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Stan Lee: What makes a superhero?

As the creator of a large chunk of the Marvel Universe, Stan Lee knows a thing or two about conjuring new superheroes from thin air. In this instructional and charmingly idiosyncratic talk, Lee shares a few lessons on how to write your own superpowered characters and deploy them in stories that connect with the largest possible audience.
https://www.ted.com/talks/stan_lee_what_makes_a_superhero

David Lee: Why jobs of the future won't feel like work

We've all heard that robots are going to take our jobs -- but what can we do about it? Innovation expert David Lee says that we should start designing jobs that unlock our hidden talents and passions -- the things we spend our weekends doing -- to keep us relevant in the age of robotics. "Start asking people what problems they're inspired to sol...
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_lee_why_jobs_of_the_future_won_t_feel_like_work

Lee Mokobe: A powerful poem about what it feels like to be transgender

"I was the mystery of an anatomy, a question asked but not answered," says poet Lee Mokobe, a TED Fellow, in this gripping and poetic exploration of identity and transition. It's a thoughtful reflection on bodies, and the meanings poured into them.
https://www.ted.com/talks/lee_mokobe_a_powerful_poem_about_what_it_feels_like_to_be_transgender

Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic time machine

Science columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten-thousand-year-old ice to extract vital data on our changing climate.
https://www.ted.com/talks/lee_hotz_inside_an_antarctic_time_machine

Shannon Lee: What Bruce Lee can teach us about living fully

Most of us know Bruce Lee as the famous martial artist and action film star -- but he was also a philosopher who taught "self-actualization": the practice of how to be yourself in the best way possible. In this inspiring talk, Bruce's daughter Shannon Lee takes us inside the mind of her father, exploring how to use his philosophy in your daily l...
https://www.ted.com/talks/shannon_lee_what_bruce_lee_can_teach_us_about_living_fully

Suzanne Lee: Grow your own clothes

Designer Suzanne Lee shares her experiments in growing a kombucha-based material that can be used like fabric or vegetable leather to make clothing. The process is fascinating, the results are beautiful (though there's still one minor drawback ...) and the potential is simply stunning.
https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_lee_grow_your_own_clothes

Euna Lee: What I learned as a prisoner in North Korea

In March 2009, North Korean soldiers captured journalist Euna Lee and her colleague Laura Ling while they were shooting a documentary on the border with China. The courts sentenced them to 12 years of hard labor, but American diplomats eventually negotiated their release. In this surprising, deeply human talk, Lee shares her experience living as...
https://www.ted.com/talks/euna_lee_what_i_learned_as_a_prisoner_in_north_korea

Kang Lee: Can you really tell if a kid is lying?

Are children poor liars? Do you think you can easily detect their lies? Developmental researcher Kang Lee studies what happens physiologically to children when they lie. They do it a lot, starting as young as two years old, and they're actually really good at it. Lee explains why we should celebrate when kids start to lie and presents new lie-de...
https://www.ted.com/talks/kang_lee_can_you_really_tell_if_a_kid_is_lying

Tim Berners-Lee: The next web

20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.
https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_the_next_web

Lee Thomas: How I help people understand vitiligo

TV news anchor Lee Thomas thought his career was over after he was diagnosed with vitiligo, an autoimmune disorder that left large patches of his skin without pigment and led to derision and stares. In a captivating talk, he shares how he discovered a way to counter misunderstanding and fear around his appearance with engagement, dialogue -- and...
https://www.ted.com/talks/lee_thomas_how_i_help_people_understand_vitiligo

Jinsop Lee: Design for all 5 senses

Good design looks great, yes -- but why shouldn't it also feel great, smell great and sound great? Designer Jinsop Lee (a TED Talent Search winner) shares his theory of 5-sense design, with a handy graph and a few examples. His hope: to inspire you to notice great multisensory experiences.
https://www.ted.com/talks/jinsop_lee_design_for_all_5_senses

Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine

Chemist Lee Cronin is working on a 3D printer that, instead of objects, is able to print molecules. An exciting potential long-term application: printing your own medicine using chemical inks.
https://www.ted.com/talks/lee_cronin_print_your_own_medicine

Johnny Lee: Free or cheap Wii Remote hacks

Building sophisticated educational tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the $40 video game controller into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer.
https://www.ted.com/talks/johnny_lee_free_or_cheap_wii_remote_hacks

Suzanne Lee: Why "biofabrication" is the next industrial revolution

What if we could "grow" clothes from microbes, furniture from living organisms and buildings with exteriors like tree bark? TED Fellow Suzanne Lee shares exciting developments from the field of biofabrication and shows how it could help us replace major sources of waste, like plastic and cement, with sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives.
https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_lee_why_biofabrication_is_the_next_industrial_revolution

Jennifer 8. Lee: Why 1.5 billion people eat with chopsticks

Author Jennifer 8. Lee explains how the chopstick spread from the East to the West -- and was designed to give you the perfect bite.
https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_8_lee_why_1_5_billion_people_eat_with_chopsticks

