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- Tim Brown
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- James Surowiecki
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- Graham Hawkes
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- Paola Antonelli
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- Liz Diller
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- Noah Feldman
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- Stefan Sagmeister
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- Rodney Brooks
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- Steven Pinker
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- Caleb Chung
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- Laura Trice
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- Philip Zimbardo
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- Marvin Minsky
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- David S. Rose
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- Eve Ensler
- Security and insecurity
- Jonathan Haidt
- The real difference between liberals and conservatives
- Ann Cooper
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- Keith Bellows
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- Carmen Agra Deedy
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- David Gallo
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- Brewster Kahle
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- Irwin Redlener
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- Jane Goodall
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- Jonathan Drori
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- Peter Hirshberg
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- Ory Okolloh
- The making of an African activist
- Sugata Mitra
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- John Q. Walker
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- Nellie McKay
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- Ian Dunbar
- Dog-friendly dog training
- Lennart Green
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- David Griffin
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- Spencer Wells
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- Patricia Burchat
- The search for dark energy and dark matter
- Bruno Bowden
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- Kwabena Boahen
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- Jonathan Harris
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- Louise Leakey
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- Chris Abani
- Telling stories of our shared humanity
- Marisa Fick-Jordan
- The wonders of Zulu wire art
- Martin Seligman
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- Keith Barry
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- A.J. Jacobs
- My year of living biblically
- Billy Graham
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- Helen Fisher
- The brain in love
- Freeman Dyson
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- Nellie McKay
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- Clay Shirky
- Institutions vs. collaboration
- David Hoffman
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- Torsten Reil
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- Corneille Ewango
- A hero of the Congo Basin forest
- Raul Midon
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- Rick Smolan
- A girl, a photograph, a homecoming
- Peter Diamandis
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- Sxip Shirey
- Breath, music, passion
- Nellie McKay
- "Clonie"
- Nicholas Negroponte
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- Benjamin Zander
- Classical music with shining eyes
- Steven Levitt
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- Adam Grosser
- A new vision for refrigeration
- Robert Full
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- Dr. Dean Ornish
- Your genes are not your fate
- Chris Jordan
- Picturing excess
- George Dyson
- The birth of the computer
- Murray Gell-Mann
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- Wade Davis
- The worldwide web of belief and ritual
- Rokia Traore
- "Kounandi"
- Nathan Myhrvold
- A life of fascinations
- Susan Blackmore
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- Paul Collier
- 4 ways to improve the lives of the "bottom billion"
- Seyi Oyesola
- Rich hospital, poor hospital
- Arthur Ganson
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- Yves Behar
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- Robert Ballard
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- Mark Bittman
- What's wrong with what we eat
- Alisa Miller
- Why we know less than ever about the world
- Joshua Klein
- The amazing intelligence of crows
- Michael Moschen
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- Paul Ewald
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- Paul Stamets
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- Hector Ruiz
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- The universe on a string
- Amy Tan
- Where does creativity hide?
- Ernest Madu
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- Yochai Benkler
- Open-source economics
- Tod Machover
- Releasing the music in your head
- Johnny Lee
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- Paul Koontz
- Tourist snapshots from North Korea
- Al Gore
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- Stephen Hawking
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- Jakob Trollback
- Rethinking the music video
- David Hoffman
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- Siegfried Woldhek
- The true face of Leonardo Da Vinci?
- Rokia Traore
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- Clifford Stoll
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- Neil Turok
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- Karen Armstrong
- 2008 TED Prize wish: Charter for Compassion
- Dave Eggers
- 2008 TED Prize wish: Once Upon a School
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- Jill Bolte Taylor
- My stroke of insight
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- Craig Venter
- On the verge of creating synthetic life
- Alan Kay
- A powerful idea about teaching ideas
- Roy Gould
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- Steve Jurvetson
- The joy of rockets
- Joseph Lekuton
- A parable for Kenya
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- Jill Sobule
- The Jill and Julia Show
- Moshe Safdie
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- George Dyson
- Let's take a nuclear-powered rocket to Saturn
- Pamelia Kurstin
- Theremin, the untouchable music
- Howard Rheingold
- Way-new collaboration
- Michael Pollan
- The omnivore's next dilemma
- David Macaulay
- All roads lead to Rome Antics
- Jaime Lerner
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- Robin Chase
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- Chris Anderson (TED)
- A vision for TED
- Alison Jackson
- A surprising look at celebrity
- David Pogue
- A 4-minute medley on the music wars
- Ben Dunlap
- The story of a passionate life
- Bill Strickland
- Rebuilding America, one slide show at a time
- Raul Midon
- "All the Answers" and "Tembererana"
- Frank Gehry
- Nice building. Then what?
