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149 talks·149 with video·145 speakers·Long Beach, United States·February 2009

"Wait It Out"
by Imogen Heap
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1.3m reasons to re-invent the syringe
by Marc Koska
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10 things you didn't know about orgasm
by Mary Roach
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10 young Indian artists to watch
by Ravin Agrawal
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17 words of architectural inspiration
by Daniel Libeskind
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3 ways the brain creates meaning
by Tom Wujec
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9 life lessons from rock climbing
by Matthew Childs
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A better way to harvest bone marrow
by Daniel Kraft
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A brain in a supercomputer
by Henry Markram
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A full-band beatbox
by Naturally 7
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A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
by Alain de Botton
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A leap from the edge of space
by Steve Truglia
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A new ecosystem for electric cars
by Shai Agassi
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A new strategy in the war on cancer
by Dr. David Agus
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A new way to fight corruption
by Shaffi Mather
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A next-gen cure for killer infections
by Kary Mullis
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A one-man world summit
by Rory Bremner
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A one-woman global village
by Sarah Jones
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A plug for smart power outlets
by John La Grou
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A supercharged motorcycle design
by Yves Behar
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A university for the coming singularity
by Ray Kurzweil
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A warm embrace that saves lives
by Jane Chen
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A wide-angle view of fragile Earth
by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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Adjustable liquid-filled eyeglasses
by Joshua Silver
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An all-star set
by Herbie Hancock
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An escape from poverty
by Jacqueline Novogratz
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An inventory of the invisible
by John Lloyd
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Architecture that repairs itself?
by Rachel Armstrong
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Art of substance and absence
by Alwar Balasubramaniam
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Art that looks back at you
by Golan Levin
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Breakthrough designs for ultra-low-cost products
by R.A. Mashelkar
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Chaos and harmony on piano
by Eric Lewis
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Conserving the canopy
by Nalini Nadkarni
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Could a Saturn moon harbor life?
by Carolyn Porco
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Cute, sexy, sweet, funny
by Dan Dennett
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Dance to change the world
by Mallika Sarabhai
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Designers -- think big!
by Tim Brown
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Does racism affect how you vote?
by Nate Silver
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East vs. West -- the myths that mystify
by Devdutt Pattanaik
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Eco-friendly drywall
by Kevin J. Surace
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Escaping the Khmer Rouge
by Sophal Ear
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Exposing the invisible
by Nick Veasey
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Extreme wingsuit flying
by Ueli Gegenschatz
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Fighting cancer with dance
by Ananda Shankar Jayant
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Fusion is energy's future
by Steven Cowley
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Global ethic vs. national interest
by Gordon Brown
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High-altitude wind energy from kites!
by Saul Griffith
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How art gives shape to cultural change
by Thelma Golden
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How bacteria "talk"
by Bonnie Bassler
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How Benjamin Button got his face
by Ed Ulbrich
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How cults rewire the brain
by Diane Benscoter
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How food shapes our cities
by Carolyn Steel
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How I harnessed the wind
by William Kamkwamba
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How I held my breath for 17 minutes
by David Blaine
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How I swam the North Pole
by Lewis Pugh
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How low-cost eye care can be world-class
by Thulasiraj Ravilla
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How the Internet enables intimacy
by Stefana Broadbent
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How the Net aids dictatorships
by Evgeny Morozov
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How to grow fresh air
by Kamal Meattle
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How to make a splash in social media
by Alexis Ohanian
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How to make filthy water drinkable
by Michael Pritchard
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How we read each other's minds
by Rebecca Saxe
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How we rescued the "dancing bears"
by Kartick Satyanarayan
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Ideas for India's future
by Nandan Nilekani
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India's hidden hotbeds of invention
by Anil Gupta
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Insights on HIV, in stunning data visuals
by Hans Rosling
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Join the SETI search
by Jill Tarter
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Kids, take charge
by Kiran Sethi
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Lead like the great conductors
by Itay Talgam
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Learn to use the 13th-century astrolabe
by Tom Wujec
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Learning from leadership's missing manual
by Fields Wicker-Miurin
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Learning from the gecko's tail
by Robert Full
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Life lessons from an ad man
by Rory Sutherland
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Life lessons through tinkering
by Gever Tulley
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Lose your ego, find your compassion
by Feisal Abdul Rauf
