Cynthia Schneider: The Surprising Spread of "Idol" TV
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Cynthia Schneider demonstrates how imitating merit-based shows has helped developing countries instill culture and sportsmanship in their people.
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Al Gore: New Thinking on the Climate Crisis
March 1, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Al Gore talks about how climate crisis dramatically increases as years pass by and the things that governemnts should be doing to compensate for the damage it has been doing to the earth's environment.
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Scott Kim: Taking Apart the Art of Puzzles
December 1, 2008 (over 15 years ago)In this talk, Master puzzle-maker Scott Kim gives us insight on the intricacies of puzzles. He shows us some of the more memorable puzzles and how he creates them. He also dicusses the current trends and the new puzzles he has in store.
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Edward Burtynsky: Manufactured Landscapes
February 1, 2005 (over 19 years ago)Edward Burtynsky uses photography to capture pleasure, guilt and enlightenment that he hopes will lead to a changed world.
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Sean Gourley: Mathematics of War
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Sean Gourley presents an equation that can perhaps help us better understand and ultimately solve wars in the future.
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Yves Behar: Designing Objects that Tell Stories
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Yves Behar tells different stories using the designs he made throughout his designing career.
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Paul Rothemund: Paul Rothemund Details DNA Folding
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Paul Rothemund shows how computer science and biology could go to extreme heights with the use of DNA folding.
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Martin Luther King Jr.: Rediscovering Lost Values
February 28, 1954 (about 70 years ago)Martin Luther King delivered this sermon at the pulpit of the Second Baptist Church in Detroit. He urges the people to retrace their steps and go back to retrieve lost values that are important in making a better world. He reiterates the taken for granted truth that everything is anchored to mora...
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Jason Clay: How Big Brands Can Help Save Biodiversity
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Jason Clay shows how the biggest companies and commodities in the world market could be used to leverage environmental awareness and responsibility.
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Halla Tomasdottir: A Feminine Response to Iceland's Financial Crash
December 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)In this empowering talk, Halla Tomasdottir tells us about a feminine response to Iceland's financial crash. She talks about her company, Audur Capital, and how they made it through the economic collapse with the help of five feminine values shaping their company. She also sends the message that m...
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R.A. Mashelkar: Breakthrough Designs for Ultra-Low-Cost Products
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)R.A. Mashelkar talks about creating low-cost products for developing countries not only to help these countries but also to stretch the innovative minds of scientists and business-makers.
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Eric Mead: The Magic of the Placebo
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Eric Mead shows how the polacebo effect can greatly affect the mind's perception of what is real and what is not in both magic and medicine.
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Mike Rowe: Mike Rowe Celebrates Dirty Jobs
December 1, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Mike Rowe talks about his TV show Dirty Jobs and how it changed his life and way of thinking after castrating a lamb.
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Elle Woods: Elle Woods Speaks Before Congress in Legally Blonde 2
March 24, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Elle Woods, played by Reese Witherspoon in the comedic film Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde speaks before Congress in favor of a bill to prevent animal testing. At its core, the speech is about using your voice.
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John Hardy: My Green School Dream
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)In this talk, John Hardy introduces his Green School. Mostly made of Bamboo and eco-friendly materials, this school promotes green living and learning in almost every way.
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Rachel Botsman: The Case for Collaborative Consumption
May 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Sharing and collaborative lifestyles are advocated by Rachel Botsman in her study of human's collaborative nature.
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Temple Grandin: The World Needs All Kinds of Minds
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Temple Grandin sheds light on how different and unique minds could be nurtured through properly attending to their unique learning styles.
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Laurie Santos: A Monkey Economy as Irrational as Ours
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Laurie Santos uses monkeys to imitate human markets to determine if humans really have an innate ability to make the same mistakes or humans simply get distracted by complications and technologies.
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James Cameron: Before Avatar ... A Curious Boy
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)James Cameron's curiosity as a boy, director and explorer gave birth to different ideas that eventually led to Avatar's story.
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Julian Treasure: The 4 Ways Sound Affects Us
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)In this audio-centric talk, Julian Treasure tells us about the four ways sound affects us. He plays for us all these different sounds we encounter daily and explains how each affects us. There are even very surprising numbers especially on the business side that sound directly influences.
