Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel Fights Injustice with Video
February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)Musicain Peter Gabriel campaigns against torturing and injustice with the use of videos from cameras of witnesses.
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Hod Lipson: Hod Lipson Builds "Self-Aware" Robots
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Hod Lipson shows how he creates robots and observes how these things explore their being.
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Rachel Armstrong: Architecture that Repairs Itself
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)In this talk, Rachel Armstrong introduces us to a technology that potentially could alter the way we do architecture in the future. Where man-made structures and the natural world can interact in many different ways.
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Samantha Power: A Complicated Hero
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)In this passionate talk, Samantha Power tells us about a complicated hero. His name was Sergio Vieira de Mello, he negotiated with the world's evil and in the worst places. She talks about how this person has affected history and the lessons that we should get from his life.
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George Smoot: The Design of the Universe
May 1, 2008 (about 16 years ago)George Smoot shows how the design of the universe came to be using simulation from supertelescope photographs collected over time.
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Thom Mayne: Architecture as Connection
February 1, 2005 (over 19 years ago)Thom Mayne shows architectural designs that aim to bring poeple together and form connections with each other and with nature.
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Freeman Dyson: Let's Look for Life in the Outer Solar System
February 1, 2003 (over 21 years ago)Life in outer space is given possibility by scientific speculations and insights of Freeman Dyson.
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James Forbes: Rev. James Forbes: Compassion at the Dinner Table
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)The preacher's preacher delves into a deeper and more dynamic meaning of compassion.
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Deborah Rhodes: A Tool That Finds 3x More Breast Tumors, and Why It's Not Available to You
December 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Deborah Rhodes talks about how breast tumors can escape diagnosis and reveals a new technology that can hurdle this obstruction to medical diagnosis.
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Ian Dunbar: Dog-Friendly Dog Training
December 1, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Ina Dunbar's patient and optimistic view on puppy training brings light to the abuse dogs get when thier masters train them the wrong way and how this can be prevented.
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Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. West - the Myths that Mystify
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)In this talk, Devdutt Pattanaik tells us about the myths of the East and of the West. He differentiates both and explains their points of view. He states that the differences in these beliefs constitute the difficulty we have in understanding one another.
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Eleni Gabre-Madhin: Ethiopian Economics
June 1, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)Eleni Gabre-Madhin talks of Africa's readiness to pursue happiness through their agricultural economy with the help of the global market.
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Barack Obama: Yes We Can
January 8, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Barack Obama's primary speech about his goals for America's change is empowered by the people and will be done for the people of America.
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Eric Topol: The Wireless Future of Medicine
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)In this highly optimistic speech, Cardiologist Eric Topol tells us about the wireless future of Medicine. He gives us examples of how current devices help with different diseases. He also cites the coming medical technologies that will completely give new meaning to the term "Modern Medicine".
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Keith Bellows: The Camel's Hump
February 1, 2002 (over 22 years ago)Camels became a fascination for Keith Bellows after his close encounter with these desert creatures in Jordan.
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Andrew Jackson: Seventh Annual Message to Congress
December 7, 1835 (over 188 years ago)President Jackson continues to call on justice from France for past aggressions to American commerce that have lavished unresolved for 20+ years. Jackson also covers at great length the financial status of the nation, with updates on various other priorities of his administration.
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James Fallon: Exploring the mind of a killer
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Fallon explains how a violence gene, which has a variant present in the normal population, expresses its effect on the human brain and contributes to psychopathy.
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George Washington: Sixth Annual Message to Congress
November 19, 1794 (over 229 years ago)President George Washington discusses his response to The Whiskey Rebellion and calls for the establishment of a permanent militia and that recompense be paid to those citizens who lost property in the process of defending the laws of the government. He calls for the pay down of US debt and fore...
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Barack Obama: President Obama at Fort Hood: "Greatness Before Our Very Eyes"
November 10, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Barack Obama speaks of greatness, sacrifice and valor of those in service for maintaining peace within the American nation amidst the unexpected events of war.
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Theo Jansen: Theo Jansen Creates New Creatures
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Theo Jansen creates new creatures, animals as he fondly calls them, using his imagination and simple physics.
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Margaret Wertheim: Margaret Wertheim on the Beautiful Math of Coral
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Science writer Margaret Wertheim shares a most fascinating journey in crochet, which brings together environmental awareness and mathematical modeling.
