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2016
2016x1
Harry Cliff: Have We Reached The End Of Physics?
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Why is there something rather than nothing? Why does so much interesting stuff exist in the universe? Particle physicist Harry Cliff works on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and he .. show full overview
2016x2
Sebastian Wernicke: How To Use Data To Make A Hit Tv Show
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Does collecting more data lead to better decision-making? Competitive, data-savvy companies like Amazon, Google and Netflix have learned that data analysis alone doesn't always produce .. show full overview
2016x3
Aomawa Shields: How We'll Find Life On Other Planets
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Astronomer Aomawa Shields searches for clues that life might exist elsewhere in the universe by examining the atmospheres of distant exoplanets. When she isn't exploring the heavens, the .. show full overview
2016x4
David Sedlak: 4 Ways We Can Avoid A Catastrophic Drought
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As the world's climate patterns continue to shift unpredictably, places where drinking water was once abundant may soon find reservoirs dry and groundwater aquifers depleted. In this .. show full overview
2016x5
James Veitch: This Is What Happens When You Reply To Spam Email
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Suspicious emails: unclaimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safe deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. They pop up in our inboxes, and standard procedure is to .. show full overview
2016x6
Tim Harford: How Frustration Can Make Us More Creative
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Challenges and problems can derail your creative process ... or they can make you more creative than ever. In the surprising story behind the best-selling solo piano album of all time, .. show full overview
2016x7
Melvin Russell: I Love Being A Police Officer, But We Need Reform
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We've invested so much in police departments as protectors that we have forgotten what it means to serve our communities, says Baltimore Police officer Lt. Colonel Melvin Russell. It's .. show full overview
2016x8
Wael Ghonim: Let's Design Social Media That Drives Real Change
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Wael Ghonim helped touch off the Arab Spring in his home of Egypt ... by setting up a simple Facebook page. As he reveals, once the revolution spilled onto the streets, it turned from .. show full overview
2016x9
Ole Scheeren: Why Great Architecture Should Tell A Story
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For architect Ole Scheeren, the people who live and work inside a building are as much a part of that building as concrete, steel and glass. He asks: Can architecture be about .. show full overview
2016x10
Jill Heinerth: The Mysterious World Of Underwater Caves
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Cave diver Jill Heinerth explores the hidden underground waterways coursing through our planet. Working with biologists, climatologists and archaeologists, Heinerth unravels the .. show full overview
2016x11
Jill Farrant: How We Can Make Crops Survive Without Water
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As the world's population grows and the effects of climate change come into sharper relief, we'll have to feed more people using less arable land. Molecular biologist Jill Farrant .. show full overview
2016x12
Oscar Schwartz: Can A Computer Write Poetry?
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If you read a poem and feel moved by it, but then find out it was actually written by a computer, would you feel differently about the experience? Would you think that the computer had .. show full overview
2016x13
Achenyo Idachaba: How I Turned A Deadly Plant Into A Thriving Business
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The water hyacinth may look like a harmless, even beautiful flowering plant -- but it's actually an invasive aquatic weed that clogs waterways, stopping trade, interrupting schooling and .. show full overview
2016x14
Elizabeth Lev: The Unheard Story Of The Sistine Chapel
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The Sistine Chapel is one of the most iconic buildings on earth -- but there's a lot you probably don't know about it. In this tour-de-force talk, art historian Elizabeth Lev guides us .. show full overview
2016x15
Yanis Varoufakis: Capitalism Will Eat Democracy - Unless We Speak Up
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Have you wondered why politicians aren't what they used to be, why governments seem unable to solve real problems? Economist Yanis Varoufakis, the former Minister of Finance for Greece, .. show full overview
2016x16
David Gruber: Glow-in-the-dark Sharks And Other Stunning Sea Creatures
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Just a few meters below the waves, marine biologist and explorer-photographer David Gruber discovered something amazing -- a surprising new range of sea creatures that glow in many .. show full overview
2016x17
Tania Simoncelli: Should You Be Able To Patent A Human Gene?
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A decade ago, US law said human genes were patentable -- which meant patent holders had the right to stop anyone from sequencing, testing or even looking at a patented gene. Troubled by .. show full overview
2016x18
Auke Ijspeert: A Robot That Runs And Swims Like A Salamander
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Roboticist Auke Ijspeert designs biorobots, machines modeled after real animals that are capable of handling complex terrain and would appear at home in the pages of a sci-fi novel. The .. show full overview
2016x19
Melati And Isabel Wijsen: Our Campaign To Ban Plastic Bags In Bali
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Plastic bags are essentially indestructible, yet they're used and thrown away with reckless abandon. Most end up in the ocean, where they pollute the water and harm marine life; the rest .. show full overview
2016x20
Linda Liukas: A Delightful Way To Teach Kids About Computers
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Computer code is the next universal language, and its syntax will be limited only by the imaginations of the next generation of programmers. Linda Liukas is helping to educate .. show full overview
2016x75
Astro Teller: The Unexpected Benefit Of Celebrating Failure
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"Great dreams aren't just visions," says Astro Teller, "They're visions coupled to strategies for making them real." The head of X (formerly Google X), Teller takes us inside the .. show full overview
2016x21
Andrés Ruzo: How I Found A Mythical Boiling River In The Amazon
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When Andrés Ruzo was a young boy in Peru, his grandfather told him a story with an odd detail: There is a river, deep in the Amazon, which boils as if a fire burns below it. Twelve years .. show full overview
2016x22
Judson Brewer: A simple way to break a bad habit
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Can we break bad habits by being more curious about them? Psychiatrist Judson Brewer studies the relationship between mindfulness and addiction -- from smoking to overeating to all those .. show full overview
2016x23
Pardis Sabeti: How We'll Fight The Next Deadly Virus
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When Ebola broke out in March 2014, Pardis Sabeti and her team got to work sequencing the virus's genome, learning how it mutated and spread. Sabeti immediately released her research .. show full overview
2016x24
Matthew Williams: Special Olympics Let Me Be Myself - A Champion
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How much do you know about intellectual disabilities? Special Olympics champion and ambassador Matthew Williams is proof that athletic competition and the camaraderie it fosters can .. show full overview
2016x25
Dambisa Moyo: Economic growth has stalled. Let's fix it
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Economic growth is the defining challenge of our time; without it, political and social instability rises, human progress stagnates and societies grow dimmer. But, says economist Dambisa .. show full overview
2016x26
Sean Follmer: Shape-shifting Tech Will Change Work As We Know It
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What will the world look like when we move beyond the keyboard and mouse? Interaction designer Sean Follmer is building a future with machines that bring information to life under your .. show full overview
2016x27
Gregory Heyworth: How I'm Discovering The Secrets Of Ancient Texts
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Gregory Heyworth is a textual scientist; he and his lab work on new ways to read ancient manuscripts and maps using spectral imaging technology. In this fascinating talk, watch as .. show full overview
2016x28
Mike Velings: The Case For Fish Farming
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We're headed towards a global food crisis: Nearly 3 billion people depend on the ocean for food, and at our current rate we already take more fish from the ocean than it can naturally .. show full overview
2016x29
Dorothy Roberts: The problem with race-based medicine
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Social justice advocate and law scholar Dorothy Roberts has a precise and powerful message: Race-based medicine is bad medicine. Even today, many doctors still use race as a medical .. show full overview
2016x30
Jocelyne Bloch: The Brain May Be Able To Repair Itself - With Help
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Through treating everything from strokes to car accident traumas, neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch knows the brain's inability to repair itself all too well. But now, she suggests, she and .. show full overview
2016x31
Celeste Headlee: 10 Ways To Have A Better Conversation
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When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations -- and that most of us don't converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a .. show full overview
2016x32
Shonda Rhimes: My Year Of Saying Yes To Everything
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Shonda Rhimes, the titan behind Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder, is responsible for some 70 hours of television per season, and she loves to work. "When I am hard .. show full overview
2016x33
Allan Adams: What the discovery of gravitational waves means
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More than a billion years ago, two black holes in a distant galaxy locked into a spiral, falling inexorably toward each other, and collided. 'All that energy was pumped into the fabric .. show full overview
2016x34
Raffaello D'Andrea: Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future
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When you hear the word "drone," you probably think of something either very useful or very scary. But could they have aesthetic value? Autonomous systems expert Raffaello D'Andrea .. show full overview
2016x35
Al Gore: The Case For Optimism On Climate Change
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Al Gore has three questions about climate change and our future. First: Do we have to change? Each day, global-warming pollution traps as much heat energy as would be released by 400,000 .. show full overview
2016x36
Dalia Mogahed: What Do You Think When You Look At Me?