- Paola Antonelli
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- David Gallo
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- J.J. Abrams
- The mystery box
- Deborah Gordon
- How do ants know what to do?
- Yossi Vardi
- Help fight local warming
- Isabel Allende
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- Gever Tulley
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- Lakshmi Pratury
- The lost art of letter-writing
- Daniel Goleman
- Why aren’t we all Good Samaritans?
- Arthur Benjamin
- Lightning calculation and other "Mathemagic"
- Amory Lovins
- We must win the oil endgame
- Murray Gell-Mann
- Beauty and truth in physics
- Philippe Starck
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- Ron Eglash
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- Robert Full
- Secrets of movement, from geckos and roaches
- Larry Brilliant
- The case for informed optimism
- Juan Enriquez
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- David Keith
- A surprising idea for "solving" climate change
- Paul Rothemund
- Casting spells with DNA
- Larry Lessig
- How creativity is being strangled by the law
- Matthieu Ricard
- Habits of happiness
- Sherwin Nuland
- My history of electroshock therapy
- Eleni Gabre-Madhin
- Building a commodities market in Ethiopia
- Vilayanur Ramachandran
- A journey to the center of your mind
- Jan Chipchase
- Our cell phones, ourselves
- Maira Kalman
- The illustrated woman
- Hod Lipson
- Robots that are "self-aware"
- Richard Branson
- Life at 30,000 feet
- Kenichi Ebina
- Hip-hop dance and a little magic
- Carolyn Porco
- Fly me to the moons of Saturn
- Paul MacCready
- Flying on solar wings
- Stephen Petranek
- 10 ways the world could end
- John Maeda
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- Zeresenay Alemseged
- Finding the origins of humanity
- Deborah Scranton
- Scenes from "The War Tapes"
- Steven Pinker
- A brief history of violence
- Steven Pinker
- The stuff of thought
- Theo Jansen
- The art of creating creatures
- Andrew Mwenda
- Let's take a new look at African aid
- Erin McKean
- Redefining the dictionary
- Dean Kamen
- New prosthetic arm for veterans
- Jeff Skoll
- Making movies that make change
- Vusi Mahlasela
- "Woza"
- Vusi Mahlasela
- "Thula Mama"
- Jacqueline Novogratz
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- Chris Abani
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- Patrick Awuah
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- Euvin Naidoo
- Africa as an investment
- William Kamkwamba
- How I built my family a windmill
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
- Let's have a deeper discussion on aid
- George Ayittey
- Cheetahs vs. Hippos for Africa's future
- Allison Hunt
- How I got my new hip
- David Bolinsky
- Fantastic voyage inside a cell
- Rives
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- Will Wright
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- Emily Oster
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- Jonathan Harris
- The Web's secret stories
- Alan Russell
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- Dan Dennett
- Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes
- Bill Stone
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- Hans Rosling
- New insights on poverty and life around the world
- Stephen Lawler
- Look! Up in the sky! It's Virtual Earth!
- Ethel
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- Thomas Barnett
- The Pentagon's new map for war and peace
- David Rockwell
- Building the Ground Zero viewing platform
- Bob Thurman
- Becoming Buddha -- on the Web
- Anand Agarawala
- BumpTop desktop is a beautiful mess
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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- John Doerr
- Seeking salvation and profit in greentech
- Blaise Aguera y Arcas
- Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo
- Tierney Thys
- Swim with giant sunfish in the open ocean
- Jeff Hawkins
- Brain science is about to fundamentally change computing
- Stewart Brand
- Why squatter cities are a good thing
- David Kelley
- The future of design is human-centered
- James Howard Kunstler
- The tragedy of suburbia
- Stew
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- Sergey Brin and Larry Page
- Inside the Google machine
- Natalie MacMaster
- Fiddling in reel time
- Chris Anderson (Wired)
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- Thomas Dolby
- "La Vie en Rose"
- Tom Rielly
- A comic send-up of TED2006
- Richard Dawkins
- An atheist's call to arms
- Rev. Tom Honey
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- Eddi Reader
- "What You Do With What You've Got"
- Eddi Reader
- "Kiteflyer's Hill"
- Rives
- A mockingbird remix of TED2006
- Jeff Bezos
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- William McDonough
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- Evelyn Glennie
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- Dan Dennett
- Can we know our own minds?
