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Joshua Foer: Feats of memory anyone can do

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There are people who can quickly memorize lists of thousands of numbers, the order of all the cards in a deck (or ten!), and much more. Science writer Joshua Foer describes the technique -- called the memory palace -- and shows off its most remarkable feature: anyone can learn how to use it, including him.

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Season 2012
S2012E01 - Paul Gilding: The Earth is full
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S2012E02 - Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future
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2 mars 2012
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5 mars 2012
S2012E06 - Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story
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S2012E07 - James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate…
7 mars 2012
S2012E08 - Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government
8 mars 2012
S2012E09 - A TED speaker's worst nightmare
9 mars 2012
S2012E10 - Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the…
14 mars 2012
S2012E11 - Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod
15 mars 2012
S2012E12 - Brené Brown: Listening to shame
16 mars 2012
S2012E13 - T. Boone Pickens: Let's transform energy -- with…
19 mars 2012
S2012E14 - Myshkin Ingawale: A blood test without bleeding
12 mars 2012
S2012E15 - Taylor Wilson: Yup, I built a nuclear fusion…
22 mars 2012
S2012E16 - Billy Collins: Everyday moments, caught in time
23 mars 2012
S2012E17 - Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable…
26 mars 2012
S2012E18 - Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to humming bird…
27 mars 2012
S2012E19 - Leymah Gbowee: Unlock the intelligence, passion,…
28 mars 2012
S2012E20 - Ayah Bdeir: Building blocks that blink, beep and…
29 mars 2012
S2012E21 - Marco Tempest: A magical tale (with augmented…
30 mars 2012
S2012E22 - Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone?
3 avril 2012
S2012E23 - Chip Kidd: Designing books is no laughing matter.…
4 avril 2012
S2012E24 - Jack Choi: On the virtual dissection table
5 avril 2012
S2012E25 - Lucy McRae: How can technology transform the…
6 avril 2012
S2012E26 - Frank Warren: Half a million secrets
9 avril 2012
S2012E27 - Abigail Washburn: Building US-China relations ...…
13 avril 2012
S2012E28 - Atul Gawande: How do we heal medicine?
16 avril 2012
S2012E29 - Drew Curtis: How I beat a patent troll
17 avril 2012
S2012E30 - Christina Warinner: Tracking ancient diseases…
20 avril 2012
S2012E31 - Brian Greene: Is our universe the only universe?
23 avril 2012
S2012E32 - Eduardo Paes: The 4 commandments of cities
26 avril 2012
S2012E33 - Nancy Lublin: Texting that saves lives
27 avril 2012
S2012E34 - Liz Diller: A giant bubble for debate
30 avril 2012
S2012E35 - Amory Lovins: A 40-year plan for energy
1 mai 2012
S2012E36 - Reuben Margolin: Sculpting waves in wood and time
2 mai 2012
S2012E37 - Gary Kovacs: Tracking the trackers
3 mai 2012
S2012E38 - Michael Tilson Thomas: Music and emotion through…
7 mai 2012
S2012E39 - Joshua Foer: Feats of memory anyone can do
10 mai 2012
S2012E40 - Renny Gleeson: 404, the story of a page not found
11 mai 2012
S2012E41 - Tali Sharot: The optimism bias
14 mai 2012
S2012E42 - Jean-Baptiste Michel: The mathematics of history
15 mai 2012
S2012E43 - David Kelley: How to build your creative…
16 mai 2012
S2012E44 - Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain
17 mai 2012
S2012E45 - JR: One year of turning the world inside out
18 mai 2012
S2012E46 - Nathan Wolfe: What's left to explore?
21 mai 2012
S2012E47 - Philippe Petit: The journey across the high wire
23 mai 2012
S2012E48 - Reggie Watts disorients you in the most…
25 mai 2012
S2012E49 - Quixotic Fusion: Dancing with light
1 juin 2012
S2012E50 - Terry Moore: Why is 'x' the unknown?
6 juin 2012
S2012E51 - Damian Palin: Mining minerals from seawater
7 juin 2012
S2012E52 - John Hodgman: Design, explained.
8 juin 2012
S2012E53 - John Hockenberry: We are all designers
11 juin 2012
S2012E54 - Sarah Parcak: Archeology from space
14 juin 2012
S2012E55 - Marco Tempest: The electric rise and fall of…
20 juin 2012
S2012E56 - Peter Norvig: The 100,000-student classroom
21 juin 2012
S2012E57 - Jared Ficklin: New ways to see music (with color!…
13 juillet 2012
S2012E58 - Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: Capturing memories in…
15 juillet 2012
S2012E59 - Jon Ronson: Strange answers to the psychopath test
15 août 2012
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5 octobre 2012
S2012E61 - Julie Burstein: 4 lessons in creativity
12 novembre 2012
S2012E62 - Steven Addis: A father-daughter bond, one photo…
19 décembre 2012
S2012E63 - Don Levy: A cinematic journey through visual…
4 janvier 2013
S2012E64 - Cesar Kuriyama: One second every day
6 février 2013
S2012E65 - Wade Davis: Gorgeous photos of a backyard…
26 février 2013
S2012E66 - Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes
1 mai 2012
S2012E67 - Jonathan Trent: Energy from floating algae pods
1 juin 2012
S2012E68 - Tristram Stuart: The global food waste scandal
1 mai 2012
S2012E69 - Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: The mysterious workings of…
17 septembre 2012
S2012E70 - Julian Treasure: Why architects need to use their…
18 septembre 2012
S2012E71 - Andrew Blum: Discover the physical side of the…
1 juin 2012
S2012E72 - Bandi Mbubi: Demand a fair trade cell phone
1 avril 2012
S2012E73 - Ed Gavagan: A story about knots and surgeons
21 septembre 2012
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1 juin 2012
S2012E75 - Andrew McAfee: Are droids taking our jobs?
