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2013
2013x1
Karen Thompson Walker: What fear can teach us
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03, 2013
Imagine you're a shipwrecked sailor adrift in the enormous Pacific. You can choose one of three directions and save yourself and your shipmates -- but each choice comes with a fearful .. show full overview
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Hadyn Parry: Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease
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04, 2013
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Don Levy: A cinematic journey through visual effects
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05, 2013
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2013x4
Jonathan Haidt: How common threats can make common (political) ground
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08, 2013
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Sue Austin: Deep sea diving … in a wheelchair
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09, 2013
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2013x6
Jarrett J. Krosoczka: How a boy became an artist
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10, 2013
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2013x7
Boghuma Kabisen Titanji: Ethical riddles in HIV research
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11, 2013
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2013x8
Andy Puddicombe: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes
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12, 2013
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2013x9
Angela Patton: A father-daughter dance ... in prison
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15, 2013
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2013x10
Ellen Jorgensen: Biohacking -- you can do it, too
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16, 2013
We have personal computing, why not personal biotech? That’s the question biologist Ellen Jorgensen and her colleagues asked themselves before opening Genspace, a nonprofit DIYbio lab in .. show full overview
2013x11
Cameron Russell: Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model.
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17, 2013
Cameron Russell admits she won “a genetic lottery”: she's tall, pretty and an underwear model. But don't judge her by her looks. In this fearless talk, she takes a wry look at the industry that had her looking highly seductive at barely 16 years old.
2013x12
Richard Weller: Could the sun be good for your heart?
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18, 2013
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2013x13
Colin Stokes: How movies teach manhood
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19, 2013
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2013x14
Janine di Giovanni: What I saw in the war
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23, 2013
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2013x15
Colin Powell: Kids need structure
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24, 2013
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2013x16
Steven Schwaitzberg: A universal translator for surgeons
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25, 2013
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2013x17
Leslie Morgan Steiner: Why domestic violence victims don't leave
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26, 2013
Leslie Morgan Steiner was in “crazy love” -- that is, madly in love with a man who routinely abused her and threatened her life. Steiner tells the dark story of her relationship, .. show full overview
2013x18
Wingham Rowan: A new kind of job market
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29, 2013
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2013x19
Mitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code
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30, 2013
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2013x20
iO Tillett Wright: Fifty shades of gay
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31, 2013
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2013x21
Fahad Al-Attiya: A country with no water
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01, 2013
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2013x22
Zahra' Langhi: Why Libya's revolution didn't work -- and what might
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05, 2013
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2013x23
Tyler DeWitt: Hey science teachers -- make it fun
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06, 2013
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2013x24
Cesar Kuriyama: One second every day
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07, 2013
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2013x25
Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine
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08, 2013
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2013x26
Edi Rama: Take back your city with paint
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09, 2013
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2013x27
Shabana Basij-Rasikh: Dare to educate Afghan girls
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12, 2013
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2013x28
Erik Schlangen: A "self-healing" asphalt
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13, 2013
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2013x29
James B. Glattfelder: Who controls the world?
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14, 2013
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2013x30
Esther Perel: The secret to desire in a long-term relationship
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15, 2013
In long-term relationships, we often expect our beloved to be both best friend and erotic partner. But as Esther Perel argues, good and committed sex draws on two conflicting needs: our .. show full overview
2013x31
Young-ha Kim: Be an artist, right now!
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16, 2013
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2013x32
Miguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really.
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19, 2013
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2013x33
Keith Chen: Could your language affect your ability to save money?
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20, 2013
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2013x34
Afra Raymond: Three myths about corruption
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21, 2013
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2013x35
Andreas Schleicher: Use data to build better schools
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22, 2013
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2013x36
Michael Dickinson: How a fly flies
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23, 2013
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2013x37
Bruce Feiler: Agile programming -- for your family
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26, 2013
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2013x38
Wade Davis: Gorgeous photos of a backyard wilderness worth saving
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27, 2013
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2013x39
Bruno Maisonnier: Dance, tiny robots!
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27, 2013
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2013x40
Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud
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28, 2013
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2013x41
Jennifer Granholm: A clean energy proposal -- race to the top!
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01, 2013
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2013x42
Amanda Palmer: The art of asking
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02, 2013
Don't make people pay for music, says Amanda Palmer: Let them. In a passionate talk that begins in her days as a street performer (drop a dollar in the hat for the Eight-Foot Bride!), she examines the new relationship between artist and fan.
2013x43
Allan Savory: How to green the desert and reverse climate change
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05, 2013
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2013x44
Edith Widder: How we found the giant squid
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06, 2013
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2013x45
Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA
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07, 2013
Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to .. show full overview
2013x46
Kakenya Ntaiya: A girl who demanded school
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08, 2013
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2013x47
Shane Koyczan: "To This Day" ... for the bullied and beautiful
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09, 2013
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2013x48
Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong
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12, 2013
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2013x49
David Anderson: Your brain is more than a bag of chemicals
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13, 2013
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2013x50
Stewart Brand: The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?
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14, 2013
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2013x51
Bono: The good news on poverty (Yes, there's good news)
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14, 2013
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2013x52
Catarina Mota: Play with smart materials
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16, 2013
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2013x53
Danny Hillis: The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B
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18, 2013
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2013x54
Elon Musk: The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity ...
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20, 2013
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2013x55
Hyeonseo Lee: My escape from North Korea
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21, 2013
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2013x56
Francis Collins: We need better drugs -- now
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22, 2013
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2013x57
Eric Whitacre: Virtual Choir Live
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23, 2013
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2013x58
Jessica Green: We're covered in germs. Let's design for that.
