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Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude.
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01, 2011
Nature’s beauty can be fleeting — but not through Louie Schwartzberg’s lens. His stunning time-lapse photography, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast, serves as a meditation on being grateful for every day.
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Adam Garone: Healthier men, one moustache at a time
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01, 2011
Adam Garone has an impressive moustache, and it's for a good cause. A co-founder of Movember, Garone's initiative to raise awareness for men's health — by having men grow out their .. show full overview
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Jake Wood: A new mission for veterans -- disaster relief
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01, 2011
After fighting overseas, 92 percent of American veterans say they want to continue their service. Meanwhile, one after another, natural disasters continue to wreak havoc worldwide. What .. show full overview
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Julie Burstein: 4 lessons in creativity
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01, 2012
Radio host Julie Burstein talks with creative people for a living — and shares four lessons about how to create in the face of challenge, self-doubt and loss. Hear insights from .. show full overview
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Steven Addis: A father-daughter bond, one photo at a time
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01, 2012
A long time ago in New York City, Steve Addis stood on a corner holding his 1-year-old daughter in his arms; his wife snapped a photo. The image has inspired an annual father-daughter .. show full overview
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Paul Gilding: The Earth is full
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29, 2012
Have we used up all our resources? Have we filled up all the livable space on Earth? Paul Gilding suggests we have, and the possibility of devastating consequences, in a talk that's equal parts terrifying and, oddly, hopeful.
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Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future
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29, 2012
Onstage at TED2012, Peter Diamandis makes a case for optimism -- that we'll invent, innovate and create ways to solve the challenges that loom over us. "I'm not saying we don't have our .. show full overview
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Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly ... and cooperate
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01, 2012
In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams -- for construction, surveying disasters and far more.
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Thomas P. Campbell: Weaving narratives in museum galleries
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01, 2012
As the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Thomas P. Campbell thinks deeply about curating—not just selecting art objects, but placing them in a setting where the .. show full overview
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Susan Cain: The power of introverts
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02, 2012
In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate talk, .. show full overview
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Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice
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05, 2012
In an engaging and personal talk -- with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks -- human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice .. show full overview
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Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story
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06, 2012
Filmmaker Andrew Stanton ("Toy Story," "WALL-E") shares what he knows about storytelling -- starting at the end and working back to the beginning. (Contains graphic language ...)
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James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate change
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07, 2012
Top climate scientist James Hansen tells the story of his involvement in the science of and debate over global climate change. In doing so he outlines the overwhelming evidence that .. show full overview
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Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government
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08, 2012
Can government be run like the Internet, permissionless and open? Coder and activist Jennifer Pahlka believes it can -- and that apps, built quickly and cheaply, are a powerful new way to connect citizens to their governments -- and their neighbors.
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A TED speaker's worst nightmare
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09, 2012
Colin Robertson had 3 minutes on the TED stage to tell the world about his solar-powered crowdsourced health care solution. And then...
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Myshkin Ingawale: A blood test without bleeding
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12, 2012
Anemia is a major -- and completely preventable -- cause of deaths in childbirth in many places around the world, but the standard test is invasive and slow. In this witty and inspiring .. show full overview
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Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence
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14, 2012
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: why do we search for self-transcendence? Why do we attempt to lose ourselves? In a tour through the science of evolution by group selection, he proposes a provocative answer.
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Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod
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15, 2012
Comic author Rob Reid unveils Copyright Math (TM), a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers and lobbyists.
