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157 talks·156 with video·157 speakers·Long Beach, United States·February 2013

10 top time-saving tech tips
by David Pogue
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3 reasons we still haven’t gotten rid of malaria
by Sonia Shah
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3 rules to spark learning
by Ramsey Musallam
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4 pillars of college success in science
by Freeman A. Hrabowski III
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A 3D-printed jumbo jet?
by Bastian Schaefer
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A bold new way to fund drug research
by Roger Stein
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A clean energy proposal -- race to the top!
by Jennifer Granholm
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A drone's-eye view of conservation
by Lian Pin Koh
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A little-told tale of sex and sensuality
by Shereen El Feki
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A mini robot -- powered by your phone
by Keller Rinaudo
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A new vision for rebuilding Detroit
by Toni Griffin
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A promising test for pancreatic cancer ... from a teenager
by Jack Andraka
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A Saudi woman who dared to drive
by Manal al-Sharif
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A tale of two political systems
by Eric X. Li
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A word game to communicate in any language
by Ajit Narayanan
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Adventures in Twitter fiction
by Andrew Fitzgerald
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Agile programming -- for your family
by Bruce Feiler
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An ode to envy
by Parul Sehgal
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Anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon
by Bob Mankoff
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Architecture at home in its community
by Xavier Vilalta
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Architecture for the people by the people
by Alastair Parvin
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Are we designed to be sexual omnivores?
by Christopher Ryan
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Are you technically fit to parent?
by Michael Fey
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Art that craves your attention
by Aparna Rao
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As work gets more complex, 6 rules to simplify
by Yves Morieux
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Bitcoin. Sweat. Tide. Meet the future of branded currency.
by Paul Kemp-Robertson
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Bluegrass virtuosity from ... New Jersey?
by Sleepy Man Banjo Boys
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Build a School in the Cloud
by Sugata Mitra
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Can the damaged brain repair itself?
by Siddharthan Chandran
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Can we all "have it all"?
by Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Cloudy with a chance of joy
by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
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Collective cooperation in the social sector
by Wendy Wood
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Could future devices read images from our brains?
by Mary Lou Jepsen
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Could we speak the language of dolphins?
by Denise Herzing
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Crowd-sourced investing
by Hu Liang
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Demo: A needle-free vaccine patch that's safer and way cheaper
by Mark Kendall
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Design for all 5 senses
by Jinsop Lee
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Design with the blind in mind
by Chris Downey
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Designing materials one atom at a time
by Sadasivan Shankar
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Ecology from the air
by Greg Asner
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Embrace the shake
by Phil Hansen
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Everyday cybercrime -- and what you can do about it
by James Lyne
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For more wonder, rewild the world
by George Monbiot
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Got a wicked problem? First, tell me how you make toast
by Tom Wujec
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Government -- investor, risk-taker, innovator
by Mariana Mazzucato
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Government surveillance — this is just the beginning
by Christopher Soghoian
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Hack a banana, make a keyboard!
by Jay Silver
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Health care should be a team sport
by Eric Dishman
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How an obese town lost a million pounds
by Mick Cornett
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How books can open your mind
by Lisa Bu
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How data will transform business
by Philip Evans
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How I made an impossible film
by Martin Villeneuve
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How I named, shamed and jailed
by Anas Aremeyaw Anas
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How reliable is your memory?
by Elizabeth Loftus
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How societies can grow old better
by Jared Diamond
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How to make stress your friend
by Kelly McGonigal
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How to save the world (or at least yourself) from bad meetings
by David Grady
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How we found the giant squid
by Edith Widder
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I got 99 problems ... palsy is just one
by Maysoon Zayid
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If cars could talk, accidents might be avoidable
by Jennifer Healey
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In search of the man who broke my neck
by Joshua Prager
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Ingenious homes in unexpected places
by Iwan Baan
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Ingenuity and elegance in ancient African alphabets
by Saki Mafundikwa
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Iran and Israel: Peace is possible
by Trita Parsi
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Learn to read Chinese ... with ease!
by ShaoLan Hsueh
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Leather and meat without killing animals
by Andras Forgacs
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Let's go all-in on selling sustainability
by Steve Howard
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Let’s try emotional correctness
by Sally Kohn
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Life in the "digital now"
by Abha Dawesar
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Life that doesn't end with death
by Kelli Swazey
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Love, no matter what
by Andrew Solomon
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Making a difference in the world
by Alison Quirk
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Mapping ideas worth spreading
by Eric Berlow
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Massively multi-player… thumb-wrestling?
by Jane McGonigal
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Meet a young entrepreneur, cartoonist, designer, activist ...
