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147 talks·145 with video·146 speakers·Vancouver, Canada·February 2016

"Music for Wood and Strings"
by Sō Percussion
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"Redemption Song"
by John Legend
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"St. James Infirmary Blues"
by Silk Road Ensemble
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"Turceasca"
by Silk Road Ensemble
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3 reasons why we can win the fight against poverty
by Andrew Youn
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4 reasons to learn a new language
by John McWhorter
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4 ways to build a human company in the age of machines
by Tim Leberecht
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5 ways to lead in an era of constant change
by Jim Hemerling
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A burial practice that nourishes the planet
by Caitlin Doughty
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A conservative's plea: Let's work together
by Arthur Brooks
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A doctor's case for medical marijuana
by David Casarett
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A forgotten Space Age technology could change how we grow food
by Lisa Dyson
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A futuristic vision of the age of holograms
by Alex Kipman
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A glimpse of the future through an augmented reality headset
by Meron Gribetz
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A highly scientific taxonomy of haters
by Negin Farsad
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A letter to all who have lost in this era
by Anand Giridharadas
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A new way to heal hearts without surgery
by Franz Freudenthal
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A new way to study the brain's invisible secrets
by Ed Boyden
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A project of peace, painted across 50 buildings
by eL Seed
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A queer vision of love and marriage
by Tiq Milan
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A small country with big ideas to get rid of fossil fuels
by Monica Araya
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A smart loan for people with no credit history (yet)
by Shivani Siroya
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A smarter, more precise way to think about public health
by Sue Desmond-Hellmann
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A tribute to nurses
by Carolyn Jones
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A young poet tells the story of Darfur
by Emtithal Mahmoud
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A young scientist's quest for clean water
by Deepika Kurup
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Adventures of an asteroid hunter
by Carrie Nugent
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America's forgotten working class
by J.D. Vance
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An artist's unflinching look at racial violence
by Sanford Biggers
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An entertainment icon on living a life of meaning
by Norman Lear
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An instrument anyone can play
by Tim Exile
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An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter
by Alicia Garza
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Architecture that's built to heal
by Michael Murphy
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Asking for help is a strength, not a weakness
by Michele L. Sullivan
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Buildings that blend nature and city
by Jeanne Gang
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Can a divided America heal?
by Jonathan Haidt
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Can we build AI without losing control over it?
by Sam Harris
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Can we end a culture of abandonment?
by Monica Johnson
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Clues to prehistoric times, found in blind cavefish
by Prosanta Chakrabarty
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Every piece of art you've ever wanted to see -- up close and searchable
by Amit Sood
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Finding a new frequency
by John Bidden
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Gene editing can now change an entire species -- forever
by Jennifer Kahn
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Help discover ancient ruins -- before it's too late
by Sarah Parcak
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How a start-up in the White House is changing business as usual
by Haley Van Dyck
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How Africa can keep rising
by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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How Airbnb designs for trust
by Joe Gebbia
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How barbershops can keep men healthy
by Joseph Ravenell
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How computers are learning to be creative
by Blaise Agüera y Arcas
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How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment
by Michael Shellenberger
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How free is our freedom of the press?
by Trevor Timm
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How I fail at being disabled
by Susan Robinson
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How judges can show respect
by Victoria Pratt
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How megacities are changing the map of the world
by Parag Khanna
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How online abuse of women has spiraled out of control
by Ashley Judd
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How racism harms pregnant women -- and what can help
by Miriam Zoila Pérez
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How Syria's architecture laid the foundation for brutal war
by Marwa Al-Sabouni
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How the blockchain is changing money and business
by Don Tapscott
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How to do more with less in healthcare
by Jan Denecker
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How to grow a forest in your backyard
by Shubhendu Sharma
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How trees talk to each other
by Suzanne Simard
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How we talk about sexual assault online
by Ione Wells
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How we're harnessing nature's hidden superpowers
by Oded Shoseyov
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How women wage conflict without violence
by Julia Bacha
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How young Africans found a voice on Twitter
by Siyanda Mohutsiwa
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How your brain decides what is beautiful
by Anjan Chatterjee
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Hunting for dinosaurs showed me our place in the universe
by Kenneth Lacovara
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Ideas worth dating
by Rainn Wilson
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Immigrant voices make democracy stronger
by Sayu Bhojwani
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Insightful human portraits made from data
by R. Luke DuBois
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Interconnectivity: the new structure of the world economy
by Min Zhu
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Islamophobia killed my brother. Let's end the hate
by Suzanne Barakat
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It's time for women to run for office
by Halla Tómasdóttir
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It's time to reclaim religion
by Sharon Brous
