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Cheryl Hayashi: The...
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15:46:43 12/07/11

Cheryl Hayashi studies spider silk, one of nature's most high-performance materials. Each species of spider can make up to 7 very different kinds of silk. How do t...

Cheryl Hayashi: The magnificence of spider silk

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Cheryl Hayashi: The magnificence of spider silk

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Cheryl Hayashi studies spider silk, one of nature's most high-performance materials. Each species of spider can make up to 7 very different kinds of silk. How do they do it? Hayashi explains at the DNA level -- then shows us how this super-strong, super-flexible material can inspire.

Dyan deNapoli: The ...
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14:36:36 08/09/11

A personal story, a collective triumph: Dyan deNapoli tells the story of the world's largest volunteer animal rescue, which saved more than 40,000 penguins after a...

Dyan deNapoli: The great penguin rescue

Added 08/09/11
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Dyan deNapoli: The great penguin rescue

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A personal story, a collective triumph: Dyan deNapoli tells the story of the world's largest volunteer animal rescue, which saved more than 40,000 penguins after an oil spill off the coast of South Africa. How does a job this big get done? Penguin by penguin by penguin ...

A robot that flies ...
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14:26:05 07/22/11

Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, mod...

A robot that flies like a bird

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A robot that flies like a bird

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Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011.

Jack Horner: Buildi...
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14:15:46 06/07/11

Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and...

Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken

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Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken

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Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he's taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits — including teeth, tails, and even hands — to make a "Chickenosaurus".

Edith Widder: The w...
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15:20:45 05/19/11

In the deep, dark ocean, many sea creatures make their own light for hunting, mating and self-defense. Bioluminescence expert Edith Widder was one of the first to ...

Edith Widder: The weird, wonderful world of bioluminescence

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Edith Widder: The weird, wonderful world of bioluminescence

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In the deep, dark ocean, many sea creatures make their own light for hunting, mating and self-defense. Bioluminescence expert Edith Widder was one of the first to film this glimmering world. At TED2011, she brings some of her glowing friends onstage, and shows more astonishing footage of glowing undersea life.

Fiorenzo Omenetto: ...
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14:45:56 05/10/11

Fiorenzo Omenetto shares 20+ astonishing new uses for silk, one of nature's most elegant materials -- in transmitting light, improving sustainability, adding stren...

Fiorenzo Omenetto: Silk, the ancient material of the future

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Fiorenzo Omenetto: Silk, the ancient material of the future

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Fiorenzo Omenetto shares 20+ astonishing new uses for silk, one of nature's most elegant materials -- in transmitting light, improving sustainability, adding strength and making medical leaps and bounds. On stage, he shows a few intriguing items made of the versatile stuff.

Paul Nicklen: Tales...
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14:38:52 05/09/11

Diving under the Antarctic ice to get close to the much-feared leopard seal, photographer Paul Nicklen found an extraordinary new friend. Share his hilarious, pass...

Paul Nicklen: Tales of ice-bound wonderlands

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Paul Nicklen: Tales of ice-bound wonderlands

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Diving under the Antarctic ice to get close to the much-feared leopard seal, photographer Paul Nicklen found an extraordinary new friend. Share his hilarious, passionate stories of the polar wonderlands, illustrated by glorious images of the animals who live on and under the ice.

Louie Schwartzberg:...
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14:25:12 05/06/11

Pollination: it's vital to life on Earth, but largely unseen by the human eye. Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg shows us the intricate world of pollen and pollinators ...

Louie Schwartzberg: The hidden beauty of pollination

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Louie Schwartzberg: The hidden beauty of pollination

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Pollination: it's vital to life on Earth, but largely unseen by the human eye. Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg shows us the intricate world of pollen and pollinators with gorgeous high-speed images from his film "Wings of Life," inspired by the vanishing of one of nature's primary pollinators, the honeybee.

