- -: GOP Expects State Pickups in 2010 Elections - Ed Gillespie
July 29, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) Chairman Ed Gillespie says he feels very confident that the Republican Party will pick up a minimum of ten legislative chambers around the country during the 2010 November elections, t...
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- -: Will Tea Party Image Hurt GOP In November?- Ed Gillespie
July 29, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) Chairman Ed Gillespie responds to a plan recently rolled out by the Democratic Party to link the GOP to the Tea Party. "I think it's a pretty good sign of their desperation," says Gill...
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- -: Boies on Prop 8 Ruling: No Legitimate Argument Against Gay Marriage
August 7, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/05/overturning_Prop_8_David_Boies Attorney David Boies, one of the head litigators in the landmark Perry v. Schwarzenegger case, discusses his views on Judge Vaughn Walker's decision to overturn California's Proposition 8. Boies argues that opponents of ...
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- -: How Will the Supreme Court Rule on Prop 8?
August 11, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/05/overturning_Prop_8_David_Boies Lawyer David Boies, one of the head litigators in the landmark Perry v. Schwarzenegger "gay marriage" case, weighs in on how he thinks the Supreme Court will rule if the recent victory overturning California's Propositio...
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- -: Prop 8 On Trial: David Boies Attacks Proponents' Arguments
September 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/05/overturning_Prop_8_David_Boies Attorney David Boies, a head litigator for the team seeking to overturn Prop 8, recalls one of his favorite moments from the recent trial: the questioning of Dr. Tam, an anti-gay marriage advocate. Boies compares gay mar...
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- -: Can Obama 'Start Over' With Voters? - Stanley Greenberg
November 18, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast Democratic pollster and political strategist Stanley Greenberg advises President Obama to acknowledge his mistakes and hit the reset button. "Voters actually are pretty forgiving on leaders who indicate that they've learned somet...
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- -: Carville on Romney 2012: "Designated Old White Guy"
November 18, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast Political strategists James Carville and Stanley Greenberg weigh in on which candidate is the most viable contender for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012. Carville calls Republican Party politician Mitt Romney the "designat...
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- -: Fixing Government: Does America Need a New Operating System?
February 5, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/01/18/Philip_K_Howard_Fixing_Broken_Government Common Good founder Philip K. Howard argues for a complete overhaul of United States bureaucracy. "America needs a new operating system," he says. Is it time for the U.S. to reboot? ----- Philip K. Howard is ...
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- -: Gillespie Calls Obama Approach to Economy "Nails on a Chalkboard" to Voters
July 8, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Speaking to reporters at a Monitor Breakfast, former Republican National Committee Chair Ed Gillespie says June's poor jobs report will be linked to May's poor performance as a "seminal moment" in the 2012 election cycle. Ed Gillespie is an American Republican political strategist and former Cou...
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- -: Christoph Adami: Finding life we can't imagine
October 4, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com How do we search for alien life if it's nothing like the life that we know? At TEDxUIUC Christoph Adami shows how he uses his research into artificial life -- self-replicating computer programs -- to find a signature, a 'biomarker,' that is free of our preconceptions of what li...
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- -: Graham Hill: Less stuff, more happiness
October 5, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Writer and designer Graham Hill asks: Can having less stuff, in less room, lead to more happiness? He makes the case for taking up less space, and lays out three rules for editing your life. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conf...
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- -: Mike Biddle: We can recycle plastic
October 6, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Less than 10% of plastic trash is recycled -- compared to almost 90% of metals -- because of the massively complicated problem of finding and sorting the different kinds. Frustrated by this waste, Mike Biddle has developed a cheap and incredibly energy efficient plant that can,...
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- -: Charles Hazlewood: Trusting the ensemble
October 7, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Conductor Charles Hazlewood talks about the role of trust in musical leadership -- then shows how it works, as he conducts the Scottish Ensemble onstage. He also shares clips from two musical projects: the opera "U-Carmen eKhayelitsha" and the ParaOrchestra. TEDTalks is a dail...
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- -: Alison Gopnik: What do babies think?
October 10, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com "Babies and young children are like the R&D division of the human species," says psychologist Alison Gopnik. Her research explores the sophisticated intelligence-gathering and decision-making that babies are really doing when they play. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the...
