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TED's annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). This site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free. Almost 150 talks from our archive are now available, with more added each week. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted. (Episodes numbered as made available, not chronologically by date)
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8, Episode 159 Paul Moller: Take a Ride in the Skycar Airdate: Feb 1, 2004 Duration: 15:39 |
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8, Episode 158 Paul Sereno: What Can Fossils Teach Us? Airdate: Feb 1, 2005 Duration: 21:46 |
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8, Episode 157 John Maeda: My Journey in Design, From Tofu to RISD Airdate: May 1, 2008 Duration: 17:06 |
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8, Episode 156 Kary Mullis: Celebrating the Scientific Experiment Airdate: Feb 1, 2002 Duration: 29:32 |
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8, Episode 155 Jennifer 8. Lee: Who was General Tso? and Other Mysteries of American Chinese Food Airdate: Jul 1, 2008 Duration: 16:38 |
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8, Episode 154 Nicholas Negroponte: Bringing One Laptop per Child to Colombia: TED in the Field Airdate: Dec 1, 2008 Duration: 06:30 |
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8, Episode 153 Steven Strogatz: How Things in Nature Tend to Sync Up Airdate: Feb 1, 2004 Duration: 21:58 |
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8, Episode 152 Penelope Boston: Life on Mars? Let's Look in the Caves Airdate: Jun 1, 2006 Duration: 18:29 |
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8, Episode 151 Benjamin Wallace: Does Happiness have a Price Tag? Airdate: Jul 1, 2008 Duration: 14:40 |
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8, Episode 150 Dan Gilbert: Exploring the Frontiers of Happiness Airdate: Jul 1, 2005 Duration: 33:38 |
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8, Episode 148 Jay Walker: A Library of Human Imagination Airdate: Feb 1, 2008 Duration: 07:09 |
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8, Episode 147 Dennis vanEngelsdorp: Where Have the Bees Gone? Airdate: Jul 1, 2008 Duration: 16:27 |
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8, Episode 146 Michael Milken: Leveraging big ideas to make change Airdate: Feb 1, 2001 Duration: 22:32 |
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8, Episode 145 Eva Zeisel: The Playful Search for Beauty Airdate: Feb 1, 2001 Duration: 18:09 |
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8, Episode 144 David Holt: The Stories and Song of Appalachia Airdate: Mar 1, 2004 Duration: 25:17 |
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8, Episode 143 Nick Sears: Presenting the Orb Airdate: Mar 1, 2007 Duration: 03:58 |
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8, Episode 142 Larry Burns: Reinventing the car Airdate: Feb 1, 2005 Duration: 09:12 |
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8, Episode 141 Philip Rosedale: Second Life, Where Anything is Possible Airdate: May 1, 2008 Duration: 28:31 |
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8, Episode 140 Gregory Petsko: The Coming Neurological Epidemic Airdate: Feb 1, 2008 Duration: 03:46 |
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8, Episode 139 Dan Barber: A Surprising Parable of Foie Gras Airdate: Jul 1, 2008 Duration: 20:24 |
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8, Episode 138 Andy Hobsbawm: Do the Green Thing Airdate: Feb 1, 2008 Duration: 03:21 |
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8, Episode 137 Bill Joy: What I'm Worried About, What I'm Excited About Airdate: Feb 1, 2006 Duration: 19:02 |
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8, Episode 136 George Smoot: The Design of the Universe Airdate: May 1, 2008 Duration: 18:59 |
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8, Episode 135 Franco Sacchi: Welcome to Nollywood Airdate: Jun 1, 2007 Duration: 17:34 |
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8, Episode 134 Isaac Mizrahi: Fashion, passion, and about a million other things Airdate: Feb 1, 2008 Duration: 14:16 |
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8, Episode 133 Stewart Brand: Building a home for the Clock of the Long Now Airdate: Feb 1, 2004 Duration: 23:23 |
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8, Episode 132 Ursus Wehrli: Tidying Up Art Airdate: Feb 1, 2006 Duration: 15:57 |
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8, Episode 131 Charles Elachi: The Story of the Mars Rovers Airdate: May 1, 2008 Duration: 26:17 |
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8, Episode 130 Samantha Power: Shaking Hands with the Devil Airdate: Feb 1, 2008 Duration: 23:08 |
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8, Episode 129 Lee Smolin: How Science is like Democracy Airdate: Feb 1, 2003 Duration: 12:25 |
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8, Episode 128 Luca Turin: The Science of Scent Airdate: Feb 1, 2005 Duration: 15:53 |
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8, Episode 127 Tim Brown: The Powerful Link Between Creativity and Play Airdate: May 1, 2008 Duration: 27:58 |
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8, Episode 126 John Francis: I Walk the Earth Airdate: Feb 1, 2008 Duration: 19:24 |
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8, Episode 125 James Surowiecki: The Moment When Social Media Became the News Airdate: Feb 1, 2005 Duration: 16:59 |
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8, Episode 124 Graham Hawkes: Fly the Seas on a Submarine with Wings Airdate: Feb 1, 2005 Duration: 12:10 |
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8, Episode 123 Keith Schacht & Zach Kaplan: Products (and toys) from the future Airdate: Feb 1, 2005 Duration: 18:36 |
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8, Episode 122 Rives: A 3-Minute Story of Mixed Emoticons Airdate: Feb 1, 2008 Duration: 03:17 |
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8, Episode 121 Kristen Ashburn: Heartrending pictures of AIDS Airdate: Feb 1, 2004 Duration: 04:36 |
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8, Episode 120 Jared Diamond: Why Societies Collapse Airdate: Feb 1, 2003 Duration: 18:21 |
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8, Episode 119 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity, Fulfillment and Flow Airdate: Feb 1, 2004 Duration: 18:55 |
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8, Episode 118 Paul MacCready: Nature vs. Humans and What We Can Do About It Airdate: Feb 1, 1998 Duration: 22:48 |
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8, Episode 117 John Hodgman: A Brief Digression on Matters of Lost Time Airdate: Feb 1, 2008 Duration: 16:39 |
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8, Episode 116 Dr. Dean Ornish: Healing and Other Natural Wonders Airdate: Oct 1, 2008 Duration: 16:49 |
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8, Episode 115 Virginia Postrel: The Power of Glamour Airdate: Oct 1, 2008 Duration: 16:15 |
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8, Episode 113 Paola Antonelli: Design and the Elastic Mind Airdate: Dec 1, 2007 Duration: 17:40 |
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8, Episode 112 Garrett Lisi: A Beautiful New Theory of Everything Airdate: Feb 1, 2008 Duration: 21:26 |
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8, Episode 111 James Burchfield: Sound Stylings by a Human Beatbox Airdate: Oct 1, 2008 Duration: 04:43 |
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| Season
8, Episode 110 John Markoff: Why Newspapers Still Matter (and why tech news belongs on the front page) Airdate: Oct 1, 2008 Duration: 12:02 |
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8, Episode 109 Steven Johnson: The Web and The City Airdate: Feb 1, 2003 Duration: 16:36 |
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8, Episode 108 Doris Kearns Goodwin: What We Can Learn From Past Presidents Airdate: Feb 1, 2008 Duration: 18:48 |
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| Season
8, Episode 107 David Perry: Will Videogames Become Better Than Lif |