberwar and the stealing of companies' intellectual property by nations that use it to empower their state-owned enterprises.

Computer hacking was cited as a force for good by Keren Elazari, a security researcher at GigaOM. She conceded some hackers give in to the temptation to read personal e-mails or add zeroes to their bank accounts. But she argued hackers are the immune system for the information age, experts at revealing the vulnerability of the Web. "They force us to fix things or demand something better, she said. "It's not information that wants to be free, it's us."

Elazari recalled that she saw NSA head Gen. Keith Alexander speak at a hackers' convention -- not to denounce hackers but to make a hiring pitch, but at TED, she offered the following advice: "Then stop arresting us."

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Seoul's 'spaceship' landmark

Known for her futuristic, spaceship-like work, "starchitect" Zaha Hadid is behind the design of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul's newest landmark.

The new multipurpose cultural center will host various events and exhibitions throughout the year and remain open 24 hours to accommodate nighttime tourists. The Dongdaemun district is famous for late-night shopping.

The Dongdaemun Design Plaza cost $451 million and took five years to complete.

Covering 85,000 square meters, the building includes a design museum, library and educational facilities.

The plaza's first major event is Seoul Fashion Week. Running through March 26, a total of 81 fashion shows will be presented, primarily featuring the work of South Korean designers.

Alongside Seoul Fashion Week, eight different exhibitions showcasing art, architecture and national treasures are being shown at DDP. In honor of the grand opening, admission to all exhibitions is free during the month of March.

Upcoming shows include a Chanel fashion show in fall 2014 and a motor show later in the year.

The building has no official front or back door -- instead it has a total of 42 different entrances.

• Zaha Hadid designed new $451 million Seoul landmark


• Dongdaemun Design Plaza will be open 24 hours in trendy shopping district


• Seoul Fashion Week is the DDP's first major event


• In honor of grand opening, admission to all DDP exhibitions are free in March

(CNN) -- In yet another display of the city's commitment to 24-hour culture, Seoul is unveiling its biggest nighttime attraction yet in the neon-studded, wildly trendy shopping district of Dongdaemun.

Designed by Iraqi-British Pritzker Prize winner Zaha Hadid, and completed at a cost of $451 million, the new Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) opens to the public March 21.

Commissioned by the Seoul metropolitan government, the plaza features futuristic, spaceship-like curves characteristic of Hadid's previous work -- she's also the woman behind the radical design of the national stadium set for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

DDP will host concerts, conventions and other major events throughout the year.

But the first order of business for Seoul's newest landmark and multipurpose cultural center is to kick off 2014 F/W Seoul Fashion Week.

Running through March 26, Seoul Fashion Week will feature 81 fashion shows by South Korean designers, as well as Blueprint, a trade show from Singapore's Fashion Week.

MORE: Introducing Seoul's new $230 million art museum

District makeover

The new building and its adjacent park replace an outdated stadium that had long been an eyesore in an increasingly trendy neighborhood.

With most malls in the area open until 5 a.m. (some are open 24 hours), Dongdaemun ("East Gate") is usually flooded with shoppers, especially at night.

The new plaza will be open 24 hours.

Architecture and exhibitions

Construction on the 85,000-square-meter structure began in 2007 and was completed in 2013.

Exhibition spaces are spread over four floors and three underground levels.

The building also houses a museum, a design lab and an art hall.

National treasures and paintings, along with a design exhibition of Zaha Hadid's works, will be shown in eight different exhibitions on site.

In honor of the grand opening, admission is free throughout the month of March.

Seoul Fashion Week operates separately from the eight exhibitions.

As part of Seoul's push to showcase its new icon, City Tour buses and airport buses now directly service the DDP.

Beginning April 1, the admission fee to see all exhibitions will be ₩8,000 ($7).

Dongdaemun Design Plaza , Euljiro 7-ga Jung-gu, Seoul; open 24 hours

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Military bungles sex assault cases

• Jackie Speier: The military legal system bungled the case of Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair


• Speier: Legal experts, not commanders, should decide on sexual assault cases


• She says most military sexual assault and rape cases show pattern of suppression


• Speier: Military justice rests on the shoulders of individuals with no legal training

Editor's note: Democratic U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier represents the 14th District of California. She is the former honorary chairwoman of Protect Our Defenders, an organization that supports women and men in uniform who have been raped or sexually assaulted by fellow service members. Those who wish to share their stories can do so at Protect Our Defenders.

