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3:58
Lisa Winer
Can you solve the river crossing riddle?
3:30
Akshita Agarwal
The paradox of value
2:28
Kim Preshoff
How to visualize one part per million
4:49
Kanawat Senanan
How computer memory works
11:09
Caro Verbeek
The historical significance of smell
5:51
Nathan S. Jacobs
How do schools of fish swim in harmony?
3:42
Lisa Winer
Can you solve the locker riddle?
4:42
Nalo Hopkinson
How to write descriptively
4:19
Claudia Aguirre
What would happen if you didn't sleep?
4:19
Alex Gendler
Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle?
12:20
Daniel Levitin
How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed
4:04
Catharine Young
How memories form and how we lose them
5:13
Bryan Rasmussen
Inside the minds of animals
11:04
Sandrine Thuret
You can grow new brain cells. Here's how
13:35
Tony Wyss-Coray
How young blood might help reverse aging. Yes, really
4:20
Dasha Savage
How plants tell time
21:50
Donald Hoffman
Do we see reality as it is?
5:44
Shai Marcu
The benefits of a good night's sleep
5:20
Ted Altschuler
The great brain debate
5:22
Alex Gendler
Why elephants never forget
11:41
Jeff Iliff
One more reason to get a good night's sleep
5:10
Sam Kean
What happens when you remove the hippocampus?
15:25
Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu
A mouse. A laser beam. A manipulated memory.
21:46
Russell Foster
Why do we sleep?
17:36
Elizabeth Loftus
How reliable is your memory?
9:29
Peter Doolittle
How your "working memory" makes sense of the world
10:26
Mary Lou Jepsen
Could future devices read images from our brains?
9:49
Becci Manson
(Re)touching lives through photos
15:25
Beau Lotto + Amy O'Toole
Science is for everyone, kids included
20:50
Scott Fraser
Why eyewitnesses get it wrong
8:02
Cesar Kuriyama
One second every day
11:24
Frank Warren
Half a million secrets
20:28
Joshua Foer
Feats of memory anyone can do
4:45
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo
Capturing memories in video art
18:42
Antonio Damasio
The quest to understand consciousness
4:11
Rives
A mockingbird remix of TED2006
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