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26, 2013
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2013x59
Mark Shaw: One very dry demo
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27, 2013
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2013x60
Richard Turere: My invention that made peace with lions
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28, 2013
In the Masai community where 13-year-old Richard Turere lives, cattle are all-important. But lion attacks were growing more frequent. In this short, inspiring talk, the young inventor .. show full overview
2013x61
Colin Camerer: Neuroscience, game theory, monkeys
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29, 2013
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2013x62
Kees Moeliker: How a dead duck changed my life
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02, 2013
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2013x63
Sanjay Dastoor: A skateboard, with a boost
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03, 2013
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2013x64
Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim
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04, 2013
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2013x65
Skylar Tibbits: The emergence of 4D printing
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05, 2013
3D printing has grown in sophistication since the late 1970s; TED Fellow Skylar Tibbits is shaping the next development, which he calls 4D printing, where the fourth dimension is time. .. show full overview
2013x66
Ken Jennings: Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all
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06, 2013
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2013x67
Freeman Hrabowski: 4 pillars of college success in science
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09, 2013
At age 12, Freeman Hrabowski marched with Martin Luther King. Now he's president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where he works to create an environment that .. show full overview
2013x68
Keller Rinaudo: A mini robot -- powered by your phone
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10, 2013
Your smartphone may feel like a friend — but a true friend would give you a smile once in a while. At TED2013, Keller Rinaudo demos Romo, the smartphone-powered mini robot who can motor .. show full overview
2013x69
Dan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work?
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11, 2013
What motivates us to work? Contrary to conventional wisdom, it isn't just money. But it's not exactly joy either. It seems that most of us thrive by making constant progress and feeling .. show full overview
2013x70
Eric Dishman: Health care should be a team sport
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12, 2013
When Eric Dishman was in college, doctors told him he had 2 to 3 years to live. That was a long time ago. Now, Dishman puts his experience and his expertise as a medical tech specialist .. show full overview
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: We should all be feminists
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12, 2013
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2013x71
Laura Snyder: The Philosophical Breakfast Club
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13, 2013
In 1812, four men at Cambridge University met for breakfast. What began as an impassioned meal grew into a new scientific revolution, in which these men -- who called themselves .. show full overview
2013x73
Thomas Insel: Toward a new understanding of mental illness
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16, 2013
Today, thanks to better early detection, there are 63% fewer deaths from heart disease than there were just a few decades ago. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental .. show full overview
2013x72
Rose George: Let's talk crap. Seriously.
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17, 2013
It's 2013, yet 2.5 billion people in the world have no access to a basic sanitary toilet. And when there's no loo, where do you poo? In the street, probably near your water and food .. show full overview
2013x74
Joshua Prager: In search of the man who broke my neck
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18, 2013
When Joshua Prager was 19, a devastating bus accident left him a hemiplegic. He returned to Israel twenty years later to find the driver who turned his world upside down. In this .. show full overview
2013x75
Andres Lozano: Parkinson's, depression and the switch that might turn them off
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19, 2013
Deep brain stimulation is becoming very precise. This technique allows surgeons to place electrodes in almost any area of the brain, and turn them up or down — like a radio dial or .. show full overview
2013x76
BLACK: My journey to yo-yo mastery
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20, 2013
Remember the days you struggled just to make a yo-yo spin, and if you were really fancy, to “walk the dog”? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Japanese yo-yo world champion BLACK tells the .. show full overview
2013x77
John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!!
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23, 2013
Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? John McWhorter posits that there’s much more to texting — linguistically, culturally — than it seems, and it’s all good news.
2013x78
Robert Gordon: The death of innovation, the end of growth
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24, 2013
The US economy has been expanding wildly for two centuries. Are we witnessing the end of growth? Economist Robert Gordon lays out 4 reasons US growth may be slowing, detailing factors .. show full overview
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Erik Brynjolfsson: The key to growth? Race with the machines
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24, 2013
As machines take on more jobs, many find themselves out of work or with raises indefinitely postponed. Is this the end of growth? No, says Erik Brynjolfsson -- it’s simply the growing .. show full overview
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Jennifer Healey: If cars could talk, accidents might be avoidable
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26, 2013
When we drive, we get into a glass bubble, lock the doors and press the accelerator, relying on our eyes to guide us — even though we can only see the few cars ahead of and behind us. .. show full overview
2013x81
David Pogue: 10 top time-saving tech tips
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27, 2013
Tech columnist David Pogue shares 10 simple, clever tips for computer, web, smartphone and camera users. And yes, you may know a few of these already — but there's probably at least one you don't.
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Nilofer Merchant: Got a meeting? Take a walk
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30, 2013
Nilofer Merchant suggests a small idea that just might have a big impact on your life and health: Next time you have a one-on-one meeting, make it into a "walking meeting" — and let ideas flow while you walk and talk.
2013x83
Taylor Wilson: My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors
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01, 2013
Taylor Wilson was 14 when he built a nuclear fusion reactor in his parents' garage. Now 19, he returns to the TED stage to present a new take on an old topic: fission. Wilson, who has .. show full overview
2013x84
Sebastião Salgado: The silent drama of photography
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02, 2013
Economics PhD Sebastião Salgado only took up photography in his 30s, but the discipline became an obsession. His years-long projects beautifully capture the human side of a global story .. show full overview
2013x85
Juan Enriquez: Your online life, permanent as a tattoo
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03, 2013
What if Andy Warhol had it wrong, and instead of being famous for 15 minutes, we’re only anonymous for that long? In this short talk, Juan Enriquez looks at the surprisingly permanent .. show full overview
2013x86
Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion
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04, 2013
Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don’t like.’” A rousing call to .. show full overview
2013x87
Timothy Bartik: The economic case for preschool
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07, 2013
In this well-argued talk, Timothy Bartik makes the macro-economic case for preschool education — and explains why you should be happy to invest in it, even if you don't have kids that .. show full overview
2013x88
ShaoLan: Learn to read Chinese ... with ease!
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08, 2013
For foreigners, learning to speak Chinese is a hard task. But learning to read the beautiful, often complex characters of the Chinese written language may be less difficult. ShaoLan .. show full overview
2013x89
Bill Gates: Teachers need real feedback
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09, 2013
Until recently, many teachers only got one word of feedback a year: “satisfactory.” And with no feedback, no coaching, there’s just no way to improve. Bill Gates suggests that even great .. show full overview
2013x90
Ramsey Musallam: 3 rules to spark learning
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09, 2013
It took a life-threatening condition to jolt chemistry teacher Ramsey Musallam out of ten years of “pseudo-teaching” to understand the true role of the educator: to cultivate curiosity. .. show full overview
2013x91
Pearl Arredondo: My story, from gangland daughter to star teacher
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09, 2013
Pearl Arredondo grew up in East Los Angeles, the daughter of a high-ranking gang member who was in and out of jail. Many teachers wrote her off as having a problem with authority. Now a .. show full overview
2013x92
Malcolm London: “High School Training Ground”
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09, 2013
Young poet, educator and activist Malcom London performs his stirring poem about life on the front lines of high school. He tells of the “oceans of adolescence” who come to school “but .. show full overview
2013x93
Geoffrey Canada: Our failing schools. Enough is enough!
