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(Recorded March 2007 in Monterey, California. Duration: 8:25.) Watch Theo Jansen’s talk on TED.com, where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances. Read more about Theo Jansen on TED.com. NEW: Read the transcript >> I would like to tell you about a project which I started about 16 years ago, and it’s about making new forms of life, and these are made of this kind of tube: (points to construction of conduit tubing) electricity tube, we call it in Holland, and we can start a film about that and we can see a little bit backwards in time. (Narration:) Eventually these beasts are going to live in herds on the beaches. (walking animal “Animaris Ondula”) Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education. Tom Wujec demos the 13th-century astrolabe. Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2. David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation | Video on TED.c.
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