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Each year, the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference hosts some of the world's most fascinating people: Trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses. These podcasts (also available in audio format) capture the most extraordinary presentations delivered from the TED stage.

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TEDTalks : Telling stories of our shared humanity - Chris Abani (2008)
from TEDTalks (audio) on July 22, 2008
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Chris Abani tells stories of people: People standing up to soldiers. People being compassionate. People being human and reclaiming their humanity. It's "ubuntu," he says: the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me.

TEDTalks : Technology, faith and human shortcomings - Billy Graham (1998)
from TEDTalks (audio) on July 16, 2008
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Speaking at TED in 1998, Rev. Billy Graham marvels at technology's power to improve lives and change the world -- but says the end of evil, suffering and death will come only after the world accepts Christ. A legendary talk from TED's archives.

TEDTalks : The brain in love - Helen Fisher (2008)
from TEDTalks (audio) on July 15, 2008
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Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love, Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of people in love -- and people who had just been dumped.

TEDTalks : "Mother of Pearl" and "If I Had You" - Nellie McKay (2008)
from TEDTalks (audio) on July 11, 2008
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The wonderful Nellie McKay sings "Mother of Pearl" (with the immortal first line "Feminists don't have a sense of humor") and "If I Had You" from her sparkling set at TED2008.

TEDTalks : Institutions vs. collaboration - Clay Shirky (2005)
from TEDTalks (audio) on July 10, 2008
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In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning.

TEDTalks : "Clonie" - Nellie McKay (2008)
from TEDTalks (audio) on June 27, 2008
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Singer-songwriter Nellie McKay performs the semi-serious song "Clonie" -- about creating the ultimate companion.

TEDTalks : Classical music with shining eyes - Benjamin Zander (2008)
from TEDTalks (audio) on June 25, 2008
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Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it -- and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections.

TEDTalks : Your genes are not your fate - Dean Ornish (2008)
from TEDTalks (audio) on June 16, 2008
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Dean Ornish shares new research that shows how adopting healthy lifestyle habits can affect a person at a genetic level. For instance, he says, when you live healthier, eat better, exercise, and love more, your brain cells actually increase.

TEDTalks : A life of fascinations - Nathan Myhrvold (2007)
from TEDTalks (audio) on June 04, 2008
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Nathan Myhrvold talks about a few of his latest fascinations -- animal photography, archeology, BBQ and generally being an eccentric genius multimillionaire. Listen for wild stories from the (somewhat raunchy) edge of the animal world.

TEDTalks : 4 ways to improve the lives of the "bottom billion" - Paul Collier (2008)
from TEDTalks (audio) on May 28, 2008
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Around the world right now, one billion people are trapped in poor or failing countries. How can we help them? Economist Paul Collier lays out a bold, compassionate plan for closing the gap between rich and poor.

TEDTalks : Exploring the ocean's hidden worlds - Robert Ballard (2008)
from TEDTalks (audio) on May 20, 2008
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Ocean explorer Robert Ballard takes us on a mindbending trip to hidden worlds underwater, where he and other researchers are finding unexpected life, resources, even new mountains. He makes a case for serious exploration and mapping. Google Ocean, anyone?

TEDTalks : The amazing intelligence of crows - Joshua Klein (2008)
from TEDTalks (audio) on May 13, 2008
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Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he's come up with an elegant machine that may form a new bond between animal and human.

TEDTalks : The power to connect the world - Hector Ruiz (2007)
from TEDTalks (audio) on May 01, 2008
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Hector Ruiz, the executive chair of AMD, wants to give Internet access to everyone. In this talk, he shares his extraordinary life story and describes AMD's 50x15 initiative that calls for connecting 50 percent of the world by 2015.

TEDTalks : An inside tour of the world's biggest supercollider - Brian Cox (2008)
from TEDTalks (audio) on April 29, 2008
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"Rock-star physicist" Brian Cox talks about his work on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Discussing the biggest of big science in an engaging, accessible way, Cox brings us along on a tour of the massive project.