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Brené Brown: Listening to shame
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16, 2012
Shame is an unspoken epidemic, the secret behind many forms of broken behavior. Brené Brown, whose earlier talk on vulnerability became a viral hit, explores what can happen when people .. show full overview
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T. Boone Pickens: Let's transform energy -- with natural gas
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19, 2012
The US consumes 25% of the world's oil -- but as energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens points out onstage, the country has no energy policy to prepare for the inevitable. Is alternative energy .. show full overview
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Taylor Wilson: Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor
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22, 2012
Taylor Wilson believes nuclear fusion is a solution to our future energy needs, and that kids can change the world. And he knows something about both of those: When he was 14, he built a .. show full overview
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Billy Collins: Everyday moments, caught in time
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23, 2012
Combining dry wit with artistic depth, Billy Collins shares a project in which several of his poems were turned into delightful animated films in a collaboration with Sundance Channel. .. show full overview
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Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy
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26, 2012
What's the key to using alternative energy, like solar and wind? Storage -- so we can have power on tap even when the sun's not out and the wind's not blowing. In this accessible, .. show full overview
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Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone
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27, 2012
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? asks Regina Dugan, then director of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In this breathtaking talk she .. show full overview
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Leymah Gbowee: Unlock the intelligence, passion, greatness of girls
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28, 2012
Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee has two powerful stories to tell -- of her own life's transformation, and of the untapped potential of girls around the world. Can we transform the world by unlocking the greatness of girls?
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Ayah Bdeir: Building blocks that blink, beep and teach
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29, 2012
Imagine a set of electronics as easy to play with as Legos. TED Fellow Ayah Bdeir introduces littleBits, a set of simple, interchangeable blocks that make programming as simple and important a part of creativity as snapping blocks together.
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Marco Tempest: A magical tale (with augmented reality)
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30, 2012
Marco Tempest spins a beautiful story of what magic is, how it entertains us and how it highlights our humanity -- all while working extraordinary illusions with his hands and an augmented reality machine.
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Bandi Mbubi: Demand a fair trade cell phone
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01, 2012
Your mobile phone, computer and game console have a bloody past — tied to tantalum mining, which funds the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Drawing on his personal story, activist and refugee Bandi Mbubi gives a stirring call to action.
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Faith Jegede: What I've learned from my autistic brothers
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01, 2012
Faith Jegede tells the moving and funny story of growing up with her two brothers, both autistic — and both extraordinary. In this talk from the TED Talent Search, she reminds us to pursue a life beyond what is normal.
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Gary Greenberg: The beautiful nano details of our world
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01, 2012
When photographed under a 3D microscope, grains of sand appear like colorful pieces of candy and the stamens in a flower become like fantastical spires at an amusement park. Gary Greenberg reveals the thrilling details of the micro world.
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Maz Jobrani: A Saudi, an Indian and an Iranian walk into a Qatari bar ...
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01, 2012
Iranian-American comedian Maz Jobrani takes to the TEDxSummit stage in Doha, Qatar to take on serious issues in the Middle East — like how many kisses to give when saying “Hi,” and what not to say on an American airplane.
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Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone?
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03, 2012
As we expect more from technology, do we expect less from each other? Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication -- and .. show full overview
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Chip Kidd: Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is.
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04, 2012
Chip Kidd doesn't judge books by their cover, he creates covers that embody the book -- and he does it with a wicked sense of humor. In one of the funniest talks from TED2012, he shows .. show full overview
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Jack Choi: On the virtual dissection table
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05, 2012
Onstage at TED2012, Jack Choi demonstrates a powerful tool for training medical students: a stretcher-sized multi-touch screen of the human body that lets you explore, dissect and understand the body's parts and systems.
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Lucy McRae: How can technology transform the human body?
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06, 2012
TED Fellow Lucy McRae is a body architect -- she imagines ways to merge biology and technology in our own bodies. In this visually stunning talk, she shows her work, from clothes that .. show full overview
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Frank Warren: Half a million secrets
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09, 2012
Secrets can take many forms -- they can be shocking, or silly, or soulful. Frank Warren, the founder of PostSecret.com, shares some of the half-million secrets that strangers have mailed him on postcards.
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Abigail Washburn: Building US-China relations ... by banjo
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13, 2012
TED Fellow Abigail Washburn wanted to be a lawyer improving US-China relations -- until she picked up a banjo. She tells a moving story of the remarkable connections she's formed touring .. show full overview
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Atul Gawande: How do we heal medicine?
