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The case for informed optimism
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
We’ve known about global warming for 50 years and done little about it, says Google.org director Larry Brilliant. In spite of this and other depre...
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Becoming Buddha — on the Web
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
In our hyperlinked world, we can know anything, anytime. And this mass enlightenment, says Buddhist scholar Bob Thurman, is our first step toward ...
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Help fight local warming
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: June 24, 2008
Investor and prankster Yossi Vardi delivers a careful lecture on the dangers of blogging. Specifically, for men.
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"La Vie en Rose"
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Featuring the vocals and mischievous bell-playing of accordionist and singer Rachelle Garniez, the TED House Band — led by Thomas Dolby ...
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A cello performance that casts a spell
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Caroline Lavelle plays the cello like a sorceress casting a spell, occasionally hiding behind her wild mane of blond hair as she sings of pastoral...
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When it comes to tech, simplicity sells
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
New York Times columnist David Pogue takes aim at technology’s worst interface-design offenders, and provides encouraging examples of products tha...
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Lightning calculation and other "Mathemagic"
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: June 24, 2008
In a lively show, mathemagician Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares, solves another massive mental equation ...
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Theremin, the untouchable music
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Virtuoso Pamelia Kurstin performs and discusses her theremin, the not-just-for-sci-fi electronic instrument that is played without being touched. ...
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Welcome to Vaudeville 2.0
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Illustrious jugglers the Raspyni Brothers show off their uncanny balance, agility, coordination and willingness to sacrifice (others). Now, if you...
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A new vision for refrigeration
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Adam Grosser talks about a project to build a refrigerator that works without electricity — to bring the vital tool to villages and c...
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15 ways to avert a climate crisis
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
With the same humor and humanity he exuded in An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore spells out 15 ways that individuals can address climate change immedi...
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The wisdom of designing Cradle to Cradle
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Green-minded architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "all chil...
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How I built my family a windmill
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: June 24, 2008
When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working f...
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Can we know our own minds?
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Philosopher Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don’t we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are...
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How does technology evolve? Like we did
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Tech enthusiast Kevin Kelly asks "What does technology want?" and discovers that its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like the evolu...
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Why people believe strange things
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Why do people see the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich or hear demonic lyrics in "Stairway to Heaven"? Using video and music, skeptic Michael Sher...
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Secrets of movement, from geckos and roaches
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Biologist Robert Full shares slo-mo video of some captivating critters. Take a closer look at the spiny legs that allow cockroaches to scuttle acro...
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