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09, 2013
Why, why, why does our education system look so similar to the way it did 50 years ago? Millions of students were failing then, as they are now — and it’s because we’re clinging to a .. show full overview
2013x94
John Legend: "True Colors"
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09, 2013
In a heart-melting moment, TED Talks Education host John Legend sits at the piano to sing "True Colors," giving the lyrics a special meaning for kids and teachers. "So don't be afraid / .. show full overview
2013x95
Angela Lee Duckworth: The key to success? Grit
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10, 2013
Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn’t the only thing .. show full overview
2013x96
Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley
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11, 2013
Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out .. show full overview
2013x97
Meg Jay: Why 30 is not the new 20
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14, 2013
Clinical psychologist Meg Jay has a bold message for twentysomethings: Contrary to popular belief, your 20s are not a throwaway decade. In this provocative talk, Jay says that just .. show full overview
2013x98
Maria Bezaitis: The surprising need for strangeness
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15, 2013
In our digital world, social relations have become mediated by data. Without even realizing it, we’re barricading ourselves against strangeness — people and ideas that don't fit the .. show full overview
2013x99
Liu Bolin: The invisible man
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16, 2013
Can a person disappear in plain sight? That’s the question Liu Bolin‘s remarkable work seems to ask. The Beijing-based artist is sometimes called “The Invisible Man” because in nearly .. show full overview
2013x100
Jay Silver: Hack a banana, make a keyboard!
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17, 2013
Why can't two slices of pizza be used as a slide clicker? Why shouldn't you make music with ketchup? In this charming talk, inventor Jay Silver talks about the urge to play with the .. show full overview
2013x101
Sergey Brin: Why Google Glass?
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18, 2013
It's not a demo, more of a philosophical argument: Why did Sergey Brin and his team at Google want to build an eye-mounted camera/computer, codenamed Glass? Onstage at TED2013, Brin .. show full overview
2013x102
Peter Singer: The why and how of effective altruism
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20, 2013
If you're lucky enough to live without want, it's a natural impulse to be altruistic to others. But, asks philosopher Peter Singer, what's the most effective way to give? He talks .. show full overview
2013x103
Phil Hansen: Embrace the shake
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21, 2013
In art school, Phil Hansen developed an unruly tremor in his hand that kept him from creating the pointillist drawings he loved. Hansen was devastated, floating without a sense of .. show full overview
2013x104
Judy MacDonald Johnston: Prepare for a good end of life
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22, 2013
Thinking about death is frightening, but planning ahead is practical and leaves more room for peace of mind in our final days. In a solemn, thoughtful talk, Judy MacDonald Johnston shares 5 practices for planning for a good end of life.
2013x105
Alastair Parvin: Architecture for the people by the people
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23, 2013
Designer Alastair Parvin presents a simple but provocative idea: what if, instead of architects creating buildings for those who can afford to commission them, regular citizens could .. show full overview
2013x106
Ji-Hae Park: The violin, and my dark night of the soul
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24, 2013
In her quest to become a world-famous violinist, Ji-Hae Park fell into a severe depression. Only music was able to lift her out again — showing her that her goal needn’t be to play lofty .. show full overview
2013x107
Paola Antonelli: Why I brought Pac-Man to MoMA
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28, 2013
When the Museum of Modern Art's senior curator of architecture and design announced the acquisition of 14 video games in 2012, "all hell broke loose." In this far-ranging, entertaining, .. show full overview
2013x108
Jackson Katz: Violence against women—it's a men's issue
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29, 2013
Domestic violence and sexual abuse are often called "women’s issues.” But in this bold, blunt talk, Jackson Katz points out that these are intrinsically men’s issues — and shows how .. show full overview
2013x109
Hendrik Poinar: Bring back the woolly mammoth!
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30, 2013
It’s the dream of kids all around the world to see giant beasts walk the Earth again. Could — and should — that dream be realized? Hendrik Poinar gives an informative talk on the next — .. show full overview
2013x110
Lisa Bu: How books can open your mind
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31, 2013
What happens when a dream you've held since childhood … doesn't come true? As Lisa Bu adjusted to a new life in the United States, she turned to books to expand her mind and create a new .. show full overview
2013x111
Andrew Solomon: Love, no matter what
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03, 2013
What is it like to raise a child who's different from you in some fundamental way (like a prodigy, or a differently abled kid, or a criminal)? In this quietly moving talk, writer Andrew .. show full overview
2013x112
Alex Laskey: How behavioral science can lower your energy bill
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04, 2013
What's a proven way to lower your energy costs? Would you believe: learning what your neighbor pays. Alex Laskey shows how a quirk of human behavior can make us all better, wiser energy users, with lower bills to prove it.
2013x113
Anas Aremeyaw Anas: How I named, shamed and jailed
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05, 2013
Journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has broken dozens of stories of corruption and organized crime all over Ghana — without ever revealing his identity. In this talk (in which his face remains .. show full overview
2013x114
Denise Herzing: Could we speak the language of dolphins?
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06, 2013
For 28 years, Denise Herzing has spent five months each summer living with a pod of Atlantic spotted dolphins, following three generations of family relationships and behaviors. It's .. show full overview
2013x115
Martin Villeneuve: How I made an impossible film
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07, 2013
Filmmaker Martin Villeneuve talks about Mars et Avril, the Canadian sci-fi spectacular he made with virtually no money. In a charming talk, he explains the various ways he overcame .. show full overview
2013x116
Andrew McAfee: What will future jobs look like?