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- -: Richard Seymour: How beauty feels
October 12, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com A story, a work of art, a face, a designed object -- how do we tell that something is beautiful? And why does it matter so much to us? Designer Richard Seymour explores our response to beauty and the surprising power of objects that exhibit it. TEDTalks is a daily video podcas...
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- -: Ian Ritchie: The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee
October 12, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Imagine it's late 1990, and you've just met a nice young man named Tim Berners-Lee, who starts telling you about his proposed system called the World Wide Web. Ian Ritchie was there. And ... he didn't buy it. A short story about information, connectivity and learning from mista...
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- -: Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar
October 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com On any given day we're lied to from 10 to 200 times, and the clues to detect those lie can be subtle and counter-intuitive. Pamela Meyer, author of Liespotting, shows the manners and "hotspots" used by those trained to recognize deception -- and she argues honesty is a value wo...
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- -: Jae Rhim Lee: My mushroom burial suit
October 14, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Here's a powerful provocation from artist Jae Rhim Lee. Can we commit our bodies to a cleaner, greener Earth, even after death? Naturally -- using a special burial suit seeded with pollution-gobbling mushrooms. Yes, this just might be the strangest TEDTalk you'll ever see ... ...
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- -: Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement
October 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men -- many of them illiterate -- to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It's called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works. TEDTalk...
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- -: Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid
October 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that could make that possible, and how questioning our notion of 'normal' can lead to extraordinary breakthroughs. TEDTalks is a daily v...
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- -: Guy-Philippe Goldstein: How cyberattacks threaten real-world peace
October 19, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com More and more, nations are waging attacks with cyber weapons -- silent strikes on another country's computer systems that leave behind no trace. (Think of the Stuxnet worm.) At TEDxParis, Guy-Philippe Goldstein shows how cyberattacks can leap between the digital and physical wo...
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- -: Todd Kuiken: A prosthetic arm that "feels"
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Surgeon and engineer Todd Kuiken is building a prosthetic arm that connects with the human nervous system -- improving motion, control and even feeling. Onstage, patient Amanda Kitts helps demonstrate this next-gen robotic arm. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best tal...
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- -: Nathalie Miebach: Art made of storms
October 21, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Artist Nathalie Miebach takes weather data from massive storms and turns it into complex sculptures that embody the forces of nature and time. These sculptures then become musical scores for a string quartet to play. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and perf...
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- -: Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
October 24, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust. ...
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- -: Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsight
October 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Master storyteller Malcolm Gladwell tells the tale of the Norden bombsight, a groundbreaking piece of World War II technology with a deeply unexpected result. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leadin...
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- -: Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research
October 27, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com How does cancer know it's cancer? At Jay Bradner's lab, they found a molecule that might hold the answer, JQ1 -- and instead of patenting JQ1, they published their findings and mailed samples to 40 other labs to work on. An inspiring look at the open-source future of medical r...
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- -: Béatrice Coron: Stories cut from paper
October 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com With scissors and paper, artist Béatrice Coron creates intricate worlds, cities and countries, heavens and hells. Striding onstage in a glorious cape cut from Tyvek, she describes her creative process and the way her stories develop from snips and slices. TEDTalks is a daily v...
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- -: Hasan Elahi: FBI, here I am!
October 31, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com After he ended up on a watch list by accident, Hasan Elahi was advised by his local FBI agents to let them know when he was traveling. He did that and more ... much more. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the wo...
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- -: Paul Zak: Trust, morality - and oxytocin
November 1, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Where does morality come from -- physically, in the brain? In this talk neuroeconomist Paul Zak shows why he believes oxytocin (he calls it "the moral molecule") is responsible for trust, empathy, and other feelings that help build a stable society. TEDTalks is a daily video p...
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- -: Anna Mracek Dietrich: A plane you can drive
November 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com A flying car -- it's an iconic image of the future. But after 100 years of flight and automotive engineering, no one has really cracked the problem. Pilot Anna Mracek Dietrich and her team flipped the question, asking: Why not build a plane that you can drive? TEDTalks is a da...
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- -: Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains
November 3, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement. In this entertaining, data-rich talk he gives us a glimpse into how the brain creates the grace and agility of human motion. TEDTalks is a daily vi...
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- -: Marco Tempest: The augmented reality of techno-magic
November 4, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Using sleight-of-hand techniques and charming storytelling, illusionist Marco Tempest brings a jaunty stick figure to life onstage at TEDGlobal. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and...
