| A.J. Jacobs: My year of living biblically - 1061 sec
http://www.ted.com Speaking at the most recent EG conference, author, philosopher, prankster and journalist A.J. Jacobs talks about the year he spent living biblically -- following the rules in the Bible as literally as possible.
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| Billy Graham: Technology, faith and human shortcomings - 1581 sec
http://www.ted.com Speaking at TED in 1998, Rev. Billy Graham marvels at technology's power to improve lives and change the world -- but says the end of evil, suffering and death will come only after the world accepts Christ. A legendary talk from TED's archives.
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| Helen Fisher: The brain in love - 988 sec
http://www.ted.com Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love, Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of people in love -- and people who had just been dumped.
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| Freeman Dyson: Let's look for life in the outer solar system - 1238 sec
http://www.ted.com Physicist Freeman Dyson suggests that we start looking for life on the moons of Jupiter and out past Neptune, in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud. He talks about what such life would be like -- and how we might find it.
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| Nellie McKay: "Mother of Pearl" and "If I Had You" - 335 sec
http://www.ted.com The wonderful Nellie McKay sings "Mother of Pearl" (with the immortal first line "Feminists don't have a sense of humor") and "If I Had You" from her sparkling set at TED2008.
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| Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration - 1247 sec
http://www.ted.com In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning.
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| David Hoffman: How would you feel if you lost everything? - 334 sec
http://www.ted.com Nine days before TED2008, filmmaker David Hoffman lost almost everything he owned in a fire that destroyed his home, office and 30 years of passionate collecting. He looks back at a life that's been wiped clean in an instant -- and looks forward.
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| Torsten Reil: Using biology to make better animation - 1101 sec
http://www.ted.com Torsten Reil talks about how the study of biology can help make natural-looking animated people -- by building a human from the inside out, with bones, muscles and a nervous system. He spoke at TED in 2003; see his work now in GTA4.
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| Corneille Ewango: A hero of the Congo Basin forest - 1099 sec
http://www.ted.com Botanist Corneille Ewango talks about his work at the Okapi Faunal Reserve in the Congo Basin -- and his heroic work protecting it from poachers, miners and raging civil wars.
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| Raul Midon: "Everybody" and "Peace on Earth" - 599 sec
http://www.ted.com Guitarist and singer Raul Midon plays "Everybody" and "Peace on Earth" during his 2007 set at TED.
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| Rick Smolan: A girl, a photograph, a homecoming - 1507 sec
http://www.ted.com Photographer Rick Smolan tells the unforgettable story of a young Amerasian girl, a fateful photograph, and an adoption saga with a twist.
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| Peter Diamandis: Stephen Hawking hits zero g - 242 sec
http://www.ted.com X Prize founder Peter Diamandis talks about how he helped Stephen Hawking fulfill his dream of going to space -- by flying together into the upper atmosphere and experiencing weightlessness at zero g.
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| Sxip Shirey & Rachelle Garniez: Breath, music, passion - 274 sec
http://www.ted.com Composer Sxip Shirey makes music from the simple, dramatic act of breathing -- alone and together. Open your ears to a passionate 3 minutes.
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| Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop per Child, two years on - 994 sec
http://www.ted.com Nicholas Negroponte talks about how One Laptop per Child is doing, two years in. Speaking at the EG conference while the first XO laptops roll off the production line, he recaps the controversies and recommits to the goals of this far-reaching project.
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| Benjamin Zander: Classical music with shining eyes - 1244 sec
http://www.ted.com Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it -- and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections.
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| Steven Levitt: Are children's carseats necessary? - 1232 sec
http://www.ted.com Steven Levitt shares data that shows car seats are no more effective than seatbelts in protecting kids from dying in cars. However, during the Q&A, he makes one crucial caveat.
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| Adam Grosser: A new vision for refrigeration - 212 sec
http://www.ted.com Adam Grosser talks about a project to build a refrigerator that works without electricity -- to bring the vital tool to villages and clinics worldwide. Tweaking some old technology, he's come up with a system that works.
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| Robert Full: How engineers learn from evolution - 1256 sec
http://www.ted.com Insects and animals have evolved some amazing skills -- but, as Robert Full notes, many animals are actually over-engineered. The trick is to copy only what's necessary. He shows how human engineers can learn from animals' tricks.
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| Chris Jordan: Picturing excess - 675 sec
http://www.ted.com Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics -- like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day.
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| George Dyson: The birth of the computer - 1040 sec
http://www.ted.com Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer -- from its 16th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of some early computer engineers.
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