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Ken Robinson: Bring on the Learning Revolution!
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Ken Robinson talks about how education should undergo revolution and allow students to grow up and do what they really want to do in their lives.
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Stephen Hawking: Asking Big Questions About the Universe
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)In this talk, Stephen Hawking answers some of the biggest questions about the universe: How did the universe come into being? Is there Alien life? What is the future of the human race?
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Hans Rosling: Hans Rosling Shows the Best Stats You've Ever Seen
February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)Hans Rosling uses animated data to fully impart the global issues that we must understand and resolve.
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Paul Debevec: Paul Debevec Animates a Photo-Real Digital Face
March 1, 2009 (about 15 years ago)The detailed and life-like computerized version of the human face, and ultimately the whole human body, is captured by a great technological advancement as discussed by Paul Debevec.
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Gary Vaynerchuk: Do What You Love (No Excuses!)
September 16, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Gary Vaynerchuk talks about patience and passion, and describes how he came to create Wine Library TV and what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur doing work that you love.
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David Hoffman: Losing Everything
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)In this talk, filmmaker David Hoffman tells about the fire that burned his home and office just nine days ago. His collections were also destroyed in this fire. He gives us the message that we have to make good out of something bad, which is how he views his current situation.
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Ross Lovegrove: Ross Lovegrove Shares Organic Designs
February 1, 2005 (over 19 years ago)Ross Lovegrove shares his organic design that is no fuss, "fat free" and highly aesthetic.
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Anil Gupta: India's Hidden Hotbeds of Invention
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Anil Gupta exposes brilliant minds in India that when tapped, can greatly change our world's economy.
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Robert Wright: Robert Wright: The Evolution of Compassion
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Journalist Robert Wright gives a brief sketch of the evolutionary theory of compassion, and talks about the good and bad implications of having compassion wired into the human gene.
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Kartick Satyanarayan: How We Rescued the "Dancing" Bears
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Kartick Satyanarayan shows how they started the rescue of the "dancing" bears, while at the same time providing a new way of making a living to the Kalandar community who depend on these bears for money.
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Larry Page: On Google
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)In this talk, Larry Page and Sergey Brin tell us about Google. They give us a glimpse of how it is to work for Google and the various projects that they currently have. They also show us how dynamic Google is, how they come up with great new ideas and develop them.
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Thelma Golden: How Art Gives Shape to Cultural Change
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Thelma Golden talks about her passion to use art to make cultural changes not just in the African American community, but across urban America.
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Chris Jordan: Chris Jordan Pictures Some Shocking Stats
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Chris Jordan illustrates shocking statistics for audiences via his artwork with the aim of helping people change.
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Ben Saunders: Ben Saunders Skis to the North Pole
February 1, 2005 (over 19 years ago)Ben Saunders shows how he skied alone toward the geographic north pole to test and stretch his limits.
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Pawan Sinha: How Brains Learn to See
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Pawan Sinha shows how children's vision impairment can be cured as opposed to the misconception that the human visual learning is stumped upon reaching a certain age thus treatment is usually not administered.
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Barbara Block: Tagging Tuna in the Deep Ocean
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Barbara Block tags the giants of the deep blue ocean to observe their ocean pathways, behavior and spawning areas.
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John Adams: Death of George Washington
December 19, 1799 (over 224 years ago)Upon the passing of General George Washington, President Adams pass homage to the father of a Nation, inclusive of several letters trumpeting the virtues of the great man.
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Kwabena Boahen: A Computer That Works Like the Brain
June 1, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)Kwabena Boahen explores the structure and foundations of the human brain to get data to use for building a computer that works exactly like the human brain.
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Ashraf Ghani: Rebuilding Broken States
July 1, 2005 (almost 19 years ago)Ashraf Ghani's talk about rebuilding broken states brings into light the economics and the different aspects that need to be adressed to effectively rebuild a state.
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Lee Smolin: Science and Democracy
February 1, 2003 (over 21 years ago)Lee Smolin explains democracy in scientific terms and with scientific data backed by some of the biggest scientists of the pre-modern times.
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Arthur Ganson: Arthur Ganson Makes Moving Sculpture
March 1, 2004 (about 20 years ago)Arthur Ganson puts life into artwork by making them move, first in his mind and afterwards into reality through his tinkerings with engineering.
