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Daniel Pink on the surprising science of motivation

Complete description: www.ted.com Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we thi
Thematic Section: Howto & Style
Duration: 00:13:57.750
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Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from

Complete description: www.ted.com People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the "liquid networks" of L
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:13:42.750
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Hans Rosling: No more boring data: TEDTalks

Complete description: www.ted.com With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling uses an amazing new presentation tool, Gapminder, to present data that debunks several myths about world developm
Thematic Section: News & Politics
Duration: 00:15:26.250
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Susan Cain: The power of introverts

Complete description: www.ted.com In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate talk, introvert
Thematic Section: People & Blogs
Duration: 00:14:18.750
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Kevin Allocca: Why videos go viral

Complete description: www.ted.com Kevin Allocca is YouTube's trends manager, and he has deep thoughts about silly web video. In this talk from TEDYouth, he shares the 4 reasons a video goes viral. (This is the first talk p
Thematic Section: Entertainment
Duration: 00:05:30.750
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Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders

Complete description: www.ted.com Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions -- and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women aiming for the C-suit
Thematic Section: People & Blogs
Duration: 00:11:36.750
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Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action

Complete description: www.ted.com Simon Sinek presents a simple but powerful model for how leaders inspire action, starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and t
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:13:56.250
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Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice

Complete description: www.ted.com 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
Thematic Section: News & Politics
Duration: 00:15:16.500
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Tony Robbins: Why we do what we do, and how we can do it better

Complete description: Tony Robbins discusses the "invisible forces" that make us do what we do -- and high-fives Al Gore in the front row.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Co
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:16:53.250
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Elizabeth Gilbert: A new way to think about creativity

Complete description: www.ted.com "Eat, Pray, Love" Author Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a geni
Thematic Section: Entertainment
Duration: 00:14:36.750
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TEDxUSC - Kellee Santiago - 3/23/09

Complete description: Are Video Games Art? Game innovator Kellee Santiago insists that games are more than entertainment. As a student in the MFA Interactive Media program at the University of Southern California School of
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:11:43.500
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Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability

Complete description: www.ted.com Brene Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:15:37.500
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Rory Sutherland: Perspective is everything

Complete description: www.ted.com The circumstances of our lives may matter less than how we see them, says Rory Sutherland. At TEDxAthens, he makes a compelling case for how reframing is the key to happiness.TEDTalks is a
Thematic Section: People & Blogs
Duration: 00:13:48.750
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Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our decisions?

Complete description: www.ted.com Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we'
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:13:05.250
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Sugata Mitra's new experiments in self-teaching

Complete description: www.ted.com Indian education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life e
Thematic Section: Education
Duration: 00:13:04.500
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Richard Dawkins on our "queer" universe

Complete description: www.ted.com Biologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for "thinking the improbable" by looking at how the human frame of reference limits our understanding of the universe.TEDTalks is a daily video podca
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:17:01.500
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Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world

Complete description: www.ted.com Mycologist Paul Stamets studies the mycelium -- and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the world.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances f
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:13:43.500
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Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod

Complete description: www.ted.com Comic author Rob Reid unveils Copyright Math (TM), a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers and lobbyists.TEDTalks is a daily video podca
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:03:54
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TEDTalks : The amazing intelligence of crows - Joshua Klein

Complete description: Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he's come up with an elegant machin
Thematic Section: Pets & Animals
Duration: 00:07:20.250
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Annie Murphy Paul: What we learn before we're born

Complete description: www.ted.com Pop quiz When does learning begin? Answer: Before we are born. Science writer Annie Murphy Paul talks through new research that shows how much we learn in the womb -- from the lilt of our
Thematic Section: Education
Duration: 00:12:35.250
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Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work

Complete description: www.ted.com We believe that we should work to be happy, but could that be backwards? In this fast-moving and entertaining talk from TEDxBloomington, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that actually happi
Thematic Section: People & Blogs
Duration: 00:09:15.750
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Malcolm Gladwell: What we can learn from spaghetti sauce

Complete description: www.ted.com Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce -- and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.TEDTalk
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:13:42
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Morgan Spurlock: The greatest TED Talk ever sold

Complete description: www.ted.com Much of the TV, video, film and sport we watch is sponsored by a brand, a product, a corporation. But ... why? With humor and persistence, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock dives into the hidden b
Thematic Section: Entertainment
Duration: 00:14:36
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Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

Complete description: www.ted.com Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of th
Thematic Section: Education
Duration: 00:15:03
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Evelyn Glennie: How to listen to music with your whole body

Complete description: www.ted.com In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums.TEDTalks is a daily
Thematic Section: Music
Duration: 00:25:34.500
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How it feels to have a stroke

Complete description: www.ted.com Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain f
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:15:09
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Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions

Complete description: www.ted.com Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can -- and should -- be an authority on moral issues, shaping h
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:17:41.250
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Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world

Complete description: www.ted.com Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jan
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:15:24
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Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks

Complete description: www.ted.com We're all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of traits -- from happiness to obesity -- can spread from
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:14:03.750
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