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Name First Aired Runtime Image
S2009E01 Kary Mullis: Celebrating the scientific experiment
January 6, 2009
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S2009E02 John Maeda: My journey in design, from tofu to RISD
January 7, 2009
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S2009E03 Paul Sereno: What can fossils teach us?
January 9, 2009
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S2009E04 Paul Moller: Take a ride in the Skycar
January 12, 2009
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S2009E05 Greg Lynn: How calculus is changing architecture
January 13, 2009
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S2009E06 Rob Forbes: Ways of seeing
January 14, 2009
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S2009E07 Scott McCloud: Understanding comics
January 15, 2009
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S2009E08 Peter Reinhart: The art of baking bread
January 16, 2009
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S2009E09 Joseph Pine: What consumers want
January 16, 2009
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S2009E10 Paula Scher: Great design is serious (not solemn)
January 17, 2009
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S2009E11 David Carson: Design, discovery and humor
January 20, 2009
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S2009E12 Jamais Cascio: Tools for building a better world
January 22, 2009
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S2009E13 Barry Schuler: An introduction to genomics
January 24, 2009
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S2009E14 Sherwin Nuland: A meditation on hope
January 26, 2009
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S2009E15 Woody Norris: Hypersonic sound and other inventions
January 27, 2009
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S2009E16 Peter Ward: Earth’s mass extinctions
January 28, 2009
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S2009E17 Aimee Mullins: Changing my legs - and my mindset
January 29, 2009
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S2009E18 Joe DeRisi: Hunting the next killer virus
January 30, 2009
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S2009E19 Natalie MacMaster: Playing the Cape Breton fiddle
January 31, 2009
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S2009E20 Bill Gross: Great ideas for finding new energy
February 3, 2009
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S2009E21 Bill Gates: Mosquitos, malaria and education
February 6, 2009
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S2009E22 Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius
February 9, 2009
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S2009E23 David Merrill: Toy tiles that talk to each other
February 12, 2009
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S2009E24 Barry Schwartz: Our loss of wisdom
February 16, 2009
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S2009E25 Juan Enriquez: The next species of human
February 17, 2009
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S2009E26 José Antonio Abreu: The El Sistema music revolution
February 19, 2009
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S2009E27 Gustavo Dudamel: Incredible high school musicians from Venezuela!
February 19, 2009
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S2009E28 Sylvia Earle: How to protect the oceans
February 19, 2009
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S2009E29 Jill Tarter: Why the search for alien intelligence matters
February 20, 2009
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S2009E30 Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin Button got his face
February 23, 2009
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S2009E31 Captain Charles Moore on the seas of plastic
February 25, 2009
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S2009E32 Richard Pyle: Exploring the reef's Twilight Zone
February 26, 2009
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S2009E33 Miru Kim: Making art of New York's urban ruins
February 27, 2009
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S2009E34 Evan Williams on what's behind Twitter's explosive growth
February 27, 2009
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S2009E35 Brenda Laurel on making video games for girls
March 2, 2009
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S2009E36 Willie Smits: How to restore a rainforest
March 3, 2009
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S2009E37 Nalini Nadkarni explores canopy worlds
March 4, 2009
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S2009E38 Mike Rowe: Learning from dirty jobs
March 5, 2009
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S2009E39 Eric Lewis: Striking chords to rock the jazz world
March 6, 2009
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S2009E40 Don Norman: The three ways that good design makes you happy
March 9, 2009
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S2009E41 Pattie Maes: Unveiling game-changing wearable tech
March 10, 2009
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S2009E42 Aimee Mullins: It’s not fair having 12 pairs of legs
March 11, 2009
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S2009E43 Stuart Brown: Play is more than fun
March 12, 2009
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S2009E44 Tim Berners-Lee: The next Web of open, linked data
March 13, 2009
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S2009E45 Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny
March 16, 2009
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S2009E46 Dan Ariely: Why we think it's OK to cheat and steal (sometimes)
March 18, 2009
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S2009E47 Adam Savage: My obsession with objects and the stories they tell
March 19, 2009
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S2009E48 Bruce McCall: Nostalgia for a future that never happened
March 20, 2009
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S2009E49 Kamal Meattle: How to grow fresh air
March 21, 2009
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S2009E50 Saul Griffith: High-altitude wind energy from kites!
