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Can we actually control superintelligent AI? | Ada, Ep. 4

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Ada imagines what an AI librarian system could be capable of. What are the consequences of creating superintelligent AI systems?
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TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown

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Food is culture, food is life — it’s part of who we are and the magic that binds us together. But here’s the twist: the way we eat is pushing the climate to the brink, with a third of global greenhouse gas emissions coming from the way we grow, process and waste food.
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The Man Who Took LSD and Changed The World

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LSD-fiend, surfer, maverick — Kary Mullis might be the weirdest person ever to win the Nobel Prize.
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Mountain Search Puppy's First Training Session | Wonderful World of Puppies | BBC Earth

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All of these puppies are mountain search dogs in waiting, and they're here for an intensive session with an expert trainer. Will the dogs be able to learn the new skills they need?
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Bill Gates Traumatized His Parents: The Early Years You Don't Know About | The Big Interview | WIRED

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Businessman, philanthropist, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates sits down with WIRED Editor-At-Large Steven Levy to discuss the inspiration behind his new book 'Source Code: My Beginnings'.
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The four questions that can help your mind heal | Byron Katie

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“I saw that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, and when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer.”
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The Ancestor Paradox

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There are several ways to think about ancestry, and all of them suggest you have fewer unique ancestors than you might think.
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The Real Reason Why You Have Allergies

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Allergies are more than just overreactions – they might be an evolutionary relic from a time when worms invaded our bodies daily.
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How Community-Led Research Drives Social Change | Monica Malta | TED

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What's the best way to develop and implement solutions to social problems?
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How Do Broken Bones Heal?

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Are your kids wondering: “How do broken bones heal?” This question came from Manjari, a 4th Grader from Australia.
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How Ears Let Us Hear the World

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In this episode, Squeaks learns about how humans (and a couple of other animal guests) hear.
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Martin Luther King

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Martin Luther King Jr is one of the most famous civil rights leaders in the world. Nina has more on his life and lasting legacy.
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Are you an ear rumbler?

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Your body is a lot louder than you might think.
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Science is shattering our intuitions about consciousness | Annaka Harris

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Consciousness is everything we know, everything we experience. The mystery at the heart of consciousness lies in why our universe – despite teeming with non-conscious matter – is configured in a way where it's having a felt experience from the inside.
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How AI Is Saving Billions of Years of Human Research Time | Max Jaderberg | TED

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Can AI compress the yearslong research time of a PhD into seconds?
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Can you solve the trickster god riddle? - Alex Rosenthal

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Loki has challenged you to a winner-take-all game to end Ragnarok. Can you beat him and win the right to rule the new world?
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We Fell For The Oldest Lie On The Internet

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“Your blood vessels stretch a staggering 100,000 kilometers, enough to wrap around Earth twice!" Sounds amazing, right? We spent over a year trying to confirm this claim, and let's just say – things aren't as they seem.
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How to Defend Democracy — and Fight Autocracy | Leopoldo Lopez | TED

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Seventy-two percent of the world's population lives under some sort of autocratic rule, says freedom fighter Leopoldo Lopez.
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Historian Answers Witchcraft Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

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Historian Mikki Brock joins WIRED to answer the internet's bubbling cauldron of questions about witches, witchcraft, and witch hunting through the ages.
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Let go of labels. Transform your life.

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Don’t call yourself “a writer,” just write. Ryan Holiday on how the labels you give yourself can hold you back.
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Video Games Are Good For Your Brain

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ft-brained"? Is a human brain not fully developed until a person hits 25 years old? Did my parents waste a bunch of money buying Mozart CDs to make me smarter as a baby?