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10, 2013
Economist Andrew McAfee suggests that, yes, probably, droids will take our jobs -- or at least the kinds of jobs we know now. In this far-seeing talk, he thinks through what future jobs .. show full overview
2013x117
Raffaello D'Andrea: The astounding athletic power of quadcopters
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11, 2013
In a robot lab at TEDGlobal, Raffaello D'Andrea demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that help them learn. In a series .. show full overview
2013x118
George Papandreou: Imagine a European democracy without borders
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11, 2013
Greece has been the poster child for European economic crisis, but former Prime Minister George Papandreou wonders if it's just a preview of what's to come. “Our democracies," he says, .. show full overview
2013x119
Daniel Suarez: The kill decision shouldn't belong to a robot
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12, 2013
As a novelist, Daniel Suarez spins dystopian tales of the future. But on the TEDGlobal stage, he talks us through a real-life scenario we all need to know more about: the rise of .. show full overview
2013x120
Manal al-Sharif: A Saudi woman who dared to drive
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13, 2013
There's no actual law against women driving in Saudi Arabia. But it's forbidden. Two years ago, Manal al-Sharif decided to encourage women to drive by doing so -- and filming herself for .. show full overview
2013x121
Didier Sornette: How we can predict the next financial crisis
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17, 2013
The 2007-2008 financial crisis, you might think, was an unpredictable one-time crash. But Didier Sornette and his Financial Crisis Observatory have plotted a set of early warning signs .. show full overview
2013x122
Juliana Rotich: Meet BRCK, Internet access built for Africa
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18, 2013
Tech communities are booming all over Africa, says Nairobi-based Juliana Rotich, cofounder of the open-source software Ushahidi. But it remains challenging to get and stay connected in a .. show full overview
2013x123
Joseph Kim: The family I lost in North Korea. And the family I gained.
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19, 2013
A refugee now living in the US, Joseph Kim tells the story of his life in North Korea during the famine years. He's begun to create a new life -- but he still searches for the family he .. show full overview
2013x124
Paul Pholeros: How to reduce poverty? Fix homes
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20, 2013
In 1985, architect Paul Pholeros was challenged by the director of an Aboriginal-controlled health service to "stop people getting sick" in a small indigenous community in south .. show full overview
2013x125
Camille Seaman: Photos from a storm chaser
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21, 2013
Photographer Camille Seaman has been chasing storms for 5 years. In this talk she shows stunning, surreal photos of the heavens in tumult. TED Senior Fellow Camille Seaman photographs big ice and big clouds.
2013x126
Lesley Hazleton: The doubt essential to faith
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24, 2013
When Lesley Hazleton was writing a biography of Muhammad, she was struck by something: The night he received the revelation of the Koran, according to early accounts, his first reaction .. show full overview
2013x127
Peter Attia: Is the obesity crisis hiding a bigger problem?
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25, 2013
As a young surgeon, Peter Attia felt contempt for a patient with diabetes. She was overweight, he thought, and thus responsible for the fact that she needed a foot amputation. But years .. show full overview
2013x128
Bob Mankoff: Anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon
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26, 2013
The New Yorker receives around 1,000 cartoons each week; it only publishes about 17 of them. In this hilarious, fast-paced, and insightful talk, the magazine's longstanding cartoon .. show full overview
2013x129
Michael Archer: How we'll resurrect the gastric brooding frog, the Tasmanian tiger
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27, 2013
The gastric brooding frog lays its eggs just like any other frog -- then swallows them whole to incubate. That is, it did until it went extinct 30 years ago. Paleontologist Michael .. show full overview
2013x130
Rodney Brooks: Why we will rely on robots
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28, 2013
Scaremongers play on the idea that robots will simply replace people on the job. In fact, they can become our essential collaborators, freeing us up to spend time on less mundane and .. show full overview
2013x131
Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems
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01, 2013
It's a standard assumption in the West: As a society progresses, it eventually becomes a capitalist, multi-party democracy. Right? Eric X. Li, a Chinese investor and political scientist, .. show full overview
2013x132
Joel Selanikio: The surprising seeds of a big-data revolution in healthcare
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02, 2013
Collecting global health data was an imperfect science: Workers tramped through villages to knock on doors and ask questions, wrote the answers on paper forms, then input the data — and .. show full overview
2013x133
Jinha Lee: Reach into the computer and grab a pixel
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03, 2013
The border between our physical world and the digital information surrounding us has been getting thinner and thinner. Designer and engineer Jinha Lee wants to dissolve it altogether. As .. show full overview
2013x134
Sleepy Man Banjo Boys: Bluegrass virtuosity from ... New Jersey?
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05, 2013
All under the age of 16, brothers Jonny, Robbie and Tommy Mizzone are from New Jersey, a US state that's better known for the rock of Bruce Springsteen than the bluegrass of Earl .. show full overview
2013x135
Charmian Gooch: Meet global corruption's hidden players
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08, 2013
When the son of the president of a desperately poor country starts buying mansions and sportscars on an official monthly salary of $7,000, Charmian Gooch suggests, corruption is probably .. show full overview
2013x136
Michael Green: Why we should build wooden skyscrapers
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09, 2013
Building a skyscraper? Forget about steel and concrete, says architect Michael Green, and build it out of … wood. As he details in this intriguing talk, it's not only possible to build .. show full overview
2013x137
The interspecies internet? An idea in progress…
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10, 2013
Apes, dolphins and elephants are animals with remarkable communication skills. Could the internet be expanded to include sentient species like them? A new and developing idea from a .. show full overview
2013x138
Jack Andraka: A promising test for pancreatic cancer ... from a teenager
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11, 2013
Over 85 percent of all pancreatic cancers are diagnosed late, when someone has less than two percent chance of survival. How could this be? Jack Andraka talks about how he developed a .. show full overview
2013x139
Al Vernacchio: Sex needs a new metaphor. Here's one …
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12, 2013
For some reason, says educator Al Vernacchio, the metaphors for talking about sex in the US all come from baseball — scoring, getting to first base, etc. The problem is, this frames sex .. show full overview
2013x140
Bernie Krause: The voice of the natural world
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15, 2013
Bernie Krause has been recording wild soundscapes — the wind in the trees, the chirping of birds, the subtle sounds of insect larvae — for 45 years. In that time, he has seen many .. show full overview
2013x141
Gavin Pretor-Pinney: Cloudy with a chance of joy
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16, 2013
You don't need to plan an exotic trip to find creative inspiration. Just look up, says Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society. As he shares charming photos of .. show full overview
2013x142
Pico Iyer: Where is home?
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17, 2013
More and more people worldwide are living in countries not considered their own. Writer Pico Iyer — who himself has three or four “origins” — meditates on the meaning of home, the joy of traveling and the serenity of standing still.
