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Christopher deCharms looks inside the brain | Video on TED.com
Realtime imaging of brain activity by MRI. "There have been three ways to try to impact the brain: the therapist couch, pills, and the knife. This is a fourth alternative that you are soon going to have."t
Karen Armstrong makes her TED Prize wish: the Charter for Compassion | Video on TED.com
A call to make religion "a source of peace in the world, which it can and should be."
Dave Eggers' wish: Once Upon a School | Video on TED.com
The secret life of the Pirate Supply Store, where kids come to a school that's not school. An inspiring must-watch.
Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice | Video on TED.com
"With so many options to choose from, people find it difficult to choose at all."
Jaime Lerner sings of the city | Video on TED.com
"The car is like your mother-in-law... When the only woman in your life is your mother-in-law, then, you have a problem." A presentation on building sustainable cities with a focus on mass transit. The bus tube looks really interesting. "It's possible! It
Daniel Goleman on compassion | Video on TED.com
"Ultimately, everybody will no everything. The question is: will it make a difference?"
Isabel Allende tells tales of passion | Video on TED.com
"Women are fifty-one percent of humankind. Empowering them will change everything--more than technology and design and entertainment."
Juan Enriquez wants to grow energy | Video on TED.com
"How do apply biological principals to avoid brute force [extraction of energy from Earth]?"
Larry Lessig says the law is strangling creativity | Video on TED.com
Seminal Lessig talk on the motivations behind the Creative Commons.
Hod Lipson builds "self-aware" robots | Video on TED.com
Five minutes of robots that learn how to move on their own, and to self-replicate.
Sherwin Nuland on electroshock therapy | Video on TED.com
This is not at all what I expected. Nuland was actually a surgeon who underwent electroshock therapy. This is a frank recount about that period of his life. His advice to late twenty-somethings is interesting, personally, to me.
Vilayanur Ramachandran on your mind | Video on TED.com
Ramachandran gives an engaging, humorous talk on how neuroscience explains phantom limbs and synesthesia.
Scott McCloud on comics | Video on TED.com
Scott McCloud on being the son of a scientific engineer genius, and comics in an infinite media.
Carolyn Porco flies us to Saturn | Video on TED.com
Porco makes for a rivetting storyteller of Cassini's mission to Saturn, backdropped by jaw-dropping images.
Jill Bolte Taylor's powerful stroke of insight | Video on TED.com
Dr. Taylor, a neuroanatomist, recounts her stroke, as an anecdotal study of the functions of the human brain, and of consciousness.
Deborah Scranton on her "War Tapes" | Video on TED.com
"You can go for days here and not feel like there's a war going on."
Theo Jansen creates new creatures | Video on TED.com
Jansen's beach creatures meld art, mechanics, and material technology.
Steven Pinker on language and thought | Video on TED.com
"The key idea is that language is a way of negotiating human relationships."
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