Hans Rosling: Let My Dataset Change Your Mindset
June 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Hans Rosling shows animated data to present global issues that often get misconceptions by those who have the power to make a chnge in the world.
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Gregory Stock: To Upgrade is Human
February 1, 2003 (over 21 years ago)Gregory Stock talks about how humans should continue moving forward and use technology to modify themselves to fit into the future.
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Nicholas Christakis: How Social Networks Predict Epidemics
June 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Nicholas Christakis shows data on how social networks can be tapped to detect the onset of epidemics.
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Ravin Agrawal: 10 young Indian artists to watch
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Investor Ravin Agrawal takes us on a 6-minute journey into contemporary Indian art. He introduces new Indian art through 10 exciting artists and shows some samples of their work.
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Isaac Mizrahi: Fashion and Creativity
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Isaac Mizrahi shares how he gets ideas and a lot of the things and activities he draws inspiration from.
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Eric Giler: Eric Giler Demos Wireless Electricity
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Eric Giler demonstrates a new technology that allows electricity transfer between two magnetic coils without the use of wires.
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Mitchell Joachim: Don't Build Your Home, Grow It!
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Mitchell Joachim shares the future of growing "green" and "meaty" homes.
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Christopher deCharms: Christopher deCharms Looks Inside the Brain
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)A new non-invasive way to investigate the workings of the brain is presented by Christopher deCharms in a short and promising talk.
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Jonathan Drori: Why We're Storing Billions of Seeds
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Collecting seeds is a way of saving plants since they are the only living plant part where genetic information and viability can be both preserved for a long period of time as discussed by Jonathan Driori.
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Douglas Adams: Parrots, the universe and everything
May 1, 2001 (about 23 years ago)In this comedic speech, Douglas Adams first tells us about some endangered creatures and the reasons behind why they are endangered. He also illustrates to what point man has affected and controlled his environment. He also expresses the sentiment that we should be thinking about the consequences...
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James Monroe: Fifth Annual Message
December 3, 1821 (over 202 years ago)In his first address to a new Congress, President Monroe reviews the key relations with the international powers and the associated interactions and disputes where relevant. Monroe provides an update on defensive military measures and guidance for Congress on the terms top priorities.
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Eddie The Barber: History Lesson & a Shave
March 24, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Eddie, played by Cedric the Entertainer in this film, Barbershop, schools the young kids on a little history.
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Feisal Abdul Rauf: Lose Your Ego, Find Your Compassion
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Feisal Abdul Rauf talks about being selfless and being compassionate by shunning our ego to glorify God.
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Evelyn Glennie: How to Listen
February 1, 2003 (over 21 years ago)Evelyn Glennie shows her genius as a musician at the same time shares her insights on how to truly listen not just with the ears but with the entirety of being.
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Karen Armstrong: Let's Revive the Golden Rule
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)In this talk, Karen Armstrong stresses the importance of coming together in compassion and in the message of the Golden Rule. That religion should unite us and not divide. She talks about the urgency to have the Charter for Compassion implemented globally and that we should all be active particip...
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Barack Obama: First Presidential Prime Time Press Conference
February 9, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Barack Obama's first press conference focuses on the plans of the government to resolve the unemployment crisis that recession has brought to the Americas.
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Martin Luther King Jr.: The Birth of a New Nation
April 7, 1957 (about 67 years ago)Martin Luther King uses the Exodus and the story behind Ghana's liberation from Britain to show the steps in attaining freedom.
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Tim Brown: Creativity and Play
May 1, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Tim Brown talks about the importance of play in honing creative skills and bringing out uniques ideas not just for designers but for all professions in the corporate world.
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Dean Ornish: The World's Killer Diet
February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)Dean Ornish talks about how the world is slowly becoming obese due to western diet.
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Penelope Boston: Life on Mars
February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)The career that I started early on in my life was looking for exotic life forms in exotic places, and at that time I was working in the Antarctic and the Arctic, and high deserts and low deserts. Until about a dozen years ago, when I was really captured by caves, and I really re-focused most of m...