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Two young scientists break down plastics with bacteria
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18, 2013
Once it's created, plastic (almost) never dies. While in 12th grade Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao went in search of a new bacteria to biodegrade plastic — specifically by breaking down .. show full overview
2013x144
Tom Thum: The orchestra in my mouth
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19, 2013
In a highly entertaining performance, beatboxer Tom Thum slings beats, comedy and a mouthful of instrumental impersonations into 11 minutes of creativity and fun that will make you smile. (Filmed at TEDxSydney.)
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John Searle: Our shared condition -- consciousness
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22, 2013
Philosopher John Searle lays out the case for studying human consciousness — and systematically shoots down some of the common objections to taking it seriously. As we learn more about .. show full overview
2013x146
Kate Stone: DJ decks made of... paper
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23, 2013
"I love paper, and I love technology," says physicist and former sheep herder Kate Stone, who's spent the past decade working to unite the two. Her experiments combine regular paper with .. show full overview
2013x147
Roberto D'Angelo + Francesca Fedeli: In our baby's illness, a life lesson
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24, 2013
Roberto D'Angelo and Francesca Fedeli thought their baby boy Mario was healthy — until at 10 days old, they discovered he'd had a perinatal stroke. With Mario unable to control the left .. show full overview
2013x148
Paul Kemp-Robertson: Bitcoin. Sweat. Tide. Meet the future of branded currency.
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25, 2013
Currency — the bills and coins you carry in your wallet and in your bank account — is founded on marketing, on the belief that banks and governments are trustworthy. Now, Paul .. show full overview
2013x149
Tania Luna: How a penny made me feel like a millionaire
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26, 2013
As a young child, Tania Luna left her home in post-Chernobyl Ukraine to take asylum in the US. And one day, on the floor of the New York homeless shelter where she and her family lived, .. show full overview
2013x150
Bastian Schaefer: A 3D-printed jumbo jet?
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29, 2013
Designer Bastian Schaefer shows off a speculative design for the future of jet planes, with a skeleton inspired by strong, flexible, natural forms and by the needs of the world's, ahem, .. show full overview
2013x151
Eli Beer: The fastest ambulance? A motorcycle
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30, 2013
As a young EMT on a Jerusalem ambulance, Eli Beer realized that, stuck in brutal urban traffic, they often arrived too late to help. So he organized a group of volunteer EMTs — many on .. show full overview
2013x152
Julie Taymor: Spider-Man, The Lion King and life on the creative edge
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31, 2013
Showing spectacular clips from productions such as Frida, The Tempest and The Lion King, director Julie Taymor describes a life spent immersed in theater and the movies. Filmed right as .. show full overview
2013x153
Peter van Manen: How can Formula 1 racing help ... babies?
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01, 2013
During a Formula 1 race, a car sends hundreds of millions of data points to its garage for real-time analysis and feedback. So why not use this detailed and rigorous data system .. show full overview
2013x154
Beardyman: The polyphonic me
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02, 2013
Frustrated by not being able to sing two notes at the same time, musical inventor Beardyman built a machine to allow him to create loops and layers from just the sounds he makes with his .. show full overview
2013x155
Daniel H. Cohen: For argument’s sake
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05, 2013
Why do we argue? To out-reason our opponents, prove them wrong, and, most of all, to win! ... Right? Philosopher Daniel H. Cohen shows how our most common form of argument — a war in .. show full overview
2013x156
Jinsop Lee: Design for all 5 senses
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06, 2013
Good design looks great, yes — but why shouldn't it also feel great, smell great and sound great? Designer Jinsop Lee (a TED Talent Search winner) shares his theory of 5-sense design, .. show full overview
2013x157
Saki Mafundikwa: Ingenuity and elegance in ancient African alphabets
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07, 2013
From simple alphabets to secret symbolic languages, graphic designer Saki Mafundikwa celebrates the many forms of written communication across the continent of Africa. He highlights the .. show full overview
2013x158
Eleanor Longden: The voices in my head
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08, 2013
To all appearances, Eleanor Longden was just like every other student, heading to college full of promise and without a care in the world. That was until the voices in her head started .. show full overview
2013x159
Derek Paravicini and Adam Ockelford: In the key of genius
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09, 2013
Born three and a half months prematurely, Derek Paravicini is blind and has severe autism. But with perfect pitch, innate talent and a lot of practice, he became an acclaimed concert .. show full overview
2013x160
Margaret Heffernan: The dangers of
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12, 2013
Gayla Benefield was just doing her job — until she uncovered an awful secret about her hometown that meant its mortality rate was 80 times higher than anywhere else in the U.S. But when .. show full overview
2013x161
Shigeru Ban: Emergency shelters made from paper
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13, 2013
Long before sustainability was a buzzword, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban had begun his experiments with ecologically sound building materials such as cardboard tubes. His .. show full overview
2013x162
Russell Foster: Why do we sleep?
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14, 2013
Russell Foster is a circadian neuroscientist: He studies the sleep cycles of the brain. And he asks: What do we know about sleep? Not a lot, it turns out, for something we do with .. show full overview
2013x163
Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu: A mouse. A laser beam. A manipulated memory.