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- -: Martin Hanczyc: The line between life and not-life
November 7, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com In his lab, Martin Hanczyc makes "protocells," experimental blobs of chemicals that behave like living cells. His work demonstrates how life might have first occurred on Earth ... and perhaps elsewhere too. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances f...
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- -: Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor)
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Artist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, Rao creates high-tech art installations -- a typewriter that sends emails, a camera that tracks you through the room only to make you invisible on scr...
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Tim Pawlenty: CPAC Remarks: Restoring American Dream by Restoring American Common Sense
February 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Opposing the Obama administration, Tim Pawlenty shares his own thoughts on how to save America from debt and a national job crisis.
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Danny Hillis: Understanding Cancer Through Proteomics
October 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Danny Hillis talks about using protein sequencing in order to determine specific cancering cells and give each cancer patient personalized treatment.
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John Hunter: World Peace Game
March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)John Hunter invents a game that teaches children on how to solve the most critical world problems by letting them experience first-hand the negotiations, issues, situations and the wars in a constructive and bloodless manner.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz's Inaugural Speech
May 4, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Debbie Wasserman Schultz thanks the poeple who voted for her as the DNC chairwoman and invites everyone to share another historical journey as they strive to keep Barack Obama in the Whitehouse for a second term.
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Bill Clinton: Remarks at the Democratic National Convention
August 29, 1996 (over 27 years ago)President Bill Clinton outlines the plans for progress America is implementing under his administration, as well as the milestones that America has already achieved during his presidency.
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Al Gore: Al Gore Addresses the Graduates of the College of Arts & Sciences, UT
May 14, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Al Gore gives the 2010 Class of the University of Tennessee a peek into the future of devastating climate change and irreversible resource depletion to inspire them to stand up and make a change.
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John Maeda: The Simple Life
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)John Maeda shares his insights and experiences on simplicity and complexity in nature, art and technology.
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Larry Brilliant: The Case For Optimism
January 1, 2007 (over 17 years ago)Larry Brilliant gives reasons to become optimistic despite the global issues our race is facing and the next generation will be handling for us.
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Dan Dennett: Dan Dennett's Response to Rick Warren
February 1, 2006 (about 18 years ago)Dan Dennett shares his thoughts on the democratic way of educating students about other religions and of his opposition to the intelligent design.
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Yann Arthus-Bertrand: Capturing a Fragile Earth in Wide-Angle
February 1, 2009 (about 15 years ago)In this talk, Yann Arthus-Bertrand talks and shows us, through images, about the state of our home. He has been doing various projects to promote awareness and action for the Earth's current situation. He also stresses that though we are part of the problem, we are also the solution.
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Cameron Herold: Let's Raise Kids to be Entrepreneurs
March 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)In this talk, Cameron Herold encourages us to nurture the entrepreneur in our kids. He states that Entrepreneurship should be at par with the other professions. He teaches us how entrepreneurs think and how to train children to become the next business innovators.
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Norman Foster: Norman Foster's Green Agenda
January 1, 2007 (over 17 years ago)Foster, a prolific and multi-award winning architect, explains how computers can actually be used to create buildings which are eco-friendly.
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Burt Rutan: Burt Rutan Sees the Future of Space
February 1, 2006 (about 18 years ago)Burt Rutan talks about how the aviation industry has become stagnant and how it can be revived to move forward again.
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Bill Joy: What I'm Worried About, What I'm Excited About
February 1, 2006 (about 18 years ago)Bill Joy shares the technology and technological advances he is both concerned of and excited about.
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Sylvia Earle: Sylvia Earle's TED Prize Wish to Protect our Oceans
February 1, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Slyvia Earle shares her wish of protecting the ocean and its inhabitants. She appeals to the audience with beautiful images and shocking statistics regarding the world's seas' rapid decline.
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Al Gore: Averting Climate Crisis
February 1, 2006 (about 18 years ago)Former US Vice President Al Gore talks a bit about his life and how homes can start helping out the movement to resolve thge world's climate crisis.
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Stewart Brand: Squatter Cities
February 1, 2006 (about 18 years ago)Stewart Brand shows why people are moving towards the squatter cities as they move out of poverty because of technology.
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David Pogue: Simplicity Sells
February 1, 2006 (about 18 years ago)In this thoroughly entertaining talk/song medley, Tech Columnist David Pogue brings the message that Simplicity Sells. He gives examples of both good and bad product designs and encourages both consumers and designers to do it right and choose intelligent design.
