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Hans Rosling: No more boring data: TEDTalks
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Video duration: 1235 seconds
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http://www.ted.com With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling uses an amazing new presentation tool, Gapminder, to debunk several myths about world development. Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a nonprofit that brings vital global data to life. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA.)
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TEDTalks: Dan Gilbert (2005)
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Video duration: 1321 seconds
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http://www.ted.com Dan Gilbert is a psychology professor at Harvard, and author of Stumbling on Happiness. In this memorable talk, filmed at TED2004, he demonstrates just how poor we humans are at predicting (or understanding) what will make us happy. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 22:02)
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TEDTalks: Barry Schwartz (2005)
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Video duration: 1222 seconds
Global video hits: 74357
http://www.ted.com Barry Schwartz is a sociology professor at Swarthmore College and author of The Paradox of Choice. In this talk, he persuasively explains how and why the abundance of choice in modern society is actually making us miserable. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 20:22
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TEDTalks: Malcom Gladwell (2004)
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Video duration: 1095 seconds
Global video hits: 63523
http://www.ted.com Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and best-selling author ofThe Tipping Point and Blink. In this talk, filmed at TED2004, he explains what every business can learn from spaghetti sauce. (Recorded February 2004 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 18:15)
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TEDTalks: Jimmy Wales (2005)
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Video duration: 1248 seconds
Global video hits: 11381
http://www.ted.com Jimmy Wales is founder of Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, ever-expanding, and thoroughly addictive encyclopedia of the future. In this presentation, he explains how Wikipedia's collaborative system works, and why it succeeds. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 20:47)
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TEDTalks: Aubrey de Grey (2005)
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Video duration: 1411 seconds
Global video hits: 22908
http://www.ted.com Aubrey de Grey, British biogerontologist and founder of SENS, controversially claims to have created a roadmap to defeat biological aging. In this talk, he argues that aging - like other diseases - can be cured, and that humans can live for centuries, if only we approach the aging process as "an engineering problem." (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 23:31)
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TEDTalks: Al Gore (2006)
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Video duration: 1017 seconds
Global video hits: 20777
http://www.ted.com Al Gore, in his own words, "used to be the next President of the United States of America" but has since changed professions. This talk is a follow-up to his now-famous presentation, featured in the movie, "An Inconvenient Truth." In it, he outlines what we can do to avert a global climate crisis. (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)
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TEDTalks: Eve Ensler (2004)
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Video duration: 1271 seconds
Global video hits: 13002
http://www.ted.com Eve Ensler is the playwright of The Vagina Monologues and The Good Body, and founder of the global movement V-Day, which is working to end violence against women and girls. In this presentation, from TED2004, she performs an excerpt from "The Vagina Monologues" and explains how the show took on a life of its own. (Recorded February 2004 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 21:11)
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Julia Sweeney: Letting Go of God (excerpt): TEDTalks
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Video duration: 1037 seconds
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http://www.ted.com Julia Sweeney shares the first 15 minutes of her new solo show at TED2006. The comedian and playwright created the SNL character "Pat," and wrote her own hit Broadway show "God Said Ha!" (produced also as a film). (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)
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David Griffin: Photography connects us with the world
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Video duration: 1024 seconds
Global video hits: 8901
http://www.ted.com The photo director for National Geographic, David Griffin knows the power of photography to connect us to our world. In a talk filled with glorious images, he talks about how we all use photos to tell our stories.
Related: animals, culture, david, design, entertainment, geographic, global, griffin, issues, national, photography, talks, ted, tedtalks
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TEDTalks: Mena Trott (2006)
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Video duration: 1051 seconds
Global video hits: 2581
http://www.ted.com Mena Trott is the 28-year-old founder of leading blog software company Six Apart (Creators of Typepad, Movable Type, LiveJournal and Vox). In this talk, she explores the personal side of blogging. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 17:30)
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