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Finding the origins of humanity
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged looks for the roots of humanity in Ethiopia’s badlands. Here he talks about finding the oldest skeleton of ...
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The amazing intelligence of crows
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of...
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Memes and "temes"
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawne...
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Building on the green agenda
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Architect Norman Foster discusses his own work to show how computers can help architects design buildings that are green, beautiful and "basically...
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"All the Answers" and "Tembererana"
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Singer/guitarist Raúl Midón performs “All the Answers” in a world premiere at TED2007, followed by the sprightly "Tembererana."
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Redefining the dictionary
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Is the beloved paper dictionary doomed to extinction? In this infectiously exuberant talk, leading lexicographer Erin McKean looks at the many way...
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How engineers learn from evolution
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Insects and animals have evolved some amazing skills — but, as Robert Full notes, many animals are actually over-engineered. The trick i...
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Why design?
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Designer Philippe Starck — with no pretty slides to show -- spends 18 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question "Why design?" L...
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How to listen to music with your whole body
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound w...
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"What You Do With What You’ve Got"
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Singer/songwriter Eddi Reader performs "What You Do With What You’ve Got," a meditation on a very TED theme: how to use your gifts and talents to m...
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The omnivore’s next dilemma
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
What if human consciousness isn’t the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn's clever strategy game to rul...
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Why can’t we grow new body parts?
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Alan Russell studies regenerative medicine — a breakthrough way of thinking about disease and injury, using a process that can signal th...
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What makes a building unique?
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Looking back over his long career, architect Moshe Safdie delves into four of his design projects and explains how he labored to make each one tru...
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Habits of happiness
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Biochemist turned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard says we can train our minds in habits of well-bein...
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Earth in its final century?
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Speaking as both an astronomer and "a concerned member of the human race," Sir Martin Rees examines our planet and its future from a cosmic perspec...
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Casting spells with DNA
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: June 24, 2008
Paul Rothemund writes code that causes DNA to arrange itself into a star, a smiley face and more. Sure, it’s a stunt, but it's also a dem...
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