- -: Garik Israelian: What's inside a star?
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Garik Israelian is a spectroscopist, studying the spectrum emitted by a star to figure out what it's made of and how it might behave. It's a rare and accessible look at this discipline, which may be coming close to finding a planet friendly to life. TEDTalks is a daily video p...
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- -: David Christian: Big history
April 11, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes. This is "Big History": an enlightening, wide-angle look at complexity, life and humanity, set against our slim share of th...
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- -: Lucianne Walkowicz: Finding planets around other stars
August 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com How do we find planets -- even habitable planets -- around other stars? By looking for tiny dimming as a planet passes in front of its sun, TED Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz and the Kepler mission have found some 1,200 potential new planetary systems. With new techniques, they may ...
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- -: TEDxMidAtlantic 2011 - Jane Rigby - Putting Telescopes into Space
December 1, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dr. Jane Rigby is an Astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. She serves as Deputy Operations Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope. As a user of the Hubble, Spitzer, Chandra, and Herschel space observatories, and the Keck and Magellan observatories on Earth, her res...
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- -: Authors@Google: Thomas Keller
June 8, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Thomas Keller visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to talk about his restaurant The French Laundry. This event took place on May 19, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series. Thomas Keller is an American chef, restaurateur, and cookbook writer. He and his landmark restaurant, The Fre...
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- -: Olympians@Google: Kristi Yamaguchi
August 29, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Olympic figure skating champion Kristi Yamaguchi visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss her journey leading up to the Olympics, her charitable work, as well as her new book "Dream Big, Little Pig." This event took place on August 23, 2011, as part of the @Google Talks series. ...
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- -: GREY Skies with a CHANCE of SON Performs 'Stars'
October 21, 2010 (over 13 years ago)GREY Skies with a CHANCE of SON performs Greyson Chances 'Stars'
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- -: Bristol Palin Talks Dancing, Challenges... and Levi!
November 8, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Ellen welcomed Bristol Palin and Mark Ballas to talk about "Dancing with the Stars" and the challenges she faced. Ellen also got Bristol's honest opinion on Levi's bid for mayor!
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- -: Web Exclusive: Jordan McCabe at the All-Stars -- Extended!
February 22, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Twelve-year-old basketball prodigy Jordan McCabe had a great time at the NBA All-Stars, but there wasn't enough time to show everything that happened. Check out this extended version of his incredible experience!
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- -: NBA Stars Shout-Out to Ellen!
February 22, 2011 (about 13 years ago)At the NBA All-Stars this past weekend, some of the best NBA players stopped on the red carpet to send a message to Ellen. Watch here to see what they said.
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