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Esther Perel: The secret to desire in a long-term relationship<\/span><\/a>Lybrido, a drug to treat women with low libido, is in clinical trials and could be presented to the FDA for review as early as this summer. In The New York Times Magazine<\/i><\/a>‘s look at this new drug, TED speaker Esther Perel is asked about the conundrum of desire for women in long-term relationships. \u201cMany couples confuse love with merging,\u201d she says. \u201cThis mix-up is a bad omen for sex. To sustain \u00e9lan toward the other, there must be a synapse to cross. Eroticism requires distance.\u201d Watch Perel\u2019s talk \u201cThe secret to desire\u201d \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\nPhilosopher Dan Dennett has a great new book, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking<\/i><\/a>. Read an excerpt containing his “seven tools for thinking<\/a>, or check out any of his four TED Talks \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n Last week, NASA announced the shutdown of the Kepler spacecraft mission. On the TED Fellows blog<\/a>, <\/b>Lucianne Walkowicz \u2013 an astronomer who worked on the project \u2013 shares her thoughts on its end. Watch her talk \u201cFinding planets around other stars\u201d \u00bb<\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n CERN physicists share with the TED-Ed blog<\/a> what it was like to have their words — and sometimes their personas — animated in five TED-Ed videos that boil down concepts in particle physics into understandable terms. Watch these five animated lessons \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n Finally, fashion website Refinery 29<\/a> admits that Meg Jay\u2019s talk \u201cWhy 30 is not the new 20\u201d got their \u201centire office buzzing.\u201d Watch the talk \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n Congratulations to TED Fellow Kellee Santiago for being named one of Inc. Magazine<\/a>‘<\/em>s\u00a0”5 Most Powerful Women in Gaming.” Read a TED Blog interview with Santiago about the inspiration behind the game Journey \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Henry](\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/121608_240x180.jpg\")
Henry Markram: A brain in a supercomputer<\/span><\/a> The new Wired<\/i><\/a> takes a detailed look at Henry Markram\u2019s years-long campaign to build a supercomputer replica of the human brain — a plan he shared early on at TEDGlobal, in fact. The piece begins, \u201cEven by the standards of the TED Conference, Henry Markram\u2019s 2009 TEDGlobal talk was a mind-bender. He took the stage of the Oxford Playhouse, clad in the requisite dress shirt and blue jeans, and announced a plan that\u2014if it panned out\u2014would deliver a fully sentient hologram within a decade.\u201d And it gets weirder. Watch his 2009 talk \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Rose](\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/8f06b4073d52a4ee5e859ed36563987e81096543_240x180.jpg\")
Rose George: Let's talk crap. Seriously.<\/span><\/a>Related to Rose George\u2019s talk, \u201cLet\u2019s talk crap. Seriously<\/a>\u201d: On Monday, in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India, 184 couples wed in a mass ceremony — before which the husband-to-be had to prove he had a toilet or would build one within the month. As a reward, The Wall Street Journal<\/i> reports,<\/a> \u201cthe state covers the costs of the wedding and gifts for the groom\u2019s family, which are traditionally provided by the bride\u2019s parents.\u201d Watch George\u2019s talk \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n
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