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15, 2013
Can we edit the content of our memories? It’s a sci-fi-tinged question that Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu are asking in their lab at MIT. Essentially, the pair shoot a laser beam into the .. show full overview
2013x164
May El-Khalil: Making peace is a marathon
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16, 2013
In Lebanon there is one gunshot a year that isn’t part of a scene of routine violence: The opening sound of the Beirut International Marathon. In a moving talk, marathon founder May .. show full overview
2013x165
Adam Spencer: Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers
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03, 2013
They're millions of digits long, and it takes an army of mathematicians and machines to hunt them down — what's not to love about monster primes? Adam Spencer, comedian and lifelong math .. show full overview
2013x166
Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend
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04, 2013
Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only .. show full overview
2013x167
Chrystia Freeland: The rise of the new global super-rich
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05, 2013
Technology is advancing in leaps and bounds — and so is economic inequality, says writer Chrystia Freeland. In an impassioned talk, she charts the rise of a new class of plutocrats .. show full overview
2013x168
Alexa Meade: Your body is my canvas
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06, 2013
Alexa Meade takes an innovative approach to art. Not for her a life of sketching and stretching canvases. Instead, she selects a topic and then paints it—literally. She covers everything .. show full overview
2013x169
George Monbiot: For more wonder, rewild the world
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09, 2013
Wolves were once native to the US' Yellowstone National Park — until hunting wiped them out. But when, in 1995, the wolves began to come back (thanks to an aggressive management .. show full overview
2013x170
Jake Barton: The museum of you
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10, 2013
A third of the world watched live as the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001; a third more heard about it within 24 hours. (Do you remember where you were?) So exhibits at .. show full overview
2013x171
Ron McCallum: How technology allowed me to read
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11, 2013
Months after he was born, in 1948, Ron McCallum became blind. In this charming, moving talk, he shows how he is able to read — and celebrates the progression of clever tools and adaptive .. show full overview
2013x172
Sonia Shah: 3 reasons we still haven’t gotten rid of malaria
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12, 2013
We’ve known how to cure malaria since the 1600s, so why does the disease still kill hundreds of thousands every year? It’s more than just a problem of medicine, says journalist Sonia .. show full overview
2013x173
Apollo Robbins: The art of misdirection
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13, 2013
Hailed as the greatest pickpocket in the world, Apollo Robbins studies the quirks of human behavior as he steals your watch. In a hilarious demonstration, Robbins samples the buffet of .. show full overview
2013x174
James Lyne: Everyday cybercrime -- and what you can do about it
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16, 2013
How do you pick up a malicious online virus, the kind of malware that snoops on your data and taps your bank account? Often, it's through simple things you do each day without thinking .. show full overview
2013x175
Marla Spivak: Why bees are disappearing
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17, 2013
Honeybees have thrived for 50 million years, each colony 40 to 50,000 individuals coordinated in amazing harmony. So why, seven years ago, did colonies start dying en masse? Marla Spivak .. show full overview
2013x176
Eric Berlow and Sean Gourley: Mapping ideas worth spreading
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18, 2013
What do 24,000 ideas look like? Ecologist Eric Berlow and physicist Sean Gourley apply algorithms to the entire archive of TEDx Talks, taking us on a stimulating visual tour to show how ideas connect globally.
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Andras Forgacs: Leather and meat without killing animals
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19, 2013
By 2050, it will take 100 billion land animals to provide the world's population with meat, dairy, eggs and leather goods. Maintaining this herd will take a huge, potentially .. show full overview
2013x178
Benjamin Barber: Why mayors should rule the world
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20, 2013
It often seems like federal-level politicians care more about creating gridlock than solving the world's problems. So who's actually getting bold things done? City mayors. So, political .. show full overview
2013x179
Elizabeth Loftus: The fiction of memory
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23, 2013
Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus studies memories. More precisely, she studies false memories, when people either remember things that didn't happen or remember them differently from the .. show full overview
2013x180
Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance
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24, 2013
What does real scientific work look like? As neuroscientist Stuart Firestein jokes: It looks a lot less like the scientific method and a lot more like "farting around … in the dark." In .. show full overview
2013x181
Onora O'Neill: What we don't understand about trust
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25, 2013
Trust is on the decline, and we need to rebuild it. That’s a commonly heard suggestion for making a better world … but, says philosopher Onora O’Neill, we don’t really understand what .. show full overview
2013x182
James Flynn: Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents'
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26, 2013
It's called the "Flynn effect" — the fact that each generation scores higher on an IQ test than the generation before it. Are we actually getting smarter, or just thinking differently? .. show full overview
2013x183
Kevin Breel: Confessions of a depressed comic
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27, 2013
Kevin Breel didn't look like a depressed kid: team captain, at every party, funny and confident. But he tells the story of the night he realized that — to save his own life — he needed to say four simple words.
2013x184
Malcolm Gladwell: The unheard story of David and Goliath
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30, 2013
It's a classic underdog tale: David, a young shepherd armed only with a sling, beats Goliath, the mighty warrior. The story has transcended its biblical origins to become a common .. show full overview
2013x185
Kelli Swazey: Life that doesn't end with death
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01, 2013
In Tana Toraja, weddings and births aren’t the social gatherings that knit society together. In this part of Indonesia, big, raucous funerals form the center of social life. .. show full overview
2013x244
David Grady: How to save the world (or at least yourself) from bad meetings
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01, 2013
An epidemic of bad, inefficient, overcrowded meetings is plaguing the world’s businesses — and making workers miserable. David Grady has some ideas on how to stop it. TED@State Street Boston, Oct 2013
2013x186
Amy Webb: How I hacked online dating
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02, 2013
Amy Webb was having no luck with online dating. The dates she liked didn't write her back, and her own profile attracted crickets (and worse). So, as any fan of data would do: she .. show full overview
2013x187
Fabian Oefner: Psychedelic science
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03, 2013
Swiss artist and photographer Fabian Oefner is on a mission to make eye-catching art from everyday science. In this charming talk, he shows off some recent psychedelic images, including .. show full overview
2013x188
Jason Pontin: Can technology solve our big problems?
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04, 2013
In 1969, Buzz Aldrin’s historical step onto the moon leapt mankind into an era of technological possibility. The awesome power of technology was to be used to solve all of our big .. show full overview
2013x189
Michael Porter: Why business can be good at solving social problems
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07, 2013
Why do we turn to nonprofits, NGOs and governments to solve society's biggest problems? Michael Porter admits he's biased, as a business school professor, but he wants you to hear his .. show full overview
2013x190
Michael Sandel: Why we shouldn't trust markets with our civic life
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07, 2013
In the past three decades, says Michael Sandel, the US has drifted from a market economy to a market society; it's fair to say that an American's experience of shared civic life depends .. show full overview
2013x191
Janette Sadik-Khan: New York's streets? Not so mean any more
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08, 2013
In this funny and thought-provoking talk, Janette Sadik-Khan, transportation commissioner of New York City, shares projects that have reshaped street life in the 5 boroughs, including .. show full overview
2013x192
Trita Parsi: Iran and Israel: Peace is possible
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09, 2013
Iran and Israel: two nations with tense relations that seem existentially at odds. But for all their antagonistic rhetoric, there is a recent hidden history of collaboration, even .. show full overview
2013x193
Gary Slutkin: Let's treat violence like a contagious disease
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10, 2013
Physician Gary Slutkin spent a decade fighting tuberculosis, cholera and AIDS epidemics in Africa. When he returned to the United States, he thought he'd escape brutal epidemic deaths. .. show full overview
2013x194
Andrew Fitzgerald: Adventures in Twitter fiction
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11, 2013
In the 1930s, broadcast radio introduced an entirely new form of storytelling; today, micro-blogging platforms like Twitter are changing the scene again. Andrew Fitzgerald takes a look .. show full overview
2013x195
Jeff Speck: The walkable city
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14, 2013
How do we solve the problem of the suburbs? Urbanist Jeff Speck shows how we can free ourselves from dependence on the car — which he calls "a gas-belching, time-wasting, .. show full overview
2013x196
Amanda Bennett: We need a heroic narrative for death
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15, 2013
Amanda Bennett and her husband were passionate and full of life all throughout their lives together -- and up until the final days, too. Bennett gives a sweet yet powerful talk on why, .. show full overview
2013x197
Iwan Baan: Ingenious homes in unexpected places
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16, 2013
In the center of Caracas, Venezuela, stands the 45-story "Tower of David," an unfinished, abandoned skyscraper. But about eight years ago, people started moving in. Photographer Iwan .. show full overview
2013x198
Alessandro Acquisti: What will a future without secrets look like?
