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- Martin Luther King Jr.
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- Charles Fleischer
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- Dan Buettner
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- Nick Veasey
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- Vilayanur Ramachandran
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- Cat Laine
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- Michael Sandel
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- Steve Jobs
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- Steven Cowley
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- Shaffi Mather
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- James Geary
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- Charles Anderson
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- Alexis Ohanian
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- Ryan Lobo
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- Loretta Napoleoni
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- Shereen El Feki
- Shereen El Feki: Pop culture in the Arab world
- Thulasiraj Ravilla
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- Marc Pachter
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- Rory Bremner
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- Sunitha Krishnan
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- Scott Kim
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- Anupam Mishra
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- Andrea Ghez
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- Gordon Brown
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- Shashi Tharoor
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- Mallika Sarabhai
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- Magnus Larsson
- Magnus Larsson: Turning dunes into architecture
- Rob Hopkins
- Rob Hopkins: Transition to a world without oil
- Hans Rosling
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- Tom Wujec
- Tom Wujec demos the 13th-century astrolabe
- Devdutt Pattanaik
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- Fields Wicker-Miurin
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- Mathieu Lehanneur
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- Cynthia Schneider
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- Edward Burtynsky
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- Rachel Pike
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- Cameron Sinclair
- Cameron Sinclair: The refugees of boom-and-bust
- Stefana Broadbent
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- Matthew White
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- Marcus du Sautoy
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- Becky Blanton
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- Rachel Armstrong
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- David Deutsch
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- Ian Goldin
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- Marc Koska
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- Itay Talgam
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- Paul Debevec
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- John Gerzema
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- Julian Treasure
- Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects us
- Henry Markram
- Henry Markram builds a brain in a supercomputer
- Rory Sutherland
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- David Hanson
- David Hanson: Robots that "show emotion"
- Eric Sanderson
- Eric Sanderson pictures New York -- before the City
- Sam Martin
- Sam Martin: The quirky world of "manspaces"
- Beau Lotto
- Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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- David Logan
- David Logan on tribal leadership
- Carolyn Steel
- Carolyn Steel: How food shapes our cities
- Stefan Sagmeister
- Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off
- Garik Israelian
- Garik Israelian: How spectroscopy could reveal alien life
- Karen Armstrong
- Karen Armstrong: Let's revive the Golden Rule
- Tim Brown
- Tim Brown urges designers to think big
- Parag Khanna
- Parag Khanna maps the future of countries
- Jacqueline Novogratz
- Jacqueline Novogratz: A third way to think about aid
- Taryn Simon
- Taryn Simon photographs secret sites
- William Kamkwamba
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- Evgeny Morozov
- Evgeny Morozov: How the Net aids dictatorships
- Jonathan Zittrain
- Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness
- Imogen Heap
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- Oliver Sacks
- Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds
- John Lloyd
- John Lloyd inventories the invisible
- Bjarke Ingels
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- Misha Glenny
- Misha Glenny investigates global crime networks
- Vishal Vaid
- Vishal Vaid's hypnotic song
- Rebecca Saxe
- Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds
- Lewis Pugh
- Lewis Pugh swims the North Pole
- James Balog
- James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss
- Steve Truglia
- Steve Truglia: A leap from the edge of space
- Evan Grant
- Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics
- Geoff Mulgan
- Geoff Mulgan: Post-crash, investing in a better world
- Joshua Silver
- Josh Silver demos adjustable liquid-filled eyeglasses
- Cary Fowler
- Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food
- Natasha Tsakos
- Natasha Tsakos' multimedia theatrical adventure
- Hans Rosling
- Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset
