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http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1 | Al Gore | 15 ways to avert a climate crisis | With the same humor and humanity he exuded in An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore spells out 15 ways that individuals can address climate change immediately, from buying a hybrid to inventing a new, hotter "brand name" for global warming. |
TED2006 | 0:16:17 | 6/27/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 92 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/92 | Hans Rosling | Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen | You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world." |
TED2006 | 0:19:50 | 6/27/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 66 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/66 | Sir Ken Robinson | Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines)
creativity. |
TED2006 | 0:19:24 | 6/27/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 53 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/53 | Majora Carter | Greening the ghetto | In an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur-winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx -- and
shows how minority neighborhood suffer most from flawed urban policy. |
TED2006 | 0:00:00 | 6/27/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 7 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/7 | David Pogue | When it comes to tech, simplicity sells | <i>New York Times</i> columnist David Pogue takes aim at technology's
worst interface-design offenders, and provides encouraging examples of products that get it right. To funny things up, he bursts into song. |
TED2006 | 0:21:26 | 6/27/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 96 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/96 | Tony Robbins | Why we do what we do, and how we can do it better | Tony Robbins discusses the "invisible forces" that motivate everyone's actions -- and high-fives Al Gore in the front row. | TED2006 | 0:21:45 | 6/27/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 86 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/86 | Julia Sweeney | "Letting Go of God" (an excerpt) | Julia
Sweeney (God Said, "Ha!") performs the first 15
minutes of her 2006 solo show Letting Go of God.
When two young Mormon missionaries knock on her door one day, it touches
off a quest to completely rethink her own beliefs. | TED2006 | 0:16:32 | 7/10/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 49 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/49 | Joshua Prince-Ramus | Designing the Seattle Central Library | Architect
Joshua Prince-Ramus takes the audience on dazzling, dizzying virtual
tours of three recent projects: the Central Library in Seattle, the
Museum Plaza in Louisville and the Charles Wyly Theater in Dallas. | TED2006 | 0:19:58 | 7/10/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 94 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/94 | Dan Dennett | A secular, scientific rebuttal to Rick Warren | Philosopher
Dan Dennett calls for religion -- all religion -- to be taught in
schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon. Then
he takes on The Purpose-Driven Life, disputing its claim that, to be
moral, one must deny evolution. | TED2006 | 0:24:45 | 7/18/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 71 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/71 | Rick Warren | Living a life of purpose | Pastor
Rick Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven Life,
reflects on his own crisis of purpose in the wake of his book's wild
success. He explains his belief that God's intention is for each of us
to use our talents and influence to do good. | TED2006 | 0:21:02 | 7/18/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 58 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/58 | Larry Brilliant | TED Prize wish: Help stop the next pandemic | Accepting
the 2006 TED Prize, Dr. Larry Brilliant talks about how smallpox was
eradicated from the planet, and calls for a new global system that can
identify and contain pandemics before they spread. | TED2006 | 0:25:50 | 7/25/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 54 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/54 | Cameron Sinclair | TED Prize wish: Open-source architecture to house the world | Accepting
his 2006 TED Prize, Cameron Sinclair demonstrates how passionate
designers and architects can respond to world housing crises. He unveils
his TED Prize wish for a network to improve global living standards
through collaborative design. | TED2006 | 0:23:34 | 7/25/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 55 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/55 | Jehane Noujaim | TED Prize wish: Unite the world on Pangea Day, a global day of film | In
this hopeful talk, Jehane Noujaim unveils her 2006 TED Prize wish: to
bring the world together for one day a year through the power of film. | TED2006 | 0:25:38 | 7/25/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 41 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/41 | Nicholas Negroponte | The vision behind One Laptop Per Child | Nicholas
Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Laboratory, describes how the One
Laptop Per Child project will build and distribute the "$100 laptop." | TED2006 | 0:17:37 | 8/1/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 65 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/65 | Jeff Han | Unveiling the genius of multi-touch interface design | Jeff
Han shows off a cheap, scalable multi-touch and pressure-sensitive
computer screen interface that may spell the end of point-and-click. | TED2006 | 0:08:47 | 8/1/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 45 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/45 | Sirena Huang | Dazzling set by 11-year-old violinist | Violinist
Sirena Huang gives a technically brilliant and emotionally nuanced
performance. In a charming interlude, the 11-year-old praises the
timeless design of her instrument. | TED2006 | 0:24:41 | 8/8/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 46 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/46 | Jennifer Lin | Magical improv from 14-year-old pianist | Pianist
and composer Jennifer Lin gives a magical performance, talks about the
process of creativity and improvises a moving solo piece based on a
random sequence of notes. | TED2004 | 0:24:05 | 8/8/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 2 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/2 | Amy Smith | Simple designs that could save millions of childrens' lives | Fumes
from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in
the developing world. MIT engineer Amy Smith details an exciting but
simple solution: a tool for turning farm waste into clean-burning
charcoal. | TED2006 | 0:15:06 | 8/15/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 27 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/27 | Ross Lovegrove | The power and beauty of organic design | Designer
Ross Lovegrove expounds his philosophy of "fat-free" design and offers
insight into several of his extraordinary products, including the Ty
Nant water bottle and the Go chair. | TED2005 | 0:19:30 | 8/15/2006 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 25 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/25 | Richard Baraniuk | Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learning | Rice
University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind
Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the
textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely,
anywhere in the world. | TED2006 | 0:18:34 | 8/21/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 37 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/37 | Jimmy Wales | How a ragtag band created Wikipedia | Jimmy
Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them
tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing,
self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:20:01 | 8/21/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 21 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/21 | Mena Trott | How blogs are building a friendlier world | The
founding mother of the blog revolution, Movable Type's Mena Trott,
talks about the early days of blogging, when she realized that giving
regular people the power to share our lives online is the key to
building a friendlier, more connected world. | TED2006 | 0:16:46 | 8/25/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 87 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/87 | Ze Frank | What's so funny about the Web? | Performer
and web toymaker Ze Frank delivers a hilarious nerdcore standup
routine, then tells us what he's seriously passionate about: helping
people create and interact using simple, addictive web tools. | TED2004 | 0:18:56 | 8/25/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 64 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/64 | Eve Ensler | Finding happiness in body and soul | Eve
Ensler, creator of The Vagina Monologues, shares
how a discussion about menopause with her friends led to talking about
all sorts of sexual acts onstage, waging a global campaign to end
violence toward women and finding her own happiness. | TED2004 | 0:20:25 | 9/6/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 16 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/16 | Helen Fisher | The science of love, and the future of women | Anthropologist
Helen Fisher takes on a tricky topic -- love -- and explains its
evolution, its biochemical foundations and its social importance. She
closes with a warning about the potential disaster inherent in
antidepressant abuse. | TED2006 | 0:23:27 | 9/6/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 98 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/98 | Richard Dawkins | The universe is queerer than we can suppose | Biologist
Richard Dawkins makes a case for "thinking the improbable" by looking
at how the human frame of reference limits our understanding of the
universe. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:21:56 | 9/12/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 47 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/47 | David Deutsch | What is our place in the cosmos? | Legendary
scientist David Deutsch puts theoretical physics on the back burner to
discuss a more urgent matter: the survival of our species. The first
step toward solving global warming, he says, is to admit that we have a
problem. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:19:00 | 9/12/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 20 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/20 | Malcolm Gladwell | What we can learn from spaghetti sauce | Tipping
Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit
of the perfect spaghetti sauce -- and makes a larger argument about the
nature of choice and happiness. | TED2004 | 0:17:30 | 9/19/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 29 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/29 | Steven Levitt | Why do crack dealers still live with their moms? | <i>Freakonomics</i>
author Steven Levitt presents new data on the finances of drug dealing.
Contrary to popular myth, he says, being a street-corner crack dealer
isn't lucrative: It pays below minimum wage. And your boss can kill you. | TED2004 | 0:21:15 | 9/19/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 93 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/93 | Barry Schwartz | The paradox of choice | Psychologist
Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies:
freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not
freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:19:37 | 9/26/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 97 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/97 | Dan Gilbert | Why are we happy? Why aren't we happy? | Dan
Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that
we'll be miserable if we don't get what we want. Our "psychological
immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don't go as
planned. | TED2004 | 0:21:16 | 9/26/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 12 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/12 | Eva Vertes | My dream about the future of medicine | Eva
Vertes -- only 19 when she gave this talk -- discusses her journey
toward studying medicine and her drive to understand the roots of cancer
and Alzheimer's. | TED2005 | 0:18:49 | 10/2/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 39 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/39 | Aubrey de Grey | Why we age and how we can avoid it | Cambridge
researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease -- and a
curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he says, all of
which can be averted. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:22:45 | 10/2/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 91 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/91 | Jacqueline Novogratz | Investing in Africa's own solutions | Jacqueline Novogratz applauds the world's heightened interest in Africa and poverty, but argues persuasively for a new approach. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:12:53 | 10/10/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 79 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/79 | Iqbal Quadir | The power of the mobile phone to end poverty | Iqbal
Quadir tells how his experiences as a kid in poor Bangladesh, and later
as a banker in New York, led him to start a mobile phone operator
connecting 80 million rural Bangladeshi -- and to become a champion of
bottom-up development. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:15:52 | 10/10/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 3 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/3 | Ashraf Ghani | How to fix broken states | Ashraf
Ghani's passionate and powerful 10-minute talk, emphasizing the
necessity of both economic investment and design ingenuity to rebuild
broken states, is followed by a conversation with TED curator Chris
Anderson on the future of Afghanistan. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:18:45 | 10/18/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 75 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/75 | Sasa Vucinic | Why a free press is the best investment | A
free press -- papers, magazines, radio, TV, blogs -- is the backbone of
any true democracy (and a vital watchdog on business). Sasa Vucinic, a
journalist from Belgrade, talks about his new fund, which supports media
by selling "free press bonds." | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:18:00 | 10/18/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 4 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/4 | Burt Rutan | Entrepreneurs are the future of space flight | In
this passionate talk, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan lambasts
the US government-funded space program for stagnating and asks
entrepreneurs to pick up where NASA has left off. | TED2006 | 0:19:37 | 10/25/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 89 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/89 | Ben Saunders | Three things to know before you ski to the North Pole | Arctic
explorer Ben Saunders recounts his harrowing solo ski trek to the North
Pole, complete with engaging anecdotes, gorgeous photos and
never-before-seen video. | TED2005 | 0:18:03 | 10/25/2006 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 57 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/57 | Robert Fischell | TED Prize wish: Finding new cures for migraine, depression, malpractice | Accepting
his 2005 TED Prize, inventor Robert Fischell makes three wishes:
redesigning a portable device that treats migraines, finding new cures
for clinical depression and reforming the medical malpractice system. | TED2005 | 0:26:50 | 10/31/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 59 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/59 | Bono | TED Prize wish: Join my call to action on Africa | Musician
and activist Bono accepts the 2005 TED Prize with a riveting talk,
arguing that aid to Africa isn't just another celebrity cause; it's a
global emergency. | TED2005 | 0:27:52 | 10/31/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 56 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/56 | Edward Burtynsky | TED Prize wish: Share the story of Earth's manufactured landscapes | Accepting
his 2005 TED Prize, photographer Edward Burtynsky makes a wish: that
his images -- stunning landscapes that document humanity's impact on the
world -- help persuade millions to join a global conversation on
sustainability. | TED2005 | 0:34:25 | 10/31/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 67 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/67 | Peter Donnelly | How juries are fooled by statistics | Oxford
mathematician Peter Donnelly reveals the common mistakes humans make in
interpreting statistics -- and the devastating impact these errors can
have on the outcome of criminal trials. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:21:20 | 11/8/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 22 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/22 | Michael Shermer | Why people believe strange things | Why
do people see the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich or hear demonic
lyrics in "Stairway to Heaven"? Using video and music, skeptic Michael
Shermer shows how we convince ourselves to believe -- and overlook the
facts. | TED2006 | 0:13:25 | 11/8/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 19 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/19 | Kevin Kelly | How does technology evolve? Like we did | Tech
enthusiast Kevin Kelly asks "What does technology want?" and discovers
that its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like the
evolution of life. | TED2005 | 0:20:00 | 11/14/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 38 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/38 | Ray Kurzweil | How technology's accelerating power will transform us | Inventor,
entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded
detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human
brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness. | TED2005 | 0:22:56 | 11/14/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 23 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/23 | Peter Gabriel | Fighting injustice with a videocamera | Musician
and activist Peter Gabriel shares his very personal motivation for
standing up for human rights with the watchdog group WITNESS -- and
tells stories of citizen journalists in action. | TED2006 | 0:14:08 | 12/6/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 26 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/26 | Rives | "If I controlled the Internet" (a poem) | How
many poets could cram eBay, Friendster and Monster.com into 3-minute
poem worthy of a standing ovation? Enjoy Rives' unique talent. | TEDSalon 2006 | 0:04:07 | 12/14/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 70 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/70 | Richard St. John | Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes | Why
do people succeed? Is it because they're smart? Or are they just lucky?
Neither. Analyst Richard St. John condenses years of interviews into an
unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success. | TED2005 | 0:03:30 | 12/14/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 10 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/10 | Dr. Dean Ornish | The world now eats (and dies) like Americans | Stop
wringing your hands over AIDS, cancer and the avian flu. Cardiovascular
disease kills more people than everything else combined -- and it's
mostly preventable. Dr. Dean Ornish explains how changing our eating
habits will save lives. | TED2006 | 0:03:18 | 12/14/2006 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 62 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/62 | Bjorn Lomborg | Our priorities for saving the world | Given
$50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global
warming? Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with
surprising answers. | TED2005 | 0:16:41 | 1/2/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 36 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/36 | Robert Neuwirth | The "shadow cities" of the future | Robert
Neuwirth, author of <i>Shadow Cities</i>, finds the world's
squatter sites -- where a billion people now make their homes -- to be
thriving centers of ingenuity and innovation. He takes us on a tour. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:14:03 | 1/2/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 69 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/69 | Wade Davis | Cultures at the far edge of the world | With
stunning photos and stories, National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis
celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous
cultures, which are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate. | TED2003 | 0:22:01 | 1/9/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 34 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/34 | Phil Borges | Documenting our endangered cultures | Photographer
Phil Borges shows rarely seen images of people from the mountains of
Dharamsala, India, and the jungles of the Ecuadorean Amazon. In
documenting these endangered cultures, he intends to help preserve them. | TED2006 | 0:18:35 | 1/9/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 42 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/42 | Sir Martin Rees | Earth in its final century? | Speaking
as both an astronomer and "a concerned member of the human race," Sir
Martin Rees examines our planet and its future from a cosmic
perspective. He urges action to prevent dark consequences from our
scientific and technological development. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:17:26 | 1/17/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 68 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/68 | Robert Wright | How cooperation (eventually) trumps conflict | Author
Robert Wright explains "non-zero-sumness" -- the network of linked
fortunes and cooperation that has guided our evolution to this point --
and how we can use it to help save humanity today. | TED2006 | 0:19:11 | 1/17/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 61 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/61 | Steven Johnson | A guided tour of the Ghost Map | Author
Steven Johnson takes us on a 10-minute tour of <i>The Ghost
Map</i>, his book about a cholera outbreak in 1854 London and the
impact it had on science, cities and modern society. | TEDSalon 2006 | 0:10:03 | 1/31/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 63 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/63 | Charles Leadbeater | The rise of the amateur professional | In
this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight
argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore.
Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and
paradigms that companies can't. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:19:01 | 1/31/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 24 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/24 | Pilobolus | A performance merging dance and biology | Two
Pilobolus dancers perform "Symbiosis." Does it trace the birth of a
relationship? Or the co-evolution of symbiotic species? Music: "God
Music," George Crumb; "Fratres," Arvo Part; "Morango…Almost a Tango,"
Thomas Oboe Lee. | TED2005 | 0:13:45 | 2/9/2007 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 60 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/60 | Anna Deavere Smith | Four American characters | Writer
and actor Anna Deavere Smith gives life to author Studs Terkel, convict
Paulette Jenkins, a Korean shopkeeper and a bull rider, excerpts from
her solo show "On the Road: A Search for American Character." | TED2005 | 0:23:05 | 2/9/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 48 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/48 | Saul Griffith | Hardware solutions to everyday problems | Inventor
and MacArthur fellow Saul Griffith shares some innovative ideas from
his lab -- from "smart rope" to a house-sized kite for towing large
loads. | TED2006 | 0:14:29 | 2/19/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 90 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/90 | Neil Gershenfeld | The beckoning promise of personal fabrication | MIT
professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab -- a low-cost lab
that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools.
It's a simple idea with powerful results. | TED2006 | 0:17:18 | 2/19/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 73 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/73 | Carl Honore | Slowing down in a world built for speed | Journalist
Carl Honore believes the Western world's emphasis on speed erodes
health, productivity and quality of life. But there's a backlash
brewing, as everyday people start putting the brakes on their
all-too-modern lives. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:19:15 | 2/28/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 83 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/83 | E.O. Wilson | TED Prize wish: Help build the Encyclopedia of Life | As
E.O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of
all creatures that we learn more about our biosphere -- and build a
networked encyclopedia of all the world's knowledge about life. | TED2007 | 0:22:35 | 4/3/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 85 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/85 | Bill Clinton | TED Prize wish: Let's build a health care system in Rwanda | Accepting the 2007 TED Prize, Bill Clinton asks for help in bringing health care to Rwanda -- and the rest of the world. | TED2007 | 0:24:07 | 4/3/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 84 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/84 | James Nachtwey | TED Prize wish: Share a vital story with the world | Accepting
his 2007 TED Prize, war photographer James Nachtwey shows his life's
work and asks TED to help him continue telling the story with
innovative, exciting uses of news photography in the digital era. | TED2007 | 0:21:56 | 4/3/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 81 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/81 | Nora York | "What I Want" | Nora
York gives a stunning performance of her song "What I Want," with Jamie
Lawrence (keyboards), Steve Tarshis (guitar) and Arthur Kell (bass). | TEDSalon 2006 | 0:04:36 | 4/5/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 18 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/18 | Janine Benyus | 12 sustainable design ideas from nature | In
this inspiring talk about recent developments in biomimicry, Janine
Benyus provides heartening examples of ways in which nature is already
influencing the products and systems we build. | TED2005 | 0:23:19 | 4/5/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 40 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/40 | Frans Lanting | A lyrical view of life on Earth | In
this stunning slideshow, celebrated nature photographer Frans Lanting
presents The LIFE Project, a poetic collection of photographs that tell
the story of our planet, from its eruptive beginnings to its present
diversity. Soundtrack by Philip Glass. | TED2005 | 0:16:17 | 4/5/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 6 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/6 | Craig Venter | A voyage of DNA, genes and the sea | Genomics
pioneer Craig Venter takes a break from his epic round-the-world
expedition to talk about the millions of genes his team has discovered
so far in its quest to map the ocean's biodiversity. | TED2005 | 0:16:51 | 4/5/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 76 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/76 | Susan Savage-Rumbaugh | Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Man | Savage-Rumbaugh's
work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn
tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a
species can do is determined by biology -- and how much by cultural
exposure. | TED2004 | 0:17:25 | 4/5/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 31 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/31 | Thom Mayne | Architecture is a new way to connect to the world | Architect
Thom Mayne has never been one to take the easy option, and this
whistle-stop tour of the buildings he's created makes you glad for it.
These are big ideas cast in material form. | TED2005 | 0:20:40 | 4/5/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 32 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/32 | Vik Muniz | Art with wire, thread, sugar, chocolate | Vik
Muniz makes art from pretty much anything, be it shredded paper, wire,
clouds or diamonds. Here he describes the thinking behind his work and
takes us on a tour of his incredible images. | TED2003 | 0:14:51 | 4/5/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 80 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/80 | Juan Enriquez | Decoding the future with genomics | Scientific
discoveries, futurist Juan Enriquez notes, demand a shift in code, and
our ability to thrive depends on our mastery of that code. Here, he
applies this notion to the field of genomics. | TED2003 | 0:22:20 | 4/5/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 43 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/43 | Paul Bennett | Design is in the details | Showing
a series of inspiring, unusual and playful products, British branding
and design guru Paul Bennett explains that design doesn't have to be
about grand gestures, but can solve small, universal and overlooked
problems. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:14:10 | 4/5/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 5 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/5 | Chris Bangle | Great cars are Art | American
designer Chris Bangle explains his philosophy that car design is an art
form in its own right, with an entertaining -- and ultimately moving --
account of the BMW Group's Deep Blue project, intended to create the
SUV of the future. | TED2002 | 0:20:04 | 4/5/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 44 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/44 | Nick Bostrom | Humanity's biggest problems aren't what you think they are | Oxford
philosopher and transhumanist Nick Bostrom examines the future of
humankind and asks whether we might alter the fundamental nature of
humanity to solve our most intrinsic problems. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:16:52 | 4/5/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 74 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/74 | Alex Steffen | Inspired ideas for a sustainable future | Worldchanging.com
founder Alex Steffen argues that reducing humanity's ecological
footprint is incredibly vital now, as the western consumer lifestyle
spreads to developing countries. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:17:34 | 4/5/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 77 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/77 | Sheila Patek | Measuring the fastest animal on earth | Biologist
Sheila Patek talks about her work measuring the feeding strike of the
mantis shrimp, one of the fastest movements in the animal world, using
video cameras recording at 20,000 frames per second. | TED2004 | 0:16:25 | 4/5/2007 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 9 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/9 | Dean Kamen | Rolling along, helping students and the third world | Inventor
Dean Kamen lays out his argument for the Segway and offers a peek into
his next big ideas (portable energy and water purification for
developing countries). | TED2002 | 0:20:07 | 4/5/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 28 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/28 | Seth Godin | Sliced bread and other marketing delights | In
a world of too many options and too little time, our obvious choice is
to just ignore the ordinary stuff. Marketing guru Seth Godin spells out
why, when it comes to getting our attention, bad or bizarre ideas are
more successful than boring ones. | TED2003 | 0:17:01 | 4/5/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 35 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/35 | James Watson | The double helix and today's DNA mysteries | Nobel
laureate James Watson opens TED2005 with the frank and funny story of
how he and his research partner, Francis Crick, discovered the structure
of DNA. | TED2005 | 0:20:11 | 4/5/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 14 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/14 | Golan Levin | The truly soft side of software | Engineer
and artist Golan Levin pushes the boundaries of what's possible with
audiovisuals and technology. In an amazing TED display, he shows two
programs he wrote to perform his original compositions. | TED2004 | 0:14:53 | 4/5/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 11 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/11 | Jane Goodall | What separates us from the apes? | Jane
Goodall hasn't found the missing link, but she's come closer than
nearly anyone else. The primatologist says the only real difference
between humans and chimps is our sophisticated language. She urges us to
start using it to change the world. | TED2002 | 0:27:25 | 4/5/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 50 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/50 | Stefan Sagmeister | Yes, design can make you happy | Graphic
designer Stefan Sagmeister takes the audience on a whimsical journey
through moments of his life that made him happy -- and notes how many of
these moments have to do with good design. | TED2004 | 0:15:30 | 4/5/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 78 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/78 | Al Seckel | Your brain is badly wired -- enjoy it! | Al
Seckel, a cognitive neuroscientist, explores the perceptual illusions
that fool our brains. Loads of eye tricks help him prove that not only
are we easily fooled, we kind of like it. | TED2004 | 0:14:33 | 4/5/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 101 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/101 | Caroline Lavelle | A cello performance that casts a spell | Caroline
Lavelle plays the cello like a sorceress casting a spell, occasionally
hiding behind her wild mane of blond hair as she sings of pastoral
themes. She performs "Farther than the Sun," backed by Thomas Dolby on
keyboards. | TED2005 | 0:07:39 | 4/6/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 99 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/99 | Jill Sobule | A happy song about global warming | A happy song about global warming, from Jill Sobule. | TED2006 | 0:02:43 | 4/6/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 102 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/102 | Dan Dennett | Can we know our own minds? | Philosopher
Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don't we
understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are
actively fooling us. | TED2003 | 0:21:48 | 4/6/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 103 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/103 | Evelyn Glennie | How to listen to music with your whole body | In
this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie
illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply
letting sound waves hit your eardrums. | TED2003 | 0:32:09 | 4/6/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 104 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/104 | William McDonough | The wisdom of designing Cradle to Cradle | Green-minded
architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and
products would look like if designers took into account "all children,
all species, for all time." | TED2005 | 0:20:05 | 4/6/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 108 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/108 | Rives | A mockingbird remix of TED2006 | Rives recaps the most memorable moments of TED2006 in the free-spirited rhyming verse of a fantastical mockingbird lullaby. | TED2006 | 0:04:11 | 4/9/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 105 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/105 | Jeff Bezos | After the gold rush, there's innovation ahead | The
dot-com boom and bust is often compared to the Gold Rush. But
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos says it's more like the early days of the
electric industry. | TED2003 | 0:17:11 | 4/9/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 110 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/110 | Eddi Reader | "Kiteflyer's Hill" | Singer/songwriter Eddi Reader performs "Kiteflyer's Hill," a tender look back at a lost love. With Thomas Dolby on piano. | TED2003 | 0:06:18 | 4/14/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 109 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/109 | Eddi Reader, Thomas Dolby | "What You Do With What You've Got" | Singer/songwriter
Eddi Reader performs "What You Do With What You've Got," a meditation
on a very TED theme: how to use your gifts and talents to make a
difference. With Thomas Dolby on piano. | TED2003 | 0:05:12 | 4/14/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 115 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/115 | Thomas Dolby, Rachelle Garniez | "La Vie en Rose" | Featuring
the vocals and mischievous bell-playing of accordionist and singer
Rachelle Garniez, the TED House Band -- led by Thomas Dolby on keyboard
-- delivers this delightful rendition of the Edith Piaf standard "La Vie
en Rose." | TED2004 | 0:03:21 | 4/16/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 114 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/114 | Tom Rielly | A comic send-up of TED2006 | Satirist
Tom Rielly delivers a wicked parody of the 2006 TED conference, taking
down the $100 laptop, the plight of the polar bear, and people who
mention, one too many times, that they work at Harvard. Watch for a
special moment between Tom and Al Gore. | TED2006 | 0:19:55 | 4/16/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 113 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/113 | Richard Dawkins | An atheist's call to arms | Richard
Dawkins urges all atheists to openly state their position -- and to
fight the incursion of the church into politics and science. A fiery,
funny, powerful talk. | TED2002 | 0:29:10 | 4/16/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 112 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/112 | Rev. Tom Honey | How could God have allowed the tsunami? | In
the days following the tragic South Asian tsunami of 2004, the Rev. Tom
Honey pondered the question, "How could a loving God have done this?"
Here is his answer. | TED2005 | 0:19:32 | 4/16/2007 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 72 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/72 | Chris Anderson (Wired) | Technology's Long Tail | Chris
Anderson, the editor of WIRED, explores the four
key stages of any viable technology: setting the right price, gaining
market share, displacing an established technology and, finally,
becoming ubiquitous. | TED2004 | 0:14:18 | 4/27/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 117 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/117 | Natalie MacMaster, Thomas Dolby | Fiddling in reel time | Violinist
Natalie MacMaster and TED Musical Director Thomas Dolby play Dolby's
original song "Blue Is a River" in this ethereal duet -- with a little
dancing. | TED2002 | 0:05:11 | 5/1/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 118 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/118 | Sergey Brin and Larry Page | Inside the Google machine | Google
co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin offer a peek inside the Google
machine, sharing tidbits about international search patterns, the
philanthropic Google Foundation, and the company's dedication to
innovation and employee happiness. | TED2004 | 0:20:33 | 5/3/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 119 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/119 | Stew | "Black Men Ski" | What happens when a black man visits Aspen? Singer/songwriter Stew and his band are about to let you know. | TED2006 | 0:04:37 | 5/7/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 121 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/121 | James Howard Kunstler | The tragedy of suburbia | In
James Howard Kunstler's view, public spaces should be inspired centers
of civic life and the physical manifestation of the common good.
Instead, he argues, what we have in America is a nation of places not
worth caring about. | TED2004 | 0:19:44 | 5/12/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 122 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/122 | David Kelley | The future of design is human-centered | IDEO's
David Kelley says that product design has become much less about the
hardware and more about the user experience. He shows video of this new,
broader approach, including footage from the Prada store in New York. | TED2002 | 0:17:00 | 5/15/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 123 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/123 | Stewart Brand | Why squatter cities are a good thing | Rural
villages worldwide are being deserted, as billions of people flock to
cities to live in teeming squatter camps and slums. Stewart Brand says
this is a good thing. Why? It'll take you 3 minutes to find out. | TED2006 | 0:00:00 | 5/17/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 125 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/125 | Jeff Hawkins | Brain science is about to fundamentally change computing | Treo
creator Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain -- to see
it not as a fast processor, but as a memory system that stores and
plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will
happen next. | TED2003 | 0:20:11 | 5/21/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 126 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/126 | Tierney Thys | Swim with giant sunfish in the open ocean | Marine
biologist Tierney Thys asks us to step into the water to visit the
world of the <i>Mola mola</i>, or giant ocean sunfish.
