Carl Safina: The Oil Spill's Unseen Culprits, Victims
June 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Carl Safina sheds light on how the oceans and ocean dwellers are negatively affected by oil spills due to humanity's demand for fossil fuels for energy.
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Fields Wicker-Miurin: Fields Wicker-Miurin: Learning from Leadership's "Missing Manual"
September 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Social entrepreneur Fields Wicker-Miurin talks about the people who have inspired and convinced her of the need to search out and develop new models of leadership.
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Dan Dennett: Cute, Sexy, Sweet, Funny
February 1, 2007 (over 17 years ago)Dan Dennet talks about of inversion of reasoning in the context of how the human brain is wired by evolution to perceive supernormal stimulus.
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Golan Levin: Software as Art
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)Golan Levin shows how computers can also be used in performing arts.
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Peter Diamandis: Our Next Giant Leap
July 1, 2005 (almost 19 years ago)Peter Diamandis takes the audience into a new thinking about space travel and the future it holds for humans.
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Richard Sears: Planning for the End of Oil
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Richard Sears talks about how oil will never run out with the help of technology.
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Lisa Margonelli: The Political Chemistry of Oil
June 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Lisa Margonelli talks about the chemistry, economics and politics of oil together with the environmental implications of this most sought-after fossil fuel.
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Steven Levitt: Child Carseats
July 1, 2005 (almost 19 years ago)Steven Levitt shows the importance of seatbelts and it's effect on the safety of children riding vehicles.
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Abraham Lincoln: Eulogy on Henry Clay
July 6, 1852 (almost 172 years ago)Nearly a decade before assuming the duties of the President, Abraham Lincoln gives an eloquent eulogy to his friend Henry Clay.
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Gever Tulley: Schools Teaching Life Lessons Through Tinkering
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)In this fun talk, Gever Tulley tells us about teaching life lessons through tinkering. He shows us the Tinkering school and what is being taught in it. He shares pictures which depict building, creativity, and fun. And from this, so many amazing things can happen.
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Itay Talgam: Lead Like the Great Conductors
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)In this ear-pleasing talk, Conductor Itay Talgam tells us to lead like the Great Conductors. He begins by teaching us what conducting is about. He then presents some of the great orchestra conductors orchestra and provides an analogy for leadership in both music and business.
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Marvin Minsky: Health and the Human Mind
February 1, 2003 (over 21 years ago)Marvin Minsky talks about how emotions should be viewed as a separate area when trying to improve the brain's capability to make decisions and the technology for artificial intelligence.
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Dan Dennett: Dan Dennett's Response to Rick Warren
February 1, 2006 (over 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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Taryn Simon: Taryn Simon Photographs Secret Sites
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Taryn Simon shows powerful photographs of truths and mistaken truths.
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Patricia Burchat: Shedding Light on Dark Matter
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Patricia Burchat talks about dark matter and dark energy that physics has been trying to prove, detect and quantify.
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Barack Obama: The Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan
December 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Barack Obama's speech at the West Point Military Academy lays out his plans to overcome the war involving Afghanistan and Pakistan in line with the pursuit of world peace.
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Robin Chase: Zipcar and Her Next Big Idea
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Robin Chase gives ideas on how to decrease carbon consumption such as car sharing, implementing congestion pricing and interstate wireless mesh systems.
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Barry Schwartz: Our Loss of Wisdom
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Barry Schwartz talks about the importance of moral wisdom and its positive impact on almost every aspect of life.
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James Surowiecki: When Social Media Became News
February 1, 2005 (over 19 years ago)James Surowiecki talks about the positives and negatives of blogs and blogging as they relate to human's perception of information.
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Paul Collier: The "Bottom Billion"
March 1, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Paul Collier shows the different huge opportunities to help out the countries at the bottom billion.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Quit India (Part 3 of 3)
August 8, 1942 (over 81 years ago)Gandhi talks about the personal sacrifices that need to be made in the fight for true freedom and independence. He also appeals to the United Nations for fair consideration.
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Roz Savage: Why I'm Rowing Across the Pacific
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Roz Savage creates environmental awareness through her passion for rowing across large bodies of water.
