Bill Gates' 13 favorite TED Talks

The organizers of the TED Conference asked Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates for his favorites. He boiled it down to 13 TED Talks by experts in technology, entertainment and design, beginning with health and economics data expert Hans Rosling, a professor at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute. Others on the list, below, include magician/stuntman David Blaine and Gates’ wife, Melinda.

Gates also has delivered a few TED Talks of his own. 

Here are his 13 favorites:

1. Hans Rosling: The best stats you've ever seen

2. Michael Specter: The danger of science denial

3. David Christian: The history of our world in 18 minutes

4. Melinda Gates: Let's put birth control back on the agenda

5. Bruce Aylward: How we'll stop polio for good

6. Atul Gawande: How do we heal medicine?

7. Steven Pinker: The surprising decline in violence

8. Nathan Myhrvold: Could this laser zap malaria?

9. Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education

10. Blaise Agüera y Arcas: How PhotoSynth can connect the world's images

11. David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 minutes

12. Susan Cain: The power of introverts

13. Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly ... and cooperate

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