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Marcel Dicke: Why n...
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15:00:04 12/01/10

Marcel Dicke makes an appetizing case for adding insects to everyone's diet. His message to squeamish chefs and foodies: delicacies like locusts and caterpillars c...

Marcel Dicke: Why not eat insects?

Added 12/01/10
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Marcel Dicke: Why not eat insects?

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Marcel Dicke makes an appetizing case for adding insects to everyone's diet. His message to squeamish chefs and foodies: delicacies like locusts and caterpillars compete with meat in flavor, nutrition and eco-friendliness.

Marcel Dicke: Why n...
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15:00:04 12/01/10

Marcel Dicke makes an appetizing case for adding insects to everyone's diet. His message to squeamish chefs and foodies: delicacies like locusts and caterpillars c...

Marcel Dicke: Why not eat insects?

Added 12/01/10
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Marcel Dicke: Why not eat insects?

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Marcel Dicke makes an appetizing case for adding insects to everyone's diet. His message to squeamish chefs and foodies: delicacies like locusts and caterpillars compete with meat in flavor, nutrition and eco-friendliness.

Marcel Dicke: Why n...
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15:00:00 12/01/10

Marcel Dicke makes an appetizing case for adding insects to everyone's diet. His message to squeamish chefs and foodies: delicacies like locusts and caterpillars c...

Marcel Dicke: Why not eat insects?

Added 12/01/10
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Marcel Dicke: Why not eat insects?

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Marcel Dicke makes an appetizing case for adding insects to everyone's diet. His message to squeamish chefs and foodies: delicacies like locusts and caterpillars compete with meat in flavor, nutrition and eco-friendliness.

Shimon Schocken's r...
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15:07:12 11/17/10

Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is also an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor program with Isra...

Shimon Schocken's rides of hope

Added 11/17/10
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Shimon Schocken's rides of hope

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Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is also an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor program with Israel's juvenile inmates and was touched by both their intense difficulties and profound successes. Photographs by Raphael Rabinovitz.

Shimon Schocken's r...
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15:07:12 11/17/10

Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is also an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor program with Isra...

Shimon Schocken's rides of hope

Added 11/17/10
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Shimon Schocken's rides of hope

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Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is also an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor program with Israel's juvenile inmates and was touched by both their intense difficulties and profound successes. Photographs by Raphael Rabinovitz.

Shimon Schocken's r...
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15:07:00 11/17/10

Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is also an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor program with Isra...

Shimon Schocken's rides of hope

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Shimon Schocken's rides of hope

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Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is also an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor program with Israel's juvenile inmates and was touched by both their intense difficulties and profound successes. Photographs by Raphael Rabinovitz. (Filmed at TEDxTelAviv .)

Shimon Steinberg: N...
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13:10:13 10/28/10

At TEDxTelAviv, Shimon Steinberg looks at the difference between pests and bugs -- and makes the case for using good bugs to fight bad bugs, avoiding chemicals in ...

Shimon Steinberg: Natural pest control ... using bugs!

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Shimon Steinberg: Natural pest control ... using bugs!

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At TEDxTelAviv, Shimon Steinberg looks at the difference between pests and bugs -- and makes the case for using good bugs to fight bad bugs, avoiding chemicals in our quest for perfect produce.

Shimon Steinberg: N...
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08:10:13 10/28/10

At TEDxTelAviv, Shimon Steinberg looks at the difference between pests and bugs -- and makes the case for using good bugs to fight bad bugs, avoiding chemicals in ...

Shimon Steinberg: Natural pest control ... using bugs!

Added 10/28/10
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Shimon Steinberg: Natural pest control ... using bugs!

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At TEDxTelAviv, Shimon Steinberg looks at the difference between pests and bugs -- and makes the case for using good bugs to fight bad bugs, avoiding chemicals in our quest for perfect produce.

Shimon Steinberg: N...
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08:07:00 10/28/10

Shimon Steinberg looks at the difference between pests and bugs -- and makes the case for using good bugs to fight bad bugs, avoiding chemicals in our quest for pe...

Shimon Steinberg: Natural pest control ... using bugs!

Added 10/28/10
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Shimon Steinberg: Natural pest control ... using bugs!

