VIDEO Kirk Sorensen - Thorium
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This presentation on an alternative nuclear fuel, which is completely safe and eco-friendly will blow your mind. The advantages to thorium reactors to traditional water-cooled reactors are so amazing...
VIDEO TED: Brian Goldman: Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that?
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Every doctor makes mistakes. But, says physician Brian Goldman, medicine's culture of denial (and shame) keeps doctors from ever talking about those mistakes, or using them to learn and improve. Telli...
VIDEO TED: Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice
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Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissat...
VIDEO TEDxMIA - Nick Gunia - Greening Schools One Student at a Time
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Nick Gunia, Founder and Chair of Dream in Green, explains his journey from the corporate dream to his "dream in green", and how what appeared a complex problem had a simple solution: children as the a...
VIDEO TED: Jennifer Pahlka - On networked cities in the digital age
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Jennifer Pahlka believes that the value of a city reaches far beyond its borders. The increase in open dialogue between local government and citizens has a positive global impact on everything from en...
VIDEO TED: Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion
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At TEDxGöteborg, scientific visualization expert Anders Ynnerman shows us sophisticated new tools -- like virtual autopsies -- for analyzing this myriad data, and a glimpse at some sci-fi-sounding med...
VIDEO TEDxYouth@Victoria Nakita Sekhon - Passion to Action
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Nakita Sekhon speaks at TED Youth in Victoria about putting your passion into action.
VIDEO TED: Carl Lewis - Pollinating the Next Generation of Scientists
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Carl Lewis, Scientist, Explorer and Director of Fairchild Tropical and Botanic Garden in Miami Florida, explains the moment of inspiration that led him to become a scientist, and how his 6 year-old da...
VIDEO TED: Sean Carroll: Distant time and the hint of a multiverse
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At TEDxCaltech, cosmologist Sean Carroll attacks -- in an entertaining and thought-provoking tour through the nature of time and the universe -- a deceptively simple question: Why does time exist at a...
VIDEO TED: Mohan Nair - Business transformation: How to deal with the unknown unknowns
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Born and raised in Singapore, Mohan witnessed and participated in a nation that transformed itself through hard work and strategy. There, he discovered his love for music, watercolors, mathematics and...
VIDEO Peter van Uhm: Why I chose a gun
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VIDEO TED: Aimee Mullins: The opportunity of adversity
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The thesaurus might equate "disabled" with synonyms like "useless" and "mutilated," but ground-breaking runner Aimee Mullins is out to redefine the word. Defying these associations, she hows how adver...
VIDEO TEDxRaleigh 2011 - Ryan Allis - Creating a Better World
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Ryan Allis steps toward making the world a better place through 5 Global KPIs, Key Performance Indicators.
VIDEO Ron Gutman: The hidden power of smiling
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Prepare to flex a few facial muscles as you learn more about this evolutionarily contagious behavior
VIDEO TEDxSanAntonio - Sichan Siv - From the Killing Fields to the White House
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A Former Ambassador to the United Nations, Sichan tells the compelling story of fleeing Cambodia and his journey to a high-profile career in foreign policy in his talk"From the Killing Fields to the W...
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