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Henry Evans and Chad Jenkins: Meet the robots for humanity
- Published_at:2013-11-20
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:TED
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- description: Paralyzed by a stroke, Henry Evans uses a telepresence robot to take the stage -- and show how new robotics, tweaked and personalized by a group called Robots for Humanity, help him live his life. He shows off a nimble little quadrotor drone, created...
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Jane McGonigal: Massively multi-player... thumb-wrestling?
- Published_at:2013-11-15
- Category:Entertainment
- Channel:TED
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- description: What happens when you get an entire audience to stand up and connect with one another? Chaos, that's what. At least, that's what happened when Jane McGonigal tried to teach TED to play her favorite game. Then again, when the game is "massively...
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Chris Downey: Design with the blind in mind
- Published_at:2013-11-12
- Category:Travel & Events
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- description: What would a city designed for the blind be like? Chris Downey is an architect who went suddenly blind in 2008; he contrasts life in his beloved San Francisco before and after -- and shows how the thoughtful designs that enhance his life now might...
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Robin Nagle: What I discovered in New York City trash
- Published_at:2013-11-05
- Category:People & Blogs
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- description: New York City residents produce 11,000 tons of garbage every day. Every day! This astonishing statistic is just one of the reasons Robin Nagle started a research project with the city's Department of Sanitation. She walked the routes, operated...
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Rodrigo Canales: The deadly genius of drug cartels
- Published_at:2013-11-04
- Category:News & Politics
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- description: Up to 100,000 people died in drug-related violence in Mexico in the last 6 years. We might think this has nothing to do with us, but in fact we are all complicit, says Yale professor Rodrigo Canales in this unflinching talk that turns conventional...
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Abha Dawesar: Life in the "digital now"
- Published_at:2013-10-30
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- description: One year ago, Abha Dawesar was living in blacked-out Manhattan post-Sandy, scrounging for power to connect. As a novelist, she was struck by this metaphor: Have our lives now become fixated on the drive to digitally connect, while we miss out on...
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Hetain Patel: Who am I? Think again
- Published_at:2013-10-18
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- description: How do we decide who we are? Hetain Patel's surprising performance plays with identity, language and accent -- and challenges you to think deeper than surface appearances. A delightful meditation on self, with performer Yuyu Rau, and inspired by Bruce...
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Iwan Baan: Ingenious homes in unexpected places
- Published_at:2013-10-16
- Category:Travel & Events
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- description: In the center of Caracas, Venezuela, stands the 45-story "Tower of David," an unfinished, abandoned skyscraper. But about eight years ago, people started moving in. Photographer Iwan Baan shows how people build homes in unlikely places, touring us...
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Amanda Bennett: We need a heroic narrative for death
- Published_at:2013-10-15
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- description: Amanda Bennett and her husband were passionate and full of life all throughout their lives together -- and up until the final days, too. Bennett gives a sweet yet powerful talk on why, for the loved ones of the dying, having hope for a happy ending...
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Andrew Fitzgerald: Adventures in Twitter fiction
- Published_at:2013-10-11
- Category:People & Blogs
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- description: In the 1930s, broadcast radio introduced an entirely new form of storytelling; today, micro-blogging platforms like Twitter are changing the scene again. Andrew Fitzgerald takes a look at the (aptly) short but fascinating history of new forms of...
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Gary Slutkin: Let's treat violence like a contagious disease
- Published_at:2013-10-10
- Category:Nonprofits & Activism
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- description: Physician Gary Slutkin spent a decade fighting tuberculosis, cholera and AIDS epidemics in Africa. When he returned to the United States, he thought he'd escape brutal epidemic deaths. But then he began to look more carefully at gun violence, noting...
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Jason Pontin: Can technology solve our big problems?
- Published_at:2013-10-04
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- description: In 1969, Buzz Aldrin's historical step onto the moon leapt mankind into an era of technological possibility. The awesome power of technology was to be used to solve all of our big problems. Fast forward to present day, and what's happened? Are mobile...
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James Flynn: Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents'
- Published_at:2013-09-26
- Category:Education
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- description: In 1900, only 3% of Americans practiced professions that were deemed "cognitively demanding." Today, 35% of us do, and we have all learned to be flexible in the way that we think about problems. In this fascinating and fast-paced spin through the...
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Onora O'Neill: What we don't understand about trust
- Published_at:2013-09-25
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- description: Trust is on the decline, and we need to rebuild it. That's a commonly heard suggestion for making a better world ... but, says philosopher Onora O'Neill, we don't really understand what we're suggesting. She flips the question, showing us that our...
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Apollo Robbins: The art of misdirection
- Published_at:2013-09-13
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- description: Hailed as the greatest pickpocket in the world, Apollo Robbins studies the quirks of human behavior as he steals your watch. In a hilarious demonstration, Robbins samples the buffet of the TEDGlobal 2013 audience, showing how the flaws in our...
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Skylar Tibbits: The emergence of "4D printing"
- Published_at:2013-04-04
- Category:Science & Technology
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- description: 3D printing has grown in sophistication since the late 1970s; TED Fellow Skylar Tibbits is shaping the next development, which he calls 4D printing, where the fourth dimension is time. This emerging technology will allow us to print objects that then...
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Shane Koyczan: "To This Day" ... for the bullied and beautiful
- Published_at:2013-03-08
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- description: By turn hilarious and haunting, poet Shane Koyczan puts his finger on the pulse of what it's like to be young and ... different. "To This Day," his spoken-word poem about bullying, captivated millions as a viral video (created, crowd-source style, by...
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Amanda Palmer: The art of asking
- Published_at:2013-03-01
- Category:Music
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- description: Don't make people pay for music, says Amanda Palmer. Let them. In a passionate talk that begins in her days as a street performer (drop a dollar in the hat for the Eight-Foot Bride!), she examines the new relationship between artist and fan. TEDTalks...
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Cameron Russell: Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model.
- Published_at:2013-01-16
- Category:Howto & Style
- Channel:TEDtalksDirector
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- description: Cameron Russell admits she won "a genetic lottery": she's tall, pretty and an underwear model. But don't judge her by her looks. In this fearless talk, she takes a wry look at the industry that had her looking highly seductive at barely 16-years-old....
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Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid
- Published_at:2011-10-18
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- description: http://www.ted.com What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that could make that possible, and how questioning our notion of 'normal' can lead to...
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