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Mae Jemison
Teach arts and sciences together
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May 2009
3:29
Brian Cox
What went wrong at the LHC
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May 2009
15:33
Margaret Wertheim
The beautiful math of coral
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Apr 2009
6:27
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere
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Apr 2009
17:51
Gregory Stock
To upgrade is human
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Apr 2009
22:52
Emily Levine
A theory of everything
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Apr 2009
18:14
Bonnie Bassler
How bacteria "talk"
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Apr 2009
12:15
Nathan Wolfe
The jungle search for viruses
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Mar 2009
4:04
Kamal Meattle
How to grow fresh air
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Mar 2009
16:23
Dan Ariely
Our buggy moral code
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Mar 2009
26:42
Stuart Brown
Play is more than just fun
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Mar 2009
20:42
Willie Smits
How to restore a rainforest
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Mar 2009
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Richard Pyle
A dive into the reef's Twilight Zone
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Feb 2009
7:20
Charles Moore
Seas of plastic
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Feb 2009
21:23
Jill Tarter
Join the SETI search
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Feb 2009
18:16
Sylvia Earle
My wish: Protect our oceans
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Feb 2009
18:50
Juan Enriquez
The next species of human
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Feb 2009
20:16
Bill Gates
Mosquitos, malaria and education
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Feb 2009
16:05
Joe DeRisi
Solving medical mysteries
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Jan 2009
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Peter Ward
A theory of Earth's mass extinctions
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Jan 2009
21:26
Barry Schuler
Genomics 101
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Jan 2009
15:34
Peter Reinhart
The art and craft of bread
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Jan 2009
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Kary Mullis
Play! Experiment! Discover!
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Jan 2009
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Steven Strogatz
The science of sync
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Dec 2008
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Penelope Boston
There might just be life on Mars
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Dec 2008
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Richard Preston
The mysterious lives of giant trees
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Dec 2008
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Gregory Petsko
The coming neurological epidemic
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Bill Joy
What I'm worried about, what I'm excited about
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George Smoot
The design of the universe
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Nov 2008
28:17
Charles Elachi
The story behind the Mars Rovers
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Nov 2008
12:25
Lee Smolin
Science and democracy
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Nov 2008
15:53
Luca Turin
The science of scent
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Nov 2008
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Zach Kaplan + Keith Schacht
Toys and materials from the future
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Oct 2008
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Kristen Ashburn
The face of AIDS in Africa
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Oct 2008
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John Hodgman
Aliens, love — where are they?
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Dean Ornish
Healing through diet
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