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  1. Fake videos of real people -- and how to spot them
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  6. Addicted to risk

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  1. Why we need to imagine different futures
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  4. Should we create a solar shade to cool the earth?
  5. An independent diplomat
  6. Adventures of an asteroid hunter

Open source, open world

  1. How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination
  2. The year open data went worldwide
  3. Discover the next mobile economy
  4. The mind behind Linux
  5. Massive-scale online collaboration
  6. The art of asking

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Heard on TED Radio Hour

  1. A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow
  2. The global food waste scandal
  3. Reviving New York's rivers -- with oysters!
  4. The surprising solution to ocean plastic
  5. Wearing nothing new
  6. The unheard story of David and Goliath

A little bit sexy

  1. 10 things you didn't know about orgasm
  2. What we learn from insects' sex lives
  3. Cute, sexy, sweet, funny
  4. The birds and the bees are just the beginning
  5. How a dead duck changed my life
  6. The loves and lies of fireflies

Our brains: predictably irrational

  1. The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain
  2. Homeopathy, quackery and fraud
  3. Why people believe weird things
  4. The optimism bias
  5. Beware conflicts of interest
  6. The paradox of choice

Sustainable consumption: Ideas from TEDx

  1. How I make paint from poison
  2. Plastic pollution, our toilets and us
  3. How I hunt natural gas leaks with Google Street View cars
  4. How ugly, unloved food can change the world
  5. The four things you need to know about the energy you use
  6. Why we should end animal agriculture

About TED

TED is a nonpartisan nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks. TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 110 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.