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Creativity, fulfillment and flow
Channel: TED
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Date: October 23, 2008
Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and la...
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A brief digression on matters of lost time
Channel: TED
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Date: October 21, 2008
Humorist John Hodgman rambles through a new story about aliens, physics, time, space and the way all of these somehow contribute to a sweet, perfe...
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Healing and other natural wonders
Channel: TED
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Date: October 17, 2008
Dean Ornish talks about simple, low-tech and low-cost ways to take advantage of the body’s natural desire to heal itself.
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Design and the elastic mind
Channel: TED
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Date: October 15, 2008
MOMA design curator Paola Antonelli previews the groundbreaking show "Design and the Elastic Mind" — full of products and designs that re...
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A beautiful new theory of everything
Channel: TED
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Date: October 14, 2008
Physicist and surfer Garrett Lisi presents a controversial new model of the universe that — just maybe -- answers all the big questions. ...
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Sound stylings by a human beatbox
Channel: TED
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Date: October 10, 2008
Human beatbox James "AudioPoet" Burchfield performs an intricate three-minute breakdown — sexy, propulsive hip-hop rhythms and turntable...
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The Web and the city
Channel: TED
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Date: October 08, 2008
Outside.in’s Steven Johnson says the Web is like a city: built by many people, completely controlled by no one, intricately interconnected and yet...
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Will videogames become better than life?
Channel: TED
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Date: October 06, 2008
Game designer David Perry says tomorrow’s videogames will be more than mere fun to the next generation of gamers. They'll be lush, comple...
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Architecture is a special effects machine
Channel: TED
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Date: October 02, 2008
In this engrossing EG talk, architect Liz Diller shares her firm DS+R’s more unusual work, including the Blur Building, whose walls are made of fo...
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Politics and religion are technologies
Channel: TED
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Date: October 01, 2008
Noah Feldman makes a searing case that both politics and religion — whatever their differences -- are similar technologies, designed...
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How robots will invade our lives
Channel: TED
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Date: September 29, 2008
In this prophetic talk from 2003, roboticist Rodney Brooks talks about how robots are going to work their way into our lives — starting ...
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Chalking it up to the blank slate
Channel: TED
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Date: September 26, 2008
Steven Pinker’s book The Blank Slate argues that all humans are born with some innate traits. Here, Pinker talks about his thesis, and why some pe...
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Come play with Pleo the dinosaur
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: September 25, 2008
Pleo the robot dinosaur acts like a living pet — exploring, cuddling, playing, reacting and learning. Inventor Caleb Chung talks about P...
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The power of saying thank you
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: September 24, 2008
In this deceptively simple 3-minute talk, Dr. Laura Trice muses on the power of the magic words "thank you" — to deepen a friendship, to...
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