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  • Created February 4, 2008
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S2008E01 Amory Lovins: We must win the oil endgame
January 9, 2008
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S2008E02 Arthur Benjamin: Lightning calculation and other “mathemagic”
January 9, 2008
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S2008E03 Daniel Goleman: Why aren't we all Good Samaritans?
January 9, 2008
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S2008E04 Lakshmi Pratury: The lost art of letter-writing
January 9, 2008
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S2008E05 Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do
January 9, 2008
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S2008E06 Isabel Allende: Tales of passion
January 9, 2008
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S2008E07 Yossi Vardi: Help fight local warming
January 9, 2008
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S2008E08 Deborah Gordon: The emergent genius of ant colonies
January 10, 2008
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S2008E09 David Gallo: Underwater astonishments
January 14, 2008
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S2008E10 J.J. Abrams: The mystery box
January 14, 2008
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S2008E11 Paola Antonelli: Treating design as art
January 22, 2008
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S2008E12 Frank Gehry: Nice building. Then what?
January 23, 2008
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S2008E13 Bill Strickland: Rebuilding America, one slide show at a time
January 23, 2008
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S2008E14 Raul Midon: "All the Answers" and "Tembererana"
January 23, 2008
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S2008E15 Ben Dunlap: The life-long learner
January 23, 2008
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S2008E16 David Pogue: A 4-minute medley on the music wars
January 25, 2008
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S2008E17 Alison Jackson: A surprising look at celebrity
February 1, 2008
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S2008E18 Chris Anderson (TED): A vision for TED
February 1, 2008
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S2008E19 Robin Chase: Getting cars off the road and data into the skies
February 1, 2008
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S2008E20 Jaime Lerner: Sing a song of sustainable cities
February 7, 2008
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S2008E21 David Macaulay: All roads lead to Rome Antics
February 7, 2008
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S2008E22 Michael Pollan: A plant's-eye view
February 7, 2008
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S2008E23 Howard Rheingold: Way-new collaboration
February 12, 2008
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S2008E24 Pamelia Kurstin: Theremin, the untouchable music
February 19, 2008
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S2008E25 George Dyson: Let's take a nuclear-powered rocket to Saturn
February 19, 2008
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S2008E26 Moshe Safdie: What makes a building unique?
February 19, 2008
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S2008E27 Jill Sobule & Julia Sweeney: The Jill & Julia Show
February 29, 2008
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S2008E28 Raspyni Brothers: Welcome to Vaudeville 2.0
February 29, 2008
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S2008E29 Joseph Lekuton: A parable for Kenya
February 29, 2008
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S2008E30 Steve Jurvetson: The joy of rockets
February 29, 2008
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S2008E31 Roy Gould: WorldWide Telescope
February 29, 2008
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S2008E32 Alan Kay: A powerful idea about teaching ideas
March 10, 2008
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S2008E33 Craig Venter: On the verge of creating synthetic life
March 10, 2008
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S2008E34 Nicholas Negroponte: 5 predictions, in 1984
March 13, 2008
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S2008E35 Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
March 13, 2008
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S2008E36 Frank Gehry: From 1990, defending a vision for architecture
March 13, 2008
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S2008E37 Dave Eggers: Once Upon a School
March 19, 2008
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S2008E38 Karen Armstrong: Charter for Compassion
March 19, 2008
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S2008E39 Neil Turok: An African Einstein
March 21, 2008
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S2008E40 Norman Foster: Building on the green agenda
March 26, 2008
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S2008E41 Christopher deCharms: A look inside the brain in real time
March 27, 2008
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S2008E42 Clifford Stoll: The call to learn
March 27, 2008
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S2008E43 Siegfried Woldhek: The true face of Leonardo Da Vinci?
April 4, 2008
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S2008E44 David Hoffman: Catch Sputnik mania!
