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Martin Rees asks: Is this our final century? Brian Cox on CERN's supercollider. George Whitesides: Toward a science of simplicity | Video on TED. E.O. Wilson on saving life on Earth. Rachel Pike: The science behind a climate headline | Video on TE. James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss | Video on TED. Michael Specter: The danger of science denial. Jor-El: Last-ditch appeal to save the planet. Richard Dawkins: Growing up in the universe. David Deutsch on our place in the cosmos. George Smoot on the design of the universe. Garik Israelian: How spectroscopy could reveal alien life | Vide. Richard Dawkins on our "queer" universe. David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation | Video on TED.c.

Stephen Hawking asks big questions about the universe | Video on. Andrea Ghez: The hunt for a supermassive black hole | Video on T. Patricia Burchat sheds light on dark matter. Carter Emmart demos a 3D atlas of the universe | Video on TED.co. Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht demo toys from the future | Video. Tom Wujec demos the 13th-century astrolabe. Garrett Lisi on his theory of everything. Nick Sears demos the Orb. Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, reality's riddle. Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral | Video on TED.

Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness. Ron Eglash on African fractals. Brian Cox: What went wrong at the LHC. Robert Lang folds way-new origami. Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything | Video on TED. Bruno Bowden folds while Rufus Cappadocia plays | Video on TED.c. Brian Greene on string theory. Charles Fleischer insists: All things are Moleeds | Video on TED. Richard Feynman: Physics is fun to imagine. Philip Zimbardo prescribes a healthy take on time | Video on TED. Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory. Sean Carroll on the arrow of time (Part 1) Stewart Brand on the Long Now. Sean Carroll on the arrow of time (Part 2)

Eric Giler demos wireless electricity. Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero! Steven Cowley: Fusion is energy's future. Brian Cox: Why we need the explorers.