Ted Global 2011

Friday, February 3, 12

Edinburgh, Scotland July 11-15, 201150-plus speakers and performers from all over the world

“The Stuff of Life”


Edinburgh National Conference Center

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Tim Hartford Communications Technology Innovator

On Making Good Mistakes

Leaders and leading thinkers may come to believe that their answer is always the only/best one. Hartford terms this the, “God complex” Harford suggests, we need to learn to admit our fallibility, embrace failure and to constantly adapt, improvise and plan to work from the bottom up rather than the top down.

Rebecca MacKinnonMedia Activist

On An Internet For The People

MacKinnon explores private sovereignty in cyberspace--and how the empowering potential of technology is being constrained due to big company’s compliance with nation-states.

She calls for a citizen-centric rather than government-centric internet revolution.

“What people can and cannot do with information has more effect than ever on the exercise of power in the physical world.”Each and every one of us has a vital part to play in building a world in which government and technology serve the world’s people and not the other way around.”

Paul BloomPsychologist

How Pleasure WorksWhy do we like an original painting better than a forgery if we can’t tell the difference?

Psychologist Paul Bloom argues that it’s more than the status of a limited item.

Human beings are essentialists -- our beliefs about the history & essence of objects changes how we experience them and how much pleasure (or pain) we derive.

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Pamela MeyerLie Detector

On Lying and Deception

We all lie or are lied to between 10 and 200 times a day. “Lying is our attempt to bridge the gap between how we wish we could be and what we’re really like.” ...lying can be catastrophic.

“Last year, we were deceived by the financial sector to the tune of $1 trillion.”

Paul ZakNeuroeconomist

On Oxytocin

Zak is the pioneer in a new study that has identified Oxytocin as responsible for a variety of virtuous behaviors in humans such as empathy, generosity and trust. It’s what he calls the brain’s “moral molecule.”

But he suggests, “8 hugs a day” as the best recipe for morality, over doses of Oxytocin.

Mark PagelEvolutionary Biologist

On the Evolution of Language

“Language is the voice of our genes”Observing and learning from others’ mistakes helps us choose the best options, and evolve with better options.

“Social theft” --> “Social Learning”

Sheril KirshenbaumBiologist

On Kissing

We kiss for more than just romantic reasons.

It’s how we test our security, how we choose our mates, and how we find our way.

“We’re interpreting our mouths more than we realize”


Pamela MeyerLie detector

Pamela Meyer is the CEO of social networking company Simpatico Networks.She has also been working with a team of researchers over several years to collect and review most of the research on deception that has been published, from law-enforcement to military to psychology to espionage.

She became an expert herself, receiving advanced training in deception detection, including multiple courses of advanced training in interrogation, microexpression analysis, statement analysis, behavior and body language interpretation, and emotion recognition.

Her research is synthetized in her bestselling book Liespotting.

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Paul ZakNeuroeconomist

A professor at Claremont Graduate University in Southern California, Zak believes most humans are biologically wired to cooperate, but that business and economics ignore the biological foundations of human reciprocity, risking loss: when oxytocin levels are high in subjects, people’s generosity to strangers increases up to 80 percent; and countries with higher levels of trust – lower crime, better education – fare better economically.

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Mark PagelEvolutionary Biologist

Pagel builds statistical models to examine the evolutionary processes imprinted in human behavior, from genomics to the emergence of complex systems -- to culture.

He’s looking for patterns in the rates of evolution of language elements, and hoping to find the social factors that influence trends of language evolution.

At the University of Reading, Pagel heads the Evolution Laboratory in the biology department, where he explores such questions as, "Why would humans evolve a system of communication that prevents them with communicating with other members of the same species?"

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Sheril KirshenbaumBiologist and writer

A research scientist at the University of Texas, Sheril Kirshenbaum wrote The Science of Kissing, containing "everything you always wanted to know about kissing but either haven't asked, couldn't find out, or didn't realize you should understand."

She also co-authored Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future with Chris Mooney, named by President Obama's science advisor, John Holdren, as his top recommended read.

She works with the Webber Energy Group at the University of Texas at Austin's Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy, where she works on projects to enhance public understanding of energy issues as they relate to food, oceans and culture.

