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Bertrand Piccard’s solar-powered adventure Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: January 01, 2010 For the dawn of a new decade, adventurer Bertrand Piccard offers us a challenge: Find motivation in what seems impossible. He shares his own plans...

Asher Hasan’s message of peace from Pakistan Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 23, 2009 One of a dozen Pakistanis who came to TEDIndia despite security hassles entering the country, TED Fellow Asher Hasan shows photos of ordinary Paki...

Steven Cowley: Fusion is energy’s future Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 22, 2009 Physicist Steven Cowley is certain that nuclear fusion is the only truly sustainable solution to the fuel crisis. He explains why fusion will work ...

James Geary, metaphorically speaking Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 18, 2009 Aphorism enthusiast and author James Geary waxes on a fascinating fixture of human language: the metaphor. Friend of scribes from Aristotle to Elvi...

Charles Anderson discovers dragonflies that cross oceans Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 17, 2009 While living and working as a marine biologist in Maldives, Charles Anderson noticed sudden explosions of dragonflies at certain times of year. He...

Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 16, 2009 In a funny, rapid-fire 4 minutes, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit tells the real-life fable of one humpback whale’s rise to Web stardom. The lesson of Mi...

Ryan Lobo: Photographing the hidden story Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 15, 2009 Ryan Lobo has traveled the world, taking photographs that tell stories of unusual human lives. In this haunting talk, he reframes controversial su...

Loretta Napoleoni: The intricate economics of terrorism Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 14, 2009 Loretta Napoleoni details her rare opportunity to talk to the secretive Italian Red Brigades — an experience that sparked a lifelong inte...

Thulasiraj Ravilla: How low-cost eye care can be world-class Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 10, 2009 India’s revolutionary Aravind Eye Care System has given sight to millions. Thulasiraj Ravilla looks at the ingenious approach that drives its treat...

Marc Pachter: The art of the interview Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 09, 2009 Marc Pachter has conducted live interviews with some of the most intriguing characters in recent American history as part of a remarkable series cr...

Rory Bremner’s one-man world summit Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 08, 2009 Scottish funnyman Rory Bremner convenes a historic council on the TEDGlobal stage — as he lampoons Gordon Brown, Barack Obama, Georg...

Sunitha Krishnan fights sex slavery Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 07, 2009 Sunitha Krishnan has dedicated her life to rescuing women and children from sex slavery, a multimilion-dollar global market. In this courageous ta...

Scott Kim takes apart the art of puzzles Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 04, 2009 At the 2008 EG conference, famed puzzle designer Scott Kim takes us inside the puzzle-maker’s frame of mind. Sampling his career's work, ...

Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 03, 2009 With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India’s Golden Desert to harv...

Magnus Larsson: Turning dunes into architecture Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2009 Architecture student Magnus Larsson details his bold plan to transform the harsh Sahara desert using bacteria and a surprising construction materia...

Rob Hopkins: Transition to a world without oil Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: November 24, 2009 Rob Hopkins reminds us that the oil our world depends on is steadily running out. He proposes a unique solution to this problem — the Tra...

Hans Rosling: Asia’s rise — how and when Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: November 23, 2009 Hans Rosling was a young guest student in India when he first realized that Asia had all the capacities to reclaim its place as the world’s dominan...

Tom Wujec demos the 13th-century astrolabe Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: November 20, 2009 Rather than demo another new technology, Tom Wujec reaches back to one of our earliest but most ingenious devices — the astrolabe. With ...

Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. West — the myths that mystify Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: November 19, 2009 Devdutt Pattanaik takes an eye-opening look at the myths of India and of the West — and shows how these two fundamentally different sets ...

Fields Wicker-Miurin: Learning from leadership’s "missing manual" Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: November 18, 2009 Leadership doesn’t have a user's manual, but Fields Wicker-Miurin says stories of remarkable, local leaders are the next best thing. At a...

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