James
McBennett
I currently live in Denton, TX 🐎🤠🎓. I’ve called various places home, including Baltimore🔵🦀, New York City🥯🍕, Nashville🔥🍗, Dublin☘️🍺, London🎡💂, Copenhagen🇩🇰🚴, Rotterdam🇳🇱🚴🏻♀️, and Riyadh🔆🐫.
I studied architecture🛖🏠🏩🏯🏰🏫🏠🛖 with a focus on complex form, data and computation. My interests span multi-modal cities🏢🚶🚴🚉🚌🚕🚗, automation, optimization and performance🖥️⏬🔋, digital fabrication and CNC🪓🤖🪑, extreme environments🥶🥵, and iterative prototyping🔁🥼. Following my undergraduate studies, I gained experience at the design firms KPF, JDS and OMA.
Currently, I serve as a faculty member in the Master’s on Advanced Computation for Architecture and Design (MaCAD) 🧮💻🔢 at the Institute of Advanced Architecture Catalonia in Barcelona (IAAC)🎓. I’ve also taught short courses for UCD, NYC Resistor, HackadayU, University of Calgary, IAAC, and Digital Futures on a variety of topics related to computational design🖥️🧠📐.
My master’s thesis explored graph machine learning, rhino.compute, and three.js.
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Multi-Frame Swarms (2022) – Creating roof geometry using swarm trails from Houdini3D
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I love to learn new things through short online courses that range from “the influence of superheroes 🦸🏻♀️🥷🦸🏽♂️🦸♂🦹♀️ on pop culture” to “cooking using physics 🍳🔥”. Here is a final-project video that I submitted for CS50, a popular Introduction to Computer Science course. My favorite audiobooks 🎧📘 to listen to are about behavioral economics 🤪📈. My latest sourdough starter 🍞 is called Scrappy.
I am married to Carey 👸🏼. We record youtube 📽️ videos when we travel 🛵. I try to run 🎽 or swim 🏊🏻♂️ daily several times a week.
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My favorite TED Talks 💡💬
There was once a time when I had watched every TED talk on the internet. The first TED talk that I listened to was Joshua Prince-Ramus presenting the work of OMA. TED massively expanded their library with TEDx in 2009. I launched TEDxGoodenoughCollege’s first ever event in 2011 and later helped TEDxDublin and TEDxLondon run some large events for 1000+ attendees. I was one of the first ever finalists for TED’s open call to speak on their main stage alongside Reggie Watts (who won), Joe Sabia, Cesar Kuriyama, and Joshua Walters who all shared their unique and deeply fascinating stories that night.
Favorites From TED
![Rory Sutherland](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/121598_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Tim Brown](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/118806_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Chris Bangle](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/0a81b5a6be38419602d715ce81dc2dc4e99c5291_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Says great cars are Art
![Chris Anderson (TED)](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/15a78b07d0340fcf8f391e7529b6f4b050a60cc0_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Bjarke Ingels](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/d6904cc9256da59cdcbd24bb04e938f2668a288f_254x191.jpg?w=255)
3 warp-speed architecture tales
![Chris Anderson (Wired)](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/1367_253x190.jpg?w=255)
Of WIRED on tech’s Long Tail
![Joshua Prince-Ramus](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/1482_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Elizabeth Gilbert](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/70538_254x191.jpg?w=255)
On Genius
![Nicholas Christakis](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/169818_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Stefan Sagmeister](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/59ffba03a991f28a64d4ba7a850076d3b2dc5a79_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Barry Schwartz](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/ac3627e883faae0e4781eef6c0ead1fac1a9cb03_254x191.jpg?w=255)
The paradox of choice
![Marc Kushner](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/f814ca1873fc377274e9e7f9a344d4a1a30e6b4e_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Why the buildings of the future will be shaped by … you
![Simon Sinek](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/168354_254x191.jpg?w=255)
How great leaders inspire action
![Derek Sivers](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/144960_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Tim Harford](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/05df61476973da030b1688b966028d4c25dd2905_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Trial, error and the God complex
![Ricardo Sempler](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/f58ce34a948fd3d17cdaa85663b816bf39474a3b_254x191.jpg?w=255)
How to run a company with (almost) no rules.
![Clay Shirky](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/48286_254x191.jpg?w=255)
How cognitive surplus will change the world
![Rives](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/ae0c178f2ef16b45c2791e5608ef84fd0f3d5850_254x191.jpg?w=255)
On 4 a.m.