- Eric Giler
- Eric Giler demos wireless electricity
- Dan Pink
- Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation
- Emmanuel Jal
- Emmanuel Jal: The music of a war child
- Janine Benyus
- Janine Benyus: Biomimicry in action
- Paul Romer
- Paul Romer's radical idea: Charter cities
- Michael Pritchard
- Michael Pritchard's water filter turns filthy water drinkable
- Willard Wigan
- Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculpture
- Elaine Morgan
- Elaine Morgan says we evolved from aquatic apes
- Golan Levin
- Golan Levin makes art that looks back at you
- Alain de Botton
- Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
- Gordon Brown
- Gordon Brown: Wiring a web for global good
- Nina Jablonski
- Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin color
- Jim Fallon
- Jim Fallon: Exploring the mind of a killer
- Daniel Kraft
- Daniel Kraft invents a better way to harvest bone marrow
- Olafur Eliasson
- Olafur Eliasson: Playing with space and light
- Stewart Brand
- Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental 'heresies'
- Kary Mullis
- Kary Mullis' next-gen cure for killer infections
- Sophal Ear
- Sophal Ear: Escaping the Khmer Rouge
- Tom Wujec
- Tom Wujec on 3 ways the brain creates meaning
- Eames Demetrios
- The design genius of Charles + Ray Eames
- Daniel Libeskind
- Daniel Libeskind's 17 words of architectural inspiration
- Gever Tulley
- Gever Tulley teaches life lessons through tinkering
- Arthur Benjamin
- Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education
- Ray Zahab
- Ray Zahab treks to the South Pole
- Katherine Fulton
- Katherine Fulton: You are the future of philanthropy
- Paul Collier
- Paul Collier's new rules for rebuilding a broken nation
- Philip Zimbardo
- Philip Zimbardo prescribes a healthy take on time
- Qi Zhang
- Qi Zhang's electrifying organ performance
- Catherine Mohr
- Catherine Mohr: Surgery's past, present and robotic future
- Diane Benscoter
- Diane Benscoter on how cults rewire the brain
- Clay Shirky
- Clay Shirky: How social media can make history
- Jane Poynter
- Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2
- Richard St. John
- Richard St. John: "Success is a continuous journey"
- Robert Full
- Robert Full: Learning from the gecko's tail
- Nancy Etcoff
- Nancy Etcoff on the surprising science of happiness
- Kevin Surace
- Kevin Surace invents eco-friendly drywall
- John La Grou
- John La Grou plugs smart power outlets
- Pete Alcorn
- Pete Alcorn on the world in 2200
- Felix Dennis
- Publisher Felix Dennis' odes to vice and consequences
- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
- Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle
- Ray Kurzweil
- Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularity
- Liz Coleman
- Liz Coleman's call to reinvent liberal arts education
- Kaki King
- Kaki King rocks out to "Pink Noise"
- Jonathan Drori
- Jonathan Drori: Why we're storing billions of seeds
- Jay Walker
- Jay Walker on the world's English mania
- Michelle Obama
- Michelle Obama's plea for education
- Joachim de Posada
- Joachim de Posada says, Don't eat the marshmallow yet
- Yves Behar
- Yves Behar's supercharged motorcycle design
- Carolyn Porco
- Carolyn Porco: Could a Saturn moon harbor life?
- Mary Roach
- Mary Roach: 10 things you didn't know about orgasm
- Dan Ariely
- Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?
- Ray Anderson
- Ray Anderson on the business logic of sustainability
- Naturally 7
- Naturally 7 beatboxes a whole band
- Nandan Nilekani
- Nandan Nilekani's ideas for India's future
- Hans Rosling
- Stunning data visuals tell a new story about HIV
- Eric Lewis
- A piano performance that balances chaos and harmony
- Seth Godin
- Seth Godin on the tribes we lead
- Al Gore
- Alarming new slides depict a worsening climate crisis
- Louise Fresco
- How to feed the whole world (the case for white bread)
- Tom Shannon
- Gravity-defying sculpture inspired by the sun, the earth, the moon
- Mae Jemison
- A bold vision for teaching arts and sciences -- together
- Sean Gourley
- The mathematics of war
- Brian Cox
- What went wrong (and what's next) at the Large Hadron Collider
- Laurie Garrett
- What can we learn from the 1918 flu pandemic?
- Sarah Jones
- One woman, eight hilarious characters
- Michael Merzenich
- Exploring the re-wiring of the brain
- Alex Tabarrok
- How ideas trump economic crises -- a surprising lesson from 1929
- Ben Katchor
- Comics that tell the little stories of a big city
- Erik Hersman
- How texting and GoogleMaps helped Kenyans survive crisis
- Nate Silver
- Picking apart the puzzle of racism in elections
- Niels Diffrient
- Rethinking the way we sit down
- Margaret Wertheim
- The beautiful math that links coral, crochet and hyperbolic geometry
- Matthew Childs
- Hang in there! 9 life lessons from rock climbing
- Tim Ferriss
- How to feel like the Incredible Hulk
- JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
- Tour the AlloSphere, a stunning new way to see scientific data
- Gregory Stock
- How biotech will drive our evolution
- Shai Agassi
- A bold plan for mass adoption of electric cars
- Renny Gleeson
- Busted! The sneaky moves of antisocial smartphone users
- Emily Levine
- A trickster's theory of everything
- Bonnie Bassler
- Discovering bacteria's amazing communication system
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
- Three predictions on the future of Iran, and the math to back it up
- Nathaniel Kahn
- My father, my architect
- P.W. Singer
- Military robots and the future of war
- Christopher C. Deam
- Restyling the classic Airstream trailer
- Ueli Gegenschatz
- Fulfilling the dream of flight in a high-tech wingsuit
- Jacek Utko
- Can design save the newspaper?