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Sarah Palin: Vice-Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech
September 3, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Alaska Governor Sarah Palin makes her debut on the national stage when she accepts her nomination as John McCain's running-mate at the 2008 Republican National Convention.
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Nathan Myhrvold: Could this Laser Zap Malaria?
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Nathan Myhrvold shows a laser that could probably be the answer to the malaria gripping some developing countries.
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Philip Zimbardo: Philip Zimbardo Shows How People Become Monsters ... or Heroes
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Social Psychologist Philip Zimbardo explores the age-old theme of good and evil by discussing the social processes that cause Dr. Jekylls to become Mr. Hydes - a transformation that he terms "the Lucifer Effect".
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James Madison: Proclamation of Day of Fasting and Prayer
July 9, 1812 (almost 212 years ago)Stepping across the chasm into a state of war with Great Britain, President James Madison calls on the people of the United States to pray to God for perseverance and forgiveness and guidance to peace.
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Barack Obama: A New Beginning
June 4, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Barack Obama's speech in Cairo, Egypt in front of the Muslim World is about building new relationships with and among Middle East countries to pursue peace not as single nations but as a unified people in pursuit of world peace and acceptance.
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Rives : Rives Controls the Internet
November 1, 2006 (over 17 years ago)Rives makes a poem imagining he is the emperor of the internet.
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Felix Dennis: Odes to Vice and Consequences
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)Felix Dennis delivers his message on vice and consequences in the forms of passionate and ardent poetry.
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Nicholas Negroponte: Negroponte Takes OLPC to Colombia
December 1, 2008 (over 15 years ago)In this talk, Tech visionary Nicholas Negroponte takes the One Laptop per Child project to Colombia, and he has gotten amazing results. He also defines this endeavor as an education project which will help make children the agents of change.
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Barack Obama: President Barack Obama's Inaugural Addresss: January 20, 2009
January 20, 2009 (over 15 years ago)44th US President Barack Obama shares bold and inspiring words to the American nation and the future generation during his inauguration in Washington, DC.
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Hans Rosling: Asia's Rise - How and When
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Hans Rosling shows with his animated data how the Asian countries have struggled with their economies and are now racing towards world governance alongside the US and the UK.
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Joanne "J.K." Rowling: The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination
June 5, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Rowling addresses the Harvard graduates of 2008, teaching them important lessons she wished she had known 21 years ago.
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Aditi Shankardass: A Second Opinion on Learning Disorders
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Aditi Shankardass shares her and her team's findings on correctly diagnosing learning and developmental disorders in children to give them a better chance at being normal.
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Vik Muniz: Vik Muniz Makes Art with Wire, Sugar
February 1, 2003 (over 21 years ago)Vik Muniz walks through the different media that he explored throughout his artistic lifetime.
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Inge Missmahl: Inge Missmahl Brings Peace to the Minds of Afghanistan
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Inge Missmahl advocates psycho-social counseling to address the social problems and emotional concerns of the Afghan people.
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Hans Rosling: New Insights on Poverty
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Hans Rosling shows data that explains how we should prioritize which part of our planet and humanity to save first for future survival of our species.
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Chief Joseph: From Where the Sun Now Stands
October 5, 1877 (over 146 years ago)Chief Joseph surrenders to the United States Army after attempting to lead his people to freedom in Canada and suffering days of battle in freezing cold conditions.
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Richard Branson: Life at 30,000 feet
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Richard Branson's discusses his various brands, companies and business explorations to help save the environment in this interview with Chris Anderson.
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Kevin Kelly: Technology's Epic Story
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)In this talk, Kevin Kelly speaks to us about Technology. He talks about its history and role through time. He tries to define it, not limited to modern technology and how it affects our lives, but defines it in a very broad sense that encompasses the whole existence of the universe.
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Simon Sinek: How Great Leaders Inspire Action
September 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Simon Sinek shows how great people or organizations inspire and lead by appealing to the human brain's ability to feel and beieve.
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Martin Luther King Jr.: A Knock at Midnight
June 11, 1967 (almost 57 years ago)Martin Luther King uses Jesus' parable about a man who seeks help from his friend at midnight to illustrate man's need for faith, hope and love - the three loaves of bread that will nourish man's spiritual hunger during the dismal hours of human civilization.