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World Peace Julia BachaFilmmaker

On the Power of AttentionJust like acts of violent terrorism, non-violent efforts for change are examples of, “theater seeking an audience”.

The international community must pay more attention to non-violent acts to turn non-violence into a functional behavior.

Maajid NawazAnti-Extremism Activist

On Extremism & Social Movements

We’re in “The Age of Behavior”: defined by ideas and narratives.

Extremism is the result of successful social movements. Whereas Democratic activists on the other hand, have been plagued by complacency, political correctness, failing politics and economics, and an ideology of resistance.

Democratic advocates must move beyond a political goal and establish a social movement.

Jarreth MerzFilmmaker, “An African Election”

On Discovering His African Identity

While venturing to Ghana to film the presidential elections, Merz discovered that contrary to stereotype, and despite violence in the nation, “Africans can govern themselves.”

Jeremy GilleyAnti-Extremism Activist

On Peace One Day

For the past 10 years, filmmaker Jeremy Gilley has been promoting September 21 as a true international day of ceasefire, a day to carry out humanitarian aid in the world's most dangerous zones. The practical challenge is huge, but Gilley says that, “By working together, I seriously think we can start to change things and create peace one day.”


Julia Bacha is the director and producer of "Budrus," a documentary about a West Bank village, a giant barrier and nonviolent resistance.

Bacha was also the co-director of Encounter Point, featured during Pangea Day in 2009 -- a feature documentary film about four ordinary people, on both sides of the conflict, who lost nearly everything but who nevertheless work for an end to occupation in favor of peace.

She says: "We are providing alternative role models. I have seen people challenged, inspired and motivated to take action based on the stories we tell.”

Julia BachaFilmmaker

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Jarreth MerzFilmmaker

Jarreth Merz' new film, "An African Election," follows the 2008 presidential elections in Ghana from start to finish.

Raised in Ghana, Switzerland and Germany, Jarreth Merz is a filmmaker and actor.

As a director, his work is rooted in observing life as it presents itself in all its complexities -- as shown in his latest documentary, “An African Election,” which follows the 2008 presidential elections in Ghana, West Africa.

Merz's stepfather, a political player on Ghana, helped him get access behind the scenes; then Jarreth and his cameraman brother, Kevin, followed the presidential candidates in the unpredictable months leading up to the final night.

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Maajid NawazAnti-extremism activist

Maajid Nawaz works to promote conversation, tolerance and democracy in Muslim and non-Muslim communities.

As a teenager, British-born Maajid Nawaz was recruited to the global Islamist party Hizb ut-Tahrir

In 2009, he founded Khudi, a counter-extremism social movement working to promote a democratic culture in Pakistan. In the UK, the think tank he co-founded, Quilliam, engages in “counter-Islamist thought-generating” -- looking for new narratives of citizenship, identity and belonging in a globalized world.

He says: "I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.”

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Filmmaker Jeremy Gilley founded Peace One Day to create an annual Peace Day.

For the past 10 years, Jeremy Gilley has been promoting September 21 as a true international day of ceasefire, a day to carry out humanitarian aid in the world's most dangerous zones.

Gilley has recorded successes. For instance, on September 21, 2008, some 1.85 million children under 5 years old, in seven Afghan provinces where conflict has previously prevented access, were given a vaccine for polio.

Jeremy GilleyPeace activist

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Media

Nadia al-SakkafOn Being Editor-in-Chief of

The Yemini TimesNadia Al-Sakkaf became the chief editor of the Yemen Times, the country's first and most widely read independent English-language newspaper.

In allowing herself to be interviewed, she drives home the point that, “In times of revolution, one message to the West: It’s very important for YOU to listen to OUR voice.”

Yang LanMedia Mogul, TV Host

On Social Media

Yang Lan’s story; going from struggling actress to the “Oprah of China”.

“With barriers stacked against Chinese youth who have a social media voice, change is afoot 140 characters at a time.”

Mikko HypponenCyber Security Expert

On Cyber Security

There are potentially huge problems with the Internet.

Viruses are being written by organized criminals who find ways to steal credit card information and embezzle millions of dollars.

