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Freeing energy from the grid - Justin Hall-Tipping
What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that cou…
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Toward a science of simplicity - George Whitesides
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Simplicity: We know it when we see it -- but what is it, …
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Romance and revolution: The poetry of Pablo Neruda - Ilan Stavans
Get to know Pablo Neruda, one of the most celebrated poets of the 20th century and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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A romantic and a revolut…
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Are droids taking our jobs? - Andrew McAfee
Robots and algorithms are getting good at jobs like building cars, writing articles, translating -- jobs that once required a human. So what will we …
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Demand a fair trade cell phone - Bandi Mbubi
Your mobile phone, computer and game console have a bloody past — tied to tantalum mining, which funds the war in the Democratic Republic of the Cong…
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How to rehabilitate a rainforest - Willie Smits
By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits believes he has found a way to re-grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving …
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Conversational toy tiles that connect - David Merrill
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MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-s…
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Your brain on improv - Charles Limb
Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation -- so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to …
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Mosquitos, malaria and teaching - Bill Gates
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Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world's biggest problems …
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Scientists are mesmerized by this lake - Nicola Storelli and Daniele Zanzi
Explore the depths of Lake Cadagno, a meromictic lake that is considered a model for Earth before the Great Oxidation Event.
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In the millions of year…
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