1 juin 2012
S2012E76 - Read Montague: What we're learning from 5,000…
1 juin 2012
S2012E77 - Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day)…
1 juin 2012
S2012E78 - John Lloyd: An animated tour of the invisible
1 septembre 2012
S2012E79 - Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the…
1 juin 2012
S2012E80 - Bahia Shehab: A thousand times no
1 juin 2012
S2012E81 - Aris Venetikidis: Making sense of maps
29 septembre 2012
S2012E82 - Vicki Arroyo: Let's prepare for our new climate
1 juin 2012
S2012E83 - Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are
28 juin 2012
S2012E84 - Robert Gupta: Between music and medicine
2 octobre 2012
S2012E85 - Jason McCue: Terrorism is a failed brand
1 juin 2012
S2012E86 - Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer…
4 octobre 2012
S2012E87 - Thomas P. Campbell: Weaving narratives in museum…
1 mars 2012
S2012E88 - Tim Leberecht: 3 ways to (usefully) lose control…
1 juin 2012
S2012E89 - John Maeda: How art, technology and design inform…
1 juin 2012
S2012E90 - Ruby Wax: What's so funny about mental illness?
10 octobre 2012
S2012E91 - Melissa Marshall: Talk nerdy to me
11 octobre 2012
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1 juin 2012
S2012E93 - Eddie Obeng: Smart failure for a fast-changing…
1 juin 2012
S2012E94 - John Wilbanks: Let's pool our medical data
1 juin 2012
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17 octobre 2012
S2012E96 - Heather Brooke: My battle to expose government…
1 juin 2012
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1 juin 2012
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1 juin 2012
S2012E99 - David Pizarro: The strange politics of disgust
1 mai 2012
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1 juin 2012
S2012E101 - Doris Kim Sung: Metal that breathes
1 mai 2012
S2012E102 - Marco Tempest: A cyber-magic card trick like no…
1 juin 2012
S2012E103 - Rory Stewart: Why democracy matters
1 juin 2012
S2012E104 - Sanjay Pradhan: How open data is changing…
1 juin 2012
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1 septembre 2012
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5 novembre 2012
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1 décembre 2011
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1 avril 2012
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1 mai 2012
S2012E112 - Jeff Hancock: The future of lying
1 septembre 2012
S2012E113 - Julie Burstein: 4 lessons in creativity
1 février 2012
S2012E114 - Arunachalam Muruganantham: How I started a…
1 mai 2012
S2012E115 - Hannah Brencher: Love letters to strangers
1 juin 2012
S2012E116 - Leah Buechley: How to sketch with electronics
15 novembre 2012
S2012E117 - David Binder: The arts festival revolution
1 juin 2012
S2012E118 - Daphne Bavelier: Your brain on video games
1 juin 2012
S2012E119 - Amos Winter: The cheap all-terrain wheelchair
1 juin 2012
S2012E120 - Sleepy Man Banjo Boys: Teen wonders play bluegrass
1 juin 2012
S2012E121 - Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude.
1 juin 2011
S2012E122 - Candy Chang: Before I die I want to...
1 juillet 2012
S2012E123 - Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up…
1 septembre 2012
S2012E124 - Jonas Eliasson: How to solve traffic jams
1 septembre 2012
S2012E125 - Janine Shepherd: A broken body isn't a broken…
1 octobre 2012
S2012E126 - Munir Virani: Why I love vultures
1 mai 2012
S2012E127 - Paolo Cardini: Forget multitasking, try…
1 juin 2012
S2012E128 - Bobby Ghosh: Why global jihad is losing
1 septembre 2012
S2012E129 - Ludwick Marishane: A bath without water
1 mai 2012
S2012E130 - Jeff Smith: Lessons in business ... from prison
1 juin 2012
S2012E131 - Nina Tandon: Could tissue engineering mean…
1 juin 2012
S2012E132 - Lemon Andersen: Please don't take my Air Jordans
1 novembre 2012
S2012E133 - Ellen 't Hoen: Pool medical patents, save lives
1 octobre 2012
S2012E134 - Markham Nolan: How to separate fact and fiction…
1 novembre 2012
S2012E135 - Maz Jobrani: A Saudi, an Indian and an Iranian…
1 avril 2012
S2012E136 - Marcus Byrne: The dance of the dung beetle
1 août 2012
S2012E137 - Ben Saunders: Why bother leaving the house?
1 novembre 2012
S2012E138 - Robin Chase: Excuse me, may I rent your car?
1 juillet 2012
S2012E139 - Molly Crockett: Beware neuro-bunk
1 novembre 2012
S2012E140 - Steven Addis: A father-daughter bond, one photo…
1 février 2012
S2012E141 - Adam Davidson: What we learned from teetering on…
1 décembre 2012
S2012E142 - Ronny Edry: Israel and Iran: A love story?
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11 juillet 2012
S2012E144 - Margaret Heffernan: Dare to Disagree
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