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Shimon Steinberg looks at the difference between pests and bugs -- and makes the case for using good bugs to fight bad bugs, avoiding chemicals in our quest for perfect produce. (Filmed at TEDxTelAviv .)

David Byrne sings "...
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13:51:59 10/22/10

David Byrne sings the Talking Heads' 1988 hit, "(Nothing But) Flowers." He's accompanied by Thomas Dolby and string quartet Ethel, who made up the TED2010 house band.

David Byrne sings "(Nothing But) Flowers"

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David Byrne sings "(Nothing But) Flowers"

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David Byrne sings the Talking Heads' 1988 hit, "(Nothing But) Flowers." He's accompanied by Thomas Dolby and string quartet Ethel, who made up the TED2010 house band.

David Byrne sings "...
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08:51:59 10/22/10

David Byrne sings the Talking Heads' 1988 hit, "(Nothing But) Flowers." He's accompanied by Thomas Dolby and string quartet Ethel, who made up the TED2010 house band.

David Byrne sings "(Nothing But) Flowers"

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David Byrne sings "(Nothing But) Flowers"

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David Byrne sings the Talking Heads' 1988 hit, "(Nothing But) Flowers." He's accompanied by Thomas Dolby and string quartet Ethel, who made up the TED2010 house band.

David Byrne sings "...
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08:49:00 10/22/10

David Byrne sings the Talking Heads' 1988 hit, "(Nothing But) Flowers." He's accompanied by Thomas Dolby and string quartet Ethel, who made up the TED2010 house band.

David Byrne sings "(Nothing But) Flowers"

Added 10/22/10
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David Byrne sings "(Nothing But) Flowers"

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David Byrne sings the Talking Heads' 1988 hit, "(Nothing But) Flowers." He's accompanied by Thomas Dolby and string quartet Ethel, who made up the TED2010 house band.

Natalie Jeremijenko...
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14:26:52 10/14/10

Natalie Jeremijenko's unusual lab puts art to work, and addresses environmental woes by combining engineering know-how with public art and a team of volunteers. Th...

Natalie Jeremijenko: The art of the eco-mindshift

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Natalie Jeremijenko: The art of the eco-mindshift

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Natalie Jeremijenko's unusual lab puts art to work, and addresses environmental woes by combining engineering know-how with public art and a team of volunteers. These real-life experiments include: Walking tadpoles, texting "fish," planting fire-hydrant gardens and more.

Natalie Jeremijenko...
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09:26:52 10/14/10

Natalie Jeremijenko's unusual lab puts art to work, and addresses environmental woes by combining engineering know-how with public art and a team of volunteers. Th...

Natalie Jeremijenko: The art of the eco-mindshift

Added 10/14/10
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Natalie Jeremijenko: The art of the eco-mindshift

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Natalie Jeremijenko's unusual lab puts art to work, and addresses environmental woes by combining engineering know-how with public art and a team of volunteers. These real-life experiments include: Walking tadpoles, texting "fish," planting fire-hydrant gardens and more.

Natalie Jeremijenko...
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09:15:00 10/14/10

Natalie Jeremijenko's unusual lab puts art to work, and addresses environmental woes by combining engineering know-how with public art and a team of volunteers. Th...

Natalie Jeremijenko: The art of the eco-mindshift

Added 10/14/10
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Natalie Jeremijenko: The art of the eco-mindshift

[LESS INFO] 60 VIEWS | ADDED 09:15:00 10/14/10
Natalie Jeremijenko's unusual lab puts art to work, and addresses environmental woes by combining engineering know-how with public art and a team of volunteers. These real-life experiments include: Walking tadpoles, texting "fish," planting fire-hydrant gardens and more.

Eben Bayer: Are mus...
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14:03:39 10/04/10

Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens -- and the env...

Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic?

Added 10/04/10
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Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic?

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Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens -- and the environment.

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Rob Harmon: How the market can keep streams flo...

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Rob Harmon: How the market can keep streams flowing
03/11/11

With streams and rivers drying up because of over-usage, Rob Harmon has implemented an ingenious market mechanism to bring back the water. Farmers and beer companies find their fates intertwined in the intriguing century-old tale of Prickly Pear Creek.