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16, 2012
Our medical systems are broken. Doctors are capable of extraordinary (and expensive) treatments, but they are losing their core focus: actually treating people. Doctor and writer Atul .. show full overview
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Drew Curtis: How I beat a patent troll
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17, 2012
Drew Curtis, the founder of fark.com, tells the story of how he fought a lawsuit from a company that had a patent, "...for the creation and distribution of news releases via email." .. show full overview
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Christina Warinner: Tracking ancient diseases using ... plaque
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20, 2012
Imagine what we could learn about diseases by studying the history of human disease, from ancient hominids to the present. But how? TED Fellow Christina Warinner is an achaeological .. show full overview
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Brian Greene: Is our universe the only universe?
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23, 2012
Is there more than one universe? In this visually rich, action-packed talk, Brian Greene shows how the unanswered questions of physics (starting with a big one: What caused the Big .. show full overview
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Eduardo Paes: The 4 commandments of cities
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26, 2012
Eduardo Paes is the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, a sprawling, complicated, beautiful city of 6.5 million. He shares four big ideas about leading Rio -- and all cities -- into the future, .. show full overview
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Nancy Lublin: Texting that saves lives
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27, 2012
When Nancy Lublin started texting teenagers to help with her social advocacy organization, what she found was shocking -- they started texting back about their own problems, from .. show full overview
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Liz Diller: A giant bubble for debate
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30, 2012
How do you make a great public space inside a not-so-great building? Liz Diller shares the story of creating a welcoming, lighthearted (even, dare we say it, sexy) addition to the .. show full overview
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Amory Lovins: A 40-year plan for energy
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01, 2012
In this intimate talk filmed at TED's offices, energy innovator Amory Lovins shows how to get the US off oil and coal by 2050, $5 trillion cheaper, with no Act of Congress, led by .. show full overview
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Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes
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01, 2012
What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers .. show full overview
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Tristram Stuart: The global food waste scandal
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01, 2012
Western countries throw out nearly half of their food, not because it’s inedible -- but because it doesn’t look appealing. Tristram Stuart delves into the shocking data of wasted food, calling for a more responsible use of global resources.
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David Pizarro: The strange politics of disgust
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01, 2012
What does a disgusting image have to do with how you vote? Equipped with surveys and experiments, psychologist David Pizarro demonstrates a correlation between your sensitivity to .. show full overview
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Doris Kim Sung: Metal that breathes
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01, 2012
Modern buildings with floor-to-ceiling windows give spectacular views, but they require a lot of energy to cool. Doris Kim Sung works with thermo-bimetals, smart materials that act more .. show full overview
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Georgette Mulheir: The tragedy of orphanages
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01, 2012
Orphanages are costly and can cause irreparable damage both mentally and physically for its charges — so why are they still so ubiquitous? Georgette Mulheir gravely describes the tragedy .. show full overview
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Arunachalam Muruganantham: How I started a sanitary napkin revolution!
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01, 2012
When he realized his wife had to choose between buying family meals and buying her monthly "supplies," Arunachalam Muruganantham vowed to help her solve the problem of the sanitary pad. .. show full overview
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Munir Virani: Why I love vultures
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01, 2012
As natural garbage collectors, vultures are vital to our ecosystem — so why all the bad press? Why are so many in danger of extinction? Raptor biologist Munir Virani says we need to pay .. show full overview
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Ludwick Marishane: A bath without water
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01, 2012
If you had to walk a mile for a jug of water every day, as millions of people do, it's unlikely you'd use that precious water to bathe. Young entrepreneur Ludwick Marishane tells the .. show full overview
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Reuben Margolin: Sculpting waves in wood and time
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02, 2012
Reuben Margolin is a kinetic sculptor, crafting beautiful pieces that move in the pattern of raindrops falling and waves combining. Take nine minutes and be mesmerized by his meditative art -- inspired in equal parts by math and nature.
