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There have been remarkable advances in understanding the brain, but how do you actually study the neurons inside it? Using gorgeous imagery, neuroscientist and TED Fellow Carl Schoonover shows the tools that let us see inside our brains.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDTalks_video/~4/u7c3XDSUlE8" height="1" width="1"/
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Is your school or workplace divided into "creatives" versus practical people? Yet surely, David Kelley suggests, creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few. Telling stories from his legendary design career and his own life, he offers ways to build the confidence to create... (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell.)img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDTalks_video/~4/wBfJgwIrxhg" height="1" width="1"/
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What can mathematics say about history? According to TED Fellow Jean-Baptiste Michel, quite a lot. From changes to language to the deadliness of wars, he shows how digitized history is just starting to reveal deep underlying patterns.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDTalks_video/~4/n58GuZZevBQ" height="1" width="1"/
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Are we born to be optimistic, rather than realistic? Tali Sharot shares new research that suggests our brains are wired to look on the bright side -- and how that can be both dangerous and beneficial.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDTalks_video/~4/VBe_8hHmR7M" height="1" width="1"/
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Oops! Nobody wants to see the 404: Page Not Found. But as Renny Gleeson shows us, while he runs through a slideshow of creative and funny 404 pages, every error is really a chance to build a better relationship.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDTalks_video/~4/aO9p7dANBBs" height="1" width="1"/
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There are people who can quickly memorize lists of thousands of numbers, the order of all the cards in a deck (or ten!), and much more. Science writer Joshua Foer describes the technique -- called the memory palace -- and shows off its most remarkable feature: anyone can learn how to use it, including him.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDTalks_video/~4/_d1LHajdt84" height="1" width="1"/
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How do we consume data? At TED@SXSWi, technologist JP Rangaswami muses on our relationship to information, and offers a surprising and sharp insight: we treat it like food.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDTalks_video/~4/UMZlwaLQ62E" height="1" width="1"/
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In this epic overview, Michael Tilson Thomas traces the development of classical music through the development of written notation, the record, and the re-mix.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDTalks_video/~4/p9a63jXrAyM" height="1" width="1"/
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The circumstances of our lives may matter less than how we see them, says Rory Sutherland. At TEDxAthens, he makes a compelling case for how reframing is the key to happiness.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDTalks_video/~4/jCX7vp-Onuc" height="1" width="1"/
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As you surf the Web, information is being collected about you. Web tracking is not 100% evil -- personal data can make your browsing more efficient; cookies can help your favorite websites stay in business. But, says Gary Kovacs, it's your right to know what data is being collected about you and how it affects your online life. He unveils a Firefox add-on to do just that.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDTalks_video/~4/gHw-s51KfjM" height="1" width="1"/