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18:07
Tim Harford
Trial, error and the God complex
7:26
Ron Gutman
The hidden power of smiling
18:44
David Brooks
The social animal
12:55
Joel Burns
A message to gay teens: It gets better
18:07
Sam Richards
A radical experiment in empathy
24:08
Sheena Iyengar
The art of choosing
17:54
Nicholas Christakis
How social networks predict epidemics
3:15
David Byrne, Ethel + Thomas Dolby
"(Nothing But) Flowers" with string quartet
20:59
Nicholas Christakis
The hidden influence of social networks
15:33
Denis Dutton
A Darwinian theory of beauty
9:32
Kiran Sethi
Kids, take charge
10:41
Shaffi Mather
A new way to fight corruption
25:23
His Holiness the Karmapa
The technology of the heart
21:58
Aimee Mullins
The opportunity of adversity
8:51
Stefana Broadbent
How the Internet enables intimacy
20:51
Itay Talgam
Lead like the great conductors
7:09
Becky Blanton
The year I was homeless
16:39
David Logan
Tribal leadership
20:45
Barry Schwartz
Our loss of wisdom
16:23
Dan Ariely
Our buggy moral code
3:46
Renny Gleeson
Our antisocial phone tricks
17:29
Seth Godin
The tribes we lead
17:26
Dan Ariely
Are we in control of our own decisions?
17:43
Yves Béhar
Designing objects that tell stories
33:38
Dan Gilbert
Why we make bad decisions
20:46
Clay Shirky
Institutions vs. collaboration
21:58
Steven Strogatz
The science of sync
18:21
Jared Diamond
Why do societies collapse?
15:07
Noah Feldman
Politics and religion are technologies
23:17
C.K. Williams
Poetry of youth and age
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