April 4, 2008
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S2008E45 Jakob Trollback: Rethinking the music video
April 4, 2008
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S2008E46 Stephen Hawking: Questioning the universe
April 4, 2008
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S2008E47 Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis
April 8, 2008
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S2008E48 Johnny Lee: Wii remote hacks
April 11, 2008
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S2008E49 Alan Russell: The potential of regenerative medicine
April 14, 2008
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S2008E50 Charles Leadbeater: The era of open innovation
April 14, 2008
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S2008E51 Jan Chipchase: The anthropology of mobile phones
April 14, 2008
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S2008E52 Jehane Noujaim: Unite the world on Pangea Day
April 15, 2008
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S2008E53 Matthieu Ricard: The habits of happiness
April 15, 2008
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S2008E54 Edward Burtynsky: Manufactured landscapes
April 15, 2008
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S2008E55 Michael Shermer: Why people believe weird things
April 15, 2008
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S2008E56 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: How to help Africa? Do business there
April 15, 2008
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S2008E57 Robert Wright: The logic of non-zero-sum progress
April 15, 2008
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S2008E58 Rick Warren: A life of purpose
April 15, 2008
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S2008E59 Richard Dawkins: Militant atheism
April 15, 2008
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S2008E60 Stewart Brand: Why squatter cities are a good thing
April 15, 2008
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S2008E61 Sir Martin Rees: Earth in its final century?
April 15, 2008
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S2008E62 Thomas Barnett: Rethinking America's military strategy
April 15, 2008
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S2008E63 Tom Rielly: A comic send-up of TED2006
April 15, 2008
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S2008E64 Tod Machover & Dan Ellsey: Releasing the music in your head
April 21, 2008
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S2008E65 Yochai Benkler: Open-source economics
April 21, 2008
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S2008E66 Ernest Madu: Bringing world-class health care to the poorest
April 21, 2008
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S2008E67 Amy Tan: Where does creativity hide?
April 23, 2008
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S2008E68 Brian Greene: Making sense of string theory
April 23, 2008
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S2008E69 Brian Cox: CERN’s supercollider
April 29, 2008
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S2008E70 They Might Be Giants: Wake up! It's They Might Be Giants
April 30, 2008
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S2008E71 Hector Ruiz: The power to connect the world
May 8, 2008
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S2008E72 Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
May 8, 2008
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S2008E73 Paul Ewald: Can we domesticate germs?
May 12, 2008
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S2008E74 Michael Moschen: Juggling rhythm and motion
May 12, 2008
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S2008E75 Joshua Klein: The intelligence of crows
May 19, 2008
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S2008E76 Mark Bittman: What’s wrong with what we eat
May 21, 2008
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S2008E77 Alisa Miller: The news about the news
May 21, 2008
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S2008E78 Robert Ballard: Exploring the ocean's hidden worlds
May 21, 2008
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S2008E79 Yves Behar: Designing objects that tell stories
May 21, 2008
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S2008E80 Arthur Ganson: Moving sculpture
May 28, 2008
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S2008E81 Seyi Oyesola: Health care off the grid
May 28, 2008
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S2008E82 Paul Collier: 4 ways to improve the lives of the "bottom billion"
June 2, 2008
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S2008E83 Susan Blackmore: Memes and "temes"
June 4, 2008
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S2008E84 Nathan Myhrvold: A life of fascinations
June 4, 2008
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S2008E85 Wade Davis: The worldwide web of belief and ritual
June 13, 2008
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S2008E86 Murray Gell-Mann: Do all languages have a common ancestor?
June 13, 2008
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S2008E87 George Dyson: The birth of the computer
June 23, 2008
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S2008E88 Chris Jordan: Turning powerful stats into art
June 23, 2008
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S2008E89 Robert Full: Engineering and evolution
June 23, 2008
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S2008E90 Adam Grosser: A mobile fridge for vaccines
June 24, 2008
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S2008E91 Steven Levitt on child carseats
June 24, 2008
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S2008E92 Benjamin Zander: The transformative power of classical music
June 27, 2008
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S2008E93 Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop per Child, two years on
June 27, 2008
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S2008E94 Sxip Shirey & Rachelle Garniez: Breath, music, passion
July 8, 2008
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S2008E95 Peter Diamandis: Stephen Hawking hits zero g
July 8, 2008
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S2008E96 Rick Smolan: A girl, a photograph, a homecoming
July 8, 2008
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S2008E97 Raul Midon: "Everybody" and "Peace on Earth"
July 8, 2008
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S2008E98 Corneille Ewango: A hero of the Congo Basin forest
July 8, 2008
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S2008E99 Torsten Reil: Using biology to make better animation
July 8, 2008
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S2008E100 David Hoffman: How would you feel if you lost everything?