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Eric Sanderson: Eric Sanderson Pictures New York - Before the City
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Eric Sanderson shows how New York City has evolved from the green patch of land into the building-clad city known all over the world.
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Robert Ballard: Exploring the Oceans
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Robert Ballard passionately makes the case for greater exploration of the unknowns here on Earth - the world's oceans.
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Alwar Balasubramaniam: Art of Substance and Absence
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Artist Alwar Balasubramaniam speaks about the inspiration of his art and the exploration of human perception through sculpture and art.
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George Washington: Proclamation Against Crimes Against the Cherokee Nations
December 12, 1792 (over 231 years ago)President George Washington calls on the American people to track down and bring to justice at a bounty of $500 a piece, 'certain lawless and wicked persons' who attacked a peaceful Cherokee nation town.
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February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Nicholas Christakis shows the impact of social networks to our physical and emotional states.
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Clay Shirky: How Cognitive Surplus Will Change the World
June 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Clay Shirky talks about how people like to create and share and how these two human abilities can help change the world.
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Michelle Obama: Plea for Education
April 1, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Michelle Obama speaks in the U.K. at a London Girl's School, discussing the values she was raised with, the importance of education and how using these tools, this group of young people can make the world a better place.
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Jennifer Lin: Jennifer Lin Improvs Piano Magic
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)Jennifer Lin explains how she composes music pieces and takes a go at impromptu composition and incredibly wows the audience with her genius.
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Philip Rosedale: Second Life
May 1, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Philip Rosedale talks about the virtual experiences in Second Life and its probable positive effects to the participants.
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Nick Veasey: Exposing the Invisible
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Nick Veasey shows how he makes portraits using an x-ray scanner to peel off surfaces and illuminate what's within.
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Graham Hill: Why I'm a Weekday Vegetarian
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)In this talk, Graham Hill suggests an alternative to being a vegetarian. He not only talks about the advantages and benefits of this new diet to you but how it's better for the whole environment.
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Billy Graham: Technology and Faith
February 1, 1998 (over 26 years ago)Billy Graham tells about how King David saw technological advancement together with its pending problems and that One solution to solve it all.
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Vilayanur Ramachandran: The Neurons That Shaped Civilization
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Vilayanur Ramachandran talks about how all of humanity is connected to each other with their minds because of their neurons.
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Dennis vanEngelsdorp: A Plea For Bees
July 1, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Dennis vanEngelsdorp shows the importance of bees in our economy and to our health and wholistic well-being.
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Hillel Cooperman: Legos for Grownups
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Hillel Cooperman's enthusiasm towards legos brought out the child in him and went overboard with legos and architecture.
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Dan Buettner: How to Live to be 100+
September 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Dan Buettner's explorations showed him different cultures that share characteristics which make them live longer and live fuller.
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February 1, 1998 (over 26 years ago)Brenda Laurel researched and created a video game that will not just entertain girls but will also help them explore and build their personality.
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Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop per Child
February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)In this talk, Tech Visionary Nicholas Negroponte tells us some details about the One laptop per child project. He talks about his reasons for starting this project. He describes how they're building it and how these laptops will be distributed. He also provides feedback on the initial positive ef...
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Naif Al-Mutawa: Superheroes Inspired by Islam
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)In this talk, Naif Al-Mutawa introduces his comic book superheroes, "The 99". These heroes were inspired by Islam and are based on the 99 attributes of Allah. They not only battle evil but help provide better role-models for Islamic children.
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Barack Obama: President Obama's First Weekly Presidential Address
January 24, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Barack Obama's first weekly presidential address optimistically launches the recovery and reinvestment plan that will boost the work market and eventually lead to the advancement and betterment of other economic and social areas in America.
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Nick Bostrom: Our Biggest Problems
July 1, 2005 (almost 19 years ago)Nick Bostrom talks about changing the way humans start their very existence in order to overcome the three biggest problems in life that he believes we all face.
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Paul Romer: Radical Idea: Charter Cities
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Paul Romer talks about a new model of making a charter city in order to pursue the goal of abundance and safety for people in every country.
