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Brewster Kahle
A free digital library
2:15
Murray Gell-Mann
The ancestor of language
3:50
David Hoffman
Sputnik mania
21:05
Laurie Garrett
Lessons from the 1918 flu
10:03
Steven Johnson
How the "ghost map" helped end a killer disease
13:34
Vishal Vaid
Hypnotic South Asian improv music
17:08
Scott McCloud
The visual magic of comics
21:46
Paul Sereno
Digging up dinosaurs
23:05
Anna Deavere Smith
Four American characters
20:00
Kevin Kelly
How technology evolves
20:11
James Watson
How we discovered DNA
17:24
Felix Dennis
Odes to vice and consequences
17:18
George Dyson
The birth of the computer
18:21
Jared Diamond
Why do societies collapse?
17:11
Jeff Bezos
The electricity metaphor for the web's future
5:11
Natalie MacMaster
Cape Breton fiddling in reel time
8:38
George Dyson
The story of Project Orion
29:32
Kary Mullis
Play! Experiment! Discover!
13:08
Brenda Laurel
Why not make video games for girls?
19:10
Danny Hillis
Back to the future (of 1994)
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