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Ellen Dunham-Jones:...
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Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years' big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. To come: Dying malls rehabilitated, dead "...

Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia

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Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia

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Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years' big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. To come: Dying malls rehabilitated, dead "big box" stores re-inhabited, parking lots transformed into thriving wetlands. (Filmed at TEDxAtlanta .)

Craig Venter unveil...
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14:16:35 05/21/10

Craig Venter and team make a historic announcement: they've created the first fully functioning, reproducing cell controlled by synthetic DNA. He explains how they...

Craig Venter unveils "synthetic life"

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Craig Venter unveils "synthetic life"

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Craig Venter and team make a historic announcement: they've created the first fully functioning, reproducing cell controlled by synthetic DNA. He explains how they did it and why the achievement marks the beginning of a new era for science.

Craig Venter unveil...
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09:16:35 05/21/10

Craig Venter and team make a historic announcement: they've created the first fully functioning, reproducing cell controlled by synthetic DNA. He explains how they...

Craig Venter unveils "synthetic life"

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Craig Venter unveils "synthetic life"

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Craig Venter and team make a historic announcement: they've created the first fully functioning, reproducing cell controlled by synthetic DNA. He explains how they did it and why the achievement marks the beginning of a new era for science.

Craig Venter unveil...
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09:13:00 05/21/10

Craig Venter and team make a historic announcement: they've created the first fully functioning, reproducing cell controlled by synthetic DNA. He explains how they...

Craig Venter unveils "synthetic life"

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Craig Venter unveils "synthetic life"

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Craig Venter and team make a historic announcement: they've created the first fully functioning, reproducing cell controlled by synthetic DNA. He explains how they did it and why the achievement marks the beginning of a new era for science.

Jeremy Jackson: How...
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13:30:27 05/05/10

In this bracing talk, coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the shocking state of the ocean today: overfished, overheated, polluted, with indicators that th...

Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean

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Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean

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In this bracing talk, coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the shocking state of the ocean today: overfished, overheated, polluted, with indicators that things will get much worse. Astonishing photos and stats make the case.

Jeremy Jackson: How...
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08:30:27 05/05/10

In this bracing talk, coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the shocking state of the ocean today: overfished, overheated, polluted, with indicators that th...

Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean

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Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean

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In this bracing talk, coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the shocking state of the ocean today: overfished, overheated, polluted, with indicators that things will get much worse. Astonishing photos and stats make the case.

Jeremy Jackson: How...
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08:28:00 05/05/10

In this bracing talk, coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the shocking state of the ocean today: overfished, overheated, polluted, with indicators that th...

Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean

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Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean

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In this bracing talk, coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the shocking state of the ocean today: overfished, overheated, polluted, with indicators that things will get much worse. Astonishing photos and stats make the case.

George Whitesides: ...
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21:37:35 04/28/10

Simplicity: We know it when we see it -- but what is it, exactly? In this funny, philosophical talk, George Whitesides chisels out an answer.

George Whitesides: Toward a science of simplicity

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George Whitesides: Toward a science of simplicity

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Simplicity: We know it when we see it -- but what is it, exactly? In this funny, philosophical talk, George Whitesides chisels out an answer.

George Whitesides: ...
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16:37:35 04/28/10

Simplicity: We know it when we see it -- but what is it, exactly? In this funny, philosophical talk, George Whitesides chisels out an answer.

George Whitesides: Toward a science of simplicity

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George Whitesides: Toward a science of simplicity

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Simplicity: We know it when we see it -- but what is it, exactly? In this funny, philosophical talk, George Whitesides chisels out an answer.

George Whitesides: ...
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16:34:00 04/28/10

Simplicity: We know it when we see it -- but what is it, exactly? In this funny, philosophical talk, George Whitesides chisels out an answer.

George Whitesides: Toward a science of simplicity

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George Whitesides: Toward a science of simplicity

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Simplicity: We know it when we see it -- but what is it, exactly? In this funny, philosophical talk, George Whitesides chisels out an answer.

Stephen Wolfram: Co...
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13:36:40 04/27/10

Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new searc...

Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything

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Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything

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Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new search engine, Wolfram Alpha, has no lesser goal than to model and explain the physics underlying the universe.

Stephen Wolfram: Co...
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08:36:40 04/27/10

Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new searc...

Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything

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Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything

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Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new search engine, Wolfram Alpha, has no lesser goal than to model and explain the physics underlying the universe.

Stephen Wolfram: Co...
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08:30:00 04/27/10

Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new searc...

Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything

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Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything

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Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new search engine, Wolfram Alpha, has no lesser goal than to model and explain the physics underlying the universe.

Jonathan Drori: Eve...
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14:01:01 04/08/10

Pollen goes unnoticed by most of us, except when hay fever strikes. But microscopes reveal it comes in stunning colors and shapes -- and travels remarkably well. J...

Jonathan Drori: Every pollen grain has a story

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Jonathan Drori: Every pollen grain has a story

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Pollen goes unnoticed by most of us, except when hay fever strikes. But microscopes reveal it comes in stunning colors and shapes -- and travels remarkably well. Jonathan Drori gives an up-close glimpse of these fascinating flecks of plant courtship.

Jonathan Drori: Eve...
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09:01:01 04/08/10

Pollen goes unnoticed by most of us, except when hay fever strikes. But microscopes reveal it comes in stunning colors and shapes -- and travels remarkably well. J...

Jonathan Drori: Every pollen grain has a story

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Jonathan Drori: Every pollen grain has a story

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Pollen goes unnoticed by most of us, except when hay fever strikes. But microscopes reveal it comes in stunning colors and shapes -- and travels remarkably well. Jonathan Drori gives an up-close glimpse of these fascinating flecks of plant courtship.

Jonathan Drori: Eve...
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08:57:00 04/08/10

Pollen goes unnoticed by most of us, except when hay fever strikes. But microscopes reveal it comes in stunning colors and shapes -- and travels remarkably well. J...

Jonathan Drori: Every pollen grain has a story

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Jonathan Drori: Every pollen grain has a story

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Pollen goes unnoticed by most of us, except when hay fever strikes. But microscopes reveal it comes in stunning colors and shapes -- and travels remarkably well. Jonathan Drori gives an up-close glimpse of these fascinating flecks of plant courtship.

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Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin color

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Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin color
07/17/09

Nina Jablonski says that differing skin colors are simply our bodies' adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Charles Darwin disagreed with this theory, but she explains, that's because he did not have access to NASA.