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Greg Gage: How to control someone else's arm with your brain
- Published_at:2015-04-28
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- description: Greg Gage is on a mission to make brain science accessible to all. In this fun, kind of creepy demo, the neuroscientist and TED Senior Fellow uses a simple, inexpensive DIY kit to take away the free will of an audience member. It’s not a parlor trick;...
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Kevin Rudd: Are China and the US doomed to conflict?
- Published_at:2015-04-01
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- description: The former prime minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd is also a longtime student of China, with a unique vantage point to watch its power rise in the past few decades. He asks whether the growing ambition of China will inevitably lead to conflict with...
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Monica Lewinsky: The price of shame
- Published_at:2015-03-21
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- description: In 1998, says Monica Lewinsky, “I was Patient Zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.” Today, the kind of online public shaming she went through has become a constant. In a brave talk, she takes a look at our...
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Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters
- Published_at:2014-10-10
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- description: Glenn Greenwald was one of the first reporters to see — and write about — the Edward Snowden files, with their revelations about the United States' extensive surveillance of private citizens. In this searing talk, Greenwald makes the case for why you...
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Matthew O'Reilly: "Am I dying?" The honest answer.
- Published_at:2014-09-25
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- description: Matthew O’Reilly is a veteran emergency medical technician on Long Island, New York. In this talk, O’Reilly describes what happens next when a gravely hurt patient asks him: “Am I going to die?” TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and...
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Zak Ebrahim: I am the son of a terrorist. Here's how I chose peace.
- Published_at:2014-09-09
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- description: If you’re raised on dogma and hate, can you choose a different path? Zak Ebrahim was just seven years old when his father helped plan the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. His story is shocking, powerful, and ultimately, inspiring. TEDTalks is a...
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Sally Kohn: Don’t like clickbait? Don’t click
- Published_at:2014-08-28
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- description: Doesn’t it seem like a lot of online news sites have moved beyond reporting the news to openly inciting your outrage (and your page views)? News analyst Sally Kohn suggests — don’t engage with news that looks like it just wants to make you mad....
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Clint Smith: The danger of silence
- Published_at:2014-08-15
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- description: "We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't," says slam poet and teacher Clint Smith. A short, powerful piece from the heart, about finding the courage to speak up against...
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Ze Frank: Are you human?
- Published_at:2014-07-18
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- description: Have you ever wondered: Am I a human being? Ze Frank suggests a series of simple questions that will determine this. Please relax and follow the prompts. Let's begin ... TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the...
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Ruth Chang: How to make hard choices
- Published_at:2014-06-18
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- description: Here's a talk that could literally change your life. Which career should I pursue? Should I break up — or get married?! Where should I live? Big decisions like these can be agonizingly difficult. But that's because we think about them the wrong way,...
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Sebastian Junger: Why veterans miss war
- Published_at:2014-05-23
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- description: Civilians don't miss war. But soldiers often do. Journalist Sebastian Junger shares his experience embedded with American soldiers at Restrepo, an outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley that saw heavy combat. Giving a look at the "altered state of...
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Andrew Solomon: How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are
- Published_at:2014-05-21
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- description: Writer Andrew Solomon has spent his career telling stories of the hardships of others. Now he turns inward, bringing us into a childhood of struggle, while also spinning tales of the courageous people he's met in the years since. In a moving,...
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Mark Ronson: How sampling transformed music
- Published_at:2014-05-09
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- description: Sampling isn't about "hijacking nostalgia wholesale," says Mark Ronson. It's about inserting yourself into the narrative of a song while also pushing that story forward. Watch the DJ scramble 15 TED Talks into an audio-visual omelette, and trace the...
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Louie Schwartzberg: Hidden miracles of the natural world
- Published_at:2014-04-09
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- description: We live in a world of unseeable beauty, so subtle and delicate that it is imperceptible to the human eye. To bring this invisible world to light, filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg bends the boundaries of time and space with high-speed cameras, time lapses...
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Geena Rocero: Why I must come out
- Published_at:2014-03-31
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- description: When fashion model Geena Rocero first saw a professionally shot photo of herself clad in a bikini, she was beside herself. "I thought...you have arrived!" she says proudly. This might not be the typical experience, but, as Rocero reveals, that's...
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Bran Ferren: To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering
- Published_at:2014-03-25
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- description: When Bran Ferren was just 9, his parents took him to see the Pantheon in Rome — and it changed everything. In that moment, he began to understand how the tools of science and engineering become more powerful when combined with art, with design and...