Basking, eating jellyfish and getting massages, this behemoth offers
clues to life in the open sea. | TED2003 | 0:16:41 | 5/21/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 129 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/129 | Blaise Aguera y Arcas | Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo | Blaise
Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could
transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled
from the Web, Photosynth builds breathtaking dreamscapes and lets us
navigate them. | TED2007 | 0:07:30 | 5/27/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 128 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/128 | John Doerr | Seeking salvation and profit in greentech | "I
don't think we're going to make it," John Doerr proclaims, in an
emotional talk about climate change and investment. Spurred on by his
daughter, who demanded he fix the mess the world is heading for, he and
his partners. | TED2007 | 0:17:52 | 5/27/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 127 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/127 | Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala | How to help Africa? Do business there | We
know the negative images of Africa -- famine and disease, conflict and
corruption. But, says Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, there's another, less-told
story happening in many African nations: one of reform, economic growth
and business opportunity. | TED2007 | 0:20:13 | 5/30/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 131 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/131 | Anand Agarawala | BumpTop desktop is a beautiful mess | Anand
Agarawala presents BumpTop, a user interface that takes the usual
desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3-D extreme, transforming file
navigation into a freewheeling playground of crumpled documents and
clipping-covered "walls." | TED2007 | 0:04:39 | 6/5/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 130 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/130 | Bob Thurman | Becoming Buddha -- on the Web | In
our hyperlinked world, we can know anything, anytime. And this mass
enlightenment, says Buddhist scholar Bob Thurman, is our first step
toward Buddha nature. | TEDSalon 2006 | 0:12:06 | 6/6/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 8 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/8 | David Rockwell | Building the Ground Zero viewing platform | In
this emotionally charged conversation with journalist Kurt Andersen,
designer David Rockwell discusses the process of building a viewing
platform at Ground Zero shortly after 9/11. | TED2002 | 0:24:37 | 6/12/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 33 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/33 | Thomas Barnett | The Pentagon's new map for war and peace | In
this bracingly honest talk, international security strategist Thomas
Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering U.S.
military that is both sensible and breathtaking in its simplicity: Break
it in two. | TED2005 | 0:23:43 | 6/14/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 138 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/138 | Ethel | "Blue Room" | The
avant-garde string quartet Ethel performs the third movement from Phil
Kline's four-part suite "The Blue Room and Other Stories." Searching
melodic lines show off the deep, emotional musicality of these
passionate players. | TED2006 | 0:03:34 | 6/18/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 139 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/139 | Stephen Lawler | Look! Up in the sky! It's Virtual Earth! | Microsoft's
Stephen Lawler gives a whirlwind tour of Virtual Earth, moving up, down
and through its hyper-real cityscapes with dazzlingly fluidity, a
remarkable feat that requires staggering amounts of data to bring into
focus. | TED2007 | 0:06:10 | 6/20/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 140 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/140 | Hans Rosling | New insights on poverty and life around the world | Researcher
Hans Rosling uses his cool data tools to show how countries are pulling
themselves out of poverty. He demos Dollar Street, comparing households
of varying income levels worldwide. Then he does something really
amazing. | TED2007 | 0:18:57 | 6/25/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 141 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/141 | Bill Stone | Journey to the center of the Earth ... and beyond! | Bill
Stone, a maverick cave explorer who has plumbed Earth's deepest
abysses, discusses his efforts to mine lunar ice for space fuel and to
build an autonomous robot for studying Jupiter's moon Europa. | TED2007 | 0:17:43 | 6/27/2007 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 116 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/116 | Dan Dennett | Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes | Starting
with the simple tale of an ant, philosopher Dan Dennett unleashes a
devastating salvo of ideas, making a powerful case for the existence of
memes -- concepts that are literally alive. | TED2002 | 0:15:26 | 7/2/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 142 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/142 | Alan Russell | Why can't we grow new body parts? | Alan
Russell studies regenerative medicine -- a breakthrough way of thinking
about disease and injury, using a process that can signal the body to
rebuild itself. | TED2006 | 0:19:25 | 7/4/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 144 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/144 | Jonathan Harris | The Web's secret stories | Jonathan
Harris wants to make sense of the emotional world of the Web. With deep
compassion for the human condition, his projects troll the Internet to
find out what we're all feeling and looking for. | TED2007 | 0:17:10 | 7/8/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 143 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/143 | Emily Oster | What do we really know about the spread of AIDS? | Emily
Oster re-examines the stats on AIDS in Africa from an economic
perspective and reaches a stunning conclusion: Everything we know about
the spread of HIV on the continent is wrong. | TED2007 | 0:15:34 | 7/12/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 148 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/148 | Rives | Is 4 a.m. the new midnight? | Poet
Rives does 8 minutes of lyrical origami, folding history into a series
of coincidences surrounding that most surreal of hours, 4 o'clock in the
morning. | TED2007 | 0:09:12 | 7/17/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 146 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/146 | Will Wright | Toys that make worlds | In
a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game,
Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous
masterpieces. | TED2007 | 0:16:37 | 7/17/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 147 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/147 | David Bolinsky | Fantastic voyage inside a cell | Medical animator David Bolinsky presents 3 minutes of stunning animation that show the bustling life inside a cell. | TED2007 | 0:09:45 | 7/22/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 149 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/149 | Allison Hunt | How I got my new hip | When
Allison Hunt found out that she needed a new hip -- and that Canada's
national health care system would require her to spend nearly 2 years on
a waiting list (and in pain) -- she took matters into her own hands. | TED2007 | 0:04:48 | 7/24/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 151 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/151 | George Ayittey | Cheetahs vs. Hippos for Africa's future | Ghanaian
economist George Ayittey unleashes a torrent of controlled anger toward
corrupt leaders in Africa -- and calls on the "Cheetah generation" to
take back the continent. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:17:50 | 7/30/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 154 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/154 | Euvin Naidoo | Africa as an investment | South African investment banker Euvin Naidoo explains why investing in Africa can make great business sense. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:19:01 | 7/31/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 153 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/153 | William Kamkwamba | How I built my family a windmill | When
he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his
family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working
from rough plans he found in a library book. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:04:12 | 7/31/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 152 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/152 | Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala | Let's have a deeper discussion on aid | Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala, the former finance minister of Nigeria, sums up four
days of intense discussion on aid versus trade on the closing day of
TEDGlobal 2007, and shares a personal story explaining her own
commitment to this cause. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:22:10 | 7/31/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 156 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/156 | Patrick Awuah | Educating a new generation of African leaders | Patrick Awuah makes the case that a liberal arts education is critical to forming true leaders. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:17:31 | 8/3/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 155 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/155 | Chris Abani | Learning the stories of Africa | In
this deeply personal talk, Nigerian writer Chris Abani says that "what
we know about how to be who we are" comes from stories. He searches for
the heart of Africa through its poems and narrative, including his own. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:17:36 | 8/9/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 157 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/157 | Jacqueline Novogratz | Tackling poverty with "patient capital" | Jacqueline
Novogratz shares stories of how "patient capital" can bring sustainable
jobs, goods, services -- and dignity -- to the world's poorest. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:18:23 | 8/12/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 158 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/158 | Vusi Mahlasela | "Thula Mama" | South African singer-songwriter Vusi Mahlasela dedicates his song, "Thula Mama," to all women -- and especially his grandmother. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:10:06 | 8/15/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 169 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/169 | Vusi Mahlasela | "Woza" | After
Vusi Mahlasela's 3-song set at TEDGlobal, the audience wouldn't let him
go. His encore, "Woza," showcases his brilliant guitar playing and
multilingual lyrics. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:04:59 | 8/21/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 170 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/170 | Jeff Skoll | Making movies that make change | Film
producer Jeff Skoll (An Inconvenient Truth) talks
about his film company, Participant Productions, and the people who've
inspired him to do good. | TED2007 | 0:15:31 | 8/21/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 82 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/82 | Dean Kamen | New prosthetic arm for veterans | Inventor
Dean Kamen previews the prosthetic arm he's developing at the request
of the US Department of Defense. His quiet commitment to using
technology to solve problems -- while honoring the human spirit -- has
never been more clear. | TED2007 | 0:05:10 | 8/28/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 161 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/161 | Erin McKean | Redefining the dictionary | Is
the beloved paper dictionary doomed to extinction? In this infectiously
exuberant talk, leading lexicographer Erin McKean looks at the many
ways today's print dictionary is poised for transformation. | TED2007 | 0:15:50 | 8/30/2007 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 159 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/159 | Andrew Mwenda | Let's take a new look at African aid | In
this provocative talk, journalist Andrew Mwenda asks us to reframe the
"African question" -- to look beyond the media's stories of poverty,
civil war and helplessness and see the opportunities for creating wealth
and happiness throughout the continent. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:17:07 | 9/4/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 162 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/162 | Theo Jansen | The art of creating creatures | Artist
Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he
builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are
designed to move -- and even survive -- on their own. | TED2007 | 0:08:13 | 9/6/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 164 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/164 | Steven Pinker | The stuff of thought | In
an exclusive preview of his book <i>The Stuff of
Thought</i>, 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. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:17:27 | 9/9/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 163 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/163 | Steven Pinker | A brief history of violence | Steven
Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the
present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene,
given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our
species' existence. | TED2007 | 0:19:15 | 9/10/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 171 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/171 | Deborah Scranton | Scenes from "The War Tapes" | Filmmaker
Deborah Scranton talks about and shows clips from her documentary The
War Tapes, which puts cameras in the hands of soldiers fighting in Iraq.
| TED2007 | 0:17:36 | 9/13/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 168 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/168 | Zeresenay Alemseged | Finding the origins of humanity | Paleoanthropologist
Zeresenay Alemseged looks for the roots of humanity in Ethiopia's
badlands. Here he talks about finding the oldest skeleteon of a humanoid
child -- and how Africa holds the clues to our humanity. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:15:51 | 9/18/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 172 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/172 | John Maeda | Simplicity patterns | The
MIT Media Lab's John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and
art, a place that can get very complicated. Here he talks about paring
down to basics. | TED2007 | 0:15:59 | 9/20/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 167 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/167 | Stephen Petranek | 10 ways the world could end | How
might the world end? Stephen Petranek lays out the challenges that face
us in the drive to preserve the human race. Will we be wiped out by an
asteroid? Eco-collapse? How about a particle collider gone wild? | TED2002 | 0:29:42 | 9/25/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 176 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/176 | Paul MacCready | Flying on solar wings | Paul MacCready -- aircraft designer, environmentalist, and lifelong lover of flight -- talks about his long career. | TED2003 | 0:21:20 | 9/26/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 178 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/178 | Carolyn Porco | Fly me to the moons of Saturn | Planetary
scientist Carolyn Porco shows images from the Cassini voyage to Saturn,
focusing on its largest moon, Titan, and on frozen Enceladus, which
seems to shoot jets of ice. | TED2007 | 0:17:09 | 10/1/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 179 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/179 | Kenichi Ebina | Hip-hop dance and a little magic | Kenichi
Ebina moves his body in a manner that appears to defy the limits
imposed by the human skeleton. He combines breakdancing and hip-hop with
mime using movements that are simultaneously precise and fluid. | TED2007 | 0:03:32 | 10/3/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 181 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/181 | Richard Branson | Life at 30,000 feet | Richard
Branson talks to TED's Chris Anderson about the ups and the downs of
his career, from his multibillionaire success to his multiple near-death
experiences -- and reveals some of his (very surprising) motivations. | TED2007 | 0:29:51 | 10/9/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 165 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/165 | Hod Lipson | Robots that are "self-aware" | Hod
Lipson demonstrates a few of his cool little robots, which have the
ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate. | TED2007 | 0:06:18 | 10/11/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 182 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/182 | Maira Kalman | The illustrated woman | Author
and illustrator Maira Kalman talks about her life and work, from her
covers for The New Yorker to her books for children and grown-ups. She
is as wonderful, as wise and as deliciously off-kilter in person as she
is on paper. | TED2007 | 0:17:30 | 10/16/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 190 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/190 | Jan Chipchase | Our cell phones, ourselves | Nokia
researcher Jan Chipchase's investigation into the ways we interact with
technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of
our pockets. He's made some unexpected discoveries along the way. | TED2007 | 0:16:03 | 10/18/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 184 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/184 | Vilayanur Ramachandran | A journey to the center of your mind | Vilayanur
Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection
between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions
as examples. | TED2007 | 0:23:34 | 10/21/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 185 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/185 | Eleni Gabre-Madhin | Building a commodities market in Ethiopia | Economist
Eleni Gabre-Madhin outlines her ambitious vision to found the first
commodities market in Ethiopia. Her plan would create wealth, minimize
risk for farmers and turn the world's largest recipient of food aid into
a regional food basket. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:20:34 | 10/25/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 189 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/189 | Sherwin Nuland | My history of electroshock therapy | Surgeon
and author Sherwin Nuland discusses the development of electroshock
therapy as a cure for severe, life-threatening depression -- including
his own. It's a moving and heartfelt talk about relief, redemption and
second chances. | TED2003 | 0:22:18 | 10/30/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 191 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/191 | Matthieu Ricard | Habits of happiness | What
is happiness, and how can we all get some? Biochemist turned Buddhist
monk Matthieu Ricard says we can train our minds in habits of
well-being, to generate a true sense of serenity and fulfillment. | TED2004 | 0:20:54 | 11/1/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 187 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/187 | Larry Lessig | How creativity is being strangled by the law | Larry
Lessig, the Net's most celebrated lawyer, cites John Philip Sousa,
celestial copyrights and the "ASCAP cartel" in his argument for reviving
our creative culture. | TED2007 | 0:18:56 | 11/6/2007 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 183 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/183 | Paul Rothemund | Casting spells with DNA | Paul
Rothemund writes code that causes DNA to arrange itself into a star, a
smiley face and more. Sure, it's a stunt, but it's also a demonstration
of self-assembly at the smallest of scales -- with vast implications for
the future of making things. | TED2007 | 0:04:59 | 11/8/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 192 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/192 | David Keith | A surprising idea for "solving" climate change | Environmental
scientist David Keith proposes a cheap, effective, shocking means to
address climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of ash into the
atmosphere to deflect sunlight and heat? | TEDSalon 2007:Hot Science | 0:15:58 | 11/13/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 193 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/193 | Juan Enriquez | Why can't we grow new energy? | Juan
Enriquez challenges our definition of bioenergy. Oil, coal, gas and
other hydrocarbons are not chemical but biological products, based on
plant matter -- and thus, growable. Our whole approach to fuel, he
argues, needs to change. | TEDSalon 2007:Hot Science | 0:18:10 | 11/15/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 177 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/177 | Larry Brilliant | The case for informed optimism | We've
known about global warming for 50 years and done little about it, says
Google.org director Larry Brilliant. In spite of this and other
depressing trends, he's optimistic and tells us why. From Skoll World
Forum, Oxford, UK, www.skollfoundation.org | Skoll World Forum 2007 | 0:21:01 | 11/21/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 195 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/195 | Robert Full | Secrets of movement, from geckos and roaches | Biologist
Robert Full shares slo-mo video of some captivating critters. Take a
closer look at the spiny legs that allow cockroaches to scuttle across
mesh and the nanobristle-packed feet that let geckos to run straight up
walls. | TED2005 | 0:19:24 | 11/27/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 198 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/198 | Ron Eglash | African fractals, in buildings and braids | I
am a mathematician, and I would like to stand on your roof.' That is
how Ron Eglash greeted many African families he met while researching
the fractal patterns he'd noticed in villages across the continent. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:16:57 | 11/29/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 197 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/197 | Philippe Starck | Why design? | Designer
Philippe Starck -- with no pretty slides to show -- spends 18 minutes
reaching for the very roots of the question "Why design?" Listen
carefully for one perfect mantra for all of us, genius or not. | TED2007 | 0:17:06 | 12/4/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 194 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/194 | Murray Gell-Mann | Beauty and truth in physics | Armed
with a sense of humor and laypeople's terms, Nobel winner Murray
Gell-Mann drops some knowledge on TEDsters about particle physics,
asking questions like, Are elegant equations more likely to be right
than inelegant ones? | TED2007 | 0:16:02 | 12/6/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 51 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/51 | Amory Lovins | We must win the oil endgame | In this energizing talk, Amory Lovins lays out his simple plan for weaning the US off oil and revitalizing the economy. | TED2005 | 0:19:44 | 12/11/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 199 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/199 | Arthur Benjamin | Lightning calculation and other "Mathemagic" | In
a lively show, mathemagician Arthur Benjamin races a team of
calculators to figure out 3-digit squares, solves another massive mental
equation and guesses a few birthdays. How does he do it? He'll tell
you. | TED2005 | 0:15:14 | 12/13/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 200 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/200 | Daniel Goleman | Why aren't we all Good Samaritans? | Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, asks why we aren't more compassionate more of the time. | TED2007 | 0:13:13 | 12/18/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 201 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/201 | Lakshmi Pratury | The lost art of letter-writing | Lakshmi
Pratury remembers the lost art of letter-writing and shares a series of
notes her father wrote to her before he died. Her short but heartfelt
talk may inspire you to set pen to paper, too. | TED2007 | 0:04:09 | 12/20/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 202 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/202 | Gever Tulley | 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do | Gever
Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, spells out 5 dangerous things
you should let your kids do. From TED University 2007. | TED2007 | 0:09:18 | 12/21/2007 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 204 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/204 | Isabel Allende | Tales of passion | Author
and activist Isabel Allende discusses women, creativity, the definition
of feminism -- and, of course, passion -- in this talk. | TED2007 | 0:17:56 | 1/3/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 203 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/203 | Yossi Vardi | Help fight local warming | Investor and prankster Yossi Vardi delivers a careful lecture on the dangers of blogging. Specifically, for men. | TED2007 | 0:06:15 | 1/4/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 145 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/145 | Deborah Gordon | How do ants know what to do? | With
a dusty backhoe, a handful of Japanese paint markers and a few students
in tow, Deborah Gordon digs up ant colonies in the Arizona desert in
search of keys to understanding complex systems. | TED2003 | 0:20:31 | 1/8/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 205 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/205 | J.J. Abrams | The mystery box | J.J.
Abrams traces his love for the unseen mystery -- a passion that's
evident in his films and TV shows, including Cloverfield, Lost and Alias
-- back to its magical beginnings. | TED2007 | 0:18:02 | 1/10/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 206 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/206 | David Gallo | Underwater astonishments | David
Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a
color-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times
Square's worth of neon light displays from fish who live in the blackest
depths of the ocean. | TED2007 | 0:05:27 | 1/11/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 207 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/207 | Paola Antonelli | Treating design as art | Paola
Antonelli, design curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art, wants to
spread her appreciation of design -- in all shapes and forms -- around
the world. | TED2007 | 0:18:17 | 1/15/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 13 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/13 | Frank Gehry | Nice building. Then what? | In
a wildly entertaining discussion with Richard Saul Wurman, architect
Frank Gehry gives TEDsters his take on the power of failure, his recent
buildings, and the all-important "Then what?" factor. | TED2002 | 0:22:00 | 1/17/2008 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 188 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/188 | Raul Midon | "All the Answers" and "Tembererana" | Singer/guitarist Raul Midon performs "All the Answers" in a world premiere at TED2007, followed by the sprightly "Tembererana." | TED2007 | 0:10:40 | 1/18/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 209 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/209 | Bill Strickland | Rebuilding America, one slide show at a time | Bill Strickland tells a quiet and astonishing tale of redemption through arts, music, and unlikely partnerships. | TED2002 | 0:35:28 | 1/20/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 208 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/208 | Ben Dunlap | The story of a passionate life | Wofford
College president Ben Dunlap tells the story of Sandor Teszler, a
Hungarian Holocaust survivor who taught him about passionate living and
lifelong learning. | TED2007 | 0:19:08 | 1/23/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 196 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/196 | David Pogue | A 4-minute medley on the music wars | <i>New
York Times</i> tech columnist David Pogue performs a satirical
mini-medley about iTunes and the downloading wars, borrowing a few notes
from Sonny and Cher and the Village People. | TED2007 | 0:04:12 | 1/24/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 210 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/210 | Alison Jackson | A surprising look at celebrity | By
making photographs that seem to show our favorite celebs (Diana, Elton
John) doing what we really, secretly, want to see them doing, Alison
Jackson explores our desire to get personal with celebs. Contains
graphic images. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:17:36 | 1/28/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 211 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/211 | Chris Anderson (TED) | A vision for TED | When
Curator Chris Anderson gave this talk in 2002, TED's future was hanging
in the balance. Here, he attempts to persuade TEDsters that his vision
for turning his for-profit conference into a nonprofit event would work.
It did. | TED2002 | 0:12:55 | 1/30/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 212 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/212 | Robin Chase | Getting cars off the road and data into the skies | Robin
Chase founded Zipcar, the world's biggest car-sharing business. That
was one of her smaller ideas. Here she travels much farther,
contemplating road-pricing schemes that will shake up our driving habits
and a mesh network vast as the Interstate. | TED2007 | 0:13:39 | 1/31/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 213 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/213 | Jaime Lerner | Sing a song of sustainable cities | Jaime
Lerner reinvented urban space in his native Curitiba, Brazil. Along the
way, he changed the way city planners worldwide see what's possible in
the metropolitan landscape. | TED2007 | 0:15:43 | 2/4/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 215 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/215 | David Macaulay | All roads lead to Rome Antics | David
Macaulay relives the winding and sometimes surreal journey toward the
completion of Rome Antics, his illustrated homage to the historic city. | TED2002 | 0:21:35 | 2/6/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 214 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/214 | Michael Pollan | The omnivore's next dilemma | What
if human consciousness isn't the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What
if we are all just pawns in corn's clever strategy game to rule the
Earth? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see the world from a plant's-eye
view. | TED2007 | 0:17:25 | 2/7/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 216 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/216 | Howard Rheingold | Way-new collaboration | Howard
Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory
media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth
of our natural human instinct to work as a group. | TED2005 | 0:19:31 | 2/11/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 218 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/218 | Pamelia Kurstin | Theremin, the untouchable music | Virtuoso
Pamelia Kurstin performs and discusses her theremin, the
not-just-for-sci-fi electronic instrument that is played without being
touched. Songs include "Autumn Leaves," "Lush Life" and David Mash's
"Listen, Words Are Gone." | TED2002 | 0:19:11 | 2/13/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 221 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/221 | George Dyson | Let's take a nuclear-powered rocket to Saturn | Author
George Dyson spins the story of Project Orion, a massive,
nuclear-powered spacecraft that could have taken us to Saturn in five
years. His insider's perspective and a secret cache of documents bring
an Atomic Age dream to life. | TED2002 | 0:08:38 | 2/14/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 219 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/219 | Moshe Safdie | What makes a building unique? | Looking
back over his long career, architect Moshe Safdie delves into four of
his design projects and explains how he labored to make each one truly
unique for its site and its users. | TED2002 | 0:17:46 | 2/18/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 222 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/222 | Jill Sobule, Julia Sweeney | The Jill and Julia Show | Two
TED favorites, Jill Sobule and Julia Sweeney, team up for a delightful
set that mixes witty songwriting with a little bit of social commentary. | TED2007 | 0:06:14 | 2/20/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 223 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/223 | Raspyni Brothers | Welcome to Vaudeville 2.0 | Illustrious
jugglers the Raspyni Brothers show off their uncanny balance, agility,
coordination and willingness to sacrifice (others). Now, if you'll just
stand completely still... | TED2002 | 0:15:27 | 2/22/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 220 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/220 | Joseph Lekuton | A parable for Kenya | Joseph
Lekuton, a member of parliament in Kenya, starts with the story of his
remarkable education, then offers a parable of how Africa can grow. His
message of hope has never been more relevant. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:05:26 | 2/25/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 225 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/225 | Steve Jurvetson | The joy of rockets | Moneyman
Steve Jurvetson takes TEDsters inside his awesome hobby -- launching
model rockets -- by sharing some gorgeous photos, his infectious glee
and just a whiff of danger. | TED2007 | 0:03:22 | 2/27/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 224 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/224 | Roy Gould, Curtis Wong | WorldWide Telescope | Educator
Roy Gould and researcher Curtis Wong show a sneak preview of
Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope, which compiles images from telescopes
and satellites to build a comprehensive, interactive view of our
universe. | TED2008 | 0:06:48 | 2/27/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 228 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/228 | Alan Kay | A powerful idea about teaching ideas | With
all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay
envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to
illustrate experience in ways -- mathematically and scientifically --
that only computers can. | TED2007 | 0:20:37 | 3/4/2008 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 227 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/227 | Craig Venter | On the verge of creating synthetic life | "Can
we create new life out of our digital universe?" Craig Venter asks. His
answer is "yes" -- and pretty soon. He walks through his latest
research and promises that we'll soon be able to build and boot up a
synthetic chromosome. | TED2008 | 0:15:54 | 3/6/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 230 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/230 | Nicholas Negroponte | From 1984, 4 predictions about the future (3 of them correct) | With
surprising accuracy, Nicholas Negroponte predicts what will happen with
CD-ROMs, web interfaces, service kiosks, the touchscreen interface of
the iPhone and his own One Laptop per Child project. | TED1(1984) | 0:25:23 | 3/11/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 229 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229 | Jill Bolte Taylor | My stroke of insight | Jill
Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish
for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions --
motion, speech, self-awareness -- shut down one by one. An astonishing
story. | TED2008 | 0:18:44 | 3/12/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 231 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/231 | Frank Gehry | From 1990, defending a vision for architecture | Before
he was a legend, architect Frank Gehry takes a whistlestop tour of his
early work, from his house in Venice Beach to the American Center in
Paris, which was under construction (and much on his mind) when he gave
this talk. | N/A | 0:44:38 | 3/13/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 233 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/233 | Dave Eggers | 2008 TED Prize wish: Once Upon a School | Accepting
his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to
personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With
spellbinding eagerness, he talks about how his 826 Valencia tutoring
center inspired others around the world to open | TED2008 | 0:25:35 | 3/18/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 234 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/234 | Karen Armstrong | 2008 TED Prize wish: Charter for Compassion | People
want to be religious, says scholar Karen Armstrong; we should act to
help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to
help her build a Charter for Compassion -- to help restore the Golden
Rule as the central global religious do | TED2008 | 0:21:28 | 3/19/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 232 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/232 | Neil Turok | 2008 TED Prize wish: An African Einstein | Accepting
his 2008 TED Prize, physicist Neil Turok speaks out for talented young
Africans starved of opportunity: by unlocking and nurturing the
continent's creative potential, we can create a change in Africa's
future. | TED2008 | 0:24:50 | 3/20/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 174 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/174 | Norman Foster | Building on the green agenda | Architect
Norman Foster discusses his own work to show how computers can help
architects design buildings that are green, beautiful and "basically
pollution-free." From the 2007 DLD Conference, Munich;
www.dld-conference.com | DLD 2007 | 0:31:57 | 3/24/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 236 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/236 | Christopher deCharms | Looking inside the brain in real time | Neuroscientist
and inventor Christopher deCharms demonstrates a new way to use fMRI to
show brain activity -- thoughts, emotions, pain -- while it is
happening. In other words, you can actually see how you feel. | TED2008 | 0:04:02 | 3/24/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 237 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/237 | Clifford Stoll | 18 minutes with an agile mind | Clifford
Stoll captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of
anecdotes, observations, asides -- and even a science experiment. After
all, by his own definition, he's a scientist: "Once I do something, I
want to do something else." | TED2006 | 0:17:57 | 3/26/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 186 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/186 | Rokia Traore | "M'Bifo" | Rokia
Traore sings the moving "M'Bifo," accompanied on the n'goni, a
lute-like Malian stringed instrument with a soulful timbre. A quietly
mesmerizing performance. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:06:59 | 3/27/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 235 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/235 | Siegfried Woldhek | The true face of Leonardo Da Vinci? | <i>Mona
Lisa</i> is one of the best-known faces on the planet. But would
you recognize an image of Leonardo da Vinci? Illustrator Siegfried
Woldhek uses some thoughtful image-analysis techniques to find what he
believes is the true face of Leonardo. | TED2008 | 0:04:24 | 4/1/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 239 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/239 | David Hoffman | Catch Sputnik mania! | Filmmaker
David Hoffman shares footage from his feature-length documentary
Sputnik Mania, which shows how the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in
1957 led to both the space race and the arms race -- and jump-started
science and math education around the w | TED2007 | 0:03:50 | 4/2/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 241 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/241 | Jakob Trollback | Rethinking the music video | What
would a music video look like if it were directed by the music, purely
as an expression of a great song, rather than driven by a filmmaker's
concept? Designer Jakob Trollback shares the results of his experiment
in the form. | TED2007 | 0:04:00 | 4/3/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 242 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/242 | Stephen Hawking | Asking big questions about the universe | In
keeping with the theme of TED2008, professor Stephen Hawking asks some
Big Questions about our universe -- How did the universe begin? How did
life begin? Are we alone? -- and discusses how we might go about
answering them. | TED2008 | 0:10:12 | 4/4/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 243 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/243 | Al Gore | New thinking on the climate crisis | In
this brand-new slideshow (premiering on TED.com), Al Gore presents
evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than
scientists recently predicted. He challenges us to act. | TED2008 | 0:27:54 | 4/8/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 244 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/244 | Paul Koontz | Tourist snapshots from North Korea | While
on vacation in Asia in 2007, Paul Koontz got the rare chance to spend a
few days in North Korea as a tourist. He brought along his kids and his
camera. In this talk, he shares his experiences, from quotidian details
to grand spectacle. | TED2007 | 0:06:23 | 4/9/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 245 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/245 | Johnny Lee | Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote | Building
sophisticated educational tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos
his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the $40 video game controller into
a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. | TED2008 | 0:05:40 | 4/11/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 246 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/246 | Tod Machover, Dan Ellsey | Releasing the music in your head | Tod
Machover of MIT's Media Lab is devoted to extending musical expression
to everyone, from virtuosos to amateurs, and in the most diverse forms,
from opera to video games. He and composer Dan Ellsey shed light on
what's next. | TED2008 | 0:20:41 | 4/15/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 247 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/247 | Yochai Benkler | Open-source economics | Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:17:52 | 4/16/2008 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 249 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/249 | Ernest Madu | Bringing world-class health care to the poorest | Dr.
Ernest Madu runs the Heart Institute of the Caribbean in Kingston,
Jamaica, where he proves that -- with careful design, smart technical
choices, and a true desire to serve -- it's possible to offer
world-class healthcare in the developing world. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:16:43 | 4/17/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 251 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/251 | Brian Greene | The universe on a string | Physicist
Brian Greene explains superstring theory, the idea that minscule
strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and
force in the universe. | TED2005 | 0:19:06 | 4/22/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 250 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/250 | Amy Tan | Where does creativity hide? | Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, looking for hints of how hers evolved. | TED2008 | 0:22:52 | 4/22/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 253 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/253 | Brian Cox | An inside tour of the world's biggest supercollider | "Rock-star
physicist" Brian Cox talks about his work on the Large Hadron Collider
at CERN. Discussing the biggest of big science in an engaging,
accessible way, Cox brings us along on a tour of the massive project. | TED2008 | 0:14:59 | 4/29/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 254 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/254 | They Might Be Giants | Wake up! It's They Might Be Giants | In a very, very early-morning set, They Might Be Giants rock the final day of TED2007. | TED2007 | 0:17:21 | 4/29/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 255 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/255 | Hector Ruiz | The power to connect the world | Hector
Ruiz, the executive chair of AMD, wants to give Internet access to
everyone. In this talk, he shares his extraordinary life story and
describes AMD's 50x15 initiative that calls for connecting 50 percent of
the world by 2015. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:19:57 | 5/1/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 258 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/258 | Paul Stamets | 6 ways mushrooms can save the world | Mycologist
Paul Stamets lists 6 ways the mycelium fungus can help save the
universe: cleaning polluted soil, making insecticides, treating smallpox
and even flu ... <a
href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/view/id/229"
target="_blank">Read more</a>. | TED2008 | 0:17:44 | 5/6/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 259 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/259 | Paul Ewald | Can we domesticate germs? | Evolutionary
biologist Paul Ewald drags us into the sewer to discuss germs. Why are
some more harmful than others? How could we make the harmful ones
benign? Searching for answers, he examines a disgusting, fascinating
case: diarrhea. | TED2007 | 0:17:51 | 5/7/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 260 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/260 | Michael Moschen | Juggling rhythm and motion | Michael
Moschen puts on a quietly mesmerizing show of juggling. Don't think
juggling is an art? You might just change your mind after watching
Moschen in motion. | TED2002 | 0:37:02 | 5/8/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 261 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/261 | Joshua Klein | The amazing intelligence of crows | Hacker
and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of
intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of
corvid behavior, he's come up with an elegant machine that may form a
new bond between animal and human. | TED2008 | 0:10:06 | 5/13/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 248 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/248 | Alisa Miller | Why we know less than ever about the world | Alisa
Miller, head of Public Radio International, talks about why -- though
we want to know more about the world than ever -- the US media is
actually showing less. Eye-opening stats and graphs. | TED2008 | 0:04:29 | 5/14/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 263 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/263 | Mark Bittman | What's wrong with what we eat | In
this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman
weighs in on what's wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too
few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it's
putting the entire planet at risk. | EG07 | 0:20:08 | 5/15/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 264 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/264 | Robert Ballard | Exploring the ocean's hidden worlds | Ocean
explorer Robert Ballard takes us on a mindbending trip to hidden worlds
underwater, where he and other researchers are finding unexpected life,
resources, even new mountains. He makes a case for serious exploration
and mapping. Google Ocean, anyone? | TED2008 | 0:18:19 | 5/20/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 266 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/266 | Yves Behar | Creating objects that tell stories | Designer
Yves Behar digs up his creative roots to discuss some of the iconic
objects he's created (the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset). Then he turns
to the witty, surprising, elegant objects he's working on now --
including the "$100 laptop." | TED2008 | 0:17:43 | 5/21/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 268 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/268 | Seyi Oyesola | Rich hospital, poor hospital | Dr.
Seyi Oyesola takes a searing look at health care in underdeveloped
countries. His photo tour of a Nigerian teaching hospital -- all
low-tech hacks and donated supplies -- drives home the challenge of
doing basic health care there. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:14:23 | 5/27/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 267 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/267 | Arthur Ganson | Sculpture that's truly moving | Sculptor
and engineer Arthur Ganson talks about his work -- kinetic art that
explores deep philosophical ideas and is gee-whiz fun to look at. | TED2002 | 0:15:44 | 5/27/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 270 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/270 | Paul Collier | 4 ways to improve the lives of the "bottom billion" | Around
the world right now, one billion people are trapped in poor or failing
countries. How can we help them? Economist Paul Collier lays out a bold,
compassionate plan for closing the gap between rich and poor. | TED2008 | 0:16:51 | 5/28/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 269 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/269 | Susan Blackmore | Memes and "temes" | Susan
Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to
brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a
new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and
invents ways to keep itself alive | TED2008 | 0:19:28 | 6/3/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 271 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/271 | Nathan Myhrvold | A life of fascinations | Nathan
Myhrvold talks about a few of his latest fascinations -- animal
photography, archeology, BBQ and generally being an eccentric genius
multimillionaire. Listen for wild stories from the (somewhat raunchy)
edge of the animal world. | TED2007 | 0:17:14 | 6/4/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 265 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/265 | Rokia Traore | "Kounandi" | Singer-songwriter
Rokia Traore performs "Kounandi," a breathtaking song that blends
Malian instruments with a modern, heartfelt vocal. Note: This song is
not available for download. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:06:26 | 6/5/2008 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 273 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/273 | Wade Davis | The worldwide web of belief and ritual | Anthropologist
Wade Davis muses on the worldwide web of belief and ritual that makes
us human. He shares breathtaking photos and stories of the Elder
Brothers, a group of Sierra Nevada indians whose spiritual practice
holds the world in balance. | TED2008 | 0:19:12 | 6/10/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 276 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/276 | Murray Gell-Mann | Do all languages have a common ancestor? | After
speaking at TED2007 on elegance in physics, the amazing Murray
Gell-Mann gives a quick overview of another passionate interest: finding
the common ancestry of our modern languages. | TED2007 | 0:02:15 | 6/11/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 279 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/279 | Chris Jordan | Picturing excess | Artist
Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks
like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics
-- like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day. | TED2008 | 0:11:14 | 6/15/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 278 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/278 | George Dyson | The birth of the computer | Historian
George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer --
from its 16th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of some early
computer engineers. | TED2003 | 0:17:18 | 6/15/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 252 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/252 | Dr. Dean Ornish | Your genes are not your fate | Dean
Ornish shares new research that shows how adopting healthy lifestyle
habits can affect a person at a genetic level. For instance, he says,
when you live healthier, eat better, exercise, and love more, your brain
cells actually increase. | TED2008 | 0:03:12 | 6/16/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 280 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/280 | Robert Full | How engineers learn from evolution | Insects
and animals have evolved some amazing skills -- but, as Robert Full
notes, many animals are actually over-engineered. The trick is to copy
only what's necessary. He shows how human engineers can learn from
animals' tricks. | TED2002 | 0:20:22 | 6/19/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 285 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/285 | Adam Grosser | A new vision for refrigeration | Adam
Grosser talks about a project to build a refrigerator that works
without electricity -- to bring the vital tool to villages and clinics
worldwide. Tweaking some old technology, he's come up with a system that
works. | TED2007 | 0:03:31 | 6/23/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 30 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/30 | Steven Levitt | Are children's carseats necessary? | Steven
Levitt shares data that shows car seats are no more effective than
seatbelts in protecting kids from dying in cars. However, during the
Q&A, he makes one crucial caveat. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:18:58 | 6/24/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 286 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/286 | Benjamin Zander | Classical music with shining eyes | Benjamin
Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all
realize our untapped love for it -- and by extension, our untapped love
for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections. | TED2008 | 0:20:43 | 6/25/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 288 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/288 | Nicholas Negroponte | One Laptop per Child, two years on | Nicholas
Negroponte talks about how One Laptop per Child is doing, two years in.