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Martin Van Buren: Special Message to Congress
January 2, 1841 (over 183 years ago)President Van Buren reads outloud correspondence between John Forsyth, Secretary of State, and the British Minister, H.S. Fox regarding the sinking of the Steamboat Caroline.
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Richard Dawkins: Militant Atheism
February 1, 2002 (over 22 years ago)Rochard Dawkins speaks about the unknown advantages and practicality of becoming militant aetheists.
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Frank Gehry: Frank Gehry as a Young Rebel
March 1, 1990 (about 34 years ago)Framk Ghery's extreme and playful designs from fish to chairs to real buildings got him to the architectural pedestal he is right now.
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Charles Elachi: Charles Elachi on the Mars Rovers
May 1, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Charles Elachi shares candid tales from and about NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, with video clips and pictures from the Mars Rovers project.
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James Madison: Special Message to Congress on the Treaty of Ghent
February 18, 1815 (about 209 years ago)President James Madison lays before Congress the Treaty of Ghent, thus ending the War of 1812. As Madison looks forward to a return to prosperity and non-wartime pursuits, he also calls for permanent and stong military assets to maintain peace by warding off future aggressions and threats.
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Martin Luther King Jr.: Loving Your Enemies
November 17, 1957 (over 66 years ago)Martin Luther King preaches about one of the hardest commandments Jesus ever said: love your enemies. He makes everyone aware of the good and the bad side in everything. He suggests that the best way to start living the commandment is by realizing the bad but acknowledging the good in all there is.
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Sam Martin: The Quirky World of "Manspaces"
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Sam Martin shows different "manspaces" and inspires other men to find their own personal space.
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Dayananda Saraswati: The Profound Journey of Compassion
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Dayananda Saraswati talks about how to discover that empathy and forced compassion can soon develop into genuine compassion towards other people.
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Wind In His Hair: I Am Not Afraid of You
March 24, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Dances With Wolves played by Kevin Costner has a run-in with the Indian, 'Wind In His Hair' in the 1990 epic eponymous Western.
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Barack Obama: Addressing the Turkish Parliament
April 6, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Barack Obama reaffirms the friendship and support that the United States holds for Turkey. He talks of the shared conerns of the US and the European Union and the struggle of each union to make a better and more peaceful world.
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Dean Ornish: Healing
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)Dean Ornish talks about how healing could come from a shift to a healthy lifestyle and by making intimate connections.
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Franco Sacchi: Franco Sacchi Tours Nigeria's Booming Nollywood
June 1, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)Franco Sacchi talks about the booming movie industry in Nigeria that has come to be known as Nollywood.
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Edith Widder: Edith Widder: Glowing Life in an Underwater World
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Marine Biologist Edith Widder takes the audience to the beautiful and mysterious world of light-making ocean animals.
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Andrew Jackson: Bank Veto
July 10, 1832 (almost 192 years ago)President Andrew Jackson does his duty to country by vetoing a bill that would establish a National Bank with inadequate safeguards against abuses by a rich and powerful few citizens.
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James Monroe: Sixth Annual Message
December 3, 1822 (over 201 years ago)President James Monroe's speech provides the latest updates to Congress as regards commerce with France and the state of international relations in 1822. Monroe both champions the country's democratic and free organizational structure and provides caution to its weaknesses.
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Noah Feldman: Noah Feldman says politics and religion are technologies
October 1, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Feldman argues that there can actually be a peaceful amalgamation between politics and religion. In this case, it is between Islam and the concept of democracy as known in the United States.
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Evan Grant: Making Sound Visible Through Cymatics
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Evan Grant introduces how sounds take shape in visual forms through the science of cymatics.
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Joseph Nye: Global Power Shifts
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)In this talk, Diplomat Joseph Nye discusses Global Power Shifts in the 21st century. He defines power and provides the different types of power today. He emphasizes the importance of soft power, combined with other factors to achieve smart power on the global political stage.
