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A 12-year-old app developer
Most 12-year-olds love playing videogames -- Thomas Suarez taught himself how to create them. After developing iPhone apps like "Bustin Jeiber," a whack-a-mole game, he is now using his skills to help other kids become developers. <em>(Filmed at <a href=http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/1545>TEDxManhattanBeach</a>.)</em>
The most popular TED Talks of all time | TED Talks
These iconic talks are the ones that you and your fellow TED fans just can't stop sharing.
A 30-year history of the future
MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte takes you on a journey through the last 30 years of tech. The consummate predictor highlights interfaces and innovations he foresaw in the 1970s and 1980s that were scoffed at then but are ubiquitous today. And he leaves you with one last (absurd? brilliant?) prediction for the coming 30 years.
Why organic food is the future? | Ashmeet Kapoor | TEDxLeh
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Want to be happy? Be grateful
The one thing all humans have in common is that each of us wants to be happy, says Brother David Steindl-Rast, a monk and interfaith scholar. And happiness, he suggests, is born from gratitude. An inspiring lesson in slowing down, looking where you’re going, and above all, being grateful.
Work happier | TED Talks
Happiness leads to better work -- not the other way around. We learned this from Shawn Achor's TED Talk. Here that classic, plus his selects of other talks to make business positive.
How to truly listen
In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums.
Talks that just might save your relationship | TED Talks
No matter how long you've been together, it never hurts to have a little refresher course on what really matters.
What you don't know about marriage
In this funny, casual talk from TEDx, writer Jenna McCarthy shares surprising research on how marriages (especially happy marriages) really work. One tip: Do not try to win an Oscar for best actress. <em>(Filmed at <a href=http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/1886>TEDxAmericanRiviera</a>.)</em>
New York -- before the City
400 years after Hudson found New York harbor, Eric Sanderson shares how he made a 3D map of Mannahatta's fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife -- accurate down to the block -- when Times Square was a wetland and you couldn't get delivery.
What I learned from going blind in space
There's an astronaut saying: In space, “there is no problem so bad that you can’t make it worse.” So how do you deal with the complexity, the sheer pressure, of dealing with dangerous and scary situations? Retired colonel Chris Hadfield paints a vivid portrait of how to be prepared for the worst in space (and life) -- and it starts with walking into a spider’s web. Watch for a special space-y performance.