- -: Eric Dishman: Take health care off the mainframe
March 16, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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-base...
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- -: Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
March 17, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best ...
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- -: Ken Kamler: Medical miracle on Everest
March 18, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 ...
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- -: Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions
March 22, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podca...
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- -: Juliana Machado Ferreira: The fight to end rare-animal trafficking in Brazil
March 23, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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? TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and perf...
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- -: Joel Levine: Why we need to go back to Mars
March 25, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDxNASA, planetary scientist Joel Levine shows some intriguing -- and puzzling -- new discoveries about Mars: craters full of ice, traces of ancient oceans, and some compelling hints at the presence, at some time in the past, of life. He makes the case for going back to Mar...
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- -: Robert Gupta: Music is medicine, music is sanity
March 26, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a da...
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- -: Kevin Bales: How to combat modern slavery
March 29, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 eve...
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- -: Shukla Bose: Teaching one child at a time
March 30, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTa...
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- -: Kirk Citron: And now, the real news
March 31, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 fu...
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- -: Peter Eigen: How to expose the corrupt
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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...
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- -: Shekhar Kapur: We are the stories we tell ourselves
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast...
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- -: Mathieu Lehanneur demos science-inspired design
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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...
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- -: Milton Glaser: How great design makes ideas new
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the bes...
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- -: Derek Sivers: How to start a movement
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two.) TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of the...
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- -: Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids
April 2, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily v...
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- -: Elizabeth Pisani: Sex, drugs and HIV -- let's get rational
April 5, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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...
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- -: Dean Kamen: The emotion behind invention
April 6, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a da...
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- -: Dennis Hong: My 7 species of robot
April 7, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 ...
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- -: Jonathan Drori: Every pollen grain has a story
April 8, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video ...
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- -: Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life
April 9, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from...
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- -: Michael Specter: The danger of science denial
April 12, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the b...
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- -: Jonathan Klein: Photos that changed the world
April 13, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast...
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- -: Mike deGruy: Hooked by an octopus
April 15, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the bes...
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- -: Thelma Golden: How art gives shape to cultural change
April 16, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 ...
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- -: Frederick Balagadde: Bio-lab on a microchip
April 21, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks i...
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- -: Kavita Ramdas: Radical women, embracing tradition
April 26, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 ...
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- -: Roz Savage: Why I'm rowing across the Pacific
April 28, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. ...
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- -: Esther Duflo: Social experiments to fight poverty
May 4, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 tr...
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- -: Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean
May 5, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the bes...
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- -: Anil Gupta: India's hidden hotbeds of invention
May 6, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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...
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- -: Thomas Dolby: "Love Is a Loaded Pistol"
May 7, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 m...
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- -: Eddi Reader sings "Kiteflyer's Hill"
May 10, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Singer/songwriter Eddi Reader performs "Kiteflyer's Hill," a tender look back at a lost love. With Thomas Dolby on piano. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of...
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- -: Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks
May 10, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 ...
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- -: Nathan Myhrvold: Could this laser zap malaria?
May 11, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 beli...
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- -: Enric Sala: Glimpses of a pristine ocean
May 12, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Think of the ocean as our global savings account -- and right now, we're only making withdrawals, not deposits. Enric Sala shows how we can replenish our account through no-take marine reserves, with powerful ecological and economic benefits. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast ...
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- -: Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover
May 13, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 th...
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- -: William Li: Can we eat to starve cancer?
May 17, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com William Li presents a new way to think about cancer treatment: angiogenesis, targeting the blood vessels that feed a tumor. The crucial first (and best) step: Eating cancer-fighting foods that beat cancer at its own game. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and...
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- -: Graham Hill: Why I'm a weekday vegetarian
May 18, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 ... TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and pe...
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- -: Dee Boersma: Pay attention to penguins
May 19, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and perform...
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- -: Richard Sears: Planning for the end of oil
May 20, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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? TEDTalks is a daily vi...
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- -: Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy: Inside a school for suicide bombers
May 26, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 interviews of young camp graduates. A shocking vision. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast o...
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- -: Seth Berkley: HIV and flu -- the vaccine strategy
May 27, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from ...
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- -: Sophie Hunger plays songs of secrets, city lights
May 28, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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." TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the w...
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- -: Lawrence Lessig: Re-examining the remix
June 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the T...
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- -: Brian Skerry reveals ocean's glory -- and horror
June 2, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best...
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- -: Christopher "moot" Poole: The case for anonymity online
June 2, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 ...
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- -: Michael Sandel: The lost art of democratic debate
June 8, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a...
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- -: Rory Sutherland: Sweat the small stuff
June 9, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks...
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- -: David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve
June 11, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks ...