March 23, 2009
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S2009E51 Jacqueline Novogratz on an escape from poverty
March 24, 2009
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S2009E52 David Pogue: Cool new things you can do with your mobile
March 25, 2009
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S2009E53 John Wooden: The difference between winning and succeeding
March 26, 2009
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S2009E54 Nathan Wolfe: Why we have virus outbreaks & how we can prevent them
March 27, 2009
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S2009E55 C.K. Williams: Poetry for all seasons of life
March 30, 2009
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S2009E56 Jacek Utko: Can design save the newspaper?
March 31, 2009
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S2009E57 Ueli Gegenschatz: Extreme wingsuit flying
April 1, 2009
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S2009E58 Christopher Deam: Restyling the classic Airstream trail
April 2, 2009
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S2009E59 P.W. Singer: Military robots and the future of war
April 3, 2009
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S2009E60 Nathaniel Kahn: My father, my architect
April 6, 2009
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S2009E61 Bruce Bueno de Mesquita predicts Iran's future
April 7, 2009
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S2009E62 Bonnie Bassler: The secret, social lives of bacteria
April 8, 2009
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S2009E63 Emily Levine: A theory of everything
April 9, 2009
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S2009E64 Renny Gleeson: Busted! The sneaky moves of antisocial smartphone users
April 10, 2009
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S2009E65 Shai Agassi: A new ecosystem for electric cars
April 13, 2009
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S2009E66 Gregory Stock: To upgrade is human
April 14, 2009
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S2009E67 JoAnn Kuchera-Morin: Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere
April 15, 2009
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S2009E68 Tim Ferriss: Smash fear, learn anything
April 16, 2009
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S2009E69 Matthew Childs' 9 life lessons from rock climbing
April 17, 2009
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S2009E70 Margaret Wertheim: The beautiful math of coral (and crochet)
April 20, 2009
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S2009E71 Niels Diffrient: Rethinking the way we sit down
April 21, 2009
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S2009E72 Erik Hersman: How texting helped Kenyans survive crisis
April 22, 2009
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S2009E73 Ben Katchor's comics of bygone New York
April 23, 2009
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S2009E74 Nate Silver: How does race affect votes?
April 24, 2009
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S2009E75 Alex Tabarrok on how ideas trump crises
April 27, 2009
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S2009E76 Michael Merzenich: Growing evidence of brain plasticity
April 28, 2009
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S2009E77 Sarah Jones: One woman, eight hilarious characters
April 29, 2009
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S2009E78 Laurie Garrett: What can we learn from the 1918 flu?
April 30, 2009
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S2009E79 Brian Cox: What went wrong at the Large Hadron Collider
May 1, 2009
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S2009E80 Sean Gourley on the mathematics of war
May 4, 2009
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S2009E81 Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together
May 5, 2009
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S2009E82 Tom Shannon's gravity-defying sculpture
May 6, 2009
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S2009E83 Al Gore: Alarming new slides of the worsening climate crisis
May 7, 2009
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S2009E84 Louise Fresco on feeding the whole world
May 8, 2009
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S2009E85 Seth Godin: The tribes we lead
May 11, 2009
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S2009E86 Eric Lewis plays chaos and harmony
May 12, 2009
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S2009E87 Hans Rosling on HIV: New facts and stunning data visuals
May 13, 2009
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S2009E88 Nandan Nilekani's ideas for India's future
May 14, 2009
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S2009E89 Naturally 7 beatbox a whole band
May 15, 2009
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S2009E90 Ray Anderson: The business logic of sustainability
May 18, 2009
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S2009E91 Dan Ariely: Are we in control of our decisions?
May 19, 2009
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S2009E92 Mary Roach: 10 things you didn't know about orgasm
May 20, 2009
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S2009E93 Carolyn Porco: Could a Saturn moon harbor life?