Cities, Architecture, and Infrastructure
![Greg Lynn](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/65218_254x191.jpg?w=255)
On calculus in architecture
![Carlo Ratti](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/1775f725c345b1a55ae8e66700b7ce8eb24cd210_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Architecture that senses and responds
![Magnus Larsson](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/132182_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Turning dunes into architecture
![James Howard Kunstler](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/8260_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Dissects suburbia
![Liz Diller](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/3818a88372012efd0acca0cffb456ac33e162c3a_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Plays with architecture
![Carolyn Steel](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/748cf34e1cdabda0960f7159888ba12c91fd16b8_254x191.jpg?w=255)
How food shapes our cities
![Jaime Lerner](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/28411_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Sings of the city
![Thom Mayne](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/1388_253x190.jpg?w=255)
On architecture as connection
![Mitchell Joachim](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/181023_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Don’t build your home, grow it!
![Robert Neuwirth](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/22724bc80180827188cb1dc653e0525041731b78_254x191.jpg?w=255)
On our “shadow citiesâ€
![Cameron Sinclair](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/1319_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Reed Kroloff](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/49844_254x191.jpg?w=255)
On modern and romantic architecture
![Moshe Safdie](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/30895_254x191.jpg?w=255)
On building uniqueness
![Robin Chase](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/20dfdd92c45f09db45ca7b34b5f5cecae5fe050b_254x191.jpg?w=255)
On Zipcar and her next big idea
![Michael Pawlyn](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/7577a2a741534b0d09bf18e38a131781daa9dacd_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Using nature’s genius in architecture
![Marcin Jakubowski](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/503a23c76db90a0bd39659d26987ad2a9df98834_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Open-sourced blueprints for civilization
![Nathaniel Kahn](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/81978_254x191.jpg?w=255)
On “My Architect
![Norman Foster](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/35397_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Green agenda
![William McDonough](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/91_254x191.jpg?w=255)
On cradle to cradle design
![Elora Hardy](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/4901374142392b8ab49303fc08b871173f2f1aaa_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Magical houses made of bamboo
Technology
![Craig Venter](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/1438_253x190.jpg?w=255)
See talks
![Kevin Kelly](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/2feb9dfd6f740848d25ae84a8276d956659060e7_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Nicholas Negroponte](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/7230935c0d873ed58b2786e1f3b5c93dc09e10cc_254x191.jpg?w=255)
One Laptop Per Child
![Ray Kurzweil](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/1328_253x190.jpg?w=255)
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![Jeff Han](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/1613_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Demos his breakthrough touchscreen
![Saul Griffith](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/1325_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Juan Enriquez](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/f85d737d72da2c79505a659f3b16f7de0dd2d666_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Neil Gershenfeld](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/05383a3cc6e156a8572785a7aa21468bc8023efc_254x191.jpg?w=255)
On Fab Labs
![Christopher](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/174045_254x191.jpg?w=255)
The case for anonymity online
![Blaise Aguera y Arcas](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/f7e78d22acfe4f2df8252c78e1baaf6dc578058a_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Anand Agarawala](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/8184_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Demos Bump Top
![William Kamkwamba](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/117463_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Hod Lipson](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/18046_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Builds “self-aware†robots
![Tim Berners-Lee](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/77261_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Ed Ulbrich](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/a91e256ede9e89cd6af3fade7011026b2f357f99_254x191.jpg?w=255)
How Benjamin Button got his face
![Shai Agassi](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/83214_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Bold plan for electric cars
![Sergey Brin and Larry Page](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/150221_254x191.jpg?w=255)
On Google
![Pattie Maes](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/76604_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Demo SixthSense
![Deb Roy](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/0e113d2fdd718e09fe7bdf510d8f92694c99d155_254x191.jpg?w=255)
The birth of a word
![Dean Kamen](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/1486_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Johnny Lee](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/38006_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Demos Wii Remote hacks
![Zach Kaplan](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/57626_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Demo toys from the future
![Philip Rosedale](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/60943_253x190.jpg?w=255)
On Second Life
![David Merrill](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/57d234093fd40d9e61f47c79a457f9ba1025a640_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Demos Siftables
![Pranav Mistry](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/76651_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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Art & Design
![Amy Smith](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/1527_253x190.jpg?w=255)
Shares simple, lifesaving design
![Janine Benyus](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/1426_253x190.jpg?w=255)
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![Ross Lovegrove](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/1410_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Shares organic designs
![Paul Bennett](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/71_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Finds design in the details
![John Maeda](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/30b1f70dfe48e086efa2979ad4d8266aafc0a2e5_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Joshua Klein](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/41659_254x191.jpg?w=255)
On the intelligence of crows
![David Kelley](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/7948_254x191.jpg?w=255)
On human-centered design
![Philippe Starck](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/21694_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Thinks deep on design
![Chris Jordan](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/95121adabfbdd2cb7333c5db5e6296ad446db13c_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Pictures some shocking stats
![](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/5c94866b8622910321af0b43d774c08541ff0691_254x191.jpg?w=255)
The first secret of design is … noticing
![Margaret Gould Stewart](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/3bf88078727d4a9cc66282b0c0795f04acb537b9_254x191.jpg?w=255)
How giant websites design for you and a billion others too
![Milton Glaser](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/71414_254x191.jpg?w=255)
On using design to make ideas new
![Jonathan Harris](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/12752_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Will Wright](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/13193_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Makes toys that make worlds
![Theo Jansen](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/15348_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Creates new creatures
![Paola Antonelli](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/3e7a31f9ffbd78e89be7e1f967c6a5e1a60c3358_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Jan Chipchase](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/18519_254x191.jpg?w=255)
On our mobile phones
![Alan Kay](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/33211_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Shares a powerful idea about ideas
![David Perry](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/55437_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Are games better than life?
