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Ways of seeing
Channel: TED
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Date: January 12, 2009
Rob Forbes, the founder of Design Within Reach, shows a gallery of snapshots that inform his way of seeing the world. Charming juxtapositions, fou...
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How calculus is changing architecture
Channel: TED
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Date: January 09, 2009
Greg Lynn talks about the mathematical roots of architecture — and how calculus and digital tools allow modern designers to move beyond t...
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Take a ride in the Skycar
Channel: TED
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Date: January 08, 2009
Paul Moller talks about the future of personal air travel — the marriage of autos and flight that will give us true freedom to travel off...
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What can fossils teach us?
Channel: TED
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Date: January 07, 2009
Strange landscapes, scorching heat and (sometimes) mad crocodiles await scientists seeking clues to evolution’s genius. Paleontologist Paul Sereno...
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Kary Mullis celebrates the experiment
Channel: TED
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Date: January 05, 2009
Biochemist Kary Mullis talks about the basis of modern science: the experiment. Sharing tales from the 17th century and from his own backyard-rocke...
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Steven Strogatz on sync
Channel: TED
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Date: December 22, 2008
Mathematician Steven Strogatz shows how flocks of creatures (like birds, fireflies and fish) manage to synchronize and act as a unit — w...
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Life on Mars? Let’s look in the caves
Channel: TED
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Date: December 18, 2008
So the Mars Rovers didn’t scoop up any alien lifeforms. Scientist Penelope Boston thinks there's a good chance — a 25 to 50 perc...
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Does happiness have a price tag?
Channel: TED
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Date: December 17, 2008
Can happiness be bought? To find out, author Benjamin Wallace sampled the world’s most expensive products, including a bottle of 1947 Chateau Chev...
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Jay Walker’s library of human imagination
Channel: TED
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Date: December 15, 2008
Jay Walker, curator of the Library of Human Imagination, conducts a surprising show-and-tell session highlighting a few of the intriguing artifact...
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Where have the bees gone?
Channel: TED
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Date: December 11, 2008
Bees are dying in droves. Why? Leading apiarist Dennis vanEngelsdorp looks at the gentle, misunderstood creature’s important place in nature and t...
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Leveraging big ideas to make change
Channel: TED
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Date: December 10, 2008
Michael Milken talks about using your own particular set of skills to make real change in the world. In his case, the energetic mind that once cre...
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The playful search for beauty
Channel: TED
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Date: December 09, 2008
The ceramics designer Eva Zeisel looks back on a 75-year career. What keeps her work as fresh today (her latest line debuted in 2008) as in 1926? H...
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The stories and song of Appalachia
Channel: TED
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Date: December 08, 2008
Folk musician and storyteller David Holt plays the banjo and shares photographs and old wisdom from the Appalachian Mountains. He also demonstrates...
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Nick Sears demos the Orb
Channel: TED
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Date: December 05, 2008
Inventor Nick Sears demos the first generation of the Orb, a rotating persistence-of-vision display that creates glowing 3D images. A short, cool ...
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Reinventing the car
Channel: TED
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Date: December 04, 2008
General Motors veep Larry Burns previews cool next-gen car design: sleek, customizable (and computer-enhanced) vehicles that run clean on hydrogen...
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Second Life, where anything is possible
Channel: TED
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Date: December 03, 2008
Why build a virtual world? Philip Rosedale talks about the virtual society he founded, Second Life, and its underpinnings in human creativity. It’...
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Climbing the world’s biggest trees
Channel: TED
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Date: December 02, 2008
Science writer Richard Preston talks about some of the most enormous living beings on the planet, the giant trees of the US Pacific Northwest. Gro...
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The coming neurological epidemic
Channel: TED
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Date: December 01, 2008
Biochemist Gregory Petsko makes a convincing argument that, in the next 50 years, we’ll see an epidemic of neurological diseases, such as Alzheime...
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