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Laurie Garrett: Lessons from the 1918 Flu
February 1, 2007 (over 17 years ago)Laurie Garret sheds light on the truths behind the prevention of avian flu virus contamination.
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David Macaulay: Rome Antics
February 1, 2002 (over 22 years ago)David Macaulay gives a tour of Rome with his illustrated characters.
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William Ury: The Walk From "No" to "Yes"
October 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)William Ury invites the audience to take the third side, follow Abraham's Path and lead a life of peace with all your neighbors.
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Barack Obama: UN Copenhagen Climate Change Conference - Morning Plenary Session
December 18, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Barack Obama talks about the steps that America has already taken and will be taking in order to start prevent much damage from global warming or climate change.
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Nathaniel Kahn: My Architect
February 1, 2002 (over 22 years ago)In this talk, filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn gives us glimpses from his documentary "My Architect". It's a documentray about his father, the reknowned architect Louis Kahn and our relationships.
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Dan Dennett: Dan Dennett on Dangerous Memes
February 1, 2002 (over 22 years ago)Words are indeed powerful weapons in a society and can be used to change or alter beliefs. Dan Dennet warns the audience of the danger a meme could bring and asks the sudience to develop antivurulence against it.
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Gregory Petsko: The Coming Neurological Epidemic
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)In this talk, Biochemist Gregory Petsko warns us of an impending Neuroligical Epidemic. He states that studies about this have had very little support and that if we want to prevent this disaster, we should start acting now.
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Martin Seligman: Positive Psychology
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)Martin Seligman talks about how a happy life can be achieved using positive psychology.
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Brene Brown: The Power of Vulnerability
June 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Brene Brown brings her research on humanity to life for this TED audience, exploring such issues as empathy and our ability to love and belong.
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Shaffi Mather: A New Way to Fight Corruption
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Shaffi Mather has seen corruption first-hand and is fighting against it through spreading information and organizing free services for his people in India.
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Ken Robinson: Changing Education Paradigms
October 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Ken Robinson shows how children are not getting the education they want from the traditional education system that our society imposes.
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Pranav Mistry: The Thrilling Potential of SixthSense Technology
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Pranav Mistry shows one of the most innovative and exciting inventions he is developing, the SixthSense.
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Jeremy Rifkin: The Empathic Civilization
May 6, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Jeremy Rifkin talks about the beginnings of man and how we are all connected through empathy.
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Renny Gleeson: Antisocial Phone Tricks
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Renny Gleeson shows humor and seriousness in society's growing infatuation and obsession with technology.
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Jeff Han: Breakthrough touchscreen demo
February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)In this demo, Jeff Han shows us his multi-touch screen interface. This new screen responds to multiple points at any given time and is also pressure sensitive. More importantly, this device is also high-resolution, low-cost, and very scalable.
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Steve Jobs: How to Live Life Before You Die
June 12, 2005 (almost 19 years ago)Steve Jobs inspires the Stanford graduates of 2005 with three stories of his life's success, failures and everything else in between.
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Sheryl Sandberg: Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders
December 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Sheryl Sandberg talks about how women should assert themselves at work and strive to be part of the upper echelon of the business makers of today.
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Aimee Mullins: The Opportunity of Adversity
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Aimee Mullins talks about how adversity could be an assest in building the strength of humanity to adapt and evolve.
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Bill Clinton: Rebuilding Rwanda
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Bill Clinton shows how medicine ahs become available to developing countries, especially Rwanda, and the missing organizations and systems to complete the helping hand.
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Shukla Bose: Teaching One Child at a Time
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Education is given much importance by Shukla Bose in her dream of educating children, even if just one at a time.
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Saul Griffith: Everyday Inventions
February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)Saul Griffith talks about how things that seem complex at first could be translated into easier and quicker ways of understanding through deeper knowledge of hardware and science.
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Julia Sweeney: Julia Sweeney has "The Talk"
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Julia Sweeney tells the story of when her eight year old daughter started asking about reproduction.
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Aristodemus of Sparta: Remember Us
March 24, 2011 (about 13 years ago)The character Dilios played by David Wenham in the film 300 speaks to his soldiers.