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When you look at Muslim scholar Dalia Mogahed, what do you see: a woman of faith? a scholar, a mom, a sister? or an oppressed, brainwashed, potential terrorist? In this personal, .. show full overview
2016x37
Audrey Choi: How To Make A Profit While Making A Difference
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Can global capital markets become catalysts for social change? According to investment expert Audrey Choi, individuals own almost half of all global capital, giving them (us!) the power .. show full overview
2016x38
Mary Bassett: Why your doctor should care about social justice
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In Zimbabwe in the 1980s, Mary Bassett witnessed the AIDS epidemic firsthand, and she helped set up a clinic to treat and educate local people about the deadly virus. But looking back, .. show full overview
2016x39
Ivan Coyote: Why We Need Gender-neutral Bathrooms
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There are a few things that we all need: fresh air, water, food, shelter, love ... and a safe place to pee. For trans people who don't fit neatly into the gender binary, public restrooms .. show full overview
2016x40
Thomas Peschak: Dive into an ocean photographer's world
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Somersaulting manta rays, dashing dolphins, swarming schools of fish and munching sharks inhabit a world beneath the ocean's surface that few get a chance to see. Conservation .. show full overview
2016x41
Magda Sayeg: How Yarn Bombing Grew Into A Worldwide Movement
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Textile artist Magda Sayeg transforms urban landscapes into her own playground by decorating everyday objects with colorful knit and crochet works. These warm, fuzzy 'yarn bombs' started .. show full overview
2016x42
Russ Altman: What Really Happens When You Mix Medications?
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If you take two different medications for two different reasons, here's a sobering thought: your doctor may not fully understand what happens when they're combined, because drug .. show full overview
2016x43
Alexander Betts: Our Refugee System Is Failing. Here's How We Can Fix It
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A million refugees arrived in Europe this year, says Alexander Betts, and "our response, frankly, has been pathetic." Betts studies forced migration, the impossible choice for families .. show full overview
2016x44
Travis Kalanick: Uber's Plan To Get More People Into Fewer Cars
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Uber didn't start out with grand ambitions to cut congestion and pollution. But as the company took off, co-founder Travis Kalanick wondered if there was a way to get people using Uber .. show full overview
2016x45
Reshma Saujani: Teach Girls Bravery, Not Perfection
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We're raising our girls to be perfect, and we're raising our boys to be brave, says Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code. Saujani has taken up the charge to socialize young .. show full overview
2016x46
Caleb Harper: This computer will grow your food in the future
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What if we could grow delicious, nutrient-dense food, indoors anywhere in the world Caleb Harper, director of the Open Agriculture Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, wants to change the .. show full overview
2016x47
Laura Robinson: The Secrets I Find On The Mysterious Ocean Floor
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Hundreds of meters below the surface of the ocean, Laura Robinson probes the steep slopes of massive undersea mountains. She's on the hunt for thousand-year-old corals that she can test .. show full overview
2016x48
Mileha Soneji: Simple Hacks For Life With Parkinson's
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Simple solutions are often best, even when dealing with something as complicated as Parkinson's. In this inspiring talk, Mileha Soneji shares accessible designs that make the everyday .. show full overview
2016x49
Tshering Tobgay: This Country Isn't Just Carbon Neutral - It's Carbon Negative
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Deep in the Himalayas, on the border between China and India, lies the Kingdom of Bhutan, which has pledged to remain carbon neutral for all time. In this illuminating talk, Bhutan's .. show full overview
2016x50
Casey Gerald: The Gospel Of Doubt
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Deep in the Himalayas, on the border between China and India, lies the Kingdom of Bhutan, which has pledged to remain carbon neutral for all time. In this illuminating talk, Bhutan's .. show full overview
2016x51
Joe Gebbia: How Airbnb Designs For Trust
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Joe Gebbia, the co-founder of Airbnb, bet his whole company on the belief that people can trust each other enough to stay in one another's homes. How did he overcome the stranger-danger .. show full overview
2016x52
Tim Urban: Inside The Mind Of A Master Procrastinator
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Tim Urban knows that procrastination doesn't make sense, but he's never been able to shake his habit of waiting until the last minute to get things done. In this hilarious and insightful .. show full overview
2016x53
Jessica Ladd: The Reporting System That Sexual Assault Survivors Want
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We don't have to live in a world where 99 percent of rapists get away with it, says TED Fellow Jessica Ladd. With Callisto, a new platform for college students to confidentially report .. show full overview
2016x54
Arthur Brooks: A Conservative's Plea: Let's Work Together
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What if technology could connect us more deeply with our surroundings instead of distracting us from the real world With the Meta 2, an augmented reality headset that makes it possible .. show full overview
2016x55
Meron Gribetz: A Glimpse Of The Future Through An Augmented Reality Headset
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What if technology could connect us more deeply with our surroundings instead of distracting us from the real world With the Meta 2, an augmented reality headset that makes it possible .. show full overview
2016x56
Adam Foss: A Prosecutor's Vision For A Better Justice System
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When a kid commits a crime, the US justice system has a choice: prosecute to the full extent of the law, or take a step back and ask if saddling young people with criminal records is the .. show full overview
2016x57
Carol Cohen: How To Get Back To Work After A Career Break
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If you've taken a career break and are now looking to return to the workforce, would you consider taking an internship Career reentry expert Carol Fishman Cohen thinks you should. In .. show full overview
2016x58
Latif Nasser: You Have No Idea Where Camels Really Come From
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Camels are so well adapted to the desert that it's hard to imagine them living anywhere else. But what if we have them pegged all wrong What if those big humps, feet and eyes were .. show full overview
2016x59
Siyanda Mohutsiwa: How young Africans found a voice on Twitter
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What can a young woman with an idea, an Internet connection and a bit of creativity achieve That's all Siyanda Mohutsiwa needed to unite young African voices in a new way. Hear how .. show full overview
2016x60
Alex Kipman: A Futuristic Vision Of The Age Of Holograms
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Explore a speculative digital world without screens in this fanciful demo, a mix of near reality and far-future possibility. Wearing the HoloLens headset, Alex Kipman demos his vision .. show full overview
2016x61
Angélica Dass: The Beauty Of Human Skin In Every Color
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Angélica Dass's photography challenges how we think about skin color and ethnic identity. In this personal talk, hear about the inspiration behind her portrait project, Humanæ, and her .. show full overview
2016x62
Dan Gross: Why Gun Violence Can't Be Our New Normal
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It doesn't matter whether you love or hate guns; it's obvious that the US would be a safer place if there weren't thousands of them sold every day without background checks. Dan Gross, .. show full overview
2016x63
Lisa Nip: How Humans Could Evolve To Survive In Space
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If we hope to one day leave Earth and explore the universe, our bodies are going to have to get a lot better at surviving the harsh conditions of space. Using synthetic biology, Lisa Nip .. show full overview
2016x64
Knut Haanaes: Two Reasons Companies Fail - And How To Avoid Them
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Is it possible to run a company and reinvent it at the same time For business strategist Knut Haanaes, the ability to innovate after becoming successful is the mark of a great .. show full overview
2016x65
Adam Grant: The Surprising Habits Of Original Thinkers
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How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies "originals": thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. .. show full overview
2016x66
Haley Van Dyck: How A Start-up In The White House Is Changing Business As Usual