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Jared Diamond: Why Societies Collapse
February 1, 2003 (over 21 years ago)Jarred Diamond shares his thoughts on the factors that why societies fail to survive.
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Michael Shermer: The Pattern Behind Self-Deception
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Michael Shermer shows how the brain is easily fooled by patterns and our innate ability for preconceptions.
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Lalitesh Katragadda: Making Maps to Fight Disaster, Build Economies
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)In this talk, Lalitesh Katragadda tells us about the importance of maps. He demos Google's Map Maker and shows us what the users around the world have done to help map our world.
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Jane McGonigal: Gaming Can Make a Better World
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Jane McGonigal expects to solve the puzzle of why gamers believe more that they could change virtuals worlds than our real world to be able to channel that intense gamer-energy into saving what really matters.
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Will Wright: Will Wright Makes Toys That Make Worlds
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Will Wright, designer of The Sims game series, gives a demonstration of his newest creation, Spore, and talks about designing games that encourage imagination, exploration and discovery.
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Mathieu Lehanneur: Science-Inspired Design
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Mathieu Lehanneur shows some of his ideas and inventions that will help create a more personal feel to the things around us.
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Zach Kaplan: Demo: Toys From the Future
February 1, 2005 (over 19 years ago)In this talk, inventors Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht show us some toys from the Future. They demonstrated some new materials that have surprising and unexpected properties. They also talk about the different possible uses these have and how it changes our perception of the world.
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Carmen Agra Deedy: Carmen Agra Deedy Spins Stories
February 1, 2005 (over 19 years ago)Carmen Agra Deedy's storytelling prowess keeps the audience locked in her simple, funny yet touching story about family.
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Eben Bayer: Are Mushrooms the New Plastic?
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)As a solition to the increasing mountains of non-biodegradable materials piling up on our planet, Eben Bayer lunches a mushroom-based natural polymer that is being mass produced to replace those "toxic white stuff."
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Garrett Lisi: Theory of Everything
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Garrett Lisi used shaped and patterns to explain the fundamentals of particle physics, surprisingly beautiful, without the use of equations.
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Paul MacCready: Nature vs. Humans
February 1, 1998 (over 26 years ago)Paul MacCready shows how he has incorporated nature-friendly innovations into his aircrafts to give nature a chance to recuperate after it's almost-losing battle with humans.
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Tom Chatfield: 7 Ways Games Reward the Brain
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Tom Chatfield tells the seven things games can teach gamers about how to cope up with the real world.
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Loretta Napoleoni: The Intricate Economics of Terrorism
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)In this talk, Macroeconomist Loretta Napoleoni tells us about the Economics of Terrorism. She gives us a background of what terrorist oraganizations were like and what prompted her to start this investigation. She shares with us her findings and it hits home closer than you might think.
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Juliana Ferreira: The Fight to End Rare-animal Trafficking in Brazil
March 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)In this speech, Ferreira explains how much trouble they get after rescuing one rare animal from illegal wildlife trade. She says that it's not always "happy ever after" once an animal gets rescued.
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Robert Wright: Robert Wright on Optimism
February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)Journalist Robert Wright shares what he thinks is the driving force behind mankind's moral progress.
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Malcolm X: Interview with Louis Lomax
January 1, 1963 (over 61 years ago)In this Interview of Malcolm X by Louis Lomax, He mainly gives the message that the White Man's time is up by providing examples from current events and biblical passages. He gets to explain some of the more controversial statements that he has previously made by that time. Malcolm X also reinfor...
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Barry Schwartz: Using our Practical Wisdom
November 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Barry Schwartz talks about the drawbacks of rule and incentives in the moral fiber of a community.
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Anupam Mishra: The Ancient Ingenuity of Water Harvesting
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Anupam Mishra shows how their ways of water harvesting is more economic and more effective than all the introduced modern ways to bring water into their land, the Golden Desert.
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Brian Cox: CERN's Supercollider
March 1, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Brian Cox shows the almost complete Large Hadron Collider of CERN and the awesome disoveries we could hear about after it has been used to re-create the Big Bang.
