Philippe Petit: The journey across the high wire
www.ted.com Even a death-defying magician has to start somewhere. High-wire artist Philippe Petit takes you on an intimate journey from his first card trick at age 6 to his tightrope walk between the Twin Towers.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Con...
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Robin Ince: Science versus wonder?
www.ted.com Does science ruin the magic of life? In this grumpy but charming monologue, Robin Ince makes the argument against. The more we learn about the astonishing behavior of the universe -- the more we stand in awe.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the...
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- Length: 8:39
- Views: 57998
- Tags: Robin Ince comedy entertainment science TED tedtalk tedglobal wonder magic
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Harvey Fineberg: Are we ready for neo-evolution?
www.ted.com Medical ethicist Harvey Fineberg shows us three paths forward for the ever-evolving human species to stop evolving completely, to evolve naturally -- or to control the next steps of human evolution, using genetic modification, to make ourselves smarter, faster, better. Neo-evolution i...
Joshua Foer: Feats of memory anyone can do
www.ted.com There are people who can quickly memorize lists of thousands of numbers, the order of all the cards in a deck (or ten!), and much more. Science writer Joshua Foer describes the technique -- called the memory palace -- and shows off its most remarkable feature anyone can learn how to u...
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- Length: 20:30
- Views: 47476
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Neil Burgess: How your brain tells you where you are
www.ted.com How do you remember where you parked your car? How do you know if you're moving in the right direction? Neuroscientist Neil Burgess studies the neural mechanisms that map the space around us, and how they link to memory and imagination.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best tal...
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- Length: 9:04
- Views: 46703
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Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media
www.ted.com 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 Mister Splashy Pants is a shoo-in classic for meme-makers and marketers in the Facebook age.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best tal...
Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsight
www.ted.com Master storyteller Malcolm Gladwell tells the tale of the Norden bombsight, a groundbreaking piece of World War II technology with a deeply unexpected result.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinker...
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- Length: 15:01
- Views: 49026
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Michael Tilson Thomas: Music and emotion through time
www.ted.com In this epic overview, Michael Tilson Thomas traces the development of classical music through the development of written notation, the record, and the re-mix.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinke...
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- Length: 20:14
- Views: 27228
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Mikko Hypponen: Three types of online attack
www.ted.com Cybercrime expert Mikko Hypponen talks us through three types of online attack on our privacy and data -- and only two are considered crimes.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give ...
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- Length: 9:24
- Views: 35950
- Tags: Mikko Hypponen Cybercrime online privacy tedxbrussels Crime Data Internet Politics Technology TED tedtalk tedtalks TED Talk TED Talks
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Jenna McCarthy: What you don't know about marriage
www.ted.com In this funny, casual talk from TEDx, writer Jenna McCarthy shares surprising research on how marriages (especially happy marriages) really work. One tip Do not try to win an Oscar for best actress.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Confe...
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- Length: 11:18
- Views: 70871
- Tags: Jenna mccarthy culture humor love relationships sex marriage TED tedtalk tedtalks TED Talk TED Talks
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Allan Jones: A map of the brain
www.ted.com How can we begin to understand the way the brain works? The same way we begin to understand a city by making a map. In this visually stunning talk, Allan Jones shows how his team is mapping which genes are turned on in each tiny region, and how it all connects up.TEDTalks is a daily v...
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- Length: 15:22
- Views: 51806
- Tags: Allan Jones Allen Institute brain map disease science technology TED tedtalk tedglobal mind
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Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor)
www.ted.com Artist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, Rao creates high-tech art installations -- a typewriter that sends emails, a camera that tracks you through the room only to make you invisible on screen -- ...
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- Length: 7:51
- Views: 39159
- Tags: Aparna Rao Soren Pors Art Creativity Humor Technology TED Fellow TED tedtalk invisible typewriter
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Jonas Gahr Støre: In defense of dialogue
www.ted.com In politics, it seems counterintuitive to engage in dialogue with violent groups, with radicals and terrorists, and with the states that support them. But Jonas Gahr Støre, the foreign minister of Norway, makes a compelling case for open discussion, even when values diverge, in an att...
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- Length: 14:59
- Views: 20585
- Tags: Jonas Gahr Støre Jonas Gahr Store tedxrc2 Norway culture politics dialogue TED tedtalks tedtalk TED Talk TED Talks
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Danny Hillis: Back to the future (of 1994)
www.ted.com From deep in the TED archive, Danny Hillis outlines an intriguing theory of how and why technological change seems to be accelerating, by linking it to the very evolution of life itself. The presentation techniques he uses may look dated, but the ideas are as relevant as ever.TEDTalks...
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- Length: 19:11
- Views: 52483
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Steve Keil: A manifesto for play, for Bulgaria and beyond
www.ted.com At TEDxBG in Sofia, Steve Keil fights the "serious meme" that has infected his home of Bulgaria -- and calls for a return to play to revitalize the economy, education and society. A sparkling talk with a universal message for people everywhere who are reinventing their workplaces, sch...
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- Length: 17:57
- Views: 23205
- Tags: TED tedtalks Steve Keil serious meme Bulgaria play reinvention revitalization
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Rajesh Rao: Computing a Rosetta Stone for the Indus script
www.ted.com Rajesh Rao is fascinated by "the mother of all crossword puzzles" How to decipher the 4000 year old Indus script. At TED 2011 he tells how he is enlisting modern computational techniques to read the Indus language, the key piece to understanding this ancient civilization.TEDTalks is a...
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- Length: 17:02
- Views: 41343
- Tags: TED tedtalks Rajesh Rao Indus Indus Script rosetta stone decrypt translate crossword puzzle Indus Language ancient civilization
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