![Robert Lang](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/50194_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Folds way-new origami
Use art to turn the world inside out
Taking imagination seriously
![David McCandless](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/192643_254x191.jpg?w=255)
The beauty of data visualization
![Chip Kidd](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/e9a37d5307d25f97ca0ac96254db199c12a57757_254x191.jpg?w=255)
The art of first impressions — in design and life
![Matthew Carter](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/f2bc3488b89505f42e992978dd62727f6975b316_254x191.jpg?w=255)
My Life in Typefaces
![Roman Mars](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/0846ca689539ac3a6639295569a06863d6b0f6ab_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Why city flags may be the worst designed thing you’ve never noticed
![Bill T. Jones](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/edefb524db0302c6e6fafd6930be7a016499197c_254x191.jpg?w=255)
A moment of creative magic
![Yves Behar](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/42635_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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Education
![Salman Khan](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/80f187ee4ffcad485a9a9b3b3c1e567c8c48dcc9_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Let’s use video to reinvent education
![Ken Robinson](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/1465_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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Food
![Jamie Oliver](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/a346874066113e5c7470f8f22c0987b1d277ed0b_254x191.jpg?w=255)
TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food
![Dan Barber](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/8f06a095e1cfc272ae0b708778bded129905cdec_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Jennifer 8. Lee](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/63536_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Hunts for General Tso
Ideas
![Alain de Botton](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/105512_254x191.jpg?w=255)
A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
![Malcolm Gladwell](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/1e7d7849a7ac163d525fbe888a7cb71fcf9c6fe0_254x191.jpg?w=255)
On spaghetti sauce
![Steven Levitt](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/1407_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Aubrey de Grey](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/16458d0f5725d3a196b41a965991a673c1a16729_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Says we can avoid aging
![Nick Bostrom](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/56aef93b63301ffe15f201c8b357ee2161abf955_254x191.jpg?w=255)
On our biggest problems
![Bjorn Lomborg](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/1302_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Sets global priorities
![Eve Ensler](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/92637df5bef7ff965a873d7612f65700f73e1861_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Carl Honore](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/fa0b1a71f62f5fa3d520ac5e0544d78e54faaab8_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Praises slowness
![Alex Steffen](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/91a065acf69dfcac32a31f237b43ad1ce74da11b_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Tom Rielly](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/4923_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Tom Rielly delivers a comic send-up of TED2006
![Hans Rosling](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/2bd4d0cfff0c3a3306650768c2f988e154db7042_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Dan Gilbert](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/1990_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Stewart Brand](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/8497_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Larry Lessig](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/c20c6cfffd424faed4ef9498bf3e9605e79c4747_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Thandie Newton](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/9081bd6c845ce4a6a1d4dbfbb20365a67d96ec97_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Embracing otherness, embracing myself
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Beware online “filter bubblesâ€
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Really achieving your childhood dreams
![Stephen Wolfram](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/166844_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Computing a theory of everything
![Tom Chatfield](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/210164_254x191.jpg?w=255)
7 ways games reward the brain
![Julian Assange](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/184223_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Why the world needs WikiLeaks
![Jane McGonigal](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/157052_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Gaming can make a better world
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One-man world summit
![Jonathan Zittrain](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/117053_254x191.jpg?w=255)
The Web as random acts of kindness
![Matthieu Ricard](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/18857_254x191.jpg?w=255)
On the habits of happiness
![Kirby Ferguson](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/a1d073fb494edb20d30cc43f38fd1245fc815d7f_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Embrace the remix
![Anand Giridharadas](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/3fefe059c10a57427611c0264a5e3a4e91f42fdd_254x191.jpg?w=255)
A tale of two Americas. And the mini-mart where they collided
![Dan Ariely](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/b4283ea2116b1296f882acf7d1b7c3a26c5a9df7_254x191.jpg?w=255)
How equal do we want the world to be you’d be surprised
![Cynthia Breazeal](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/da5e95a342f1298e95acf3eb20ef28652010f82c_254x191.jpg?w=255)
The rise of personal robots
![Stephen Hawking](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/8d31223d5f88a0031b89396910e5abad6dd1d00b_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Asks big questions about the universe
![Tod Machover](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/38598_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Play new music
![Brian Cox](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/40122_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Martin Rees](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/1330_253x190.jpg?w=255)
Asks: Is this our final century?