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Daniel Kahneman: The Riddle of Experience vs. Memory
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)In this talk, psychologist Daniel Kahneman tells us about happiness. That there are 2 selves, the "experiencing self" and the remembering self", both entities regard happiness in very distinct ways.
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David Kelley: Human-Centered Design
February 1, 2002 (over 22 years ago)In this talk, Designer David Kelley tells us about designing products. He shows us some of the projects that IDEO is doing. He also tells us how design has become centered on human interaction and the way designers are putting more personality into their products, thereby making everything better.
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Paula Scher: Paula Scher Gets Serious
May 1, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Paula Scher talks about her serious art and her struggle to keep it serious once she starts to lean towards solemn designs.
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Henry Markram: Henry Markram Builds a Brain in a Supercomputer
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Henry Markram shares one theory and expounds upon how the complex human brain works.
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Barack Obama: The President Addresses Joint Session of Congress
February 24, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Barack Obama's address during the joint session of congress sheds a light on the path towards reclaiming economic stability and away from the economic crises America has been facing.
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Dennis Hong: My Seven Species of Robot
September 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)In this talk, Dennis Hong shows us the different robots being built by his team (RoMeLa). His robots show both amazing ingenuity and creativity in design. He also shares the five secrets behind his Lab's huge success in Robotics.
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Mary Roach: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Orgasm
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Author Mary Roach shares many unique stories and little known facts about orgasms.
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James Madison: Veto Message on the National Bank
January 30, 1815 (over 209 years ago)President James Madison issues a Veto to Congress, outlining his reasoning as to why the current bill to establish a National Bank will not successful serve to fulfil its goals.
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Timothy Ferriss: Smash Fear, Learn Anything
April 1, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Ferris tells the audience how deconstructing the things you fear can help you overcome them.
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Aaron Huey: America's Native Prisoners of War
September 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)In this passionate talk, photographer Aaron Huey tells us of his relationship with the Lakota people. He narrates the dark relationship of the Native American Indian with the US government. He awakens us with his powerful images and thought-provoking history lesson.
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Omar Ahmad: Political Change with Pen and Paper
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Omar Ahmad shares his best practice on how to communicate with politicians. His advice is to send a monthly handwritten letter. He also shares how to properly make this letter so that you get the results you want.
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Neil Pasricha: The 3 A's of Awesome
September 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)In this inspiring talk, Neil Pasricha tells us about living an awesome life. He gives us a background of this blog, 1000awesomethings.com. How his positive outlook has made life an awesome experience. He also talks about the 3 A's of Awesome which can serve as guidelines on how to live an awesome...
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Richard St John: Success is a Continuous Journey
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Richard St. John shares how successs is a continuous circle and not a one-way street that will eventually hit a dead-end.
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Richard Dawkins: Queerer Than We can Suppose: The Strangeness of Science
July 1, 2005 (almost 19 years ago)Richard Dawkins explains the different worlds our universe has depending on how a living thing perceives it to be. If and only if, reduced or elevated to certain states, will we be able to fathom all queerness there is.
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Jamais Cascio: Tools For a Better World
February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)Jamais Cascio shows us the tools that we can immediately use and develop to make a better world now.
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Frans Lanting: Lyrical Nature Photos
February 1, 2005 (over 19 years ago)Frans Lanting travels through time and shows the audience the beginning and meaning of life through his photography.
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Andrew Jackson: Proclamation Regarding Duties on Austrian Vessels
May 11, 1829 (almost 195 years ago)President Andrew Jackson leverages an act of Congress 'concerning discriminating, duties of tonnage and impost' in order to elminate tariffs on the goods of Austrian ships so long as the same reciprocity is bestowed upon American ships in Austria.
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Stewart Brand: Four Environmental 'Heresies'
June 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Stewart Brand shows four technological advancements that humanity is having a hard time accepting yet which if widely adopted would be essential in getting through our current environmental crisis.
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Malcolm X: After Bombing/Speech at Ford Auditorium
February 14, 1965 (about 59 years ago)In this speech, Malcolm X stresses that the Black people must unite as one, not only those in America but in the whole world. He also talks about how the press has been insidiously used by the government to discredit the Black man and make him hate himself. He warns also that 1965 will be more ex...