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Haley Van Dyck is transforming the way America delivers critical services to everyday people. At the United States Digital Service, Van Dyck and her team are using lessons learned by .. show full overview
2016x67
Parag Khanna: How Megacities Are Changing The Map Of The World
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'I want you to reimagine how life is organized on earth,' says global strategist Parag Khanna. As our expanding cities grow ever more connected through transportation, energy and .. show full overview
2016x68
Danielle Feinberg: The Magic Ingredient That Brings Pixar Movies To Life
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Danielle Feinberg, Pixar's director of photography, creates stories with soul and wonder using math, science and code. Go behind the scenes of Finding Nemo, Toy Story, Brave, WALL-E and .. show full overview
2016x69
Tabetha Boyajian: The Most Mysterious Star In The Universe
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Something massive, with roughly 1,000 times the area of Earth, is blocking the light coming from a distant star known as KIC 8462852, and nobody is quite sure what it is. As astronomer .. show full overview
2016x70
Robert Palmer: The Panama Papers Exposed A Huge Global Problem. What's Next?
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On April 3, 2016 we saw the largest data leak in history. The Panama Papers exposed rich and powerful people hiding vast amounts of money in offshore accounts. But what does it all mean We called Robert Palmer of Global Witness to find out.
2016x71
Linus Torvalds: The Mind Behind Linux
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Linus Torvalds transformed technology twice - first with the Linux kernel, which helps power the Internet, and again with Git, the source code management system used by developers .. show full overview
2016x72
Hugh Evans: What Does It Mean To Be A Citizen Of The World?
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Hugh Evans started a movement that mobilizes 'global citizens,' people who self-identify first and foremost not as members of a state, nation or tribe but as members of the human race. .. show full overview
2016x73
Stephen Petranek: Your Kids Might Live On Mars. Here's How They'll Survive
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It sounds like science fiction, but journalist Stephen Petranek considers it fact: within 20 years, humans will live on Mars. In this provocative talk, Petranek makes the case that .. show full overview
2016x74
Paula Hammond: A New Superweapon In The Fight Against Cancer
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Cancer is a very clever, adaptable disease. To defeat it, says medical researcher and educator Paula Hammond, we need a new and powerful mode of attack. With her colleagues at MIT, .. show full overview
2016x76
Mary Norris: The Nit-picking Glory Of The New Yorker's Comma Queen
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'Copy editing for The New Yorker is like playing shortstop for a Major League Baseball team - every little movement gets picked over by the critics,' says Mary Norris, who has played the .. show full overview
2016x77
Christiana Figueres: The Inside Story Of The Paris Climate Agreement
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What would you do if your job was to save the planet When Christiana Figueres was tapped by the UN to lead the Paris climate conference (COP 21) in December 2015, she reacted the way .. show full overview
2016x78
Joshua Prager: Wisdom From Great Writers On Every Year Of Life
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As different as we humans are from one another, we all age along the same great sequence, and the shared patterns of our lives pass into the pages of the books we love. In this moving .. show full overview
2016x79
Chris Anderson: Ted's Secret To Great Public Speaking
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There's no single formula for a great talk, but there is a secret ingredient that all the best ones have in common. TED Curator Chris Anderson shares this secret - along with four ways .. show full overview
2016x80
Juan Enriquez: We Can Reprogram Life. How To Do It Wisely
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For four billion years, what lived and died on Earth depended on two principles: natural selection and random mutation. Then humans came along and changed everything — hybridizing .. show full overview
2016x81
Aditi Gupta: A Taboo-free Way To Talk About Periods
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It's true: talking about menstruation makes many people uncomfortable. And that taboo has consequences: in India, three out of every 10 girls don't even know what menstruation is at the .. show full overview
2016x82
Kenneth Lacovara: Hunting For Dinosaurs Showed Me Our Place In The Universe
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What happens when you discover a dinosaur Paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara details his unearthing of Dreadnoughtus - a 77-million-year-old sauropod that was as tall as a two-story house .. show full overview
2016x83
Shivani Siroya: A smart loan for people with no credit history (yet)
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Trust: How do you earn it? Banks use credit scores to determine if you're trustworthy, but there are about 2.5 billion people around the world who don't have one to begin with -- and who .. show full overview
2016x84
R. Luke Dubois: Insightful Human Portraits Made From Data
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Artist R. Luke DuBois makes unique portraits of presidents, cities, himself and even Britney Spears using data and personality. In this talk, he shares nine projects - from maps of the .. show full overview
2016x85
Ameera Harouda: Why I Put Myself In Danger To Tell The Stories Of Gaza
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When Ameera Harouda hears the sounds of bombs or shells, she heads straight towards them. 'I want to be there first because these stories should be told,' says Gaza's first female .. show full overview
2016x86
Michael Metcalfe: A Provocative Way To Finance The Fight Against Climate Change
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Will we do whatever it takes to fight climate change Back in 2008, following the global financial crisis, governments across the world adopted a 'whatever it takes' commitment to .. show full overview
2016x87
Riccardo Sabatini: How To Read The Genome And Build A Human Being
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Secrets, disease and beauty are all written in the human genome, the complete set of genetic instructions needed to build a human being. Now, as scientist and entrepreneur Riccardo .. show full overview
2016x88
Sarah Gray: How My Son'S Short Life Made A Lasting Difference
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After Sarah Gray's unborn son Thomas was diagnosed with anencephaly, a terminal condition, she decided to turn her family's tragedy into an extraordinary gift and donate his organs to .. show full overview
2016x89
Alice Rawsthorn: Pirates, Nurses And Other Rebel Designers
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In this ode to design renegades, Alice Rawsthorn highlights the work of unlikely heroes, from Blackbeard to Florence Nightingale. Drawing a line from these bold thinkers to some early .. show full overview
2016x90
Dan Pallotta: The Dream We Haven'T Dared To Dream
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What are your dreams Better yet, what are your broken dreams Dan Pallotta dreams of a time when we are as excited, curious and scientific about the development of our humanity as we are .. show full overview
2016x91
Monica Byrne: A Sci-fi Vision Of Love From A 318-year-old Hologram
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Science fiction writer Monica Byrne imagines rich worlds populated with characters who defy our racial, social and gender stereotypes. In this performance, Byrne appears as a hologram .. show full overview
2016x92
Michael Bodekaer: This Virtual Lab Will Revolutionize Science Class
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Virtual reality is no longer part of some distant future, and it's not just for gaming and entertainment anymore. Michael Bodekaer wants to use it to make quality education more .. show full overview
2016x93
Jennifer Kahn: Gene Editing Can Now Change An Entire Species - Forever
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CRISPR gene drives allow scientists to change sequences of DNA and guarantee that the resulting edited genetic trait is inherited by future generations, opening up the possibility of .. show full overview
2016x94
Uri Hasson: This Is Your Brain On Communication
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Neuroscientist Uri Hasson researches the basis of human communication, and experiments from his lab reveal that even across different languages, our brains show similar activity, or .. show full overview
2016x95
Sanford Biggers: An Artist'S Unflinching Look At Racial Violence
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Conceptual artist and TED Fellow Sanford Biggers uses painting, sculpture, video and performance to spark challenging conversations about the history and trauma of black America. Join .. show full overview
2016x96
Sangeeta Bhatia: This Tiny Particle Could Roam Your Body To Find Tumors
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What if we could find cancerous tumors years before they can harm us - without expensive screening facilities or even steady electricity Physician, bioengineer and entrepreneur Sangeeta .. show full overview
2016x97
Kang Lee: Can You Really Tell If A Kid Is Lying?
