Library 02

Wonga

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Wonga used data models and technology to build the first completely automated risk management system. Video

The Biography

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Steve Jobs asked Walter Isaacson to write his biography for people to know the personal story behind the public figure. video

Burial Suit

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Jae Rhim Lee has designed the mushroom burial suit which, when she is buried, will eliminate all the toxins in her body. Video

Babies Think

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Alison Gopnik's research demonstrates that babies know more and learn more than we had ever imagined. Video

Beauty

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Richard Seymour explores how we determine that something has beauty and the significance of this object's history. Video

Recycle

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Mike Biddle has a cheap and energy efficient way to recycle the plastics which are currently buried or burned. Video

Less is More

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Graham Hill talks about his "Life Edited" project to live with as few things as possible in a space as small as possible. Video

Art of Choosing

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Sheena Iyengar begins her talk on the art of choosing with a story about ordering a cup of green tea with sugar in Japan. Video

Spaghetti

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Malcolm Gladwell tells a story about his friend Howard who is responsible for bringing variety into the food industry. Video

Choices

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Barry Schwartz says more choices increase our expectations, make choosing more difficult and lower our satisfaction. Video

Bad Science

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Ben Goldacre talks about the proliferation of bad science used by pharmaceutical corporations and diet gurus. Video

Microblog

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Yang Lan says that by following the activity on Microblog we can better understand the lives of Chinese youth. Video

Astrophysics

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Anil Ananthaswamy introduces us to the world of extreme astrophyics by taking us on a trip to the South Pole. Video

Studio School

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Geoff Mulgan has created a new type of school where the teenagers are fighting to get in, not fighting to stay out? Video

Ngram

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Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel have developed Ngram which can create a picture worth 500 billion words. Video

DRC

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Amy Lockwood tells why people are not using the free condoms aid agencies are sending to the DR Congo. Video

Doodling

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Sunni Brown talks about the benefits of doodling - the making of spontaneous marks to help yourself think. Video

Genome

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Richard Resnick explains that as genome sequencing becomes cheaper and faster it's going to revolutionise health care. Video

Interns

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Lauren Berger defends the benfits of internships - working for the experience at no pay. Ross Eisenbrey disagrees. video

Hiring Hackers

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Misha Glenny proposes hiring the hackers and letting them put their talents to good use rather than sending them to prison. video

EU Crisis

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Fareed Zakaria sees the EU crisis as China's opportunity to become a responsible stakeholder in the global system.

Math

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Arthur Benjamin says we have to start teaching the mathematics of uncertainty, of randomness, probability and statistics. video

Finding Planets

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Lucianne Walkowicz explains the techniques that helped the Kepler mission discover 1,200 potential new planetary systems. Video

Pay Attention

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Julia Bacha talks about the importance of paying attention to non-violent protests rather than to those who use violence. Video

Future Cities

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Alex Steffen explains how cities will save our future. When the things we need most are nearby we will give up our cars. Video

Madrid

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This is the story of my short vacation at the beach on the east coast of Spain and the photo opportunities that I found. Video

Truth and Lies

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Marco Tempest uses his skills as a magician and three ipods to demonstrate and comment on the art of deception. Video

Microbes

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Jessica Green gives us a wake up call to the dangers of breathing the microbe infested air that we find indoors. Video

West Park

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This is the story of the day I went to the park and nobody was there and how I managed to entertain myself. Video

Overlapping

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I made a video to explain how to deal with overlapping images in action sequence pictures and one of the tricks I discovered. Video