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Gary Kovacs: Tracking the trackers
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03, 2012
As you surf the Web, information is being collected about you. Web tracking is not 100% evil -- personal data can make your browsing more efficient; cookies can help your favorite .. show full overview
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Michael Tilson Thomas: Music and emotion through time
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07, 2012
In this epic overview, Michael Tilson Thomas traces the development of classical music through the development of written notation, the record, and the re-mix.
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Joshua Foer: Feats of memory anyone can do
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10, 2012
There are people who can quickly memorize lists of thousands of numbers, the order of all the cards in a deck (or ten!), and much more. Science writer Joshua Foer describes the technique .. show full overview
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Renny Gleeson: 404, the story of a page not found
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11, 2012
Oops! Nobody wants to see the 404: Page Not Found. But as Renny Gleeson shows us, while he runs through a slideshow of creative and funny 404 pages, every error is really a chance to build a better relationship.
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Tali Sharot: The optimism bias
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14, 2012
Are we born to be optimistic, rather than realistic? Tali Sharot shares new research that suggests our brains are wired to look on the bright side -- and how that can be both dangerous and beneficial.
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Jean-Baptiste Michel: The mathematics of history
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15, 2012
What can mathematics say about history? According to TED Fellow Jean-Baptiste Michel, quite a lot. From changes to language to the deadliness of wars, he shows how digitized history is just starting to reveal deep underlying patterns.
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David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence
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16, 2012
Is your school or workplace divided into "creatives" versus practical people? Yet surely, David Kelley suggests, creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few. Telling stories from .. show full overview
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Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain
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17, 2012
There have been remarkable advances in understanding the brain, but how do you actually study the neurons inside it? Using gorgeous imagery, neuroscientist and TED Fellow Carl Schoonover shows the tools that let us see inside our brains.
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JR: One year of turning the world inside out
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18, 2012
Street artist JR made a wish in 2011: Join me in a worldwide photo project to show the world its true face. Now, a year after his TED Prize wish, he shows how giant posters of human .. show full overview
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Nathan Wolfe: What's left to explore?
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21, 2012
We've been to the moon, we've mapped the continents, we've even been to the deepest point in the ocean -- twice. What's left for the next generation to explore? Biologist and explorer .. show full overview
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Philippe Petit: The journey across the high wire
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23, 2012
Even a death-defying magician has to start somewhere. High-wire artist Philippe Petit takes you on an intimate journey from his first card trick at age 6 to his tightrope walk between the Twin Towers.
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Reggie Watts disorients you in the most entertaining way
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25, 2012
Reggie Watts' beats defy boxes. Unplug your logic board and watch as he blends poetry and crosses musical genres in this larger-than-life performance.
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Quixotic Fusion: Dancing with light
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01, 2012
Quixotic Fusion is an ensemble of artists that brings together aerial acrobatics, dance, theater, film, music and visual fx. Watch as they perform three transporting dance pieces at TED2012.
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Jonathan Trent: Energy from floating algae pods
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01, 2012
Call it "fuel without fossils": Jonathan Trent is working on a plan to grow new biofuel by farming micro-algae in floating offshore pods that eat wastewater from cities. Hear his team's .. show full overview
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Andrew Blum: Discover the physical side of the internet
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01, 2012
When a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline, journalist Andrew Blum started wondering what the Internet was really made of. So he set out to go see it — the underwater .. show full overview
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Rachel Botsman: The currency of the new economy is trust
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01, 2012
There's been an explosion of collaborative consumption — web-powered sharing of cars, apartments, skills. Rachel Botsman explores the currency that makes systems like Airbnb and .. show full overview
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Andrew McAfee: Are droids taking our jobs?
