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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

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A call to make religion "a source of peace in the world, which it can and should be."

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The secret life of the Pirate Supply Store, where kids come to a school that's not school. An inspiring must-watch.

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"With so many options to choose from, people find it difficult to choose at all."

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"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

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"Ultimately, everybody will no everything. The question is: will it make a difference?"

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"Women are fifty-one percent of humankind. Empowering them will change everything--more than technology and design and entertainment."

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"How do apply biological principals to avoid brute force [extraction of energy from Earth]?"

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DNA origami. Neato.

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Seminal Lessig talk on the motivations behind the Creative Commons.

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Five minutes of robots that learn how to move on their own, and to self-replicate.

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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.

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Ramachandran gives an engaging, humorous talk on how neuroscience explains phantom limbs and synesthesia.

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Scott McCloud on being the son of a scientific engineer genius, and comics in an infinite media.

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Porco makes for a rivetting storyteller of Cassini's mission to Saturn, backdropped by jaw-dropping images.

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Dr. Taylor, a neuroanatomist, recounts her stroke, as an anecdotal study of the functions of the human brain, and of consciousness.

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"You can go for days here and not feel like there's a war going on."

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Jansen's beach creatures meld art, mechanics, and material technology.

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"The key idea is that language is a way of negotiating human relationships."

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