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4:07
Rives
If I controlled the Internet
Posted
Dec 2006
23:07
Barry Schwartz
Using our practical wisdom
Posted
Dec 2010
15:33
Stephen Cave
The 4 stories we tell ourselves about death
Posted
Dec 2013
18:37
David Chalmers
How do you explain consciousness?
Posted
Jul 2014
14:58
Gaspard Koenig
Do we really own our bodies?
Posted
May 2018
7:51
Aaron O'Connell
Making sense of a visible quantum object
Posted
Jun 2011
14:50
Henry Markram
A brain in a supercomputer
Posted
Oct 2009
9:50
Onora O'Neill
What we don't understand about trust
Posted
Sep 2013
11:09
Shannon Lee
What Bruce Lee can teach us about living fully
Posted
Oct 2019
8:47
Michael Sandel
The tyranny of merit
Posted
Aug 2020
12:23
Sebastian Deterding
What your designs say about you
Posted
May 2012
18:24
Stewart Brand
The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?
Posted
Mar 2013
4:34
Wisecrack
Plato's best (and worst) ideas
Posted
Oct 2016
16:36
Thomas P. Campbell
Weaving narratives in museum galleries
Posted
Oct 2012
19:42
Paul Root Wolpe
It's time to question bio-engineering
Posted
Mar 2011
5:03
TED-Ed
What if you experienced every human life in history?
Posted
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Cara E. Yar Khan
The beautiful balance between courage and fear
Posted
Dec 2019
4:15
Daniel Gregory
How do you know you're not dreaming?
Posted
Mar 2022
19:14
Naomi Oreskes
Why we should trust scientists
Posted
Jun 2014
5:01
David Brooks
Should you live for your résumé ... or your eulogy?
Posted
Apr 2014
17:06
Philippe Starck
Design and destiny
Posted
Dec 2007
3:30
Akshita Agarwal
The paradox of value
Posted
Aug 2016
16:52
Nick Bostrom
A philosophical quest for our biggest problems
Posted
Apr 2007
5:19
Alex Gendler
The original ring of power
Posted
Sep 2022
15:54
Sean Carroll
Distant time and the hint of a multiverse
Posted
May 2011
4:09
Camille Langston
How to use rhetoric to get what you want
Posted
Sep 2016
4:19
Alex Gendler
Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle?
Posted
Oct 2015
21:30
Linus Torvalds
The mind behind Linux
Posted
Apr 2016
15:44
Arthur Ganson
Moving sculpture
Posted
May 2008
19:42
Michael Sandel
The lost art of democratic debate
Posted
Jun 2010
5:08
Erick Wilberding
This tool will help improve your critical thinking
Posted
Apr 2021
17:19
Peter Singer
The why and how of effective altruism
Posted
May 2013
4:14
Doug MacKay
You can only save one— who do you choose?
Posted
Dec 2021
16:38
David Deutsch
A new way to explain explanation
Posted
Oct 2009
3:54
Bethany Rickwald and Hayley Levitt
Would you opt for a life with no pain?
Posted
Nov 2015
24:45
Dan Dennett
Let's teach religion — all religion — in schools
Posted
Jul 2006
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