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Making maps to fight disaster, build economies
by Lalitesh Katragadda
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Making sound visible through cymatics
by Evan Grant
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Mapping the future of countries
by Parag Khanna
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Medical miracle on Everest
by Ken Kamler
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Meet the SixthSense interaction
by Pattie Maes
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Metaphorically speaking
by James Geary
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Military robots and the future of war
by P.W. Singer
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Mosquitos, malaria and education
by Bill Gates
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My 12 pairs of legs
by Aimee Mullins
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My solar-powered adventure
by Bertrand Piccard
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My trek to the South Pole
by Ray Zahab
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Navigating our global future
by Ian Goldin
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New rules for rebuilding a broken nation
by Paul Collier
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New York -- before the City
by Eric Sanderson
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One seed at a time, protecting the future of food
by Cary Fowler
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Optical illusions show how we see
by Beau Lotto
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Our antisocial phone tricks
by Renny Gleeson
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Our buggy moral code
by Dan Ariely
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Our loss of wisdom
by Barry Schwartz
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Photographing the hidden story
by Ryan Lobo
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Photographs of secret sites
by Taryn Simon
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Piano jazz that rocks
by Eric Lewis
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Playing with space and light
by Olafur Eliasson
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Pop culture in the Arab world
by Shereen El Feki
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Post-crash, investing in a better world
by Geoff Mulgan
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Reporting crisis via texting
by Erik Hersman
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Robots that "show emotion"
by David Hanson
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Science-inspired design
by Mathieu Lehanneur
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Skin color is an illusion
by Nina Jablonski
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Solving social problems with a nudge
by Sendhil Mullainathan
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Songs of secrets and city lights
by Sophie Hunger
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Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere
by JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
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Success is a continuous journey
by Richard St. John
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Surgery's past, present and robotic future
by Catherine Mohr
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Symmetry, reality's riddle
by Marcus du Sautoy
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Take health care off the mainframe
by Eric Dishman
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Teach statistics before calculus!
by Arthur Benjamin
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The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting
by Anupam Mishra
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The beautiful math of coral
by Margaret Wertheim
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The big idea my brother inspired
by Jamie Heywood
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The El Sistema music revolution
by José Antonio Abreu
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The hunt for a supermassive black hole
by Andrea Ghez
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The jungle search for viruses
by Nathan Wolfe
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The magic of the placebo
by Eric Mead
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The music of a war child
by Emmanuel Jal
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The neurons that shaped civilization
by Vilayanur Ramachandran
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The Next Species of Humanity
by Juan Enriquez
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The next web
by Tim Berners-Lee
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The opportunity of adversity
by Aimee Mullins
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The painter and the pendulum
by Tom Shannon
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The psychology of time
by Philip Zimbardo
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The real danger lurking in the water
by Romulus Whitaker
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The real story of McMafia -- how global crime networks work
by Misha Glenny
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The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology
by Pranav Mistry
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The tribes we lead
by Seth Godin
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The voices of Twitter users
by Evan Williams
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The Web as random acts of kindness
by Jonathan Zittrain
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The world in 2200
by Pete Alcorn
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The world's English mania
by Jay Walker
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Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss
by James Balog
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Toy tiles that talk to each other
by David Merrill
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Transition to a world without oil
by Rob Hopkins
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We are the stories we tell ourselves
by Shekhar Kapur
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Weird, or just different?
by Derek Sivers
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What comes after An Inconvenient Truth?
by Al Gore
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What hallucination reveals about our minds
by Oliver Sacks
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What went wrong at the LHC
by Brian Cox
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Why nations should pursue soft power
by Shashi Tharoor
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Why the world needs charter cities
by Paul Romer
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Why we need to go back to Mars
by Joel S. Levine
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Why we're storing billions of seeds
by Jonathan Drori
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Wiring a web for global good
by Gordon Brown
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Your elusive creative genius
by Elizabeth Gilbert
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Your health depends on where you live
by Bill Davenhall
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