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Richard Ledgett: The NSA responds to Edward Snowden's TED Talk
- Published_at:2014-03-21
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- description: After a surprise appearance by Edward Snowden at TED2014, Chris Anderson said: "If the NSA wants to respond, please do." And yes, they did. Appearing by video, NSA deputy director Richard Ledgett answers Anderson's questions about the balance between...
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Chris Hadfield: What I learned from going blind in space
- Published_at:2014-03-19
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- description: There's an astronaut saying: In space, "there is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse." So how do you deal with the complexity, the sheer pressure, of dealing with dangerous and scary situations? Retired colonel Chris Hadfield paints a vivid...
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Toby Shapshak: You don't need an app for that
- Published_at:2014-03-13
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- description: Are the simplest phones the smartest? While the rest of the world is updating statuses and playing games on smartphones, Africa is developing useful SMS-based solutions to everyday needs, says journalist Toby Shapshak. In this eye-opening talk,...
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Ash Beckham: We're all hiding something. Let's find the courage to open up
- Published_at:2014-02-21
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- description: In this touching talk, Ash Beckham offers a fresh approach to empathy and openness. It starts with understanding that everyone, at some point in their life, has experienced hardship. The only way out, says Beckham, is to open the door and step out of...
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Roselinde Torres: What it takes to be a great leader
- Published_at:2014-02-19
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- description: There are many leadership programs available today, from 1-day workshops to corporate training programs. But chances are, these won't really help. In this clear, candid talk, Roselinde Torres describes 25 years observing truly great leaders at work,...
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Leyla Acaroglu: Paper beats plastic? How to rethink environmental folklore
- Published_at:2014-02-11
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- description: Most of us want to do the right thing when it comes to the environment. But things aren't as simple as opting for the paper bag, says sustainability strategist Leyla Acaroglu. A bold call for us to let go of tightly-held green myths and think bigger...
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Joe Kowan: How I beat stage fright
- Published_at:2014-01-24
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- description: Humanity's fine-tuned sense of fear served us well as a young species, giving us laser focus to avoid being eaten by competing beasts. But it's less wonderful when that same visceral, body-hijacking sense of fear kicks in in front of 20 folk-music...
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Guy Hoffman: Robots with "soul"
- Published_at:2014-01-17
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- description: What kind of robots does an animator / jazz musician / roboticist make? Playful, reactive, curious ones. Guy Hoffman shows demo film of his family of unusual robots -- including two musical bots that like to jam with humans. (Filmed at TEDxJaffa.) ...
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Ryan Holladay: To hear this music you have to be there. Literally
- Published_at:2014-01-10
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- description: The music industry has sometimes struggled to find its feet in the digital world. In this lovely talk, TED Fellow Ryan Holladay tells us why he is experimenting with what he describes as "location-aware music." This programming and musical feat...
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Diana Nyad: Never, ever give up
- Published_at:2013-12-23
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- description: In the pitch-black night, stung by jellyfish, choking on salt water, singing to herself, hallucinating ... Diana Nyad just kept on swimming. And that's how she finally achieved her lifetime goal as an athlete: an extreme 100-mile swim from Cuba to...
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The 4 stories we tell ourselves about death
- Published_at:2013-12-12
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- description: Philosopher Stephen Cave begins with a dark but compelling question: When did you first realize you were going to die? And even more interestingly: Why do we humans so often resist the inevitability of death? In a fascinating talk Cave explores four...
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David Lang: My underwater robot
- Published_at:2013-12-05
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- description: David Lang is a maker who taught himself to become an amateur oceanographer -- or, he taught a robot to be one for him. In a charming talk Lang, a TED Fellow, shows how he and a network of ocean lovers teamed up to build open-sourced, low-cost...
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David Steindl-Rast: Want to be happy? Be grateful
- Published_at:2013-11-27
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- description: The one thing all humans have in common is that each of us wants to be happy, says Brother David Steindl-Rast, a monk and interfaith scholar. And happiness, he suggests, is born from gratitude. An inspiring lesson in slowing down, looking where you're...
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Andreas Raptopoulos: No roads? There's a drone for that
- Published_at:2013-11-21
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- description: A billion people in the world lack access to all-season roads. Could the structure of the internet provide a model for how to reach them? Andreas Raptopoulos of Matternet thinks so. He introduces a new type of transportation system that uses electric...
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