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Louise Leakey: Louise Leakey Digs for Humanity's Origins
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Louise Leakey takes the sudience into journey of finding fossils of our ancestors and how we now are rapidly shaping and changing the world.
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Murray Gell-Mann: The Ancestor of Language
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Murray Gell-Mann shares his insights on the beginnings of modern language.
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David Hoffman: Sputnik Mania
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)In this talk, David Hoffman shares with us some scenes from his feature documentary on Sputnik. He shows us how the Soviet Union's Sputnik led to many changes and developments that helped make America what it is today.
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Richard Pyle: Diving the Reef's Twilight Zone
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)In this engrossing talk, Fish nerd Richard Pyle tells us about Diving in the Reef's Twilight Zone. He talks about how he got started and about the science of diving. He then plunges us into a journey to find new species in a region of the Reef that we know almost nothing about.
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Bill Gates: Energy: Innovating to Zero!
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Bill Gates wishes for energy miracles, and urges people to start maing these miracles into reality, in order to bring down CO2 emission to zero.
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Adora Svitak: What Adults Can Learn From Kids
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Child Prodigy, Adora Svitak, shares her insights on how adults should start listening and learning from kids in order to build a better future for the next generation of leaders.
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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: Inside a School for Suicide Bombers
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy exposes how the Talibans train, educate and mislead young boys into becoming terrorists.
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Tod Machover: Tod Machover and Dan Ellsey Play New Music
March 1, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Tod Machover shows how different people experience, benefit from, and express themselves through music.
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Wade Davis: The Worldwide Web of Belief and Ritual
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Wade Davis shows humanity's rich cultural diversity that we should learn to preserve despite the aspiration to become a modern society of people.
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Ben Cameron: The True Power of the Performing Arts
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Ben Cameron talks about how the performing arts could be annihilated by the overflow of technology at the same time pushed forward into a new era of more creativity and opportunities once the performing arts industry realizes that it is better to go with the flow of modernity.
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David McCandless: The Beauty of Data Visualization
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)David McCandless gives a different approach to data and information by arranging it in beautiful visuals for problem solving.
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Brian Cox: What Went Wrong at the LHC
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Brian Cox gives update about the LHD at CERN and the problems that it recently encountered.
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Ze Frank: Ze Frank's Nerdcore Comedy
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)Ze Frank will not fail to amuse you in this speech as he explains how the internet can be a medium for fun and self-expression and for connecting people all around the globe.
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Andy Hobsbawm: Do the green thing
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)In this talk, Andy Hobsbawm shows us a very creative Ad campaign from his website Green Thing. It challenges us to use our own great creativity to confront the global issue of climate change.
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Tim Jackson: Economic Reality Check
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Tim Jackson gives an eye opener speech on the world's economic state.
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James Madison: Proclamation upon British Depradations - Burning of the Capitol
September 1, 1814 (over 209 years ago)Upon the British burning the capitol, President James Madison berates the British for the wanton destruction of valuable monuments that serve no purpose in war, and he calls on all citizens to double down their wartime efforts in the defense of the nation.
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Edward Burtynsky: Photographing the Landscape of Oil
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Edward Burtynsky shows how he came to use his talents in taking photographs to capture moments that would enlighten viewers to the global energy crisis.
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Rory Sutherland: Sweat the Small Stuff
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Rory Sutherland talks about how the small inexpensive details that produce great impact must be given the limelight.
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David Pogue: Cool Phone Tricks
December 1, 2008 (over 15 years ago)In this funny and interesting talk, Tech Columnist David Pogue tells us about cool phone tricks. Everything from making free international calls, radical new features, and productivity-driven applications. The modern phone is capable of so much more and it's changing the way we live.
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Gordon Brown: Wiring a Web for Global Good
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)British Prime Minister Gordon Brown talks about building global insitutions for different issues such as security, development and finance to effectively reach out to countries and people affected by these inevitable human concerns.
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John Adams: Proclamation of Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer
March 23, 1798 (about 226 years ago)At a time when 'the United States of America are at present placed in a hazardous and afflictive situation by the unfriendly disposition, conduct, and demands of a foreign power, evinced by repeated refusals to receive our messengers of reconciliation and peace, by depredation on our commerce, an...
