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Mining minerals from seawater - Damian Palin
The world needs clean water, and more and more, we're pulling it from the oceans, desalinating it, and drinking it. But what to do with the salty bri…
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What makes a language... a language? - Martin Hilpert
Dig into the distinction between a language and a dialect, and uncover the history of standardized languages.
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Outside of China, Mandarin and Cantone…
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What we can learn from galaxies far, far away - Henry Lin
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In a fun, excited talk, teenager Henry Lin looks at…
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What if our healthcare system kept us healthy? - Rebecca Onie
Rebecca Onie asks audacious questions: What if waiting rooms were a place to improve daily health care? What if doctors could prescribe food, housing…
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How much would it cost to purchase the ocean? - Astrid J. Hsu
Dig into the monetary value of the ocean, from global trade, to tourism, fishing, and more, as Poseidon contemplates selling it.
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Surveying his vast …
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things I discovered while my aircraft went down - Ric Elias
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Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the pla…
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Fractals and the art of texture - Benoit Mandelbrot
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At TED2010, mathematics legend Benoit Mandelbrot devel…
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A clean energy proposal -- race to the top! - Jennifer Granholm
Kicking off the TED2013 conference, Jennifer Granholm asks a very American question with worldwide implications: How do we make more jobs? Her big id…
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The art of asking - Amanda Palmer
Don't make people pay for music, says Amanda Palmer: Let them. In a passionate talk that begins in her days as a street performer (drop a dollar in t…
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The sound the cosmos makes - Janna Levin
We think of space as a silent place. But physicist Janna Levin says the universe has a soundtrack -- a sonic composition that records some of the mos…
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