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18:28
Julie Taymor
Spider-Man, The Lion King and life on the creative edge
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Jul 2013
18:42
Antonio Damasio
The quest to understand consciousness
Posted
Dec 2011
9:34
Homaro Cantu + Ben Roche
Cooking as alchemy
Posted
Dec 2011
3:50
Damon Horowitz
Philosophy in prison
Posted
Nov 2011
18:15
Béatrice Coron
Stories cut from paper
Posted
Oct 2011
5:49
Graham Hill
Less stuff, more happiness
Posted
Oct 2011
5:50
Sunni Brown
Doodlers, unite!
Posted
Sep 2011
9:05
Kate Hartman
The art of wearable communication
Posted
Sep 2011
16:10
Edward Tenner
Unintended consequences
Posted
Sep 2011
6:04
Skylar Tibbits
Can we make things that make themselves?
Posted
Sep 2011
5:35
Dan Ariely
Beware conflicts of interest
Posted
Aug 2011
4:46
Philip Zimbardo
The demise of guys?
Posted
Aug 2011
4:13
Nina Tandon
Caring for engineered tissue
Posted
Jul 2011
10:05
Nathan Myhrvold
Cooking as never seen before
Posted
Jul 2011
3:27
Matt Cutts
Try something new for 30 days
Posted
Jul 2011
5:41
Robert Hammond
Building a park in the sky
Posted
Jun 2011
17:01
Rajesh Rao
A Rosetta Stone for a lost language
Posted
Jun 2011
10:53
Daniel Tammet
Different ways of knowing
Posted
Jun 2011
16:48
Bill Ford
A future beyond traffic gridlock
Posted
Jun 2011
20:09
Maya Beiser
A cello with many voices
Posted
Jun 2011
4:11
Camille Seaman
Haunting photos of polar ice
Posted
Jun 2011
16:48
Shea Hembrey
How I became 100 artists
Posted
Jun 2011
9:13
Paul Romer
The world's first charter city?
Posted
Jun 2011
9:26
Janet Echelman
Taking imagination seriously
Posted
Jun 2011
16:36
Jack Horner
Building a dinosaur from a chicken
Posted
Jun 2011
7:51
Aaron O'Connell
Making sense of a visible quantum object
Posted
Jun 2011
9:08
Dennis Hong
Making a car for blind drivers
Posted
May 2011
9:21
Robert Gupta + Joshua Roman
On violin and cello, "Passacaglia"
Posted
May 2011
23:09
Bruce Aylward
How we'll stop polio for good
Posted
May 2011
18:18
Aaron Koblin
Visualizing ourselves ... with crowd-sourced data
Posted
May 2011
12:45
Edith Widder
The weird, wonderful world of bioluminescence
Posted
May 2011
8:14
Elliot Krane
The mystery of chronic pain
Posted
May 2011
16:52
Thomas Heatherwick
Building the Seed Cathedral
Posted
May 2011
18:24
Ed Boyden
A light switch for neurons
Posted
May 2011
5:35
Amit Sood
Building a museum of museums on the web
Posted
May 2011
7:26
Ron Gutman
The hidden power of smiling
Posted
May 2011
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