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Allison Hunt: Allison Hunt Gets (a new) Hip
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)In this talk, Allison Hunt tells us about how she got her hip replaced and a bit about Canada's Health care system. It's a light-hearted talk with lots of humor.
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Dianna Cohen: Tough Truths About Plastic Pollution
April 2, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Dianna Cohen starts a campaign towards refusing the use of disposable plastic materials to help save the oceans.
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Michael Merzenich: Re-Wiring the Brain
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)Michael Merzenich explains how easy re-wiring a brain is and this information gives us all the control over our lives and emotions.
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Janine Benyus: Nature's Designs
February 1, 2005 (over 19 years ago)Janine Benyus shares nature's ideas on how to solve our industrial problems today, through millions of years of design from evolution.
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Ellen Gustafson: Obesity + Hunger = 1 Global Food Issue
May 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Ellen Gustafson brings to light the effects of hunger and obesity on global food concerns.
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Bertrand Piccard: Solar-powered Adventure
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)In this inspiring talk, adventurer Bertrand Piccard tells us about his solar-powered adventure project. He plans to fly around in a solar-powered airplane both day and night. He speaks about adventures with life and fulfilling our potential.
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Nathan Myhrvold: Nathan Myhrvold on Archeology, Animal Photography, BBQ, ...
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Nathan Myhrvold shows all the things that interest him that leads to a whole collage of his colorful and happy being.
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David Byrne: How Architecture Helped Music Evolve
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)David Byrne explores music in different venues and realizes how music was made for some places to sound perfect, thus the evolution of the art of sound.
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Joseph Pine: What Consumers Want
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)In this talk, writer Joseph Pines tells us about what consumers want. He identifies how the consumer's wants have evolved through history. He also talks about making the consumer happy by satisfying the desire for authenticity.
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Rory Sutherland: Life Lessons from an Ad Man
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Rory Sutherland shares humorous and enlightening stories of how ingenious advertising has changed how people think throughout the history of the consumer market.
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Craig Venter: Craig Venter Unveils "Synthetic Life"
May 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Craig Venter talks about the first synthetic cell ever made using a computer.
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Peter Tyack: The Intriguing Sound of Marine Mammals
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)In this soulful talk, Ecologist Peter Tyack tells us about the intriguing sound of Marine Mammals. He informs us that there is much music in the oceans coming from these marine mammals. They sing these songs for various reasons like finding other whales and mating. He then tells us about the nois...
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Thomas Jefferson: Address to the Wolf and the People of the Mandan Nation
December 30, 1806 (over 217 years ago)President Thomas Jefferson receives representatives from the Mandan Nation and speaks of his desire for them to act as one family, abandoning war in favor of trade.
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Lakshmi Pratury: On Letter-Writing
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)In this short but moving talk, Lakshmi Pratury tells us about the lost art of letter-writing. She narrates how her father, in the last two years before he died, filled a notebook with his thoughts of her. She asks us to consider leaving our children a valuable legacy by reviving this disappearing...
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Stewart Brand: The Long Now
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)Stewart Brand shows how they are going to house a clock that is meant to withstand 10,000 years of human civilization inside a mountain.
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Liz Diller: Liz Diller Plays with Architecture
December 1, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Liz Diller's imagination and comtemporary design brings to life a lot of strcutures that has once faded into the backstage back into the limelight.
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Charity Tillemann-Dick: Singing after a Double Lung Transplant
October 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)In this inspiring talk, Soprano Charity Tillemann-Dick tells us about singing after a double lung transplant. She explains her condition, idiopathic pulmonary hypertension, which effectively limited her way of life. She also talks about her fight against this challenge and how she overcame all od...
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Stefano Mancuso: The Roots of Plant Intelligence
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Stefano Mancuso talks about the misconceptions on plants and their great importance to our technological advancement.
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Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet Enables Intimacy
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Stefana Broadbent shows how technology has been a bridge to bringing more intimacy between related poeple despite society's restrcitions on using means of communications during the hours when people are away from loved ones for work.
