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Tim Birkhead
The early birdwatchers
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Sep 2010
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4:01
Jessa Gamble
Our natural sleep cycle is nothing like what we do now
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Jeremy Rifkin
The empathic civilization
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Aug 2010
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20:59
Nicholas Christakis
The hidden influence of social networks
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57:55
Richard Dawkins
Growing up in the universe
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Vilayanur Ramachandran
The neurons that shaped civilization
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Jan 2010
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17:13
Elaine Morgan
I believe we evolved from aquatic apes
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Jul 2009
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14:48
Nina Jablonski
Skin color is an illusion
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Jul 2009
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17:51
Gregory Stock
To upgrade is human
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Apr 2009
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18:14
Bonnie Bassler
How bacteria "talk"
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Apr 2009
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7:45
Dan Dennett
Cute, sexy, sweet, funny
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Mar 2009
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21:46
Paul Sereno
Digging up dinosaurs
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Jan 2009
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16:56
Robert Wright
The evolution of compassion
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Oct 2008
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18:42
Jonathan Haidt
The moral roots of liberals and conservatives
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Sep 2008
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20:53
Spencer Wells
A family tree for humanity
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Aug 2008
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15:36
Louise Leakey
A dig for humanity's origins
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Jul 2008
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20:22
Robert Full
Robots inspired by cockroach ingenuity
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Jun 2008
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19:28
Susan Blackmore
Memes and "temes"
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Jun 2008
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17:51
Paul Ewald
Can we domesticate germs?
Posted
May 2008
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10:12
Stephen Hawking
Questioning the universe
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Apr 2008
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17:25
Michael Pollan
A plant's-eye view
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Feb 2008
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5:27
David Gallo
Underwater astonishments
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Jan 2008
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19:24
Robert Full
The sticky wonder of gecko feet
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Nov 2007
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6:18
Hod Lipson
Building "self-aware" robots
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Oct 2007
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23:19
Janine Benyus
Biomimicry's surprising lessons from nature's engineers
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Apr 2007
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16:17
Frans Lanting
The story of life in photographs
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Apr 2007
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17:25
Susan Savage-Rumbaugh
The gentle genius of bonobos
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Apr 2007
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20:00
Kevin Kelly
How technology evolves
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Nov 2006
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21:16
Dan Gilbert
The surprising science of happiness
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Sep 2006
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21:56
Richard Dawkins
Why the universe seems so strange
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Sep 2006
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23:27
Helen Fisher
Why we love, why we cheat
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Sep 2006
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24:45
Dan Dennett
Let's teach religion — all religion — in schools
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Jul 2006
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