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Emilie Wapnick: Why some of us don't have one true calling. Derek Sivers: How to start a movement. Elizabeth Pisani: Sex, drugs and HIV. Gary Lauder's new traffic sign: Take Turns. Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world. Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids. Jesse Schell: When games invade real life. Michael Specter: The danger of science denial. Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different? Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness. Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks. Esther Duflo: Social experiments to fight poverty. Michael Sandel: What's the right thing to do? Robert Sapolsky: The uniqueness of humans.

Chris Jordan pictures some shocking stats. David Hoffman on losing everything. Stuart Brown says play is more than fun. Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team. Evan Williams on listening to Twitter users. Jonathan Harris collects stories. Erik Hersman on reporting crisis via texting. Renny Gleeson on antisocial phone tricks. Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet enables intimacy. Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen. Jonathan Harris: the Web's secret stories. Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity.

Alisa Miller shares the news about the news. J.J. Abrams' mystery box. Jonathan Drori on what we think we know. Peter Diamandis on our next giant leap. Sam Martin: The quirky world of "manspaces" Viktor Frankl: Why to believe in others.