![Torsten Reil](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/47839_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Builds better animations
![Freeman Dyson](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/48583_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Let’s look for life in the outer solar system
![Marvin Minsky](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/55211_254x191.jpg?w=255)
On health and the human mind
![Yann Arthus-Bertrand](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/d0960594137ac57c86240b07172436f45ffa31ff_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Captures fragile Earth in wide-angle
![Scott McCloud](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/63518_254x191.jpg?w=255)
On comics
![Marcus du Sautoy](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/126490_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Symmetry, reality’s riddle
![Adam Savage](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/0d9027a15a5535cf51c30384a36eaf3822a98970_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Obsessions
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The power of vulnerability
![Andrew Mcafee](https://www.virtualspeakers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Andrew-McAfee-Virtual-Speaker.jpg)
What will future of jobs looks like
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![Seth Godin](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/1409_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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On the birth of Wikipedia
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![Jeff Skoll](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/15333_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Makes movies that matter
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On rebuilding Rwanda
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![Melinda French Gates](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/eb61d4d9bfe5005073d55edf6d4449afbecc8e8e_254x191.jpg?w=255)
What nonprofits can learn from Coca-Cola
![Sheryl Sandberg](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/ab9dfcd148d9f69f83aaccb02be004a54fab65e9_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Why we have too few women leaders
![Richard Branson](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/17630_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Life at 30,000 feet
![Rachel Botsman](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/1c06f2498aea2914fd0d80631500818e16553db8_254x191.jpg?w=255)
The case for collaborative consumption
![Morgan Spurlock](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/83ee9347031ca1fb5b827f27c8f5ef65887788f5_254x191.jpg?w=255)
The greatest TED Talk ever sold
![Steve Jobs](https://cvdl.ben.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/secret_of_steve_feature3-1130x480@2x-1024x640.jpg?w=255)
How to live before you die
![Jason Clay](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/187890_254x191.jpg?w=255)
How big brands can help save biodiversity
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How to build a company where the best ideas win
![Bill Gross](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/fbecde9d89d09b554f1a3c1784740fcca3c426a6_254x191.jpg?w=255)
The Single Biggest Reason Startups Succeed
![Amanda Palmer](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/b3036577582bbdb2f2d0883d58002e4c05020742_254x191.jpg?w=255)
The art of asking
![John Doerr](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/c635cc6ec11c72c59e80a46f934d14e9508a25b6_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Sees salvation and profit in greentech
![Tom Wujec](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/35415_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Build a tower
![Larry Brilliant](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/3ac94c553a666884a672132af6eda1aa184b514b_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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![Jacqueline Novogratz](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/5cb81ef1877acdcccdf2ebc36bdbc58ede7e433a_254x191.jpg?w=255)
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Media and Entertainment
![Mark Ronson](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/e9dbac987b90c5ae9496c9a2cd74786a7ac99371_254x191.jpg?w=255)
How sampling transformed music
![Keith Barry](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/17539c84e1efad46b29e9c99391e06152677df0a_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Does brain magic
![Joshua Walters](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/14a7d9ebc3653c51dee45c79b7019de996ffb4a2_254x191.jpg?w=255)
On being just crazy enough
![Maz Jobrani](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/609b8f0d672bf58663110310adfd682fe98f274f_254x191.jpg?w=255)
Did you hear the one about the Iranian-American?
![Jamil Abu-Wardeh](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/192131_254x191.jpg?w=255)
The Axis of Evil Middle East Comedy Tour
![Joe Sabia](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/bbbab5ffc6f30d65769914d6bd000338450b3528_254x191.jpg?w=255)
The technology of storytelling