- C.K. Williams
- Poetry for all seasons of life
- Nathan Wolfe
- A jungle search for the next pandemic virus
- John Wooden
- Coaching for people, not points
- David Pogue
- Cool new things you can do with your mobile phone
- Jacqueline Novogratz
- From a Nairobi slum, a tale of hope
- Saul Griffith
- Inventing a super-kite to tap the energy of high-altitude wind
- Kamal Meattle
- How to grow your own fresh air
- Bruce McCall
- Nostalgia for a future that never happened
- Adam Savage
- My quest for the dodo bird, and other obsessions
- Dan Ariely
- Dan Ariely on our buggy moral code
- Dan Dennett
- Cute, sexy, sweet and funny -- an evolutionary riddle
- Tim Berners-Lee
- The next Web of open, linked data
- Stuart Brown
- Why play is vital -- no matter your age
- Aimee Mullins
- How my legs give me super-powers
- Pattie Maes
- Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense
- Don Norman
- 3 ways that good design makes you happy
- Eric Lewis
- Striking chords to rock the jazz world
- Mike Rowe
- Celebrating work -- all kinds of work
- Nalini Nadkarni
- Unveiling the beautiful, fragile world of rainforest treetop ecosystems
- Willie Smits
- A 20-year tale of hope: How we re-grew a rainforest
- Brenda Laurel
- Why didn't girls play videogames?
- Evan Williams
- How Twitter's spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses
- Miru Kim
- Making art of New York's urban ruins
- Richard Pyle
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- Charles Moore
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- Ed Ulbrich
- Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin Button got his face
- Jill Tarter
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- Sylvia Earle
- Here's how to protect the blue heart of the planet (TED Prize winner!)
- Gustavo Dudamel and the Teresa CarreƱo Youth Orchestra
- A musical sensation from Venezuela
- Jose Antonio Abreu
- Help me bring music to kids worldwide (TED Prize winner!)
- Juan Enriquez
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- Barry Schwartz
- The real crisis? We stopped being wise
- David Merrill
- Siftables, the toy blocks that think
- Milton Glaser
- How great design makes ideas new
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- A different way to think about creative genius
- Bill Gates
- Bill Gates on mosquitos, malaria and education
- Bill Gross
- Great ideas for finding new energy
- Natalie MacMaster
- Playing the Cape Breton fiddle
- Joe DeRisi
- ViroScan, a high-tech tool for solving medical mysteries
- Aimee Mullins
- Running on high-tech legs
- Peter Ward
- Peter Ward on Earth's mass extinctions
- Woody Norris
- Inventing the next amazing thing
- Sherwin Nuland
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- Barry Schuler
- An introduction to genomics
- Jamais Cascio
- Tools for building a better world
- David Carson
- Design, discovery and humor
- Paula Scher
- Great design is serious (not solemn)
- Joseph Pine
- What do consumers really want?
- Peter Reinhart
- The art of baking bread
- Scott McCloud
- Understanding comics
- Rob Forbes
- Ways of seeing
- Greg Lynn
- How calculus is changing architecture
- Paul Moller
- Take a ride in the Skycar
- Paul Sereno
- What can fossils teach us?
- John Maeda
- My journey in design, from tofu to RISD
- Kary Mullis
- Kary Mullis celebrates the experiment
- Jennifer 8. Lee
- Who was General Tso? and other mysteries of American Chinese food
- Nicholas Negroponte
- Bringing One Laptop per Child to Colombia (TED in the Field)
- Steven Strogatz
- Steven Strogatz on sync
- Penelope Boston
- Life on Mars? Let's look in the caves
- Benjamin Wallace
- Does happiness have a price tag?
- Dan Gilbert
- How we are deceived by our own miscalculations of the future
- Jay Walker
- Jay Walker's library of human imagination
- Dennis vanEngelsdorp
- Where have the bees gone?
