In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues, introverts bring extraordinary talents and abilities to the world, and should be encouraged and celebrated.

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Added: Sat Mar 03 02:49:15 UTC 2012
Air date: Fri Mar 02 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 18:59
Rating: 3.9 / 5.0

Have we used up all our resources? Have we filled up all the livable space on Earth? Paul Gilding suggests we have, and the possibility of devastating consequences, in a talk that's equal parts terrifying and, oddly, hopeful.

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Added: Thu Mar 01 04:20:13 UTC 2012
Air date: Wed Feb 29 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 16:42
Rating: 3.3 / 5.0

In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams -- for construction, surveying disasters and far more.

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Added: Fri Mar 02 16:26:14 UTC 2012
Air date: Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 16:42
Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Onstage at TED2012, Peter Diamandis makes a case for optimism -- that we'll invent, innovate and create ways to solve the challenges that loom over us. "Im not saying we dont have our set of problems; we surely do. But ultimately, we knock them down.

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Added: Thu Mar 01 06:55:14 UTC 2012
Air date: Wed Feb 29 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 16:08
Rating: 4.4 / 5.0

What's six miles wide and can end civilization in an instant? An asteroid -- and there are lots of them out there. With humor and great visuals, Phil Plait enthralls the TEDxBoulder audience with all the ways asteroids can kill, and how we can avoid them.

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Added: Wed Nov 23 17:08:15 UTC 2011
Air date: Mon Nov 21 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 14:11
Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

Does science ruin the magic of life? In this grumpy but charming monologue, Robin Ince makes the argument against. The more we learn about the astonishing behavior of the universe -- the more we stand in awe.

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Added: Sat Nov 19 00:59:12 UTC 2011
Air date: Fri Nov 18 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 08:34
Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

What controls aging? Biochemist Cynthia Kenyon has found a simple genetic mutation that can double the lifespan of a simple worm, C. elegans. The lessons from that discovery are pointing to how we might significantly extend youthful human life.

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Added: Fri Nov 18 01:46:07 UTC 2011
Air date: Thu Nov 17 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 16:19
Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

Strapped to a jet-powered wing, Yves Rossy is the Jetman -- flying free, his body as the rudder, above the Swiss Alps and the Grand Canyon. After a powerful short film shows how it works, Rossy talks about the experience and thrill of flying.

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Added: Thu Nov 17 00:34:17 UTC 2011
Air date: Tue Nov 15 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 14:44
Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. (Some graphic images.)

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Added: Wed Nov 16 20:02:08 UTC 2011
Air date: Mon Nov 14 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 09:32
Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

How can we begin to understand the way the brain works? The same way we begin to understand a city: by making a map. Allan Jones shows how his team is mapping which genes are turned on in each tiny region, and how it all connects up.

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Added: Sat Nov 12 03:12:13 UTC 2011
Air date: Fri Nov 11 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 15:17
Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

In his lab, Martin Hanczyc makes "protocells," experimental blobs of chemicals that behave like living cells. His work demonstrates how life might have first occurred on Earth ... and perhaps elsewhere too.

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Added: Wed Nov 09 23:42:08 UTC 2011
Air date: Mon Nov 07 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 14:33
Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

Ancient monuments give us clues to astonishing past civilizations -- but they're under threat from pollution, war, neglect. Ben Kacyra, is using his 3D scanning invention to scan and preserve the world's heritage in archival detail.

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Added: Wed Nov 09 23:42:08 UTC 2011
Air date: Wed Nov 09 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 12:15
Rating: 4.4 / 5.0

Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, Rao creates high-tech art installations that put a playful spin on ordinary objects and interactions.

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Added: Wed Nov 09 23:37:08 UTC 2011
Air date: Tue Nov 08 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 07:45
Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

Using sleight-of-hand techniques and charming storytelling, illusionist Marco Tempest brings a jaunty stick figure to life onstage at TEDGlobal.

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Added: Sat Nov 05 02:52:14 UTC 2011
Air date: Fri Nov 04 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 05:40
Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement. In this entertaining, data-rich talk he gives us a glimpse into how the brain creates the grace and agility of human motion.

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Added: Sat Nov 05 02:52:14 UTC 2011
Air date: Thu Nov 03 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 19:55
Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

What drives our desire to behave morally? Neuroeconomist Paul Zak shows why he believes oxytocin (he calls it "the moral molecule") is responsible for trust, empathy and other feelings that help build a stable society.

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Added: Thu Nov 03 00:12:12 UTC 2011
Air date: Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 16:30
Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

A flying car -- it's an iconic image of the future. But after 100 years of flight and automotive engineering, no one has really cracked the problem. Pilot Anna Mracek Dietrich and her team flipped the question, asking: Why not build a plane you can drive?

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Added: Wed Nov 02 23:19:07 UTC 2011
Air date: Wed Nov 02 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 09:34
Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

With scissors and paper, artist Béatrice Coron creates intricate worlds, cities and countries, heavens and hells. Striding onstage in a glorious cape cut from Tyvek, she describes her creative process and the way her stories develop from snips and slices.

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Added: Mon Oct 31 14:08:08 UTC 2011
Air date: Fri Oct 28 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 18:11
Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

How does cancer know it's cancer? At Jay Bradner's lab, they found a molecule that might hold the answer, JQ1 -- and instead of patenting JQ1, they published their findings and mailed samples to 40 other labs to work on.

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Added: Fri Oct 28 00:29:08 UTC 2011
Air date: Thu Oct 27 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 12:43
Rating: 4.8 / 5.0

Master storyteller Malcolm Gladwell tells the tale of the Norden bombsight, a groundbreaking piece of World War II technology with a deeply unexpected result.

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Added: Fri Oct 28 00:47:08 UTC 2011
Air date: Wed Oct 26 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 14:56
Rating: 4.0 / 5.0