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tedtalks

  1. Today’s #TED: SETI alien hunter Seth Shostak says we’re close to finding ET: on.ted.com/Shostak
  2. Today's #TED: An extraordinary dance with projected light by Quixotic Fusion: on.ted.com/Quixotic
  3. Today's #TED: Sebastian Deterding asks: What does the design of your chair say about your view of life? on.ted.com/SDeterding
  4. Today's #TED: The surprising attitudes that led up to the Arab Spring: on.ted.com/Mogahed
  5. Today's #TED: Four lessons on being human -- from robots: on.ted.com/Goldberg
  6. Today’s #TED: How does sustainable energy add up? David MacKay does the math: on.ted.com/MacKay
  7. Today's #TED: Shereen El-Feki shows how to fight an epidemic of bad laws -- laws that criminalize being HIV positive: on.ted.com/ElFeki
  8. Today's #TED: Hans Rosling charts the data on religions, babies and population growth: on.ted.com/Rosling2012
  9. Today's #TED: Melissa Garren on the extraordinary and unseen world of ocean bacteria: on.ted.com/Garren
  10. Today's #TED: Michael McDaniel designed the perfect disaster relief shelter. Now he's producing them on his own: on.ted.com/McDaniel
  11. Listen to the new episode of #TEDRadioHour: The Power of Crowds. Online npr.org/2012/05/16/152… iTunes bit.ly/Jj0w20 @NPR #TED
  12. Today's #TED: Carl Schoonover shows the visually stunning history of how we learned to study neurons: on.ted.com/Schoonover
  13. Today's #TED: David Kelley talks about building your creative confidence: on.ted.com/Kelley
  14. Today's #TED Can you use mathematics to help understand history? Jean-Baptiste Michel says yes: on.ted.com/Michel
  15. Today's #TED: Bart Knowls shows an array of creative ideas to stop malaria, including limburger cheese and a pill: on.ted.com/Knowls
  16. Today's #TED: José Bowen on the origin of music piracy -- in the 19th century: on.ted.com/JBowen
  17. Today's #TED: 404, the story of a page not found: on.ted.com/Gleeson
  18. Today's #TED: @joshuafoer on the memory palace -- a simple way to train your memory to do seemingly remarkable feats: on.ted.com/Foer
  19. Today's #TED: Karen Bass shares unseen nature footage: on.ted.com/KarenBass
  20. Today: @TED_Ed curates the @YouTube homepage! Which video will you flip on ed.ted.com? #NationalTeacherDay