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01, 2012
Robots and algorithms are getting good at jobs like building cars, writing articles, translating — jobs that once required a human. So what will we humans do for work? Andrew McAfee .. show full overview
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Read Montague: What we're learning from 5,000 brains
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01, 2012
Mice, bugs and hamsters are no longer the only way to study the brain. Functional MRI (fMRI) allows scientists to map brain activity in living, breathing, decision-making human beings. .. show full overview
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Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government
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01, 2012
The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub — so why can’t governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky .. show full overview
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Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe
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01, 2012
When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world — except much of the time, negative or inconclusive findings go unreported, .. show full overview
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Bahia Shehab: A thousand times no
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01, 2012
Art historian Bahia Shehab has long been fascinated with the Arabic script for 'no.' When revolution swept through Egypt in 2011, she began spraying the image in the streets saying no to dictators, no to military rule and no to violence.
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Vicki Arroyo: Let's prepare for our new climate
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01, 2012
As Vicki Arroyo says, it's time to prepare our homes and cities for our changing climate, with its increased risk of flooding, drought and uncertainty. She illustrates this inspiring .. show full overview
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Jason McCue: Terrorism is a failed brand
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01, 2012
In this gripping talk, lawyer Jason McCue urges for a new way to attack terrorism, to weaken its credibility with those who are buying the product — the recruits. He shares stories of .. show full overview
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Tim Leberecht: 3 ways to (usefully) lose control of your brand
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01, 2012
The days are past (if they ever existed) when a person, company or brand could tightly control their reputation — online chatter and spin mean that if you're relevant, there's a .. show full overview
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John Maeda: How art, technology and design inform creative leaders
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01, 2012
John Maeda, former President of the Rhode Island School of Design, delivers a funny and charming talk that spans a lifetime of work in art, design and technology, concluding with a .. show full overview
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Play Maurizio Seracini: The secret lives of paintings
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01, 2012
Art history is far from set in stone. Engineer Maurizio Seracini spent 30 years searching for Leonardo da Vinci's lost fresco "The Battle of Anghiari," and in the process discovered that .. show full overview
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Eddie Obeng: Smart failure for a fast-changing world
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01, 2012
The world is changing much more rapidly than most people realize, says business educator Eddie Obeng — and creative output cannot keep up. In this spirited talk, he highlights three .. show full overview
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John Wilbanks: Let's pool our medical data
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01, 2012
When you're getting medical treatment, or taking part in medical testing, privacy is important; strict laws limit what researchers can see and know about you. But what if your medical .. show full overview
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Heather Brooke: My battle to expose government corruption
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01, 2012
Our leaders need to be held accountable, says journalist Heather Brooke. And she should know: Brooke uncovered the British Parliamentary financial expenses that led to a major political .. show full overview
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Ryan Merkley: Online video -- annotated, remixed and popped
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01, 2012
Videos on the web should work like the web itself: dynamic, full of links, maps and information that can be edited and updated live, says Ryan Merkley. On the TED stage he demos Mozilla's Popcorn Maker, a web-based tool for easy video remixing.