- Michael Milken
- Leveraging big ideas to make change
- Eva Zeisel
- The playful search for beauty
- David Holt
- The stories and song of Appalachia
- Nick Sears
- Nick Sears demos the Orb
- Larry Burns
- Reinventing the car
- Philip Rosedale
- Second Life, where anything is possible
- Richard Preston
- Climbing the world's biggest trees
- Gregory Petsko
- The coming neurological epidemic
- Andy Hobsbawm
- Do the green thing
- Dan Barber
- A surprising parable of foie gras
- Bill Joy
- Bill Joy: What I'm worried about, what I'm excited about
- George Smoot
- The design of the universe
- Franco Sacchi
- This is Nollywood
- Isaac Mizrahi
- Fashion, passion, and about a million other things
- Stewart Brand
- Building a home for the Clock of the Long Now
- Ursus Wehrli
- Ursus Wehrli tidies up art
- Charles Elachi
- The story of the Mars Rovers
- Samantha Power
- Shaking hands with the devil
- Lee Smolin
- How science is like democracy
- Luca Turin
- The science of scent
- Tim Brown
- The powerful link between creativity and play
- John Francis
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- James Surowiecki
- James Surowiecki: When social media became news
- Graham Hawkes
- Fly the seas on a submarine with wings
- Robert Wright
- Robert Wright: The evolution of compassion
- Robert Thurman
- Robert Thurman: Expanding your circle of compassion
- Feisal Abdul Rauf
- Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf: Lose your ego, find your compassion
- James Forbes
- Rev. James Forbes: Compassion at the dinner table
- Dayananda Saraswati
- Swami Dayananda Saraswati: The profound journey of compassion
- Jackie Tabick
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- Newton Aduaka
- The story of Ezra, a child soldier
- Keith Schacht
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- A 3-minute story of mixed emoticons
- Jared Diamond
- Why societies collapse
- Kristen Ashburn
- Heartrending pictures of AIDS
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Creativity, fulfillment and flow
- Paul MacCready
- Nature vs. humans, and what we can do about it
- John Hodgman
- A brief digression on matters of lost time
- Dean Ornish
- Healing and other natural wonders
- Virginia Postrel
- The power of glamour
- Paola Antonelli
- Design and the elastic mind
- Garrett Lisi
- A beautiful new theory of everything
- James Burchfield
- Sound stylings by a human beatbox
- Steven Johnson
- The Web and the city
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Learning from past presidents in moments of crisis
- David Perry
- Will videogames become better than life?
- James Nachtwey
- Use my photographs to stop the worldwide XDR-TB epidemic
- Liz Diller
- Architecture is a special effects machine
- Noah Feldman
- Politics and religion are technologies
- Stefan Sagmeister
- Stefan Sagmeister: Things I have learned in my life so far
- Rodney Brooks
- How robots will invade our lives
- Steven Pinker
- Chalking it up to the blank slate
- Caleb Chung
- Come play with Pleo the dinosaur
- Laura Trice
- The power of saying thank you
- Philip Zimbardo
- How ordinary people become monsters ... or heroes
- Marvin Minsky
- Health, population and the human mind
- David S. Rose
- 10 things to know before you pitch a VC for money
- Eve Ensler
- Security and insecurity
- Jonathan Haidt
- The real difference between liberals and conservatives
- Ann Cooper
- Reinventing the school lunch
- Keith Bellows
- Celebrating the camel
- Carmen Agra Deedy
- Spinning a story of Mama
- David Gallo
- The deep oceans: a ribbon of life
- Brewster Kahle
- A digital library, free to the world
- Irwin Redlener
- How to survive a nuclear attack
- Jane Goodall
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- Jonathan Drori
- Why we don't understand as much as we think we do
- Peter Hirshberg
- The Web and TV, a sibling rivalry
- Peter Diamandis
- Taking the next giant leap in space
- Paul Rothemund
- The astonishing promise of DNA folding
- Einstein the Parrot
- Talking and squawking TED2006
- Ory Okolloh
- The making of an African activist
- Sugata Mitra
- Can kids teach themselves?
- John Q. Walker
- Re-creating great performances
- Nellie McKay
- "The Dog Song"
- Ian Dunbar
- Dog-friendly dog training
- Lennart Green
- Close-up card magic
- David Griffin
- Photography connects us with the world
- Spencer Wells
- Building a family tree for all humanity
- Patricia Burchat
- The search for dark energy and dark matter
- Bruno Bowden
- Origami, blindfolded and to music
- Robert Lang
- Idea + square = origami
- Kwabena Boahen
- Making a computer that works like the brain
- Kevin Kelly
- Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web
- Reed Kroloff
- Architecture, modern and romantic
- Jonathan Harris
- The art of collecting stories
- Louise Leakey
- Digging for humanity's origins
- Chris Abani
- Telling stories of our shared humanity
- Marisa Fick-Jordan
- The wonders of Zulu wire art
- Martin Seligman
- What positive psychology can help you become
- Keith Barry
- Brain magic
- A.J. Jacobs
- My year of living biblically
- Billy Graham
- Technology, faith and human shortcomings
- Helen Fisher
- The brain in love
- Freeman Dyson
- Let's look for life in the outer solar system
- Nellie McKay
- "Mother of Pearl" and "If I Had You"
- Clay Shirky
- Institutions vs. collaboration
- David Hoffman
- How would you feel if you lost everything?
