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City 2.0: The Habitat of the Future and How to Get There

Unknown author (2013-04-24)

The world’s cities are on pace to balloon from 3.6 billion inhabitants today to more than 6 billion by mid-century. As a result, we face both a dire emergency and a tremendous opportunity. At their best, our modern cities ...
Brett Van Ort: Minescape

Ort, Brett Van (2013-04-24)

A Texan photographer who divides his time between London and Los Angeles, Brett Van Ort started out as a camera assistant and operator working on various films, documentaries, commercials and television shows. He has always ...
Radical Openness: Four Unexpected Principles for Success

Williams, Anthony (2013-04-24)

All over the world, the way people connect and collaborate is undergoing an astonishing transformation. Smart organizations are shunning their old, secretive practices and embracing transparency. Companies are widely sharing ...
Save Our Science: How to Inspire a New Generation of Scientists

Ramirez, Ainissa (2013-04-24)

In Save Our Science: How to Inspire a New Generation of Scientists, long time Yale professor Ainissa Ramirez makes an impassioned call for a recommitment to improve science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education ...
Tell Them I Built This: Transforming Schools, Communities, and Lives With Design-Based Education

Pilloton, Emily (2013-04-24)

'Tell Them I Built This' dramatically shows how creativity, critical thinking, citizenship, and dirt-under-your-fingernails construction can radically transform both high school education and the local community where the ...
Keystone XL: Down the Line

Mufson, Steven (2013-04-24)

The proposed Keystone XL pipeline has enflamed the bitter fight over America's energy future. Opponents of the 1,700-mile pipeline, which is designed to bring oil extracted from Canadian tar sands down to the US, say it ...
How Did You End Up Here?: The Surprising Ways Our Questions Connect Us

Rothbart, Davy (TED Conferences, 2013)

What do the questions we ask others, even complete strangers, reveal about ourselves? And can the answers we seek shape our own lives and dreams? Davy Rothbart wants to know. Rothbart — a writer, reporter, and documentary ...
Citizen Advocate: Get Government to Move Mountains and Change the World

Ahmad, Omar (Ted Conferences, 2012)

Has the red tape of the political process gotten you down? In this step-by-step practical handbook, former mayor Omar Ahmad explains in clear detail what it takes to move a great idea down the sometimes confusing path of ...
Living Architecture: How Synthetic Biology Can Remake Our Cities and Reshape Our Lives

Armstrong, Rachel S. (Ted Conferences, 2012)

What will the city of the future look like? More like an ever-changing and vibrant garden than a static set of buildings and blocks. In Living Architecture: How Synthetic Biology Can Remake Our Cities and Reshape Our Lives, ...
When I'm 164: The New Science of Radical Life Extension, and What Happens if it Succeeds

Duncan, David E. (Ted Conferences, 2012)

How long do you want to live, and why? That's a question that has intrigued humans for eons, and now advanced science and new levels of high-tech have allowed us to live longer and longer and longer — but at what cost? In ...
Controlling Cancer: A Powerful Plan for Taking On the World's Most Daunting Disease

Ewald, Paul; Ewald, Holly S. (Ted Conferences, 2012)

The scourge of cancer has ripped through bodies, families, and generations for so long and with such power that it feels almost invincible. But biologist Paul Ewald -- widely regarded as the leading expert in the emerging ...
The Whole Fish: How Adventurous Eating of Seafood Can Make You Healthier, Sexier, and Help Save the Ocean

Finn, Maria (Ted Conferences, 2012)

Seafood is one of the healthiest foods you can eat, but the choices we make when we enjoy it are not just sensory — they also play a part in a large and interconnected system that involves the whole earth's well-being. In ...
Deep Water: As Polar Ice Melts, Scientists Debate How High Our Oceans Will Rise

Grossman, Daniel (Ted Conferences, 2012)

As global warming continues, the massive ice caps at Earth’s poles are melting at an increasingly alarming rate. Water once safely anchored in glacial ice is surging into the sea. The flow could become a deluge, and millions ...
Smile: The Astonishing Powers of a Simple Act

Gutman, Ron (Ted Conferences, 2012)

How can something as simple as a smile be so deceptively complex? That's the mystery and magic explored in Smile: The Astonishing Powers of a Simple Act, which explores the sensation and science of the smile. From the broad ...
A Haystack Full of Needles: Cutting Through the Clutter of the Online World to Find a Place, Partner, or President

Hornthal, Jim (Ted Conferences, 2012)

Scouring the Internet for an answer to a complex question is not only frustrating but often futile. Asking a search engine where to take your next vacation or what film you might enjoy often results in a deluge of useless, ...
Beyond the Hole in the Wall: Discover the Power of Self-Organized Learning

Mitra, Sugata; Negroponte, Nicholas (Ted Conferences, 2012)

Ten years ago, educator Sugata Mitra and his colleagues cracked open a hole in a wall bordering an urban slum in New Delhi, installed a networked PC, and left it there for the local children to freely explore. What they ...
Cheating the Impossible: Ideas and Recipes from a Rebellious High-Wire Artist

Petit, Philippe (Ted Conferences, 2012)

High-wire artist Philippe Petit startled the world when he walked on a taut cable between the soaring twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City in 1974. But even a death-defying acrobat has to start somewhere. ...
Mind Amplifier: Can Our Digital Tools Make Us Smarter?

Rheingold, Howard (Ted Conferences, 2012)

Instead of asking whether the Web is making us stupid, Howard Rheingold turns that question around and asks how designing and using digital media mindfully could make us smarter. What if humans could build tools that ...
What's Killing Us: A Practical Guide to Understanding Our Biggest Global Health Problems

Shaikh, Alanna (Ted Conferences, 2012)

In the past half-century, we’ve changed the way we collectively view the health of the 7 billion people who occupy this planet. Health issues were once seen as an isolated national or regional problem; now they are a global ...
The Science of Optimism: Why We're Hard-Wired for Hope

Sharot, Tali (Ted Conferences, 2012)

We all like to think of ourselves as rational creatures who smartly prepare for the worst. We watch our backs, weigh the odds, and pack an umbrella when the skies look threatening. But although we take such sensible ...