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Howard Rheingold: Collaboration
February 1, 2005 (over 19 years ago)Howard Rheingold talks about how collaboration in the economy has changed and stayed the same.
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Peter Diamandis: Stephen Hawking in Zero G
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Peter Diamandis gives Stephen Hawking a chance of a lifetime to experience Zero Gravity.
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James Madison: Veto Act on Incorporating the Alexandria Protestant Episcopal Church
February 21, 1811 (about 213 years ago)President James Madison vetoes a bill to charter the Alexandria Protestant Episcopal Church as being in violation of the Constitutions desire to maintain a separation between church and state.
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Chris Anderson: The Long Tail
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)In this talk, Chris Anderson editor of Wired magazine, tells us about the 4 stages of important Technologies. He provides examples and charts detailing the trends about these stages. This information can then help us understand and better predict the effects of these changes.
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Daniel Libeskind: 17 Words of Architectural Inspiration
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Daniel Libeskind gives 17 words that he believes embody the true meaning of architecture.
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Stephen Wolfram: Stephen Wolfram: Computing a Theory of Everything
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Eminent physicist, mathematician and software developer Stephen Wolfram gives a demonstration of Wolfram Alpha, the astoundingly powerful computational software that he is developing, and explains how the key to the secrets of the universe may possibly be unlocked by computations.
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Malcolm X: Letter to Betty from Mecca
April 20, 1964 (about 60 years ago)In this letter, Malcolm X reaffirms the great changes in his life brought about by his pilgrimage to Mecca. His experiences have given him new insight to true brotherhood as brought about by Islam.
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David Logan: Tribal Leadership
March 1, 2009 (about 15 years ago)David Logan urges "tribe leaders" to nudge their tribe towards the world-changing stage that tribes can achieve.
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Joshua Prince-Ramus: Seattle's Library
February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)In this fast-paced talk, Architect Joshua Prince-Ramus races through three incredible architectural projects. He tells us about the Seattle Central Library, the Dallas Theater, and the Louisville Contemporary Art Museum.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi talks about the flow that people experience in their optimum states of being in work or in thought.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda: To Life: Vanessa's Wedding Surprise
September 5, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Lin-Manuel's surprise for his wife Vanessa on their wedding day. All of Vanessa's close friends and family rehearsed for a month in secret, leading up to the reception. What they lack in polish, they surely make up for in joy and love. In any event, everyone in this video has one thing in common...
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Torsten Reil: Torsten Reil Builds Better Animations
March 1, 2003 (about 21 years ago)Torsten Reil shows a new way of animating characters in so that they would have a more realistic feel using the evolution of AI.
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Malcolm X: Message to the Grass Roots
November 10, 1963 (over 60 years ago)"Message to the Grass Roots" is an urgent call to action. Malcom X speaks here more as a leader of the Black masses than a Muslim minister. He proclaimed the difference between the Black Revolution and the Negro Revolution and he showed how the House Negro and the Field Negro appears in current s...
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Martin Luther King Jr.: A Realistic Look at the Question of Progress in the Area of Race Relations
April 10, 1957 (about 67 years ago)Martin Luther King's speech on the progress of the Negro community to achieve equality in race relations ignites more fire in the hearts of the Negro during a freedom rally. During this time, they have come along way in achieving their goal yet King reminds them that they still have a long way to...
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Yann Arthus-Bertrand: Capturing a Fragile Earth in Wide-Angle
February 1, 2009 (over 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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Keith Barry: Brain Magic
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)Keith Barry shows how he deceives human minds with tricks up his sleeve.
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William Li: Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)William Li points out the impact of angiogenesis in diseases such as cancer.
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Barack Obama: The President in Prague
April 5, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Barack Obama speaks in front of the people of Prague about his goal of a nuclear-weapon-free fraternity of countries in the nest four years and alongside it, his aim to produce clean and sustainable energy.
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Denis Dutton: A Darwinian Theory of Beauty
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Dennis Dutton talks about how beauty is an innate and ancient tagging of our minds to soemthing done with excellence and perfection.
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Caleb Chung: Caleb Chung Plays with Pleo
December 1, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Caleb Chung shows the toys he has invented together with their implications towards the shaping of our next generation.