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Machine intelligence makes human morals more important
by Zeynep Tufekci
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My love letter to cosplay
by Adam Savage
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My year of saying yes to everything
by Shonda Rhimes
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Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it
by Emma Marris
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Pirates, nurses and other rebel designers
by Alice Rawsthorn
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Pollution-free lights, powered by microbes
by Sandra Rey
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Say your truths and seek them in others
by Elizabeth Lesser
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Science didn't understand my kids' rare disease until I decided to study it
by Sharon Terry
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Stories from a home for terminally ill children
by Kathy Hull
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Teach girls bravery, not perfection
by Reshma Saujani
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The beauty of human skin in every color
by Angélica Dass
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The beauty of what we'll never know
by Pico Iyer
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The birth of virtual reality as an art form
by Chris Milk
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The case for optimism on climate change
by Al Gore
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The Chinese zodiac, explained
by ShaoLan Hsueh
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The dark and delicate rumble of Russian piano music
by Naufal Mukumi
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The data behind Hollywood's sexism
by Stacy Smith
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The deadly legacy of cluster bombs
by Laura Boushnak
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The dream we haven't dared to dream
by Dan Pallotta
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The era of personal DNA testing is here
by Sebastian Kraves
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The future of money
by Neha Narula
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The Housing First approach to homelessness
by Lloyd Pendleton
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The inside story of the Paris climate agreement
by Christiana Figueres
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The jobs we'll lose to machines -- and the ones we won't
by Anthony Goldbloom
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The mind behind Linux
by Linus Torvalds
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The new American Dream
by Courtney E. Martin
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The next manufacturing revolution is here
by Olivier Scalabre
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The nit-picking glory of The New Yorker's Comma Queen
by Mary Norris
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The passing of time, caught in a single photo
by Stephen Wilkes
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The racial politics of time
by Brittney Cooper
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The risky politics of progress
by Jonathan Tepperman
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The surprising habits of original thinkers
by Adam Grant
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The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure
by Astro Teller
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The unexpected challenges of a country's first election
by Philippa Neave
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The urgency of intersectionality
by Kimberlé Crenshaw
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The world doesn't need more nuclear weapons
by Erika Gregory
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There's no such thing as not voting
by Eric Liu
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This app makes it fun to pick up litter
by Jeff Kirschner
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This country isn't just carbon neutral -- it's carbon negative
by Tshering Tobgay
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This is your brain on communication
by Uri Hasson
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This scientist makes ears out of apples
by Andrew Pelling
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To the beat of light
by Hays Holladay
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Uber's plan to get more people into fewer cars
by Travis Kalanick
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Want to get ahead? Be paranoid
by Lars Fæste
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We are not mud
by Ise Lyfe
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We can fight terror without sacrificing our rights
by Rebecca MacKinnon
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We need nuclear power to solve climate change
by Joe Lassiter
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We've stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers
by Rachel Botsman
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What a driverless world could look like
by Wanis Kabbaj
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What can we learn from shortcuts?
by Tom Hulme
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What does it mean to be a citizen of the world?
by Hugh Evans
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What happens when you have a disease doctors can't diagnose
by Jennifer Brea
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What if the best fertilizer was an algorithm?
by Laxmi Parida
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What if we could address the unaddressable?
by Mario Paluzzi
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What it's like to be Muslim in America
by Dalia Mogahed
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What reality are you creating for yourself?
by Isaac Lidsky
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What really motivates people to be honest in business
by Alexander Wagner
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What the discovery of gravitational waves means
by Allan Adams
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What we don't know about mother's milk
by Katie Hinde
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What will you tell your daughters about 2016?
by Chinaka Hodge
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What you need to know about CRISPR
by Ellen Jorgensen
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When goods cross borders, armies stay home
by Romaine Seguin
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Why gun violence can't be our new normal
by Dan Gross
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Why I keep speaking up, even when people mock my accent
by Safwat Saleem
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Why must artists be poor?
by Hadi Eldebek
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Why some people are more altruistic than others
by Abigail Marsh
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Why teens confess to crimes they didn't commit
by Lindsay Malloy
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Why women should tell the stories of humanity
by Jude Kelly
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Why you should love statistics
by Alan Smith
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You smell with your body, not just your nose
by Jennifer Pluznick
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Your company's data could help end world hunger
by Mallory Freeman
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Your smartphone is a civil rights issue
by Christopher Soghoian
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"Space Oddity"
by Amanda Palmer
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A visual history of social dance in 25 moves
by Camille A. Brown
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"Space Oddity"

A visual history of social dance in 25 moves