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I'm here to tell you about the real search for alien life. Not little green humanoids arriving in shiny UFOs, although that would be nice. But it's the search for planets orbiting stars far away. Every star in our sky is a sun. And if our sun has planets -- Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, etc., surely those other stars sh... | null | null | 252.8 | 99 | [
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Someone who looks like me walks past you in the street. Do you think they're a mother, a refugee or a victim of oppression? Or do you think they're a cardiologist, a barrister or maybe your local politician? Do you look me up and down, wondering how hot I must get or if my husband has forced me to wear this outfit? Wha... | null | null | 240.3 | 0 | [
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So if I told you that this was the face of pure joy, would you call me crazy? I wouldn't blame you, because every time I look at this Arctic selfie, I shiver just a little bit. I want to tell you a little bit about this photograph. I was swimming around in the Lofoten Islands in Norway, just inside the Arctic Circle, a... | null | null | 268.1 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
Why do we cheat? And why do happy people cheat? And when we say "infidelity," what exactly do we mean? Is it a hookup, a love story, paid sex, a chat room, a massage with a happy ending? Why do we think that men cheat out of boredom and fear of intimacy, but women cheat out of loneliness and hunger for intimacy? And is... | null | null | 290.5 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
I'd like to have you look at this pencil. It's a thing. It's a legal thing. And so are books you might have or the cars you own. They're all legal things. The great apes that you'll see behind me, they too are legal things. Now, I can do that to a legal thing. I can do whatever I want to my book or my car. These great ... | null | null | 192.4 | 0 | [
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Chris Anderson: So I guess what we're going to do is we're going to talk about your life, and using some pictures that you shared with me. And I think we should start right here with this one. Okay, now who is this? Martine Rothblatt: This is me with our oldest son Eli. He was about age five. This is taken in Nigeria r... | null | null | 267 | 99 | [
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(Music) These bees are in my backyard in Berkeley, California. Until last year, I'd never kept bees before, but National Geographic asked me to photograph a story about them, and I decided, to be able to take compelling images, I should start keeping bees myself. And as you may know, bees pollinate one third of our foo... | null | null | 251.7 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
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Virtual reality started for me in sort of an unusual place. It was the 0000s. I got into the field very young: I was seven years old. And the tool that I used to access virtual reality was the Evel Knievel stunt cycle. This is a commercial for that particular item: (Video) Voice-over: What a jump! Evel's riding the ama... | null | null | 202.2 | 100 | [
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This is a story about capitalism. It's a system I love because of the successes and opportunities it's afforded me and millions of others. I started in my 00s trading commodities, cotton in particular, in the pits, and if there was ever a free market free-for-all, this was it, where men wearing ties but acting like gla... | null | null | 218.2 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
This is a kindergarten we designed in 0000. We made this kindergarten to be a circle. It's a kind of endless circulation on top of the roof. If you are a parent, you know that kids love to keep making circles. This is how the rooftop looks. And why did we design this? The principal of this kindergarten said, "No, I don... | null | null | 221.4 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
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I am a Hazara, and the homeland of my people is Afghanistan. Like hundreds of thousands of other Hazara kids, I was born in exile. The ongoing persecution and operation against the Hazaras forced my parents to leave Afghanistan. This persecution has had a long history going back to the late 0000s, and the rule of King ... | null | null | 221.6 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
I'd like to take you on the epic quest of the Rosetta spacecraft. To escort and land the probe on a comet, this has been my passion for the past two years. In order to do that, I need to explain to you something about the origin of the solar system. When we go back four and a half billion years, there was a cloud of ga... | null | null | 203.6 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
It would be nice to be objective in life, in many ways. The problem is that we have these color-tinted glasses as we look at all kinds of situations. For example, think about something as simple as beer. If I gave you a few beers to taste and I asked you to rate them on intensity and bitterness, different beers would o... | null | null | 237.2 | 100 | [
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I dedicated the past two years to understanding how people achieve their dreams. When we think about the dreams we have, and the dent we want to leave in the universe, it is striking to see how big of an overlap there is between the dreams that we have and projects that never happen. (Laughter) So I'm here to talk to y... | null | null | 273.9 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
When I was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a nuclear war. That's why we had a barrel like this down in our basement, filled with cans of food and water. When the nuclear attack came, we were supposed to go downstairs, hunker down, and eat out of that barrel. Today the greatest risk of global catastrophe d... | null | null | 197 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
People back home call me a heckler, a troublemaker, an irritant, a rebel, an activist, the voice of the people. But that wasn't always me. Growing up, I had a nickname. They used to call me Softy, meaning the soft, harmless boy. Like every other human being, I avoided trouble. In my childhood, they taught me silence. D... | null | null | 236.8 | 1 | [
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We need to change the culture in our jails and prisons, especially for young inmates. New York state is one of only two in the U.S. that automatically arrests and tries 00- to 00-year-olds as adults. This culture of violence takes these young people and puts them in a hostile environment, and the correctional officers ... | null | null | 219 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
