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Murray Gell-Mann presenting his TED talk on the ancestor of language

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The Ancestor of Language

A screenshot from Steve Johnson's TED talk on how play can lead to great innovation and invention.

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The Playful Wonderland Behind Great Inventions

A screen grab from the The Vegan Ironman Diet of Cro-Mags' John Joseph documentary by Fuel

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The Hardcore Punk Vegan Ironman

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NPR Tiny Desk Concerts

The title for the What I've Learned YouTube video on how high or low levels of salt (sodium) affect your health

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Salt: Are you getting enough?

Didier Sornette presenting his TED talk on how to predict the next financial crisis

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How can we predict the next financial crisis?

The Roots featuring Bilal perform an NPR Tiny Desk Concert.

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The Roots feat. Bilal: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Karoliina Korppoo presenting her TED talk on how the video game Cities: Skylines could be used to design better cities

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How a video game might help us build better cities

David Autor presenting his TED talk on whether automation will take away all our jobs

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Will automation take away all our jobs?

Josh Foer presenting his TED talk on feats of memory anyone can do

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Feats of memory anyone can do

Who is William Onyeabor? A picture of William Onyeabor, the Nigerian funk artist

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Fantastic Man

The home of the Dervaes family — they manage to grow all the food they need on 1/10 of an acre, using urban agroecology

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Urban Agroecology

A screenshot from South Park, advertising the documentary 6 Days to Air

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6 Days to Air

ShaoLan Hsueh presenting her TED talk on learning to read Chinese

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Learn to read Chinese… with ease!

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Yellow Brick Cinema

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Protect and Resist

The title for the What I've Learned video on how to improve willpower through heart rate variability

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Improve Willpower in 5 Minutes

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

Grace Kim presenting her TED talk on how cohousing can make us happier

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How cohousing can make us happier (and live longer)

Carl Honoré presenting his TED talk praising slowness

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In praise of slowness

The title for the Crash Course video on how we make memories

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Crash Course: How We Make Memories

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

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

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Do schools kill creativity?

Rick and Morty contemplating the meaning of life

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Rick and Morty — Searching for the meaning of life

Adam Grant presenting his TED talk on the surprising habits of original thinkers

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The surprising habits of original thinkers

Alain de Botton presenting his TED talk on a kinder, gentler philosophy of success

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A kinder, gentler philosophy of success

A screen grab from the Music and Life Youtube video

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Music and Life

Emily Balcetis presenting her TED talk on why some people find exercise harder than others

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Why some people find exercise harder than others

Yuval Noah Harari presenting his TED talk explaining the rise of humans

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What explains the rise of humans?

A screengrab from the "What's the deal with diesel?" video by Greenpeace UK

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What’s the deal with diesel?

Damien Rice and Earl Marvin performing at Michelberger Hotel, Berlin.

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Damien Rice & Earl Marvin @ Michelberger Hotel, Berlin

The title for the Crash Course video on the power of motivation

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Crash Course: The Power of Motivation

A still from the video Philosophical Meditation from the School of Life YouTube channel

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Philosophical Meditation

A shower head, for cold shower therapy

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Cold Shower Therapy

Amy Cuddy presenting her TED talk on how your body language may shape who you are

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Your body language may shape who you are

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.

Daniel Kahneman presenting his TED talk on experience vs. memory

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The riddle of experience vs. memory

A screenshot from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation video on creating a Circular Economy

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Re-thinking Progress: The Circular Economy

Rajesh Rao presenting his TED talk on a Rosetta Stone for a lost language — deciphering the ancient Indus script

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A Rosetta Stone for a Lost Language

Dan Pink presenting his TED talk on the puzzle of motivation

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The Puzzle of Motivation

Max Strom presenting his TED talk on how there is no app for happiness — the effect of technology on happiness and relationships

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There is No App for Happiness

A screen grab from the Garbage Island documentary by Vice

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Garbage Island

A screengrab from the National Geographic video "This Crazy Tree Grows 40 Kinds of Fruit"

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This Crazy Tree Grows 40 Kinds of Fruit

Emilie Wapnick presenting her TED talk on why some of us don't have one true calling

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Why some of us don’t have one true calling