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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXMJobWlXks&feature=share&list=PLOGi5-fAu8bGef9WhnR7R59IfKuREXZiL Architecture student Magnus Larsson details his bold plan to transform the harsh Sahara desert using bacteria and a surprising construction material: the sand itself. More at TED talks....

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAq4yBdSYZs?list=PLOGi5-fAu8bEQFq_0nUqXg5OTzPf4rTgM&w=560&h=315] Design legend Niels Diffrient talks about his life in industrial design (and the reason he became a designer instead of a jet pilot). He details his quest to completely rethink the office chair starting from one fundamental data set: the human body. More at...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjQM8PzCEY0&w=420&h=315] In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize. More at TED talks....

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmvOgW6iV2s&w=560&h=315] Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? John McWhorter posits that there's much more to texting -- linguistically, culturally -- than it seems, and it's all good news. More at TED talks....