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Are children poor liars Do you think you can easily detect their lies Developmental researcher Kang Lee studies what happens physiologically to children when they lie. They do it a lot, .. show full overview
2016x98
Moran Cerf: This Scientist Can Hack Your Dreams
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What if we could peek inside our brains and see our dreams - or even shape them Studying memory-specific brain cells, neuroscientist (and ex-hacker) Moran Cerf found that our sleeping .. show full overview
2016x99
Laura Indolfi: Good News In The Fight Against Pancreatic Cancer
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Anyone who has lost a loved one to pancreatic cancer knows the devastating speed with which it can affect an otherwise healthy person. TED Fellow and biomedical entrepreneur Laura .. show full overview
2016x100
Sebastian Junger: Our Lonely Society Makes It Hard To Come Home From War
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Sebastian Junger has seen war up close, and he knows the impact that battlefield trauma has on soldiers. But he suggests there's another major cause of pain for veterans when they come .. show full overview
2016x101
Toni Mac: The Laws That Sex Workers Really Want
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Everyone has an opinion about how to legislate sex work (whether to legalize it, ban it or even tax it) ... but what do workers themselves think would work best Activist Toni Mac .. show full overview
2016x102
Trevor Timm: How Free Is Our Freedom Of The Press?
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In the US, the press has a right to publish secret information the public needs to know, protected by the First Amendment. Government surveillance has made it increasingly more dangerous .. show full overview
2016x103
Lidia Yuknavitch: The Beauty Of Being A Misfit
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To those who feel like they don't belong: there is beauty in being a misfit. Author Lidia Yuknavitch shares her own wayward journey in an intimate recollection of patchwork stories about .. show full overview
2016x104
Mariano Sigman: Your Words May Predict Your Future Mental Health
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Can the way you speak and write today predict your future mental state, even the onset of psychosis In this fascinating talk, neuroscientist Mariano Sigman reflects on ancient Greece and .. show full overview
2016x105
Zaria Forman: Drawings That Show The Beauty And Fragility Of Earth
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Zaria Forman's large-scale compositions of melting glaciers, icebergs floating in glassy water and waves cresting with foam explore moments of transition, turbulence and tranquility. .. show full overview
2016x106
Joseph Ravenell: How Barbershops Can Keep Men Healthy
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The barbershop can be a safe haven for black men, a place for honest conversation and trust - and, as physician Joseph Ravenell suggests, a good place to bring up tough topics about .. show full overview
2016x107
Adam Driver, Jesse Perez, Matt Johnson: Why I Bring Theater To The Military
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Before he fought in the galactic battles of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Adam Driver was a United States Marine with 1/1 Weapons Company. He tells the story of how and why he became a .. show full overview
2016x108
Sue Desmond-Hellmann: A Smarter, More Precise Way To Think About Public Health
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Sue Desmond-Hellmann is using precision public health - an approach that incorporates big data, consumer monitoring, gene sequencing and other innovative tools - to solve the world's .. show full overview
2016x109
Samantha Nutt: The Real Harm Of The Global Arms Trade
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In some parts of the world, it's easier to get an automatic rifle than a glass of clean drinking water. Is this just the way it is Samantha Nutt, doctor and founder of the international .. show full overview
2016x110
Norman Lear, Eric Hirshberg: An Entertainment Icon On Living A Life Of Meaning
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In the 1970s (and decades following), TV producer Norman Lear touched the lives of millions with culture-altering sitcoms like All in the Family, The Jeffersons and Good Times, pushing .. show full overview
2016x111
Stephen Wilkes: The Passing Of Time, Caught In A Single Photo
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Photographer Stephen Wilkes crafts stunning compositions of landscapes as they transition from day to night, exploring the space-time continuum within a two-dimensional still photograph. .. show full overview
2016x112
Cédric Villani: What'S So Sexy About Math?
