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TED Talk: Jane Goodall on What Separates Us from the Apes
http://www.ted.com Jane Goodall hasn't found the missing link, but she's come closer than nearly anyone else. The primatologist says the only real difference between humans and chimps is our sophisticated language. She urges us to start using it to change the world.
TED Talk: Bart Weetjens: How I Taught Rats to Sniff Out Land Mines
http://www.ted.com At TEDxRotterdam, Bart Weetjens talks about his extraordinary project: training rats to sniff out land mines. He shows clips of his "hero rats" in action, and previews his work's next phase: teaching them to turn up tuberculosis in the lab.
TED Talk: Garik Israelian: How Spectroscopy Could Reveal Alien Life
http://www.ted.com Garik Israelian is a spectroscopist, studying the spectrum emitted by a star to figure out what it's made of and how it might behave. It's a rare and accessible look at this discipline, which may be coming close to finding a planet friendly to life.
TED Talk: Dennis vanEngelsdorp: A Plea for Bees
http://www.ted.com Bees are dying in droves. Why? Leading apiarist Dennis vanEngelsdorp looks at the gentle, misunderstood creature's important place in nature and the mystery behind its alarming disappearance.
TED Talk: Dyan deNapoli: The Great Penguin Rescue
http://www.ted.com A personal story, a collective triumph: Dyan deNapoli tells the story of the world's largest volunteer animal rescue, which saved more than 40,000 penguins after an oil spill off the coast of South Africa. How does a job this big get done? Penguin by penguin by penguin ...
TED Talk: Cheryl Hayashi: The Magnificence of Spider Silk
http://www.ted.com Cheryl Hayashi studies spider silk, one of nature's most high-performance materials. Each species of spider can make up to 7 very different kinds of silk. How do they do it? Hayashi explains at the DNA level -- then shows us how this super-strong, super-flexible material can inspire.
TED Talk: Rachel Sussman: The World's Oldest Living Things
http://www.ted.com Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world's oldest continuously living organisms -- from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago's coast to an "underground forest" in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture.
TED Talk: Stefano Mancuso: The Roots of Plant Intelligence
http://www.ted.com Plants behave in some oddly intelligent ways: fighting predators, maximizing food opportunities ... But can we think of them as actually having a form of intelligence of their own? Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso presents intriguing evidence.
TED Talk: Louie Schwartzberg: The hidden beauty of pollination
http://www.ted.com Pollination: it's vital to life on Earth, but largely unseen by the human eye. Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg shows us the intricate world of pollen and pollinators with gorgeous high-speed images from his film "Wings of Life," inspired by the vanishing of one of nature's primary pollinators, the honeybee.
Hippy End (La Chanson du Dimanche S05E14)
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Dormirocho (La Chanson du Dimanche S05E13)
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TED Talk: E.O. Wilson on Saving Life on Earth
http://www.ted.com As E.O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of all creatures that we learn more about our biosphere -- and build a networked encyclopedia of all the world's knowledge about life.
TED Talk: Robert Full on Animal Movement
http://www.ted.com Biologist Robert Full shares slo-mo video of some captivating critters. Take a closer look at the spiny legs that allow cockroaches to scuttle across mesh and the nanobristle-packed feet that let geckos to run straight up walls.
TED Talk: Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: The real-life culture of bonobos
http://www.ted.com Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology -- and how much by cultural exposure.
TED Talk: Nathan Wolfe's Jungle Search for Viruses
http://www.ted.com Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe is outwitting the next pandemic by staying two steps ahead: discovering deadly new viruses where they first emerge -- passing from animals to humans among poor subsistence hunters in Africa -- before they claim millions of lives.
TED Talk: Marco Tempest: The Augmented Reality of Techno-Magic
http://www.ted.com Using sleight-of-hand techniques and charming storytelling, illusionist Marco Tempest brings a jaunty stick figure to life onstage at TEDGlobal.
Angela (La Chanson du Dimanche S05E12)
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TED Talk: Paul Nicklen: Tales of Ice-Bound Wonderlands
http://www.ted.com Diving under the Antarctic ice to get close to the much-feared leopard seal, photographer Paul Nicklen found an extraordinary new friend. Share his hilarious, passionate stories of the polar wonderlands, illustrated by glorious images of the animals who live on and under the ice.
TED Talk: Freeman Dyson Says: Let's Look for Life in the Outer Solar System
http://www.ted.com Physicist Freeman Dyson suggests that we start looking for life on the moons of Jupiter and out past Neptune, in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud. He talks about what such life would be like -- and how we might find it.
TED Talk: Carter Emmart Demos a 3D Atlas of the Universe
http://www.ted.com For the last 12 years, Carter Emmart has been coordinating the efforts of scientists, artists and programmers to build a complete 3D visualization of our known universe. He demos this stunning tour and explains how it's being shared with facilities around the world.