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Pankaj Ghemawat: Actually, the world isn't flat
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01, 2012
It may seem that we're living in a borderless world where ideas, goods and people flow freely from nation to nation. We're not even close, says Pankaj Ghemawat. With great data (and an .. show full overview
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Lemn Sissay: A child of the state
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01, 2012
Literature has long been fascinated with fostered, adopted and orphaned children, from Moses to Cinderella to Oliver Twist to Harry Potter. So why do many parentless children feel .. show full overview
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Marco Tempest: A cyber-magic card trick like no other
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01, 2012
The suits, numbers and colors in a deck of cards correspond to the seasons, moon cycles and calendar. Marco Tempest straps on augmented reality goggles and does a card trick like you’ve .. show full overview
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Rory Stewart: Why democracy matters
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01, 2012
The public is losing faith in democracy, says British MP Rory Stewart. Iraq and Afghanistan’s new democracies are deeply corrupt; meanwhile, 84 percent of people in Britain say politics .. show full overview
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Sanjay Pradhan: How open data is changing international aid
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01, 2012
How do we make sure that development and aid money actually goes to the people who most need it? Sanjay Pradhan of the World Bank Institute lays out three guidelines to help relief .. show full overview
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Hannah Brencher: Love letters to strangers
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01, 2012
Hannah Brencher's mother always wrote her letters. So when she felt herself bottom into depression after college, she did what felt natural — she wrote love letters and left them for .. show full overview
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David Binder: The arts festival revolution
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01, 2012
David Binder is a major Broadway producer, but last summer he found himself in a small Australian neighborhood, watching locals dance and perform on their lawns — and loving it. He shows .. show full overview
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Daphne Bavelier: Your brain on video games
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01, 2012
How do fast-paced video games affect the brain? Step into the lab with cognitive researcher Daphne Bavelier to hear surprising news about how video games, even action-packed shooter games, can help us learn, focus and, fascinatingly, multitask.
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Amos Winter: The cheap all-terrain wheelchair
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01, 2012
How do you build a wheelchair ready to blaze through mud and sand, all for under $200? MIT engineer Amos Winter guides us through the mechanics of an all-terrain wheelchair that's cheap .. show full overview
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Sleepy Man Banjo Boys: Teen wonders play bluegrass
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01, 2012
Brothers Jonny, Robbie and Tommy Mizzone are The Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, a trio of virtuoso bluegrass musicians who play with dazzling vivacity. Did we mention they're all under 16?
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Paolo Cardini: Forget multitasking, try monotasking
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01, 2012
People don't just cook anymore — they're cooking, texting, talking on the phone, watching YouTube and uploading photos of the awesome meal they just made. Designer Paolo Cardini .. show full overview
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Jeff Smith: Lessons in business ... from prison
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01, 2012
Jeff Smith spent a year in prison. But what he discovered inside wasn’t what he expected — he saw in his fellow inmates boundless ingenuity and business savvy. He asks: Why don't we tap .. show full overview
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Nina Tandon: Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine?
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01, 2012
Each of our bodies is utterly unique, which is a lovely thought until it comes to treating an illness — when every body reacts differently, often unpredictably, to standard treatment. .. show full overview
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Terry Moore: Why is 'x' the unknown?
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06, 2012
Why is 'x' the symbol for an unknown? In this short and funny talk, Terry Moore gives the surprising answer.
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Damian Palin: Mining minerals from seawater
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07, 2012
The world needs clean water, and more and more, we're pulling it from the oceans, desalinating it, and drinking it. But what to do with the salty brine left behind? In this intriguing .. show full overview
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John Hodgman: Design, explained.
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08, 2012
John Hodgman, comedian and resident expert, "explains" the design of three iconic modern objects. (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell.)
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John Hockenberry: We are all designers
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11, 2012
Journalist John Hockenberry tells a personal story inspired by a pair of flashy wheels in a wheelchair-parts catalogue -- and how they showed him the value of designing a life of intent. .. show full overview
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Sarah Parcak: Archeology from space
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14, 2012
In this short talk, TED Fellow Sarah Parcak introduces the field of "space archeology" -- using satellite images to search for clues to the lost sites of past civilizations.
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Marco Tempest: The electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla
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20, 2012
Combining projection mapping and a pop-up book, Marco Tempest tells the visually arresting story of Nikola Tesla -- called "the greatest geek who ever lived" -- from his triumphant invention of alternating current to his penniless last days.
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Peter Norvig: The 100,000-student classroom
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21, 2012
In the fall of 2011 Peter Norvig taught a class with Sebastian Thrun on artificial intelligence at Stanford attended by 175 students in situ -- and over 100,000 via an interactive .. show full overview
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Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are
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28, 2012
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Margaret Heffernan: Dare to Disagree
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29, 2012
Most people instinctively avoid conflict, but as Margaret Heffernan shows us, good disagreement is central to progress. She illustrates (sometimes counterintuitively) how the best .. show full overview
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Candy Chang: Before I die I want to...