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Hidden truths permeate our world; they're inaccessible to our senses, but math allows us to go beyond our intuition to uncover their mysteries. In this survey of mathematical .. show full overview
2016x113
Amit Sood: Every Piece Of Art You'Ve Ever Wanted To See - Up Close And Searchable
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What does a cultural Big Bang look like For Amit Sood, director of Google's Cultural Institute and Art Project, it's an online platform where anyone can explore the world's greatest .. show full overview
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Shaolan Hsueh: The Chinese Zodiac, Explained
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A quarter of the world's population cares a lot about the Chinese zodiac. Even if you don't believe in it, you'd be wise to know how it works, says technologist and entrepreneur ShaoLan .. show full overview
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Sajay Samuel: How College Loans Exploit Students For Profit
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'Once upon a time in America,' says professor Sajay Samuel, 'going to college did not mean graduating with debt.' Today, higher education has become a consumer product - costs have .. show full overview
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Negin Farsad: A Highly Scientific Taxonomy Of Haters
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TED Fellow Negin Farsad weaves comedy and social commentary to cleverly undercut stereotypes of her culture. In this uproarious talk/stand-up hybrid, Farsad speaks on her documentary, .. show full overview
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Andrew Youn: 3 Reasons Why We Can Win The Fight Against Poverty
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Half of the world's poorest people have something in common: they're small farmers. In this eye-opening talk, activist Andrew Youn shows how his group, One Acre Fund, is helping these .. show full overview
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Jamila Raqib: The Secret To Effective Nonviolent Resistance
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We're not going to end violence by telling people that it's morally wrong, says Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution. Instead, we must find alternative .. show full overview
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Andrew Pelling: This Scientist Makes Ears Out Of Apples
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TED Fellow Andrew Pelling is a biohacker, and nature is his hardware. His favorite materials are the simplest ones (and oftentimes he finds them in the garbage). Building on the .. show full overview
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Chris Milk: The Birth Of Virtual Reality As An Art Form
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Chris Milk uses innovative technologies to make personal, interactive, human stories. Accompanied by Joshua Roman on cello and McKenzie Stubbert on piano, Milk traces his relationship to .. show full overview
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Tristan Harris: How Better Tech Could Protect Us From Distraction
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How often does technology interrupt us from what we really mean to be doing At work and at play, we spend a startling amount of time distracted by pings and pop-ups - instead of helping .. show full overview
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Gill Hicks: I Survived A Terrorist Attack. Here'S What I Learned
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Gill Hicks's story is one of compassion and humanity, emerging from the ashes of chaos and hate. A survivor of the London terrorist bombings on July 7, 2005, she shares her story of the .. show full overview
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Keolu Fox: Why Genetic Research Must Be More Diverse
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Ninety-six percent of genome studies are based on people of European descent. The rest of the world is virtually unrepresented - and this is dangerous, says geneticist and TED Fellow .. show full overview
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Seema Bansal: How To Fix A Broken Education System ... Without Any More Money
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Seema Bansal forged a path to public education reform for 15,000 schools in Haryana, India, by setting an ambitious goal: by 2020, 80 percent of children should have grade-level .. show full overview
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Brian Little: Who Are You, Really? The Puzzle Of Personality
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What makes you, you Psychologists like to talk about our traits, or defined characteristics that make us who we are. But Brian Little is more interested in moments when we transcend .. show full overview
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Tom Hulme: What Can We Learn From Shortcuts?
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How do you build a product people really want Allow consumers to be a part of the process. 'Empathy for what your customers want is probably the biggest leading indicator of business .. show full overview
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Wanda Diaz Merced: How A Blind Astronomer Found A Way To Hear The Stars
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Wanda Diaz Merced studies the light emitted by gamma-ray bursts, the most energetic events in the universe. When she lost her sight and was left without a way to do her science, she had .. show full overview
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Blaise Agüera y Arcas: How Computers Are Learning To Be Creative
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We're on the edge of a new frontier in art and creativity - and it's not human. Blaise Agüera y Arcas, principal scientist at Google, works with deep neural networks for machine .. show full overview
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Julia Galef: Why You Think You'Re Right - Even If You'Re Wrong
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Perspective is everything, especially when it comes to examining your beliefs. Are you a soldier, prone to defending your viewpoint at all costs - or a scout, spurred by curiosity Julia .. show full overview
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Prosanta Chakrabarty: Clues To Prehistoric Times, Found In Blind Cavefish
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TED Fellow Prosanta Chakrabarty explores hidden parts of the world in search of new species of cave-dwelling fish. These subterranean creatures have developed fascinating adaptations, .. show full overview
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John Legend: Redemption Song
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John Legend is on a mission to transform America's criminal justice system. Through his Free America campaign, he's encouraging rehabilitation and healing in our prisons, jails and .. show full overview
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Marwa Al-Sabouni: How Syria's architecture laid the foundation for brutal war
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What caused the war in Syria? Oppression, drought and religious differences all played key roles, but Marwa Al-Sabouni suggests another reason: architecture. Speaking to us over the .. show full overview
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Alexander Betts: Why Brexit Happened - And What To Do Next
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We are embarrassingly unaware of how divided our societies are, and Brexit grew out of a deep, unexamined divide between those that fear globalization and those that embrace it, says .. show full overview
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Safwat Saleem: Why I Keep Speaking Up, Even When People Mock My Accent
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Artist Safwat Saleem grew up with a stutter - but as an independent animator, he decided to do his own voiceovers to give life to his characters. When YouTube commenters started mocking .. show full overview
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Elise Roy: When We Design For Disability, We All Benefit
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'I believe that losing my hearing was one of the greatest gifts I've ever received,' says Elise Roy. As a disability rights lawyer and design thinker, she knows that being Deaf gives her .. show full overview
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Leila Hoteit: 3 Lessons On Success From An Arab Businesswoman
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Professional Arab women juggle more responsibilities than their male counterparts, and they face more cultural rigidity than Western women. What can their success teach us about .. show full overview
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Eric Haseltine: What Will Be The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough?
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Throughout history, speculation has spurred beautiful, revolutionary science - opening our eyes to entirely new universes. 'I'm not talking about science that takes baby steps,' says .. show full overview
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Emma Marris: Nature Is Everywhere - We Just Need To Learn To See It
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How do you define 'nature' If we define it as that which is untouched by humans, then we won't have any left, says environmental writer Emma Marris. She urges us to consider a new .. show full overview
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Shubhendu Sharma: How To Grow A Forest In Your Backyard
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Forests don't have to be far-flung nature reserves, isolated from human life. Instead, we can grow them right where we are - even in cities. Eco-entrepreneur and TED Fellow Shubhendu .. show full overview
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Adam Savage: My Love Letter To Cosplay
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Adam Savage makes things and builds experiments, and he uses costumes to add humor, color and clarity to the stories he tells. Tracing his lifelong love of costumes - from a childhood .. show full overview
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Lisa Dyson: A forgotten Space Age technology could change how we grow food
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We're heading for a world population of 10 billion people — but what will we all eat? Lisa Dyson rediscovered an idea developed by NASA in the 1960s for deep-space travel, and it could be a key to reinventing how we grow food.
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eL Seed: A project of peace, painted across 50 buildings
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eL Seed fuses Arabic calligraphy with graffiti to paint colorful, swirling messages of hope and peace on buildings from Tunisia to Paris. The artist and TED Fellow shares the story of .. show full overview
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Gerard Ryle: How the Panama Papers journalists broke the biggest leak in history
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Gerard Ryle led the international team that divulged the Panama Papers, the 11.5 million leaked documents from 40 years of activity of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca that have .. show full overview
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Ed Boyden: A new way to study the brain's invisible secrets
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Gerard Ryle led the international team that divulged the Panama Papers, the 11.5 million leaked documents from 40 years of activity of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca that have .. show full overview
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Suzanne Simard: How trees talk to each other
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Anthony Goldbloom: The jobs we'll lose to machines — and the ones we won't
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Machine learning isn't just for simple tasks like assessing credit risk and sorting mail anymore — today, it's capable of far more complex applications, like grading essays and .. show full overview
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Martin Reeves: How to build a business that lasts 100 years
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If you want to build a business that lasts, there may be no better place to look for inspiration than your own immune system. Join strategist Martin Reeves as he shares startling .. show full overview
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Molly Winter: The taboo secret to better health
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Our poop and pee have superpowers, but for the most part we don't harness them. Molly Winter faces down our squeamishness and asks us to see what goes down the toilet as a resource, one .. show full overview
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: How Africa can keep rising
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African growth is a trend, not a fluke, says economist and former Finance Minister of Nigeria Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. In this refreshingly candid and straightforward talk, Okonjo-Iweala .. show full overview
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Dave Brain: What a planet needs to sustain life
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"Venus is too hot, Mars is too cold, and Earth is just right," says planetary scientist Dave Brain. But why? In this pleasantly humorous talk, Brain explores the fascinating science .. show full overview
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Monica Araya: A small country with big ideas to get rid of fossil fuels
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How do we build a society without fossil fuels? Using her native Costa Rica as an example of positive action on environmental protection and renewables, climate advocate Monica Araya .. show full overview
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James Green: 3 moons and a planet that could have alien life
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Is there life beyond Earth? Join NASA's director of planetary science James Green for a survey of the places in our solar system that are most likely to harbor alien life.
