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David J. Malan
What's an algorithm?
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May 2013
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Laura Snyder
The Philosophical Breakfast Club
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Apr 2013
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Freeman Hrabowski
4 pillars of college success in science
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Apr 2013
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Jeff Dekofsky
Euclid's puzzling parallel postulate
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Mar 2013
4:29
Bill Shillito
How to organize, add and multiply matrices
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Mar 2013
7:19
Christian Rudder
Inside OKCupid: The math of online dating
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Feb 2013
3:35
Garth Sundem
How to defeat a dragon with math
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Jan 2013
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Jac de Haan
Why do competitors open their stores next to one another?
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Nov 2012
4:21
Daniel Dulek
How big is a mole? (Not the animal, the other one.)
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Sep 2012
6:04
Max Little
A test for Parkinson's with a phone call
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Aug 2012
10:02
Hannah Fry
Is life really that complex?
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Aug 2012
11:07
Michael Hansmeyer
Building unimaginable shapes
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Jul 2012
7:01
Dennis Wildfogel
How big is infinity?
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Jul 2012
7:16
Jill Tarter
Calculating the odds of intelligent alien life
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Jul 2012
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E.O. Wilson
Advice to a young scientist
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Jun 2012
3:57
Terry Moore
Why is 'x' the unknown?
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Jun 2012
18:40
Seth Shostak
ET is (probably) out there — get ready
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Jun 2012
18:35
David MacKay
A reality check on renewables
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May 2012
3:43
Christopher Danielson
One is one... or is it?
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May 2012
4:26
Jean-Baptiste Michel
The mathematics of history
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May 2012
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Adrián Paenza
How folding paper can get you to the moon
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Apr 2012
21:47
Brian Greene
Is our universe the only universe?
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Apr 2012
7:31
Adam Savage
How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries
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Mar 2012
12:07
Chris Anderson (TED)
Questions no one knows the answers to
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Mar 2012
19:10
Danny Hillis
Back to the future (of 1994)
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Feb 2012
9:43
Scott Rickard
The beautiful math behind the world's ugliest music
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Jan 2012
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Daniel Wolpert
The real reason for brains
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Nov 2011
17:33
Geoffrey West
The surprising math of cities and corporations
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Jul 2011
17:19
Conrad Wolfram
Teaching kids real math with computers
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Nov 2010
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Dan Cobley
What physics taught me about marketing
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Aug 2010
17:09
Benoit Mandelbrot
Fractals and the art of roughness
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Jul 2010
11:39
Dan Meyer
Math class needs a makeover
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May 2010
19:58
Stephen Wolfram
Computing a theory of all knowledge
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Apr 2010
11:49
Scott Kim
The art of puzzles
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Dec 2009
18:19
Marcus du Sautoy
Symmetry, reality's riddle
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Oct 2009
4:39
Evan Grant
Making sound visible through cymatics
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Sep 2009
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