Jennifer 8. Lee: The hunt for General Tso

Reporter Jennifer 8. Lee talks about her hunt for the origins of familiar Chinese-American dishes -- exploring the hidden spots where these two cultures have (so tastily) combined to form a new cuisine.
https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_8_lee_the_hunt_for_general_tso

Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive

Before life existed on Earth, there was just matter, inorganic dead "stuff." How improbable is it that life arose? And -- could it use a different type of chemistry? Using an elegant definition of life (anything that can evolve), chemist Lee Cronin is exploring this question by attempting to create a fully inorganic cell using a "Lego kit" of in...
https://www.ted.com/talks/lee_cronin_making_matter_come_alive

Lee Smolin: Science and democracy

Physicist Lee Smolin talks about how the scientific community works: as he puts it, "we fight and argue as hard as we can," but everyone accepts that the next generation of scientists will decide who's right. And, he says, that's how democracy works, too.
https://www.ted.com/talks/lee_smolin_science_and_democracy

Kai-Fu Lee: How AI can save our humanity

AI is massively transforming our world, but there's one thing it cannot do: love. In a visionary talk, computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee details how the US and China are driving a deep learning revolution -- and shares a blueprint for how humans can thrive in the age of AI by harnessing compassion and creativity. "AI is serendipity," Lee says. "It i...
https://www.ted.com/talks/kai_fu_lee_how_ai_can_save_our_humanity

Jinha Lee: Reach into the computer and grab a pixel

The border between our physical world and the digital information surrounding us has been getting thinner and thinner. Designer and engineer Jinha Lee wants to dissolve it altogether. As he demonstrates in this short, gasp-inducing talk, his ideas include a pen that penetrates into a screen to draw 3D models and SpaceTop, a computer desktop prot...
https://www.ted.com/talks/jinha_lee_reach_into_the_computer_and_grab_a_pixel

Hyeonseo Lee: My escape from North Korea

As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee thought her country was "the best on the planet." It wasn't until the famine of the 90s that she began to wonder. She escaped the country at 14, to begin a life in hiding, as a refugee in China. Hers is a harrowing, personal tale of survival and hope -- and a powerful reminder of those who face ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/hyeonseo_lee_my_escape_from_north_korea

Jinha Lee: A holographic meeting platform for collaborating from anywhere

When you think of telecommuting, you might think of a remote colleague's face in a tiny square on a screen. But with Jinha Lee's augmented reality platform, Spatial, distant coworkers can now teleport as digital avatars into a shared virtual space. Check out the incredible potential and possibilities for colleagues on different continents or in ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/jinha_lee_a_holographic_meeting_platform_for_collaborating_from_anywhere

Ian Ritchie: The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee

Imagine it's late 1990, and you've just met a nice young man named Tim Berners-Lee, who starts telling you about his proposed system called the World Wide Web. Ian Ritchie was there. And ... he didn't buy it. A short story about information, connectivity and learning from mistakes.
https://www.ted.com/talks/ian_ritchie_the_day_i_turned_down_tim_berners_lee

Ingrid Fetell Lee: Where joy hides and how to find it

Cherry blossoms and rainbows, bubbles and googly eyes: Why do some things seem to create such universal joy? In this captivating talk, Ingrid Fetell Lee reveals the surprisingly tangible roots of joy and shows how we all can find -- and create -- more of it in the world around us.
https://www.ted.com/talks/ingrid_fetell_lee_where_joy_hides_and_how_to_find_it

Hyeonseo Lee | TED Speaker

As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee thoght her country was the "best on the planet." It wasn't until the famine of the 90s that she began to wonder. She escaped the country at 17-years-old to begin a life in hiding as a refugee in China. Hers is a harrowing, personal tale of survival and hope -- and a powerful reminder of those who face constant danger, even when the border is far behind.
Activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/hyeonseo_lee

Kang Lee | TED Speaker

Kang Lee has devoted his career to understanding the development of social cognition and behavior.
Developmental researcher
https://www.ted.com/speakers/kang_lee

Jae Rhim Lee: My mushroom burial suit

Here's a powerful provocation from artist Jae Rhim Lee. Can we commit our bodies to a cleaner, greener Earth, even after death? Naturally -- using a special burial suit seeded with pollution-gobbling mushrooms. Yes, this just might be the strangest TEDTalk you'll ever see ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/jae_rhim_lee_my_mushroom_burial_suit

Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide

At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up.
https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_the_year_open_data_went_worldwide

Angela Lee Duckworth: Grit: The power of passion and perseverance

Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn't the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of "grit" as a predictor of success.
https://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_grit_the_power_of_passion_and_perseverance

Tim Berners-Lee: A Magna Carta for the web

Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web 25 years ago. So it’s worth a listen when he warns us: There’s a battle ahead. Eroding net neutrality, filter bubbles and centralizing corporate control all threaten the web’s wide-open spaces. It’s up to users to fight for the right to access and openness. The question is, What kind of Internet do...
https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_a_magna_carta_for_the_web
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