Today I'm going to speak to you about the last 00 years of architectural history. That's a lot to pack into 00 minutes. It's a complex topic, so we're just going to dive right in at a complex place: New Jersey. Because 00 years ago, I'm from Jersey, and I was six, and I lived there in my parents' house in a town called... | null | null | 238.1 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
Traditional prescriptions for growth in Africa are not working very well. After one trillion dollars in African development-related aid in the last 00 years, real per capita income today is lower than it was in the 0000s. Aid is not doing too well. In response, the Bretton Woods institutions -- the IMF and the World Ba... | null | null | 394.7 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
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I am multidisciplinary. As a scientist, I've been a crew commander for a NASA Mars simulation last year, and as an artist, I create multicultural community art all over the planet. And recently, I've actually been combining both. But let me first talk a little more about that NASA mission. This is the HI-SEAS program. ... | null | null | 179.7 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
As an Arab female photographer, I have always found ample inspiration for my projects in personal experiences. The passion I developed for knowledge, which allowed me to break barriers towards a better life was the motivation for my project I Read I Write. Pushed by my own experience, as I was not allowed initially to ... | null | null | 205.7 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
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When I was young, I prided myself as a nonconformist in the conservative U.S. state I live in, Kansas. I didn't follow along with the crowd. I wasn't afraid to try weird clothing trends or hairstyles. I was outspoken and extremely social. Even these pictures and postcards of my London semester abroad 00 years ago show ... | null | null | 269.3 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
It is very fashionable and proper to speak about food in all its forms, all its colors, aromas and tastes. But after the food goes through the digestive system, when it is thrown out as crap, it is no longer fashionable to speak about it. It is rather revolting. I'm a guy who has graduated from bullshit to full-shit. (... | null | null | 209.2 | 0 | [
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So we humans have an extraordinary potential for goodness, but also an immense power to do harm. Any tool can be used to build or to destroy. That all depends on our motivation. Therefore, it is all the more important to foster an altruistic motivation rather than a selfish one. So now we indeed are facing many challen... | null | null | 244.5 | 0 | [
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Let's go south. All of you are actually going south. This is the direction of south, this way, and if you go 0,000 kilometers out of the back of this room, you will come to as far south as you can go anywhere on Earth, the Pole itself. Now, I am not an explorer. I'm not an environmentalist. I'm actually just a survivor... | null | null | 250.9 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
When you grow up in a developing country like India, as I did, you instantly learn to get more value from limited resources and find creative ways to reuse what you already have. Take Mansukh Prajapati, a potter in India. He has created a fridge made entirely of clay that consumes no electricity. He can keep fruits and... | null | null | 262.5 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
When the Portuguese arrived in Latin America about 000 years ago, they obviously found this amazing tropical forest. And among all this biodiversity that they had never seen before, they found one species that caught their attention very quickly. This species, when you cut the bark, you find a very dark red resin that ... | null | null | 185 | 99 | [
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Guatemala is recovering from a 00-year armed conflict. A conflict that was fought during the Cold War. It was really just a small leftist insurgency and a devastating response by the state. What we have as a result is 000,000 civilian victims, 000,000 of those killed in the communities: small children, men, women, the ... | null | null | 194.7 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
I'm a tourism entrepreneur and a peacebuilder, but this is not how I started. When I was seven years old, I remember watching television and seeing people throwing rocks, and thinking, this must be a fun thing to do. So I got out to the street and threw rocks, not realizing I was supposed to throw rocks at Israeli cars... | null | null | 243.7 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
I have a confession to make. As a scientist and engineer, I've focused on efficiency for many years. But efficiency can be a cult, and today I'd like to tell you about a journey that moved me out of the cult and back to a far richer reality. A few years ago, after finishing my Ph.D. in London, I moved to Boston. I live... | null | null | 339.9 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
In the 0000s, there were so many right whales in Cape Cod Bay off the east coast of the U.S. that apparently you could walk across their backs from one end of the bay to the other. Today, they number in the hundreds, and they're endangered. Like them, many species of whales saw their numbers drastically reduced by 000 ... | null | null | 213.7 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
So over the past few centuries, microscopes have revolutionized our world. They revealed to us a tiny world of objects, life and structures that are too small for us to see with our naked eyes. They are a tremendous contribution to science and technology. Today I'd like to introduce you to a new type of microscope, a m... | null | null | 311 | 5 | [
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Our world has many superheroes. But they have the worst of all superpowers: invisibility. For example, the catadores, workers who collect recyclable materials for a living. Catadores emerged from social inequality, unemployment, and the abundance of solid waste from the deficiency of the waste collection system. Catado... | null | null | 217.5 | 99 | [
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The power of yet. I heard about a high school in Chicago where students had to pass a certain number of courses to graduate, and if they didn't pass a course, they got the grade "Not Yet." And I thought that was fantastic, because if you get a failing grade, you think, I'm nothing, I'm nowhere. But if you get the grade... | null | null | 306.6 | 0 | [] | [] | [] |
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