“If we don’t fight online crime, we run the risk of losing it all.”

Misha GlennyUnderworld Investigator, McMafia

On Hackers

“The internet embodies a complex dilemma that pits the demands of security with the desire for freedom.”

Glenny’s current focus is on hackers and their characteristics.

These people should be given jobs with the state to help the authorities stop terrorist and criminal hacking so we can keep control of the Internet.


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Yang LanMedia mogul, TV host

Yang is a self-made entrepreneur and the most powerful woman in the Chinese media. As chair of Sun Media Investment Holdings, a business empire she built with her husband, Yang is a pioneer of open communication.

Yang started her journalism career by establishing the first current-events TV program in China. She created and hosted many other groundbreaking shows.

The popular Her Village, which now includes an online magazine and website, brings together China’s largest community of professional women (more than 200 million people a month).


Nadia Al-SakkafJournalist

Nadia Al-Sakkaf became the chief editor of the Yemen Times, the country's first and most widely read independent English-language newspaper, in March 2005, and quickly became a leading voice in Yemen and worldwide media on issues of media, gender, development and politics.

During the May 2011 leadership crisis in Yemen, Al-Sakkaf and her organization were vital in reporting the news and putting the political situation in context for the wider world. And as the crisis rolls on, the role of an independent press becomes even more vital. The Yemen Times has reporters on the ground in Sana'a, Taiz, Aden and Hodeida covering the uprising.

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Misha GlennyUnderworld investigator

In minute detail, Misha Glenny's 2008 book, McMafia, illuminates the byzantine outlines of global organized crime. To research this magisterial work Glenny penetrated the convoluted, globalized and franchised modern underworld -- often at considerable personal risk.

Legal society ignores this world at its peril, but Glenny suggests that conventional law enforcement might not be able to combat a problem whose roots lie in global instability.

While covering the Central Europe beat for the Guardian and the BBC, Glenny wrote several acclaimed books on the fall of Yugoslavia and the rise of the Balkan nations.

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Mikko HypponenCybersecurity expert

The chief research officer at F-Secure Corporation in Finland, Mikko Hypponen has led his team through some of the largest computer virus outbreaks in history. His team took down the world-wide network used by the Sobig.F worm.

He was the first to warn the world about the Sasser outbreak, and he has done classified briefings on the operation of the Stuxnet worm -- a hugely complex worm designed to sabotage Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities.

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Bunker Roy—On Building a Better School

Sustainability for a Better World

Paul SnelgroveMarine BiologistOn Oceans

Oceans cover 70% of the planet, produce half the oxygen we breathe, and constitute the largest habitat on earth.

Snelgrove is part of a huge effort to create an oceanic census of the world’s marine life--an attempt to try to stop destructing oceans and to, “try to preserve what’s left.”

Shoshei ShigematsuArchitect

On Architecture

Shigematsu uses the box as a way to exemplify the notion that, “shape doesn’t really matter.” But he aims to “do something unknown with a very known shape”

He calls for a “grand vision of urbanism”, post Japanese tsunami-- “we can’t just rebuild the disaster zone”

Josette SheeranAnti-hunger leader

On Eradicating Global Hunger

1 out of every 7 people in the world don’t know how/where to find food each day.

“We shouldn’t look at the hungry as victims, but as the solution--as the value chain to fight hunger.”

Erik HersmanBlogger

On Innovation in Africa

The new face of Africa says, “sustainable”. New ideas coming out of Africa is no longer the exception, it should be expected.

“To those from Africa, until we own the narrative about our continent, someone else will,” he says. “To those outside of Africa, I would say take another look.”

Justin Hall TippingBiologist

On Nano Energy

Free energy and electricity to the world; a cleaner planet with fresh drinking water--harnessed by controlling the electron.

Let’s eliminate power plants and the grid, and store energy by transferring power to each other.


Paul SnelgroveMarine biologist

Paul Snelgrove, a professor at Memorial University in Newfoundland, studies benthic sedimentary ecosystems. He led the team that produced the book and led the group that pulled together the findings of the Census of Marine Life -- synthesizing 10 years and 540 expeditions into a book of wonders.