TEDTalks : The universe on a string - Brian Greene (2005)
from TEDTalks (audio) on April 23, 2008
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Physicist Brian Greene explains superstring theory, the idea that minscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe.

TEDTalks : Where does creativity hide? - Amy Tan (2008)
from TEDTalks (audio) on April 22, 2008
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Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, looking for hints of how hers evolved. In 22 minutes, she revisits her childhood, shares her family history and delves into the worlds of physics and chance. It’s a wild ride with a surprise ending.

TEDTalks : Bringing world-class health care to the poorest - Ernest Madu (2007)
from TEDTalks (audio) on April 17, 2008
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Dr. Ernest Madu runs the Heart Institute of the Caribbean in Kingston, Jamaica, where he proves that -- with careful design, smart technical choices, and a true desire to serve -- it's possible to offer world-class healthcare in the developing world.

TEDTalks : Open-source economics - Yochai Benkler (2005)
from TEDTalks (audio) on April 16, 2008
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Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization.

TEDTalks : New thinking on the climate crisis - Al Gore (2008)
from TEDTalks (audio) on April 08, 2008
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In this brand-new slideshow (premiering on TED.com), Al Gore presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists recently predicted. He challenges us to act.

TEDTalks : 2008 TED Prize wish: An African Einstein - Neil Turok (2008)
from TEDTalks (audio) on March 20, 2008
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Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, physicist Neil Turok speaks out for talented young Africans starved of opportunity: by unlocking and nurturing the continent's creative potential, we can create a change in Africa's future.

TEDTalks : 2008 TED Prize wish: Charter for Compassion - Karen Armstrong (2008)
from TEDTalks (audio) on March 19, 2008
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People want to be religious, says scholar Karen Armstrong; we should act to help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help her build a Charter for Compassion -- to help restore the Golden Rule as the central global religious do

TEDTalks : 2008 TED Prize wish: Once Upon a School - Dave Eggers (2008)
from TEDTalks (audio) on March 18, 2008
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Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbinding eagerness, he talks about how his 826 Valencia tutoring center inspired others around the world to open

TEDTalks : My stroke of insight - Jill Bolte Taylor (2008)
from TEDTalks (audio) on March 12, 2008
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Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motion, speech, self-awareness –- shut down one by one. An astonishing story.

TEDTalks : Way-new collaboration - Howard Rheingold (2005)
from TEDTalks (audio) on February 11, 2008
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Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group.

TEDTalks : The omnivore's next dilemma - Michael Pollan (2007)
from TEDTalks (audio) on February 07, 2008
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What if human consciousness isn't the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn's clever strategy game to rule the Earth? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see the world from a plant's-eye view.

TEDTalks : Sing a song of sustainable cities - Jaime Lerner (2007)
from TEDTalks (audio) on February 04, 2008
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Jamie Lerner re-invented urban space in his native Curitiba, Brazil. Along the way he changed the way city planners worldwide conceive what's possible in the metropolitan landscape.

TEDTalks : The story of a passionate life - Ben Dunlap (2007)
from TEDTalks (audio) on January 23, 2008
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College president Ben Dunlap tells the story of Sandor Teszla, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor whom he met at Wofford College, and shares the lessons Tezsla taught him about passionate living and lifelong learning.

TEDTalks : "All the Answers" and "Tembererana" - Raul Midon (2007)
from TEDTalks (audio) on January 18, 2008
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Singer/guitarist Raúl Midón performs “All the Answers” in a world premiere at TED2007, followed by the sprightly "Tembererana."

TEDTalks : Nice building. Then what? - Frank Gehry (2002)
from TEDTalks (audio) on January 17, 2008
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What makes a building sing? Architect Frank Gehry says it's the "Then what?" factor -- the sense of an architect's personal expression. Gehry and Richard Saul Wurman discuss this and more in a wildly entertaining conversation.

TEDTalks : Treating design as art - Paola Antonelli (2007)
from TEDTalks (audio) on January 15, 2008
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Paola Antonelli, design curator at New York's MOMA.wants to spread an appreciation of design -- in all shapes and forms -- to the world.

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