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Al Gore: New Thinking on the Climate Crisis
March 1, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Al Gore talks about how climate crisis dramatically increases as years pass by and the things that governemnts should be doing to compensate for the damage it has been doing to the earth's environment.
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Bill Clinton: Rebuilding Rwanda
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Bill Clinton shows how medicine ahs become available to developing countries, especially Rwanda, and the missing organizations and systems to complete the helping hand.
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Louise Leakey: Louise Leakey Digs for Humanity's Origins
February 1, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Louise Leakey takes the sudience into journey of finding fossils of our ancestors and how we now are rapidly shaping and changing the world.
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Bill Gates: Energy: Innovating to Zero!
February 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Bill Gates wishes for energy miracles, and urges people to start maing these miracles into reality, in order to bring down CO2 emission to zero.
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John Doerr: John Doerr Sees Salvation and Profit in Greentech
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)John Doerr uses inspiring success stories of going green to inspire the audience to start minding our CO2 consumption and emission and save the earth from the disasters climate change could ultimately bring about.
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Seth Godin: The Tribes We Lead
February 1, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Seth Godin shows how effective marketing is simply being a leader of a tribe.
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Alan Russell: Regenerating Our Bodies
February 1, 2006 (about 18 years ago)Alan Russell introduces the possibility of regenerating organs to treat diseases early in their onset.
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Mena Trott: On Blogs
February 1, 2006 (about 18 years ago)In this lively talk, blogger Mena Trott tells us about blogging. She describes in her own way, what a blog is and what being a blogger means. She shares with us some stories, not just about herself, but also about the people whose lives have been changed due to this evolution of blogging.
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Ken Robinson: Bring on the Learning Revolution!
February 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Ken Robinson talks about how education should undergo revolution and allow students to grow up and do what they really want to do in their lives.
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Nalini Nadkarni: Conserving the Canopy
February 1, 2009 (about 15 years ago)In this talk, Tree Researcher Nalini Nadkarni tells us about conserving the canopy. She leads us on a journey of how it is like at the forest canopy that hosts such immense biodeiversity. She shows us her various projects that reach out to very different groups outside the scientific world. She a...
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Brian Cox: Why We Need the Explorers
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Brian Cox brings the audience with hime to outer spcae through breath taking photographs from explorations to show just how important our planet is to us despite it being just a pale blue dot.
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Tony Robbins: Tony Robbins Asks Why We Do What We Do
February 1, 2006 (about 18 years ago)Tony Robbins talks about how emotions and our will to give brings back a sense of fulfillment in our lives.
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Jeff Skoll: Jeff Skoll Makes Movies that Matter
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Jeff Skoll shows how he moved from college to eBay to Hollywood to touch and change lives.
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Ken Robinson: Schools Kill Creativity
February 1, 2006 (about 18 years ago)Ken Robinson talks of how our modern education systems have put creativity and the arts on the back burner for quite some time.
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Saul Griffith: Kites Tap Wind Energy
February 1, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Saul Griffith introduces kites as another clean way of producing energy.
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Stuart Brown: Play is More Than Fun
May 1, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Stuart Brown's research on play shows how play is important in shaping our personalities throughout our whole lives.
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Al Gore: Al Gore Warns on Latest Climate Trends
February 1, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Former US Preseident Al Gore shows how we are moving forward with trends in saving the environment from climate change but also warns us of false advertising from so-called green alternatives.
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Larry Brilliant: Stopping Pandemics
February 1, 2006 (about 18 years ago)Previous pandemics and pending pandemics are discussed by Larry Brilliant to advocate the "early detection, early response" technique to stopping these pandemics.
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Einstein the Parrot: Einstein the Parrot Talks and Squawks
February 1, 2006 (about 18 years ago)In this delightful talk, Einstein the Parrot talks and squawks for our entertainment. She thoroughly charms us with her large vocabulary and funny antics.
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Jonathan Haidt: The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives
March 1, 2008 (about 16 years ago)In this talk, Jonathan Haidt delves into our moral values. He goes back to the beginning of our morality and how it progresses to a liberal or conservative way of thinking.
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Mechai Viravaidya: How Mr. Condom Made Thailand a Better Place
September 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Mechai Viravaidya talks about how Thailand succesfully launched a country-wide movement for the use of condoms to promote family planning and HIV protection.
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