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Ryan Lobo: Photographing the Hidden Story
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Ryan Lobo's stprytelling prowess comes from the emotion emanating from his photographs.
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Seyi Oyesola: Dr. Seyi Oyesola Tours a Hospital in Nigeria
June 1, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)Seyi Oyesola shows how the hospitals in Nigeria need a make-over to be able to produce proper and effective healthcare.
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Marian Bantjes: Intricate Beauty by Design
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Marian Bantjes shows her imaginative and ingenious designs that she does to touch people and possibly change lives.
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Shereen El Feki: Pop Culture in the Arab World
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Shereen El Feki shares the Arabic counterparts of Western pop culture icons such as Barbie, superheroes and music videos. She shows and explains how two cultures can harmoniously mesh.
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Thomas Thwaites: How I Built a Toaster - From Scratch
November 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)In this amusing talk, designer Thomas Thwaites tells us how he built a toaster from scratch. He narrates how he came up with the Toaster project and the various challenges he had in trying to make this product. He demonstrates how difficult it is to literally produce one of the simplest gadgets t...
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Bjarke Ingels: 3 Warp-Speed Architecture Tales
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Danish Bjarke Ingels shows how he blends nature with contemporary architectural designs that will reinvent the face of the planet.
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Charles Moore: The Seas of Plastic
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Charles Moore shows how our overuse of plastic has become a deadly enemy of the oceans and the living things that depend on it.
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Mena Trott: On Blogs
February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)In this lively talk, blogger Mena Trott tells us about blogging. She describes in her own way, what a blog is and what being a blogger means. She shares with us some stories, not just about herself, but also about the people whose lives have been changed due to this evolution of blogging.
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Dan Pink: The Surprising Science of Motivation
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)In this enlightening talk, Dan Pink makes a case on the subject of motivation. He argues that there is a mismatch between what science knows and what business does. He proposes a business model that can solve a lot of our problems and maybe even change the world.
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Woody Norris: Woody Norris Invents Amazing Things
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)In this talk, Inventor Woody Norris talks about his inventions relating to sound. He discusses the various ways this technology could be used and the many benefits it proposes. He also inspires us with his background story and what got him started inventing.
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Romulus Whitaker: Romulus Whitaker: The Real Danger Lurking in the Water
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Conservationist Romulus Whitaker talks about the efforts being undertaken in India to protect the habitat of the iconic king cobra and to conserve a critically endangered species, the gharial.
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Stewart Brand: Debate: Does the World Need Nuclear Energy?
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Stewart Brand scientifically and without hesitation takes his stand on the side of nuclear power.
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Barton Seaver: Sustainable Seafood? Let's Get Smart.
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Barton Seaver talks about how the oceans are in danger because of our seafood eating habits and he advocates the restoration of seafood by simply eating vegetables.
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David Rockwell: David Rockwell Builds at Ground Zero
February 1, 2002 (over 22 years ago)David Rockwell explains how the viewing structure in Ground Zero came to be with the help of all those who wanted to commemorate the people who died in 9/11.
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Seth Berkley: HIV and Flu - The Vaccine Strategy
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Seth Berkley talks about research on using the flu virus and vaccine to figure out how to combat AIDS.
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Jessa Gamble: Our Natural Sleep Cycle
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)In her brief talk about the body' antural sleep cyle, Jessa Gamble talks about how humans have a way of sensing day and night with the use of their body clock.
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Arthur Benjamin: Mathemagic
February 1, 2005 (over 19 years ago)Arthur Benjamin shows his mind's calculating prowess by doing mathemagic in front of a live audience.
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Chris Abani: Muses on Humanity
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)In this talk, Chris Abani share stories of everyday people. People whose actions grant us a glimpse of how it is to be transformed and regain our humanity.
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Michael Pritchard: Michael Pritchard's Water Filter Turns Filthy Water Drinkable
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)In this refreshing talk, Michael Pritchard demos the portable Lifesaver filter. He tells us that two disasters pushed him to invent this device which can turn filthy water drinkable within seconds. He then proceeds with an astounding demo that can save millions of lives.
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