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01, 2012
In her New Orleans neighborhood, artist and TED Fellow Candy Chang turned an abandoned house into a giant chalkboard asking a fill-in-the-blank question: "Before I die I want to ___." .. show full overview
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Robin Chase: Excuse me, may I rent your car?
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01, 2012
A decade ago, Robin Chase founded Zipcar in the US, now the largest car-sharing company in the world. Now she's exploring the next level of car-sharing: Buzzcar, a French startup that .. show full overview
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Chris Gerdes: The future race car — 150mph, and no driver
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11, 2012
Autonomous cars are coming — and they’re going to drive better than you. Chris Gerdes reveals how he and his team are developing robotic race cars that can drive at 150 mph while .. show full overview
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Jared Ficklin: New ways to see music (with color! and fire!)
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13, 2012
Designer Jared Ficklin creates wild visualizations that let us see music, using color and even fire (a first for the TED stage) to analyze how sound makes us feel. He takes a brief .. show full overview
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Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: Capturing memories in video art
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15, 2012
Using video mapping and projection, artist Gabriel Barcia-Colombo captures and shares his memories and friendships. At TED Fellow Talks, he shows his charming, thoughtful work -- which .. show full overview
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Marcus Byrne: The dance of the dung beetle
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01, 2012
A dung beetle has a brain the size of a grain of rice, and yet it shows a tremendous amount of intelligence when it comes to rolling its food source — animal excrement — home. How? It all comes down to a dance.
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Jon Ronson: Strange answers to the psychopath test
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15, 2012
Is there a definitive line that divides crazy from sane? With a hair-raising delivery, Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, illuminates the gray areas between the two. .. show full overview
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John Lloyd: An animated tour of the invisible
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01, 2012
Gravity. The stars in day. Thoughts. The human genome. Time. Atoms. So much of what really matters in the world is impossible to see. A stunning animation of John Lloyd's classic TEDTalk from 2009, which will make you question what you actually know.
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Emma Teeling: The secret of the bat genome
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01, 2012
In Western society, bats are often characterized as creepy, even evil. Zoologist Emma Teeling encourages us to rethink common attitudes toward bats, whose unique and fascinating biology gives us insight into our own genetic makeup.
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Jeff Hancock: The future of lying
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01, 2012
Who hasn’t sent a text message saying “I’m on my way” when it wasn’t true or fudged the truth a touch in their online dating profile? But Jeff Hancock doesn’t believe that the anonymity .. show full overview
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Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!
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01, 2012
When most well-intentioned aid workers hear of a problem they think they can fix, they go to work. This, Ernesto Sirolli suggests, is naïve. In this funny and impassioned talk, he .. show full overview
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Jonas Eliasson: How to solve traffic jams
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01, 2012
It's an unfortunate reality in nearly every major city—road congestion, especially during rush hours. Jonas Eliasson reveals how subtly nudging just a small percentage of drivers to stay off major roads can make traffic jams a thing of the past.
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Bobby Ghosh: Why global jihad is losing
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01, 2012
Throughout the history of Islam, says journalist Bobby Ghosh, there have been two sides to jihad: one, internal, a personal struggle to be better, the other external. A small minority .. show full overview
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Ronny Edry: Israel and Iran: A love story?
