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Shubhendu Sharma: How to grow a tiny forest anywhere
Ted Talk: A forest planted by humans, then left to nature’s own devices, typically takes at least 100 years to mature. But what if we could…
Verna Myers: How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them
Ted Talk: Our biases can be dangerous, even deadly — as we've seen in the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, in…
Why fascism is so tempting -- and how your data could power it | Yuval Noah Harari
Ted Talk: In a profound talk about technology and power, author and historian Yuval Noah Harari explains the important difference between f…
A life-saving invention that prevents human stampedes | Nilay Kulkarni
Ted Talk: Check out more TED Talks: http://www.ted.com The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conferen…
How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day | Tristan Harris
Ted Talk: A handful of people working at a handful of tech companies steer the thoughts of billions of people every day, says design thinke…
Jean-Baptiste Michel: The mathematics of history
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com What can mathematics say about history? According to TED Fellow Jean-Baptiste Michel, quite a lot. From change…
Dan Dennett: Responding to Pastor Rick Warren
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com Philosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion -- all religion -- to be taught in schools, so we can understand it…
What we can do about the culture of hate | Sally Kohn
Ted Talk: We're all against hate, right? We agree it's a problem -- their problem, not our problem, that is. But as Sally Kohn discovered, …
Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com Today medical scans produce thousands of images and terabytes of data for a single patient in mere seconds, bu…
Greg Asner: Ecology from the air
Ted Talk: What are our forests really made of? From the air, ecologist Greg Asner uses a spectrometer and high-powered lasers to map nature…
Alan Kay: A powerful idea about teaching ideas
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com With all the intensity and brilliance he is known for, Alan Kay gives TEDsters a lesson in lessons. Kay has sp…
Sangu Delle: In praise of macro -- yes, macro -- finance in Africa
Ted Talk: In this short, provocative talk, financier Sangu Delle questions whether microfinance — small loans to small entrepreneurs — is t…
A story of mixed emoticons | Rives
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com Rives -- star of the Bravo special "Ironic Iconic America" -- tells a typographical fairy tale that's short an…
Todd Humphreys: How to fool a GPS
Ted Talk: Todd Humphreys forecasts the near-future of geolocation when millimeter-accurate GPS "dots" will enable you to find pin-point loc…
Why societies collapse | Jared Diamond
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present…