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17, 2013
The line between public and private has blurred in the past decade, both online and in real life, and Alessandro Acquisti is here to explain what this means and why it matters. In this .. show full overview
2013x199
Hetain Patel: Who am I? Think again
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18, 2013
How do we decide who we are? Hetain Patel's surprising performance plays with identity, language and accent — and challenges you to think deeper than surface appearances. A delightful .. show full overview
2013x200
Steve Howard: Let's go all-in on selling sustainability
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21, 2013
The big blue buildings of Ikea have sprouted solar panels and wind turbines; inside, shelves are stocked with LED lighting and recycled cotton. Why? Because as Steve Howard puts it: .. show full overview
2013x201
Charles Robertson: Africa's next boom
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22, 2013
The past decade has seen slow and steady economic growth across the continent of Africa. But economist Charles Robertson has a bold thesis: Africa's about to boom. He talks through a few .. show full overview
2013x202
Parul Sehgal: An ode to envy
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23, 2013
What is jealousy? What drives it, and why do we secretly love it? No study has ever been able to capture its “loneliness, longevity, grim thrill” — that is, says Parul Sehgal, except for .. show full overview
2013x203
Gian Giudice: Why our universe might exist on a knife-edge
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24, 2013
The biggest surprise of discovering the Higgs boson? That there were no surprises. Gian Giudice talks us through a problem in theoretical physics: what if the Higgs field exists in an .. show full overview
2013x204
Xavier Vilalta: Architecture at home in its community
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25, 2013
When TED Fellow Xavier Vilalta was commissioned to create a multistory shopping mall in Addis Ababa, he panicked. Other centers represented everything he hated about contemporary .. show full overview
2013x205
Mariana Mazzucato: Government -- investor, risk-taker, innovator
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28, 2013
Why doesn’t the government just get out of the way and let the private sector — the “real revolutionaries” — innovate? It’s rhetoric you hear everywhere, and Mariana Mazzucato wants to .. show full overview
2013x206
Mohamed Hijri: A simple solution to the coming phosphorus crisis
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29, 2013
Biologist Mohamed Hijri brings to light a farming crisis no one is talking about: We are running out of phosphorus, an essential element that's a key component of DNA and the basis of .. show full overview
2013x207
Abha Dawesar: Life in the "digital now"
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30, 2013
One year ago, Abha Dawesar was living in blacked-out Manhattan post-Sandy, scrounging for power to connect. As a novelist, she was struck by this metaphor: Have our lives now become .. show full overview
2013x208
Holly Morris: Why stay in Chernobyl? Because it's home.
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31, 2013
Chernobyl was the site of the world's worst nuclear accident and, for the past 27 years, the area around the plant has been known as the Exclusion Zone. And yet, a community of about 200 .. show full overview
2013x209
Dong Woo Jang: The art of bow-making
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01, 2013
Dong Woo Jang has an unusual after school hobby. Jang, who was 15 when he gave the talk, tells the story of how living in the concrete jungle of Seoul inspired him to build the perfect .. show full overview
2013x210
Rodrigo Canales: The deadly genius of drug cartels
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04, 2013
Up to 100,000 people died in drug-related violence in Mexico in the last 6 years. We might think this has nothing to do with us, but in fact we are all complicit, says Yale professor .. show full overview
2013x211
Robin Nagle: What I discovered in New York City trash
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05, 2013
New York City residents produce 11,000 tons of garbage every day. Every day! This astonishing statistic is just one of the reasons Robin Nagle started a research project with the city's .. show full overview
2013x212
Grégoire Courtine: The paralyzed rat that walked
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06, 2013
A spinal cord injury can sever the communication between your brain and your body, leading to paralysis. Fresh from his lab, Grégoire Courtine shows a new method — combining drugs, .. show full overview
2013x213
Mikko Hypponen: How the NSA betrayed the world's trust
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07, 2013
Recent events have highlighted, underlined and bolded the fact that the United States is performing blanket surveillance on any foreigner whose data passes through an American entity — .. show full overview
2013x214
Arthur Benjamin: The magic of Fibonacci numbers
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08, 2013
Math is logical, functional and just ... awesome. Mathemagician Arthur Benjamin explores hidden properties of that weird and wonderful set of numbers, the Fibonacci series. (And reminds you that mathematics can be inspiring, too!)
2013x215
Dambisa Moyo: Is China the new idol for emerging economies?
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11, 2013
The developed world holds up the ideals of capitalism, democracy and political rights for all. Those in emerging markets often don't have that luxury. In this powerful talk, economist .. show full overview
2013x216
Chris Downey: Design with the blind in mind
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12, 2013
What would a city designed for the blind be like? Chris Downey is an architect who went suddenly blind in 2008; he contrasts life in his beloved San Francisco before and after — and .. show full overview
2013x217
Mohamed Ali: The link between unemployment and terrorism
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13, 2013
For the young and unemployed in the world's big cities, dreams of opportunity and wealth do come true — but too often because they're heavily recruited by terrorist groups and other .. show full overview
2013x218
Stefan Larsson: What doctors can learn from each other
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14, 2013
Different hospitals produce different results on different procedures. Only, patients don’t know that data, making choosing a surgeon a high-stakes guessing game. Stefan Larsson looks at .. show full overview
2013x219
Jane McGonigal: Massively multi-player… thumb-wrestling?
