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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Charles Limb is a surgeon and musician who researches the way creativity works in the brain. He puts jazz musicians inside an fMRI to find out what the brain does during musical improvisation.

Watch Charles Limb's TED Talk here

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Every year TED awards a prize and in 2012 it didn't go to a person, but to an idea: The City 2.0

Anderson explains why, and what the prize makes possible.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Eric Nuzum's memoir, "Giving Up the Ghost," is a true story about feeling haunted -- by a ghost, a girl, and his past as a troubled teen growing up in the wasteland of American suburbia.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The end of money. Really?  Are we really on the verge of a coming cashless society?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Junot Diaz bookmarks "Dark Reflections" by Samuel R. Delany.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Fashion designer Suzanne Lee makes jackets and skirts out of cloth she grows by fermenting liquid in a big vat. In the future, she believes we'll harness nature to grow all sorts of clothing and other products.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Avital Ronell has been called “the foremost thinker of the repressed conditions of knowledge.”  She gives Jim Fleming an inspired take on stupidity.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Brian Turner was an average young American who volunteered for military service in Iraq. At night he wrote poetry by flashlight.

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