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111 talks·111 with video·109 speakers·Long Beach, United States·February 2012

(Re)touching lives through photos
by Becci Manson
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3 ways to (usefully) lose control of your brand
by Tim Leberecht
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4 lessons in creativity
by Julie Burstein
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404, the story of a page not found
by Renny Gleeson
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A 50-cent microscope that folds like origami
by Manu Prakash
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A choreographer's creative process in real time
by Wayne McGregor
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A cinematic journey through visual effects
by Don Levy
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A father-daughter bond, one photo at a time
by Steven Addis
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A magical tale (with augmented reality)
by Marco Tempest
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A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really.
by Miguel Nicolelis
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A Navy Admiral's thoughts on global security
by James Stavridis
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A new museum wing ... in a giant bubble
by Elizabeth Diller
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A tale of mental illness -- from the inside
by Elyn Saks
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A young guitarist meets his hero
by Preston Reed
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Abundance is our future
by Peter Diamandis
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Actually, the world isn't flat
by Pankaj Ghemawat
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Archaeology from space
by Sarah Parcak
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Are we over-medicalized?
by Ivan Oransky
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Behind the Great Firewall of China
by Michael Anti
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Between music and medicine
by Robert Gupta
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Beware neuro-bunk
by Molly Crockett
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Biohacking -- you can do it, too
by Ellen Jorgensen
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Building blocks that blink, beep and teach
by Ayah Bdeir
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Building unimaginable shapes
by Michael Hansmeyer
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Building US-China relations ... by banjo
by Abigail Washburn
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Building Your Creative Confidence
by David Kelley
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Can democracy exist without trust?
by Ivan Krastev
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Connected, but alone?
by Sherry Turkle
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Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine?
by Nina Tandon
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Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is.
by Chip Kidd
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Discover the physical side of the internet
by Andrew Blum
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Everyday moments, caught in time
by Billy Collins
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Forget multitasking, try monotasking
by Paolo Cardini
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Four principles for the open world
by Don Tapscott
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From mach-20 glider to hummingbird drone
by Regina Dugan
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How art, technology and design inform creative leaders
by John Maeda
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How can technology transform the human body?
by Lucy McRae
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How common threats can make common (political) ground
by Jonathan Haidt
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How do we heal medicine?
by Atul Gawande
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How I beat a patent troll
by Drew Curtis
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How I started a sanitary napkin revolution!
by Arunachalam Muruganantham
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How I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's
by Alanna Shaikh
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How open data is changing international aid
by Sanjay Pradhan
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How we can eat our landscapes
by Pam Warhurst
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I listen to color
by Neil Harbisson
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Imaging at a trillion frames per second
by Ramesh Raskar
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Is our universe the only universe?
by Brian Greene
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Let's pool our medical data
by John Wilbanks
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Let's prepare for our new climate
by Vicki Arroyo
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Let's transform energy -- with natural gas
by T. Boone Pickens
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Listening to shame
by Brené Brown
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Love letters to strangers
by Hannah Brencher
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Mental health for all by involving all
by Vikram Patel
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Mining minerals from seawater
by Damian Palin
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Music and emotion through time
by Michael Tilson Thomas
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My battle to expose government corruption
by Heather Brooke
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New ways to see music (with color! and fire!)
by Jared Ficklin
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Online video -- annotated, remixed and popped
by Ryan Merkley
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Play with smart materials
by Catarina Mota
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Print your own medicine
by Lee Cronin
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Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence
by Jonathan Haidt
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Robots that fly ... and cooperate
by Vijay Kumar
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Sculpting waves in wood and time
by Reuben Margolin
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Smart failure for a fast-changing world
by Eddie Obeng
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Strange answers to the psychopath test
by Jon Ronson
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Talk nerdy to me
by Melissa Marshall
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Teen wonders play bluegrass
by Sleepy Man Banjo Boys
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Terrorism is a failed brand
by Jason McCue
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Texting that saves lives
by Nancy Lublin
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The $8 billion iPod
by Rob Reid
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The 100,000-student classroom
by Peter Norvig
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The 4 commandments of cities
by Eduardo Paes
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The art of creating awe
by Rob Legato
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The clues to a great story
by Andrew Stanton
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The currency of the new economy is trust
by Rachel Botsman
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The Earth is full
by Paul Gilding
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The electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla
by Marco Tempest
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The game that can give you 10 extra years of life
by Jane McGonigal
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The global food waste scandal
by Tristram Stuart
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The journey across the high wire
by Philippe Petit
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The levitating superconductor
by Boaz Almog
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The mathematics of history
by Jean-Baptiste Michel
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The missing link to renewable energy
by Donald Sadoway
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The optimism bias
by Tali Sharot
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The Philosophical Breakfast Club
by Laura Snyder
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The power of introverts
by Susan Cain
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The promise of research with stem cells
by Susan Solomon
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The secret lives of paintings
by Maurizio Seracini
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The self-organizing computer course
by Shimon Schocken
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The shared wonder of film
by Baroness Beeban Kidron
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The tragedy of orphanages
by Georgette Mulheir
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The voices of China's workers
by Leslie T. Chang
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Tracking ancient diseases using ... plaque
by Christina Warinner
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Tracking our online trackers
by Gary Kovacs
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Use data to build better schools
by Andreas Schleicher
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We are all designers
by John Hockenberry
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We need to talk about an injustice
by Bryan Stevenson
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Weaving narratives in museum galleries
by Thomas P. Campbell
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What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe
by Ben Goldacre
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What fear can teach us
by Karen Thompson Walker
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What if our health care system kept us healthy?
by Rebecca Onie
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What we learned from teetering on the fiscal cliff
by Adam Davidson
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What we're learning from 5,000 brains
by Read Montague
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What we're learning from online education
by Daphne Koller
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What's left to explore?
by Nathan Wolfe
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What's so funny about mental illness?
by Ruby Wax
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Why I love vultures
by Munir Virani
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Why I must speak out about climate change
by James Hansen
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Why is 'x' the unknown?
by Terry Moore
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Your body language may shape who you are
by Amy Cuddy
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Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor
by Taylor Wilson
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