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Barack Obama: Listening in Strasbourg, France
April 3, 2009 (about 15 years ago)US President Barack Obama does not just deliver a speech and reveal his mind on the crises Europe and America face, but also takes time to listen to and learn from the European citizens.
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Vilayanur Ramachandran: Your Mind
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Vilayanur Ramachandran talks about a few brain-related illnesses that are quite astonishing once explained how the complex human brain works.
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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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David Deutsch: Our Place in the Cosmos
July 1, 2005 (almost 19 years ago)The resemblance of the human brain and knowledge and the being of quasars in mathematical sense is explained and vividly illustrated by David Deutsch.
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Sunitha Krishnan: Fighting Sex Slavery
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)In this powerful talk, Social activist Sunitha Krishnan tells us about modern-day slavery. She recounts stories of children who were victims of the sex trade and provides a history of her own ordeal. She asks from us, more than support, an acceptance of these people victimized by human trafficking.
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James Howard Kunstler: Dissecting Suburbia
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)In this talk, Social critic James Howard Kunstler tells us about Suburbia. He shows us places in the US which are not worth caring about. He stresses that America needs to have it's sense of identity and culture depicted in it's public spaces to transform it into a country worth defending.
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Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as Random Acts of Kindness
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Internet Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain takes an optimistic view on the Internet, and discusses the many "random acts of kindness" that keep the network in flight and move hope throughout its bizarre architecture configuration.
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Kary Mullis: Kary Mullis Celebrates the Experiment
February 1, 2002 (over 22 years ago)Kary Mullis shares his personal experiences on how he started doing science and shows the audience the boldness and intuitiveness scientists should adapt when doing experiements.
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Joshua Prince-Ramus: Building a Theater that Remakes Itself
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)In this impressive talk, Architect Joshua Prince-Ramus tells us about building a theater that remakes itself. First he talks to us about the current role of architects and what must be done to change it. He then shows us the new Wyly theater and how it reconfigures itself into various theater forms.
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Susan Shaw: The Oil Spill's Toxic Trade-Off
June 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Susan Shaw talks about the destrcution to human, animal and ocean health brough about by oil spills.
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Adam Grosser: Sustainable Fridge
February 1, 2007 (over 17 years ago)Adam Grosser's low-cost refrigeration is an ingenious invention that is ready to be made available to the masses.
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Shimon Steinberg: Natural Pest Control: Using Bugs!
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Shimon Steinberg shows how insects, spiders and mites can be natural pest control for crops and garden plants.
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Mallika Sarabhai: Dance to Change the World
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Mallika Sarabhai uses her acting skills to send a message of social justice
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Irwin Redlener: Surviving a Nuclear Attack
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Irwin Redlener talks about the reality of nuclear wars and how to survive a nuclear explosion.
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Barack Obama: 9/11 Pentagon Memorial Speech
September 11, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Barack Obama speaks of grief, faith and remembrance of the lives lost on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack in its commemoration day eight years later.
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Christopher Deam: Christopher Deam Restyles the Airstream
February 1, 2002 (over 22 years ago)The airstream trailer designs of Christopher Deam puts home and travelling a notch higher.
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Paola Antonelli: Treating Design as Art
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)In this talk, Paola Antonelli tells us about the art of design. She talks about how diverse the range is for it's application. She also talks about the new and notable designers. She gives emphasis on how Design is an art that really takes into consideration the whole world in both it's creation ...
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Barack Obama: Obama's First Interview as President
January 26, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Barack Obama's first interview as the 44th US President ran along the lines of straightening and strengthening Muslim affairs within America and within the Middle East.
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Ken Kamler: Medical Miracle on Everest
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)In this talk, Dr. Ken Kamler tells us about a story of survival. How the brain generates willpower to help us survive the most extreme conditions.
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David S. Rose: Pitching to VCs
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)David S. Rose gives tips and tricks on how to give an amazing pitch to a VC that will make them open their checkbooks right then and there to invest in your product.