Speaking at the EG conference while the first XO laptops roll off the
production line, he recaps the controversies and recommits to the goals
of this far-reaching project. | TED2008 | 0:16:40 | 6/26/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 287 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/287 | Nellie McKay | "Clonie" | Singer-songwriter Nellie McKay performs the semi-serious song "Clonie" -- about creating the ultimate companion. | TED2008 | 0:02:20 | 6/27/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 290 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/290 | Sxip Shirey, Rachelle Garniez | Breath, music, passion | Composer
Sxip Shirey makes music from the simple, dramatic act of breathing --
alone and together. Open your ears to a passionate 3 minutes. | TED2008 | 0:03:06 | 6/30/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 292 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/292 | Peter Diamandis | Stephen Hawking hits zero g | X
Prize founder Peter Diamandis talks about how he helped Stephen Hawking
fulfill his dream of going to space -- by flying together into the
upper atmosphere and experiencing weightlessness at zero g. | TED2008 | 0:04:01 | 6/30/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 297 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/297 | Rick Smolan | A girl, a photograph, a homecoming | Photographer
Rick Smolan tells the unforgettable story of a young Amerasian girl, a
fateful photograph, and an adoption saga with a twist. | EG07 | 0:25:07 | 7/2/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 298 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/298 | Raul Midon | "Everybody" and "Peace on Earth" | Guitarist and singer Raul Midon plays "Everybody" and "Peace on Earth" during his 2007 set at TED. | TED2007 | 0:09:19 | 7/3/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 299 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/299 | Corneille Ewango | A hero of the Congo Basin forest | Botanist
Corneille Ewango talks about his work at the Okapi Faunal Reserve in
the Congo Basin -- and his heroic work protecting it from poachers,
miners and raging civil wars. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:18:18 | 7/7/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 300 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/300 | Torsten Reil | Using biology to make better animation | Torsten
Reil talks about how the study of biology can help make natural-looking
animated people -- by building a human from the inside out, with bones,
muscles and a nervous system. He spoke at TED in 2003; see his work now
in GTA4. | TED2003 | 0:18:20 | 7/8/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 282 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/282 | David Hoffman | How would you feel if you lost everything? | Nine
days before TED2008, filmmaker David Hoffman lost almost everything he
owned in a fire that destroyed his home, office and 30 years of
passionate collecting. He looks back at a life that's been wiped clean
in an instant -- and looks forward. | TED2008 | 0:04:00 | 7/9/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 274 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/274 | Clay Shirky | Institutions vs. collaboration | In
this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and
companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have
big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:20:46 | 7/10/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 296 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/296 | Nellie McKay | "Mother of Pearl" and "If I Had You" | The
wonderful Nellie McKay sings "Mother of Pearl" (with the immortal first
line "Feminists don't have a sense of humor") and "If I Had You" from
her sparkling set at TED2008. | TED2008 | 0:05:34 | 7/11/2008 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 306 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/306 | Freeman Dyson | Let's look for life in the outer solar system | Physicist
Freeman Dyson suggests that we start looking for life on the moons of
Jupiter and out past Neptune, in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud. He
talks about what such life would be like -- and how we might find it. | TED2003 | 0:19:11 | 7/14/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 307 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/307 | Helen Fisher | The brain in love | Why
do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it?
To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love,
Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of people in love -- and
people who had just been dumped. | TED2008 | 0:15:56 | 7/15/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 308 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/308 | Billy Graham | Technology, faith and human shortcomings | Speaking
at TED in 1998, Rev. Billy Graham marvels at technology's power to
improve lives and change the world -- but says the end of evil,
suffering and death will come only after the world accepts Christ. A
legendary talk from TED's archives. | TED1998 | 0:26:20 | 7/16/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 301 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/301 | A.J. Jacobs | My year of living biblically | Speaking
at the most recent EG conference, author, philosopher, prankster and
journalist A.J. Jacobs talks about the year he spent living biblically
-- following the rules in the Bible as literally as possible. | EG07 | 0:17:40 | 7/17/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 310 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/310 | Keith Barry | Brain magic | First,
Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies -- in a trick
that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some
jaw-dropping (and even a bit dangerous) feats of brain magic. | TED2004 | 0:19:49 | 7/18/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 313 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/313 | Marisa Fick-Jordan | The wonders of Zulu wire art | In
this short, image-packed talk, Marisa Fick-Jordan talks about how a
village of traditional Zulu wire weavers built a worldwide market for
their dazzling work. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:02:33 | 7/21/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 312 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/312 | Martin Seligman | What positive psychology can help you become | Martin
Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and as it works
one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a
focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become? | TED2004 | 0:23:42 | 7/21/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 294 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/294 | Chris Abani | Telling stories of our shared humanity | Chris
Abani tells stories of people: People standing up to soldiers. People
being compassionate. People being human and reclaiming their humanity.
It's "ubuntu," he says: the only way for me to be human is for you to
reflect my humanity back at me. | TED2008 | 0:16:14 | 7/22/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 315 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/315 | Louise Leakey | Digging for humanity's origins | Louise
Leakey asks, "Who are we?" The question takes her to the Rift Valley in
Eastern Africa, where she digs for the evolutionary origins of
humankind -- and suggests a stunning new vision of our competing
ancestors. | TED2008 | 0:15:36 | 7/23/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 316 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/316 | Jonathan Harris | The art of collecting stories | At
the EG conference in December 2007, artist Jonathan Harris discusses
his latest projects, which involve collecting stories: his own,
strangers', and stories collected from the Internet, including his
amazing "We Feel Fine." | TED2007 | 0:20:29 | 7/24/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 318 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/318 | Reed Kroloff | Architecture, modern and romantic | Reed
Kroloff gives us a new lens for judging new architecture: is it modern,
or is it romantic? Look for glorious images from two leading practices
-- and a blistering critique of the 9/11 planning process. | TED2003 | 0:15:21 | 7/28/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 319 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/319 | Kevin Kelly | Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web | At
the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide
Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we
predict what's coming in the next 5,000 days? | EG07 | 0:19:34 | 7/28/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 321 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/321 | Robert Lang | Idea + square = origami | Robert
Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami -- using math and
engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are
beautiful and, sometimes, very useful. | TED2008 | 0:15:53 | 7/30/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 320 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/320 | Kwabena Boahen | Making a computer that works like the brain | Researcher
Kwabena Boahen is looking for ways to mimic the brain's supercomputing
powers in silicon -- because the messy, redundant processes inside our
heads actually make for a small, light, superfast computer. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:16:22 | 7/30/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 322 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/322 | Bruno Bowden, Rufus Cappadocia | Origami, blindfolded and to music | After
Robert Lang's talk on origami at TED2008, Bruno Bowden stepped onstage
with a challenge -- he would fold one of Lang's astonishingly
complicated origami figures, blindfolded, in under 2 minutes. He's
accompanied by the cellist Rufus Cappadocia. | TED2008 | 0:02:58 | 8/1/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 326 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/326 | Patricia Burchat | The search for dark energy and dark matter | Physicist
Patricia Burchat sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe:
dark matter and dark energy. Comprising 96% of the universe between
them, they can't be directly measured, but their influence is immense. | TED2008 | 0:16:09 | 8/17/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 323 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/323 | Spencer Wells | Building a family tree for all humanity | All
humans share some common bits of DNA, passed down to us from our
African ancestors. Geneticist Spencer Wells talks about how his
Genographic Project will use this shared DNA to figure out how we are --
in all our diversity -- truly connected. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:20:53 | 8/18/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 324 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/324 | David Griffin | Photography connects us with the world | The
photo director for National Geographic, David Griffin knows the power
of photography to connect us to our world. In a talk filled with
glorious images, he talks about how we all use photos to tell our
stories. | TED2008 | 0:14:53 | 8/19/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 327 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/327 | Lennart Green | Close-up card magic | Like
your uncle at a family party, the rumpled Swedish doctor Lennart Green
says, "Pick a card, any card." But what he does with those cards is pure
magic -- flabbergasting, lightning-fast, how-does-he-do-it? magic. | TED2005 | 0:31:08 | 8/20/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 328 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/328 | Ian Dunbar | Dog-friendly dog training | Speaking
at the 2007 EG conference, trainer Ian Dunbar asks us to see the world
through the eyes of our beloved dogs. By knowing our pets' perspective,
we can build their love and trust. It's a message that resonates well
beyond the animal world. | EG07 | 0:14:46 | 8/21/2008 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 325 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/325 | Nellie McKay | "The Dog Song" | Animal
fan Nellie McKay sings a sparkling tribute to her dear dog. She
suggests we all do the same: "Just go right to the pound/ And find
yourself a hound/ And make that doggie proud/ 'cause that's what it's
all about." | TED2008 | 0:03:33 | 8/22/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 329 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/329 | John Q. Walker | Re-creating great performances | Imagine
hearing great, departed pianists play again today, just as they would
in person. John Q. Walker demonstrates how recordings can be analyzed
for precise keystrokes and pedal motions, then played back on
computer-controlled grand pianos. | EG07 | 0:13:41 | 8/26/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 175 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/175 | Sugata Mitra | Can kids teach themselves? | Speaking
at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project.
Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own --
and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach
themselves? | LIFT 2007 | 0:20:59 | 8/27/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 330 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/330 | Ory Okolloh | The making of an African activist | Ory
Okolloh tells the story of her life and her family -- and how she came
to do her heroic work reporting on the doings of Kenya's parliament. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:16:38 | 8/28/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 334 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/334 | Einstein the Parrot | Talking and squawking TED2006 | This
whimsical wrap-up of TED2006 -- presented by Einstein, the African grey
parrot, and her trainer, Stephanie White -- simply tickles. Watch for
the moment when Einstein has a moment with Al Gore. | TED2006 | 0:05:48 | 8/29/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 331 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/331 | Paul Rothemund | The astonishing promise of DNA folding | In
2007, Paul Rothemund gave TED a short summary of his specialty, DNA
folding. Now he lays out in clear, adundant detail the immense promise
of this field -- to create tiny machines that assemble themselves. | TED2008 | 0:16:24 | 9/2/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 335 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/335 | Peter Diamandis | Taking the next giant leap in space | Peter
Diamandis says it's our moral imperative to keep exploring space -- and
he talks about how, with the X Prize and other incentives, we're going
to do just that. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:15:31 | 9/3/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 339 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/339 | Peter Hirshberg | The Web and TV, a sibling rivalry | In
this absorbing look at emerging media and tech history, Peter Hirshberg
shares some crucial lessons from Silicon Valley and explains why the
web is so much more than "better TV." | EG07 | 0:31:39 | 9/4/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 333 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/333 | Jonathan Drori | Why we don't understand as much as we think we do | Starting
with four basic questions (that you may be surprised to find you can't
answer), Jonathan Drori looks at the gaps in our knowledge -- and
specifically, what we don't about science that we might think we do. | TED2007 | 0:12:28 | 9/5/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 340 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/340 | Jane Goodall | Helping humans and animals live together in Africa | The
legendary chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall talks about TACARE and her
other community projects, which help people in booming African towns
live side-by-side with threatened animals. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:23:46 | 9/8/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 344 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/344 | Irwin Redlener | How to survive a nuclear attack | The
face of nuclear terror has changed since the Cold War, but
disaster-medicine expert Irwin Redlener reminds us the threat is still
real. He looks at some of history's farcical countermeasures and offers
practical advice on how to survive an attack. | TED2008 | 0:25:18 | 9/9/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 346 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/346 | Brewster Kahle | A digital library, free to the world | Brewster
Kahle is building a truly huge digital library -- every book ever
published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history ...
It's all free to the public -- unless someone else gets to it first. | TED2007 | 0:20:06 | 9/10/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 343 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/343 | David Gallo | The deep oceans: a ribbon of life | With
vibrant video clips captured by submarines, David Gallo takes us to
some of Earth's darkest, most violent, toxic and beautiful habitats, the
valleys and volcanic ridges of the oceans' depths, where life is
bizarre, resilient and shockingly abundant. | TED1998 | 0:13:20 | 9/11/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 347 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/347 | Carmen Agra Deedy | Spinning a story of Mama | Storyteller
Carmen Agra Deedy spins a funny, wise and luminous tale of parents and
kids, starring her Cuban mother. Settle in and enjoy the ride -- Mama's
driving! | TED2005 | 0:23:34 | 9/12/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 345 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/345 | Keith Bellows | Celebrating the camel | Keith
Bellows gleefully outlines the engineering marvels of the camel, a
vital creature he calls "the SUV of the desert." Though he couldn't
bring a live camel to TED, he gets his camera crew as close as humanly
possible to a one-ton beast in full rut. | TED2002 | 0:16:06 | 9/15/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 348 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/348 | Ann Cooper | Reinventing the school lunch | Speaking
at the 2007 EG conference, "renegade lunch lady" Ann Cooper talks about
the coming revolution in the way kids eat at school -- local,
sustainable, seasonal and even educational food. | EG07 | 0:19:42 | 9/16/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 341 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/341 | Jonathan Haidt | The real difference between liberals and conservatives | Psychologist
Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our
political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this
eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and
conservatives tend to honor most. | TED2008 | 0:18:42 | 9/17/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 217 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/217 | Eve Ensler | Security and insecurity | Playwright
Eve Ensler explores our modern craving for security -- and why it makes
us less secure. Listen for inspiring, heartbreaking stories of women
making change. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:13:45 | 9/18/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 353 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/353 | David S. Rose | 10 things to know before you pitch a VC for money | Thinking
startup? David S. Rose's rapid-fire TED U talk on pitching to a venture
capitalist tells you the 10 things you need to know about yourself --
and prove to a VC -- before you fire up your slideshow. | TED2007 | 0:14:39 | 9/19/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 351 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/351 | Marvin Minsky | Health, population and the human mind | Listen
closely -- Marvin Minsky's arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on
health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety: wit,
wisdom and just an ounce of wily, is-he-joking? advice. | TED2003 | 0:13:33 | 9/22/2008 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 272 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/272 | Philip Zimbardo | How ordinary people become monsters ... or heroes | Philip
Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this
talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib
trials. Then he talks about the flip side: how easy it is to be a hero,
and how we can rise to the challenge. | TED2008 | 0:23:16 | 9/23/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 349 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/349 | Laura Trice | The power of saying thank you | In
this deceptively simple 3-minute talk, Dr. Laura Trice muses on the
power of the magic words "thank you" -- to deepen a friendship, to
repair a bond, to make sure another person knows what they mean to you.
Try it. | TED2008 | 0:03:29 | 9/24/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 350 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/350 | Caleb Chung | Come play with Pleo the dinosaur | Pleo
the robot dinosaur acts like a living pet -- exploring, cuddling,
playing, reacting and learning. Inventor Caleb Chung talks about Pleo
and his wild toy career at EG07, on the week that Pleo shipped to stores
for the first time. | TED2007 | 0:18:27 | 9/25/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 354 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/354 | Steven Pinker | Chalking it up to the blank slate | Steven
Pinker's book The Blank Slate argues that all humans are born with some
innate traits. Here, Pinker talks about his thesis, and why some people
found it incredibly upsetting. | TED2003 | 0:22:42 | 9/26/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 355 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/355 | Rodney Brooks | How robots will invade our lives | In
this prophetic talk from 2003, roboticist Rodney Brooks talks about how
robots are going to work their way into our lives -- starting with toys
and moving into household chores ... and beyond. | TED2003 | 0:18:47 | 9/29/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 356 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/356 | Stefan Sagmeister | Things I have learned in my life so far | Rockstar
designer Stefan Sagmeister delivers a short, witty talk on life
lessons, expressed through surprising modes of design (including ...
inflatable monkeys?). | TED2008 | 0:04:45 | 9/30/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 358 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/358 | Noah Feldman | Politics and religion are technologies | Noah
Feldman makes a searing case that both politics and religion --
whatever their differences -- are similar technologies, designed to
efficiently connect and manage any group of people. | TED2003 | 0:15:07 | 10/1/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 359 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/359 | Liz Diller | Architecture is a special effects machine | In
this engrossing EG talk, architect Liz Diller shares her firm DS+R's
more unusual work, including the Blur Building, whose walls are made of
fog, and the revamped Alice Tully Hall, which is wrapped in glowing
wooden skin. | EG07 | 0:19:24 | 10/2/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 360 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/360 | James Nachtwey | Use my photographs to stop the worldwide XDR-TB epidemic | Photojournalist
James Nachtwey sees his TED Prize wish come true, as we share his
powerful photographs of XDR-TB, a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis
that's touching off a global medical crisis. Learn how to help at
http://www.xdrtb.org | TED Prize Wish | 0:05:52 | 10/3/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 361 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/361 | David Perry | Will videogames become better than life? | Game
designer David Perry says tomorrow's videogames will be more than mere
fun to the next generation of gamers. They'll be lush, complex,
emotional experiences -- more involving and meaningful to some than real
life. | TED2006 | 0:21:06 | 10/6/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 363 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/363 | Doris Kearns Goodwin | Learning from past presidents in moments of crisis | Historian
Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can learn from American
presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson. Then she
shares a moving memory of her own father, and of their shared love of
baseball. | TED2008 | 0:18:48 | 10/7/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 362 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/362 | Steven Johnson | The Web and the city | Outside.in's
Steven Johnson says the Web is like a city: built by many people,
completely controlled by no one, intricately interconnected and yet
functioning as many independent parts. While disaster strikes in one
place, elsewhere, life goes on. | TED2003 | 0:16:30 | 10/8/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 370 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/370 | John Markoff | Why newspapers still matter (and why tech news belongs on the front page) | At
the EG conference, John Markoff talks about why newspapers still matter
-- even in the days of RSS. He gives an inside look at editorial
process at the New York Times, and talks about some of his tech stories
that should have been front-page news. | TED2007 | 0:12:02 | 10/9/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 364 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/364 | James Burchfield | Sound stylings by a human beatbox | Human
beatbox James "AudioPoet" Burchfield performs an intricate three-minute
breakdown -- sexy, propulsive hip-hop rhythms and turntable textures --
all using only his voice. | TED2003 | 0:04:44 | 10/10/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 371 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/371 | Garrett Lisi | A beautiful new theory of everything | Physicist
and surfer Garrett Lisi presents a controversial new model of the
universe that -- just maybe -- answers all the big questions. If nothing
else, it's the most beautiful 8-dimensional model of elementary
particles and forces you've ever seen. | TED2008 | 0:21:26 | 10/14/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 372 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/372 | Paola Antonelli | Design and the elastic mind | MOMA
design curator Paola Antonelli previews the groundbreaking show "<a
href="http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/">Design and
the Elastic Mind</a>" -- full of products and designs that reflect
the way we think now. | EG07 | 0:17:40 | 10/15/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 375 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/375 | Virginia Postrel | The power of glamour | In
a timely talk, cultural critic Virginia Postrel muses on the true
meaning, and the powerful uses, of glamour -- which she defines as any
calculated, carefully polished image designed to impress and persuade. | TED2004 | 0:16:15 | 10/16/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 377 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/377 | Dr. Dean Ornish | Healing and other natural wonders | Dean Ornish talks about simple, low-tech and low-cost ways to take advantage of the body's natural desire to heal itself. | TED2004 | 0:16:49 | 10/17/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 374 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/374 | John Hodgman | A brief digression on matters of lost time | Humorist
John Hodgman rambles through a new story about aliens, physics, time,
space and the way all of these somehow contribute to a sweet, perfect
memory of falling in love. | TED2008 | 0:16:40 | 10/21/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 379 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/379 | Paul MacCready | Nature vs. humans, and what we can do about it | In
1998, aircraft designer Paul MacCready looks at a planet on which
humans have utterly dominated nature, and talks about what we all can do
to preserve nature's balance. His contribution: solar planes,
superefficient gliders and the electric car. | TED1998 | 0:22:48 | 10/22/2008 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 366 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/366 | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | Creativity, fulfillment and flow | Mihaly
Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that
money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and
lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow." | TED2004 | 0:18:55 | 10/23/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 381 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/381 | Kristen Ashburn | Heartrending pictures of AIDS | In this moving talk, documentary photographer Kristen Ashburn shares unforgettable images of the human impact of AIDS in Africa. | TED2003 | 0:04:37 | 10/24/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 365 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/365 | Jared Diamond | Why societies collapse | Why
do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland,
deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks
about the signs that collapse is near, and how -- if we see it in time
-- we can prevent it. | TED2003 | 0:18:21 | 10/27/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 383 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/383 | Rives | A 3-minute story of mixed emoticons | Rives -- star of the Bravo special "Ironic Iconic America" -- tells a typographical fairy tale that's short and bittersweet. | TED2008 | 0:03:17 | 10/28/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 385 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/385 | Keith Schacht, Zach Kaplan | Products (and toys) from the future | The
Inventables guys, Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht, demo some amazing new
materials and how we might use them. Look for squishy magnets,
odor-detecting ink, "dry" liquid and a very surprising 10-foot pole. | TED2005 | 0:15:46 | 10/30/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 386 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/386 | Newton Aduaka | The story of Ezra, a child soldier | Filmmaker Newton Aduaka shows clips from his powerful, lyrical feature film "Ezra," about a child soldier in Sierra Leone. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:18:44 | 10/31/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 388 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/388 | Graham Hawkes | Fly the seas on a submarine with wings | Graham
Hawkes takes us aboard his graceful, winged submarines to the depths of
planet Ocean (a.k.a. "Earth"). It's a deep blue world we landlubbers
rarely see in 3D. | TED2005 | 0:12:11 | 11/3/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 390 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/390 | James Surowiecki | The moment when social media became the news | James
Surowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal
player in the world of news-gathering: the 2005 tsunami, when YouTube
video, blogs, IMs and txts carried the news -- and preserved moving
personal stories from the tragedy. | TED2005 | 0:16:59 | 11/4/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 391 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/391 | John Francis | I walk the Earth | For
almost three decades, John Francis has been a planetwalker, traveling
the globe by foot and sail with a message of environmental respect and
responsibility (for 17 of those years without speaking). A funny,
thoughtful talk with occasional banjo. | TED2008 | 0:19:24 | 11/5/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 392 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/392 | Tim Brown | The powerful link between creativity and play | At
the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the
powerful relationship between creative thinking and play -- with many
examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn't). | Art Center Design Conference 2008: Serious Play | 0:27:58 | 11/6/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 393 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/393 | Luca Turin | The science of scent | What's
the science behind a sublime perfume? With charm and precision,
biophysicist Luca Turin explains the molecular makeup -- and the art --
of a scent. | TED2005 | 0:15:53 | 11/7/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 394 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/394 | Lee Smolin | How science is like democracy | Physicist
Lee Smolin talks about how the scientific community works: as he puts
it, "we fight and argue as hard as we can," but everyone accepts that
the next generation of scientists will decide who's right. And, he says,
that's how democracy works, too. | TED2003 | 0:12:25 | 11/10/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 395 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/395 | Samantha Power | Shaking hands with the devil | Samantha
Power tells a story of a complicated hero, Sergio Vieira de Mello. This
UN diplomat walked a thin moral line, negotiating with the world's
worst dictators to help their people survive crisis. It's a compelling
story told with a fiery passion. | TED2008 | 0:23:09 | 11/11/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 399 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/399 | Charles Elachi | The story of the Mars Rovers | At
Serious Play 2008, Charles Elachi shares stories from NASA's legendary
Jet Propulsion Lab -- including tales and video from the Mars Rover
project. | Art Center Design Conference 2008: Serious Play | 0:28:17 | 11/12/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 400 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/400 | Ursus Wehrli | Tidying up art | Ursus
Wehrli shares his vision for a cleaner, more organized, tidier form of
art -- by deconstructing the paintings of modern masters into their
component pieces, sorted by color and size. | TED2006 | 0:15:57 | 11/13/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 402 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/402 | Stewart Brand | Building a home for the Clock of the Long Now | Stewart
Brand works on the Clock of the Long Now, a timepiece that counts down
the next 10,000 years. It's a beautiful project that asks us to think
about the far, far future. Here, he discusses a tricky side problem with
the Clock: Where can we put it? | TED2004 | 0:23:23 | 11/17/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 396 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/396 | Isaac Mizrahi | Fashion, passion, and about a million other things | Fashion
designer Isaac Mizrahi spins through a dizzying array of inspirations
-- from '50s pinups to a fleeting glimpse of a hole in a shirt that
makes him shout "Stop the cab!" Inside this rambling talk are real clues
to living a happy, creative life. | TED2008 | 0:14:16 | 11/18/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 403 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/403 | Franco Sacchi | Welcome to Nollywood | Zambia-born
filmmaker Franco Sacchi tours us through Nollywood, Nigeria's booming
film industry (the world's 3rd largest). Guerrilla filmmaking and
brilliance under pressure from crews that can shoot a full-length
feature in a week. | TEDGlobal 2007 | 0:17:34 | 11/19/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 404 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/404 | George Smoot | The design of the universe | At
Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new
images from deep-space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos --
with its giant webs of dark matter and mysterious gaping voids -- got
built this way. | Art Center Design Conference 2008: Serious Play | 0:19:00 | 11/20/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 406 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/406 | Dan Barber | A surprising parable of foie gras | At
the Taste3 conference, chef Dan Barber tells the story of a small farm
in Spain that has found a humane way to produce foie gras. Raising his
geese in a natural environment, farmer Eduardo Sousa embodies the kind
of food production Barber believes in. | Taste3 2008 | 0:20:24 | 11/24/2008 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 405 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/405 | Bill Joy | What I'm worried about, what I'm excited about | Technologist
and futurist Bill Joy talks about several big worries for humanity --
and several big hopes in the fields of health, education and future
tech. | TED2006 | 0:19:02 | 11/24/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 407 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/407 | Andy Hobsbawm | Do the green thing | Andy Hobsbawm shares a fresh ad campaign about going green -- and some of the fringe benefits. | TED2008 | 0:03:22 | 11/26/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 408 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/408 | Gregory Petsko | The coming neurological epidemic | Biochemist
Gregory Petsko makes a convincing argument that, in the next 50 years,
we'll see an epidemic of neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer's, as
the world population ages. His solution: more research into the brain
and its functions. | TED2008 | 0:03:47 | 11/30/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 409 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/409 | Richard Preston | Climbing the world's biggest trees | Science
writer Richard Preston talks about some of the most enormous living
beings on the planet, the giant trees of the US Pacific Northwest.
Growing from a tiny seed, they support vast ecosystems -- and are still,
largely, a mystery. | TED2008 | 0:19:31 | 12/2/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 410 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/410 | Philip Rosedale | Second Life, where anything is possible | Why
build a virtual world? Philip Rosedale talks about the virtual society
he founded, Second Life, and its underpinnings in human creativity. It's
a place so different that anything could happen. | Art Center Design Conference 2008: Serious Play | 0:28:31 | 12/3/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 411 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/411 | Larry Burns | Reinventing the car | General
Motors veep Larry Burns previews cool next-gen car design: sleek,
customizable (and computer-enhanced) vehicles that run clean on hydrogen
-- and pump energy back into the electrical grid when they're idle. | TED2005 | 0:09:12 | 12/4/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 412 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/412 | Nick Sears | Presenting the Orb | Inventor
Nick Sears demos the first generation of the Orb, a rotating
persistence-of-vision display that creates glowing 3D images. A short,
cool tale of invention. | TED2007 | 0:03:58 | 12/5/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 413 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/413 | David Holt | The stories and song of Appalachia | Folk
musician and storyteller David Holt plays the banjo and shares
photographs and old wisdom from the Appalachian Mountains. He also
demonstrates some unusual instruments like the mouth bow -- and a
surprising electric drum kit he calls "thunderwear." | TED2004 | 0:25:17 | 12/7/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 414 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/414 | Eva Zeisel | The playful search for beauty | The
ceramics designer Eva Zeisel looks back on a 75-year career. What keeps
her work as fresh today (her latest line debuted in 2008) as in 1926?
Her sense of play and beauty, and her drive for adventure. Listen for
stories from a rich, colorful life. | TED2001 | 0:18:09 | 12/9/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 415 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/415 | Michael Milken | Leveraging big ideas to make change | Michael
Milken talks about using your own particular set of skills to make real
change in the world. In his case, the energetic mind that once created
exotic bonds is now driving the "Manhattan Project of cancer" -- with
lifesaving results. | TED11(2001) | 0:22:32 | 12/10/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 416 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/416 | Dennis vanEngelsdorp | Where have the bees gone? | Bees
are dying in droves. Why? Leading apiarist Dennis vanEngelsdorp looks
at the gentle, misunderstood creature's important place in nature and
the mystery behind its alarming disappearance. | Taste3 2008 | 0:16:28 | 12/10/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 418 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/418 | Jay Walker | A library of human imagination | Jay
Walker, curator of the Library of Human Imagination, conducts a
surprising show-and-tell session highlighting a few of the intriguing
artifacts that backdropped the 2008 TED stage. | TED2008 | 0:07:09 | 12/14/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 420 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/420 | Dan Gilbert | Exploring the frontiers of happiness | Dan
Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness --
sharing some surprising tests and experiments that you can also try on
yourself. Watch through to the end for a sparkling Q&A with some
familiar TED faces. | TEDGlobal 2005 | 0:33:38 | 12/16/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 419 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/419 | Benjamin Wallace | Does happiness have a price tag? | Can
happiness be bought? To find out, author Benjamin Wallace sampled the
world's most expensive products, including a bottle of 1947 Chateau
Cheval Blanc, 8 ounces of Kobe beef and the fabled (notorious) Kopi
Luwak coffee. His critique may surprise you. | Taste3 2008 | 0:14:40 | 12/17/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 421 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/421 | Penelope Boston | Life on Mars? Let's look in the caves | So
the Mars Rovers didn't scoop up any alien lifeforms. Scientist Penelope
Boston thinks there's a good chance -- a 25 to 50 percent chance, in
fact -- that life might exist on Mars, deep inside the planet's caves.
She details how we should look and why. | TED2006 | 0:18:29 | 12/17/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 423 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/423 | Nicholas Negroponte | Bringing One Laptop per Child to Colombia: TED in the Field | TED
follows Nicholas Negroponte to Colombia as he delivers laptops inside
territory once controlled by guerrillas. His partner? Colombia's Defense
Department, who see One Laptop per Child as an investment in the
region. (And you too can get involved.) | TED in the Field | 0:06:48 | 12/22/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 422 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/422 | Steven Strogatz | How things in nature tend to sync up | Mathematician
Steven Strogatz shows how flocks of creatures (like birds, fireflies
and fish) manage to synchronize and act as a unit -- when no one's
giving orders. The powerful tendency extends into the realm of objects,
too. | TED2004 | 0:21:58 | 12/22/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 424 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/424 | Jennifer 8. Lee | Who was General Tso? and other mysteries of American Chinese food | Reporter
Jennifer 8. Lee talks about her hunt for the origins of familiar
Chinese-American dishes -- exploring the hidden spots where these two
cultures have (so tastily) combined to form a new cuisine. | Taste3 2008 | 0:16:38 | 12/24/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 426 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/426 | Kary Mullis | Celebrating the scientific experiment | Biochemist
Kary Mullis talks about the basis of modern science: the experiment.