Snelgrove's synthesized this mass of findings into a book, Discoveries of the Census of Marine Life.

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Justin Hall-TippingScience entrepreneur

Justin Hall-Tipping works on nano-energy startups -- mastering the electron to create power.

Justin Hall-Tipping had an epiphany about energy after seeing footage of a chunk of ice the size of his home state (Connecticut) falling off Antarctica into the ocean, and decided to focus on science to find new forms of energy.

He formed Nanoholdings to work closely with universities and labs who are studying new forms of nano-scale energy.

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Shohei ShigematsuArchitect

The director of OMA*AMO in New York, Shohei Shigematsu thinks about how society shapes buildings.

The director of Rem Koolhaas' New York office, OMA*AMO, Shohei Shigematsu has worked on high-profile buildings like the CCTV tower in Beijing, and his conceptual work drives projects like the (unbuilt) Whitney Museum extension in New York City and the Prada Epicenters in London and Shanghai.

His approach balances the design approach with the often dense matrix of site-specific, economic and emotional connections.

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Erik HersmanBlogger

Blogger, geek, and power networker Erik Hersman, is a key member of the African blog revolution.

Erik Hersman grew up in Kenya and Sudan. From his home in the US, he keeps two influential blogs: WhiteAfrican, where he writes about technology on the African continent, and AfriGadget, a group blog that celebrates African ingenuity.

During the Kenyan post-election crisis of 2007-2008, Hersman helped create the website Ushahidi, a place to report incidents of violence via the web and texts. The original Ushahidi tool was written in two days; later that year, it won the NetSquared Mashup Challenge.

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Josette SheeranAnti-hunger leader

Josette Sheeran, executive director of the Rome-based United Nations World Food Programme, oversees the largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger around the globe.

Sheeran believes that hunger and poverty must and can be solved through both immediate actions and long-term policies.

Prior to joining the UN in 2007, Sheeran was the Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs at the US Department of State, where she frequently focused on economic diplomacy to help emerging nations move toward self-sufficiency and prosperity.

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Geoffrey WestTheorist

On the Hidden Laws of CitiesCities are where global problems originate from these days. Everything from health, to economic, to political issues stem from cities.

Yet, cities continue to grow; they are not failing. This is because we are the city. City = nature.

Niall FergusonHistorian

On the End of Western Dominance

“The biggest story of our lifetime is the end of Western predominance.”

West had originally gained dominance due to advances in science; property rights; modern medicine; a consumer society; the work ethic.

Now that information is all democratized, nothing is exclusive.

Yasheng HuangPolitical Economist

On India Versus China

In examining why China has grown twice as fast as India in the past 30 years, some of the takeaways are...

- Political reform is a must if China wishes to sustain growth and continue to be the economic superstar- Women play a significant role in strong societies--this has contributed to China’s triumph over India.

Kevin SlavinAlgoworld Expert

On Algorithms

Slavin explores how algorithms are pervasive and shaping our understanding of markets, behaviors and the world at large, He suggests we rethink the role of math in life and society, noting that there are 2,000 physicists working on Wall Street.

Many of them work on “black box trading”, which, as Slavin facetiously pointed out, makes up “70% of the algorithm formerly known as your pension.”


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Yasheng Huang Political economist

MIT and Fudan University professor Yasheng Huang is an authority on how to get ahead in emerging economies. The China and India Labs he founded at MIT's Sloan School of Management specialize in helping local startups improve their strategies.

His book,Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics (2008), chronicles three decades of economic reform in China and documents the critical role that private entrepreneurship played in the Communist nation’s “economic miracle.”

Huang believes that China is moving away from Marxism (public ownership) but not Leninism (ideology of state control) -- and that strong social fundamentals are the key reason for its growth.

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http://actionlearning.mit.edu/india-lab/

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Niall FergusonHistorian

Niall Ferguson teaches history and business administration at Harvard and is a senior research fellow at several other universities, including Oxford.

His books chronicle a wide range of political and socio-economic events; he has written about everything from German politics during the era of inflation to a financial history of the world. He’s now working on a biography of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Ferguson is a prolific and often controversial commentator on contemporary politics and economics.

