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Sandrine Thuret presenting her TED talk on we can grow new neurons (brain cells)

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You can grow new brain cells. Here’s how.

A title image for the This Is Water video from David Foster Wallace's Kenyon College commencement speech

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This is Water

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Habitica

Ken Robinson presenting his TED talk on how whether schools kill creativity

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Do schools kill creativity?

A planning meeting at a table, with a map plan, laptop and other items

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To plan or not to plan?

The cover of The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

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The Hidden Life of Trees

A screenshot from the New York Times video showing Usain Bolt's 9.63s 100m world record vs. every 100m Olympic medal winner since 1896.

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Usain Bolt vs. every 100m medalist ever

A cartoon of Mark Smith, the Man in Seat 61

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The Man in Seat 61

A man wearing a virtual reality headset — an example of a recent gadget.

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Own your gadgets — don’t let them own you.

The cover of the book The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff

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The Te of Piglet

The cover of the book The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss

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The 4-Hour Workweek

The cover of the DVD for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, the 2014 follow-up to Carl Sagan's original series on the Universe

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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

The cover of Drive by Dan Pink, a blueprint for maximising your motivation

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Drive

The cover of the book Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

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Love in the Time of Cholera

The cover of The War that Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillan

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The War that Ended Peace

Dan Pink presenting his TED talk on the puzzle of motivation

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The Puzzle of Motivation

The cover of the book The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

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The Prophet

The cover of the book Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit

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Hope in the Dark

The cover of the book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

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21 lessons for the 21st century

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