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Steven Cowley: Fusion is Energy's Future
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Steven Cowley shows how fusion can be used to make clean and carbon-free energy.
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Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. Collaboration
July 1, 2005 (almost 19 years ago)Clay Shirky shows how our world is slowly converting institutions into cooperatives which allow more response and more participation from the masses.
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Jack Lengyel: Rise From These Ashes Speech
March 24, 2011 (about 13 years ago)In this dramatic portrayal of real events, head Marshall coach Jack Lengyel is played by Matthew McConaughey as he gives a motivational speech to the newly formed Marshall Football team in the wake of a plane crash in which nearly the entire prior team perished.
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Kamal Meattle: How to Grow Fresh Air
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Kamal Meattle talks about his person experience living and breathing Delhi's air, and the results of studies into the best plants for repairing and creating clean air.
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Barack Obama: Holocaust Days of Remembrance Ceremony
April 21, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Barack Obama speaks during the annual Days of Holocaust Remembrance to recount the evil done to the Jews and to invite the American nation to be vigilant against human injustice.
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Barack Obama: Wesleyan Commencement Ceremony 2008
May 25, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Barack Obama inspires the Wesleyan Class of 2008 to serve the people and be ambassadors of change to promote the advancement of the United States.
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David Griffin: How Photography Connects Us
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)David Griffin shows wonderful photographs of how photography is not just a way to remember but also a way to learn and a way to feel.
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Kevin Kelly: The Next 5,000 Days of the Web
December 1, 2007 (over 16 years ago)In this talk, Kevin Kelly tells us about the World Wide Web. He provides us with a sense of what the Web currently is at 5,000 days old. He then ponders on the next 5,000 days and gives his take on what will happen in the years ahead.
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Magnus Larsson: Turning Dunes Into Architecture
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Magnus Larsson presents the threat of desertification and its prevention that is hidden in the dunes.
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Lewis Pugh: Mind-Shifting Everest Swim
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)In this motivating talk, coldwater swimmer Lewis Pugh tells us about his Mind-shifting Everest swim. He talks about climate change and doing a symbolic swim in the Himalayas despite a vow not to do another coldwater swim. In his Mt. Everest attempt, he had to change his style and his way of think...
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Anna Deavere Smith: Four American Characters
February 1, 2005 (over 19 years ago)Anna Deavere Smith captivates the audience with her portrayal of four different Americans who all captured what life is about.
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Nalini Nadkarni: Conserving the Canopy
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)In this talk, Tree Researcher Nalini Nadkarni tells us about conserving the canopy. She leads us on a journey of how it is like at the forest canopy that hosts such immense biodeiversity. She shows us her various projects that reach out to very different groups outside the scientific world. She a...
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David Perry: Are Games Better than Life?
February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)In this talk, Game designer David Perry tells us about video games. He provides a visually exciting narrative on how far technology has improved gaming over time. He engages us to think how the future of gaming will look like. He also wonders about how the new video games can have different purpo...
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Fabian Hemmert: The Shape-shifting Future of the Mobile Phone
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)In this talk, Fabian Hemmert presents a design for the future mobile phone. This device is more of a living phone that interacts in different ways and not just in the visual sense.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)In this talk, Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells us about the danger of the Single story. She narrates how she got started in writing and the many experiences she's had with the African Single story. She emphasizes that stories contain power and that we need many stories to get a tue measure of wh...
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Rob Hopkins: Transition to a World Without Oil
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)In this talk, Rob Hopkins is reminding us that oil is a finite resource, that we should be preparing for a life without it. He shares with us his solution about transition to a more resilient community. A world resilient enough without oil.
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Majora Carter: 3 Stories of Local Eco-Entrepreneurship
September 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Majora Carter tells the story of three people who set duplicable ways on how one person can start a change along with eye-openers about the problems in our local communities.
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Alexis Ohanian: How to Make a Splash in Social Media
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Alexis Ohanian talks about how internet success can be achieved by giving Mr. Splashy Pants as an exmaple.
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James Watson: James Watson on How He Discovered DNA
February 1, 2005 (over 19 years ago)Nobel Peace Prize laureate James Watson narrates the long and winding road that led him to one of the greatest scientific achievements of all time - the discovery of the structure of DNA.
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