His latest book and TV series, Civilization: The West and the Rest, aims to help 21st-century audiences understand the past and the present.

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http://www.amazon.com/Civilization-West-Rest-Niall-Ferguson/dp/1846142733

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Geoffrey WestTheorist

Trained as a theoretical physicist, Geoffrey West has turned his analytical mind toward the inner workings of more concrete things, like ... animals. In a paper for Science in 1997, he and his team uncovered what he sees as a surprisingly universal law of biology — the way in which heart rate, size and energy consumption are related across most living animals.

A past president of the multidisciplinary Santa Fe Institute (after decades working in high-energy physics at Los Alamos and Stanford), West now studies the behavior and development of cities.

In his newest work, he proposes that one simple number, population, can predict a stunning array of details about any city, from crime rate to economic activity.

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Annie Murphy PaulScience Author

On Prenatal LearningLearning starts in the womb. “We’re learning about the world before we even enter it”.

Language, smell, taste, emotion...

Pregnancy is the new frontier for discovering how we develop.

Alison GopnikChild Development PsychologistOn Thinking Babies

“Babies are the research and development department of the human species.”

How and what babies think is more than just irrational emotions--they’re learning a lot in little time. Researchers are wondering why and how this happens.

Allan JonesBrain Scientist

On Mapping the Human BrainThough harvesting the human brain, Jones and his team have mapped its 86 billion neurons, and have been able to remap 50 million data points in each brain.

“The brain is still undiscovered, a new frontier”

Daniel WolpertBrain Scientist

On Brains and Movement

“The only reason we have a brain is for adaptable and complex movement.”

From the contractions that underpin our speech and facial mimicry to the actions that allow us to exert force — movement is the only way to affect the world around us.

Svante PaaboGeneticist

On GenomesThe majority of our bodies possess no differences from one another.

So, “why are we so alike?”

Paabo and other scientists now think that some, if not all, early humans mixed with Neanderthals after we began to migrate out of Africa. Paabo’s work is helping to understand our ancestral family tree of our

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Svante PaaboGeneticist

Svante Paabo explores human genetic evolution by analyzing DNA extracted from ancient sources, including mummies, an Ice Age hunter and the bone fragments of Neanderthals.

Svante Paabo's research on the DNA of human and nonhuman primates has exposed the key genetic changes that transformed our grunting ape-like ancestors into the charming latte-sipping humans we are today.

As a director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, Paabo and his team developed a technique of isolating and sequencing the DNA of creatures long extinct.

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Jae Rhim LeeArtist

Artist Jae Rhim Lee re-imagines the relationships between the body and the world.

Jae Rhim Lee is a visual artist and mushroom lover. In her early work, as a grad student at MIT, she built systems that reworked basic human processes: sleeping, urinating and eating. Now she's working on a compelling new plan for the final human process: decomposition.

Her Infinity Burial Project explores the choices we face after death, and how our choices reflect our denial or acceptance of death’s physical implications. She's been developing a new strain of fungus, the Infinity Mushroom, that feeds on and remediates the industrial toxins we store in our bodies and convert our unused bodies efficiently into nutrients.

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Allan JonesBrain scientist

As CEO of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, Allan Jones leads an ambitious project to build an open, online, interactive atlas of the human brain.

The Allen Institute for Brain Science -- based in Seattle, kickstarted by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen -- has a mission to fuel discoveries about the human brain by building tools the entire scientific community can use.

As CEO, one of Allan Jones' first projects was to lead the drive to create a comprehensive atlas of the brain of a mouse.

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Daniel WolpertMovement expert

A neuroscientist and engineer, Daniel Wolpert studies how the brain controls the body.

At his lab in the Engineering department at Cambridge, Daniel Wolpert and his team are studying why, looking to understand the computations underlying the brain's sensorimotor control of the body.

As he says, "I believe that to understand movement is to understand the whole brain. And therefore it’s important to remember when you are studying memory, cognition, sensory processing, they’re there for a reason, and that reason is action.”

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Annie Murphy PaulScience author

Annie Murphy Paul investigates how life in the womb shapes who we become.