Sharing tales from the 17th century and from his own backyard-rocketry
days, Mullis celebrates the curiosity, inspiration and rigor of good
science in all its forms. | TED2002 | 0:29:32 | 1/5/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 427 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/427 | John Maeda | My journey in design, from tofu to RISD | Designer
John Maeda talks about his path from a Seattle tofu factory to the
Rhode Island School of Design, where he became president in 2008. Maeda,
a tireless experimenter and a witty observer, explores the crucial
moment when design met computers. | Art Center Design Conference 2008: Serious Play | 0:17:06 | 1/6/2009 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 428 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/428 | Paul Sereno | What can fossils teach us? | Strange
landscapes, scorching heat and (sometimes) mad crocodiles await
scientists seeking clues to evolution's genius. Paleontologist Paul
Sereno talks about his surprising encounters with prehistory -- and a
new way to help students join the adventure. | TED2005 | 0:21:46 | 1/7/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 429 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/429 | Paul Moller | Take a ride in the Skycar | Paul
Moller talks about the future of personal air travel -- the marriage of
autos and flight that will give us true freedom to travel off-road. He
shows two things he's working on: the Moller Skycar (a jet + car) and a
passenger-friendly hovering disc. | TED2004 | 0:15:39 | 1/8/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 430 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/430 | Greg Lynn | How calculus is changing architecture | Greg
Lynn talks about the mathematical roots of architecture -- and how
calculus and digital tools allow modern designers to move beyond the
traditional building forms. A glorious church in Queens (and a titanium
tea set) illustrate his theory. | TED2005 | 0:18:54 | 1/9/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 431 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/431 | Rob Forbes | Ways of seeing | Rob
Forbes, the founder of Design Within Reach, shows a gallery of
snapshots that inform his way of seeing the world. Charming
juxtapositions, found art, urban patterns -- this slideshow will open
your eyes to the world around you. | TED2006 | 0:15:37 | 1/12/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 432 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/432 | Scott McCloud | Understanding comics | In
this unmissable look at the magic of comics, Scott McCloud bends the
presentation format into a cartoon-like experience, where colorful
diversions whiz through childhood fascinations and imagined futures that
our eyes can hear and touch. | TED2005 | 0:17:08 | 1/13/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 433 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/433 | Peter Reinhart | The art of baking bread | Batch
to batch, crust to crust ... In tribute to the beloved staple food,
baking master Peter Reinhart reflects on the cordial couplings (wheat
and yeast, starch and heat) that give us our daily bread. Try not to eat
a slice. | Taste3 2008 | 0:15:34 | 1/14/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 434 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/434 | Joseph Pine | What do consumers really want? | Customers
want to feel what they buy is authentic, but "Mass Customization"
author Joseph Pine says selling authenticity is tough because, well,
there's no such thing. He talks about a few experiences that may be
artificial but make millions anyway. | TED2004 | 0:14:19 | 1/15/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 435 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/435 | Paula Scher | Great design is serious (not solemn) | Paula
Scher looks back at a life in design (she's done album covers, books,
the Citibank logo ...) and pinpoints the moment when she started really
having fun. Look for gorgeous designs and images from her legendary
career. | Art Center Design Conference 2008: Serious Play | 0:21:56 | 1/16/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 436 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/436 | David Carson | Design, discovery and humor | Great
design is a never-ending journey of discovery -- for which it helps to
pack a healthy sense of humor. Sociologist and surfer-turned-designer
David Carson walks through a gorgeous (and often quite funny) slide deck
of his work and found images. | TED2003 | 0:22:39 | 1/19/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 439 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/439 | Jamais Cascio | Tools for building a better world | We
all want to make the world better -- but how? Jamais Cascio looks at
some specific tools and techniques that can make a difference. It's a
fascinating talk that might just inspire you to act. | TED2006 | 0:16:15 | 1/21/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 437 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/437 | Barry Schuler | An introduction to genomics | What
is genomics? How will it affect our lives? In this intriguing primer on
the genomics revolution, entrepreneur Barry Schuler says we can at
least expect healthier, tastier food. He suggests we start with the
pinot noir grape, to build better wines. | Taste3 2008 | 0:21:26 | 1/22/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 441 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/441 | Sherwin Nuland | A meditation on hope | Surgeon
and writer Sherwin Nuland meditates on the idea of hope -- the desire
to become our better selves and make a better world. It's a thoughtful
12 minutes that will help you focus on the road ahead. | TED2003 | 0:12:36 | 1/23/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 442 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/442 | Woody Norris | Inventing the next amazing thing | Woody
Norris shows off two of his inventions that treat sound in new ways,
and talks about his untraditional approach to inventing and education.
As he puts it: "Almost nothing has been invented yet." So -- what's
next? | TED2004 | 0:13:49 | 1/26/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 440 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/440 | Peter Ward | Earth's mass extinctions | Asteroid
strikes get all the coverage, but "Medea Hypothesis" author Peter Ward
argues that most of Earth's mass extinctions were caused by lowly
bacteria. The culprit, a poison called hydrogen sulfide, may have an
interesting application in medicine. | TED2008 | 0:19:41 | 1/27/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 443 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/443 | Aimee Mullins | Running on high-tech legs | In
this TED archive video from 1998, paralympic sprinter Aimee Mullins
talks about her record-setting career as a runner, and about the amazing
carbon-fiber prosthetic legs (then a prototype) that helped her cross
the finish line. | TED1998 | 0:20:43 | 1/28/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 445 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/445 | Joe DeRisi | Hunting the next killer virus | Biochemist
Joe DeRisi talks about amazing new ways to diagnose viruses (and treat
the illnesses they cause) using DNA. His work may help us understand
malaria, SARS, avian flu -- and the 60 percent of everyday viral
infections that go undiagnosed. | TED2006 | 0:16:05 | 1/29/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 447 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/447 | Natalie MacMaster | Playing the Cape Breton fiddle | Natalie
MacMaster and her musical partner Donnell Leahy play several tunes from
the Cape Breton tradition -- a sprightly, soulful style of folk
fiddling. It's an inspired collaboration that will have you clapping
(and maybe dancing) along. | TED2003 | 0:18:47 | 1/30/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 450 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/450 | Bill Gross | Great ideas for finding new energy | Bill
Gross, the founder of Idealab, talks about his life as an inventor,
starting with his high-school company selling solar energy plans and
kits. Learn here about a groundbreaking system for solar cells -- and
some questions we haven't yet solved. | TED2003 | 0:19:55 | 2/2/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 451 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/451 | Bill Gates | How I'm trying to change the world now | Bill
Gates hopes to solve some of the world's biggest problems using a new
kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he
asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them. (And
see the Q&A on the TED Blog.) | TED2009 | 0:20:16 | 2/5/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 453 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/453 | Elizabeth Gilbert | A different way to think about creative genius | Elizabeth
Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and
geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person
"being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and
surprisingly moving talk. | TED2009 | 0:19:28 | 2/9/2009 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 455 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/455 | Milton Glaser | How great design makes ideas new | From
the TED archives: The legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser dives
deep into a new painting inspired by Piero della Francesca. From here,
he muses on what makes a convincing poster, by breaking down an idea and
making it new. | TED1998 | 0:15:14 | 2/11/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 457 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/457 | David Merrill | Siftables, the toy blocks that think | MIT
grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized,
computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These
future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is
this the next thing in hands-on learning? | TED2009 | 0:07:09 | 2/12/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 462 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/462 | Barry Schwartz | The real crisis? We stopped being wise | Barry
Schwartz makes a passionate call for "practical wisdom" as an antidote
to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. He argues powerfully that rules
often fail us, incentives often backfire, and practical, everyday wisdom
will help rebuild our world. | TED2009 | 0:20:45 | 2/16/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 463 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/463 | Juan Enriquez | Beyond the crisis, mindboggling science and the arrival of Homo evolutis | Even
as mega-banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reboot is yet to come.
But don't look for it on your ballot -- or in the stock exchange. It'll
come from science labs, and it promises keener bodies and minds. Our
kids are going to be ... different. | TED2009 | 0:18:50 | 2/17/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 464 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/464 | Jose Antonio Abreu | Help me bring music to kids worldwide (TED Prize winner!) | Jose
Antonio Abreu is the charismatic founder of a youth orchestra system
that has transformed thousands of kids' lives in Venezuela. Here he
shares his amazing story and unveils a TED Prize wish that could have a
big impact in the US and beyond. | TED2009 | 0:16:58 | 2/18/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 466 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/466 | Gustavo Dudamel and the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra | A musical sensation from Venezuela | The
Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra contains the best high school musicians
from Venezuela's life-changing music program, El Sistema. Led here by
Gustavo Dudamel, they play Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10, 2nd movement,
and Arturo Márquez' Danzón No. 2. | TED2009 | 0:17:06 | 2/18/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 467 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/467 | Sylvia Earle | Here's how to protect the blue heart of the planet (TED Prize winner!) | Legendary
ocean researcher Sylvia Earle shares astonishing images of the ocean --
and shocking stats about its rapid decline -- as she makes her TED
Prize wish: that we will join her in protecting the vital blue heart of
the planet. | TED2009 | 0:18:16 | 2/19/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 468 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/468 | Jill Tarter | Why the search for alien intelligence matters (TED Prize winner!) | The
SETI Institute's Jill Tarter makes her TED Prize wish: to accelerate
our search for cosmic company. Using a growing array of radio
telescopes, she and her team listen for patterns that may be a sign of
intelligence elsewhere in the universe. | TED2009 | 0:21:23 | 2/20/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 469 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/469 | Ed Ulbrich | How Benjamin Button got his face | Ed
Ulbrich, the digital-effects guru from Digital Domain, explains the
Oscar-winning technology that allowed his team to digitally create the
older versions of Brad Pitt's face for "The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button." | TED2009 | 0:18:07 | 2/23/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 470 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/470 | Charles Moore | Sailing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch | Capt.
Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first
discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste
of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the growing, choking
problem of plastic debris in our seas. | TED2009 | 0:07:20 | 2/24/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 471 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/471 | Richard Pyle | Exploring the reef's Twilight Zone | In
this illuminating talk, Richard Pyle shows us thriving life on the
cliffs of coral reefs and groundbreaking diving technologies he has
pioneered to explore it. He and his team risk everything to reveal the
secrets of undiscovered species. | TED2004 | 0:16:48 | 2/25/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 472 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/472 | Miru Kim | Making art of New York's urban ruins | At
the 2008 EG Conference, artist Miru Kim talks about her work. Kim
explores industrial ruins underneath New York and then photographs
herself in them, nude -- to bring these massive, dangerous, hidden
spaces into sharp focus. | EG08 | 0:14:30 | 2/26/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 473 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/473 | Evan Williams | How Twitter's spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses | In
the year leading up to this talk, the web tool Twitter exploded in size
(up 10x during 2008 alone). Co-founder Evan Williams reveals that many
of the ideas driving that growth came from unexpected uses invented by
the users themselves. | TED2009 | 0:08:00 | 2/27/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 474 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/474 | Brenda Laurel | Why didn't girls play videogames? | A
TED archive gem. At TED in 1998, Brenda Laurel asks: Why are all the
top-selling videogames aimed at little boys? She spent two years
researching the world of girls (and shares amazing interviews and
photos) to create a game that girls would love. | TED1998 | 0:13:08 | 3/2/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 475 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/475 | Willie Smits | A 20-year tale of hope: How we re-grew a rainforest | By
piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits
has found a way to re-grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local
orangutans -- and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile
ecosystems. | TED2009 | 0:20:42 | 3/3/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 476 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/476 | Nalini Nadkarni | Unveiling the beautiful, fragile world of rainforest treetop ecosystems | A
unique ecosystem of plants, birds and monkeys thrives in the treetops
of the rainforest. Nalini Nadkarni explores these canopy worlds -- and
shares her findings with the world below, through dance, art and bold
partnerships. | TED2009 | 0:16:30 | 3/4/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 477 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/477 | Mike Rowe | Celebrating work -- all kinds of work | Mike
Rowe, the host of "Dirty Jobs," tells some compelling (and horrifying)
real-life job stories. Listen for his insights and observations about
the nature of hard work, and how it's been unjustifiably degraded in
society today. | EG08 | 0:20:02 | 3/5/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 478 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/478 | Eric Lewis | Striking chords to rock the jazz world | Eric
Lewis, an astonishingly talented crossover jazz pianist -- seen by many
for the first time at TED2009 -- sets fire to the keys with his
shattering rendition of Evanescence's chart-topper, "Going Under." | TED2009 | 0:10:36 | 3/6/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 480 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/480 | Don Norman | The three ways that good design makes you happy | In
this talk from 2003, design critic Don Norman turns his incisive eye
toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion, as he looks at design that
makes people happy. He names the three emotional cues that a
well-designed product must hit to succeed. | TED2003 | 0:12:41 | 3/9/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 481 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/481 | Pattie Maes, Pranav Mistry | Unveiling the "Sixth Sense," game-changing wearable tech | This
demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry --
was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves
the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority
Report" and then some. | TED2009 | 0:08:42 | 3/10/2009 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 482 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/482 | Aimee Mullins | How my legs give me super-powers | Athlete,
actor and activist Aimee Mullins talks about her prosthetic legs --
she's got a dozen amazing pairs -- and the superpowers they grant her:
speed, beauty, an extra 6 inches of height ... Quite simply, she
redefines what the body can be. | TED2009 | 0:09:58 | 3/11/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 483 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/483 | Stuart Brown | Why play is vital -- no matter your age | A
pioneer in research on play, Dr. Stuart Brown says humor, games,
roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of
play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults -- and keeping it up can
make us smarter at any age. | Art Center Design Conference 2008: Serious Play | 0:26:42 | 3/12/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 484 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/484 | Tim Berners-Lee | The next Web of open, linked data | 20
years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next
project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for
numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and
reframe the way we use it together. | TED2009 | 0:16:23 | 3/13/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 485 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/485 | Dan Dennett | Cute, sexy, sweet and funny -- an evolutionary riddle | Why
are babies cute? Why is cake sweet? Philosopher Dan Dennett has answers
you wouldn't expect, as he shares evolution's counterintuitive
reasoning on cute, sweet and sexy things (plus a new theory from Matthew
Hurley on why jokes are funny). | TED2009 | 0:07:45 | 3/16/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 487 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/487 | Dan Ariely | Why we think it's OK to cheat and steal (sometimes) | Behavioral
economist Dan Ariely studies the bugs in our moral code: the hidden
reasons we think it's OK to cheat or steal (sometimes). Clever studies
help make his point that we're predictably irrational -- and can be
influenced in ways we can't grasp. | TED2009 | 0:16:23 | 3/17/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 488 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/488 | Adam Savage | My quest for the dodo bird, and other obsessions | At
EG'08, Adam Savage talks about his fascination with the dodo bird, and
how it led him on a strange and surprising double quest. It's an
entertaining adventure through the mind of a creative obsessive. | EG08 | 0:15:38 | 3/18/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 489 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/489 | Bruce McCall | Nostalgia for a future that never happened | Bruce
McCall paints a future that never happened -- full of flying cars,
polo-playing tanks and the RMS Tyrannic, "The Biggest Thing in All the
World." At Serious Play '08, he narrates a brisk and funny slideshow of
his faux-nostalgic art. | Art Center Design Conference 2008: Serious Play | 0:13:01 | 3/19/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 490 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/490 | Kamal Meattle | How to grow your own fresh air | Researcher
Kamal Meattle shows how an arrangement of three common houseplants,
used in specific spots in a home or office building, can result in
measurably cleaner indoor air. | TED2009 | 0:04:04 | 3/20/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 492 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/492 | Saul Griffith | Inventing a super-kite to tap the energy of high-altitude wind | In
this brief talk, Saul Griffith unveils the invention his new company
Makani Power has been working on: giant kite turbines that create
surprising amounts of clean, renewable energy. | TED2009 | 0:05:25 | 3/23/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 494 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/494 | Jacqueline Novogratz | From a Nairobi slum, a tale of hope | Jacqueline
Novogratz tells a moving story of an encounter in a Nairobi slum with
Jane, a former prostitute, whose dreams of escaping poverty, of becoming
a doctor and of getting married were fulfilled in an unexpected way. | TED2009 | 0:07:30 | 3/24/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 495 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/495 | David Pogue | Cool new things you can do with your mobile phone | In
this engaging talk from the EG'08 conference, New York Times tech
columnist David Pogue rounds up some handy cell phone tools and services
that can boost your productivity and lower your bills (and your blood
pressure). | EG08 | 0:27:03 | 3/25/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 498 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/498 | John Wooden | Coaching for people, not points | With
profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us
all to pursue the best in ourselves. In this inspiring talk he shares
the advice he gave his players at UCLA, quotes poetry and remembers his
father's wisdom. | TED2001 | 0:17:36 | 3/26/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 499 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/499 | Nathan Wolfe | Hunting the next killer virus | Virus
hunter Nathan Wolfe is outwitting the next pandemic by staying two
steps ahead: discovering deadly new viruses where they first emerge --
passing from animals to humans among poor subsistence hunters in Africa
-- before they claim millions of lives. | TED2009 | 0:12:20 | 3/26/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 500 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/500 | C.K. Williams | Poetry for all seasons of life | Poet
C.K. Williams reads his work at TED2001. As he colors scenes of
childhood resentments, college loves, odd neighbors and the literal
death of youth, he reminds us of the unique challenges of living. | TED2001 | 0:23:17 | 3/30/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 501 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/501 | Jacek Utko | Can design save the newspaper? | Jacek
Utko is an extraordinary Polish newspaper designer whose redesigns for
papers in Eastern Europe not only win awards, but increase circulation
by up to 100%. Can good design save the newspaper? It just might. | TED2009 | 0:06:05 | 3/31/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 502 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/502 | Ueli Gegenschatz | Fulfilling the dream of flight in a high-tech wingsuit | Wingsuit
jumping is the leading edge of extreme sports -- an exhilarating feat
of almost unbelievable daring, where skydivers soar through canyons at
over 100MPH. Ueli Gegenschatz talks about how (and why) he does it, and
shows jawdropping film. | TED2009 | 0:12:13 | 4/1/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 503 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/503 | Christopher C. Deam | Restyling the classic Airstream trailer | In
this low-key, image-packed talk from 2002, designer Christopher C. Deam
talks about his makeover of an American classic: the Airstream travel
trailer. | TED2002 | 0:06:21 | 4/2/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 504 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/504 | P.W. Singer | Military robots and the future of war | In
this powerful talk, P.W. Singer shows how the widespread use of robots
in war is changing the realities of combat. He shows us scenarios
straight out of science fiction -- that now may not be so fictitious. | TED2009 | 0:16:05 | 4/3/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 506 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/506 | Nathaniel Kahn | My father, my architect | Nathaniel
Kahn shares clips from his documentary "My Architect," about his quest
to understand his father, the legendary architect Louis Kahn. It's a
film with meaning to anyone who seeks to understand the relationship
between art and love. | TED2002 | 0:10:27 | 4/6/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 507 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/507 | Bruce Bueno de Mesquita | Three predictions on the future of Iran, and the math to back it up | Bruce
Bueno de Mesquita uses mathematical analysis to predict (very often
correctly) such messy human events as war, political power shifts,
Intifada ... After a crisp explanation of how he does it, he offers
three predictions on the future of Iran. | TED2009 | 0:19:05 | 4/7/2009 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 509 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/509 | Bonnie Bassler | Discovering bacteria's amazing communication system | Bonnie
Bassler discovered that bacteria "talk" to each other, using a chemical
language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find
has stunning implications for medicine, industry -- and our
understanding of ourselves. | TED2009 | 0:18:14 | 4/8/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 510 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/510 | Emily Levine | A trickster's theory of everything | Philosopher-comedian
Emily Levine talks (hilariously) about science, math, society and the
way everything connects. She's a brilliant trickster, poking holes in
our fixed ideas and bringing hidden truths to light. Settle in and let
her ping your brain. | TED2002 | 0:22:52 | 4/9/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 511 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/511 | Renny Gleeson | Busted! The sneaky moves of anti-social smartphone users | In
this funny (and actually poignant) 3-minute talk, social strategist
Renny Gleeson breaks down our always-on social world -- where the
experience we're having right now is less interesting than what we'll
tweet about it later. | TED2009 | 0:03:46 | 4/10/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 512 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/512 | Shai Agassi | A bold plan for mass adoption of electric cars | Forget
about the hybrid auto -- Shai Agassi says it's electric cars or bust if
we want to impact emissions. His company, Better Place, has a radical
plan to take entire countries oil-free by 2020. | TED2009 | 0:18:06 | 4/13/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 515 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/515 | Gregory Stock | How biotech will drive our evolution | In
this prophetic 2003 talk -- just days before Dolly the sheep was
stuffed -- biotech ethicist Gregory Stock looked forward to new, more
meaningful (and controversial) technologies, like customizable babies,
whose adoption might drive human evolution. | TED2003 | 0:17:51 | 4/14/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 516 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/516 | JoAnn Kuchera-Morin | Tour the AlloSphere, a stunning new way to see scientific data | JoAnn
Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, an entirely new way to see and
interpret scientific data, in full color and surround sound inside a
massive metal sphere. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear the
music of the elements ... | TED2009 | 0:06:27 | 4/15/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 517 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/517 | Tim Ferriss | How to feel like the Incredible Hulk | Productivity
guru Tim Ferriss' fun, encouraging anecdotes show how one simple
question -- "What's the worst that could happen?" -- is all you need to
learn to do anything. | EG 2008 | 0:16:25 | 4/15/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 518 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/518 | Matthew Childs | Matthew Childs' 9 life lessons from rock climbing | In
this talk from TED University 2009, veteran rock climber Matthew Childs
shares nine pointers for rock climbing. These handy tips bear on an
effective life at sea level, too. | TED2009 | 0:04:48 | 4/17/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 519 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/519 | Margaret Wertheim | Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral | Margaret
Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs
using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician -- celebrating the
amazements of the reef, and deep-diving into the hyperbolic geometry
underlying coral creation. | TED2009 | 0:15:33 | 4/20/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 520 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/520 | Niels Diffrient | Niels Diffrient rethinks the way we sit down | 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. | TED2002 | 0:17:20 | 4/21/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 523 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/523 | Erik Hersman | Erik Hersman on reporting crisis via texting |
At TEDU 2009, Erik Hersman presents the remarkable story of Ushahidi, a
GoogleMap mashup that allowed Kenyans to report and track violence via
cell phone texts following the 2008 elections, and has evolved to
continue saving lives in other countries. | TED2009 | 0:03:56 | 4/22/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 524 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/524 | Ben Katchor | Ben Katchor's comics of bygone New York | In
this captivating talk from the TED archive, cartoonist Ben Katchor
reads from his comic strips. These perceptive, surreal stories find the
profound hopes and foibles of history (and modern New York) preserved in
objects like light switches and signs. | TED2002 | 0:11:11 | 4/22/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 521 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/521 | Nate Silver | Nate Silver: Does race affect votes? | Nate
Silver has answers to controversial questions about race in politics:
Did Obama's race hurt his votes in some places? Stats and myths collide
in this fascinating talk that ends with a remarkable insight on how town
planning can promote tolerance. | TED2009 | 0:09:16 | 4/22/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 525 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/525 | Alex Tabarrok | Alex Tabarrok on how ideas trump crises | The
"dismal science" truly shines in this optimistic talk, as economist
Alex Tabarrok argues free trade and globalization are shaping our
once-divided world into a community of idea-sharing more healthy, happy
and prosperous than anyone's predictions. | TED2009 | 0:14:33 | 4/27/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 526 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/526 | Michael Merzenich | Michael Merzenich on re-wiring the brain | Neuroscientist
Michael Merzenich looks at one of the secrets of the brain's incredible
power: its ability to actively re-wire itself. He's researching ways to
harness the brain's plasticity to enhance our skills and recover lost
function. | TED2004 | 0:23:07 | 4/28/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 527 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/527 | Sarah Jones | Sarah Jones as a one-woman global village | In
this hilariously lively performance, actress Sarah Jones channels an
opinionated elderly Jewish woman, a fast-talking Dominican college
student and more, giving TED2009 just a sample of her spectacular
character range. | TED2009 | 0:21:00 | 4/29/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 529 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/529 | Laurie Garrett | Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu | In
2007, as the world worried about a possible avian flu epidemic, Laurie
Garrett, author of "The Coming Plague," gave this powerful talk to a
small TED University audience. Her insights from past pandemics are
suddenly more relevant than ever. | TED2007 | 0:21:05 | 4/30/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 531 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/531 | Brian Cox | Brian Cox: What went wrong at the LHC | In
this short talk from TED U 2009, Brian Cox shares what's new with the
CERN supercollider. He covers the repairs now underway and what the
future holds for the largest science experiment ever attempted. | TED2009 | 0:03:29 | 5/1/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 532 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/532 | Sean Gourley | Sean Gourley on the mathematics of war | By
pulling raw data from the news and plotting it onto a graph, Sean
Gourley and his team have come up with a stunning conclusion about the
nature of modern war -- and perhaps a model for resolving conflicts. | TED2009 | 0:07:19 | 5/4/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 533 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/533 | Mae Jemison | Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together | Mae
Jemison is an astronaut, a doctor, an art collector, a dancer ...
Telling stories from her own education and from her time in space, she
calls on educators to teach both the arts and sciences, both intuition
and logic, as one -- to create bold thinker | TED2002 | 0:14:48 | 5/5/2009 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 534 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/534 | Tom Shannon | Tom Shannon's anti-gravity sculpture | Tom
Shannon shows off his gravity-defying, otherworldly sculpture -- made
of simple, earthly materials -- that floats and spins like planets on
magnets and suspension wire. It's science-inspired art at its most
heavenly. | TED2003 | 0:11:55 | 5/5/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 535 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/535 | Al Gore | Al Gore warns on latest climate trends | At
TED2009, Al Gore presents updated slides from around the globe to make
the case that worrying climate trends are even worse than scientists
predicted, and to make clear his stance on "clean coal." | TED2009 | 0:07:44 | 5/7/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 537 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/537 | Louise Fresco | Louise Fresco on feeding the whole world | Louise
Fresco argues that a smart approach to large-scale, industrial farming
and food production will feed our planet's incoming population of nine
billion. Only foods like (the scorned) supermarket white bread, she
says, will nourish on a global scale. | TED2009 | 0:18:00 | 5/7/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 538 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/538 | Seth Godin | Seth Godin on the tribes we lead | Seth
Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human
social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and
values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big
change. He urges us to do so. | TED2009 | 0:17:23 | 5/10/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 541 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/541 | Eric Lewis | Eric Lewis plays chaos and harmony | Eric
Lewis explores the piano's expressive power as he pounds and caresses
the keys (and the strings) in a performance during the 2009 TED Prize
session. He plays an original song, a tribute to ocean and sky and the
vision of the TED Prize winners. | TED2009 | 0:04:54 | 5/12/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 540 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/540 | Hans Rosling | Hans Rosling on HIV: New facts and stunning data visuals | Hans
Rosling unveils new data visuals that untangle the complex risk factors
of one of the world's deadliest (and most misunderstood) diseases: HIV.
He argues that preventing transmissions -- not drug treatments -- is
the key to ending the epidemic. | TED2009 | 0:09:56 | 5/13/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 545 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/545 | Nandan Nilekani | Nandan Nilekani's ideas for India's future | Nandan
Nilekani, visionary CEO of outsourcing pioneer Infosys, explains four
brands of ideas that will determine whether India can continue its
recent breakneck progress. | TED2009 | 0:15:12 | 5/14/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 544 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/544 | Naturally 7 | Naturally 7 beatboxes a whole band | One-of-a-kind
R&B group Naturally 7 beatboxes an orchestra's worth of instruments
to groove through their smooth single, "Fly Baby." | TED2009 | 0:03:56 | 5/15/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 547 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/547 | Ray Anderson | Ray Anderson on the business logic of sustainability | At
his carpet company, Ray Anderson has increased sales and doubled
profits while turning the traditional "take / make / waste" industrial
system on its head. In a gentle, understated way, he shares a powerful
vision for sustainable commerce. | TED2009 | 0:15:54 | 5/18/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 548 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/548 | Dan Ariely | Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions? | Behavioral
economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses
classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes
shocking) research findings to show how we're not as rational as we
think when we make decisions. | EG 2008 | 0:17:26 | 5/19/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 549 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/549 | Mary Roach | Mary Roach: 10 things you didn't know about orgasm | "Bonk"
author Mary Roach delves into obscure scientific research, some of it
centuries old, to make 10 surprising claims about sexual climax, ranging
from the bizarre to the hilarious. (This talk is aimed at adults.
Viewer discretion advised.) | TED2009 | 0:16:43 | 5/20/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 551 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/551 | Carolyn Porco | Carolyn Porco: Could a Saturn moon harbor life? | Carolyn
Porco shares exciting new findings from the Cassini spacecraft's recent
sweep of one of Saturn's moons, Enceladus. Samples gathered from the
moon's icy geysers hint that an ocean under its surface could harbor
life. | TED2009 | 0:03:29 | 5/21/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 552 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/552 | Yves Behar | Yves Behar's supercharged motorcycle design | Yves
Behar and Forrest North unveil Mission One, a sleek, powerful electric
motorcycle. They share slides from distant (yet similar) childhoods that
show how collaboration kick-started their friendship -- and shared
dreams. | TED2009 | 0:02:23 | 5/22/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 553 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/553 | Joachim de Posada | Joachim de Posada says, Don't eat the marshmallow yet | In
this short talk from TED U, Joachim de Posada shares a landmark
experiment on delayed gratification -- and how it can predict future
success. With priceless video of kids trying their hardest not to eat
the marshmallow. | TED2009 | 0:05:58 | 5/25/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 554 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/554 | Jay Walker | Jay Walker on the world's English mania | Jay
Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to
learn English. He shares photos and spine-tingling audio of Chinese
students rehearsing English -- "the world's second language" -- by the
thousands. | TED2009 | 0:04:34 | 5/27/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 555 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/555 | Michelle Obama | Michelle Obama's plea for education | Speaking
at a London girls' school, Michelle Obama makes a passionate, personal
case for each student to take education seriously. It is this new,
brilliant generation, she says, that will close the gap between the
world as it is and the world as it should be. | Best of the Web | 0:12:29 | 5/27/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 556 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/556 | Jonathan Drori | Jonathan Drori: Why we're storing billions of seeds | In
this brief talk from TED U 2009, Jonathan Drori encourages us to save
biodiversity -- one seed at a time. Reminding us that plants support
human life, he shares the vision of the Millennium Seed Bank, which has
stored over 3 billion seeds to date from dwindling yet essential plant
species. | TED2009 | 0:06:34 | 5/28/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 557 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/557 | Kaki King | Kaki King rocks out to "Pink Noise" | Kaki
King, the first female on Rolling Stone's "guitar god" list, rocks out
to a full live set at TED2008, including her breakout single, "Playing
with Pink Noise." Jaw-dropping virtuosity meets a guitar technique that
truly stands out. | TED2008 | 0:14:49 | 5/29/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 558 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/558 | Liz Coleman | Liz Coleman's call to reinvent liberal arts education | Bennington
president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in
higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly
narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary
education -- one that dynamically combines all areas of study to address
the great problems of our day. | TED2009 | 0:18:38 | 6/1/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 560 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/560 | Ray Kurzweil | Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularity | Ray
Kurzweil's latest graphs show that technology's breakneck advances will
only accelerate -- recession or not. He unveils his new project,
Singularity University, to study oncoming tech and guide it to benefit
humanity. | TED2009 | 0:08:41 | 6/2/2009 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 561 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/561 | Yann Arthus-Bertrand | Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle | In
this image-filled talk, Yann Arthus-Bertrand displays his three most
recent projects on humanity and our habitat -- stunning aerial
photographs in his series "The Earth From Above," personal interviews
from around the globe featured in his web project "6 billion Others,"
and his soon-to-be-released movie, "Home," which documents human impact
on the environment through breathtaking video. | TED2009 | 0:14:54 | 6/3/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 562 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/562 | Felix Dennis | Publisher Felix Dennis' odes to vice and consequences | Media
big shot Felix Dennis roars his fiery, funny, sometimes racy original
poetry, revisiting haunting memories and hard-won battle scars from a
madcap -- yet not too repentant -- life. Best enjoyed with a glass of
wine. | TED2004 | 0:17:24 | 6/5/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 563 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/563 | Pete Alcorn | Pete Alcorn on the world in 2200 | In
this short, optimistic talk from TED2009, Pete Alcorn shares a vision
of the world of two centuries from now -- when declining populations and
growing opportunity prove Malthus was wrong. | TED2009 | 0:03:50 | 6/8/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 565 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/565 | Kevin Surace | Kevin Surace invents eco-friendly drywall | Kevin
Surace suggests we rethink basic construction materials -- such as the
familiar wallboard -- to reduce the huge carbon footprint generated by
the manufacturing and construction of our buildings. He introduces
EcoRock, a clean, recyclable and energy-efficient drywall created by his
team at Serious Materials. | TED2009 | 0:03:19 | 6/9/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 566 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/566 | John La Grou | John La Grou plugs smart power outlets | John
La Grou unveils an ingenious new technology that will smarten up the
electrical outlets in our homes, using microprocessors and RFID tags.