May 21, 2009
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S2009E94 Yves Behar's supercharged motorcycle design
May 22, 2009
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S2009E95 Jay Walker: The world's English mania
May 26, 2009
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S2009E96 Michelle Obama's plea for education
May 27, 2009
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S2009E97 Jonathan Drori: Why we're storing billions of seeds
May 28, 2009
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S2009E98 Kaki King rocks out to "Playing with Pink Noise"
May 29, 2009
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S2009E99 Liz Coleman's call to reinvent liberal arts education
June 1, 2009
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S2009E100 Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularity
June 2, 2009
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S2009E101 Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle
June 3, 2009
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S2009E102 Felix Dennis' odes to vice and consequences
June 5, 2009
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S2009E103 Pete Alcorn on the world in 2200
June 12, 2009
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S2009E104 Kevin Surace invents eco-friendly drywall
June 12, 2009
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S2009E105 John La Grou plugs smart power outlets
June 12, 2009
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S2009E106 Robert Full: Learning from the gecko's tail
June 12, 2009
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S2009E107 Richard St. John: "Success is a continuous journey"
June 15, 2009
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S2009E108 Nancy Etcoff: Happiness and its surprises
June 15, 2009
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S2009E109 Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2
June 16, 2009
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S2009E110 Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history
June 16, 2009
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S2009E111 Diane Benscoter: How cults rewire the brain
June 17, 2009
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S2009E112 Catherine Mohr: Surgery's past, present and robotic future
June 19, 2009
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S2009E113 Qi Zhang's electrifying organ performance
June 19, 2009
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S2009E114 Philip Zimbardo: The psychology of time
June 22, 2009
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S2009E115 Ray Zahab treks to the South Pole
June 26, 2009
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S2009E116 Katherine Fulton: You are the future of philanthropy
June 26, 2009
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S2009E117 Arthur Benjamin: Teach statistics before calculus!
June 29, 2009
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S2009E118 Gever Tulley teaches life lessons through tinkering
July 1, 2009
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S2009E119 Daniel Libeskind's 17 words of architectural inspiration
July 1, 2009
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S2009E120 The design genius of Charles + Ray Eames
July 6, 2009
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S2009E121 Tom Wujec: 3 ways the brain creates meaning
July 7, 2009
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S2009E122 Sophal Ear: Escaping the Khmer Rouge
July 8, 2009
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S2009E123 Kary Mullis' next-gen cure for killer infection
July 9, 2009
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S2009E124 Stewart Brand: 4 environmental 'heresies'
July 13, 2009
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S2009E125 Daniel Kraft invents a better way to harvest bone marrow
July 15, 2009
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S2009E126 Jim Fallon: Exploring the mind of a killer
July 16, 2009
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S2009E127 Gordon Brown: Wiring a web for global good
July 22, 2009
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S2009E128 Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
July 28, 2009
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S2009E129 Golan Levin makes art that looks back at you
July 30, 2009
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S2009E130 Elaine Morgan says we evolved from aquatic apes
July 31, 2009
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S2009E131 Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculpture
August 4, 2009
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S2009E132 Michael Pritchard: How to make filthy water drinkable
August 4, 2009
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S2009E133 Paul Romer: Why the world needs charter cities
August 5, 2009
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S2009E134 Janine Benyus: Biomimicry in action
August 6, 2009
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S2009E135 Emmanuel Jal: The music of a war child
August 7, 2009
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S2009E136 Olafur Eliasson: Playing with space and light
August 7, 2009
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S2009E137 Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin color
August 7, 2009
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S2009E138 Nicholas Negroponte takes OLPC to Colombia
August 10, 2009
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S2009E139 Joachim de Posada: Don’t eat the marshmallow!
August 10, 2009
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S2009E140 Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation
August 25, 2009
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S2009E141 Eric Giler demos wireless electricity
August 31, 2009
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S2009E142 Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset
August 31, 2009
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S2009E143 Natasha Tsakos' multimedia theatrical adventure
August 31, 2009
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S2009E144 Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food
August 31, 2009
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S2009E145 Josh Silver demos adjustable liquid-filled eyeglasses
September 1, 2009
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S2009E146 Geoff Mulgan: Post-crash, investing in a better world
September 2, 2009
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S2009E147 Hans Rosling's answers to the TED and Reddit community interview
September 8, 2009
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S2009E148 Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics
September 9, 2009
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S2009E149 Steve Truglia: A leap from the edge of space
September 9, 2009
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S2009E150 James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss
September 9, 2009
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S2009E151 Lewis Pugh swims the North Pole
September 11, 2009
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S2009E152 Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds
September 11, 2009
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S2009E153 Vishal Vaid's hypnotic song
September 11, 2009
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S2009E154 Misha Glenny investigates global crime networks
September 14, 2009
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S2009E155 Bjarke Ingels: 3 warp-speed architecture tales
September 15, 2009
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S2009E156 John Lloyd: An inventory of the invisible
September 18, 2009
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S2009E157 Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds
September 18, 2009
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S2009E158 Imogen Heap plays "Wait It Out"
September 21, 2009
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S2009E159 Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness
September 22, 2009
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S2009E160 Evgeny Morozov: How the Internet strengthens dictatorships
September 22, 2009
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S2009E161 William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind
September 23, 2009
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S2009E162 Taryn Simon photographs secret sites
September 24, 2009
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S2009E163 Jacqueline Novogratz: A third way to think about aid
September 26, 2009
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S2009E164 Parag Khanna maps the future of countries
September 28, 2009
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S2009E165 Karen Armstrong: Let's revive the Golden Rule
September 30, 2009
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S2009E166 Tim Brown urges designers to think big
September 30, 2009
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S2009E167 Garik Israelian: What's inside a star?
