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Geoff Mulgan: A short intro to the Studio School
http://www.ted.com Some kids learn by listening; others learn by doing. Geoff Mulgan gives a short introduction to the Studio School, a new kind of...
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Richard Dawkins: An atheist's call to arms
http://www.ted.com Biologist Richard Dawkins launches into a full-on appeal for atheists to make public their beliefs and to aggressively fight the...
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Paul Sereno: What can fossils teach us?
http://www.ted.com Strange landscapes, scorching heat and (sometimes) mad crocodiles await scientists seeking clues to evolution's genius. Paleonto...
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Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks
http://www.ted.com We're all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variet...
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Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
http://www.ted.com Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we coul...
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Dean Kamen: The emotion behind invention
http://www.ted.com Soldiers who've lost limbs in service face a daily struggle unimaginable to most of us. At TEDMED, Dean Kamen talks about the pr...
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Damon Horowitz calls for a "moral operating system"
http://www.ted.com At TEDxSiliconValley, Damon Horowitz reviews the enormous new powers that technology gives us: to know more -- and more about ea...
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Carolyn Porco: Fly me to the moons of Saturn
http://www.ted.com Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco shows images from the Cassini voyage to Saturn, focusing on its largest moon, Titan, and on fr...
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Carlo Ratti: Architecture that senses and responds
http://www.ted.com With his team at SENSEable City Lab, MIT's Carlo Ratti makes cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive da...
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Carter Emmart demos a 3D atlas of the universe
http://www.ted.com For the last 12 years, Carter Emmart has been coordinating the efforts of scientists, artists and programmers to build a complet...
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Dimitar Sasselov: How we found hundreds of Earth-like planets
http://www.ted.com Astronomer Dimitar Sasselov and his colleagues search for Earth-like planets that may, someday, help us answer centuries-old que...
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John Delaney: Wiring an interactive ocean
http://www.ted.com Oceanographer John Delaney is leading the team that is building an underwater network of high-def cameras and sensors that will ...
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Seth Priebatsch: Building the game layer on top of the world
http://www.ted.com By now, we're used to letting Facebook and Twitter capture our social lives on the web -- building a "social layer" on top of th...
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Nicholas Christakis: How social networks predict epidemics
http://www.ted.com After mapping humans' intricate social networks, Nicholas Christakis and colleague James Fowler began investigating how this inf...
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Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from
http://www.ted.com People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. H...
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Tom Chatfield: 7 ways video games engage the brain
http://www.ted.com As we bring gameplay into more aspects of our lives (from socializing to exercising), Tom Chatfield talks about one compelling a...
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Aaron Huey: America's native prisoners of war
http://www.ted.com Aaron Huey's effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the nat...
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Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers
http://www.ted.com From rockets to stock markets, math powers many of humanity's most thrilling creations. So why do kids lose interest? Conrad Wol...
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Jason Fried: Why work doesn't happen at work
http://www.ted.com Jason Fried has a radical theory of working: that the office isn't a good place to do it. At TEDxMidwest he lays out the main pr...
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Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman: It's time to explode 4 taboos of parenting
http://www.ted.com Babble.com publishers Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman, in a lively tag-team, expose 4 facts that parents never, ever admit -- an...
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Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion
http://www.ted.com Today medical scans produce thousands of images and terabytes of data for a single patient in mere seconds, but how do doctors p...
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Thomas Goetz: It's time to redesign medical data
http://www.ted.com Your medical chart: it's hard to access, impossible to read -- and full of information that could make you healthier if you just...
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Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work
http://www.ted.com Work-life balance, says Nigel Marsh, is too important to be left in the hands of your employer. At TEDxSydney, Marsh lays out an...
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Lisa Gansky: The future of business is the "mesh"
http://www.ted.com At TED@MotorCity, Lisa Gansky, author of "The Mesh," talks about a future of business that's about sharing all kinds of stuff, e...
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