The invention, Safeplug, promises to prevent deadly accidents like house
fires -- and to conserve energy. | TED2009 | 0:04:12 | 6/9/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 570 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/570 | Nancy Etcoff | Nancy Etcoff on the surprising science of happiness | Cognitive
researcher Nancy Etcoff looks at happiness -- the ways we try to
achieve and increase it, the way it's untethered to our real
circumstances, and its surprising effect on our bodies. | TED2004 | 0:19:45 | 6/10/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 571 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/571 | Robert Full | Robert Full: Learning from the gecko's tail | Biologist
Robert Full studies the amazing gecko, with its supersticky feet and
tenacious climbing skill. But high-speed footage reveals that the
gecko's tail harbors perhaps the most surprising talents of all. | TED2009 | 0:11:54 | 6/11/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 572 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/572 | Richard St. John | Richard St. John: "Success is a continuous journey" |
In his typically candid style, Richard St. John reminds us that success
is not a one-way street, but a constant journey. He uses the story of
his business' rise and fall to illustrate a valuable lesson -- when we
stop trying, we fail. | TED2009 | 0:03:57 | 6/12/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 573 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/573 | Jane Poynter | Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2 | Jane
Poynter tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere
2 -- an experience that provoked her to explore how we might sustain
life in the harshest of environments. This is the first TED talk drawn
from an independently organized TEDx event, held at the University of
Southern California. | TEDxUSC | 0:15:53 | 6/15/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 575 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/575 | Clay Shirky | Clay Shirky: How social media can make history | While
news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook,
Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real
news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control
of news is changing the nature of politics. | TED@State | 0:15:48 | 6/16/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 578 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/578 | Diane Benscoter | Diane Benscoter on how cults rewire the brain | Diane
Benscoter spent five years as a "Moonie." She shares an insider's
perspective on the mind of a cult member, and proposes a new way to
think about today's most troubling conflicts and extremist movements. | TED2009 | 0:06:24 | 6/17/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 580 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/580 | Catherine Mohr | Catherine Mohr: Surgery's past, present and robotic future | Surgeon
and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its
pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demos some of the newest
tools for surgery through tiny incisions, performed using nimble robot
hands. Fascinating -- but not for the squeamish. | TED2009 | 0:18:55 | 6/18/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 581 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/581 | Qi Zhang | Qi Zhang's electrifying organ performance | Organ
virtuoso Qi Zhang plays her electric rendering of "Ridiculous Fellows"
from Prokofiev's "The Love for Three Oranges" orchestral suite. This
exhilarating performance from TEDx USC features the Yamaha Electone
Stagea, a rare, imported instrument specially programmed by Qi herself. | TEDxUSC | 0:03:05 | 6/19/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 582 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/582 | Philip Zimbardo | Philip Zimbardo prescribes a healthy take on time | Psychologist
Philip Zimbardo says happiness and success are rooted in a trait most
of us disregard: the way we orient toward the past, present and future.
He suggests we calibrate our outlook on time as a first step to
improving our lives. | TED2009 | 0:06:34 | 6/22/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 584 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/584 | Paul Collier | Paul Collier's new rules for rebuilding a broken nation | Long
conflict can wreck a country, leaving behind poverty and chaos. But
what's the right way to help war-torn countries rebuild? At TED@State,
Paul Collier explains the problems with current post-conflict aid plans,
and suggests 3 ideas for a better approach. | TED@State | 0:16:34 | 6/24/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 585 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/585 | Katherine Fulton | Katherine Fulton: You are the future of philanthropy | In
this uplifting talk, Katherine Fulton sketches the new future of
philanthropy -- one where collaboration and innovation allow regular
people to do big things, even when money is scarce. Giving five
practical examples of crowd-driven philanthropy, she calls for a new
generation of citizen leaders. | TED2007 | 0:12:34 | 6/25/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 586 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/586 | Ray Zahab | Ray Zahab treks to the South Pole | Extreme
runner Ray Zahab shares an enthusiastic account of his record-breaking
trek on foot to the South Pole -- a 33-day sprint through the snow. | TED2009 | 0:05:53 | 6/26/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 587 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/587 | Arthur Benjamin | Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education | Someone
always asks the math teacher, "Am I going to use calculus in real
life?" And for most of us, says Arthur Benjamin, the answer is no. He
offers a bold proposal on how to make math education relevant in the
digital age. | TED2009 | 0:02:58 | 6/29/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 588 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/588 | Gever Tulley | Gever Tulley teaches life lessons through tinkering | Gever
Tulley usesengaging photos and footage to demonstrate the valuable
lessons kids learn at his Tinkering School. When given tools, materials
and guidance, these young imaginations run wild and creative
problem-solving takes over to build unique boats, bridges and even a
rollercoaster! | TED2009 | 0:04:05 | 6/30/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 589 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/589 | Daniel Libeskind | Daniel Libeskind's 17 words of architectural inspiration | Daniel
Libeskind builds on very big ideas. Here, he shares 17 words that
underlie his vision for architecture -- raw, risky, emotional, radical
-- and that offer inspiration for any bold creative pursuit. | TED2009 | 0:18:36 | 7/1/2009 |
|
| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 590 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/590 | Eames Demetrios | The design genius of Charles + Ray Eames | The
legendary design team Charles and Ray Eames made films, houses and
classic midcentury modern furniture. Eames Demetrios, their grandson,
shows rarely seen films and archival footage in a lively, loving tribute
to their creative process. | TED2007 | 0:15:08 | 7/6/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 591 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/591 | Tom Wujec | Tom Wujec on 3 ways the brain creates meaning | Information
designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us
understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from
TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better
understand big ideas? | TED2009 | 0:06:26 | 7/7/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 592 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/592 | Sophal Ear | Sophal Ear: Escaping the Khmer Rouge | TED
Fellow Sophal Ear shares the compelling story of his family's escape
from Cambodia under the rule of the Khmer Rouge. He recounts his
mother's cunning and determination to save her children. | TED2009 | 0:05:57 | 7/8/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 594 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/594 | Kary Mullis | Kary Mullis' next-gen cure for killer infections | Drug-resistant
bacteria kills, even in top hospitals. But now tough infections like
staph and anthrax may be in for a surprise. Nobel-winning chemist Kary
Mullis, who watched a friend die when powerful antibiotics failed,
unveils a radical new cure that shows extraordinary promise. | TED2009 | 0:04:35 | 7/9/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 598 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/598 | Stewart Brand | Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental 'heresies' | The
man who helped usher in the environmental movement in the 1960s and
'70s has been rethinking his positions on cities, nuclear power, genetic
modification and geo-engineering. This talk at the US State Department
is a foretaste of his major new book, sure to provoke widespread debate. | TED@State | 0:16:42 | 7/13/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 599 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/599 | Olafur Eliasson | Olafur Eliasson: Playing with space and light | In
the spectacular large-scale projects he's famous for (such as
"Waterfalls" in New York harbor), Olafur Eliasson creates art from a
palette of space, distance, color and light. This idea-packed talk
begins with an experiment in the nature of perception. | TED2009 | 0:09:36 | 7/14/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 601 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/601 | Daniel Kraft | Daniel Kraft invents a better way to harvest bone marrow | Daniel
Kraft demos his Marrow Miner -- a new device that quickly harvests
life-saving bone marrow with minimal pain to the donor. He emphasizes
that the adult stem cells found in bone marrow can be used to treat many
terminal conditions, from Parkinson's to heart disease. | TED2009 | 0:04:14 | 7/15/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 602 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/602 | Jim Fallon | Jim Fallon: Exploring the mind of a killer | Psychopathic
killers are the basis for some must-watch TV, but what really makes
them tick? Neuroscientist Jim Fallon talks about brain scans and genetic
analysis that may uncover the rotten wiring in the nature (and nurture)
of murderers. In a too-strange-for-fiction twist, he shares a
fascinating family history that makes his work chillingly personal. | TED2009 | 0:06:32 | 7/16/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 603 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/603 | Nina Jablonski | Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin color | Nina
Jablonski says that differing skin colors are simply our bodies'
adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Charles Darwin
disagreed with this theory, but she explains, that's because he did not
have access to NASA. | TED2009 | 0:14:48 | 7/17/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 604 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/604 | Gordon Brown | Gordon Brown: Wiring a web for global good | We're
at a unique moment in history, says UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown: we
can use today's interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethic --
and work together to confront the challenges of poverty, security,
climate change and the economy. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:16:43 | 7/21/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 605 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/605 | Alain de Botton | Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success | Alain
de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure -- and questions
the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always
earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond
snobbery to find true pleasure in our work. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:16:51 | 7/28/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 606 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/606 | Golan Levin | Golan Levin makes art that looks back at you | Golan
Levin, an artist and engineer, uses modern tools -- robotics, new
software, cognitive research -- to make artworks that surprise and
delight. Watch as sounds become shapes, bodies create paintings, and a
curious eye looks back at the curious viewer. | TED2009 | 0:15:33 | 7/30/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 607 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/607 | Elaine Morgan | Elaine Morgan says we evolved from aquatic apes | Elaine
Morgan is a tenacious proponent of the aquatic ape hypothesis: the idea
that humans evolved from primate ancestors who dwelt in watery
habitats. Hear her spirited defense of the idea -- and her theory on why
mainstream science doesn't take it seriously. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:17:13 | 7/31/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 610 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/610 | Willard Wigan | Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculpture | Willard
Wigan tells the story of how a difficult and lonely childhood drove him
to discover his unique ability -- to create art so tiny that it can't
be seen with the naked eye. His slideshow of figures, as seen through a
microscope, can only be described as mind-boggling. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:19:43 | 8/3/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 613 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/613 | Michael Pritchard | Michael Pritchard's water filter turns filthy water drinkable | Too
much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer
Michael Pritchard did something about it -- inventing the portable
Lifesaver filter, which can make the most revolting water drinkable in
seconds. An amazing demo from TEDGlobal 2009. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:09:31 | 8/4/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 608 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/608 | Paul Romer | Paul Romer's radical idea: Charter cities | How
can a struggling country break out of poverty if it's trapped in a
system of bad rules? Economist Paul Romer unveils a bold idea: "charter
cities," city-scale administrative zones governed by a coalition of
nations. (Could Guant√°namo Bay become the next Hong Kong?) | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:18:29 | 8/5/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 614 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/614 | Janine Benyus | Janine Benyus: Biomimicry in action | Janine
Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look
to nature first. There you'll find inspired designs for making things
waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more. Here she reveals dozens
of new products that take their cue from nature with spectacular
results. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:17:42 | 8/6/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 615 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/615 | Emmanuel Jal | Emmanuel Jal: The music of a war child | For
five years, young Emmanuel Jal fought as a child soldier in the Sudan.
Rescued by an aid worker, he's become an international hip-hop star and
an activist for kids in war zones. In words and lyrics, he tells the
story of his amazing life. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:18:03 | 8/7/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 618 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/618 | Dan Pink | Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Career
analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a
fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional
rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating
stories -- and maybe, a way forward. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:18:36 | 8/24/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 619 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/619 | Eric Giler | Eric Giler demos wireless electricity | Eric
Giler wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power.
Here, he covers what this sci-fi tech offers, and demos MIT's
breakthrough version, WiTricity -- a near-to-market invention that may
soon recharge your cell phone, car, pacemaker. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:10:09 | 8/25/2009 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 620 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/620 | Hans Rosling | Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset | Talking
at the US State Department this summer, Hans Rosling uses his
fascinating data-bubble software to burst myths about the developing
world. Look for new analysis on China and the post-bailout world, mixed
with classic data shows. | TED@State | 0:19:57 | 8/26/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 621 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/621 | Natasha Tsakos | Natasha Tsakos' multimedia theatrical adventure | Natasha
Tsakos presents part of her one-woman, multimedia show, "Upwake." As
the character Zero, she blends dream and reality with an inventive
virtual world projected around her in 3D animation and electric sound. | TED2009 | 0:14:39 | 8/28/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 622 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/622 | Cary Fowler | Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food | The
varieties of wheat, corn and rice we grow today may not thrive in a
future threatened by climate change. Cary Fowler takes us inside a vast
global seed bank, buried within a frozen mountain in Norway, that stores
a diverse group of food-crop for whatever tomorrow may bring. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:17:08 | 8/31/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 623 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/623 | Joshua Silver | Josh Silver demos adjustable liquid-filled eyeglasses | Josh
Silver delivers his brilliantly simple solution for correcting vision
at the lowest cost possible -- adjustable, liquid-filled lenses. At
TEDGlobal 2009, he demos his affordable eyeglasses and reveals his
global plan to distribute them to a billion people in need by 2020. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:05:34 | 9/1/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 625 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/625 | Geoff Mulgan | Geoff Mulgan: Post-crash, investing in a better world | As
we reboot the world's economy, Geoff Mulgan poses a question: Instead
of sending bailout money to doomed old industries, why not use stimulus
funds to bootstrap some new, socially responsible companies -- and make
the world a little bit better? | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:18:00 | 9/2/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 626 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/626 | Evan Grant | Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics | Evan
Grant demonstrates the science and art of cymatics, a process for
making soundwaves visible. Useful for analyzing complex sounds (like
dolphin calls), it also makes complex and beautiful designs. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:04:39 | 9/3/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 627 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/627 | Steve Truglia | Steve Truglia: A leap from the edge of space | At
his day job, Steve Truglia flips cars, walks through fire and falls out
of buildings -- pushing technology to make stunts bigger, safer, more
awesome. He talks us through his next stunt: the highest jump ever
attempted, from the very edge of space. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:14:30 | 9/4/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 628 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/628 | James Balog | James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss | Photographer
James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a
network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming
rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:19:22 | 9/8/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 629 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/629 | Lewis Pugh | Lewis Pugh swims the North Pole | Lewis
Pugh talks about his record-breaking swim across the North Pole. He
braved the icy waters (in a Speedo) to highlight the melting icecap.
Watch for astonishing footage -- and some blunt commentary on the
realities of supercold-water swims. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:18:53 | 9/9/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 630 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/630 | Rebecca Saxe | Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds | Sensing
the motives and feelings of others is a natural talent for humans. But
how do we do it? Here, Rebecca Saxe shares fascinating lab work that
uncovers how the brain thinks about other peoples' thoughts -- and
judges their actions. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:16:51 | 9/10/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 631 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/631 | Vishal Vaid | Vishal Vaid's hypnotic song | Vishal
Vaid and his band explore a traditional South Asian musical form in
this mesmerizing improv performance. Sit back and let his music
transport you. | TED2006 | 0:13:34 | 9/11/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 633 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/633 | Misha Glenny | Misha Glenny investigates global crime networks | Journalist
Misha Glenny spent several years in a courageous investigation of
organized crime networks worldwide, which have grown to an estimated 15%
of the global economy. From the Russian mafia, to giant drug cartels,
his sources include not just intelligence and law enforcement officials
but criminal insiders. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:19:30 | 9/14/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 634 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/634 | Bjarke Ingels | Bjarke Ingels: 3 warp-speed architecture tales | Danish
architect Bjarke Ingels rockets through photo/video-mingled stories of
his eco-flashy designs. His buildings not only look like nature -- they
act like nature: blocking the wind, collecting solar energy -- and
creating stunning views. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:18:14 | 9/15/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 635 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/635 | John Lloyd | John Lloyd inventories the invisible | Nature's
mysteries meet tack-sharp wit in this hilarious, 10-minute mix of quips
and fun lessons, as comedian, writer and TV man John Lloyd plucks at
the substance of several things not seen. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:10:24 | 9/16/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 637 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/637 | Oliver Sacks | Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds | Neurologist
and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnett
syndrome -- when visually impaired people experience lucid
hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in
heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of this
under-reported phenomenon. | TED2009 | 0:18:48 | 9/17/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 639 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/639 | Imogen Heap | Imogen Heap plays "Wait It Out" | Imogen Heap plays a powerful stripped-down version of "Wait It Out," from her new record, Ellipse. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:03:57 | 9/18/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 640 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/640 | Jonathan Zittrain | Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness | Feeling
like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan
Zittrain begs to difffer. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of
millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:19:51 | 9/21/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 641 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/641 | Evgeny Morozov | Evgeny Morozov: How the Net aids dictatorships | TED
Fellow and journalist Evgeny Morozov punctures what he calls "iPod
liberalism" -- the assumption that tech innovation always promotes
freedom, democracy -- with chilling examples of ways the Internet helps
oppressive regimes stifle dissent. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:11:53 | 9/22/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 642 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/642 | William Kamkwamba | William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind | At
age 14, in poverty and famine, a Malawian boy built a windmill to power
his family's home. Now at 22, William Kamkwamba, who speaks at TED,
here, for the second time, shares in his own words the moving tale of
invention that changed his life. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:05:59 | 9/23/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 643 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/643 | Taryn Simon | Taryn Simon photographs secret sites | Taryn
Simon exhibits her startling take on photography -- to reveal worlds
and people we would never see otherwise. She shares two projects: one
documents otherworldly locations typically kept secret from the public,
the other involves haunting portraits of men convicted for crimes they
did not commit. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:17:32 | 9/24/2009 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 644 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/644 | Jacqueline Novogratz | Jacqueline Novogratz: A third way to think about aid | The
debate over foreign aid often pits those who mistrust "charity" against
those who mistrust reliance on the markets. Jacqueline Novogratz
proposes a middle way she calls patient capital, with promising examples
of entrepreneurial innovation driving social change. | TED@State | 0:17:04 | 9/25/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 645 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/645 | Parag Khanna | Parag Khanna maps the future of countries | Many
people think the lines on the map no longer matter, but Parag Khanna
says they do. Using maps of the past and present, he explains the root
causes of border conflicts worldwide and proposes simple yet cunning
solutions for each. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:18:53 | 9/28/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 646 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/646 | Tim Brown | Tim Brown urges designers to think big | Tim
Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty,
fashionable objects -- even as pressing questions like clean water
access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local,
collaborative, participatory "design thinking." | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:16:50 | 9/29/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 647 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/647 | Karen Armstrong | Karen Armstrong: Let's revive the Golden Rule | Weeks
from the Charter for Compassion launch, Karen Armstrong looks at
religion's role in the 21st century: Will its dogmas divide us? Or will
it unite us for common good? She reviews the catalysts that can drive
the world's faiths to rediscover the Golden Rule. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:09:54 | 9/29/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 648 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/648 | Garik Israelian | Garik Israelian: How spectroscopy could reveal alien life | Garik
Israelian is a spectroscopist, studying the spectrum emitted by a star
to figure out what it's made of and how it might behave. It's a rare and
accessible look at this discipline, which may be coming close to
finding a planet friendly to life. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:15:52 | 10/1/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 649 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/649 | Stefan Sagmeister | Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off | Every
seven years, designer Stefan Sagmeister closes his New York studio for a
yearlong sabbatical to rejuvenate and refresh their creative outlook.
He explains the often overlooked value of time off and shows the
innovative projects inspired by his time in Bali. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:17:40 | 10/2/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 650 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/650 | Carolyn Steel | Carolyn Steel: How food shapes our cities | Every
day, in a city the size of London, 30 million meals are served. But
where does all the food come from? Architect Carolyn Steel discusses the
daily miracle of feeding a city, and shows how ancient food routes
shaped the modern world. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:15:40 | 10/5/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 651 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/651 | David Logan | David Logan on tribal leadership | At
TEDxUSC, David Logan talks about the five kinds of tribes that humans
naturally form -- in schools, workplaces, even the driver's license
bureau. By understanding our shared tribal tendencies, we can help lead
each other to become better individuals. | TED in the Field | 0:16:39 | 10/6/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 652 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/652 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story | Our
lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist
Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic
cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about
another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:18:49 | 10/7/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 653 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/653 | Beau Lotto | Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see | Beau
Lotto's color games puzzle your vision, but they also spotlight what
you can't normally see: how your brain works. This fun, first-hand look
at your own versatile sense of sight reveals how evolution tints your
perception of what's really out there. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:16:31 | 10/8/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 654 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/654 | Sam Martin | Sam Martin: The quirky world of "manspaces" | Author
Sam Martin shares photos of a quirky world hobby that's trending with
the XY set: the "manspace." (They're custom-built hangouts where a man
can claim a bit of his own territory to work, relax, be himself.) Grab a
cold one and enjoy. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:04:27 | 10/9/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 655 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/655 | Eric Sanderson | Eric Sanderson pictures New York -- before the City | 400
years after Hudson found New York harbor, Eric Sanderson shares how he
made a 3D map of Mannahatta's fascinating pre-city ecology of hills,
rivers, wildlife -- accurate down to the block -- when Times Square was a
wetland and you couldn't get delivery. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:16:09 | 10/12/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 657 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/657 | David Hanson | David Hanson: Robots that "show emotion" | David
Hanson's robot faces look and act like yours: They recognize and
respond to emotion, and make expressions of their own. Here, an
"emotional" live demo of the Einstein robot offers a peek at a future
where robots truly mimic humans. | TED2009 | 0:04:58 | 10/13/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 658 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/658 | Rory Sutherland | Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man | Advertising
adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the
product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change
in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider “real”
value -- and his conclusion has interesting consequences for how we
look at life. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:16:39 | 10/14/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 659 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/659 | Henry Markram | Henry Markram builds a brain in a supercomputer | Henry
Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved -- soon. Mental
illness, memory, perception: they're made of neurons and electric
signals, and he plans to find them with a supercomputer that models all
the brain's 100,000,000,000,000 synapses. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:14:51 | 10/15/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 660 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/660 | Julian Treasure | Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects us | Playing
sound effects both pleasant and awful, Julian Treasure shows how sound
affects us in four significant ways. Listen carefully for a shocking
fact about noisy open-plan offices. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:05:47 | 10/16/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 661 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/661 | John Gerzema | John Gerzema: The post-crisis consumer | John
Gerzema says there's an upside to the recent financial crisis -- the
opportunity for positive change. Speaking at TEDxKC, he identifies four
major cultural shifts driving new consumer behavior and shows how
businesses are evolving to connect with thoughtful spending. | TEDxKC | 0:16:35 | 10/19/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 662 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/662 | Paul Debevec | Paul Debevec animates a photo-real digital face | At
TEDxUSC, computer graphics trailblazer Paul Debevec explains the
scene-stealing technology behind Digital Emily, a digitally constructed
human face so realistic it stands up to multiple takes. | TEDxUSC | 0:06:07 | 10/20/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 663 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/663 | Itay Talgam | Itay Talgam: Lead like the great conductors | An
orchestra conductor faces the ultimate leadership challenge: creating
perfect harmony without saying a word. In this charming talk, Itay
Talgam demonstrates the unique styles of six great 20th-century
conductors, illustrating crucial lessons for all leaders. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:20:52 | 10/21/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 664 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/664 | Marc Koska | Marc Koska: 1.3m reasons to re-invent the syringe | Reuse
of syringes, all too common in under-funded clinics, kills 1.3 million
each year. Marc Koska clues us in to this devastating global problem
with facts, photos and hidden-camera footage. He shares his solution: a
low-cost syringe that can't be used twice. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:04:46 | 10/22/2009 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 665 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/665 | Ian Goldin | Ian Goldin: Navigating our global future | As
globalization and technological advances bring us hurtling towards a
new integrated future, Ian Goldin warns that not all people may benefit
equally. But, he says, if we can recognize this danger, we might yet
realize the possibility of improved life for everyone. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:07:07 | 10/23/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 666 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/666 | David Deutsch | David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation | For
tens of thousands of years our ancestors understood the world through
myths, and the pace of change was glacial. The rise of scientific
understanding transformed the world within a few centuries. Why?
Physicist David Deutsch proposes a subtle answer. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:16:39 | 10/26/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 667 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/667 | Rachel Armstrong | Rachel Armstrong: Architecture that repairs itself? | Venice
is sinking. To save it, Rachel Armstrong says we need to outgrow
architecture made of inert materials and, well, make architecture that
grows itself. She proposes a not-quite-alive material that does its own
repairs and sequesters carbon, too. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:07:32 | 10/27/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 669 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/669 | Becky Blanton | Becky Blanton: The year I was homeless | Becky
Blanton planned to live in her van for a year and see the country, but
when depression set in and her freelance job ended, her camping trip
turned into homelessness. In this intimate talk, she describes her
experience of becoming one of America's working homeless. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:07:09 | 10/28/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 670 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/670 | Marcus du Sautoy | Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, reality's riddle | The
world turns on symmetry -- from the spin of subatomic particles to the
dizzying beauty of an arabesque. But there's more to it than meets the
eye. Here, Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy offers a glimpse of the
invisible numbers that marry all symmetrical objects. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:18:19 | 10/29/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 701 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/701 | Andrea Ghez | Andrea Ghez: The hunt for a supermassive black hole | With
new data from the Keck telescopes, Andrea Ghez shows how
state-of-the-art adaptive optics are helping astronomers understand our
universe's most mysterious objects: black holes. She shares evidence
that a supermassive black hole may be lurking at the center of the Milky
Way. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:16:26 | 12/2/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 672 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/672 | Matthew White | Matthew White gives the euphonium a new voice | The
euphonium, with its sweet brass sound, is rarely heard outside of
traditional brass bands. Cutting loose on the euph, prodigy Matthew
White performs Nat McIntosh's hip-hop-inflected "The Warrior Comes Out
to Play." | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:02:21 | 10/30/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 673 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/673 | Jackie Tabick | Rabbi Jackie Tabick: The balancing act of compassion | While
we all agree that compassion is a great idea, Rabbi Tabick acknowledges
there are challenges to its execution. She explains how a careful
balance of compassion and justice allows us to do good deeds, and keep
our sanity. | TEDSalon 2009 Compassion | 0:15:46 | 10/31/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 674 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/674 | Dayananda Saraswati | Swami Dayananda Saraswati: The profound journey of compassion | Swami
Dayananda Saraswati unravels the parallel paths of personal development
and attaining true compassion. He walks us through each step of
self-realization, from helpless infancy to the fearless act of caring
for others. | Chautauqua Institution | 0:16:54 | 10/31/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 675 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/675 | James Forbes | Rev. James Forbes: Compassion at the dinner table | Join
Rev. James Forbes at the dinner table of his Southern childhood, where
his mother and father taught him what compassion really means day to day
-- sharing with those who need love. | Chautauqua Institution | 0:18:38 | 10/31/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 676 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/676 | Feisal Abdul Rauf | Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf: Lose your ego, find your compassion | Imam
Faisal Abdul Rauf combines the teachings of the Qur’an, the stories
of Rumi, and the examples of Muhammad and Jesus, to demonstrate that
only one obstacle stands between each of us and absolute compassion --
ourselves. | TEDSalon 2009 Compassion | 0:16:47 | 10/31/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 677 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/677 | Robert Thurman | Robert Thurman: Expanding your circle of compassion | It’s
hard to always show compassion -- even to the people we love, but
Robert Thurman asks that we develop compassion for our enemies. He
prescribes a seven-step meditation exercise to extend compassion beyond
our inner circle. | Chautauqua Institution | 0:18:07 | 10/31/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 679 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/679 | Robert Wright | Robert Wright: The evolution of compassion | Robert
Wright uses evolutionary biology and game theory to explain why we
appreciate the Golden Rule ("Do unto others..."), why we sometimes
ignore it and why there’s hope that, in the near future, we might all
have the compassion to follow it. | TEDSalon 2009 Compassion | 0:16:56 | 10/31/2008 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 680 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/680 | Stefana Broadbent | Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet enables intimacy | We
worry that IM, texting, Facebook are spoiling human intimacy, but
Stefana Broadbent's research shows how communication tech is capable of
cultivating deeper relationships, bringing love across barriers like
distance and workplace rules. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:08:51 | 11/2/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 681 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/681 | Cameron Sinclair | Cameron Sinclair: The refugees of boom-and-bust | At
TEDGlobal U, Cameron Sinclair shows the unreported cost of real estate
megaprojects gone bust: thousands of migrant construction laborers left
stranded and penniless. To his fellow architects, he says there is only
one ethical response. | TED2009 | 0:03:05 | 11/9/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 682 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/682 | Rachel Pike | Rachel Pike: The science behind a climate headline | In
4 minutes, atmospheric chemist Rachel Pike provides a glimpse of the
massive scientific effort behind the bold headlines on climate change,
with her team -- one of thousands who contributed -- taking a risky
flight over the rainforest in pursuit of data on a key molecule. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:04:13 | 11/10/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 683 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/683 | Edward Burtynsky | Edward Burtynsky photographs the landscape of oil | In
stunning large-format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows the path of
oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine --
and then beyond to the projected peak-oil endgame. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:03:40 | 11/11/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 684 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/684 | Cynthia Schneider | Cynthia Schneider: The surprising spread of "Idol" TV | Cynthia
Schneider looks at two international "American Idol"-style shows --
one in Afghanistan, and one in the United Arab Emirates -- and shows the
surprising effect that these reality-TV competitions are creating in
their societies. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:05:37 | 11/13/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 685 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/685 | Pranav Mistry | Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology | At
TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical
world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his
SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an
onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind
SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:13:50 | 11/16/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 686 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/686 | Devdutt Pattanaik | Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. West -- the myths that mystify | Devdutt
Pattanaik takes an eye-opening look at the myths of India and of the
West -- and shows how these two fundamentally different sets of beliefs
about God, death and heaven help us consistently misunderstand one
another. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:18:26 | 11/19/2009 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 688 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/688 | Mallika Sarabhai | Mallika Sarabhai: Dance to change the world | At
TEDIndia, Mallika Sarabhai, a dancer/actor/politician, tells a
transformative story in dance -- and argues that the arts may be the
most powerful way to effect change, whether political, social or
personal. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:16:52 | 11/26/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 689 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/689 | Shashi Tharoor | Shashi Tharoor: Why nations should pursue "soft" power | India
is fast becoming a superpower, says Shashi Tharoor -- not just through
trade and politics, but through "soft" power, its ability to share its
culture with the world through food, music, technology, Bollywood. He
argues that in the long run it's not the size of the army that matters
as much as a country's ability to influence the world's hearts and
minds. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:17:53 | 11/30/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 700 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/700 | Gordon Brown | Gordon Brown on global ethic vs. national interest | Can
the interests of an individual nation be reconciled with humanity's
greater good? Can a patriotic, nationally elected politician really give
people in other countries equal consideration? Following his TEDTalk
calling for a global ethic, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown fields
questions from TED Curator Chris Anderson. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:17:10 | 12/1/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 691 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/691 | Mathieu Lehanneur | Mathieu Lehanneur demos science-inspired design | Naming
science as his chief inspiration, Mathieu Lehanneur shows a selection
of his ingenious designs -- an interactive noise-neutralizing ball, an
antibiotic course in one layered pill, asthma treatment that reminds
kids to take it, a living air filter, a living-room fish farm and more. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:18:04 | 11/17/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 692 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/692 | Fields Wicker-Miurin | Fields Wicker-Miurin: Learning from leadership's "missing manual" | Leadership
doesn't have a user's manual, but Fields Wicker-Miurin says stories of
remarkable, local leaders are the next best thing. At a TED salon in
London, she shares three. | TEDSalon London 2009 | 0:16:35 | 11/18/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 694 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/694 | Tom Wujec | Tom Wujec demos the 13th-century astrolabe | Rather
than demo another new technology, Tom Wujec reaches back to one of our
earliest but most ingenious devices -- the astrolabe. With thousands of
uses, from telling time to mapping the night sky, this old tech reminds
us that the ancient can be as brilliant as the brand-new. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:09:25 | 11/20/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 695 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/695 | Hans Rosling | Hans Rosling: Asia's rise -- how and when | Hans
Rosling was a young guest student in India when he first realized that
Asia had all the capacities to reclaim its place as the world's dominant
economic force. At TEDIndia, he graphs global economic growth since
1858 and predicts the exact date that India and China will outstrip the
US. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:15:50 | 11/23/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 696 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/696 | Rob Hopkins | Rob Hopkins: Transition to a world without oil | Rob
Hopkins reminds us that the oil our world depends on is steadily
running out. He proposes a unique solution to this problem -- the
Transition response, where we prepare ourselves for life without oil and
sacrifice our luxuries to build systems and communities that are
completely independent of fossil fuels. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:16:40 | 11/24/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 698 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/698 | Magnus Larsson | Magnus Larsson: Turning dunes into architecture | Architecture
student Magnus Larsson details his bold plan to transform the harsh
Sahara desert using bacteria and a surprising construction material: the
sand itself. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:11:43 | 11/25/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 702 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/702 | Anupam Mishra | Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting | With
wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of
engineering built centuries ago by the people of India's Golden Desert
to harvest water. These structures are still used today -- and are often
superior to modern water megaprojects. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:17:14 | 12/3/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 708 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/708 | Marc Pachter | Marc Pachter: The art of the interview | Marc
Pachter has conducted live interviews with some of the most intriguing
characters in recent American history as part of a remarkable series
created for the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. He reveals the
secret to a great interview and shares extraordinary stories of talking
with Steve Martin, Clare Booth Luce and more. | EG 2008 | 0:20:54 | 12/9/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 704 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/704 | Sunitha Krishnan | Sunitha Krishnan fights sex slavery |
Sunitha Krishnan has dedicated her life to rescuing women and children
from sex slavery, a multimilion-dollar global market. In this courageous
talk, she tells three powerful stories, as well as her own, and calls
for a more humane approach to helping these young victims rebuild their
lives. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:12:42 | 12/7/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 705 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/705 | Scott Kim | Scott Kim takes apart the art of puzzles | At
the 2008 EG conference, famed puzzle designer Scott Kim takes us inside
the puzzle-maker's frame of mind. Sampling his career's work, he
introduces a few of the most popular types, and shares the fascinations
that inspired some of his best. | EG 2008 | 0:11:49 | 12/4/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 706 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/706 | Rory Bremner | Rory Bremner's one-man world summit | Scottish
funnyman Rory Bremner convenes a historic council on the TEDGlobal
stage -- as he lampoons Gordon Brown, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and a
cast of other world leaders with his hilarious impressions and biting
commentary. See if you can catch a few sharp TED in-jokes. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:14:41 | 12/7/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 709 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/709 | Thulasiraj Ravilla | Thulasiraj Ravilla: How low-cost eye care can be world-class | India's
revolutionary Aravind Eye Care System has given sight to millions.
