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Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss
Ted Talk: The hard choices -- what we most fear doing, asking, saying -- are very often exactly what we need to do. How can we overcome sel…
Inside the mind of a former radical jihadist | Manwar Ali
Ted Talk: "For a long time, I lived for death," says Manwar Ali, a former radical jihadist who participated in violent, armed campaigns in …
Dave Meslin: The antidote to apathy
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com Local politics -- schools, zoning, council elections -- hit us where we live. So why don't more of us actually…
David Binder: The arts festival revolution
Ted Talk: David Binder is a major Broadway producer, but last summer he found himself in a small Australian neighborhood, watching locals d…
Why is 'x' the unknown? | Terry Moore
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com Why is 'x' the symbol for an unknown? In this short and funny talk, Terry Moore gives the surprising answer. T…
A new superweapon in the fight against cancer | Paula Hammond
Ted Talk: Cancer is a very clever, adaptable disease. To defeat it, says medical researcher and educator Paula Hammond, we need a new and p…
Can a computer write poetry? | Oscar Schwartz
Ted Talk: If you read a poem and feel moved by it, but then find out it was actually written by a computer, would you feel differently abou…
Susan Lim: Transplant cells, not organs
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com Pioneering surgeon Susan Lim performed the first liver transplant in Asia. But a moral concern with transplant…
Feats of memory anyone can do | Joshua Foer
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com There are people who can quickly memorize lists of thousands of numbers, the order of all the cards in a deck …
Am I not human? A call for criminal justice reform | Marlon Peterson
Ted Talk: For a crime he committed in his early twenties, the courts sentenced Marlon Peterson to 10 years in prison -- and, as he says, a …
Why we choke under pressure -- and how to avoid it | Sian Leah Beilock
Ted Talk: When the pressure is on, why do we sometimes fail to live up to our potential? Cognitive scientist and Barnard College president …
Is your country at risk of becoming a dictatorship? Here's how to know | Farida Nabourema
Ted Talk: Farida Nabourema has dedicated her life to fighting the military regime in Togo, Africa's oldest autocracy. She's learned two tru…
How fashion helps us express who we are -- and what we stand for | Kaustav Dey
Ted Talk: No one thinks twice about a woman wearing blue jeans in New York City -- but when Nobel laureate Malala wears them, it's a politi…
How we look kilometers below the Antarctic ice sheet | Dustin Schroeder
Ted Talk: Antarctica is a vast and dynamic place, but radar technologies -- from World War II-era film to state-of-the-art miniaturized sen…
How digital DNA could help you make better health choices | Jun Wang
Ted Talk: What if you could know exactly how food or medication would impact your health -- before you put it in your body? Genomics resear…