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Stephen Petranek: Counting Down to Armageddon
February 1, 2002 (over 22 years ago)In this talk, Stephen Petranek counts down ten ways the world might end. This talk is not armageddon hype; these are all possibilities that the Earth may encounter. Stephen stresses that we should study these scenarios and start preparing. He has even formulated solutions to give us a fighting c...
1 people like thisDerek Sivers: Keep Your Goals to Yourself
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Derek Sivers tells why goals should be kept secret, for a higher likelihood of realizing them.
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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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Robert Thurman: We can be Buddhas
December 1, 2006 (over 17 years ago)In this enlightening talk, Buddhist scholar Bob Thurman tells us that we can be Buddhas. He shows us that in this information age, we are all interconnected, and this raises our awareness of everyone. This in turn will develop our compassion and put us on a path to possibly become Buddhas.
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Martin Van Buren: Special Session Message to Congress
September 4, 1837 (over 186 years ago)President Martin Van Buren in a special message to Congress addresses the explosion of credit across the United States and the consequences and dangers that it has wrought on the country's economic stability. Van Buren continues the deliberations of his predecessor, Andrew Jackson, regarding the...
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Philippe Starck: Philippe Starck Thinks Deep on Design
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Philippe Starck thinks deep on how our life has become and how mutation has influenced our intelligence and design.
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Reed Kroloff: On Modern and Romantic Architecture
February 1, 2003 (over 21 years ago)In this talk, Architecture critic Reed Kroloff tells us about modern and romantic architecture. How the discussion for architecture has gone up due to 9/11, complete with a scathing review of its rebuilding plan. He also defines technological and romantic architecture then provides excellent exam...
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Dan Ariely: Our Buggy Moral Code
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)In this talk, Dan Ariely makes a study of our moral code. He makes a series of systematic experimentation that leads to startling results in human behavior.
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Tom Wujec: Tom Wujec Demos the 13th-century Astrolabe
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Information designer Tom Wujec shows the audience the marvelous ingenuity and complexity behind the astrolabe, an ancient astronomical computer.
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Dean Kamen: The Emotion Behind Invention
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)In this emotional talk, inventor Dean Kamen tells us about the people and the stories behind his incredible prosthetic arm. He narrates the experiences he had while developing this prosthetic arm and what motivated him and his team to achieve this level of technology.
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Jonathan Harris: Collecting stories
December 1, 2007 (over 16 years ago)In this talk, Jonathan Harris tells about collecting stories. He shows how his projects attain these stories via unconventional means. He also talks about his recent project about happiness.
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Paul MacCready: Paul MacCready Flies on Solar Wings
February 1, 2003 (over 21 years ago)Paul MacCready talks of his career as a flight enthisiast and his realization of environmental degredation along his journey on being a flight engineer.
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Eva Zeisel: Eva Zeisel on the Playful Search for Beauty
February 1, 2001 (over 23 years ago)Renowned Industrial Designer Eva Zeisel started her career in 1925 and here, she talks about the search that has been the fuel to her creations ever since.
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Rachel Sussman: The World's Oldest Living Things
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Rachel Sussman shows photographs of some of the oldest living things in the planet from gigantic baobabs to permafrost actinobacteria.
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Tim Berners-Lee: The Year Open Data Went Worldwide
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Tim Berners-Lee thanks the people who have contributed data to his data website, which was created to encourage data manipulation and information dissemination on issues of worldwide concern.
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Burt Rutan: Burt Rutan Sees the Future of Space
February 1, 2006 (over 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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Jonathan Drori: Every Pollen Grain has a Story
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Jonathan Driori's talk about pollens shows how tiny, almost-invisible things could carry a personal story and the story of the world in its miniscule body.
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Bill Joy: What I'm Worried About, What I'm Excited About
February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)Bill Joy shares the technology and technological advances he is both concerned of and excited about.
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Jamie Oliver: TED Prize Wish: Teach Every Child About Food
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Jamie Oliver talks about how we should start teaching children to eat healthy food to save them from a grim future of obesity and fatal health-related illnesses.
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Gary Flake: Is Pivot a Turning Point for Web Exploration?
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Gary Flake shows how Pivot can change our browsing and internet life into a more information-extracting web experience.