Thulasiraj Ravilla looks at the ingenious approach that drives its
treatment costs down and quality up, and why its methods should trigger a
re-think of all human services. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:17:27 | 12/9/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 710 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/710 | Shereen El Feki | Shereen El Feki: Pop culture in the Arab world | At
TEDGlobal University, Shereen El Feki shows how some Arab cultures are
borrowing trademarks of Western pop culture -- music videos, comics,
even Barbie -- and adding a culturally appropriate twist. The hybridized
media shows how two civilizations, rather than dividing, can dovetail. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:05:05 | 12/11/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 712 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/712 | Loretta Napoleoni | Loretta Napoleoni: The intricate economics of terrorism | Loretta
Napoleoni details her rare opportunity to talk to the secretive Italian
Red Brigades -- an experience that sparked a lifelong interest in
terrorism. She gives a behind-the-scenes look at its complex economics,
revealing a surprising connection between money laundering and the US
Patriot Act. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:15:44 | 12/14/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 713 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/713 | Ryan Lobo | Ryan Lobo: Photographing the hidden story | Ryan
Lobo has traveled the world, taking photographs that tell stories of
unusual human lives. In this haunting talk, he reframes controversial
subjects with empathy, so that we see the pain of a Liberian war
criminal, the quiet strength of UN women peacekeepers and the
perseverance of Delhi's underappreciated firefighters. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:11:20 | 12/15/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 714 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/714 | Alexis Ohanian | Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media | In
a funny, rapid-fire 4 minutes, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit tells the
real-life fable of one humpback whale's rise to Web stardom. The lesson
of Mister Splashy Pants is a shoo-in classic for meme-makers and
marketers in the Facebook age. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:04:26 | 12/15/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 715 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/715 | Charles Anderson | Charles Anderson discovers dragonflies that cross oceans |
While living and working as a marine biologist in Maldives, Charles
Anderson noticed sudden explosions of dragonflies at certain times of
year. He explains how he carefully tracked the path of a plain, little
dragonfly called the globe skimmer, only to discover that it had the
longest migratory journey of any insect in the world. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:16:38 | 12/17/2009 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 716 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/716 | James Geary | James Geary, metaphorically speaking | Aphorism
enthusiast and author James Geary waxes on a fascinating fixture of
human language: the metaphor. Friend of scribes from Aristotle to Elvis,
metaphor can subtly influence the decisions we make, Geary says. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:09:30 | 12/17/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 717 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/717 | Shaffi Mather | Shaffi Mather: A new way to fight corruption | Shaffi
Mather explains why he left his first career to become a social
entrepreneur, providing life-saving transportation with his company 1298
for Ambulance. Now, he has a new idea and plans to begin a company to
fight the booming business of corruption in public service, eliminating
it one bribe at a time. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:10:41 | 12/21/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 718 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/718 | Steven Cowley | Steven Cowley: Fusion is energy's future | Physicist
Steven Cowley is certain that nuclear fusion is the only truly
sustainable solution to the fuel crisis. He explains why fusion will
work -- and details the projects that he and many others have devoted
their lives to, working against the clock to create a new source of
energy. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:09:54 | 12/22/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 719 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/719 | Asher Hasan | Asher Hasan's message of peace from Pakistan | One
of a dozen Pakistanis who came to TEDIndia despite security hassles
entering the country, TED Fellow Asher Hasan shows photos of ordinary
Pakistanis that drive home a profound message for citizens of all
nations: look beyond disputes, and see the humanity we share. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:04:28 | 12/23/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 720 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/720 | Steve Jobs | Steve Jobs: How to live before you die | At
his Stanford University commencement speech, Steve Jobs, CEO and
co-founder of Apple and Pixar, urges us to pursue our dreams and see the
opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself. | Stanford University | 0:15:04 | 12/23/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 721 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/721 | Michael Sandel | Michael Sandel: What's the right thing to do? | Is
torture ever justified? Would you steal a drug that your child needs to
survive? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? How much is one human
life worth? In the "Justice" program that bears his name, Harvard
professor Michael Sandel probes these questions -- and asks what you
think, and why. | Justice with Michael Sandel | 0:54:56 | 12/23/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 722 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/722 | Cat Laine | Cat Laine: Engineering a better life for all | At
the BIF innovation summit, Cat Laine draws on the Greek myth of
Tantalus to explain the frustration developing countries face. She shows
how we might help communities rich in human capital, but poor in
resources and infrastructure, with cleverly engineered solutions. | Business Innovation Factory | 0:14:49 | 12/23/2009 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 723 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/723 | Bertrand Piccard | Bertrand Piccard's solar-powered adventure | For
the dawn of a new decade, adventurer Bertrand Piccard offers us a
challenge: Find motivation in what seems impossible. He shares his own
plans to do what many say can't be done -- to fly around the world, day
and night, in a solar-powered aircraft. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:17:46 | 1/1/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 724 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/724 | Vilayanur Ramachandran | VS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization | Neuroscientist
Vilayanur Ramachandran outlines the fascinating functions of mirror
neurons. Only recently discovered, these neurons allow us to learn
complex social behaviors, some of which formed the foundations of human
civilization as we know it. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:07:43 | 1/4/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 727 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/727 | Dan Buettner | Dan Buettner: How to live to be 100+ | To
find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the
world's "Blue Zones," communities whose elders live with vim and vigor
to record-setting age. At TEDxTC, he shares the 9 common diet and
lifestyle habits that keep them spry past age 100. | TEDxTC | 0:19:39 | 1/6/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 726 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/726 | Nick Veasey | Nick Veasey: Exposing the invisible | Nick
Veasey shows outsized X-ray images that reveal the otherworldly inner
workings of familiar objects -- from the geometry of a wildflower to the
anatomy of a Boeing 747. Producing these photos is dangerous and
painstaking, but the reward is a superpower: looking at what the human
eye can't see. | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:13:18 | 1/5/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 728 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/728 | Romulus Whitaker | Romulus Whitaker: The real danger lurking in the water | The
gharial and king cobra are two of India's most iconic reptiles, and
they're endangered because of polluted waterways. Conservationist
Romulus Whitaker shows rare footage of these magnificent animals and
urges us to save the rivers that sustain their lives and our own. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:17:18 | 1/7/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 729 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/729 | Herbie Hancock | Herbie Hancock's all-star set | Legendary
jazz musician Herbie Hancock delivers a stunning performance alongside
two old friends -- past drummer for the Headhunters, Harvey Mason, and
bassist Marcus Miller. Listen to the end to hear them sweeten the
classic "Watermelon Man." | TED2009 | 0:25:05 | 1/8/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 730 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/730 | Randy Pausch | Randy Pausch: Really achieving your childhood dreams | In
2007, Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch, who was dying of
pancreatic cancer, delivered a one-of-a-kind last lecture that made the
world stop and pay attention. This moving talk will teach you how to
really achieve your childhood dreams. Unmissable. | Carnegie Mellon University | 1:16:27 | 1/8/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 733 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/733 | Matt Weinstein | Matt Weinstein: What Bernie Madoff couldn't steal from me | Matt
Weinstein lost his life savings to Bernie Madoff's notorious scam. But
his response to the disaster is unexpectedly hopeful. | AORN Congress | 0:08:30 | 1/9/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 732 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/732 | Robert Sapolsky | Robert Sapolsky: The uniqueness of humans | At
Stanford University, primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a fascinating
and funny look at human behaviors which the rest of the animal kingdom
would consider bizarre. | Stanford University | 0:37:26 | 1/8/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 734 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/734 | Kartick Satyanarayan | Kartick Satyanarayan: How we rescued the "dancing" bears | Traditionally,
the Kalandar community of India has survived by capturing sloth bear
cubs and training them to "dance" through extreme cruelty. Kartick
Satyanarayan has been able to put an end to this centuries-old practice,
and in so doing discovered a lesson of wider significance: make the
practitioners part of the solution. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:04:02 | 1/11/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 735 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/735 | Kiran Sethi | Kiran Bir Sethi teaches kids to take charge | Kiran
Bir Sethi shows how her groundbreaking Riverside School in India
teaches kids life's most valuable lesson: "I can." Watch her students
take local issues into their own hands, lead other young people, even
educate their parents. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:09:32 | 1/12/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 736 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/736 | Lalitesh Katragadda | Lalitesh Katragadda: Making maps to fight disaster, build economies | As
of 2005, only 15 percent of the world was mapped. This slows the
delivery of aid after a disaster -- and hides the economic potential of
unused lands and unknown roads. In this short talk, Google's Lalitesh
Katragadda demos Map Maker, a group map-making tool that people around
the globe are using to map their world. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:02:54 | 1/13/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 737 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/737 | Edwidge Danticat | Edwidge Danticat: Stories of Haiti | In
the midst of an earlier crisis, Haitian author Edwidge Danticat reminds
us of the contributions of Haiti's vibrant culture and people. This
reading offers a timely message for today -- as the nation struggles in
the aftermath of a devastating earthquake. | University of California | 0:59:33 | 1/14/2010 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 738 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/738 | Charles Fleischer | Charles Fleischer insists: All things are Moleeds | In
a presentation that can only be described as epic, comedian Charles
Fleischer delivers a hysterical send-up of a time-honored TED theme: the
map. Geometry, numbers, charts and stamp art also factor in (somehow),
as he weaves together a unique theory of everything called "Moleeds." | TED2005 | 0:18:03 | 1/15/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 740 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/740 | Martin Luther King Jr. | Martin Luther King Jr.: I have a dream | 1963.
Atop the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. stood
before 200,000 supporters to call for racial equality, in what would
become the defining moment of the African-American civil rights movement
-- and a turning point in human history. | March on Washington, 1963 | 0:17:28 | 1/17/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 741 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/741 | David Blaine | David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 min | In
this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician and stuntman David
Blaine describes what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17
minutes -- a world record (only two minutes shorter than this entire
talk!) -- and what his often death-defying work means to him. Warning:
do NOT try this at home. | TEDMED 2009 | 0:20:19 | 1/19/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 744 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/744 | Anthony Atala | Anthony Atala on growing new organs | Anthony
Atala's state-of-the-art lab grows human organs -- from muscles to
blood vessels to bladders, and more. At TEDMED, he shows footage of his
bio-engineers working with some of its sci-fi gizmos, including an
oven-like bioreactor (preheat to 98.6 F) and a machine that "prints"
human tissue. | TEDMED 2009 | 0:17:52 | 1/21/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 743 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/743 | Ravin Agrawal | Ravin Agrawal: 10 young Indian artists to watch | Collector
Ravin Agrawal delivers a glowing introduction to 10 of India's most
exciting young contemporary artists. Working in a variety of media, each
draws on their local culture for inspiration. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:06:34 | 1/20/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 745 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/745 | Sivamani | Sivamani: Rhythm is everything, everywhere | Percussionist
Sivamani delivers one of TED's liveliest and most inventive
performances yet. He uses traditional Western and Eastern instruments to
create a rhythmic tour de force, along with a tub of water, corrugated
metal, spoons, luggage, our stage props and even a little audience
participation. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:16:40 | 1/22/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 746 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/746 | Richard Dawkins | Richard Dawkins: Growing up in the universe | At
the Royal Institution in 1991, Richard Dawkins asks us to look at our
universe with new eyes. Packed with big questions and illuminating
visuals, this memorable journey through the history of life magnifies
the splendor of evolution and our place in it. | Royal Institution | 0:57:55 | 1/23/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 747 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/747 | Taylor Mali | Taylor Mali: What teachers make | Ever
heard the phrase "Those who can't do, teach"? At the Bowery Poetry
Club, slam poet Taylor Mali begs to differ, and delivers a powerful,
3-minute response on behalf of educators everywhere. | Bowery Poetry Club | 0:03:02 | 1/23/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 748 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/748 | Bill Davenhall | Bill Davenhall: Your health depends on where you live | Where
you live: It impacts your health as much as diet and genes do, but it's
not part of your medical records. At TEDMED, Bill Davenhall shows how
overlooked government geo-data (from local heart-attack rates to toxic
dumpsite info) can mesh with mobile GPS apps to keep doctors in the
loop. Call it "geo-medicine." | TEDMED 2009 | 0:09:25 | 1/25/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 750 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/750 | Joshua Prince-Ramus | Joshua Prince-Ramus: Building a theater that remakes itself | Joshua
Prince-Ramus believes that if architects re-engineer their design
process, the results can be spectacular. Speaking at TEDxSMU, Dallas, he
walks us through his fantastic re-creation of the local Wyly Theater as
a giant "theatrical machine" that reconfigures itself at the touch of a
button. | TEDxSMU | 0:18:42 | 1/26/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 751 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/751 | Eve Ensler | Eve Ensler: Embrace your inner girl | In
this passionate talk, Eve Ensler declares that there is a girl cell in
us all -- a cell that we have all been taught to suppress. She tells
heartfelt stories of girls around the world who have overcome shocking
adversity and violence to reveal the astonishing strength of being a
girl. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:19:54 | 1/27/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 752 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/752 | Jane Chen | Jane Chen: A warm embrace that saves lives | In
the developing world, access to incubators is limited by cost and
distance, and millions of premature babies die each year. TED Fellow
Jane Chen shows an invention that could keep millions of these infants
warm -- a design that's safe, portable, low-cost and life-saving. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:04:46 | 1/28/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 755 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/755 | Derek Sivers | Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different? | There's
a flip side to everything, the saying goes, and in 2 minutes, Derek
Sivers shows this is true in a few ways you might not expect. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:02:42 | 1/29/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 756 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/756 | JK Rowling | JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure | At
her Harvard commencement speech, "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling
offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers,
including one hard-won lesson that she deems "worth more than any
qualification I ever earned." | Harvard University | 0:20:58 | 1/30/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 757 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/757 | Sendhil Mullainathan | Sendhil Mullainathan: Solving social problems with a nudge | MacArthur
winner Sendhil Mullainathan uses the lens of behavioral economics to
study a tricky set of social problems -- those we know how to solve, but
don't. We know how to reduce child deaths due to diarrhea, how to
prevent diabetes-related blindness and how to implement solar-cell
technology ... yet somehow, we don't or can't. Why? | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:18:01 | 2/1/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 759 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/759 | Jamie Heywood | Jamie Heywood: The big idea my brother inspired | When
Jamie Heywood's brother was diagnosed with ALS, he devoted his life to
fighting the disease as well. The Heywood brothers built an ingenious
website where people share and track data on their illnesses -- and they
discovered that the collective data had enormous power to comfort,
explain and predict. | TEDMED 2009 | 0:16:54 | 2/2/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 760 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/760 | George Whitesides | George Whitesides: A lab the size of a postage stamp | Traditional
lab tests for disease diagnosis can be too expensive and cumbersome for
the regions most in need. George Whitesides' ingenious answer, at
TEDxBoston, is a foolproof tool that can be manufactured at virtually
zero cost. | TEDxBoston | 0:16:16 | 2/3/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 761 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/761 | David Agus | David Agus: A new strategy in the war on cancer | Traditionally,
David Agus explains, cancer treatments have had a short-sighted focus
on the offending individual cells. He suggests a new, cross-disciplinary
approach, using atypical drugs, computer modeling and protein analysis
to treat and analyze the whole body. | TEDMED 2009 | 0:23:44 | 2/4/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 762 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/762 | Tom Shannon | Tom Shannon: The painter and the pendulum | TED
visits Tom Shannon in his Manhattan studio for an intimate look at his
science-inspired art. An eye-opening, personal conversation with John
Hockenberry reveals how nature's forces -- and the onset of Parkinson's
tremors -- interact in his life and craft. | TED in the Field | 0:13:21 | 2/5/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 763 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/763 | Peter Eigen | Peter Eigen: How to expose the corrupt | Some
of the world's most baffling social problems, says Peter Eigen, can be
traced to systematic, pervasive government corruption, hand-in-glove
with global companies. At TEDxBerlin, Eigen describes the thrilling
counter-attack led by his organization Transparency International. | TEDxBerlin | 0:17:01 | 2/8/2010 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 766 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/766 | Blaise Aguera y Arcas | Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps | In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft. | TED2010 | 0:07:45 | 2/13/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 765 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/765 | Jamie Oliver | Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food | The
way we eat in the developed world is causing needless death -- and
shortening the lives of the next generation of kids. Sharing powerful
stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., Jamie
Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food. | TED2010 | 0:21:53 | 2/11/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 767 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/767 | Bill Gates | Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero! | At
TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future,
describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and
explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear
reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050. | TED2010 | 0:27:49 | 2/18/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 768 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/768 | David Cameron | David Cameron: The next age of government | The
leader of Britain's Conservative Party says we're entering a new era --
where governments themselves have less power (and less money) and
people empowered by technology have more. Tapping into new ideas on
behavioral economics, he explores how these trends could be turned into
smarter policy. | TED2010 | 0:13:59 | 2/15/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 769 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/769 | Aimee Mullins | Aimee Mullins: The opportunity of adversity | The
thesaurus might equate "disabled" with synonyms like "useless" and
"mutilated," but ground-breaking runner Aimee Mullins is out to redefine
the word. Defying these associations, she shows how adversity -- in her
case, being born without shinbones -- actually opens the door for human
potential. | TEDMED 2009 | 0:21:58 | 2/17/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 770 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/770 | Kevin Kelly | Kevin Kelly tells technology's epic story | In
this wide-ranging, thought-provoking talk from TEDxAmsterdam, Kevin
Kelly muses on what technology means in our lives -- from its impact at
the personal level to its place in the cosmos. | TEDxAmsterdam | 0:16:32 | 2/19/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 771 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/771 | Philip K. Howard | Philip K. Howard: Four ways to fix a broken legal system | The
land of the free has become a legal minefield, says Philip K. Howard --
especially for teachers and doctors, whose work has been paralyzed by
fear of suits. What's the answer? A lawyer himself, Howard has four
propositions for simplifying US law. | TED2010 | 0:18:21 | 2/21/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 772 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/772 | Eric Topol | Eric Topol: The wireless future of medicine | Eric
Topol says we'll soon use our smartphones to monitor our vital signs
and chronic conditions. At TEDMED, he highlights several of the most
important wireless devices in medicine's future -- all helping to keep
more of us out of hospital beds. | TEDMED 2009 | 0:16:58 | 2/23/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 773 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/773 | Temple Grandin | Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds | Temple
Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks about how her mind
works -- sharing her ability to "think in pictures," which helps her
solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss. She makes the case
that the world needs people on the autism spectrum: visual thinkers,
pattern thinkers, verbal thinkers, and all kinds of smart geeky kids. | TED2010 | 0:19:43 | 2/24/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 774 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/774 | Sean Carroll | Sean Carroll on the arrow of time (Part 1) | In
Part 1 of his lecture at the University of Sydney, cosmologist Sean
Carroll gives an entertaining and thought-provoking talk about the
nature of time, the origin of entropy, and how what happened before the
Big Bang might be responsible for the arrow of time we observe today.
(Don't miss <a
href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sean_carroll_on_the_arrow_of_time_part_2.html">Part
2</a> of this talk!) | University of Sydney | 0:28:57 | 2/27/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 775 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/775 | Bobby McFerrin | Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with music | In
this fun, 3-min performance from the World Science Festival, musician
Bobby McFerrin uses the pentatonic scale to reveal one surprising result
of the way our brains are wired. | World Science Festival | 0:03:04 | 2/27/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 776 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/776 | Pawan Sinha | Pawan Sinha on how brains learn to see | Pawan
Sinha details his groundbreaking research into how the brain's visual
system develops. Sinha and his team provide free vision-restoring
treatment to children born blind, and then study how their brains learn
to interpret visual data. The work offers insights into neuroscience,
engineering and even autism. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:18:23 | 2/25/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 777 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/777 | Raghava KK | Raghava KK: Five lives of an artist | With
endearing honesty and vulnerability, Raghava KK tells the colorful tale
of how art has taken his life to new places, and how life experiences
in turn have driven his multiple reincarnations as an artist -- from
cartoonist to painter, media darling to social outcast, and son to
father. | TED2010 | 0:17:55 | 2/26/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 778 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/778 | Sean Carroll | Sean Carroll on the arrow of time (Part 2) | In
Part 2 of his lecture at the University of Sydney, cosmologist Sean
Carroll continues his entertaining and thought-provoking talk about the
nature of time, the origin of entropy, and how what happened before the
Big Bang might be responsible for the arrow of time we observe today.
(Don't miss <a
href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sean_carroll_on_the_arrow_of_time.html">Part
1</a> of this talk!) | University of Sydney | 0:24:21 | 1/27/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 779 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/779 | Daniel Kahneman | Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory | Using
examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of
behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing
selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently.
This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy
-- and our own self-awareness. | TED2010 | 0:20:06 | 3/1/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 780 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/780 | Harsha Bhogle | Harsha Bhogle: The rise of cricket, the rise of India | The
tale of a major global cultural phenomenon: Cricket commentator Harsha
Bhogle describes the spectacular arrival of fast-paced 20-20 cricket as
it parallels the rise of modern India. He traces the game from its
sleepy English roots to the current world of celebrity owners and
million-dollar player contracts. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:16:59 | 3/2/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 783 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/783 | Gary Flake | Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration? | Gary
Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of
images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it
enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the
discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing. | TED2010 | 0:06:25 | 3/3/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 784 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/784 | Richard Feynman | Richard Feynman: Physics is fun to imagine | In
this archival footage from BBC TV, celebrated physicist Richard Feynman
explains what fire, magnets, rubber bands (and more) are like at the
scale of the jiggling atoms they're made of. This accessible, enchanting
conversation in physics reveals a teeming nano-world that's just plain
fun to imagine. | BBC TV | 1:05:55 | 3/3/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 785 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/785 | James Cameron | James Cameron: Before Avatar ... a curious boy | James
Cameron's big-budget (and even bigger-grossing) films create unreal
worlds all their own. In this personal talk, he reveals his childhood
fascination with the fantastic -- from reading science fiction to
deep-sea diving -- and how it ultimately drove the success of his
blockbuster hits "Aliens," "The Terminator," "Titanic" and "Avatar." | TED2010 | 0:17:08 | 3/4/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 786 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/786 | The LXD | The LXD: In the Internet age, dance evolves ... | The
LXD (the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers) electrify the TED2010 stage
with an emerging global street-dance culture, revved up by the Internet.
In a preview of Jon Chu’s upcoming Web series, this astonishing
troupe show off their superpowers. | TED2010 | 0:17:29 | 3/5/2010 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 787 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/787 | Srikumar Rao | Srikumar Rao: Plug into your hard-wired happiness | Srikumar
Rao says we spend most of our lives learning to be unhappy, even as we
strive for happiness. At Arbejdsglaede Live! 2009, he teaches us how to
break free of the "I'd be happy if ..." mental model, and embrace our
hard-wired happiness. | Arbejdsglaede Live | 0:18:00 | 3/5/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 788 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/788 | Tim Berners-Lee | Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide | At
TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments,
scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the
web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting
results when the data gets linked up. | TED2010 | 0:05:33 | 3/8/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 789 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/789 | Gary Lauder | Gary Lauder's new traffic sign: Take Turns | Fifty
percent of traffic accidents happen at intersections. Gary Lauder
shares a brilliant and cheap idea for helping drivers move along
smoothly: a new traffic sign that combines the properties of "Stop" and
"Yield" -- and asks drivers to be polite. | TED2010 | 0:04:26 | 3/9/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 790 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/790 | Dan Barber | Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish | Chef
Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to
keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he
chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, and the
foodie's honeymoon he's enjoyed since discovering an outrageously
delicious fish raised using a revolutionary farming method in Spain. | TED2010 | 0:19:02 | 3/10/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 791 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/791 | Ken Kamler | Ken Kamler: Medical miracle on Everest | When
the worst disaster in the history of Mount Everest climbs occurred, Ken
Kamler was the only doctor on the mountain. At TEDMED, he shares the
incredible story of the climbers' battle against extreme conditions and
uses brain imaging technology to map the medical miracle of one man who
survived roughly 36 hours buried in the snow. | TEDMED 2009 | 0:20:49 | 3/18/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 792 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/792 | Eric Mead | Eric Mead: The magic of the placebo | Sugar
pills, injections of nothing -- studies show that, more often than
you'd expect, placebos really work. At TEDMED, magician Eric Mead does a
trick to prove that, even when you know something's not real, you can
still react as powerfully as if it is. (Warning: This talk is not
suitable for viewers who are disturbed by needles or blood.) | TEDMED 2009 | 0:09:05 | 3/12/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 796 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/796 | Mark Roth | Mark Roth: Suspended animation is within our grasp | Mark
Roth studies suspended animation: the art of shutting down life
processes and then starting them up again. It's wild stuff, but it's not
science fiction. Induced by careful use of an otherwise toxic gas,
suspended animation can potentially help trauma and heart attack victims
survive long enough to be treated. | TED2010 | 0:18:13 | 3/15/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 795 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/795 | Gary Vaynerchuk | Gary Vaynerchuk: Do what you love (no excuses!) | At
the Web 2.0 Expo, entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk gives a shot in the arm
to dreamers and up-and-comers who face self-doubt. The Internet has made
the formula for success simpler than ever, he argues. So there's now no
excuse not to do what makes you happy. | Web 2.0 Expo 2008 | 0:15:27 | 3/12/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 797 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/797 | Eric Dishman | Eric Dishman: Take health care off the mainframe | At
TEDMED, Eric Dishman makes a bold argument: The US health care system
is like computing circa 1959, tethered to big, unwieldy central systems:
hospitals, doctors, nursing homes. As our aging population booms, it's
imperative, he says, to create personal, networked, home-based health
care for all. | TEDMED 2009 | 0:16:41 | 3/16/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 798 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/798 | Douglas Adams | Douglas Adams: Parrots, the universe and everything | Blind
river dolphins, reclusive lemurs, a parrot as fearless as it is
lovelorn ... Douglas Adams' close encounters with these rare and unusual
animals reveal that evolution, ever ingenious, can be fickle too -- in a
University of California talk that sparkles with his trademark satiric
wit. | University of California | 1:27:36 | 3/16/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 799 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/799 | Jane McGonigal | Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world | Games
like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and
incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this
gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can,
and explains how. | TED2010 | 0:20:03 | 3/17/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 800 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/800 | Shekhar Kapur | Shekhar Kapur: We are the stories we tell ourselves | Where
does creative inspiration spring from? At TEDIndia, Hollywood/Bollywood
director Shekhar Kapur ("Elizabeth," "Mr. India") pinpoints his source
of creativity: sheer, utter panic. He shares a powerful way to unleash
your inner storyteller. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:21:14 | 3/19/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 801 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/801 | Sam Harris | Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions | Questions
of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by
science. But Sam Harris argues that science can -- and should -- be an
authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what
constitutes a good life. | TED2010 | 0:23:06 | 3/22/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 802 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/802 | Juliana Machado Ferreira | Juliana Machado Ferreira: The fight to end rare-animal trafficking in Brazil | Biologist
Juliana Machado Ferreira, a TED Senior Fellow, talks about her work
helping to save birds and other animals stolen from the wild in Brazil.
