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TED 2012
All talks at TED 2012
111 talks
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111 with video
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109 speakers
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Long Beach, United States
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February 2012
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(Re)touching lives through photos
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Becci Manson
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3 ways to (usefully) lose control of your brand
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Tim Leberecht
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4 lessons in creativity
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Julie Burstein
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404, the story of a page not found
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Renny Gleeson
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A 50-cent microscope that folds like origami
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Manu Prakash
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A choreographer's creative process in real time
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Wayne McGregor
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A cinematic journey through visual effects
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Don Levy
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A father-daughter bond, one photo at a time
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Steven Addis
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A magical tale (with augmented reality)
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Marco Tempest
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A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really.
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Miguel Nicolelis
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A Navy Admiral's thoughts on global security
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James Stavridis
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A new museum wing ... in a giant bubble
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Elizabeth Diller
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A tale of mental illness -- from the inside
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Elyn Saks
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A young guitarist meets his hero
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Preston Reed
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Abundance is our future
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Peter Diamandis
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Actually, the world isn't flat
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Pankaj Ghemawat
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Archaeology from space
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Sarah Parcak
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Are we over-medicalized?
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Ivan Oransky
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Behind the Great Firewall of China
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Michael Anti
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Between music and medicine
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Robert Gupta
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Beware neuro-bunk
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Molly Crockett
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Biohacking -- you can do it, too
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Ellen Jorgensen
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Building blocks that blink, beep and teach
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Ayah Bdeir
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Building unimaginable shapes
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Michael Hansmeyer
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Building US-China relations ... by banjo
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Abigail Washburn
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Building Your Creative Confidence
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David Kelley
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Can democracy exist without trust?
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Ivan Krastev
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Connected, but alone?
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Sherry Turkle
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Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine?
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Nina Tandon
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Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is.
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Chip Kidd
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Discover the physical side of the internet
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Andrew Blum
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Everyday moments, caught in time
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Billy Collins
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Forget multitasking, try monotasking
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Paolo Cardini
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Four principles for the open world
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Don Tapscott
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From mach-20 glider to hummingbird drone
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Regina Dugan
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How art, technology and design inform creative leaders
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John Maeda
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How can technology transform the human body?
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Lucy McRae
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How common threats can make common (political) ground
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Jonathan Haidt
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How do we heal medicine?
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Atul Gawande
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How I beat a patent troll
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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
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Alanna Shaikh
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How open data is changing international aid
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Sanjay Pradhan
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How we can eat our landscapes
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Pam Warhurst
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I listen to color
by
Neil Harbisson
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Imaging at a trillion frames per second
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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
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John Wilbanks
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Let's prepare for our new climate
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Vicki Arroyo
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Let's transform energy -- with natural gas
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T. Boone Pickens
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Listening to shame
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Brené Brown
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Love letters to strangers
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Hannah Brencher
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Mental health for all by involving all
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Vikram Patel
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Mining minerals from seawater
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Damian Palin
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Music and emotion through time
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Michael Tilson Thomas
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My battle to expose government corruption
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Heather Brooke
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New ways to see music (with color! and fire!)
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Jared Ficklin
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Online video -- annotated, remixed and popped
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Ryan Merkley
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Play with smart materials
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Catarina Mota
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Print your own medicine
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Lee Cronin
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Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence
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Jonathan Haidt
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Robots that fly ... and cooperate
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Vijay Kumar
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Sculpting waves in wood and time
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Reuben Margolin
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Smart failure for a fast-changing world
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Eddie Obeng
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Strange answers to the psychopath test
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Jon Ronson
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Talk nerdy to me
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Melissa Marshall
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Teen wonders play bluegrass
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Sleepy Man Banjo Boys
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Terrorism is a failed brand
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Jason McCue
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Texting that saves lives
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Nancy Lublin
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The $8 billion iPod
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Rob Reid
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The 100,000-student classroom
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Peter Norvig
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The 4 commandments of cities
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Eduardo Paes
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The art of creating awe
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Rob Legato
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The clues to a great story
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Andrew Stanton
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The currency of the new economy is trust
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Rachel Botsman
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The Earth is full
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Paul Gilding
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The electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla
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Marco Tempest
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The game that can give you 10 extra years of life
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Jane McGonigal
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The global food waste scandal
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Tristram Stuart
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The journey across the high wire
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Philippe Petit
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The levitating superconductor
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Boaz Almog
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The mathematics of history
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Jean-Baptiste Michel
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The missing link to renewable energy
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Donald Sadoway
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The optimism bias
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Tali Sharot
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The Philosophical Breakfast Club
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Laura Snyder
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The power of introverts
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Susan Cain
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The promise of research with stem cells
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Susan Solomon
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The secret lives of paintings
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Maurizio Seracini
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The self-organizing computer course
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Shimon Schocken
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The shared wonder of film
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Baroness Beeban Kidron
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The tragedy of orphanages
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Georgette Mulheir
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The voices of China's workers
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Leslie T. Chang
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Tracking ancient diseases using ... plaque
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Christina Warinner
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Tracking our online trackers
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Gary Kovacs
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Use data to build better schools
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Andreas Schleicher
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We are all designers
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John Hockenberry
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We need to talk about an injustice
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Bryan Stevenson
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Weaving narratives in museum galleries
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Thomas P. Campbell
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What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe
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Ben Goldacre
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What fear can teach us
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Karen Thompson Walker
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What if our health care system kept us healthy?
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Rebecca Onie
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What we learned from teetering on the fiscal cliff
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Adam Davidson
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What we're learning from 5,000 brains
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Read Montague
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What we're learning from online education
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Daphne Koller
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What's left to explore?
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Nathan Wolfe
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What's so funny about mental illness?
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Ruby Wax
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Why I love vultures
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Munir Virani
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Why I must speak out about climate change
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James Hansen
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Why is 'x' the unknown?
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Terry Moore
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Your body language may shape who you are
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Amy Cuddy
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Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor
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Taylor Wilson
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