July 10, 2008
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S2008E101 Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration
July 14, 2008
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S2008E102 Nellie McKay: "Mother of Pearl" and "If I Had You"
July 14, 2008
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S2008E103 Freeman Dyson: Let's look for life in the outer solar system
July 14, 2008
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S2008E104 Helen Fisher: The brain in love
July 15, 2008
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S2008E105 Billy Graham: Technology, faith and human shortcomings
July 16, 2008
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S2008E106 A.J. Jacobs: My year of living biblically
July 17, 2008
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S2008E107 Keith Barry: Brain magic
July 21, 2008
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S2008E108 Martin Seligman: The new era of positive psychology
July 21, 2008
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S2008E109 Chris Abani: On humanity
July 22, 2008
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S2008E110 Louise Leakey: Digging for humanity's origins
July 23, 2008
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S2008E111 Jonathan Harris: The web as art
July 24, 2008
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S2008E112 Marisa Fick-Jordan: The wonders of Zulu wire art
July 25, 2008
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S2008E113 Reed Kroloff: Architecture, modern and romantic
July 28, 2008
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S2008E114 Kevin Kelly: The next 5,000 days of the web
July 29, 2008
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S2008E115 Kwabena Boahen: Making a computer that works like the brain
July 30, 2008
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S2008E116 Robert Lang: The math and magic of origami
July 31, 2008
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S2008E117 Bruno Bowden & Rufus Cappadocia: Origami, blindfolded
August 4, 2008
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S2008E118 David Griffin: How photography connects us
August 19, 2008
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S2008E119 Lennart Green: Close-up card magic with a twist
August 20, 2008
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S2008E120 Ian Dunbar: Dog-friendly dog training
August 21, 2008
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S2008E121 Nellie McKay: "The Dog Song"
August 22, 2008
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S2008E122 Patricia Burchat: Shedding light on dark matter
August 25, 2008
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S2008E123 John Walker: Re-creating great performances
August 26, 2008
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S2008E124 Sugata Mitra: Can kids teach themselves?
August 27, 2008
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S2008E125 Einstein the parrot and Stephanie White: Talking and squawking
August 29, 2008
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S2008E126 Paul Rothemund: The astonishing promise of DNA folding
September 4, 2008
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S2008E127 Peter Diamandis: Taking the next giant leap in space
September 4, 2008
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S2008E128 Peter Hirshberg: The Web and TV, a sibling rivalry
September 5, 2008
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S2008E129 Jonathan Drori: Why we don't understand as much as we think
September 5, 2008
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S2008E130 Jane Goodall: Helping humans and animals live together
September 8, 2008
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S2008E131 Irwin Redlener: How to survive a nuclear attack
September 9, 2008
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S2008E132 Ory Okolloh: The making of an African activist
September 10, 2008
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S2008E133 Brewster Kahle: A digital library, free to the world
September 11, 2008
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S2008E134 David Gallo: The deep oceans: a ribbon of life
September 16, 2008
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S2008E135 Keith Bellows: Celebrating the camel
September 16, 2008
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S2008E136 Ann Cooper: Reinventing the school lunch
September 17, 2008
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S2008E137 Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives
September 18, 2008
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S2008E138 Eve Ensler: Security and insecurity
September 19, 2008
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S2008E139 Philip Zimbardo: The psychology of evil
September 23, 2008
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S2008E140 David S. Rose: 10 things to know before you pitch a VC for
September 29, 2008
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S2008E141 Marvin Minsky: Health, population and the human mind
September 29, 2008
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S2008E142 Laura Trice: The power of saying thank you
October 7, 2008
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S2008E143 Steven Pinker: Human nature and the blank slate
October 7, 2008
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S2008E144 Caleb Chung: Come play with Pleo the dinosaur
October 7, 2008
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S2008E145 Stefan Sagmeister: Designing with slogans
October 10, 2008
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S2008E146 Rodney Brooks: How robots will invade our lives
October 10, 2008
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S2008E147 Steven Johnson: The Web and the city
October 10, 2008
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S2008E148 Liz Diller: Architecture is a special effects machine
October 10, 2008
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S2008E149 David Perry: Will videogames become better than life?