- Torsten Reil
- Using biology to make better animation
- Corneille Ewango
- A hero of the Congo Basin forest
- Raul Midon
- "Everybody" and "Peace on Earth"
- Rick Smolan
- A girl, a photograph, a homecoming
- Peter Diamandis
- Stephen Hawking hits zero g
- Sxip Shirey
- Breath, music, passion
- Nellie McKay
- "Clonie"
- Nicholas Negroponte
- One Laptop per Child, two years on
- Benjamin Zander
- Classical music with shining eyes
- Steven Levitt
- Are children's carseats necessary?
- Adam Grosser
- A new vision for refrigeration
- Robert Full
- How engineers learn from evolution
- Dean Ornish
- Your genes are not your fate
- Chris Jordan
- Picturing excess
- George Dyson
- Stories from the birth of the computer
- Murray Gell-Mann
- Do all languages have a common ancestor?
- Wade Davis
- The worldwide web of belief and ritual
- Rokia Traore
- "Kounandi"
- Nathan Myhrvold
- A life of fascinations
- Susan Blackmore
- Memes and "temes"
- Paul Collier
- 4 ways to improve the lives of the "bottom billion"
- Seyi Oyesola
- Rich hospital, poor hospital
- Arthur Ganson
- Sculpture that's truly moving
- Yves Behar
- Creating objects that tell stories
- Robert Ballard
- Exploring the ocean's hidden worlds
- 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
- Juggling rhythm and motion
- Paul Ewald
- Can we domesticate germs?
- Paul Stamets
- 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
- Hector Ruiz
- The power to connect the world
- They Might Be Giants
- Wake up! It's They Might Be Giants
- Brian Cox
- An inside tour of the world's biggest supercollider
- Brian Greene
- The universe on a string
- Amy Tan
- Where does creativity hide?
- Ernest Madu
- Bringing world-class health care to the poorest
- Yochai Benkler
- Open-source economics
- Tod Machover
- Releasing the music in your head
- Johnny Lee
- Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote
- Al Gore
- New thinking on the climate crisis
- Stephen Hawking
- Asking big questions about the universe
- Jakob Trollback
- Rethinking the music video
- David Hoffman
- Catch Sputnik mania!
- Siegfried Woldhek
- The true face of Leonardo Da Vinci?
- Rokia Traore
- "M'Bifo"
- Clifford Stoll
- 18 minutes with an agile mind
- Christopher deCharms
- Looking inside the brain in real time
- Norman Foster
- Building on the green agenda
- Neil Turok
- 2008 TED Prize wish: An African Einstein
- Karen Armstrong
- 2008 TED Prize wish: Charter for Compassion
- Dave Eggers
- 2008 TED Prize wish: Once Upon a School
- Frank Gehry
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- Jill Bolte Taylor
- My stroke of insight
- Nicholas Negroponte
- From 1984, 4 predictions about the future (3 of them correct)
- Craig Venter
- On the verge of creating synthetic life
- Alan Kay
- A powerful idea about teaching ideas
- Roy Gould
- WorldWide Telescope
- Steve Jurvetson
- The joy of rockets
- Joseph Lekuton
- A parable for Kenya
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- Welcome to Vaudeville 2.0
- 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
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- Howard Rheingold
- Way-new collaboration
- Michael Pollan
- The omnivore's next dilemma
- David Macaulay
- All roads lead to Rome Antics
- Jaime Lerner
- Sing a song of sustainable cities
- Robin Chase
- Getting cars off the road and data into the skies
- Chris Anderson (TED)
- A vision for TED
- Alison Jackson
- A surprising look at celebrity
- David Pogue
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- 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
- Treating design as art
- David Gallo
- Underwater astonishments
- J.J. Abrams
- The mystery box
- Deborah Gordon
- How do ants know what to do?
- Yossi Vardi
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- Isabel Allende
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- Gever Tulley
- 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do
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