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Sarah Parcak: Hunting for Peru's lost civilizations — with satellites
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Around the world, hundreds of thousands of lost ancient sites lie buried and hidden from view. Satellite archaeologist Sarah Parcak is determined to find them before looters do. With the .. show full overview
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Anand Giridharadas: A letter to all who have lost in this era
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Summer, 2016: amid populist revolts, clashing resentments and fear, writer Anand Giridharadas doesn't give a talk but reads a letter. It's from those who have won in this era of change, .. show full overview
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Gonzalo Vilariño: How Argentina's blind soccer team became champions
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With warmth and respect, Gonzalo Vilariño tells the captivating story of Argentina's blind soccer team — and how a sincere belief in themselves and their capabilities transformed the .. show full overview
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Olivier Scalabre: The next manufacturing revolution is here
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Economic growth has been slowing for the past 50 years, but relief might come from an unexpected place — a new form of manufacturing that is neither what you thought it was nor where you .. show full overview
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Timothy Ihrig: What we can do to die well
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The healthcare industry in America is so focused on pathology, surgery and pharmacology — on what doctors "do" to patients — that it often overlooks the values of the human beings it's .. show full overview
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Laura Boushnak: The deadly legacy of cluster bombs
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The destruction of war doesn't stop when the fighting is over. Photographer and TED Fellow Laura Boushnak shares a powerful photo essay about the survivors of cluster bombs, people who .. show full overview
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Don Tapscott: How the blockchain is changing money and business
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What is the blockchain? If you don't know, you should; if you do, chances are you still need some clarification on how it actually works. Don Tapscott is here to help, demystifying this .. show full overview
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Vanessa Ruiz: The spellbinding art of human anatomy
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Vanessa Ruiz takes us on an illustrated journey of human anatomical art over the centuries, sharing captivating images that bring this visual science — and the contemporary artists .. show full overview
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Julia Bacha: How women wage conflict without violence
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Are you setting out to change the world? Here's a stat you should know: nonviolent campaigns are 100 percent more likely to succeed than violent ones. So why don't more groups use .. show full overview
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Christopher Bell: Bring on the female superheroes!
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Why is it so hard to find female superhero merchandise? In this passionate, sparkling talk, media studies scholar (and father of a Star Wars-obsessed daughter) Christopher Bell addresses .. show full overview
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Kio Stark: Why you should talk to strangers
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"When you talk to strangers, you're making beautiful interruptions into the expected narrative of your daily life — and theirs," says Kio Stark. In this delightful talk, Stark explores .. show full overview
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Jonathan Tepperman: The risky politics of progress
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Global problems such as terrorism, inequality and political dysfunction aren't easy to solve, but that doesn't mean we should stop trying. In fact, suggests journalist Jonathan .. show full overview
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James Veitch: The agony of trying to unsubscribe
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It happens to all of us: you unsubscribe from an unwanted marketing email, and a few days later another message from the same company pops up in your inbox. Comedian James Veitch turned .. show full overview
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Sal Khan: Let's teach for mastery — not test scores
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Would you choose to build a house on top of an unfinished foundation? Of course not. Why, then, do we rush students through education when they haven't always grasped the basics? Yes, .. show full overview
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Courtney E. Martin: The new American Dream
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For the first time in history, the majority of American parents don't think their kids will be better off than they were. This shouldn't be a cause for alarm, says journalist Courtney .. show full overview
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David Camarillo: Why helmets don't prevent concussions — and what might
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What is a concussion? Probably not what you think it is. In this talk from the cutting edge of research, bioengineer (and former football player) David Camarillo shows what really .. show full overview
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Franz Freudenthal: A new way to heal hearts without surgery
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At the intersection of medical invention and indigenous culture, pediatric cardiologist Franz Freudenthal mends holes in the hearts of children across the world, using a device born from .. show full overview
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Neha Narula: The future of money
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What happens when the way we buy, sell and pay for things changes, perhaps even removing the need for banks or currency exchange bureaus? That's the radical promise of a world powered by .. show full overview
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Julie Lythcott-Haims: How to raise successful kids — without over-parenting
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By loading kids with high expectations and micromanaging their lives at every turn, parents aren't actually helping. At least, that's how Julie Lythcott-Haims sees it. With passion and .. show full overview
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Michael Shellenberger: How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment
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"We're not in a clean energy revolution; we're in a clean energy crisis," says climate policy expert Michael Shellenberger. His surprising solution: nuclear. In this passionate talk, he .. show full overview
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Michael Murphy: Architecture that's built to heal
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Architecture is more than a clever arrangement of bricks. In this eloquent talk, Michael Murphy shows how he and his team look far beyond the blueprint when they're designing. .. show full overview
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Abigail Marsh: Why some people are more altruistic than others
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Why do some people do selfless things, helping other people even at risk to their own well-being? Psychology researcher Abigail Marsh studies the motivations of people who do extremely .. show full overview
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Eric Liu: There's no such thing as not voting
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Many people like to talk about how important voting is, how it's your civic duty and responsibility as an adult. Eric Liu agrees with all that, but he also thinks it's time to bring joy .. show full overview
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David Burkus: Why you should know how much your coworkers get paid
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How much do you get paid? How does it compare to the people you work with? You should know, and so should they, says management researcher David Burkus. In this talk, Burkus questions .. show full overview
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Nadia Lopez: Why open a school? To close a prison
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Our kids are our future, and it's crucial they believe it themselves. That's why Nadia Lopez opened an academic oasis in Brownsville, Brooklyn, one of the most underserved and violent .. show full overview
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Sebastian Kraves: The era of personal DNA testing is here
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From improving vaccines to modifying crops to solving crimes, DNA technology has transformed our world. Now, for the first time in history, anyone can experiment with DNA at home, in .. show full overview
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Rebecca MacKinnon: We can fight terror without sacrificing our rights
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Can we fight terror without destroying democracy? Internet freedom activist Rebecca MacKinnon thinks that we'll lose the battle against extremism and demagoguery if we censor the .. show full overview
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J.D. Vance: America's forgotten working class
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J.D. Vance grew up in a small, poor city in the Rust Belt of southern Ohio, where he had a front-row seat to many of the social ills plaguing America: a heroin epidemic, failing schools, .. show full overview
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Camille A. Brown: A visual history of social dance in 25 moves
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Why do we dance? African-American social dances started as a way for enslaved Africans to keep cultural traditions alive and retain a sense of inner freedom. They remain an affirmation .. show full overview
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Oded Shoseyov: How we're harnessing nature's hidden superpowers
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What do you get when you combine the strongest materials from the plant world with the most elastic ones from the insect kingdom? Super-performing materials that might transform ... .. show full overview
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Sam Harris: Can we build AI without losing control over it?