(CNN) -- After facing a long list of charges including sexual assault, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair agreed to plead guilty this week to much lesser charges in a case involving sexual misconduct in the military -- one in which politics may have gotten in the way of justice.

On display was a military legal system, apparently eager to show it was getting tough on sexual misconduct cases, that instead bungled the case.

On Thursday, Sinclair was sentenced. He received a reprimand and has to forfeit some pay. But he got no jail time. His sentence is a mockery of military justice, a slap on the wrist nowhere close to being proportional to his offenses.

But the Sinclair case is not typical of most military sexual assault cases. Sinclair had a three-year relationship and allegedly forced sex with a female captain under his command. The prosecution was problematic partly because the accuser may have told lies and partly because senior military officers may have brought harsher than usual charges.

We don't want commanders feeling that they need to appear tough on sexual assault by bringing charges that aren't warranted -- just as we don't want them sweeping them under the rug. This is another example of what happens when a system is reliant on people who are not legal experts, rather than on trained independent prosecutors.

Despite the problems with this particular case, we need to confront the bigger issue with the military prosecution system in cases of sexual assault and misconduct. There are an estimated 26,000 sexual assaults a year in the military -- but reporting is low, courts-martial are rare and the conviction rate is less than 1%. The vast majority of sexual assault and rape cases in the military show a pattern of suppression, where if a report is made the victim fears retaliation and the loss of his or her job.

For example, the scandal at Lackland Air Force Base has seen 33 basic training instructors investigated for misconduct allegations involving 63 recruits and trainees, none of whom reported they were sexually assaulted. Survivors don't report because they fear they won't get justice and that their attackers will go unpunished.

Federal law for the military -- the Uniform Code of Military Justice -- was created with the intent of preventing arbitrary punishments by generals and colonels. But leaving sexual assault and rape cases in the hands of commanders to prosecute creates a fundamental conflict of interest that undermines service members' due process rights. Until the decision to prosecute is taken away from commanding officers, the military justice system is simply not credible.

For more than three years now I have taken to the House floor and told the stories of the men and women in our armed forces who have been sexually assaulted. Many of these stories involved commanders who undermined investigations, refused to bring a case to court-martial, or overturned a case after a jury had found the perpetrator guilty and a jail sentence was issued.

Some opponents of reform continue to claim that commanders must be the sole decision-makers on whether a case moves forward to trial. Keep in mind the countless stories in the press of legitimate cases not making it to trial or sentences being lessened or thrown out completely -- all at the whim of the commander.

Of course there is also the fact that the entire military structure rests on the shoulders of individuals with no legal training. Commanders are the linchpin of the military justice system.

Just last month, a deluge of sex crime reports in Japan involving American military personnel were revealed thanks to multiple Freedom of Information Act requests made by The Associated Press. The data reveal how broken the military scales of justice truly are, and offer a rare glimpse into how reports of sexual assaults are handled. Of the 1,000 reports, punishments were wildly inconsistent, and of the suspects determined to be guilty, nearly two-thirds spent no time in jail at all. In more than 30 cases, a letter of reprimand was the only punishment.

What is clear from these cases is that commanders were part of the problem, not the solution. Commanders often decided to not move forward with courts-martial, but when they did -- even with DNA evidence and tape-recorded confessions of rape -- the predators were typically given mild punishments after pleading to lesser charges. Commanders also lessened numerous punishments unilaterally and in two cases threw out guilty verdicts and punishments completely.

My bipartisan legislation, the STOP Act, will take sexual assault and rape cases out of the chain of command and put them into the hands of civilian and military legal experts.

This is a system that some are hellbent on protecting. But I intend to fight this year with every fiber of my being to get the House to act on fixing this broken system.

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Kids who don't cry: A genetic disorder

Grace Wilsey was born with NGLY1 deficiency, which is caused by two mutations in the NGLY1 gene.

• A new genetic disorder called NGLY1 deficiency is identified in eight patients


• NGLY1 deficiency causes developmental delays, liver disease


• Kids with the disorder are usually unable to produce tears


• Fathers of two kids with NGLY1 deficiency propose new model for scientists

(CNN) -- What do you do when your baby lies limp in your arms, staring blankly into the distance while never crying?

What do you do when tests show signs of liver damage and your baby's seizures won't stop, but doctors can't tell you what's wrong or how to fix it?

