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On the verge of creating synthetic life
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Date: June 24, 2008
"Can we create new life out of our digital universe?" Craig Venter asks. His answer is "yes" — an...
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A guided tour of the Ghost Map
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Author Steven Johnson takes us on a 10-minute tour of The Ghost Map, his book about a cholera outbreak in 1854 London and the impact it had on sci...
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Technology’s Long Tail
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Chris Anderson, the editor of WIRED, explores the four key stages of any viable technology: setting the right price, gaining market share, displac...
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An atheist’s call to arms
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Richard Dawkins urges all atheists to openly state their position — and to fight the incursion of the church into politics and science. A...
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Why we age and how we can avoid it
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease — and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways...
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What’s wrong with what we eat
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what’s wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few pl...
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The lost art of letter-writing
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Lakshmi Pratury remembers the lost art of letter-writing and shares a series of notes her father wrote to her before he died. Her short but heartfe...
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The paradox of choice
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz’s estimation, choice has made us not...
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Slowing down in a world built for speed
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Journalist Carl Honore believes the Western world’s emphasis on speed erodes health, productivity and quality of life. But there's a back...
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What we can learn from spaghetti sauce
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry’s pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce — and makes a larger argumen...
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Why are we happy? Why aren’t we happy?
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our "psychologic...
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Living a life of purpose
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Pastor Rick Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven Life, reflects on his own crisis of purpose in the wake of his book’s wild success. He explains h...
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