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111 talks·111 with video·111 speakers·Long Beach, United States·February 2011

"Put the financial aid in the bag"
by Carvens Lissaint
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A cello with many voices
by Maya Beiser
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A census of the ocean
by Paul Snelgrove
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A flirtatious aria
by Danielle de Niese
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A future beyond traffic gridlock
by Bill Ford
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A global culture to fight extremism
by Maajid Nawaz
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A history of the universe in sound
by Honor Harger
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A light switch for neurons
by Ed Boyden
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A next-generation digital book
by Mike Matas
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A primer on 3D printing
by Lisa Harouni
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A prosthetic eye to treat blindness
by Sheila Nirenberg
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A robot that flies like a bird
by Markus Fischer
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A Rosetta Stone for a lost language
by Rajesh Rao
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A short intro to the Studio School
by Geoff Mulgan
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A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong
by Eric Whitacre
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After your final status update
by Adam Ostrow
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Architecture that senses and responds
by Carlo Ratti
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Are we filtering the wrong microbes?
by Jessica Green
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Atheism 2.0
by Alain de Botton
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Battling bad science
by Ben Goldacre
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Beware conflicts of interest
by Dan Ariely
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Beware online "filter bubbles"
by Eli Pariser
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Building a dinosaur from a chicken
by Jack Horner
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Building a museum of museums on the web
by Amit Sood
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Building a park in the sky
by Robert Hammond
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Building the Seed Cathedral
by Thomas Heatherwick
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Can we make things that make themselves?
by Skylar Tibbits
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Caring for engineered tissue
by Nina Tandon
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Cooking as alchemy
by Homaro Cantu
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Cooking as never seen before
by Nathan Myhrvold
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Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon
by Ralph Langner
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Different ways of knowing
by Daniel Tammet
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Does democracy stifle economic growth?
by Yasheng Huang
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Doodlers, unite!
by Sunni Brown
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Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans
by Isabel Behncke
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Experiments that hint of longer lives
by Cynthia Kenyon
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Extreme swimming with the world's most dangerous jellyfish
by Diana Nyad
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FBI, here I am!
by Hasan M. Elahi
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Fighting a contagious cancer
by Elizabeth Murchison
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Fighting viruses, defending the net
by Mikko Hypponen
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Filming democracy in Ghana
by Jarreth Merz
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Google's driverless car
by Sebastian Thrun
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Grow your own clothes
by Suzanne Lee
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Haunting photos of polar ice
by Camille Seaman
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High-tech art (with a sense of humor)
by Aparna Rao
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Hire the hackers!
by Misha Glenny
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How beauty feels
by Richard Seymour
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How economic inequality harms societies
by Richard Wilkinson
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How I became 100 artists
by Shea Hembrey
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How state budgets are breaking US schools
by Bill Gates
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How to "sketch" with electronics
by Leah Buechley
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How to make choosing easier
by Sheena Iyengar
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How to spot a liar
by Pamela Meyer
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How we'll stop polio for good
by Bruce Aylward
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How your brain tells you where you are
by Neil Burgess
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If I should have a daughter ...
by Sarah Kay
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Impossible photography
by Erik Johansson
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Inside the Egyptian revolution
by Wael Ghonim
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Learning from a barefoot movement
by Bunker Roy
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Less stuff, more happiness
by Graham Hill
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Let's take back the Internet!
by Rebecca MacKinnon
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Let's use video to reinvent education
by Sal Khan
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Listen, learn ... then lead
by Stanley McChrystal
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Making a car for blind drivers
by Dennis Hong
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Making matter come alive
by Lee Cronin
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Meet the Water Canary
by Sonaar Luthra
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On violin and cello, "Passacaglia"
by Robert Gupta
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One day of peace
by Jeremy Gilley
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Pay attention to nonviolence
by Julia Bacha
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Philosophy in prison
by Damon Horowitz
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Please don't take my Air Jordans
by Lemon Andersen
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Printing a human kidney
by Anthony Atala
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Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow
by Shlomo Benartzi
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Science versus wonder?
by Robin Ince
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See Yemen through my eyes
by Nadia Al-Sakkaf
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Selling condoms in the Congo
by Amy Lockwood
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Shake up your story
by Raghava KK
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Silk, the ancient material of the future
by Fiorenzo Omenetto
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Taking imagination seriously
by Janet Echelman
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The art of wearable communication
by Kate Hartman
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The beautiful tricks of flowers
by Jonathan Drori
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The birth of a word
by Deb Roy
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The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee
by Ian Ritchie
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The demise of guys?
by Philip Zimbardo
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The future of business is the "mesh"
by Lisa Gansky
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The generation that's remaking China
by Yang Lan
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The greatest TED Talk ever sold
by Morgan Spurlock
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The hidden beauty of pollination
by Louie Schwartzberg
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The hidden light of Afghanistan
by Monika Bulaj
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The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist
by Mick Ebeling
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The mystery of chronic pain
by Elliot Krane
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The origins of pleasure
by Paul Bloom
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The quest to understand consciousness
by Antonio Damasio
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The real reason for brains
by Daniel Wolpert
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The social animal
by David Brooks
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The sound the universe makes
by Janna Levin
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The stories behind the bloodlines
by Taryn Simon
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The surprising math of cities and corporations
by Geoffrey West
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The weird, wonderful world of bioluminescence
by Edith Widder
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The world's first charter city?
by Paul Romer
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Time to end the war in Afghanistan
by Rory Stewart
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Treating cancer with electric fields
by Bill Doyle
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Trusting the ensemble
by Charles Hazlewood
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Try something new for 30 days
by Matt Cutts
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Ultrasound surgery -- healing without cuts
by Yoav Medan
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Unintended consequences
by Edward Tenner
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We are makers
by Dale Dougherty
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We can recycle plastic
by Mike Biddle
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Wearing nothing new
by Jessi Arrington
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Why videos go viral
by Kevin Allocca
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Wireless data from every light bulb
by Harald Haas
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