- Caroline Lavelle
- A cello performance that casts a spell
- Jill Sobule
- A happy song about global warming
- Chris Bangle
- Great cars are Art
- Craig Venter
- A voyage of DNA, genes and the sea
- Dean Kamen
- Rolling along, helping students and the third world
- Jane Goodall
- What separates us from the apes?
- Golan Levin
- The truly soft side of software
- Janine Benyus
- 12 sustainable design ideas from nature
- Seth Godin
- Sliced bread and other marketing delights
- Thom Mayne
- Architecture is a new way to connect to the world
- Vik Muniz
- Art with wire, thread, sugar, chocolate
- James Watson
- The double helix and today's DNA mysteries
- Frans Lanting
- A lyrical view of life on Earth
- Paul Bennett
- Design is in the details
- Nick Bostrom
- Humanity's biggest problems aren't what you think they are
- Stefan Sagmeister
- Yes, design can make you happy
- Alex Steffen
- Inspired ideas for a sustainable future
- Nora York
- "What I Want"
- Susan Savage-Rumbaugh
- Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Man
- Sheila Patek
- Measuring the fastest animal on earth
- Al Seckel
- Your brain is badly wired -- enjoy it!
- Juan Enriquez
- Decoding the future with genomics
- James Nachtwey
- TED Prize wish: Share a vital story with the world
- Bill Clinton
- TED Prize wish: Let's build a health care system in Rwanda
- E.O. Wilson
- TED Prize wish: Help build the Encyclopedia of Life
- Carl Honore
- Slowing down in a world built for speed
- Neil Gershenfeld
- The beckoning promise of personal fabrication
- Saul Griffith
- Hardware solutions to everyday problems
- Pilobolus
- A performance merging dance and biology
- Anna Deavere Smith
- Four American characters
- Steven Johnson
- A guided tour of the Ghost Map
- Charles Leadbeater
- The rise of the amateur professional
- Sir Martin Rees
- Earth in its final century?
- Robert Wright
- How cooperation (eventually) trumps conflict
- Phil Borges
- Documenting our endangered cultures
- Wade Davis
- Cultures at the far edge of the world
- Bjorn Lomborg
- Our priorities for saving the world
- Robert Neuwirth
- The "shadow cities" of the future
- Dr. Dean Ornish
- The world now eats (and dies) like Americans
- Rives
- "If I controlled the Internet" (a poem)
- Richard St. John
- Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes
- Peter Gabriel
- Fighting injustice with a videocamera
- Kevin Kelly
- How does technology evolve? Like we did
- Ray Kurzweil
- How technology's accelerating power will transform us
- Michael Shermer
- Why people believe strange things
- Peter Donnelly
- How juries are fooled by statistics
- Edward Burtynsky
- TED Prize wish: Share the story of Earth's manufactured landscapes
- Robert Fischell
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- Bono
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- Ashraf Ghani
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- Sasa Vucinic
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- Iqbal Quadir
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- Eva Vertes
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- Aubrey de Grey
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- Dan Gilbert
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- Barry Schwartz
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- Malcolm Gladwell
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- Steven Levitt
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- David Deutsch
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- Richard Dawkins
- The universe is queerer than we can suppose
- Helen Fisher
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- Eve Ensler
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- Mena Trott
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- Ze Frank
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- Jimmy Wales
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- Nicholas Negroponte
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- Jeff Han
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- Cameron Sinclair
- TED Prize wish: Open-source architecture to house the world
- Jehane Noujaim
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- Larry Brilliant
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- Rick Warren
- Living a life of purpose
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- A secular, scientific rebuttal to Rick Warren
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- Julia Sweeney
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- Tony Robbins
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- Hans Rosling
- Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
- Al Gore
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