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Pico Iyer
Where is home?
13:20
Daniel Suarez
The kill decision shouldn't belong to a robot
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Joshua Prager
In search of the man who broke my neck
8:10
Saki Mafundikwa
Ingenuity and elegance in ancient African alphabets
2:38
Christopher Warner
In on a secret? That's dramatic irony
29:28
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We should all be feminists
3:35
Nadia Kalman
Three anti-social skills to improve your writing
18:40
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
How a boy became an artist
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Jean-Baptiste Michel + Erez Lieberman Aiden
What we learned from 5 million books
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Annie Murphy Paul
What we learn before we're born
11:26
Courtney E. Martin
This isn't her mother's feminism
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Neil Pasricha
The 3 A's of awesome
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Young-ha Kim
Be an artist, right now!
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James Cameron
Before Avatar ... a curious boy
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Michael Specter
The danger of science denial
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Shashi Tharoor
Why nations should pursue soft power
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James Geary
Metaphorically speaking
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Misha Glenny
The real story of McMafia -- how global crime networks work
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The danger of a single story
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Mary Roach
10 things you didn't know about orgasm
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Elizabeth Gilbert
Your elusive creative genius
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Benjamin Wallace
The price of happiness
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JK Rowling
The fringe benefits of failure
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Dave Eggers
My wish: Once Upon a School
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Chris Abani
On humanity
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Amy Tan
Where does creativity hide?
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Richard Preston
The mysterious lives of giant trees
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A.J. Jacobs
My year of living biblically
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The lost art of letter-writing
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Taylor Mali
What teachers make
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Felix Dennis
Odes to vice and consequences
12:36
Sherwin Nuland
The extraordinary power of ordinary people
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Douglas Adams
Parrots, the universe and everything
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C.K. Williams
Poetry of youth and age
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