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15, 2013
What happens when you get an entire audience to stand up and connect with one another? Chaos, that's what. At least, that's what happened when Jane McGonigal tried to teach TED to play .. show full overview
2013x220
Lian Pin Koh: A drone's-eye view of conservation
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18, 2013
Ecologist Lian Pin Koh makes a persuasive case for using drones to protect the world's forests and wildlife. These lightweight autonomous flying vehicles can track animals in their .. show full overview
2013x221
Greg Asner: Ecology from the air
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19, 2013
What are our forests really made of? From the air, ecologist Greg Asner uses a spectrometer and high-powered lasers to map nature in meticulous kaleidoscopic 3D detail — what he calls “a .. show full overview
2013x222
Henry Evans and Chad Jenkins: Meet the robots for humanity
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20, 2013
Paralyzed by a stroke, Henry Evans uses a telepresence robot to take the stage — and show how new robotics, tweaked and personalized by a group called Robots for Humanity, help him live .. show full overview
2013x223
Andreas Raptopoulos: No roads? There’s a drone for that
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21, 2013
A billion people in the world lack access to all-season roads. Could the structure of the internet provide a model for how to reach them? Andreas Raptopoulos of Matternet thinks so. He .. show full overview
2013x224
How your "working memory" makes sense of the world
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22, 2013
"Life comes at us very quickly, and what we need to do is take that amorphous flow of experience and somehow extract meaning from it." In this funny, enlightening talk, educational .. show full overview
2013x225
Jared Diamond: How societies can grow old better
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25, 2013
There's an irony behind the latest efforts to extend human life: It's no picnic to be an old person in a youth-oriented society. Older people can become isolated, lacking meaningful work .. show full overview
2013x226
Suzana Herculano-Houzel: What is so special about the human brain?
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26, 2013
The human brain is puzzling — it is curiously large given the size of our bodies, uses a tremendous amount of energy for its weight and has a bizarrely dense cerebral cortex. But: why? .. show full overview
2013x227
David Steindl-Rast: Want to be happy? Be grateful
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27, 2013
The one thing all humans have in common is that each of us wants to be happy, says Brother David Steindl-Rast, a monk and interfaith scholar. And happiness, he suggests, is born from .. show full overview
2013x228
Toby Eccles: Invest in social change
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02, 2013
Here's a stat worth knowing: In the UK, 63% of men who finish short-term prison sentences are back inside within a year for another crime. Helping them stay outside involves job .. show full overview
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Geraldine Hamilton: Body parts on a chip
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03, 2013
It's relatively easy to imagine a new medicine, a better cure for some disease. The hard part, though, is testing it, and that can delay promising new cures for years. In this .. show full overview
2013x230
Sally Kohn: Let’s try emotional correctness
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04, 2013
It's time for liberals and conservatives to transcend their political differences and really listen to each other, says political pundit Sally Kohn. In this optimistic talk, Kohn shares .. show full overview
2013x231
David Lang: My underwater robot
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05, 2013
David Lang is a maker who taught himself to become an amateur oceanographer — or, he taught a robot to be one for him. In a charming talk Lang, a TED Fellow, shows how he and a network .. show full overview
2013x232
Enrique Peñalosa: Why buses represent democracy in action
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06, 2013
"An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport," argues Enrique Peñalosa. In this spirited talk, the former mayor of .. show full overview
2013x233
Boyd Varty: What I learned from Nelson Mandela
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09, 2013
"In the cathedral of the wild, we get to see the best parts of ourselves reflected back to us." Boyd Varty, a wildlife activist, shares stories of animals, humans and their .. show full overview
2013x234
Diébédo Francis Kéré: How to build with clay... and community
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10, 2013
Diébédo Francis Kéré knew exactly what he wanted to do when he got his degree in architecture… He wanted to go home to Gando in Burkina Faso, to help his neighbors reap the benefit of .. show full overview
2013x235
Eddy Cartaya: My glacier cave discoveries
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11, 2013
Snow Dragon. Pure Imagination. Frozen Minotaur. These are the names Eddy Cartaya and his climbing partner Brent McGregor gave three glacier caves that they were the first to explore. As .. show full overview
2013x236
Stephen Cave: The 4 stories we tell ourselves about death
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12, 2013
Philosopher Stephen Cave begins with a dark but compelling question: When did you first realize you were going to die? And even more interesting: Why do we humans so often resist the .. show full overview
2013x237
Rose George: Inside the secret shipping industry
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13, 2013
Almost everything we own and use, at some point, travels to us by container ship, through a vast network of ocean routes and ports that most of us know almost nothing about. Journalist .. show full overview
2013x238
Toni Griffin: A new vision for rebuilding Detroit
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16, 2013
Once the powerhouse of America's industrial might, Detroit is more recently known in the popular imagination as a fabulous ruin, crumbling and bankrupt. But city planner Toni Griffin .. show full overview
2013x239
Marco Annunziata: Welcome to the age of the industrial internet
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17, 2013
Everyone's talking about the "Internet of Things," but what exactly does that mean for our future? In this thoughtful talk, economist Marco Annunziata looks at how technology is .. show full overview
2013x240
Andrew Solomon: Depression, the secret we share
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18, 2013
"The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment." In a talk equal parts eloquent and devastating, writer .. show full overview
2013x241
Krista Donaldson: The $80 prosthetic knee that's changing lives
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19, 2013
We've made incredible advances in technology in recent years, but too often it seems only certain fortunate people can benefit. Engineer Krista Donaldson introduces the ReMotion knee, a .. show full overview
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Paul Piff: Does money make you mean?
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20, 2013
It's amazing what a rigged game of Monopoly can reveal. In this entertaining but sobering talk, social psychologist Paul Piff shares his research into how people behave when they feel .. show full overview
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Diana Nyad: Never, ever give up
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23, 2013
In the pitch-black night, stung by jellyfish, choking on salt water, singing to herself, hallucinating … Diana Nyad just kept on swimming. And that's how she finally achieved her .. show full overview