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Jane Poynter: Life ...
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06:40:00 06/15/09

At TEDxUSC, Jane Poynter tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2 -- an experience that provoked her to explore how we might sustain life ...

Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2

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Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2

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At TEDxUSC, Jane Poynter tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2 -- an experience that provoked her to explore how we might sustain life in the harshest of environments.

Jane Poynter: Life ...
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04:40:00 06/15/09

At TEDxUSC, Jane Poynter tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2 -- an experience that provoked her to explore how we might sustain life ...

Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2

Added 06/15/09
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Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2

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At TEDxUSC, Jane Poynter tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2 -- an experience that provoked her to explore how we might sustain life in the harshest of environments.

Jane Poynter: Life ...
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01:00:00 06/15/09

Jane Poynter tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2 -- an experience that provoked her to explore how we might sustain life in the harsh...

Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2

Added 06/15/09
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Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2

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Jane Poynter tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2 -- an experience that provoked her to explore how we might sustain life in the harshest of environments. (Filmed at TEDxUSC .)

Robert Full: Learni...
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08:36:48 06/11/09

Biologist Robert Full studies the amazing gecko, with its supersticky feet and tenacious climbing skill. But high-speed footage reveals that the gecko's tail harbo...

Robert Full: Learning from the gecko's tail

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Robert Full: Learning from the gecko's tail

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Biologist Robert Full studies the amazing gecko, with its supersticky feet and tenacious climbing skill. But high-speed footage reveals that the gecko's tail harbors perhaps the most surprising talents of all.

Robert Full: Learni...
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06:36:48 06/11/09

Biologist Robert Full studies the amazing gecko, with its supersticky feet and tenacious climbing skill. But high-speed footage reveals that the gecko's tail harbo...

Robert Full: Learning from the gecko's tail

Added 06/11/09
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Robert Full: Learning from the gecko's tail

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Biologist Robert Full studies the amazing gecko, with its supersticky feet and tenacious climbing skill. But high-speed footage reveals that the gecko's tail harbors perhaps the most surprising talents of all.

Robert Full: Learni...
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01:00:00 06/11/09

Biologist Robert Full studies the amazing gecko, with its supersticky feet and tenacious climbing skill. But high-speed footage reveals that the gecko's tail harbo...

Robert Full: Learning from the gecko's tail

Added 06/11/09
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Robert Full: Learning from the gecko's tail

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Biologist Robert Full studies the amazing gecko, with its supersticky feet and tenacious climbing skill. But high-speed footage reveals that the gecko's tail harbors perhaps the most surprising talents of all.

Yann Arthus-Bertran...
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06:30:37 06/03/09

In this image-filled talk, Yann Arthus-Bertrand displays his three most recent projects on humanity and our habitat -- stunning aerial photographs in his series "T...

Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle

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Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle

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In this image-filled talk, Yann Arthus-Bertrand displays his three most recent projects on humanity and our habitat -- stunning aerial photographs in his series "The Earth From Above," personal interviews from around the globe featured in his web project "6 billion Others," and his soon-to-be-released movie, "Home," which documents human impact on the environment through breathtaking video.

Yann Arthus-Bertran...
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06:30:37 06/03/09

In this image-filled talk, Yann Arthus-Bertrand displays his three most recent projects on humanity and our habitat -- stunning aerial photographs in his series "T...

Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle

Added 06/03/09
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Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle

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In this image-filled talk, Yann Arthus-Bertrand displays his three most recent projects on humanity and our habitat -- stunning aerial photographs in his series "The Earth From Above," personal interviews from around the globe featured in his web project "6 billion Others," and his soon-to-be-released movie, "Home," which documents human impact on the environment through breathtaking video.

Yann Arthus-Bertran...
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04:30:37 06/03/09

In this image-filled talk, Yann Arthus-Bertrand displays his three most recent projects on humanity and our habitat -- stunning aerial photographs in his series "T...

Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle

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Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle

[LESS INFO] 64 VIEWS | ADDED 04:30:37 06/03/09
In this image-filled talk, Yann Arthus-Bertrand displays his three most recent projects on humanity and our habitat -- stunning aerial photographs in his series "The Earth From Above," personal interviews from around the globe featured in his web project "6 billion Others," and his soon-to-be-released movie, "Home," which documents human impact on the environment through breathtaking video.

Yann Arthus-Bertran...
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01:00:00 06/03/09

In this image-filled talk, Yann Arthus-Bertrand displays his three most recent projects on humanity and our habitat -- stunning aerial photographs in his series "T...

Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle

Added 06/03/09
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Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle

[LESS INFO] 37 VIEWS | ADDED 01:00:00 06/03/09
In this image-filled talk, Yann Arthus-Bertrand displays his three most recent projects on humanity and our habitat -- stunning aerial photographs in his series "The Earth From Above," personal interviews from around the globe featured in his web project "6 billion Others," and his soon-to-be-released movie, "Home," which documents human impact on the environment through breathtaking video.

Tom Shannon's anti-...
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20:30:16 05/05/09

Tom Shannon shows off his gravity-defying, otherworldly sculpture -- made of simple, earthly materials -- that floats and spins like planets on magnets and suspens...

Tom Shannon's anti-gravity sculpture

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Tom Shannon's anti-gravity sculpture

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Tom Shannon shows off his gravity-defying, otherworldly sculpture -- made of simple, earthly materials -- that floats and spins like planets on magnets and suspension wire. It's science-inspired art at its most heavenly.

Tom Shannon's anti-...
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20:23:00 05/05/09

Tom Shannon shows off his gravity-defying, otherworldly sculpture -- made of simple, earthly materials -- that floats and spins like planets on magnets and suspens...

Tom Shannon's anti-gravity sculpture

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Tom Shannon's anti-gravity sculpture

[LESS INFO] 28 VIEWS | ADDED 20:23:00 05/05/09
Tom Shannon shows off his gravity-defying, otherworldly sculpture -- made of simple, earthly materials -- that floats and spins like planets on magnets and suspension wire. It's science-inspired art at its most heavenly.

Tom Shannon's anti-...
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18:30:16 05/05/09

Tom Shannon shows off his gravity-defying, otherworldly sculpture -- made of simple, earthly materials -- that floats and spins like planets on magnets and suspens...

Tom Shannon's anti-gravity sculpture

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Tom Shannon's anti-gravity sculpture

[LESS INFO] 108 VIEWS | ADDED 18:30:16 05/05/09
Tom Shannon shows off his gravity-defying, otherworldly sculpture -- made of simple, earthly materials -- that floats and spins like planets on magnets and suspension wire. It's science-inspired art at its most heavenly.

Margaret Wertheim: ...
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01:00:00 04/20/09

Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician -- celebrating the amazements...

$Margaret Wertheim: The beautiful math of coral$

Margaret Wertheim: The beautiful math of coral

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Margaret Wertheim: The beautiful math of coral

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Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician -- celebrating the amazements of the reef, and deep-diving into the hyperbolic geometry underlying coral creation.

Margaret Wertheim: ...
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10:46:02 04/19/09

Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician -- celebrating the amazements...

$Margaret Wertheim: The beautiful math of coral$

Margaret Wertheim: The beautiful math of coral

Added 04/19/09
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Margaret Wertheim: The beautiful math of coral

[LESS INFO] 52 VIEWS | ADDED 10:46:02 04/19/09
Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician -- celebrating the amazements of the reef, and deep-diving into the hyperbolic geometry underlying coral creation.

Margaret Wertheim o...
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08:46:02 04/19/09

Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician -- celebrating the amazements...

$Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral$

Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral

Added 04/19/09
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Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral

[LESS INFO] 36 VIEWS | ADDED 08:46:02 04/19/09
Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician -- celebrating the amazements of the reef, and deep-diving into the hyperbolic geometry underlying coral creation.

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Majora Carter: Greening the ghetto

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Majora Carter: Greening the ghetto
06/26/06

In an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur-winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx -- and shows how minority neighborhoods suffer most from flawed urban policy.