by Maya Penn
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Meet BRCK, Internet access built for Africa
by Juliana Rotich
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Meet global corruption's hidden players
by Charmian Gooch
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My invention that made peace with lions
by Richard Turere
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My journey to yo-yo mastery
by BLACK
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My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors
by Taylor Wilson
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My story, from gangland daughter to star teacher
by Pearl Arredondo
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My underwater robot
by David Lang
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Never, ever give up
by Diana Nyad
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Photos from a storm chaser
by Camille Seaman
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Protecting privacy at Twitter
by Del Harvey
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Reach into the computer and grab a pixel
by Jinha Lee
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Sanitation is a basic human right
by Francis de los Reyes
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So we leaned in ... now what?
by Sheryl Sandberg
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Sound and sentiment
by Mira Calix
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Synthetic voices, as unique as fingerprints
by Rupal Patel
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Teach teachers how to create magic
by Christopher Emdin
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The art of asking
by Amanda Palmer
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The best computer interface? Maybe ... your hands
by James Patten
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The birds and the bees are just the beginning
by Carin Bondar
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The corporation as agent of cultural fusion
by Makiko Eda
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The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?
by Stewart Brand
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The death of innovation, the end of growth
by Robert J. Gordon
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The doubt essential to faith
by Lesley Hazleton
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The emergence of "4D printing"
by Skylar Tibbits
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The fastest ambulance? A motorcycle
by Eli Beer
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The good news on poverty (Yes, there's good news)
by Bono
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The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B
by Danny Hillis
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The interspecies internet? An idea in progress
by Diana Reiss
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The invisible man
by Liu Bolin
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The key to growth? Race with the machines
by Erik Brynjolfsson
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The link between unemployment and terrorism
by Mohamed Ali
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The magic of Fibonacci numbers
by Arthur Benjamin
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The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity ...
by Elon Musk
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The museum of you
by Jake Barton
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The paralyzed rat that walked
by Grégoire Courtine
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The polyphonic me
by Beardyman
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The rise of the new global super-rich
by Chrystia Freeland
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The secret to desire in a long-term relationship
by Esther Perel
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The silent drama of photography
by Sebastião Salgado
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The upside of data
by Jessica Donohue
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The voice of the natural world
by Bernie Krause
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The voices in my head
by Eleanor Longden
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The walkable city
by Jeff Speck
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The way we think about charity is dead wrong
by Dan Pallotta
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The why and how of effective altruism
by Peter Singer
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Thriving in an overconnected world
by Leslie Perlow
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To hear this music you have to be there. Literally
by Ryan Holladay
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Txtng is killing language. JK!!!
by John McWhorter
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Using the Super Bowl to give back
by Joe Davis
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Virtual Choir Live
by Eric Whitacre
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Want to be an activist? Start with your toys
by McKenna Pope
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Want to be happy? Be grateful
by David Steindl-Rast
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We need a heroic narrative for death
by Amanda Bennett
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We need money for aid. So let’s print it.
by Michael Metcalfe
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We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim
by Lawrence Lessig
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We're covered in germs. Let's design for that.
by Jessica Green
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Welcome to the age of the industrial internet
by Marco Annunziata
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What happened when I open-sourced my brain cancer
by Salvatore Iaconesi
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What I discovered in New York City trash
by Robin Nagle
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What I learned from Nelson Mandela
by Boyd Varty
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What will a future without secrets look like?
by Alessandro Acquisti
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What will future jobs look like?
by Andrew McAfee
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Where is home?
by Pico Iyer
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Who am I? Think again
by Hetain Patel
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Why 30 is not the new 20
by Meg Jay
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Why buses represent democracy in action
by Enrique Peñalosa
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Why dieting doesn't usually work
by Sandra Aamodt
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Why good hackers make good citizens
by Catherine Bracy
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Why Google Glass?
by Sergey Brin
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Why machines must make us better humans
by Steve Brown
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Why massive open online courses (still) matter
by Anant Agarwal
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Why ordinary people need to understand power
by Eric Liu
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Why people need poetry
by Stephen Burt
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Why science demands a leap into the unknown
by Uri Alon
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Why stay in Chernobyl? Because it's home.
by Holly Morris
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Why we need strangeness
by Maria Bezaitis
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Why we should build wooden skyscrapers
by Michael Green
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Why we shouldn't trust markets with our civic life
by Michael Sandel
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Why we will rely on robots
by Rodney Brooks
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You don't need an app for that
by Toby Shapshak
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Your Online Life: Permanent as a Tattoo
by Juan Enriquez
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How much does a video weigh?
by Michael Stevens
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