Thanks to the Human Genome Project, which was completed in 2003, identifying new genetic mutations has gotten easier and cheaper. But geneticists often struggle to find patients who share these rare DNA quirks. Studying multiple patients with the same gene mutations and similar symptoms is crucial to identifying a new genetic disorder.

That's why a paper published Thursday in the journal Genetics in Medicine is so remarkable.

The paper identifies NGLY1 deficiency as an inherited genetic disorder, caused by mutations in the NGLY1 gene. The researchers have confirmed eight patients with these mutations who share several symptoms, including developmental delays, abnormal tear production and liver disease.

Genetic testing: Good medicine or TMI?

And they credit an "Internet blog" with bringing the patients and scientists together.

Grace's genome

Grace Wilsey's parents knew something was wrong right away. Their newborn daughter was lethargic. Her eyes seemed hollow and unfocused. She refused to eat. Doctors at the hospital ran multiple tests, but couldn't come up with a diagnosis.

Eventually, the Wilseys took Grace home.

As she grew older, Grace continued to exhibit troubling symptoms. Her cognitive and motor development were far behind other children her age. She had hypotonia, a condition that made her constantly limp like a rag doll. Tests revealed she had high levels of AST and ALT liver enzymes, a sign of liver damage, but no one could figure out why.

The Wilseys traveled the country with their baby girl to find an answer. They visited Johns Hopkins Hospital and the National Institutes of Health on the East Coast, and several children's hospitals on the West.

"We've probably seen over 100 doctors," Matt Wilsey said. "We've seen the best clinical minds in the United States."

Not one of whom knew what was wrong with Grace.

When Grace was 2 years old, the Wilseys started doing whole genome sequencing at Stanford University near their home in the San Francisco Bay area and at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas.

It was at Baylor that they first met Matthew Bainbridge, who was working on his doctorate in structural and computational biology and molecular biophysics in Baylor's Human Genome Sequencing Center.

'One was very bad, and one was pretty bad'

The first thing geneticists look for when searching for the cause of mysterious symptoms is known DNA mutations, Bainbridge said.

"Your first instinct shouldn't be 'I'm going to find something new. (It should be) 'I'm going to find something someone has already discovered.'"

Once he's crossed known disorders off the list, he looks for unusual mutations. All of us have mutations in our DNA that don't affect us in any noticeable way; if you sequence 500 healthy people's genomes, the same mutated genes would likely come up time and again.

But unusual mutations -- like those Bainbridge spotted in Grace's NGLY1 gene -- are a sign that a particular gene may be causing a problem.

Think of your DNA as a recipe, Bainbridge said. Some gene mutations are like little typos in that recipe. Maybe your body adds a bit too much flour or an extra teaspoon of sugar. Other gene mutations are more destructive; they make your body leave out an entire ingredient, or delete half the recipe.

Grace's mutations of the NGLY1 gene were the destructive kind.

It meant that we'd reached the end of a long and painful diagnostic odyssey.

Matthew Might

"One was very bad, and one was pretty bad," Bainbridge said.

The scientist knew he was onto something. He began searching online for any references to the NGLY1 gene. Some work had been done in fruit flies and mice, showing the gene's mutations could cause the lab animals to function improperly. Then he came across a paper published in the Journal of Medical Genetics that mentioned a young boy who had a genetic disorder that may be related to NGLY1 mutations.

Bainbridge dug deeper and found a blog written by a man named Matthew Might, an assistant professor at the University of Utah.

"My son Bertrand has a new genetic disorder," Might had written on May 29, 2012. "Patient 0."

Scientists at Duke University had used whole-exome sequencing to discover Bertrand had two different mutations on the NGLY1 gene, which encodes the enzyme N-glycanase 1. N-glycanase 1 is typically found in a healthy person's cells. It helps break down defective proteins so they can be reused throughout the body.

"My son is the only human being known to lack this enzyme," Might wrote.

Bainbridge read Might's previous posts about Bertrand's symptoms. They were similar to what Grace's parents had described. But the key seemed to be Bertrand's inability to cry.

Could Grace produce tears? Bainbridge asked Kristen Wilsey via e-mail on February 26, 2013.

Not really, came Kristen's reply. She'd seen a large tear once or twice; Grace's eyes would become moist, but multiple tears rarely fell.

It was one of those moments as a scientist, Bainbridge says, where everything falls into place. You know, the one where you would run down the street yelling "Eureka!" if that was something people actually said.

