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07/12/2007
Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics
07/12/2007
Ron Eglash: The fractals at the heart of African designs
07/12/2007
Larry Brilliant: The case for informed optimism
04/12/2007
Philippe Starck: Design and destiny
04/12/2007
Robert Full: Secrets of movement, from geckos and roaches
15/11/2007
Laws that choke creativity | Larry Lessig
15/11/2007
Juan Enriquez: Using biology to rethink the energy challenge
15/11/2007
David Keith: A surprising idea for "solving" climate change
30/10/2007
Sherwin Nuland: How electroshock therapy changed me
26/10/2007
Eleni Gabre-Madhin: Building a commodities market in Ethiopia
23/10/2007
3 clues to understanding your brain | VS Ramachandran
18/10/2007
Paul Rothemund: Casting spells with DNA
16/10/2007
Maira Kalman: The illustrated woman
13/10/2007
Hod Lipson: Robots that are "self-aware"
13/10/2007
Life at 30,000 feet | Richard Branson
13/10/2007
Kenichi Ebina: Hip-hop dance and a little magic
12/10/2007
Carolyn Porco: This is Saturn
11/10/2007
Paul MacCready: Flying on solar wings
11/10/2007
Stephen Petranek: 10 ways the world could end
20/09/2007
John Maeda: Designing for simplicity
18/09/2007
Zeresenay Alemseged: Finding the origins of humanity
18/09/2007
Deborah Scranton: Scenes from "The War Tapes"
11/09/2007
Steven Pinker: What our language habits reveal
11/09/2007
The surprising decline in violence | Steven Pinker
06/09/2007
My creations, a new form of life | Theo Jansen
04/09/2007
Andrew Mwenda: Let's take a new look at African aid
30/08/2007
Erin McKean: The joy of lexicography
28/08/2007
Dean Kamen: New prosthetic arm for veterans
23/08/2007
Jeff Skoll: Making movies that make change
21/08/2007
Vusi Mahlasela: "Woza"
16/08/2007
Vusi Mahlasela: "Thula Mama"
14/08/2007
Jacqueline Novogratz: Tackling poverty with "patient capita
09/08/2007
Chris Abani on the stories of Africa
08/08/2007
Patrick Awuah: Educating a new generation of African leaders
01/08/2007
Euvin Naidoo: Africa as an investment
01/08/2007
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Let's have a deeper discussion on aid
01/08/2007
George Ayittey: Cheetahs vs. Hippos for Africa's future
01/08/2007
William Kamkwamba: How I built a windmill
26/07/2007
Allison Hunt: How I got my new hip
24/07/2007
David Bolinsky: Visualizing the wonder of a living cell
19/07/2007
The 4 a.m. mystery | Rives
17/07/2007
Will Wright: Spore, birth of a game
16/07/2007
Emily Oster: What do we really know about the spread of AIDS?
10/07/2007
Jonathan Harris: The Web's secret stories
03/07/2007
Dangerous memes | Dan Dennett
28/06/2007
Inside the world's deepest caves | Bill Stone
26/06/2007
New insights on poverty | Hans Rosling
25/06/2007
Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo
21/06/2007
Stephen Lawler: Look! Up in the sky! It's Virtual Earth!
20/06/2007
A performance merging dance and biology | Pilobolus
20/06/2007
David Rockwell: Building the Ground Zero viewing platform
20/06/2007
David Kelley: The future of design is human-centered
20/06/2007
Stefan Sagmeister: Happiness by design
20/06/2007
Bob Thurman: We can be Buddhas
20/06/2007
Anand Agarawala: BumpTop desktop is a beautiful mess
20/06/2007
Ethel: "Blue Room"
30/05/2007
John Doerr: Seeking salvation and profit in greentech
24/05/2007
Tierney Thys: Swim with giant sunfish in the open ocean
23/05/2007
Jeff Hawkins: How brain science will change computing
18/05/2007
Steven Johnson: A guided tour of the Ghost Map
18/05/2007
Stew: "Black Men Ski"
17/05/2007
12 sustainable design ideas from nature | Janine Benyus
17/05/2007
Cradle to cradle design | William McDonough
17/05/2007
Vik Muniz: Art with wire, sugar, chocolate and string
17/05/2007
Rev. Tom Honey: How could God have allowed the tsunami?
17/05/2007
Thomas Dolby & Rachelle Garniez: "La Vie en Rose"
17/05/2007
Thom Mayne: Architecture is a new way to connect to the world
17/05/2007
Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: The gentle genius of bonobos
17/05/2007
Sheila Patek: Measuring the fastest animal on earth
17/05/2007
How to get your ideas to spread | Seth Godin
17/05/2007
Rives: A mockingbird remix of TED2006
16/05/2007
Paul Bennett: Design is in the details
16/05/2007
Nora York: "What I Want"
16/05/2007
James Kunstler: How bad architecture wrecked cities
16/05/2007
Nick Bostrom: Humanity's biggest problems aren't what you think they are
16/05/2007
Juan Enriquez: The life-code that will reshape the future
16/05/2007
Jill Sobule: A happy song about global warming
16/05/2007
Jeff Bezos: The electricity metaphor
16/05/2007
What separates us from chimpanzees? | Jane Goodall
16/05/2007
James Watson: How we discovered DNA
15/05/2007
Golan Levin: The truly soft side of software
15/05/2007
Sergey Brin and Larry Page: The genesis of Google
14/05/2007
The story of life in photographs | Frans Lanting
14/05/2007
How to truly listen | Evelyn Glennie
14/05/2007
Eddi Reader & Thomas Dolby: "What You Do With What You've Got"
14/05/2007
Dean Kamen: Rolling along, helping students and the third world
03/05/2007
The illusion of consciousness | Dan Dennett
02/05/2007
Craig Venter: A voyage of DNA, genes and the sea
02/05/2007
Chris Bangle: Great cars are Art
01/05/2007
Natalie MacMaster & Thomas Dolby: Fiddling in reel time
01/05/2007
Caroline Lavelle: A cello performance that casts a spell
01/05/2007
Alex Steffen: The route to a sustainable future
30/04/2007
Powerful visual illusions | Al Seckel
30/04/2007
Chris Anderson (Wired): Technology's Long Tail
05/04/2007
E.O. Wilson calls for an Encyclopedia of Life
05/04/2007
Bill Clinton: TED Prize wish: Let's build a health care system in Rwanda
05/04/2007
My photographs bear witness | James Nachtwey
23/03/2007
Neil Gershenfeld: The beckoning promise of personal fabrication
23/03/2007
Carl Honore: In praise of slowness
23/03/2007
Anna Deavere Smith: Four American characters
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