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John Wooden: John Wooden on True Success
February 1, 2001 (over 23 years ago)The late John Wooden, who led UCLA to 10 NCAA championships in 12 years as its head coach, gives an inspiring talk on what success truly means.
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Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and Truth in Physics
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Physics' beauty and truth are brought out by Gell-Mann by showing the simplicity, symmetry and repetition of mathematical equations.
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Dan Gilbert: Dan Gilbert Asks, Why are We Happy?
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)Dan Gilbert shows how synthetic happiness is just as good as natural happpiness.
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Jose Antonio Abreu: On kids transformed by music
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)In this speech, Jose Antonio Abreu talks about how he started in Music. How music helps to shape the youth's values, develops character, and raises their dignity. He also talks about El Sistema, the program they have in Venezuela. How El Sistema helps transform children's lives and brings music t...
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Malcolm X: Interview with Young Socialist Alliance Leaders
January 18, 1965 (over 59 years ago)In this interview, Malcolm X talks about his African trip and the effect this experience has made on his definition of Black nationalism. He discusses the role that the US plays in other countries. He also takes measure of the influence that revolutionary Africa has on the the youth of America as...
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Martin Luther King Jr.: Beyond Vietnam
April 4, 1967 (about 57 years ago)In Martin Luther King's speech about the ongoing war of the United States with Vietnam, he paints a picture for the audience how in war, the white man and the black man co - exist. They fight for life and die together for the love of a country whose government is so biased in treating them in the...
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Bill Davenhall: Your Health Depends on Where You Live
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Bill Davehall explains the importance of geographical history in a patient's medical record to better understand the occurence of diseases and other health concerns.
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E.O. Wilson: E.O. Wilson on Saving Life on Earth
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Biologist E.O. Wilson talks about his childhood fascination and lifetime passion - the world of small living things.
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Chris Bangle: Great Cars are Art
February 1, 2002 (over 22 years ago)Art, love and trust mingle as Chris Bangle shares the story of how his team of designers and engineers came up with ideas for BMW's next big thing.
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Hanna Rosin: New Data on the Rise of Women
December 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Hanna Rosin explains why women are becoming more dominant than men in our global workforce.
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Barack Obama: Responsibly Ending the War in Iraq
March 24, 2011 (about 13 years ago)One of Barack Obama's goals to start off his presidency is to stop the war in Iraq by fostering trust amongst the people of Iraq and America and not by force or by meager diplomacy.
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Kevin Surace: Kevin Surace Invents Eco-Friendly Drywall
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Kevin Surace talks about an innovative drywall substitute using green drywall that has reduced CO2 levels.
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Hans Rosling: HIV: New Facts and Stunning Data Visuals
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Hans Rosling shows how the AIDS virus has spread and has reached a stable state through the years through his animated and credible data.
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Peter Eigen: How To Expose The Corrupt
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Peter Eigen explains how corruption, between the government and private sectors, may be the root cause of most social and economic problems. He describes how his organization, Transparency International, tries to fight corruption towards creating a better world.
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Robert Lang: Robert Lang Folds Way-New Origami
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Robert Lang shows how origami has evolved from simply having aesthetic value to having scientific and mathematical worth.
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Isabel Allende: Tales of Passion
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)In this talk, author Isabel Allende tells us about women, the characters of her stories, and the those of the real world. She gives her own definition of Feminism and asks us to use our passion to change our current civilization.
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Malcolm X: Interview with A.B. Spellman
March 19, 1964 (about 60 years ago)In this interview, Malcolm X talks about his break from the Nation of Islam and founding The Muslim Mosque Inc. He also talks about expanding the Black Revolution to the International level by making it a Human Rights movement.
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Martin Luther King Jr.: The Other America
March 14, 1968 (about 56 years ago)Martin Luther King exposes the two faces of America: the powerful, abundant and proud country versus the poor, insufficient and unfair America. He gives insight on how to let go of myths that hinder the progress of the black nation who live in the "other America" and how to move forward towards t...
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