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Scared of superintelligent AI? You should be, says neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris -- and not just in some theoretical way. We're going to build superhuman machines, says .. show full overview
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Helen Fisher: Technology hasn't changed love. Here's why
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In our tech-driven, interconnected world, we've developed new ways and rules to court each other, but the fundamental principles of love have stayed the same, says anthropologist Helen .. show full overview
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Ellen Jorgensen: What you need to know about CRISPR
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Should we bring back the wooly mammoth? Or edit a human embryo? Or wipe out an entire species that we consider harmful? The genome-editing technology CRISPR has made extraordinary .. show full overview
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Sayu Bhojwani: Immigrant voices make democracy stronger
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In politics, representation matters -- and that's why we should elect leaders who reflect their country's diversity and embrace its multicultural tapestry, says Sayu Bhojwani. Through .. show full overview
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Adam de la Zerda: We can start winning the war against cancer
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Learn about the latest advances in the war against cancer from Stanford researcher Adam de la Zerda, who's working on some cutting-edge techniques of his own. Using a remarkable imaging .. show full overview
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Isaac Lidsky: What reality are you creating for yourself?
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Reality isn't something you perceive; it's something you create in your mind. Isaac Lidsky learned this profound lesson firsthand, when unexpected life circumstances yielded valuable .. show full overview
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Rainn Wilson: Ideas worth dating
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Being alone takes its toll. Feel like it's time to make a real connection? Third-wheel with Rainn Wilson (star of "The Office") as he dates some of the best ideas on TED.com and discover your perfect "idea mate" along the way.
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John McWhorter: 4 reasons to learn a new language
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English is fast becoming the world's universal language, and instant translation technology is improving every year. So why bother learning a foreign language? Linguist and Columbia .. show full overview
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Ione Wells: How we talk about sexual assault online
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We need a more considered approach to using social media for social justice, says writer and activist Ione Wells. After she was the victim of an assault in London, Wells published a .. show full overview
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Pico Iyer: The beauty of what we'll never know
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Almost 30 years ago, Pico Iyer took a trip to Japan, fell in love with the country and moved there. A keen observer of the human spirit, Iyer professes that he now feels he knows far .. show full overview
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Melissa Walker: Art can heal PTSD's invisible wounds
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Trauma silences its victims, says creative arts therapist Melissa Walker, but art can help those suffering from the psychological wounds of war begin to open up and heal. In this .. show full overview
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Jim Hemerling: 5 ways to lead in an era of constant change
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Who says change needs to be hard? Organizational change expert Jim Hemerling thinks adapting your business in today's constantly-evolving world can be invigorating instead of exhausting. .. show full overview
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Trevor Copp / Jeff Fox: Ballroom dance that breaks gender roles
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Tango, waltz, foxtrot ... these classic ballroom dances quietly perpetuate an outdated idea: that the man always leads and the woman always follows. That's an idea worth changing, say .. show full overview
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Rachel Botsman: We've stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers
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Something profound is changing our concept of trust, says Rachel Botsman. While we used to place our trust in institutions like governments and banks, today we increasingly rely on .. show full overview
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Todd Coleman: A temporary tattoo that brings hospital care to the home
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What if doctors could monitor patients at home with the same degree of accuracy they'd get during a stay at the hospital? Bioelectronics innovator Todd Coleman shares his quest to .. show full overview
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Zeynep Tufekci: Machine intelligence makes human morals more important
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Machine intelligence is here, and we're already using it to make subjective decisions. But the complex way AI grows and improves makes it hard to understand and even harder to control. .. show full overview
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Manwar Ali: Inside the mind of a former radical jihadist
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"For a long time, I lived for death," says Manwar Ali, a former radical jihadist who participated in violent, armed campaigns in the Middle East and Asia in the 1980s. In this moving .. show full overview
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Philippa Neave: The unexpected challenges of a country's first election
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How do you teach an entire country how to vote when no one has done it before? It's a huge challenge facing fledgling democracies around the world -- and one of the biggest problems .. show full overview
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Wanis Kabbaj: What a driverless world could look like
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What if traffic flowed through our streets as smoothly and efficiently as blood flows through our veins? Transportation geek Wanis Kabbaj thinks we can find inspiration in the genius of .. show full overview
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Ian Bremmer: How the US should use its superpower status
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Americanization and globalization have basically been the same thing for the last several generations. But the US's view of the world -- and the world's view of the US -- is changing. In .. show full overview
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Alyssa Monks: How loss helped one artist find beauty in imperfection
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Painter Alyssa Monks finds beauty and inspiration in the unknown, the unpredictable and even the awful. In a poetic, intimate talk, she describes the interaction of life, paint and canvas through her development as an artist, and as a human.
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Tasos Frantzolas: Everything you hear on film is a lie
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Sound design is built on deception -- when you watch a movie or TV show, nearly all of the sounds you hear are fake. In this audio-rich talk, Tasos Frantzolas explores the role of sound .. show full overview
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Rhiannon Giddens / Silk Road Ensemble:
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Singer Rhiannon Giddens joins international music collective Silk Road Ensemble to perform "St. James Infirmary Blues," spiking the American folk song that Louis Armstrong popularized in the 1920s with Romani influence and mischievous energy.
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Kelli Jean Drinkwater: Enough with the fear of fat
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In a society obsessed with body image and marked by a fear of fat, Kelli Jean Drinkwater engages in radical body politics through art. She confronts the public's perception of bigger .. show full overview
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Christopher Soghoian: Your smartphone is a civil rights issue
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The smartphone you use reflects more than just personal taste ... it could determine how closely you can be tracked, too. Privacy expert and TED Fellow Christopher Soghoian details a .. show full overview
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Kandice Sumner: How America's public schools keep kids in poverty
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Why should a good education be exclusive to rich kids? Schools in low-income neighborhoods across the US, specifically in communities of color, lack resources that are standard at .. show full overview
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Mallory Soldner: Your company's data could help end world hunger
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Your company might have donated money to help solve humanitarian issues, but you could have something even more useful to offer: your data. Mallory Soldner shows us how private sector .. show full overview
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Tim Leberecht: 4 ways to build a human company in the age of machines
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In the face of artificial intelligence and machine learning, we need a new radical humanism, says Tim Leberecht. For the self-described "business romantic," this means designing .. show full overview
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Usman Riaz / Amanda Palmer / Jherek Bischoff:
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Singer Amanda Palmer pays tribute to the inimitable David Bowie with a cover of "Space Oddity." She's joined onstage by Jherek Bischoff, TED Fellow Usman Riaz and, no, your eyes are not deceiving you, none other than former Vice President Al Gore.
