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164 talks·164 with video·163 speakers·Vancouver, Canada·March 2014

3 ways to speak English
by Jamila Lyiscott
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4 lessons I learned from taking a stand against drugs and gun violence
by Ilona Szabó de Carvalho
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5 ways to kill your dreams
by Bel Pesce
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A 30-year history of the future
by Nicholas Negroponte
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A glimpse of life on the road
by Kitra Cahana
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A magical search for a coincidence
by Helder Guimarães
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A Magna Carta for the web
by Tim Berners-Lee
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A millennial's proposal for a happy multigenerational workplace
by Patrice Thompson
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A neural portrait of the human mind
by Nancy Kanwisher
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A vision for truly secure and seamless transactions
by Carey Kolaja
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An engineer's vision for tiny forests, everywhere
by Shubhendu Sharma
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And for my next trick, a robot
by Marco Tempest
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Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger?
by David Epstein
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Are you human?
by Ze Frank
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Autism — what we know (and what we don't know yet)
by Wendy Chung
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Be an opportunity maker
by Kare Anderson
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
by Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly
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Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming
by Nick Hanauer
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Big data is better data
by Kenneth Cukier
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Brain-to-brain communication has arrived. How we did it
by Miguel Nicolelis
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Business model innovation: beating yourself at your own game
by Stefan Gross-Selbeck
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Can prejudice ever be a good thing?
by Paul Bloom
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Can we prevent the end of the world?
by Martin Rees
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Color blind or color brave?
by Mellody Hobson
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Comics that ask "what if?"
by Randall Munroe
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Crop insurance, an idea worth seeding
by Rose Goslinga
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Depressed dogs, cats with OCD — what animal madness means for us humans
by Laurel Braitman
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Don't ask where I'm from, ask where I'm a local
by Taiye Selasi
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Don't like clickbait? Don't click
by Sally Kohn
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Feeding the future
by Jack Sinclair
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Fighters and mourners of the Ukrainian revolution
by Anastasia Taylor-Lind
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For more tolerance, we need more ... tourism?
by Aziz Abu Sarah
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For these women, reading is a daring act
by Laura Boushnak
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From Beethoven to Kinect, linking music to our bodies
by Peter Kirn
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Get ready for hybrid thinking
by Ray Kurzweil
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Get your next eye exam on a smartphone
by Andrew Bastawrous
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Go ahead, make up new words!
by Erin McKean
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Graphene: the impressive 2D material full of potential
by Mikael Fogelstrom
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Hackers: the Internet's immune system
by Keren Elazari
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Happy maps
by Daniele Quercia
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Here's how we take back the Internet
by Edward Snowden
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Hidden miracles of the natural world
by Louie Schwartzberg
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Hidden music rituals around the world
by Naná Vasconcelos
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How animations can help scientists test a hypothesis
by Janet Iwasa
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How augmented reality will change sports ... and build empathy
by Chris Kluwe
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How autism freed me to be myself
by Rogie King
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How better transportation can reinvigorate a city
by Antonella Mei-Pochtler
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How can companies continue to thrive in times of change?
by Patrick Forth
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How can we give our kids a brighter future?
by Richard Neville
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How do you explain consciousness?
by David Chalmers
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How does the brain work in everyday situations?
by Tan Le
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How giant websites design for you (and a billion others, too)
by Margaret Gould Stewart
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How I started writing songs again
by Sting
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How I work to protect women from honor killings
by Khalida Brohi
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How IBM's Watson is redefining the future of cooking
by Florian Pinel
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How sampling transformed music
by Mark Ronson
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How synchronized hammer strikes could generate nuclear fusion
by Michel Laberge
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How the teddy bear taught us compassion
by Jon Mooallem
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How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are
by Andrew Solomon
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How to achieve more quality hospital care (with less noise)
by Inhi Cho Suh
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How to go to space, without having to go to space
by Angelo Vermeulen
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How to let altruism be your guide
by Matthieu Ricard
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How to live passionately—no matter your age
by Isabel Allende
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How to make hard choices
by Ruth Chang
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How to protect fast-growing cities from failing
by Robert Muggah
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How to reinvent the apartment building
by Moshe Safdie
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How to run a company with (almost) no rules
by Ricardo Semler
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How to upgrade democracy for the Internet era
by Pia Mancini
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I am the son of a terrorist. Here's how I chose peace.
by Zak Ebrahim
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In praise of macro -- yes, macro -- finance in Africa
by Sangu Delle
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Is religion good or bad? (This is a trick question)
by Kwame Anthony Appiah
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It’s our city. Let’s fix it
by Alessandra Orofino
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It's TED, the Musical
by The TED Staff
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Let's save the last pristine continent
by Robert Swan
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Megatrends -- 5 tips on the art and science of trend tracking
by Alison Sander
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Micro-power plants to bring electricity to millions
by Anil Raj
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My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the process
by Alejandro Aravena
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My daughter, Malala
by Ziauddin Yousafzai
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My father, locked in his body but soaring free
by Kitra Cahana
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My life in typefaces
by Matthew Carter
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My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe
by Kenneth Shinozuka
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My wish: To launch a new era of openness in business
by Charmian Gooch
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New thoughts on capital in the twenty-first century
by Thomas Piketty
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Not good with names: Local name customs in a global village
by Cynthia Ma Shwe Sin Win
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Online social change: easy to organize, hard to win
by Zeynep Tufekci
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Photos that give voice to the animal kingdom
by Frans Lanting
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Protecting Twitter users (sometimes from themselves)
by Del Harvey
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Restoring hope and dignity to the justice system
by Alexander McLean
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Sculptures that’d be at home in the deep sea
by Shih Chieh Huang
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Should you donate differently?