Handspring Puppet C...
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14:22:27 03/30/11

"Puppets always have to try to be alive," says Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppet Company, a gloriously ambitious troupe of human and wooden actors. Beginning ...

Handspring Puppet Co.: The genius puppetry behind War Horse

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Handspring Puppet Co.: The genius puppetry behind War Horse

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"Puppets always have to try to be alive," says Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppet Company, a gloriously ambitious troupe of human and wooden actors. Beginning with the tale of a hyena's subtle paw, puppeteers Kohler and Basil Jones build to the story of their latest astonishment: the wonderfully life-like Joey, the War Horse, who trots (and gallops) convincingly onto the TED stage.

Isabel Behncke: Evo...
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14:45:48 03/22/11

With never-before-seen video, primatologist Isabel Behncke Izquierdo (a TED Fellow) shows how bonobo ape society learns from constantly playing -- solo, with frien...

Isabel Behncke: Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to ...

Added 03/22/11
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Isabel Behncke: Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans

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With never-before-seen video, primatologist Isabel Behncke Izquierdo (a TED Fellow) shows how bonobo ape society learns from constantly playing -- solo, with friends, even as a prelude to sex. Indeed, play appears to be the bonobos' key to problem-solving and avoiding conflict. If it works for our close cousins, why not for us?

Beverly + Dereck Jo...
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15:18:12 12/20/10

Beverly + Dereck Joubert live in the bush, filming and photographing lions and leopards in their natural habitat. With stunning footage (some never before seen), t...

Beverly + Dereck Joubert: Life lessons from big cats

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Beverly + Dereck Joubert: Life lessons from big cats

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Beverly + Dereck Joubert live in the bush, filming and photographing lions and leopards in their natural habitat. With stunning footage (some never before seen), they discuss their personal relationships with these majestic animals -- and their quest to save the big cats from human threats.

Bart Weetjens: How ...
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15:25:03 12/02/10

At TEDxRotterdam, Bart Weetjens talks about his extraordinary project: training rats to sniff out land mines. He shows clips of his "hero rats" in action, and prev...

Bart Weetjens: How I taught rats to sniff out land mines

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Bart Weetjens: How I taught rats to sniff out land mines

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At TEDxRotterdam, Bart Weetjens talks about his extraordinary project: training rats to sniff out land mines. He shows clips of his "hero rats" in action, and previews his work's next phase: teaching them to turn up tuberculosis in the lab.

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?

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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.

Kristina Gjerde: Ma...
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14:03:13 11/19/10

Kristina Gjerde studies the law of the high seas -- the 64 percent of our ocean that isn't protected by any national law at all. Gorgeous photos show the hidden wo...

Kristina Gjerde: Making law on the high seas

Added 11/19/10
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Kristina Gjerde: Making law on the high seas

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Kristina Gjerde studies the law of the high seas -- the 64 percent of our ocean that isn't protected by any national law at all. Gorgeous photos show the hidden worlds that Gjerde and other lawyers are working to protect from trawling and trash-dumping, through smart policymaking and a healthy dose of PR.

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.

Christien Meinderts...
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08:45:50 09/20/10

Christien Meindertsma, author of "Pig 05049" looks at the astonishing afterlife of the ordinary pig, parts of which make their way into at least 185 non-pork produ...

Christien Meindertsma: How pig parts make the world turn

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Christien Meindertsma: How pig parts make the world turn

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Christien Meindertsma, author of "Pig 05049" looks at the astonishing afterlife of the ordinary pig, parts of which make their way into at least 185 non-pork products, from bullets to artificial hearts.

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Cheryl Hayashi: The magnificence of spider silk

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Cheryl Hayashi: The magnificence of spider silk
12/07/11

Cheryl Hayashi studies spider silk, one of nature's most high-performance materials. Each species of spider can make up to 7 very different kinds of silk. How do they do it? Hayashi explains at the DNA level -- then shows us how this super-strong, super-flexible material can inspire.