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Halla Tómasdóttir: It's time for women to run for office
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With warmth and wit, Halla Tómasdóttir shares how she overcame media bias, changed the tone of the political debate and surprised her entire nation when she ran for president of Iceland .. show full overview
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Suzanne Barakat: Islamophobia killed my brother. Let's end the hate
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On February 10, 2015, Suzanne Barakat's brother Deah, her sister-in-law Yusor and Yusor's sister Razan were murdered by their neighbor in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The perpetrator's .. show full overview
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Jonathan Haidt: Can a divided America heal?
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How can the US recover after the negative, partisan presidential election of 2016? Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the morals that form the basis of our political choices. In .. show full overview
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Fawn Qiu: Easy DIY projects for kid engineers
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TED Resident Fawn Qiu designs fun, low-cost projects that use familiar materials like paper and fabric to introduce engineering to kids. In this quick, clever talk, she shares how .. show full overview
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Hector Garcia: We train soldiers for war. Let's train them to come home, too
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Before soldiers are sent into combat, they're trained on how to function in an immensely dangerous environment. But they also need training on how to return from the battlefield to .. show full overview
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Kimberlé Crenshaw / Abby Dobson: The urgency of intersectionality
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Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the .. show full overview
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Bettina Warburg: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy
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Say hello to the decentralized economy -- the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the complex (and confusing) technology, Bettina Warburg describes how .. show full overview
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Steven Johnson: How play leads to great inventions
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Necessity is the mother of invention, right? Well, not always. Steven Johnson shows us how some of the most transformative ideas and technologies, like the computer, didn't emerge out of .. show full overview
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Victor Rios: Help for kids the education system ignores
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Define students by what they contribute, not what they lack -- especially those with difficult upbringings, says educator Victor Rios. Interweaved with his personal tale of perseverance .. show full overview
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Roger Antonsen: Math is the hidden secret to understanding the world
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Unlock the mysteries and inner workings of the world through one of the most imaginative art forms ever -- mathematics -- with Roger Antonsen, as he explains how a slight change in .. show full overview
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Sandi Toksvig: A political party for women's equality
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Juan Enriquez: What will humans look like in 100 years?
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We can evolve bacteria, plants and animals -- futurist Juan Enriquez asks: Is it ethical to evolve the human body? In a visionary talk that ranges from medieval prosthetics to present .. show full overview
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Adam Galinsky: How to speak up for yourself
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Speaking up is hard to do, even when you know you should. Learn how to assert yourself, navigate tricky social situations and expand your personal power with sage guidance from social psychologist Adam Galinsky.
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Joe Lassiter: We need nuclear power to solve climate change
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Joe Lassiter is a deep thinker and straight talker focused on developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost energy. His analysis of the world's energy .. show full overview
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Mia Birdsong / Patrisse Cullors / Opal Tometi / Alicia Garza: An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter
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Born out of a social media post, the Black Lives Matter movement has sparked discussion about race and inequality across the world. In this spirited conversation with Mia Birdsong, the .. show full overview
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Danny Dorling: Maps that show us who we are (not just where we are)
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What does the world look like when you map it using data? Social geographer Danny Dorling invites us to see the world anew, with his captivating and insightful maps that show Earth as it .. show full overview
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Ryan Gravel: How an old loop of railroads is changing the face of a city
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Urban planner Ryan Gravel shares the story of how his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, rallied to build a massive urban park that will transform an abandoned railroad track into 22 miles of .. show full overview
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Kate Adams: 4 larger-than-life lessons from soap operas
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Soap operas and telenovelas may be (ahem) overdramatic, but as Kate Adams shows us, their exaggerated stories and characters often cast light on the problems of real life. In this .. show full overview
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Kim Katrin Milan / Tiq Milan: A queer vision of love and marriage
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Love is a tool for revolutionary change and a path toward inclusivity and understanding for the LGBTQ+ community. Married activists Tiq and Kim Katrin Milan have imagined their marriage .. show full overview
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Natalie Panek: Let's clean up the space junk orbiting Earth
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Our lives depend on a world we can't see: the satellite infrastructure we use every day for information, entertainment, communication and so much more. But Earth orbit isn't a limitless .. show full overview
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Jia Jiang: What I learned from 100 days of rejection
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Jia Jiang adventures boldly into a territory so many of us fear: rejection. By seeking out rejection for 100 days -- from asking a stranger to borrow $100 to requesting a "burger refill" .. show full overview
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Elizabeth Lesser: Say your truths and seek them in others | Elizabeth LesserSay your truths and seek them in others
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In a lyrical, unexpectedly funny talk about heavy topics such as frayed relationships and the death of a loved one, Elizabeth Lesser describes the healing process of putting aside pride .. show full overview
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Veerle Provoost: Do kids think of sperm donors as family?
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How do we define a parent -- or a family? Bioethicist Veerle Provoost explores these questions in the context of non-traditional families, ones brought together by adoption, second .. show full overview
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Kevin B. Jones: Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine
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Science is a learning process that involves experimentation, failure and revision -- and the science of medicine is no exception. Cancer researcher Kevin B. Jones faces the deep unknowns .. show full overview
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Kevin Kelly: How AI can bring on a second Industrial Revolution
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"The actual path of a raindrop as it goes down the valley is unpredictable, but the general direction is inevitable," says digital visionary Kevin Kelly -- and technology is much the .. show full overview
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Rebecca Brachman: Could a drug prevent depression and PTSD?
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The path to better medicine is paved with accidental yet revolutionary discoveries. In this well-told tale of how science happens, neuroscientist Rebecca Brachman shares news of a .. show full overview
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Dena Simmons: How students of color confront impostor syndrome
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As a black woman from a tough part of the Bronx who grew up to attain all the markers of academic prestige, Dena Simmons knows that for students of color, success in school sometimes .. show full overview
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Laura Vanderkam: How to gain control of your free time
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There are 168 hours in each week. How do we find time for what matters most? Time management expert Laura Vanderkam studies how busy people spend their lives, and she's discovered that .. show full overview
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David Autor: Will automation take away all our jobs?
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Here's a paradox you don't hear much about: despite a century of creating machines to do our work for us, the proportion of adults in the US with a job has consistently gone up for the .. show full overview
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Chinaka Hodge: What will you tell your daughters about 2016?
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With words like shards of glass, Chinaka Hodge cuts open 2016 and lets 12 months of violence, grief, fear, shame, courage and hope spill out in this original poem about a year none of us will soon forget.
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Anjali Tripathi: Why Earth may someday look like Mars
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Every minute, 400 pounds of hydrogen and almost 7 pounds of helium escape from Earth's atmosphere into outer space. Astrophysicist Anjali Tripathi studies the phenomenon of atmospheric .. show full overview
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Sharon Brous: It's time to reclaim religion
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At a moment when the world seems to be spinning out of control, religion might feel irrelevant -- or like part of the problem. But Rabbi Sharon Brous believes we can reinvent religion to .. show full overview
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James Beacham: How we explore unanswered questions in physics
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James Beacham looks for answers to the most important open questions of physics using the biggest science experiment ever mounted, CERN's Large Hadron Collider. In this fun and .. show full overview