October 1, 2009
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S2009E168 Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off
October 5, 2009
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S2009E169 Carolyn Steel: How food shapes our cities
October 5, 2009
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S2009E170 David Logan: Tribal leadership
October 6, 2009
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S2009E171 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story
October 7, 2009
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S2009E172 Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see
October 8, 2009
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S2009E173 Sam Martin: The quirky world of "manspaces"
October 9, 2009
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S2009E174 Eric Sanderson: New York -- before the City
October 13, 2009
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S2009E175 David Hanson: Robots that "show emotion"
October 14, 2009
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S2009E176 Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man
October 14, 2009
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S2009E177 Henry Markram: A brain in a supercomputer
October 15, 2009
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S2009E178 Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects us
October 16, 2009
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S2009E179 John Gerzema: The post-crisis consumer
October 19, 2009
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S2009E180 Paul Debevec animates a photo-real digital face
October 20, 2009
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S2009E181 Itay Talgam: Lead like the great conductors
October 21, 2009
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S2009E182 Marc Koska: 1.3m reasons to re-invent the syringe
October 22, 2009
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S2009E183 Ian Goldin: Navigating our global future
October 23, 2009
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S2009E184 David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation
October 26, 2009
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S2009E185 Rachel Armstrong: Architecture that repairs itself?
October 27, 2009
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S2009E186 Becky Blanton: The year I was homeless
October 28, 2009
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S2009E187 Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, reality's riddle
October 29, 2009
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S2009E188 Matthew White gives the euphonium a new voice
October 30, 2009
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S2009E189 Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet enables intimacy
November 2, 2009
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S2009E190 Cameron Sinclair: The refugees of boom-and-bust
November 13, 2009
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S2009E191 Rachel Pike: The science behind a climate headline
November 13, 2009
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S2009E192 Edward Burtynsky photographs the landscape of oil
November 13, 2009
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S2009E193 Cynthia Schneider: The surprising spread of "Idol" TV
November 13, 2009
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S2009E194 Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology
November 18, 2009
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S2009E195 Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs west -- the myths that mystify
November 19, 2009
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S2009E196 Tom Wujec demos the 13th-century astrolabe
November 20, 2009
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S2009E197 Rob Hopkins: Transition to a world without oil
November 24, 2009
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S2009E198 Hans Rosling: Asia’s rise -- how and when
November 25, 2009
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S2009E199 Magnus Larsson: Turning dunes into architecture
November 25, 2009
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S2009E200 Mallika Sarabhai: Dance to change the world
November 26, 2009
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S2009E201 Gordon Brown on global ethic vs. national interest
December 1, 2009
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S2009E202 Shashi Tharoor: Why nations should pursue “soft" power
December 2, 2009
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S2009E203 Cindy Gallop: Make love, not porn (Adult content)
December 2, 2009
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S2009E204 Andrea Ghez: The hunt for a supermassive black hole
December 3, 2009
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S2009E205 Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting
December 3, 2009
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S2009E206 Scott Kim takes apart the art of puzzles
December 4, 2009
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S2009E207 Sunitha Krishnan: The fight against sex slavery
December 8, 2009
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S2009E208 Rory Bremner's one-man world summit
December 8, 2009
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S2009E209 Marc Pachter: The art of the interview
December 9, 2009
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S2009E210 Thulasiraj Ravilla: How low-cost eye care can be world-class
December 10, 2009
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S2009E211 Shereen El Feki: Pop culture in the Arab world
December 11, 2009
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S2009E212 Loretta Napoleoni: The intricate economics of terrorism
December 14, 2009
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S2009E213 Ryan Lobo: Photographing the hidden story
December 15, 2009
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S2009E214 Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media
December 16, 2009
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S2009E215 Charles Anderson discovers dragonflies that cross oceans
December 17, 2009
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S2009E216 James Geary, metaphorically speaking
December 18, 2009
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S2009E217 Shaffi Mather: A new way to fight corruption
December 21, 2009
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S2009E218 Steven Cowley: Fusion is energy's future
December 22, 2009
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S2009E219 Asher Hasan's message of peace from Pakistan
season finale
December 23, 2009
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