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José Bowen
Beethoven the businessman
9:23
Brenda Romero
Gaming for understanding
18:23
Jack Horner
Where are the baby dinosaurs?
7:31
Adam Savage
How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries
12:20
Ben Kacyra
Ancient wonders captured in 3D
19:37
Neil MacGregor
2600 years of history in one object
5:41
Ian Ritchie
The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee
17:40
David Christian
The history of our world in 18 minutes
16:10
Edward Tenner
Unintended consequences
17:01
Rajesh Rao
A Rosetta Stone for a lost language
14:41
Leonard Susskind
My friend Richard Feynman
11:26
Courtney E. Martin
This isn't her mother's feminism
11:41
Sir Ken Robinson
Changing education paradigms
15:27
Aaron Huey
America's native prisoners of war
5:41
Caroline Phillips
Hurdy-gurdy for beginners
18:35
George Whitesides
Toward a science of simplicity
16:00
David Byrne
How architecture helped music evolve
4:57
Thomas Dolby
"Love Is a Loaded Pistol"
14:00
Sarah Kaminsky
My father the forger
16:32
Kevin Kelly
Technology's epic story
17:14
Anupam Mishra
The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting
16:38
David Deutsch
A new way to explain explanation
18:53
Parag Khanna
Mapping the future of countries
9:25
Tom Wujec
Learn to use the 13th-century astrolabe
16:50
Tim Brown
Designers -- think big!
16:09
Eric Sanderson
New York -- before the City
14:33
Alex Tabarrok
How ideas trump crises
5:57
Sophal Ear
Escaping the Khmer Rouge
16:43
Mary Roach
10 things you didn't know about orgasm
16:38
Jennifer 8. Lee
The hunt for General Tso
4:24
Siegfried Woldhek
The search for the true face of Leonardo
25:18
Irwin Redlener
How to survive a nuclear attack
19:41
Peter Ward
A theory of Earth's mass extinctions
18:48
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Lessons from past presidents
20:54
Marc Pachter
The art of the interview
31:39
Peter Hirshberg
The web is more than "better TV"
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