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01, 2012
When war between Israel and Iran seemed imminent, Israeli graphic designer Ronny Edry shared a poster on Facebook of himself and his daughter with a bold message: "Iranians ... we .. show full overview
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain
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17, 2012
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Julian Treasure: Why architects need to use their ears
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18, 2012
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Ed Gavagan: A story about knots and surgeons
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21, 2012
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Aris Venetikidis: Making sense of maps
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29, 2012
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Janine Shepherd: A broken body isn't a broken person
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01, 2012
Cross-country skier Janine Shepherd hoped for an Olympic medal — until she was hit by a truck during a training bike ride. She shares a powerful story about the human potential for .. show full overview
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Ellen 't Hoen: Pool medical patents, save lives
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01, 2012
Patenting a new drug helps finance its immense cost to develop — but that same patent can put advanced treatments out of reach for sick people in developing nations, at deadly cost. .. show full overview
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Robert Gupta: Between music and medicine
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02, 2012
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Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer course
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04, 2012
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Thomas P. Campbell: Weaving narratives in museum galleries
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05, 2012
As the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Thomas P. Campbell thinks deeply about curating ”not just selecting art objects, but placing them in a setting where the .. show full overview
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Ruby Wax: What's so funny about mental illness?
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10, 2012
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Melissa Marshall: Talk nerdy to me
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11, 2012
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Beau Lotto + Amy O'Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included
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17, 2012
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Lemon Andersen: Please don't take my Air Jordans
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01, 2012
Would you kill for a pair of Air Jordans? Lemon Andersen spins a tale of someone who did, reciting a poem by Reg E. Gaines. These verses taught Lemon that poetry could be about more than .. show full overview
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Markham Nolan: How to separate fact and fiction online
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01, 2012
By the end of this talk, there will be 864 more hours of video on YouTube and 2.5 million more photos on Facebook and Instagram. So how do we sort through the deluge? At the TEDSalon in .. show full overview
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Ben Saunders: Why bother leaving the house?
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01, 2012
Explorer Ben Saunders wants you to go outside! Not because it’s always pleasant and happy, but because that’s where the meat of life is, “the juice that we can suck out of our hours and .. show full overview
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Molly Crockett: Beware neuro-bunk
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01, 2012
Brains are ubiquitous in modern marketing: Headlines proclaim cheese sandwiches help with decision-making, while a “neuro” drink claims to reduce stress. There’s just one problem, says .. show full overview
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Matt Killingsworth: Want to be happier? Stay in the moment
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05, 2012
When are humans most happy? To gather data on this question, Matt Killingsworth built an app, Track Your Happiness, that let people report their feelings in real time. Among the .. show full overview
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Julie Burstein: 4 lessons in creativity
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12, 2012
Radio host Julie Burstein talks with creative people for a living -- and shares four lessons about how to create in the face of challenge, self-doubt and loss. Hear insights from .. show full overview
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Leah Buechley: How to sketch with electronics
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15, 2012
Designing electronics is generally cumbersome and expensive — or was, until Leah Buechley and her team at MIT developed tools to treat electronics just like paper and pen. In this talk .. show full overview
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Adam Davidson: What we learned from teetering on the fiscal cliff
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01, 2012
At the end of 2012, the US political system was headed for the "fiscal cliff" — a budget impasse that could only be solved with bipartisan agreement. Adam Davidson, cohost of "Planet .. show full overview
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Steven Addis: A father-daughter bond, one photo at a time
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19, 2012
A long time ago in New York City, Steve Addis stood on a corner holding his 1-year-old daughter in his arms; his wife snapped a photo. The image has inspired an annual father-daughter .. show full overview
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Don Levy: A cinematic journey through visual effects
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04, 2013
It's been 110 years since Georges Méliès sent a spaceship slamming into the eye of the man on the moon. So how far have visual effects come since then? Working closely with the Academy .. show full overview
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Cesar Kuriyama: One second every day
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06, 2013
There are so many tiny, beautiful, funny, tragic moments in your life -- how are you going to remember them all? Director Cesar Kuriyama shoots one second of video every day as part of an ongoing project to collect all the special bits of his life.
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Wade Davis: Gorgeous photos of a backyard wilderness worth saving
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26, 2013
Ethnographer Wade Davis explores hidden places in the wider world -- but in this powerful short talk he urges us to save a paradise in his backyard, Northern Canada. The Sacred .. show full overview