"You start shaking a little bit. You force yourself not to tell anyone for 24 hours," Bainbridge said. "Then you make a Powerpoint presentation and see if you can convince other people."

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Finding others like 'Patient 0'

When the scientists at Duke University first identified the mutations in Bertrand Might's NGLY1 gene, they didn't know for sure that the mutations were causing the 4-year-old boy's symptoms. With only one patient, they had nothing to compare it to.

Still, "it was a huge relief," Might told CNN in an e-mail. "It meant that we'd reached the end of a long and painful diagnostic odyssey... Being the only patient in the world was shocking, but we knew there must have been other NGLY1 patients out there that were undiagnosed, just like Bertrand."

Bainbridge e-mailed Might through his blog, and the Wilseys put the geneticist and others on Team Grace in contact with the scientists working on Bertrand's case.

Others discovered Might's blog, as well. Clinicians and genetic researchers around the globe who had sequenced the genomes of six isolated patients and found mutations in the NGLY1 gene did the same thing Bainbridge had. They searched for "NGLY1" online and found hope.

"I think cognitively it's really nice to have a label," Kristen Wilsey said. "Once you do have a name, you can then start looking for a cure."

Matt Wilsey teamed up with Matthew Might to write an editorial accompanying the Genetics in Medicine journal paper. In the editorial, the two fathers propose a new model for genetic researchers. Their model uses a Silicon Valley approach of sharing successes and failures, and asks scientists not to underestimate the power of social media or a parent's need for answers.

"In order to diagnose patients, we must admit the limitations of our medical knowledge," they write. "Sometimes the best ideas come from individuals 'outside the box' (i.e. patients and parents)... Sometimes the least likely gene candidate is the answer."

Thanks to the "relentless digging" of the families, five treatment approaches are being studied, the fathers say. And the list of confirmed patients with NGLY1 deficiency is up to 14, according to Wilsey.

"This represents a complete change in the way we're going about clinical medicine," said Gregory Enns, co-lead author of the paper and a geneticist at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. "This is happening so quickly because... so many people are coming at this from so many angles."

Ignore tweets Cobain's death probe reopened

Kurt Cobain of Nirvana during the taping of MTV Unplugged at Sony Studios in New York City in 1993.

• "Mr. Cobain is still deceased and the case is still a suicide," detective says


• Recently found crime scene photos show "nothing that was new," police say


• Social network buzz erupted when a TV station reported a police review of the case


• A cold-case detective only reviewed Cobain file to prep for 20th anniversary interviews

(CNN) -- Despite what you may read on your Twitter timeline, the Kurt Cobain death probe has not been reopened, a Seattle Police spokeswoman told CNN Thursday.

"Mr. Cobain is still deceased and the case is still a suicide," Det. Renee Witt said. "We did not reopen the case."

The department's cold-case detective Mike Ciesenski recently pulled the case file to refresh himself because of the media interest connected to the 20th anniversary of the death on April 4, Witt said.

Det. Ciesenski found four rolls of undeveloped film in the file, which he then had printed. The crime scene images he found were "benign, nothing that was new or anything that would change the outcome of the investigation," she said. "It still remains a suicide."

The 1994 investigation concluded that Cobain, 27, committed suicide by shooting himself with a shotgun while high on heroin and pills. An electrician found his body in a Lake Washington home.

Social networks erupted Thursday with posts suggesting there was something new in Cobain's death probe after Seattle TV station KIRO published a story on its website titled "Seattle police re-examine Kurt Cobain death." The station promised it would show viewers one of the previously unseen crime scene photos.

CNN's Cheri Mossburg contributed to this report.

Watch J-Law lip-sync

In our heads we are BFFs with Jennifer Lawrence (we call her JLaw), and we aren't alone. EW even dubbed her 2013's "perfect superstar." Here are 14 reasons why the Oscar winner is so beloved.

Of course, the No. 1 reason to love Lawrence is her take-no-prisoners climb to Hollywood's A-list. She hasn't done it with a scandalous photo shoot or an attention-getting red carpet gown -- no, she's relied on her standout performance in movies like "Winter's Bone," "American Hustle" and "Silver Linings Playbook," with the latter earning her an Oscar.

That face Sarah Jessica Parker is making in this photo? We know that face well, because we've made it before -- just about every time Jennifer Lawrence opens her mouth. For a woman with a resume full of dramas, she has some killer wit and comedic timing.

