Will Travis: What fuels creativity?
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Will Travis: What fuels creativity?

Creative entrepreneur Will Travis takes us on his quest to find the source of real creativity. He finds it in the fight for true survival -- on the icy peaks of Antarctica, or when staring an Afric...

Dianna Cohen: Rethink plastic
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Dianna Cohen: Rethink plastic

Plastic doesn't go away -- it ends up in the depths of the oceans, the bellies of birds and fishes, the bloodstream of babies. Visual Artist Dianna Cohen shares that cleaning it up might not be the...

Anil Ananthaswamy: What it takes to do extreme astrophysics
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Anil Ananthaswamy: What it takes to do extreme astrophysics

All over the planet, giant telescopes and detectors are looking (and listening) for clues to the workings of the universe. At INK2010, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy tours us around these amazing...

A glimpse of INK2012
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A glimpse of INK2012

INK2012: The INK Conference, in association with TED, brought together 400 remarkable people from all over the world to Pune, India, in October 2012 for 3 days of complete immersion in ideas.

A...

Peter Frykman: The irrigation solution
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Peter Frykman: The irrigation solution

Peter Frykman is addressing the needs of small-plot farmers globally with a sustainable and affordable solution to irrigation in the times of water scarcity. Watch as Frykman shares his insights on...

Francesca Rosella: The future of fashion
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Francesca Rosella: The future of fashion

Shirts that can send and receive hugs, a dress that doubles up as a phone, t-shirts that display your latest tweets, and dresses that dazzle with choreographed LED lights, Francesca Rosella is trul...

Alok Shetty: Out-of-box architecture
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Alok Shetty: Out-of-box architecture

Architect Alok Shetty believes that the simplest solutions are most often the right solutions. Watch as trash gets molded into construction bricks and shipping containers that ingeniously morph int...

Vidya Shah: How women shaped Indian classical music
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Vidya Shah: How women shaped Indian classical music

Vidya Shah traces the history of how it was the women who first took to recording classical music. Shah shares with us stories of legends like Gauhar Jaan and the cultural significance of the gramo...

Vikram Gandhi: The true story of a false prophet
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Vikram Gandhi: The true story of a false prophet

Disillusioned by certain gurus, filmmaker Vikram Gandhi decided to impersonate a religious leader and made a movie about it. Watch this interesting talk on how Gandhi became Kumare in his search to...