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Photography connects us with the world
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: August 19, 2008
The photo director for National Geographic, David Griffin knows the power of photography to connect us to our world. In a talk filled with gloriou...
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Origami, blindfolded and to music
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: August 01, 2008
After Robert Lang’s talk on origami at TED2008, Bruno Bowden stepped onstage with a challenge — he would fold one of Lang's ast...
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Idea + square = origami
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: July 31, 2008
Robert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami — using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs t...
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Making a computer that works like the brain
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: July 30, 2008
Researcher Kwabena Boahen is looking for ways to mimic the brain’s supercomputing powers in silicon — because the messy, redundant proce...
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Architecture, modern and romantic
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: July 28, 2008
Reed Kroloff gives us a new lens for judging new architecture: is it modern, or is it romantic? Look for glorious images from two leading practice...
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The wonders of Zulu wire art
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: July 25, 2008
In this short, image-packed talk, Marisa Fick-Jordan talks about how a village of traditional Zulu wire weavers built a worldwide market for their...
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The art of collecting stories
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: July 24, 2008
At the EG conference in December 2007, artist Jonathan Harris discusses his latest projects, which involve collecting stories: his own, strangers&...
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Digging for humanity’s origins
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: July 23, 2008
Louise Leakey asks, "Who are we?" The question takes her to the Rift Valley in Eastern Africa, where she digs for the evolutionary origins of huma...
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Your brain is badly wired — enjoy it!
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: July 22, 2008
Al Seckel, a cognitive neuroscientist, explores the perceptual illusions that fool our brains. Loads of eye tricks help him prove that not only ar...
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How juries are fooled by statistics
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: July 22, 2008
Oxford mathematician Peter Donnelly reveals the common mistakes humans make in interpreting statistics — and the devastating impact these...
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Telling stories of our shared humanity
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: July 22, 2008
Chris Abani tells stories of people: People standing up to soldiers. People being compassionate. People being human and reclaiming their humanity. ...
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Brain magic
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: July 18, 2008
First, Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies — in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in...
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My year of living biblically
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: July 17, 2008
Speaking at the most recent EG conference, author, philosopher, prankster and journalist A.J. Jacobs talks about the year he spent living biblical...
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Technology, faith and human shortcomings
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: July 16, 2008
Speaking at TED in 1998, Rev. Billy Graham marvels at technology’s power to improve lives and change the world — but says the end of evi...
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The brain in love
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: July 15, 2008
Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love,...
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"Mother of Pearl" and "If I Had You"
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: July 11, 2008
The wonderful Nellie McKay sings "Mother of Pearl" (with the immortal first line "Feminists don’t have a sense of humor") and "If I Had You" from h...
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Institutions vs. collaboration
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: July 10, 2008
In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big ...
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How would you feel if you lost everything?
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: July 09, 2008
Nine days before TED2008, filmmaker David Hoffman lost almost everything he owned in a fire that destroyed his home, office and 30 years of passio...
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