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BJ Miller: What really matters at the end of life. Smithsonian X 3D. Jack Horner: Shape-shifting dinosaurs. Esotericism Today. Christoph Adami: Finding life we can't imagine. Martin Hanczyc: The line between life and not-life.

NT (Non-TED) Life Pearls

Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology. Jane Goodall on what separates us from the apes. Peter Ward on Earth's mass extinctions. Jonathan Drori: Every pollen grain has a story. Luca Turin on the science of scent. Richard Preston on the giant trees. Stefano Mancuso: The roots of plant intelligence. Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food. Jonathan Drori: Why we're storing billions of seeds. Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world. William Li: Can we eat to starve cancer? Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps. Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic? Bonnie Bassler on how bacteria "talk" Paul Ewald asks, Can we domesticate germs? Bill Gates on mosquitos, malaria and education. Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken. Jack Horner: Shape-shifting dinosaurs. Janine Benyus: Biomimicry in action.

Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2. Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental 'heresies' Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle. Kamal Meattle on how to grow fresh air. Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it! Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows. Keith Bellows on the camel's hump. Deborah Gordon digs ants. Charles Anderson discovers dragonflies that cross oceans. Robert Full: Learning from the gecko's tail. Beverly + Dereck Joubert: Life lessons from big cats. Mike deGruy: Hooked by an octopus. Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish. Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean. John Francis walks the Earth. Peter Tyack: The intriguing sound of marine mammals. Brian Skerry reveals ocean's glory.

David Gallo shows underwater astonishments. Richard Pyle dives the reef's Twilight Zone. Susan Savage-Rumbaugh on apes. Elaine Morgan says we evolved from aquatic apes. Louise Leakey digs for humanity's origins. Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin color. Robert Sapolsky: The uniqueness of humans. Wade Davis on the worldwide web of belief and ritual. Murray Gell-Mann on the ancestor of language. Phil Borges on endangered cultures. Wade Davis on endangered cultures. Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours.