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John McWhorter
Are Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki and Na'vi real languages?
3:35
Daniel Garrie
Defining cyberwarfare... in hopes of preventing it
3:54
Leslie Kenna
The brilliance of bioluminescence
13:15
Jay Silver
Hack a banana, make a keyboard!
8:28
Dong Woo Jang
The art of bow-making
5:31
Mark Shaw
One very dry demo
12:53
Taylor Wilson
My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors
6:12
Ayanna Howard
Make robots smarter
4:12
Lou Serico
The genius of Mendeleev's periodic table
11:16
Ellen 't Hoen
Pool medical patents, save lives
6:50
Erik Schlangen
A "self-healing" asphalt
10:25
Boaz Almog
The levitating superconductor
11:02
Ramesh Raskar
Imaging at a trillion frames per second
3:06
Lee Cronin
Print your own medicine
11:14
Amos Winter
The cheap all-terrain wheelchair
10:08
Ellen Jorgensen
Biohacking -- you can do it, too
9:21
Arunachalam Muruganantham
How I started a sanitary napkin revolution!
8:59
Doris Kim Sung
Metal that breathes
5:13
Ludwick Marishane
A bath without water
11:35
Wolfgang Kessling
How to air-condition outdoor spaces
14:55
Miguel Nicolelis
A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really.
27:10
Amory Lovins
A 40-year plan for energy
6:05
Marco Tempest
The electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla
3:32
Taylor Wilson
Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor
15:15
Donald Sadoway
The missing link to renewable energy
25:01
Regina Dugan
From mach-20 glider to hummingbird drone
16:14
Peter Diamandis
Abundance is our future
6:33
Leah Buechley
How to "sketch" with electronics
9:38
Anna Mracek Dietrich
A plane you can drive
15:00
Malcolm Gladwell
The strange tale of the Norden bombsight
7:30
Jae Rhim Lee
My mushroom burial suit
19:07
Bunker Roy
Learning from a barefoot movement
18:51
Todd Kuiken
A prosthetic arm that "feels"
12:20
Ben Kacyra
Ancient wonders captured in 3D
12:51
Harald Haas
Wireless data from every light bulb
17:24
Anthony Atala
Printing a human kidney
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