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- -: Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception
June 14, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast...
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- -: Margaret Stewart: How YouTube thinks about copyright
June 15, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Margaret 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performa...
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- -: Peter Tyack: The intriguing sound of marine mammals
June 16, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and perform...
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- -: Cameron Herold: Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs
June 17, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. Filmed in Edmonton, Canada. TEDTa...
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- -: Chip Conley: Measuring what makes life worthwhile
June 21, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the bes...
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- -: Marian Bantjes: Intricate beauty by design
June 22, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video po...
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- -: Charles Leadbeater: Education innovation in the slums
June 23, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 schoo...
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- -: Aditi Shankardass: A second opinion on learning disorders
June 24, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks...
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- -: Hillel Cooperman: Legos for grownups
June 25, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTa...
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- -: Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia
June 29, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast o...
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- -: Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world
June 29, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the b...
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- -: Stephen Palumbi: Following the mercury trail
June 30, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. Hi...
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- -: Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it!
July 2, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the w...
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- -: Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness
July 6, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the b...
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- -: Ellen Gustafson: Obesity + hunger = 1 global food issue
July 7, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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....
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- -: Nalini Nadkarni: Life science in prison
July 9, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily...
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- -: Carl Safina: The oil spill's unseen culprits, victims
July 12, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. T...
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- -: Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex
July 19, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTa...
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- -: Ethan Zuckerman: How to listen to global voices
July 19, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 ...
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Elif Shafak: Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction
July 19, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the...
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- -: Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks
July 19, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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...
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- -: Naif Al-Mutawa: Superheroes inspired by Islam
July 20, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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...
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- -: Dimitar Sasselov: How we found hundreds of Earth-like planets
July 21, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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). How many such planets have they found already? Several hundreds. T...
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- -: Kevin Stone: The bio-future of joint replacement
July 23, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily ...
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- -: Sheena Iyengar: The art of choosing
July 26, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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...
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- -: John Delaney: Wiring an interactive ocean
July 28, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the be...
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- -: Laurie Santos: How monkeys mirror human irrationality
July 29, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Why do we make irrational decisions so predictably? 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...
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- -: Lewis Pugh's mind-shifting Mt. Everest swim
July 30, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 5,300 meters, entirely created by recent glacial melting -- and began a journey that would teach him a radical new...
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- -: Jason Clay: How big brands can help save biodiversity
August 16, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 the...
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- -: Jamil Abu-Wardeh: The Axis of Evil Middle East Comedy Tour
August 19, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Jamil Abu-Wardeh jump-started the comedy scene in the Arab world by creating the Axis of Evil Middle East Comedy Tour, which brought Middle Eastern standup comedians from the West to delighted audiences all over the Arab region. He's found that, by respecting the "three B's" (b...
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- -: Seth Priebatsch: Building the game layer on top of the world
August 20, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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...
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- -: David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization
August 23, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 ...
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- -: Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic time machine
August 24, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED...
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- -: Jim Toomey: Learning from Sherman the shark
August 25, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a dail...
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- -: Lisa Margonelli: The political chemistry of oil
August 26, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 ...
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- -: Dan Cobley: What physics taught me about marketing
August 27, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 th...
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- -: Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index
August 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 ...
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- -: Johan Rockstrom: Let the environment guide our development
August 31, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 ecos...
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- -: His Holiness the Karmapa: The technology of the heart
September 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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...
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- -: Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself
September 2, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 ...
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- -: Rachel Sussman: The world's oldest living things
September 3, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the b...
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- -: Alwar Balasubramaniam: Art of substance and absence
September 8, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the bes...
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- -: Carne Ross: An independent diplomat
September 9, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 gi...
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- -: Ben Cameron: The true power of the performing arts
September 10, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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? TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED C...
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- -: Rob Dunbar: The threat of ocean acidification
September 13, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Rob Dunbar hunts for data on our climate from 12,000 years ago, finding clues inside ancient seabeds and corals. His work is vital in setting baselines for fixing our current climate -- and, scarily, in tracking the rise of deadly ocean acidification. TEDTalks is a daily video...
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- -: Jessa Gamble: Our natural sleep cycle
September 15, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTa...
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- -: Nicholas Christakis: How social networks predict epidemics
September 16, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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, fro...
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- -: Caroline Phillips: Hurdy-gurdy for beginners
September 17, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances ...
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- -: Christien Meindertsma: How pig parts make the world turn
September 20, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Christien Meindertsma, author of "Pig 05049" looks at the astonishing afterlife of the ordinary pig, parts of which make their way into at least 187 non-pork products, from bullets to artificial hearts. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from ...
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- -: Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from
September 21, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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. ...
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