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Looking inside the brain in real time
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Neuroscientist and inventor Christopher deCharms demonstrates a new way to use fMRI to show brain activity — thoughts, emotions, pain --...
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TED Prize wish: Help stop the next pandemic
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Accepting the 2006 TED Prize, Dr. Larry Brilliant talks about how smallpox was eradicated from the planet, and calls for a new global system that ...
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2008 TED Prize wish: An African Einstein
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, physicist Neil Turok speaks out for talented young Africans starved of opportunity: by unlocking and nurturing the c...
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2008 TED Prize wish: Once Upon a School
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbin...
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2008 TED Prize wish: Charter for Compassion
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
People want to be religious, says scholar Karen Armstrong; we should help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help bu...
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"Letting Go of God" (an excerpt)
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Julia Sweeney (God Said, "Ha!") performs the first 15 minutes of her 2006 solo show Letting Go of God. When two young Mormon missionaries knock on...
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Scenes from "The War Tapes"
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Filmmaker Deborah Scranton talks about and shows clips from her documentary The War Tapes, which puts cameras in the hands of soldiers fighting in...
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Where does creativity hide?
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, looking for hints of how hers evolved.
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My stroke of insight
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions &am...
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The Jill and Julia Show
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Two TED favorites, Jill Sobule and Julia Sweeney, team up for a delightful set that mixes witty songwriting with a little bit of social commentary.
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How could God have allowed the tsunami?
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
In the days following the tragic South Asian tsunami of 2004, the Rev. Tom Honey pondered the question, "How could a loving God have done this?" H...
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The worldwide web of belief and ritual
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Anthropologist Wade Davis muses on the worldwide web of belief and ritual that makes us human. He shares breathtaking photos and stories of the Eld...
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A parable for Kenya
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Joseph Lekuton, a member of parliament in Kenya, starts with the story of his remarkable education, then offers a parable of how Africa can grow. ...
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