You don't get to be the "It Girl" without people taking notice and other celebs seem to genuinely like her. A few stars even tweeted support before and after she won the best actress Oscar. Here, she hangs out with producer Harvey Weinstein at The Weinstein Company's SAG Awards After Party in January 2013.

Lawrence always seems to keep it genuine and fun with her acceptance speeches. Seen here receiving the award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role for "Silver Linings Playbook" at the 2013 Screen Actors Guild Awards, she thanked SAG for the naked statue and called Harvey Weinstein a rascal.

Just look at her at this year's Academy Awards. Simply stunning.

Lawrence knows all about the pressures to be thin in Hollywood and she's gone on record to say she doesn't play that game. "I knew that if I was going to be naked in front of the world, I wanted to look like a woman and not a prepubescent 13-year-old boy," she told ELLE. She looks pretty fit here at the Governors Ball after the 83rd Annual Academy Awards in 2011. As she told Harper's Bazaar U.K. in 2013, "If anybody even tries to whisper the word 'diet', I'm like, 'You can go f*** yourself.'"

While some originally questioned her casting as the "Hunger Games" heroine, it is now hard to imagine anyone else rocking that side braid. Here, she joins co-stars Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson for "The Hunger Games" U.S. Mall Tour kickoff at in Los Angeles in 2012.

We know it's called "acting" for a reason, but didn't you kind of buy that Lawrence and Bradley Cooper were really a couple after they appeared in "Silver Linings Playbook"? Cooper, shown with Lawrence during the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, set the record straight by saying he was old enough to be her dad.

For someone in her early 20s, Lawrence really seems to know who she is and what she wants out of her career. "There are actresses who build themselves, and then there are actresses who are built by others. I want to build myself," she told Portrait Magazine. She is seen here fielding questions during "The Hunger Games" National Mall Tour fan event at Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, in 2012.

How adorable was she when she met Jack Nicholson after snagging her Best Actress Oscar? Even though she was clearly blown away by meeting the legendary actor, Lawrence more than held her own. When Nicholson said "You look like an old girlfriend of mine," she quickly shot back, "Do I look like a new girlfriend?" Fabulous.

Doesn't this portrait during the 39th Annual People's Choice Awards in January 2013 just scream "Parrrrrrtttay!"

She's the only actress who could turn tripping while going up the stairs to accept an Academy Award into what looks like the perfect couture ad.

When her hair became fried after taking abuse in the back-to-back films she's starred in, matter-of-factly chopped it off. "I cut it earlier, and it grew to that awkward gross length and I kept putting it back in a bun, and I was like, 'well, I don't want to do this,' so I just cut it off," she explained to fans in November 2013. "It couldn't get any uglier."

When walking the red carpet at a "Hunger Games: Catching Fire" premiere in the U.K., Jennifer Lawrence stepped off to the side to comfort a young fan in a wheelchair. Although the video that caught the moment doesn't capture their verbal exchange, Lawrence's gentle and compassionate gestures speak volumes.

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• Jennifer Lawrence gives a powerful performance in "American Hustle"


• In a deleted scene, she was just as good lip-syncing Santana's "Evil Ways"


• The sequence is included in the DVD/Blu-ray version of the film

(CNN) -- Jennifer Lawrence gives everything her all -- even lip-syncing.

The Oscar winning actress gave a showstopping performance in 2013's "American Hustle," but there's one scene that we're just now getting to fully appreciate.

In the David O. Russell dramedy, Lawrence plays Rosalyn Rosenfeld, a '70s housewife with a penchant for belting out the era's hits while scrubbing down her home.

In the movie, Lawrence sings along to Wings' "Live and Let Die" with such fervor it left us wishing she had a second career as a cover band frontwoman.

But it gets even better: it turns out Lawrence also filmed a scene with Santana's 1969 track "Evil Ways" as the song of choice.

The sequence didn't make it into the final film, but the DVD/Blu-ray, released on March 18, includes extended outtakes like this one:

Clearly, we've been approaching housecleaning in the wrong way. It seems it's best done with solo dancing and the most sincere lip-syncing this side of a pop star's concert.

Lawrence may have lost out on a best supporting actress Oscar for her "American Hustle" role -- that went to Lupita Nyong'o for "12 Years A Slave" -- but she's won the Internet with this performance.