Once these animals are seized from smugglers, she asks, then what? | TED2010 | 0:05:34 | 3/23/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 803 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/803 | Alan Siegel | Alan Siegel: Let's simplify legal jargon! | Tax
forms, credit agreements, healthcare legislation: They're crammed with
gobbledygook, says Alan Siegel, and incomprehensibly long. He calls for a
simple, sensible redesign -- and plain English -- to make legal
paperwork intelligible to the rest of us. | TED2010 | 0:04:26 | 3/24/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 804 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/804 | Joel Levine | Joel Levine: Why we need to go back to Mars | At
TEDxNASA, planetary scientist Joel Levine shows some intriguing -- and
puzzling -- new discoveries about Mars: craters full of ice, traces of
ancient oceans, and compelling hints at the presence, sometime in the
past, of life. He makes the case for going back to Mars to find out
more. | TEDxNASA | 0:16:14 | 3/25/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 805 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/805 | Robert Gupta | Robert Gupta: Music is medicine, music is sanity | Robert
Gupta, violinist with the LA Philharmonic, talks about a violin lesson
he once gave to a brilliant, schizophrenic musician -- and what he
learned. Called back onstage later, Gupta plays his own transcription of
the prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1. | TED2010 | 0:09:26 | 3/26/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 806 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/806 | Patsy Rodenburg | Patsy Rodenburg: Why I do theater | Patsy
Rodenburg says the world needs actors more than ever. In this talk at
Michael Howard Studios, she tells the story of a profound encounter that
reveals the deeper role theater can play in people's lives. | Michael Howard Studios | 0:06:47 | 3/26/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 807 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/807 | Kevin Bales | Kevin Bales: How to combat modern slavery | In
this moving yet pragmatic talk, Kevin Bales explains the business of
modern slavery, a multibillion-dollar economy that underpins some of the
worst industries on earth. He shares stats and personal stories from
his on-the-ground research -- and names the price of freeing every slave
on earth right now. | TED2010 | 0:18:01 | 3/29/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 809 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/809 | Shukla Bose | Shukla Bose: Teaching one child at a time | Educating
the poor is more than just a numbers game, says Shukla Bose. She tells
the story of her groundbreaking Parikrma Humanity Foundation, which
brings hope to India's slums by looking past the daunting statistics and
focusing on treating each child as an individual. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:16:23 | 3/30/2010 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 813 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/813 | Jor-El | Jor-El: Last-ditch appeal to save the planet | (This
clip from the classic "Superman" TV show was originally posted for
April Fool's Day, but is staying on the site by popular request.) With
the planet facing a growing threat from the sun, this passionate speech
from the geo-visionary known as Jor-El challenged a packed council
chamber to take action before it's too late. | Science Council, Krypton | 0:02:22 | 4/1/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 811 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/811 | Kirk Citron | Kirk Citron: And now, the real news | How
many of today's headlines will matter in 100 years? 1000? Kirk Citron's
"Long News" project collects stories that not only matter today, but
will resonate for decades -- even centuries -- to come. At TED2010, he
highlights recent headlines with the potential to shape our future. | TED2010 | 0:03:21 | 4/1/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 814 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/814 | Derek Sivers | Derek Sivers: How to start a movement | With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two.) | TED2010 | 0:03:09 | 4/1/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 815 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/815 | Adora Svitak | Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids | Child
prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs "childish" thinking: bold
ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids' big dreams deserve
high expectations, she says, starting with grownups' willingness to
learn from children as much as to teach. | TED2010 | 0:08:12 | 4/1/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 816 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/816 | Jesse Schell | Jesse Schell: When games invade real life | Games
are invading the real world -- and the runaway popularity of Farmville
and Guitar Hero is just the beginning, says Jesse Schell. At the DICE
Summit, he makes a startling prediction: a future where 1-ups and
experience points break "out of the box" and into every part of our
daily lives. | DICE Summit 2010 | 0:28:19 | 4/3/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 819 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/819 | Dean Kamen | Dean Kamen: The emotion behind invention | Soldiers
who've lost limbs in service face a daily struggle unimaginable to most
of us. At TEDMED, Dean Kamen talks about the profound people and
stories that motivated his work to give parts of their lives back with
his design for a remarkable prosthetic arm. | TEDMED 2009 | 0:19:32 | 4/6/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 818 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/818 | Elizabeth Pisani | Elizabeth Pisani: Sex, drugs and HIV -- let's get rational | Armed
with bracing logic, wit and her "public-health nerd" glasses, Elizabeth
Pisani reveals the myriad of inconsistencies in today's political
systems that prevent our dollars from effectively fighting the spread of
HIV. Her research with at-risk populations -- from junkies in prison to
sex workers on the street in Cambodia -- demonstrates the sometimes
counter-intuitive measures that could stall the spread of this
devastating disease. | TED2010 | 0:19:14 | 4/5/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 820 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/820 | Dennis Hong | Dennis Hong: My seven species of robot |
At TEDxNASA, Dennis Hong introduces seven award-winnning, all-terrain
robots -- like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the
cliff-gripping CLIMBeR -- all built by his team at RoMeLa, Virginia
Tech. Watch to the end to hear the five creative secrets to his lab's
incredible technical success. | TEDxNASA | 0:15:55 | 4/7/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 821 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/821 | Jonathan Drori | Jonathan Drori: Every pollen grain has a story | Pollen
goes unnoticed by most of us, except when hay fever strikes. But
microscopes reveal it comes in stunning colors and shapes -- and travels
remarkably well. Jonathan Drori gives an up-close glimpse of these
fascinating flecks of plant courtship. | TED2010 | 0:07:12 | 4/8/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 823 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/823 | Natalie Merchant | Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life | Natalie
Merchant sings from her new album, Leave Your
Sleep. Lyrics from near-forgotten 19th-century poetry pair
with her unmistakable voice for a performance that brought the TED
audience to its feet. | TED2010 | 0:29:18 | 4/9/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 824 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/824 | Michael Specter | Michael Specter: The danger of science denial | Vaccine-autism
claims, "Frankenfood" bans, the herbal cure craze: All point to the
public's growing fear (and, often, outright denial) of science and
reason, says Michael Specter. He warns the trend spells disaster for
human progress. | TED2010 | 0:19:01 | 4/12/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 826 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/826 | Jonathan Klein | Jonathan Klein: Photos that changed the world | Photographs
do more than document history -- they make it. At TED University,
Jonathan Klein of Getty Images shows some of the most iconic, and talks
about what happens when a generation sees an image so powerful it can't
look away -- or back. | TED2010 | 0:06:02 | 4/13/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 828 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/828 | Catherine Mohr | Catherine Mohr builds green | In
a short, funny, data-packed talk at TED U, Catherine Mohr walks through
all the geeky decisions she made when building a green new house --
looking at real energy numbers, not hype. What choices matter most? Not
the ones you think. | TED2010 | 0:06:13 | 4/14/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 830 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/830 | Mike deGruy | Mike deGruy: Hooked by an octopus | Underwater
filmmaker Mike deGruy has spent decades looking intimately at the
ocean. A consummate storyteller, he takes the stage at Mission Blue to
share his awe and excitement -- and his fears -- about the blue heart of
our planet. | Mission Blue Voyage | 0:18:12 | 4/15/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 831 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/831 | Thelma Golden | Thelma Golden: How art gives shape to cultural change | Thelma
Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, talks through three
recent shows that explore how art examines and redefines culture. The
"post-black" artists she works with are using their art to provoke a new
dialogue about race and culture -- and about the meaning of art itself. | TED2009 | 0:12:28 | 4/16/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 832 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/832 | Eric Whitacre | Eric Whitacre: A choir as big as the Internet | 185
voices from 12 countries join a choir that spans the globe: "Lux
Aurumque," composed and conducted by Eric Whitacre, merges hundreds of
tracks individually recorded and posted to YouTube. It's an astonishing
illustration of how technology can connect us. | Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir | 0:04:15 | 4/16/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 833 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/833 | Edith Widder | Edith Widder: Glowing life in an underwater world | Some
80 to 90 percent of undersea creatures make light -- and we know very
little about how or why. Bioluminescence expert Edith Widder explores
this glowing, sparkling, luminous world, sharing glorious images and
insight into the unseen depths (and brights) of the ocean. | Mission Blue Voyage | 0:17:19 | 4/19/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 835 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/835 | James Randi | James Randi's fiery takedown of psychic fraud | Legendary
skeptic James Randi takes a fatal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills
onstage, kicking off a searing 18-minute indictment of irrational
beliefs. He throws out a challenge to the world's psychics: Prove what
you do is real, and I'll give you a million dollars. (No takers yet.) | TED2007 | 0:17:19 | 4/19/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 836 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/836 | Frederick Balagadde | Frederick Balagadde: Bio-lab on a microchip | Drugs
alone can't stop disease in sub-Saharan Africa: We need diagnostic
tools to match. TED Senior Fellow Frederick Balagadde shows how we can
multiply the power and availability of an unwieldy, expensive diagnostic
lab -- by miniaturizing it to the size of a chip. | TED2010 | 0:06:11 | 4/21/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 837 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/837 | Tom Wujec | Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team | Tom
Wujec presents some surprisingly deep research into the "marshmallow
problem" -- a simple team-building exercise that involves dry spaghetti,
one yard of tape and a marshmallow. Who can build the tallest tower
with these ingredients? And why does a surprising group always beat the
average? | TED2010 | 0:06:51 | 4/22/2010 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 838 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/838 | Omar Ahmad | Omar Ahmad: Political change with pen and paper | Politicians
are strange creatures, says politician Omar Ahmad. And the best way to
engage them on your pet issue is a monthly handwritten letter. Ahmad
shows why old-fashioned correspondence is more effective than email,
phone or even writing a check -- and shares the four simple steps to
writing a letter that works. | TED2010 | 0:06:07 | 4/23/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 842 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/842 | Kavita Ramdas | Kavita Ramdas: Radical women, embracing tradition | Investing
in women can unlock infinite potential around the globe. But how can
women walk the line between Western-style empowerment and traditional
culture? Kavita Ramdas of the Global Fund for Women talks about three
encounters with powerful women who fight to make the world better --
while preserving the traditions that sustain them. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:23:38 | 4/26/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 843 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/843 | Stephen Wolfram | Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything | Stephen
Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all
knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and
manipulated. His new search engine, Wolfram Alpha, has no lesser goal
than to model and explain the physics underlying the universe. | TED2010 | 0:19:58 | 4/27/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 844 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/844 | Roz Savage | Roz Savage: Why I'm rowing across the Pacific | Five
years ago, Roz Savage quit her high-powered London job to become an
ocean rower. She's crossed the Atlantic solo, and just started the third
leg of a Pacific solo row, the first for a woman. Why does she do it?
Hear her reasons, both deeply personal and urgently activist. | Mission Blue Voyage | 0:18:35 | 4/28/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 845 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/845 | George Whitesides | George Whitesides: Toward a science of simplicity | Simplicity:
We know it when we see it -- but what is it, exactly? In this funny,
philosophical talk, George Whitesides chisels out an answer. | TED2010 | 0:18:35 | 4/28/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 846 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/846 | Sebastian Wernicke | Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks) | In
a brilliantly tongue-in-cheek analysis, Sebastian Wernicke turns the
tools of statistical analysis on TEDTalks, to come up with a metric for
creating "the optimum TEDTalk" based on user ratings. How do you rate
it? "Jaw-dropping"? "Unconvincing"? Or just plain "Funny"? | TED2010 | 0:05:59 | 4/30/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 847 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/847 | Esther Duflo | Esther Duflo: Social experiments to fight poverty | Alleviating
poverty is more guesswork than science, and lack of data on aid's
impact raises questions about how to provide it. But Clark Medal-winner
Esther Duflo says it's possible to know which development efforts help
and which hurt -- by testing solutions with randomized trials. | TED2010 | 0:16:47 | 5/3/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 848 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/848 | Simon Sinek | Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action | Simon
Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all
starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples
include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers -- and as a
counterpoint Tivo, which (until a recent court victory that tripled its
stock price) appeared to be struggling. | TEDxPuget Sound | 0:18:04 | 5/4/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 849 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/849 | Thomas Dolby | Thomas Dolby: "Love Is a Loaded Pistol" | For
his first studio album release in decades, musical innovator Thomas
Dolby has been composing music in the uniquely inspirational setting of a
restored life-boat. Here he premieres a gorgeous, evocative song from
that album -- about one night with a legend. He's backed by members of
the modern string quartet Ethel. | TED2010 | 0:04:57 | 5/7/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 850 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/850 | Jeremy Jackson | Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean | In
this bracing talk, coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the
shocking state of the ocean today: overfished, overheated, polluted,
with indicators that things will get much worse. Astonishing photos and
stats make the case. | Mission Blue Voyage | 0:18:19 | 5/5/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 851 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/851 | Anil Gupta | Anil Gupta: India's hidden hotbeds of invention | Anil
Gupta is on the hunt for the developing world's unsung inventors --
indigenous entrepreneurs whose ingenuity, hidden by poverty, could
change many people's lives. He shows how the Honey Bee Network helps
them build the connections they need -- and gain the recognition they
deserve. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:22:55 | 5/6/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 852 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/852 | Nicholas Christakis | Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks | We're
all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and
more. Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of traits -- from
happiness to obesity -- can spread from person to person, showing how
your location in the network might impact your life in ways you don't
even know. | TED2010 | 0:20:59 | 5/10/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 853 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/853 | Nathan Myhrvold | Nathan Myhrvold: Could this laser zap malaria? | Nathan
Myhrvold and team's latest inventions -- as brilliant as they are bold
-- remind us that the world needs wild creativity to tackle big problems
like malaria. And just as that idea sinks in, he rolls out a live demo
of a new, mosquito-zapping gizmo you have to see to believe. | TED2010 | 0:16:58 | 5/11/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 854 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/854 | Enric Sala | Enric Sala: Glimpses of a pristine ocean | Enric
Sala shares glorious images -- and surprising insights and data -- from
some of the most pristine areas of the ocean. He shows how we can
restore more of our oceans to this healthy, balanced state, and the
powerful ecological and economic benefits of doing so. | Mission Blue Voyage | 0:19:55 | 5/12/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 855 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/855 | Dan Meyer | Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover | Today's
math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at --
paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than
solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows
classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think. | TEDxNYED | 0:11:39 | 5/13/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 856 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/856 | Julia Sweeney | Julia Sweeney has "The Talk" | Despite
her best efforts, comedian Julia Sweeney is forced to tell a little
white lie when her 8-year-old begins learning about frog reproduction --
and starts to ask some very smart questions. | TED2010 | 0:05:16 | 5/14/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 857 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/857 | Viktor E Frankl | Viktor Frankl: Why to believe in others | In
this rare clip from 1972, legendary psychiatrist and Holocaust-survivor
Viktor Frankl delivers a powerful message about the human search for
meaning -- and the most important gift we can give others. | Toronto Youth Corps | 0:04:22 | 5/14/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 859 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/859 | William Li | William Li: Can we eat to starve cancer? | William
Li presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other
diseases: anti-angiogenesis, preventing the growth of blood vessels that
feed a tumor. The crucial first (and best) step: Eating cancer-fighting
foods that cut off the supply lines and beat cancer at its own game. | TED2010 | 0:20:02 | 5/17/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 860 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/860 | Graham Hill | Graham Hill: Why I'm a weekday vegetarian | We
all know the arguments that being vegetarian is better for the
environment and for the animals -- but in a carnivorous culture, it can
be hard to make the change. Graham Hill has a powerful, pragmatic
suggestion: Be a weekday veg. | TED2010 | 0:05:45 | 5/18/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 861 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/861 | Dee Boersma | Dee Boersma: Pay attention to penguins | Think
of penguins as ocean sentinels, says Dee Boersma -- they're on the
frontlines of sea change. Sharing stories of penguin life and culture,
she suggests that we start listening to what penguins are telling us. | Mission Blue Voyage | 0:15:09 | 5/19/2010 |
|
| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 862 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/862 | Richard Sears | Richard Sears: Planning for the end of oil | As
the world's attention focuses on the perils of oil exploration, we
present Richard Sears' talk from early February 2010. Sears, an expert
in developing new energy resources, talks about our inevitable and
necessary move away from oil. Toward ... what? | TED2010 | 0:09:48 | 5/20/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 863 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/863 | Craig Venter | Craig Venter unveils "synthetic life" | Craig
Venter and team make a historic announcement: they've created the first
fully functioning, reproducing cell controlled by synthetic DNA. He
explains how they did it and why the achievement marks the beginning of a
new era for science. | TED in the Field | 0:18:17 | 5/21/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 865 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/865 | Ken Robinson | Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! | In
this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken
Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to
personalized learning -- creating conditions where kids' natural
talents can flourish. | TED2010 | 0:16:48 | 5/24/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 866 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/866 | Johanna Blakley | Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion's free culture | Copyright
law's grip on film, music and software barely touches the fashion
industry ... and fashion benefits in both innovation and sales, says
Johanna Blakley. At TEDxUSC 2010, she talks about what all creative
industries can learn from fashion's free culture. | TEDxUSC | 0:15:36 | 5/25/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 868 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/868 | Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy | Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: Inside a school for suicide bombers | Filmmaker
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy takes on a terrifying question: How does the
Taliban convince children to become suicide bombers? Propaganda footage
from a training camp is intercut with her interviews of young camp
graduates. A shocking vision. | TED2010 | 0:08:09 | 5/26/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 869 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/869 | Seth Berkley | Seth Berkley: HIV and flu -- the vaccine strategy | Seth
Berkley explains how smart advances in vaccine design, production and
distribution are bringing us closer than ever to eliminating a host of
global threats -- from AIDS to malaria to flu pandemics. | TED2010 | 0:21:05 | 5/27/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 870 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/870 | Sophie Hunger | Sophie Hunger plays songs of secrets, city lights | This
haunting, intimate performance by European singer-songwriter Sophie
Hunger features songs from her breakout debut "Monday's Ghost" and the
just-released album "1983." | TEDGlobal 2009 | 0:23:04 | 5/28/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 871 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/871 | Larry Lessig | Lawrence Lessig: Re-examining the remix | At
TEDxNYED, former "young Republican" Larry Lessig talks about what
Democrats can learn about copyright from their opposite party,
considered more conservative. A surprising lens on remix culture. | TEDxNYED | 0:18:45 | 5/31/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 872 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/872 | John Underkoffler | John Underkoffler points to the future of UI | Minority
Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos
g-speak -- the real-life version of the film's eye-popping, tai
chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow's
computers will be controlled? | TED2010 | 0:15:22 | 6/1/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 873 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/873 | Brian Skerry | Brian Skerry reveals ocean's glory -- and horror | Photographer
Brian Skerry shoots life above and below the waves -- as he puts it,
both the horror and the magic of the ocean. Sharing amazing, intimate
shots of undersea creatures, he shows how powerful images can help make
change. | Mission Blue Voyage | 0:16:13 | 6/1/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 874 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/874 | Christopher "moot" Poole | Christopher "moot" Poole: The case for anonymity online | The
founder of 4chan, a controversial, uncensored online imageboard,
describes its subculture, some of the Internet "memes" it has launched,
and the incident in which its users managed a very public, precision
hack of a mainstream media website. The talk raises questions about the
power -- and price -- of anonymity. | TED2010 | 0:13:10 | 6/2/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 876 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/876 | Brian Cox | Brian Cox: Why we need the explorers | In
tough economic times, our exploratory science programs -- from space
probes to the LHC -- are first to suffer budget cuts. Brian Cox explains
how curiosity-driven science pays for itself, powering innovation and a
profound appreciation of our existence. | TEDSalon London 2010 | 0:16:29 | 6/3/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 877 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/877 | Adam Sadowsky | Adam Sadowsky engineers a viral music video | The
band "OK Go" dreamed up the idea of a massive Rube Goldberg machine for
their next music video -- and Adam Sadowsky's team was charged with
building it. He tells the story of the effort and engineering behind
their labyrinthine creation that quickly became a YouTube sensation. | TEDxUSC | 0:14:28 | 6/4/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 878 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/878 | Michael Sandel | Michael Sandel: The lost art of democratic debate | Democracy
thrives on civil debate, Michael Sandel says -- but we're shamefully
out of practice. He leads a fun refresher, with TEDsters sparring over a
recent Supreme Court case (PGA Tour, Inc. v.
Martin) whose outcome reveals the critical ingredient in
justice. | TED2010 | 0:19:42 | 6/7/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 879 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/879 | John Kasaona | John Kasaona: How poachers became caretakers | In
his home of Namibia, John Kasaona is working on an innovative way to
protect endangered animal species: giving nearby villagers (including
former poachers) responsibility for caring for the animals. And it's
working. | TED2010 | 0:15:46 | 6/8/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 880 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/880 | Rory Sutherland | Rory Sutherland: Sweat the small stuff | It
may seem that big problems require big solutions, but ad man Rory
Sutherland says many flashy, expensive fixes are just obscuring better,
simpler answers. To illustrate, he uses behavioral economics and
hilarious examples. | TEDSalon London 2010 | 0:12:37 | 6/9/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 881 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/881 | Stewart Brand, Mark Z. Jacobson | Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy? | Nuclear
power: the energy crisis has even die-hard environmentalists
reconsidering it. In this first-ever TED debate, Stewart Brand and Mark
Z. Jacobson square off over the pros and cons. A discussion that'll make
you think -- and might even change your mind. | TED2010 | 0:22:59 | 6/10/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 883 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/883 | David Byrne | David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve | As
his career grew, David Byrne went from playing CBGB to Carnegie Hall.
He asks: Does the venue make the music? From outdoor drumming to
Wagnerian operas to arena rock, he explores how context has pushed
musical innovation. | TED2010 | 0:17:47 | 6/11/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 884 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/884 | Michael Shermer | Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception | Michael
Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things -- from alien
abductions to dowsing rods -- boils down to two of the brain's most
basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how
they get us into trouble. | TED2010 | 0:19:01 | 6/14/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 885 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/885 | Margaret Gould Stewart | Margaret Gould Stewart: How YouTube thinks about copyright | Margaret
Gould Stewart, YouTube's head of user experience, talks about how the
ubiquitous video site works with copyright holders and creators to
foster (at the best of times) a creative ecosystem where everybody wins. | TED2010 | 0:05:45 | 6/15/2010 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 886 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/886 | Peter Tyack | Peter Tyack: The intriguing sound of marine mammals | Peter
Tyack of Woods Hole talks about a hidden wonder of the sea: underwater
sound. Onstage at Mission Blue, he explains the amazing ways whales use
sound and song to communicate across hundreds of miles of ocean. | Mission Blue Voyage | 0:21:20 | 6/16/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 887 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/887 | Cameron Herold | Cameron Herold: Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs | Bored
in school, failing classes, at odds with peers: This child might be an
entrepreneur, says Cameron Herold. At TEDxEdmonton, he makes the case
for parenting and education that helps would-be entrepreneurs flourish
-- as kids and as adults. | TEDxEdmonton | 0:21:24 | 6/17/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 888 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/888 | Ananda Shankar Jayant | Ananda Shankar Jayant fights cancer with dance | Renowned
classical Indian dancer Ananda Shankar Jayant was diagnosed with cancer
in 2008. She tells her personal story of not only facing the disease
but dancing through it, and gives a performance revealing the metaphor
of strength that helped her do it. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:16:07 | 6/18/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 889 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/889 | Chip Conley | Chip Conley: Measuring what makes life worthwhile | When
the dotcom bubble burst, hotelier Chip Conley went in search of a
business model based on happiness. In an old friendship with an employee
and in the wisdom of a Buddhist king, he learned that success comes
from what you count. | TED2010 | 0:17:39 | 6/21/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 891 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/891 | Marian Bantjes | Marian Bantjes: Intricate beauty by design | In
graphic design, Marian Bantjes says, throwing your individuality into a
project is heresy. She explains how she built her career doing just
that, bringing her signature delicate illustrations to storefronts,
valentines and even genetic diagrams. | TED2010 | 0:16:28 | 6/22/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 892 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/892 | Charles Leadbeater | Charles Leadbeater: Education innovation in the slums | Charles
Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education -- and found
them in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where some of the world's poorest
kids are finding transformative new ways to learn. And this informal,
disruptive new kind of school, he says, is what all schools need to
become. | TEDSalon London 2010 | 0:18:58 | 6/23/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 893 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/893 | Aditi Shankardass | Aditi Shankardass: A second opinion on learning disorders | Developmental
disorders in children are typically diagnosed by observing behavior,
but Aditi Shankardass knew that we should be looking directly at their
brains. She explains how a remarkable EEG device has revealed mistaken
diagnoses and transformed children's lives. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:09:01 | 6/24/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 894 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/894 | Hillel Cooperman | Hillel Cooperman: Legos for grownups | Lego
blocks: playtime mainstay for industrious kids, obsession for many
(ahem!) mature adults. Hillel Cooperman takes us on a trip through the
beloved bricks' colorful, sometimes oddball grownup subculture,
featuring CAD, open-source robotics and a little adult behavior. | TED2010 | 0:05:50 | 6/25/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 896 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/896 | Clay Shirky | Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world | Clay
Shirky looks at "cognitive surplus" -- the shared, online work we do
with our spare brain cycles. While we're busy editing Wikipedia, posting
to Ushahidi (and yes, making LOLcats), we're building a better, more
cooperative world. | TED@Cannes | 0:13:07 | 6/28/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 898 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/898 | Ellen Dunham-Jones | Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia | Ellen
Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years' big
sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. To come: Dying malls
rehabilitated, dead "big box" stores re-inhabited, parking lots
transformed into thriving wetlands. | TEDxAtlanta | 0:19:23 | 6/29/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 899 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/899 | Stephen Palumbi | Stephen Palumbi: Following the mercury trail | There's
a tight and surprising link between the ocean's health and ours, says
marine biologist Stephen Palumbi. He shows how toxins at the bottom of
the ocean food chain find their way into our bodies, with a shocking
story of toxic contamination from a Japanese fish market. His work
points a way forward for saving the oceans' health -- and humanity's. | Mission Blue Voyage | 0:15:42 | 6/30/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 900 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/900 | Carter Emmart | Carter Emmart demos a 3D atlas of the universe | For
the last 12 years, Carter Emmart has been coordinating the efforts of
scientists, artists and programmers to build a complete 3D visualization
of our known universe. He demos this stunning tour and explains how
it's being shared with facilities around the world.
| TED2010 | 0:06:57 | 7/1/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 901 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/901 | Mitchell Joachim | Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it! | TED
Fellow and urban designer Mitchell Joachim presents his vision for
sustainable, organic architecture: eco-friendly abodes grown from plants
and -- wait for it -- meat. | TED2010 | 0:02:56 | 7/2/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 909 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/909 | Benoit Mandelbrot | Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness | At
TED2010, mathematics legend Benoit Mandelbrot develops a theme he first
discussed at TED in 1984 -- the extreme complexity of roughness, and
the way that fractal math can find order within patterns that seem
unknowably complicated. | TED2010 | 0:17:09 | 7/6/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 910 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/910 | Ellen Gustafson | Ellen Gustafson: Obesity + Hunger = 1 global food issue | Co-creator
of the philanthropic FEED bags, Ellen Gustafson says hunger and obesity
are two sides of the same coin. At TEDxEast, she launches The 30
Project -- a way to change how we farm and eat in the next 30 years, and
solve the global food inequalities behind both epidemics. | TEDxEast | 0:11:15 | 7/7/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 911 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/911 | Nalini Nadkarni | Nalini Nadkarni: Life science in prison | Nalini
Nadkarni challenges our perspective on trees and prisons -- she says
both can be more dynamic than we think. Through a partnership with the
state of Washington, she brings science classes and conservation
programs to inmates, with unexpected results. | TED2010 | 0:05:07 | 7/8/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 912 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/912 | Hans Rosling | Hans Rosling on global population growth | The
world's population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years -- and
only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check
population growth. This is the paradoxical answer that Hans Rosling
unveils at TED@Cannes using colorful new data display technology (you'll
see). | TED@Cannes | 0:10:04 | 7/9/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 914 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/914 | Carl Safina | Carl Safina: The oil spill's unseen culprits, victims | The
Gulf oil spill dwarfs comprehension, but we know this much: it's bad.
Carl Safina scrapes out the facts in this blood-boiling
cross-examination, arguing that the consequences will stretch far beyond
the Gulf -- and many so-called solutions are making the situation
worse. | TEDxOilSpill | 0:19:55 | 7/12/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 915 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/915 | Matt Ridley | Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex | At
TEDGlobal 2010, author Matt Ridley shows how, throughout history, the
engine of human progress has been the meeting and mating of ideas to
make new ideas. It's not important how clever individuals are, he says;
what really matters is how smart the collective brain is. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:16:26 | 7/14/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 916 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/916 | Ethan Zuckerman | Ethan Zuckerman: Listening to global voices | Sure,
the web connects the globe, but most of us end up hearing mainly from
people just like ourselves. Blogger and technologist Ethan Zuckerman
wants to help share the stories of the whole wide world. He talks about
clever strategies to open up your Twitter world and read the news in
languages you don't even know. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:19:45 | 7/15/2010 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 917 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/917 | Elif Shafak | Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction | Listening
to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over
cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel.
Elif Shafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction can
overcome identity politics. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:19:45 | 7/16/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 918 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/918 | Julian Assange | Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks | The
controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified
documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who's reportedly being
sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED's Chris Anderson
about how the site operates, what it has accomplished -- and what drives
him. The interview includes graphic footage of a recent US airstrike in
Baghdad. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:19:33 | 7/19/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 919 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/919 | Naif Al-Mutawa | Naif Al-Mutawa: Superheroes inspired by Islam | In
"THE 99," Naif Al-Mutawa's new generation of comic book heroes fight
more than crime -- they smash stereotypes and battle extremism. Named
after the 99 attributes of Allah, his characters reinforce positive
messages of Islam and cross cultures to create a new moral framework for
confronting evil, even teaming up with the Justice League of America. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:18:22 | 7/20/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 920 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/920 | Dimitar Sasselov | Dimitar Sasselov: How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets | Astronomer
Dimitar Sasselov and his colleagues search for Earth-like planets that
may, someday, help us answer centuries-old questions about the origin
and existence of biological life elsewhere (and on Earth). Preliminary
results show that they have found 706 "candidates" -- some of which
further research may prove to be planets with Earth-like geochemical
characteristics. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:18:30 | 7/21/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 921 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/921 | Tan Le | Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves | Tan
Le's astonishing new computer interface reads its user's brainwaves,
making it possible to control virtual objects, and even physical
electronics, with mere thoughts (and a little concentration). She demos
the headset, and talks about its far-reaching applications. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:10:36 | 7/21/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 922 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/922 | Kevin Stone | Kevin Stone: The bio-future of joint replacement | Arthritis
and injury grind down millions of joints, but few get the best remedy
-- real biological tissue. Kevin Stone shows a treatment that could
sidestep the high costs and donor shortfall of human-to-human
transplants with a novel use of animal tissue. | TED2010 | 0:06:51 | 7/22/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 924 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/924 | Sheena Iyengar | Sheena Iyengar on the art of choosing | Sheena
Iyengar studies how we make choices -- and how we feel about the
choices we make. At TEDGlobal, she talks about both trivial choices
(Coke v. Pepsi) and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking
research that has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our
decisions. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:24:08 | 7/26/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 923 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/923 | Jeff Bezos | Jeff Bezos: What matters more than your talents | In
this Princeton University graduation address, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
makes the case that our character is reflected not in the gifts we're
endowed with at birth, but by the choices we make over the course of a
lifetime. | Princeton University | 0:18:44 | 7/27/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 925 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/925 | Susan Shaw | Susan Shaw: The oil spill's toxic trade-off | Break
down the oil slick, keep it off the shores: that's grounds for pumping
toxic dispersant into the Gulf, say clean-up overseers. Susan Shaw shows
evidence it's sparing some beaches only at devastating cost to the
health of the deep sea. | TEDxOilSpill | 0:16:42 | 7/27/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 926 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/926 | John Delaney | John Delaney: Wiring an interactive ocean | Oceanographer
John Delaney is leading the team that is building an underwater network
of high-def cameras and sensors that will turn our ocean into a global
interactive lab -- sparking an explosion of rich data about the world
below. | Mission Blue Voyage | 0:20:50 | 7/28/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 927 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/927 | Laurie Santos | Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours | Laurie
Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way
our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in
"monkeynomics" shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys
make too. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:19:45 | 7/29/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 928 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/928 | Lewis Pugh | Lewis Pugh's mind-shifting Mt. Everest swim | After
he swam the North Pole, Lewis Pugh vowed never to take another
cold-water dip. Then he heard of Mt. Everest's Lake Imja -- a body of
water at an altitude of 5300 m, entirely created by recent glacial
melting -- and began a journey that would teach him a radical new way to
approach swimming and think about climate change. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:09:45 | 7/30/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 929 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/929 | Jason Clay | Jason Clay: How big brands can help save biodiversity | Convince
just 100 key companies to go sustainable, and WWF's Jason Clay says
global markets will shift to protect the planet our consumption has
already outgrown. Hear how his extraordinary roundtables are getting big
brand rivals to agree on green practices first -- before their products
duke it out on store shelves. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:19:29 | 8/16/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 930 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/930 | Sheryl WuDunn | Sheryl WuDunn: Our century's greatest injustice | Sheryl
WuDunn's book "Half the Sky" investigates the oppression of women
globally. Her stories shock. Only when women in developing countries
have equal access to education and economic opportunity will we be using
all our human resources. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:18:22 | 8/17/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 931 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/931 | Diane J Savino | Diane J. Savino: The case for same-sex marriage | Hours
before New York lawmakers rejected a key marriage equality bill
(38-24), State Senator Diane J. Savino made the passionate case for a
government that recognizes and administers same-sex marriages. Here's
her fresh, thought-provoking perspective on one of the most contentious
issues in US culture, religion and government. | New York State Senate | 0:07:33 | 8/17/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 932 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/932 | Peter Molyneux | Peter Molyneux demos Milo, the virtual boy | Peter
Molyneux demos Milo, a hotly anticipated video game for Microsoft's
Kinect controller. Perceptive and impressionable like a real
11-year-old, the virtual boy watches, listens and learns -- recognizing
and responding to you. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:10:55 | 8/18/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 934 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/934 | Jamil Abu-Wardeh | Jamil Abu-Wardeh: The Axis of Evil Middle East Comedy Tour | Jamil
Abu-Wardeh jump-started the comedy scene in the Arab world by founding
the Axis of Evil Middle East Comedy Tour, which brings standup comedians
to laughing audiences all over the region. He's found that, by
respecting the "three B's" (blue material, beliefs and "bolitics"), the
Axis of Evil comics find plenty of cross-border laughs. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:08:59 | 8/19/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 935 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/935 | Maz Jobrani | Maz Jobrani: Did you hear the one about the Iranian-American? | A
founding member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, standup comic Maz
Jobrani riffs on the challenges and conflicts of being Iranian-American
-- "like, part of me thinks I should have a nuclear program; the other
part thinks I can't be trusted ..." | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:09:14 | 8/19/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 936 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/936 | Seth Priebatsch | Seth Priebatsch: The game layer on top of the world | By
now, we're used to letting Facebook and Twitter capture our social
lives on the web -- building a "social layer" on top of the real world.
At TEDxBoston, Seth Priebatsch looks at the next layer in progress: the
"game layer," a pervasive net of behavior-steering game dynamics that
will reshape education and commerce. | TEDxBoston 2010 | 0:12:02 | 8/20/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 937 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/937 | David McCandless | David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization | David
McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending,
media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams
that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he
suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut -- and it may
just change the way we see the world. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:17:56 | 8/23/2010 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 938 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/938 | Robert Lee Hotz | Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic time machine | Science
columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at WAIS Divide,
Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten-thousand-year-old
ice to extract vital data on our changing climate. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:09:45 | 8/24/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 943 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/943 | Jeremy Rifkin | Jeremy Rifkin on "the empathic civilization" | In
this talk from RSA Animate, bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin
investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways it has
shaped human development and society. | RSA Animate | 0:10:39 | 8/24/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 939 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/939 | Jim Toomey | Jim Toomey: Learning from Sherman the shark | Cartoonist
Jim Toomey created the comic strip Sherman's Lagoon, a wry look at
underwater life starring Sherman the talking shark. As he sketches some
of his favorite sea creatures live onstage, Toomey shares his love of
the ocean and the stories it can tell. | Mission Blue Voyage | 0:14:15 | 8/25/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 940 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/940 | Lisa Margonelli | Lisa Margonelli: The political chemistry of oil | In
the Gulf oil spill's aftermath, Lisa Margonelli says drilling
moratoriums and executive ousters make for good theater, but distract
from the issue at its heart: our unrestrained oil consumption. She
shares her bold plan to wean America off of oil -- by confronting
consumers with its real cost. | TEDxOilSpill | 0:17:14 | 8/26/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 941 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/941 | Dan Cobley | Dan Cobley: What physics taught me about marketing | Physics
and marketing don't seem to have much in common, but Dan Cobley is
passionate about both. He brings these unlikely bedfellows together
using Newton's second law, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, the
scientific method and the second law of thermodynamics to explain the
fundamental theories of branding. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:07:38 | 8/27/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 942 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/942 | Seth Godin | Seth Godin: This is broken | Why
are so many things broken? In a hilarious talk from the 2006 Gel
conference, Seth Godin gives a tour of things poorly designed, the 7
reasons why they are that way, and how to fix them. | Gel Conference 2006 | 0:20:14 | 8/27/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 944 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/944 | Nic Marks | Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index | Statistician
Nic Marks asks why we measure a nation's success by its productivity --
instead of by the happiness and well-being of its people. He introduces
the Happy Planet Index, which tracks national well-being against
resource use (because a happy life doesn't have to cost the earth).