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Barack Obama: The 2010 State of the Union Address
January 27, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Barack Obama's first state of the union address focused on the ways in which to bring the middle-class people back on track with projects to decrease the unemployement rate, to foster affordable education and to provide better healthcare benefits.
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Jessica Jackley: Poverty, Money - and Love
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Jessica Jackley's story of how she rediscovered her compassion for the poor inspired the growth of ingenious programs that changed and still change the lives of numerous small-time entrepreneurs.
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Bill Stone: Bill Stone Explores the World's Deepest Caves
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Bill Stone talks about space exploration using cave exploration machines and ingenious methods for fuel and propulsion.
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Tierney Thys: Swimming with the Giant Sunfish
February 1, 2003 (over 21 years ago)In this fascinating talk, Marine Biologist Tierney Thys tells us about swimming with the Giant Sunfish. She talks about the Mola mola, the world's heaviest bony fish and gives us an overview of it's life. She also argues how it provides us with scientific data on the current status of life in our...
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Deborah Scranton: Deborah Scranton on Her "War Tapes"
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Deborah Scranton talks about her film about soldiers and wars from an insider's point of view.
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Gary Lauder: New Traffic Sign: Take Turns
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Gary Lauder introduces a new street sign that will make traffic lighter.
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Malcolm X: God's Judgement of White America (The Chickens Come Home to Roost)
December 4, 1963 (over 60 years ago)"God's Judgement of White America" was also known as "The Chickens Come Home to Roost", this was due to Malcolm x's answer to a question following the speech. In this speech, Malcolm X gives a dire warning of doom to White America. He identifies the two White political entities and defines their ...
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P.W. Singer: Military Robots and the Future of War
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)P.W. Singer talks about the pros and cons of robots in war and peace.
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Stephen Lawler: Stephen Lawler Tours Microsoft Virtual Earth
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Stephen Lawler shows a virtual world where the images are almost lifelike and the structures as set in 3D so you can navigate in any way you want.
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Steven Pinker: Chalking it Up to the Blank Slate
February 1, 2003 (over 21 years ago)In this talk, Linguist Steven Pinker tells us about the Blank Slate. He defines the popular notion and argues that it is an incorrect idea. He puts forward scientific proof that we all have qualities that we are already born with.
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Andrea Ghez: The Hunt for a Supermassive Black Hole
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Andrea Ghez gives scientific evidence on the assumption of the existence of supermassive black holes.
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Conrad Wolfram: Conrad Wolfram: Teaching Kids Real Math with Computers
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Technologist Conrad Wolfram talks about how information technology can give math the real-life relevance that fewer and fewer students now see it to have.
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Thomas Jefferson: Reply to New Haven Remonstrance
July 12, 1801 (almost 223 years ago)President Thomas Jefferson replies to objections from New Haven merchants as to his replacement of a collector from John Adams administration, and in doing so speaks against partisanship and in favor of the core values that make a valuable public servant.
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Aubrey de Grey: We Can Avoid Aging
July 1, 2005 (almost 19 years ago)Aubrey de Grey speaks of the possibility to extend human life up to a thousand years by postponing , if not, by totally eliminating the aging process.
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Daniel Kraft: A Better Way to Harvest Bone Marrow
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)In this talk, Dr. Daniel Kraft demos the Marrow Miner. His invention efficiently harvests bone marrow in a non-invasive way and very effectively lessens the pain to the donor. This could hopefully lead to more bone marrow donors that will help treat many diseases.
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Abraham Lincoln: Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863 (over 161 years ago)In Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, he proclaimed the freedom of America's slave population. By this executive order, he not only gained the support of many foreign countries, he also received the title of "The Great Emancipator" - affirming the United States' belief that all men are ...
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Jim Toomey: Learning from Sherman the Shark
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)In this clever talk, Cartoonist Jim Toomey tells us about learning from Sherman the shark. He gives us a background on how he got his start in cartooning and narrates how his sincere love for the ocean came to be. He sends his message through Sherman the shark in the Sherman's Lagoon comic strip....
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Tom Shannon: Anti-Gravity Sculpture
February 1, 2003 (over 21 years ago)Tom Shannon shows some of his finished sculptures and some future designs that can change the way poeple interact with the arts and sciences.
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