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curated list 
November 17, 2014

Talks for when you wish you had time to read

This playlist, curated by TED, is courtesy of TED.com. It comprises 7 talks with a total running duration of about 1 hours and 44 minutes.

Talks in this playlist:

Karen Thompson Walker: What fear can teach us

Dawn Landes: A song for my hero, the woman who rowed into a hurricane

Anand Giridharadas: A tale of two Americas. And the mini-mart where they collided

Latif Nasser: The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief

Jon Ronson: Strange answers to the psychopath test

Parul Sehgal: An ode to envy

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story

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Talks in this playlist

Anand Giridharadas: A tale of two Americas. And the mini-mart where they collided

Anand Giridharadas: A tale of two Americas. And the mini-mart where they collided

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story

Dawn Landes: A song for my hero, the woman who rowed into a hurricane

Dawn Landes: A song for my hero, the woman who rowed into a hurricane

Jon Ronson: Strange answers to the psychopath test

Jon Ronson: Strange answers to the psychopath test

Karen Thompson Walker: What fear can teach us

Karen Thompson Walker: What fear can teach us

Parul Sehgal: An ode to envy

Parul Sehgal: An ode to envy

Latif Nasser: The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief

Latif Nasser: The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief

Other talks

  • Joe Madiath: Better toilets, better life

    Joe Madiath: Better toilets, better life

  • Robert Gordon: The death of innovation, the end of growth

    Robert Gordon: The death of innovation, the end of growth

  • Bart Weetjens: How I taught rats to sniff out land mines

    Bart Weetjens: How I taught rats to sniff out land mines

  • Tania Luna: How a penny made me feel like a millionaire

    Tania Luna: How a penny made me feel like a millionaire

  • Keller Rinaudo: A mini robot — powered by your phone

    Keller Rinaudo: A mini robot — powered by your phone

  • Al Gore: What comes after An Inconvenient Truth?

    Al Gore: What comes after An Inconvenient Truth?

  • Trevor Aaronson: How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorists

    Trevor Aaronson: How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorists

  • Amy Lockwood: Selling condoms in the Congo

    Amy Lockwood: Selling condoms in the Congo

  • Natalie MacMaster: Cape Breton fiddling in reel time

    Natalie MacMaster: Cape Breton fiddling in reel time

  • Rives: Reinventing the encyclopedia game

    Rives: Reinventing the encyclopedia game

  • Paul Snelgrove: A census of the ocean

    Paul Snelgrove: A census of the ocean

  • Paul Nicklen: Tales of ice-bound wonderlands

    Paul Nicklen: Tales of ice-bound wonderlands

  • Jeffrey Kluger: The sibling bond

    Jeffrey Kluger: The sibling bond

  • Daria van den Bercken: Why I take the piano on the road “¦ and in the air

    Daria van den Bercken: Why I take the piano on the road “¦ and in the air

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