by Joy Sun
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Should you live for your résumé ... or your eulogy?
by David Brooks
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Social maps that reveal a city's intersections — and separations
by Dave Troy
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Solving the sanitation crisis
by John Kluge Jr.
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Success, failure and the drive to keep creating
by Elizabeth Gilbert
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The art of stillness
by Pico Iyer
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The beauty and diversity of Muslim life
by Bassam Tariq
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The Big Pivot
by Andrew Winston
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The boiling river of the Amazon
by Andrés Ruzo
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The bridge between suicide and life
by Kevin Briggs
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The coming crisis in antibiotics
by Ramanan Laxminarayan
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The complex relationship between data and design in UX
by Rochelle King
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The courage to tell a hidden story
by Eman Mohammed
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The danger of silence
by Clint Smith
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The dark secrets of a surveillance state
by Hubertus Knabe
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The day I stood up alone
by Boniface Mwangi
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The discovery that could rewrite physics
by Allan Adams
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The emergent patterns of climate change
by Gavin Schmidt
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The ethics of collecting data
by Marie Wallace
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The future of early cancer detection?
by Jorge Soto
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The future of economic success is collaborative
by Jay Cousins
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The leaders who ruined Africa, and the generation who can fix it
by Fred Swaniker
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The military case for sharing knowledge
by Stanley McChrystal
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The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance
by Hugh Herr
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The NSA responds to Edward Snowden's TED Talk
by Richard Ledgett
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The power of imagination: Lessons from Shakespeare
by John Bolton
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The power of self-acceptance
by Harry Baker
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The power of transformative collaboration
by Keith Weed
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The problem with "trickle-down techonomics"
by Jon Gosier
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The psychology of your future self
by Dan Gilbert
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The secrets of nature's grossest creatures, channeled into robots
by Robert Full
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The shocking move to criminalize nonviolent protest
by Will Potter
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The sky is not the limit -- why investing in space still matters
by Karin Nilsdotter
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The sore problem of prosthetic limbs
by David Sengeh
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The unstoppable walk to political reform
by Lawrence Lessig
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The way we think about work is broken
by Barry Schwartz
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The workforce crisis of 2030 -- and how to start solving it now
by Rainer Strack
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There’s a better way to die, and architecture can help
by Alison Killing
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Think your email's private? Think again
by Andy Yen
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This gel can make you stop bleeding instantly
by Joe Landolina
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This telescope might show us the beginning of the universe
by Wendy Freedman
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Tiny satellites show us the Earth as it changes in near-real-time
by Will Marshall
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To solve mass violence, look to locals
by Severine Autesserre
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To the South Pole and back — the hardest 105 days of my life
by Ben Saunders
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Two poems about what dogs think (probably)
by Billy Collins
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Want to innovate? Become a "now-ist"
by Joi Ito
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Watch what you dispose of
by Rania Bahaa
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We don't need immigration caps. We need minimums
by Timothy Graf
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What ants teach us about the brain, cancer and the Internet
by Deborah Gordon
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What does the future hold? 11 characters offer quirky answers
by Sarah Jones
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What I learned from going blind in space
by Chris Hadfield
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What I learned from spending 31 days underwater
by Fabien Cousteau
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What makes us get sick? Look upstream
by Rishi Manchanda
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What new power looks like
by Jeremy Heimans
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What the people of the Amazon know that you don't
by Mark Plotkin
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What your doctor won’t disclose
by Leana Wen
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What's next in 3D printing
by Avi Reichental
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When will I get my water next?
by Anu Sridharan
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Where are our digital ads really going?
by Kristi Rogers
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Where's Google going next?
by Larry Page
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Which country does the most good for the world?
by Simon Anholt
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Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done
by Melinda Gates
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Why good leaders make you feel safe
by Simon Sinek
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Why I make robots the size of a grain of rice
by Sarah Bergbreiter
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Why I take the piano on the road ... and in the air
by Daria van den Bercken
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Why lunch ladies are heroes
by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
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Why privacy matters
by Glenn Greenwald
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Why the buildings of the future will be shaped by ... you
by Marc Kushner
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Why veterans miss war
by Sebastian Junger
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Why we hire "unemployable" people
by Mike Brady
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Why we need to end the War on Drugs
by Ethan Nadelmann
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Why we should trust scientists
by Naomi Oreskes
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Why you should care about whale poo
by Asha de Vos
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Wry photos that turn stereotypes upside down
by Uldus Bakhtiozina
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Yes, I survived cancer. But that doesn't define me
by Debra Jarvis
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