Which countries rank highest in the HPI? You might be surprised. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:16:49 | 8/30/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 945 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/945 | Johan Rockstrom | Johan Rockstrom: Let the environment guide our development | Human
growth has strained the Earth's resources, but as Johan Rockstrom
reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and
change behavior. His research has found nine "planetary boundaries" that
can guide us in protecting our planet's many overlapping ecosystems. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:18:10 | 8/31/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 946 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/946 | His Holiness the Karmapa | His Holiness the Karmapa: The technology of the heart | His
Holiness the Karmapa talks about how he was discovered to be the
reincarnation of a revered figure in Tibetan Buddhism. In telling his
story, he urges us to work on not just technology and design, but the
technology and design of the heart. He is translated onstage by Tyler
Dewar. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:25:23 | 9/1/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 947 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/947 | Derek Sivers | Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself | After
hitting on a brilliant new life plan, our first instinct is to tell
someone, but Derek Sivers says it's better to keep goals secret. He
presents research stretching as far back as the 1920s to show why people
who talk about their ambitions may be less likely to achieve them. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:03:15 | 9/2/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 948 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/948 | Rachel Sussman | Rachel Sussman: The world's oldest living things | Rachel
Sussman shows photographs of the world's oldest continuously living
organisms -- from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago's coast to an
"underground forest" in South Africa that has lived since before the
dawn of agriculture. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:14:08 | 9/3/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 949 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/949 | Sugata Mitra | Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education | Education
scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of
education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're
needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to
South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web
and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:17:13 | 9/7/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 950 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/950 | Alwar Balasubramaniam | Alwar Balasubramaniam: Art of substance and absence | Alwar
Balasubramaniam's sculpture plays with time, shape, shadow,
perspective: four tricky sensations that can reveal -- or conceal --
what's really out there. At TEDIndia, the artist shows slides of his
extraordinary installations. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:16:51 | 9/8/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 951 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/951 | Carne Ross | Carne Ross: An independent diplomat | After
15 years in the British diplomatic corps, Carne Ross became a
"freelance diplomat," running a bold nonprofit that gives small,
developing and yet-unrecognized nations a voice in international
relations. At the BIF-5 conference, he calls for a new kind of diplomacy
that gives voice to small countries, that works with changing
boundaries and that welcomes innovation. | Business Innovation Factory | 0:20:38 | 9/9/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 952 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/952 | Ben Cameron | Ben Cameron: The true power of the performing arts | Arts
administrator and live-theater fan Ben Cameron looks at the state of
the live arts -- asking: How can the magic of live theater, live music,
live dance compete with the always-on Internet? At TEDxYYC, he offers a
bold look forward. | TEDxYYC | 0:12:44 | 9/10/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 953 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/953 | Seth Godin | Seth Godin: This is broken | Why
are so many things broken? In a hilarious talk from the 2006 Gel
conference, Seth Godin gives a tour of things poorly designed, the 7
reasons why they are that way, and how to fix them. | Gel Conference 2006 | 0:20:14 | 9/10/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 954 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/954 | Rob Dunbar | Rob Dunbar: Discovering ancient climates in oceans and ice | Rob
Dunbar hunts for data on our climate from 12,000 years ago, finding
clues inside ancient seabeds and corals and inside ice sheets. His work
is vital in setting baselines for fixing our current climate -- and in
tracking the rise of deadly ocean acidification. | Mission Blue Voyage | 0:18:14 | 9/13/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 955 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/955 | Chris Anderson (TED) | Chris Anderson: How web video powers global innovation | TED's
Chris Anderson says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide
phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation -- a self-fueling cycle
of learning that could be as significant as the invention of print. But
to tap into its power, organizations will need to embrace radical
openness. And for TED, it means the dawn of a whole new chapter ... | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:18:53 | 9/14/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 957 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/957 | Jessa Gamble | Jessa Gamble: Our natural sleep cycle | In
today's world, balancing school, work, kids and more, most of us can
only hope for the recommended eight hours of sleep. Examining the
science behind our body's internal clock, Jessa Gamble reveals the
surprising and substantial program of rest we should be observing. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:04:01 | 9/15/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 958 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/958 | Nicholas Christakis | Nicholas Christakis: How social networks predict epidemics | After
mapping humans' intricate social networks, Nicholas Christakis and
colleague James Fowler began investigating how this information could
better our lives. Now, he reveals his hot-off-the-press findings: These
networks can be used to detect epidemics earlier than ever, from the
spread of innovative ideas to risky behaviors to viruses (like H1N1). | TED@Cannes | 0:17:54 | 9/16/2010 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 959 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/959 | Caroline Phillips | Caroline Phillips: Hurdy-gurdy for beginners | Caroline
Phillips cranks out tunes on a seldom-heard folk instrument: the
hurdy-gurdy, a.k.a. the wheel fiddle. A searching, Basque melody follows
her fun lesson on its unique anatomy and 1,000-year history. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:05:41 | 9/17/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 960 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/960 | Christien Meindertsma | Christien Meindertsma: How pig parts make the world turn | Christien
Meindertsma, author of "Pig 05049" looks at the astonishing afterlife
of the ordinary pig, parts of which make their way into at least 185
non-pork products, from bullets to artificial hearts. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:08:54 | 9/20/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 961 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/961 | Steven Johnson | Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from | People
often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven
Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour
takes us from the "liquid networks" of London's coffee houses to Charles
Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high-velocity web. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:17:45 | 9/21/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 962 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/962 | Mitchell Besser | Mitchell Besser: Mothers helping mothers fight HIV | In
sub-Saharan Africa, HIV infections are more prevalent and doctors
scarcer than anywhere else in the world. With a lack of medical
professionals, Mitchell Besser enlisted the help of his patients to
create mothers2mothers -- an extraordinary network of HIV-positive women
whose support for each other is changing and saving lives.
| TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:18:30 | 9/22/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 963 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/963 | Annie Lennox | Annie Lennox: Why I am an HIV/AIDS activist | For
the last eight years, pop singer Annie Lennox has devoted the majority
of her time to her SING campaign, raising awareness and money to combat
HIV/AIDS. She shares the experiences that have inspired her, from
working with Nelson Mandela to meeting a little African girl in a
desperate situation.
| TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:09:16 | 9/22/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 964 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/964 | Fabian Hemmert | Fabian Hemmert: The shape-shifting future of the mobile phone | At
TEDxBerlin, Fabian Hemmert demos one future of the mobile phone -- a
shape-shifting and weight-shifting handset that "displays" information
nonvisually, offering a delightfully intuitive way to communicate. | TEDxBerlin | 0:04:15 | 9/23/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 965 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/965 | Julian Treasure | Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps | Julian
Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our
mental health -- even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step plan to
soften this sonic assault (starting with those cheap earbuds) and
restore our relationship with sound. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:07:14 | 9/23/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 840 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/840 | Tim Birkhead | Tim Birkhead: The early birdwatchers | Birds,
a perennial human fascination, entertained medieval homes long before
science took them for serious study. "Wisdom of Birds" author Tim
Birkhead tours some intriguing birdwatcher lore (dug up in old field
journals) -- and talks about the role it plays in ornithology today. | The Do Lectures | 0:28:30 | 9/26/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 966 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/966 | Gary Wolf | Gary Wolf: The quantified self | At
TED@Cannes, Gary Wolf gives a 5-min intro to an intriguing new pastime:
using mobile apps and always-on gadgets to track and analyze your body,
mood, diet, spending -- just about everything in daily life you can
measure -- in gloriously geeky detail. | TED@Cannes | 0:05:10 | 9/27/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 967 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/967 | Sebastian Seung | Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome | Sebastian
Seung is mapping a massively ambitious new model of the brain that
focuses on the connections between each neuron. He calls it our
"connectome," and it's as individual as our genome -- and understanding
it could open a new way to understand our brains and our minds. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:19:26 | 9/28/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 968 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/968 | Inge Missmahl | Inge Missmahl brings peace to the minds of Afghanistan | When
Jungian analyst Inge Missmahl visited Afghanistan, she saw the inner
wounds of war -- widespread despair, trauma and depression. And yet, in
this county of 30 million people, there were only two dozen
psychiatrists. Missmahl talks about her work helping to build the
country's system of psychosocial counseling, promoting both individual
and, perhaps, national healing. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:10:41 | 9/29/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 970 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/970 | Mechai Viravaidya | Mechai Viravaidya: How Mr. Condom made Thailand a better place | At
TEDxChange, Thailand's "Mr. Condom," Mechai Viravaidya, walks us
through the country's bold plan to raise its standard of living,
starting in the 1970s. First step: population control. And that means a
lot of frank, funny -- and very effective -- talk about condoms. | TEDxChange | 0:13:50 | 9/30/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 971 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/971 | Eben Bayer | Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic? | Product
designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based
packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma
screens -- and the environment. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:09:05 | 10/4/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 972 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/972 | Tim Jackson | Tim Jackson's economic reality check | As
the world faces recession, climate change, inequity and more, Tim
Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to established economic
principles, explaining how we might stop feeding the crises and start
investing in our future. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:20:23 | 10/5/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 973 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/973 | Barbara Block | Barbara Block: Tagging tuna in the deep ocean | Tuna
are ocean athletes -- fast, far-ranging predators whose habits we're
just beginning to understand. Marine biologist Barbara Block fits tuna
with tracking tags (complete with transponders) that record
unprecedented amounts of data about these gorgeous, threatened fish and
the ocean habitats they move through. | Mission Blue Voyage | 0:20:06 | 10/6/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 974 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/974 | Hans Rosling | Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade? | Hans
Rosling reframes 10 years of UN data with his spectacular visuals,
lighting up an astonishing -- mostly unreported -- piece of
front-page-worthy good news: We're winning the war against child
mortality. Along the way, he debunks one flawed approach to stats that
blots out such vital stories. | TEDxChange | 0:15:34 | 10/7/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 975 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/975 | Stacey Kramer | Stacey Kramer: The best gift I ever survived | Stacey
Kramer offers a moving, personal, 3-minute parable that shows how an
unwanted experience -- frightening, traumatic, costly -- can turn out to
be a priceless gift. | TED2010 | 0:03:17 | 10/8/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 976 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/976 | Stefano Mancuso | Stefano Mancuso: The roots of plant intelligence | Plants
behave in some oddly intelligent ways: fighting predators, maximizing
food opportunities ... But can we think of them as actually having a
form of intelligence of their own? Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso
presents intriguing evidence. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:13:50 | 10/11/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 977 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/977 | Melinda French Gates | Melinda French Gates: What nonprofits can learn from Coca-Cola | At
TEDxChange, Melinda Gates makes a provocative case for nonprofits
taking a cue from corporations such as Coca-Cola, whose plugged-in,
global network of marketers and distributors ensures that every remote
village wants -- and can get -- a Coke. Why shouldn't this work for
condoms, sanitation, vaccinations too? | TEDxChange | 0:16:28 | 10/12/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 978 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/978 | Peter Haas | Peter Haas: Haiti's disaster of engineering | "Haiti
was not a natural disaster," says TED Fellow Peter Haas: "It was a
disaster of engineering." As the country rebuilds after January's deadly
quake, are bad old building practices creating another ticking time
bomb? Haas's group, AIDG, is helping Haiti's builders learn modern
building and engineering practices, to assemble a strong country brick
by brick.
| TED Senior Fellows at TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:08:30 | 10/13/2010 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 980 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/980 | Natalie Jeremijenko | Natalie Jeremijenko: The art of the eco-mindshift | Natalie
Jeremijenko's unusual lab puts art to work, and addresses environmental
woes by combining engineering know-how with public art and a team of
volunteers. These real-life experiments include: Walking tadpoles,
texting "fish," planting fire-hydrant gardens and more. | Business Innovation Factory | 0:19:50 | 10/14/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 981 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/981 | Ze Frank | Ze Frank's web playroom | On
the web, a new "Friend" may be just a click away, but true connection
is harder to find and express. Ze Frank presents a medley of zany
Internet toys that require deep participation -- and reward it with
something more nourishing. You're invited, if you promise you'll share. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:18:00 | 10/15/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 982 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/982 | Joel Burns | Joel Burns tells gay teens "it gets better" | In
a courageous, intensely emotional talk at the city council in Fort
Worth, Texas, councilman Joel Burns reaches out to the targets of teen
bullying -- kids who are gay, perceived as gay, or just different --
with a vital message about their lives, and the harassment they face. | Fort Worth City Council | 0:12:55 | 10/17/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 983 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/983 | Jessica Jackley | Jessica Jackley: Poverty, money -- and love | What
do you think of people in poverty? Maybe what Jessica Jackley once did:
"they" need "our" help, in the form of a few coins in a jar. The
co-founder of Kiva.org talks about how her attitude changed -- and how
her work with microloans has brought new power to people who live on a
few dollars a day. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:18:33 | 10/18/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 984 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/984 | Heribert Watzke | Heribert Watzke: The brain in your gut | Did
you know you have functioning neurons in your intestines -- about a
hundred million of them? Food scientist Heribert Watzke tells us about
the "hidden brain" in our gut and the surprising things it makes us
feel. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:15:14 | 10/19/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 986 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/986 | Dianna Cohen | Dianna Cohen: Tough truths about plastic pollution | Artist
Dianna Cohen shares some tough truths about plastic pollution in the
ocean and in our lives -- and some thoughts on how to free ourselves
from the plastic gyre. | Mission Blue Voyage | 0:05:18 | 10/20/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 987 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/987 | Patrick Chappatte | Patrick Chappatte: The power of cartoons | In
a series of witty punchlines, Patrick Chappatte makes a poignant case
for the power of the humble cartoon. His projects in Lebanon, West
Africa and Gaza show how, in the right hands, the pencil can illuminate
serious issues and bring the most unlikely people together.
| TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:12:32 | 10/21/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 988 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/988 | David Byrne, Thomas Dolby, Ethel | David Byrne sings "(Nothing But) Flowers" | David
Byrne sings the Talking Heads' 1988 hit, "(Nothing But) Flowers." He's
accompanied by Thomas Dolby and string quartet Ethel, who made up the
TED2010 house band. | TED2010 | 0:03:15 | 10/22/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 991 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/991 | R.A. Mashelkar | R.A. Mashelkar: Breakthrough designs for ultra-low-cost products | Engineer
RA Mashelkar shares three stories of ultra-low-cost design from India
that use bottom-up rethinking, and some clever engineering, to bring
expensive products (cars, prosthetics) into the realm of the possible
for everyone. | TEDIndia 2009 | 0:19:40 | 10/25/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 992 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/992 | Joseph Nye | Joseph Nye on global power shifts | Historian
and diplomat Joseph Nye gives us the 30,000-foot view of the shifts in
power between China and the US, and the global implications as economic,
political and "soft" power shifts and moves around the globe. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:18:15 | 10/26/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 993 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/993 | Barton Seaver | Barton Seaver: Sustainable seafood? Let's get smart | Chef
Barton Seaver presents a modern dilemma: Seafood is one of our
healthier protein options, but overfishing is desperately harming our
oceans. He suggests a simple way to keep fish on the dinner table that
includes every mom's favorite adage -- "Eat your vegetables!" | Mission Blue Voyage | 0:09:26 | 10/27/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 994 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/994 | Shimon Steinberg | Shimon Steinberg: Natural pest control ... using bugs! | At
TEDxTelAviv, Shimon Steinberg looks at the difference between pests and
bugs -- and makes the case for using good bugs to fight bad bugs,
avoiding chemicals in our quest for perfect produce. | TEDxTelAviv 2010 | 0:15:23 | 10/28/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 995 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/995 | Miwa Matreyek | Miwa Matreyek's glorious visions | Using
animation, projections and her own moving shadow, Miwa Matreyek
performs a gorgeous, meditative piece about inner and outer discovery.
Take a quiet 10 minutes and dive in. With music from Anna Oxygen, Mirah,
Caroline Lufkin and Mileece. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:11:11 | 10/29/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 996 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/996 | Tom Chatfield | Tom Chatfield: 7 ways games reward the brain | We're
bringing gameplay into more aspects of our lives, spending countless
hours -- and real money -- exploring virtual worlds for imaginary
treasures. Why? As Tom Chatfield shows, games are perfectly tuned to
dole out rewards that engage the brain and keep us questing for more. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:16:28 | 11/1/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 997 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/997 | David Bismark | David Bismark: E-voting without fraud | David
Bismark demos a new system for voting that contains a simple,
verifiable way to prevent fraud and miscounting -- while keeping each
person's vote secret. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:07:02 | 11/2/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 998 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/998 | Greg Stone | Greg Stone: Saving the ocean one island at a time | Aboard
Mission Blue, scientist Greg Stone tells the story of how he helped the
Republic of Kiribati create an enormous protected area in the middle of
the Pacific -- protecting fish, sealife and the island nation itself. | Mission Blue Voyage | 0:17:15 | 11/3/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1000 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1000 | Gero Miesenboeck | Gero Miesenboeck reengineers a brain | In
the quest to map the brain, many scientists have attempted the
incredibly daunting task of recording the activity of each neuron. Gero
Miesenboeck works backward -- manipulating specific neurons to figure
out exactly what they do, through a series of stunning experiments that
reengineer the way fruit flies percieve light. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:17:34 | 11/3/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1001 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1001 | Andrew Bird | Andrew Bird's one-man orchestra of the imagination | Musical
innovator Andrew Bird winds together his trademark violin technique
with xylophone, vocals and sophisticated electronic looping. Add in his
uncanny ability to whistle anything, and he becomes a riveting one-man
orchestra.
| TED2010 | 0:19:19 | 11/5/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1002 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1002 | Emily Pilloton | Emily Pilloton: Teaching design for change | Designer
Emily Pilloton moved to rural Bertie County, in North Carolina, to
engage in a bold experiment of design-led community transformation.
She's teaching a design-build class called Studio H that engages high
schoolers' minds and bodies while bringing smart design and new
opportunities to the poorest county in the state. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:16:43 | 11/8/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1003 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1003 | Stefan Wolff | Stefan Wolff: The path to ending ethnic conflicts | Civil
wars and ethnic conflicts have brought the world incredible suffering,
but Stefan Wolff's figures show that, in the last 20 years, their number
has steadily decreased. He extracts critical lessons from Northern
Ireland, Liberia, Timor and more to show that leadership, diplomacy and
institutional design are our three most effective weapons in waging
peace. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:17:35 | 11/9/2010 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1004 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1004 | Aaron Huey | Aaron Huey: America's native prisoners of war | Aaron
Huey's effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine
Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people
-- appalling, and largely ignored -- compelled him to refocus. Five
years of work later, his haunting photos intertwine with a shocking
history lesson in this bold, courageous talk from TEDxDU. | TEDxDU 2010 | 0:15:27 | 11/10/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1005 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1005 | Auret van Heerden | Auret van Heerden: Making global labor fair | Labor
activist Auret van Heerden talks about the next frontier of workers'
rights -- globalized industries where no single national body can keep
workers safe and protected. How can we keep our global supply chains
honest? Van Heerden makes the business case for fair labor. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:17:46 | 11/11/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1006 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1006 | Eric Berlow | Eric Berlow: How complexity leads to simplicity | Ecologist
Eric Berlow doesn't feel overwhelmed when faced with complex systems.
He knows that more information can lead to a better, simpler solution.
Illustrating the tips and tricks for breaking down big issues, he
distills an overwhelming infographic on U.S. strategy in Afghanistan to a
few elementary points. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:03:42 | 11/12/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1007 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1007 | Conrad Wolfram | Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers | From
rockets to stock markets, many of humanity's most thrilling creations
are powered by math. So why do kids lose interest in it? Conrad Wolfram
says the part of math we teach -- calculation by hand -- isn't just
tedious, it's mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world.
He presents his radical idea: teaching kids math through computer
programming. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:17:19 | 11/15/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1008 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1008 | Denis Dutton | Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty | TED
collaborates with animator Andrew Park to illustrate Denis Dutton's
provocative theory on beauty -- that art, music and other beautiful
things, far from being simply "in the eye of the beholder," are a core
part of human nature with deep evolutionary origins. | TED2010 | 0:15:33 | 11/16/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1009 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1009 | Shimon Schocken | Shimon Schocken's rides of hope | Computer
science professor Shimon Schocken is also an avid mountain biker. To
share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor
program with Israel's juvenile inmates and was touched by both their
intense difficulties and profound successes. Photographs by Raphael
Rabinovitz. | TEDxTelAviv 2010 | 0:15:46 | 11/17/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1010 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1010 | John Hardy | John Hardy: My green school dream | Join
John Hardy on a tour of the Green School, his off-the-grid school in
Bali that teaches kids how to build, garden, create (and get into
college). The centerpiece of campus is the spiraling Heart of School,
perhaps the world's largest freestanding bamboo building. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:13:35 | 11/18/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1011 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1011 | Kristina Gjerde | Kristina Gjerde: Making law on the high seas | Kristina
Gjerde studies the law of the high seas -- the 64 percent of our ocean
that isn't protected by any national law at all. Gorgeous photos show
the hidden worlds that Gjerde and other lawyers are working to protect
from trawling and trash-dumping, through smart policymaking and a
healthy dose of PR. | Mission Blue Voyage | 0:15:46 | 11/19/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1012 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1012 | Kim Gorgens | Kim Gorgens: Protecting the brain against concussion | In
a lively talk from TEDxDU, neuropsychologist Kim Gorgens makes the case
for better protecting our brains against the risk of concussion -- with
a compelling pitch for putting helmets on kids. | TEDxDU 2010 | 0:09:21 | 11/22/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1013 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1013 | Zainab Salbi | Zainab Salbi: Women, wartime and the dream of peace | In
war we often see only the frontline stories of soldiers and combat. AT
TEDGlobal 2010, Zainab Salbi tells powerful "backline" stories of women
who keep everyday life going during conflicts, and calls for women to
have a place at the negotiating table once fighting is over. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:17:46 | 11/23/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1014 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1014 | Jason Fried | Jason Fried: Why work doesn't happen at work | Jason
Fried has a radical theory of working: that the office isn't a good
place to do it. At TEDxMidwest, he lays out the main problems (call them
the M&Ms) and offers three suggestions to make work work. | TEDxMidwest | 0:15:21 | 11/24/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1015 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1015 | Dan Phillips | Dan Phillips: Creative houses from reclaimed stuff | In
this funny and insightful talk from TEDxHouston, builder Dan Phillips
tours us through a dozen homes he's built in Texas using recycled and
reclaimed materials in wildly creative ways. Brilliant, low-tech design
details will refresh your own creative drive. | TEDxHouston | 0:17:57 | 11/25/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1016 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1016 | Birke Baehr | Birke Baehr: What's wrong with our food system | 11-year-old
Birke Baehr presents his take on a major source of our food -- far-away
and less-than-picturesque industrial farms. Keeping farms out of sight
promotes a rosy, unreal picture of big-box agriculture, he argues, as he
outlines the case to green and localize food production. | TEDxNextGenerationAsheville | 0:05:14 | 11/29/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1017 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1017 | William Ury | William Ury: The walk from "no" to "yes" | William
Ury, author of "Getting to Yes," offers an elegant, simple (but not
easy) way to create agreement in even the most difficult situations --
from family conflict to, perhaps, the Middle East. | TEDxMidwest | 0:18:45 | 11/30/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1018 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1018 | Marcel Dicke | Marcel Dicke: Why not eat insects? | Marcel
Dicke makes an appetizing case for adding insects to everyone's diet.
His message to squeamish chefs and foodies: delicacies like locusts and
caterpillars compete with meat in flavor, nutrition and
eco-friendliness. | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:16:34 | 12/1/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1019 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1019 | Bart Weetjens | Bart Weetjens: How I taught rats to sniff out land mines | At
TEDxRotterdam, Bart Weetjens talks about his extraordinary project:
training rats to sniff out land mines. He shows clips of his "hero rats"
in action, and previews his work's next phase: teaching them to turn up
tuberculosis in the lab. | TEDxRotterdam 2010 | 0:12:11 | 12/2/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1020 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1020 | Arthur Potts Dawson | Arthur Potts Dawson: A vision for sustainable restaurants | If
you've been in a restaurant kitchen, you've seen how much food, water
and energy can be wasted there. Chef Arthur Potts-Dawson shares his very
personal vision for drastically reducing restaurant, and supermarket,
waste -- creating recycling, composting, sustainable engines for good
(and good food). | TEDGlobal 2010 | 0:08:49 | 12/3/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1030 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1030 | Halla Tomasdottir | Halla Tomasdottir: A feminine response to Iceland's financial crash | Halla
Tomasdottir managed to take her company Audur Capital through the eye
of the financial storm in Iceland by applying 5 traditionally "feminine"
values to financial services. At TEDWomen, she talks about these values
and the importance of balance. | TEDWomen | 0:09:45 | 12/8/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1031 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1031 | Tony Porter | Tony Porter: A call to men | At
TEDWomen, Tony Porter makes a call to men everywhere: Don't "act like a
man." Telling powerful stories from his own life, he shows how this
mentality, drummed into so many men and boys, can lead men to
disrespect, mistreat and abuse women and each other. His solution: Break
free of the "man box." | TEDWomen | 0:11:13 | 12/9/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1032 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1032 | Kiran Bedi | Kiran Bedi: A police chief with a difference | Kiran
Bedi has a surprising resume. Before becoming Director General of the
Indian Police Service, she managed one of the country's toughest prisons
-- and used a new focus on prevention and education to turn it into a
center of learning and meditation. She shares her thoughts on visionary
leadership at TEDWomen. | TEDWomen | 0:08:47 | 12/13/2010 |
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| | | | | | | | | | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1033 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1033 | Hanna Rosin | Hanna Rosin: New data on the rise of women | Hanna
Rosin reviews startling new data that shows women actually surpassing
men in several important measures, such as college graduation rates. Do
these trends, both US-centric and global, signal the "end of men"?
Probably not -- but they point toward an important societal shift worth
deep discussion.
| TEDWomen | 0:16:12 | 12/15/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1034 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1034 | Diana Laufenberg | Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes | Diana
Laufenberg shares 3 surprising things she has learned about teaching --
including a key insight about learning from mistakes. | TEDxMidAtlantic | 0:10:05 | 12/15/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1036 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1036 | Rufus Griscom + Alisa Volkman | Let's talk parenting taboos: Rufus Griscom + Alisa Volkman | Babble.com
publishers Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman, in a lively tag-team,
expose 4 facts that parents never, ever admit -- and why they should.
Funny and honest, for parents and nonparents alike. | TEDWomen | 0:17:08 | 12/16/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1037 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1037 | Rachel Botsman | Rachel Botsman: The case for collaborative consumption | At
TEDxSydney, Rachel Botsman says we're "wired to share" -- and shows how
websites like Zipcar and Swaptree are changing the rules of human
behavior. | TEDxSydney | 0:16:34 | 12/17/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1038 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1038 | Ken Robinson | Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms | In
this talk from RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3
troubling trends: rising drop-out rates, schools' dwindling stake in
the arts, and ADHD. An important, timely talk for parents and teachers. | RSA Animate | 0:11:40 | 12/19/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1039 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1039 | Beverly + Dereck Joubert | Beverly + Dereck Joubert: Life lessons from big cats | Beverly
+ Dereck Joubert live in the bush, filming and photographing lions and
leopards in their natural habitat. With stunning footage (some never
before seen), they discuss their personal relationships with these
majestic animals -- and their quest to save the big cats from human
threats. | TEDWomen | 0:17:20 | 12/20/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1040 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1040 | Sheryl Sandberg | Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders | Facebook
COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men
reach the top of their professions -- and offers 3 powerful pieces of
advice to women aiming for the C-suite. | TEDWomen | 0:14:58 | 12/21/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1041 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1041 | Majora Carter | Majora Carter: 3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship | The
future of green is local -- and entrepreneurial. At TEDxMidwest, Majora
Carter brings us the stories of three people who are saving their own
communities while saving the planet. Call it "hometown security." | TEDxMidwest | 0:17:59 | 12/22/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1042 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1042 | Brene Brown | Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability | Brene
Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong,
love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep
insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know
herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share. | TEDxHouston | 0:20:19 | 12/23/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1043 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1043 | Barry Schwartz | Barry Schwartz: Using our practical wisdom | In
an intimate talk, Barry Schwartz dives into the question "How do we do
the right thing?" With help from collaborator Kenneth Sharpe, he shares
stories that illustrate the difference between following the rules and
truly choosing wisely. | TED in the Field | 0:23:07 | 12/31/2010 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1044 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1044 | Arianna Huffington | Arianna Huffington: How to succeed? Get more sleep | In
this short talk, Arianna Huffington shares a small idea that can awaken
much bigger ones: the power of a good night's sleep. Instead of
bragging about our sleep deficits, she urges us to shut our eyes and see
the big picture: We can sleep our way to increased productivity and
happiness -- and smarter decision-making. | TEDWomen | 0:04:10 | 1/3/2011 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1045 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1045 | Lesley Hazleton | Lesley Hazleton: On reading the Koran | Lesley
Hazleton sat down one day to read the Koran. And what she found -- as a
non-Muslim, a self-identified "tourist" in the Islamic holy book --
wasn't what she expected. With serious scholarship and warm humor,
Hazleton shares the grace, flexibility and mystery she found, in this
myth-debunking talk from TEDxRainier. | TEDxRainier | 0:09:33 | 1/4/2011 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1046 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1046 | Charles Limb | Charles Limb: Your brain on improv | Musician
and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical
improvisation -- so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to
find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our
understanding of creativity of all kinds. | TEDxMidAtlantic | 0:16:31 | 1/5/2011 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1047 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1047 | Deborah Rhodes | Deborah Rhodes: A tool that finds 3x more breast tumors, and why it's not available to you | Working
with a team of physicists, Dr. Deborah Rhodes developed a new tool for
tumor detection that's 3 times as effective as traditional mammograms
for women with dense breast tissue. The life-saving implications are
stunning. So why haven't we heard of it? Rhodes shares the story behind
the tool's creation, and the web of politics and economics that keep it
from mainstream use. | TEDWomen | 0:21:08 | 1/6/2011 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1048 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1048 | Neil Pasricha | Neil Pasricha: The 3 A's of awesome | Neil
Pasricha's blog 1000 Awesome Things savors life's simple pleasures,
from free refills to clean sheets. In this heartfelt talk from
TEDxToronto, he reveals the 3 secrets (all starting with A) to leading a
life that's truly awesome. | TEDxToronto 2010 | 0:17:33 | 1/7/2011 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1049 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1049 | Jody Williams | Jody Williams: A realistic vision for world peace | Nobel
Peace laureate Jody Williams brings tough love to the dream of world
peace, with her razor-sharp take on what "peace" really means, and a set
of profound stories that zero in on the creative struggle -- and
sacrifice -- of those who work for it. | TEDWomen | 0:10:52 | 1/10/2011 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1050 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1050 | Amber Case | Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now | Technology
is evolving us, says Amber Case, as we become a screen-staring,
button-clicking new version of homo sapiens. We now rely on "external
brains" (cell phones and computers) to communicate, remember, even live
out secondary lives. But will these machines ultimately connect or
conquer us? Case offers surprising insight into our cyborg selves. | TEDWomen | 0:07:53 | 1/11/2011 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1051 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1051 | Thomas Thwaites | Thomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster -- from scratch | It
takes an entire civilization to build a toaster. Designer Thomas
Thwaites found out the hard way, by attempting to build one from
scratch: mining ore for steel, deriving plastic from oil ... it's
frankly amazing he got as far as he got. A parable of our interconnected
society, for designers and consumers alike. | TEDSalon London 2010 | 0:10:51 | 1/12/2011 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1052 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1052 | Elizabeth Lesser | Elizabeth Lesser: Take "the Other" to lunch | There's
an angry divisive tension in the air that threatens to make modern
politics impossible. Elizabeth Lesser explores the two sides of human
nature within us (call them "the mystic" and "the warriorâ€) that can
be harnessed to elevate the way we treat each other. She shares a simple
way to begin real dialogue -- by going to lunch with someone who
doesn't agree with you, and asking them three questions to find out
what's really in their hearts. | TEDWomen | 0:11:08 | 1/13/2011 | . | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/ | 1053 | http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1053 | Ali Carr-Chellman | Ali Carr-Chellman: Gaming to re-engage boys in learning | At
TEDxPSU, Ali Carr-Chellman pinpoints three reasons boys are tuning out
of school in droves, and lays out her bold plan to re-engage them:
bringing their culture into the classroom, with new rules that let boys
be boys, and video games that teach as well as entertain. | TEDxPSU | 0:12:30 | 1/14/2011 |
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