October 10, 2008
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S2008E150 Noah Feldman: Politics and religion are technologies
October 10, 2008
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S2008E151 Doris Kearns Goodwin: What we can learn from past presidents
October 10, 2008
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S2008E152 James Nachtwey: Use my photographs to stop the worldwide XDR
October 13, 2008
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S2008E153 James Burchfield: Sound stylings by a human beatbox
October 13, 2008
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S2008E154 Garrett Lisi: A theory of everything
October 16, 2008
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S2008E155 Paola Antonelli: Design and the elastic mind
October 16, 2008
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S2008E156 Virginia Postrel: The power of glamour
October 17, 2008
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S2008E157 Dean Ornish: Healing through diet
October 20, 2008
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S2008E158 John Hodgman: A brief digression on matters of lost time
October 21, 2008
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S2008E159 Paul MacCready: Nature vs. humans, and what we can do about
October 23, 2008
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S2008E160 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the secret to happiness
October 24, 2008
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S2008E161 Kristen Ashburn: Heartrending pictures of AIDS
October 27, 2008
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S2008E162 Jared Diamond: Why societies collapse
October 28, 2008
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S2008E163 Rives: A story of mixed emoticons
October 28, 2008
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S2008E164 Keith Schacht & Zach Kaplan: Products (and toys) from the future
November 4, 2008
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S2008E165 Newton Aduaka: The story of Ezra, a child soldier
November 4, 2008
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S2008E166 Graham Hawkes: Fly the seas on a submarine with wings
November 4, 2008
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S2008E167 James Surowiecki: The power and the danger of online crowds
November 5, 2008
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S2008E168 John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence
November 6, 2008
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S2008E169 Tim Brown: Tales of creativity and play
November 10, 2008
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S2008E170 Luca Turin: The science of scent
November 10, 2008
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S2008E171 Lee Smolin: How science is like democracy
November 11, 2008
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S2008E172 Samantha Power: Shaking hands with the devil
November 12, 2008
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S2008E173 Charles Elachi: The story of the Mars Rovers
November 13, 2008
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S2008E174 Ursus Wehrli: Tidying up art
November 14, 2008
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S2008E175 Stewart Brand: Building a home for the Clock of the Long Now
November 18, 2008
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S2008E176 Isaac Mizrahi: Fashion, passion, and about a million other things
November 20, 2008
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S2008E177 Franco Sacchi: Welcome to Nollywood
November 20, 2008
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S2008E178 George Smoot: The design of the universe
November 21, 2008
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S2008E179 Bill Joy: What I'm worried about, what I'm excited about
November 25, 2008
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S2008E180 Dan Barber: A surprising parable of foie gras
November 26, 2008
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S2008E181 Andy Hobsbawm says: Do the green thing
December 1, 2008
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S2008E182 Gregory Petsko: The coming neurological epidemic
December 2, 2008
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S2008E183 Richard Preston: Climbing the world's biggest trees
December 3, 2008
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S2008E184 Philip Rosedale: Second Life, where anything is possible
December 4, 2008
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S2008E185 Larry Burns: Reinventing the car
December 5, 2008
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S2008E186 Nick Sears: Presenting the Orb
December 8, 2008
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S2008E187 David Holt: The stories and song of Appalachia
December 9, 2008
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S2008E188 Eva Zeisel: The playful search for beauty
December 10, 2008
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S2008E189 Dennis vanEngelsdorp: Where have the bees gone?
December 12, 2008
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S2008E190 Jay Walker: A library of human imagination
December 16, 2008
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S2008E191 Dan Gilbert: Why we make bad decisions
December 17, 2008
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S2008E192 Benjamin Wallace: The price of happiness
December 18, 2008
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S2008E193 Penelope Boston: Life on Mars? Let's look in the caves
December 19, 2008
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S2008E194 Steven Strogatz: How things in nature tend to sync up
December 23, 2008
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S2008E195 Jennifer 8. Lee: Who was General Tso?
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December 24, 2008
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