Science writer, she write “Origins”, a history and study of this emerging field structured around a personal narrative – Paul was pregnant with her second child at the time.

What she finds suggests a far more dynamic nature between mother and fetus than typically acknowledged, and opens up the possibility that the time before birth is as crucial to human development as early childhood.

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Alison GopnikChild development psychologist

Alison Gopnik takes us into the fascinating minds of babies and children, and shows us how much we understand before we even realize we do.

The author of The Philosophical Baby, The Scientist in the Crib and other influential books on cognitive development, Gopnik presents evidence that babies and children are conscious of far more than we give them credit for, as they engage every sense and spend every waking moment discovering, filing away, analyzing and acting on information about how the world works.

Gopnik’s work draws on psychological, neuroscientific, and philosophical developments in child development research to understand how the human mind learns, how and why we love, our ability to innovate, as well as giving us a deeper appreciation for the role of parenthood.

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http://www.amazon.com/Philosophical-Baby-Childrens-Minds-Meaning/dp/0374231966

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Cynthia KenyonBiochemist, geneticist

Paul BloomPsychologist

Paul Bloom studies our common-sense understanding of the world -- how we know what we know, why we like what we like.

Paul Bloom's latest book is called How Pleasure Works -- which is indicative of the kinds of questions he looks at, the big basic ones: Why do we like some things and not others? How do we decide what's fair and unfair? And the million-dollar question: How much of our moral development, what we think of as our mature reasoning process, is actually hard-wired and present in us from birth? To answer this question, at his Mind and Development Lab at Yale, he and his students study how babies make moral decisions. (How do you present a moral quandary to a 1-year-old? Through simple, gamelike experiments that yield surprisingly adult-like results.)

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Rebecca MacKinnonMedia activist

Rebecca MacKinnon looks at issues of privacy, free expression and governance (or lack of) in the digital networks, platforms and services on which we are all increasingly dependent.

A former head of CNN’s Beijing and Tokyo bureaus, MacKinnon is an expert on Chinese Internet censorship. She’s one of the founders (with Ethan Zuckerman) of the Global Voices Online blog network, which aggregates and translates news around the world that might otherwise go unheard.

Is there a human rights penalty we pay for trusting basic human connection to the Internet? As a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, Rebecca MacKinnon looks at these big questions in her upcoming book, Consent of the Networked, “A treatise on the future of liberty in the Internet age”.

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Kevin SlavinAlgoworld expert

Kevin Slavin navigates in the algoworld, the expanding space in our lives that is determined and run by algorithms.

Are you addicted to the dead-simple numbers game Drop 7 or Facebook’s Parking Wars? Blame Kevin Slavin and the game development company, Area/Code, he co-founded in 2005, which makes clever game entertainments that enter the fabric of reality.

All this fun is powered by algorithms -- as, increasingly, is our daily life. From the Google algorithms to the algos that give you “recommendations” online to those that automatically play the stock markets (and sometimes crash them): we may not realize it, but we live in the algoworld.

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Tim Harford looks at familiar situations in unfamiliar ways to explain fundamental principles.

He writes the ‘Undercover Economist’ column for the Financial Times,

His new book, Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure,

He also presents the BBC radio series More or Less, a rare broadcast program devoted, as he says, to "the powerful, sometimes beautiful, often abused but ever ubiquitous world of numbers."

Tim HarfordUndercover economist

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Malcolm GladwellWriter

Malcolm Gladwell searches for the counterintuitive in what we all take to be the mundane: cookies, sneakers, pasta sauce. A New Yorker staff writer since 1996, he visits obscure laboratories and infomercial set kitchens as often as the hangouts of freelance cool-hunters -- a sort of pop-R&D gumshoe -- and for that has become a star lecturer and bestselling author.

Gladwell has written four books. The Tipping Point, which began as a New Yorker piece, applies the principles of epidemiology to crime (and sneaker sales), while Blink examines the unconscious processes that allow the mind to "thin slice" reality -- and make decisions in the blink of an eye. His third book, Outliers, questions the inevitabilities of success and identifies the relation of success to nature versus nurture. The newest work, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures, is an anthology of his New Yorker contributions.

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Ted Global 2011

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