- -: 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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- -: Annie Lennox: Why I am an HIV/AIDS activist
September 23, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com For the last eight years, pop singer Annie Lennox has devoted the majority of her time to her SING campaign, raising awareness and money to combat HIV/AIDS. She shares the experiences that have inspired her, from working with Nelson Mandela to meeting a little African girl in a...
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- -: Mitchell Besser: Mothers helping mothers fight HIV
September 23, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com In sub-Saharan Africa, HIV infections are more prevalent and doctors scarcer than anywhere else in the world. With a lack of medical professionals, Mitchell Besser enlisted the help of his patients to create mothers2mothers -- an extraordinary network of HIV-positive women whos...
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- -: Fabian Hemmert: The shape-shifting future of the mobile phone
September 23, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDxBerlin, Fabian Hemmert demos one future of the mobile phone -- a shape-shifting and weight-shifting handset that "displays" information nonvisually, offering a delightfully intuitive way to communicate. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performance...
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- -: Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps
September 24, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health -- even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step plan to soften this sonic assault (starting with those cheap earbuds) and restore our relationship with sound. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast ...
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- -: Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome
September 28, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Sebastian Seung is mapping a massively ambitious new model of the brain that focuses on the connections between each neuron. He calls it our "connectome," and it's as individual as our genome -- and understanding it could open a new way to understand our brains and our minds. ...
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- -: Mechai Viravaidya: How Mr. Condom made Thailand a better place
September 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDxChange, Thailand's "Mr. Condom," Mechai Viravaidya, walks us through the country's bold plan to raise its standard of living, starting in the 1970s. First step: population control. And that means a lot of frank, funny -- and very effective -- talk about condoms. TEDTalk...
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- -: Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic?
October 4, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens -- and the environment. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the ...
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- -: Tim Jackson's economic reality check
October 5, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com As the world faces recession, climate change, inequity and more, Tim Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to established economic principles, explaining how we might stop feeding the crises and start investing in our future. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks...
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- -: Barbara Block: Tagging tuna in the deep ocean
October 6, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Tuna are ocean athletes -- fast, far-ranging predators whose habits we're just beginning to understand. Marine biologist Barbara Block fits tuna with tracking tags (complete with transponders) that record unprecedented amounts of data about these gorgeous, threatened fish and t...
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- -: Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade?
October 7, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Hans Rosling reframes 10 years of UN data with his spectacular visuals, lighting up an astonishing -- mostly unreported -- piece of front-page-worthy good news. Along the way, he debunks one flawed approach to stats that blots out such vital stories. TEDTalks is a daily video ...
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- -: Stacey Kramer: The best gift I ever survived
October 8, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolt...
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- -: Stefano Mancuso: The roots of plant intelligence
October 12, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Plants behave in some oddly intelligent ways: fighting predators, maximizing food opportunities ... But can we think of them as actually having a form of intelligence of their own? Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso presents intriguing evidence. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast...
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- -: Melinda French Gates: What nonprofits can learn from Coca-Cola
October 12, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDxChange, Melinda Gates makes a provocative case for nonprofits taking a cue from corporations such as Coca-Cola, whose plugged-in, global network of marketers and distributors ensures that every remote village wants -- and can get -- a Coke. Why shouldn't this work for co...
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- -: Peter Haas: Haiti's disaster of engineering
October 14, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com "Haiti was not a natural disaster," says TED Fellow Peter Haas: "It was a disaster of engineering." As the country rebuilds after January's deadly quake, are bad old building practices creating another ticking time bomb? Haas's group, AIDG, is helping Haiti's builders learn mod...
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- -: Natalie Jeremijenko: Let's teach fish to text! and other outlandish ideas
October 14, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Natalie Jeremijenko's unusual lab puts art to work, and addresses environmental woes by combining engineering know-how with public art and a team of volunteers. These real-life experiments include: Walking tadpoles, texting "fish," planting fire-hydrant gardens and more. TEDTa...
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- -: Dianna Cohen: Tough truths about plastic pollution
October 20, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Artist Dianna Cohen shares some tough truths about plastic pollution in the ocean and in our lives -- and some thoughts on how to free ourselves from the plastic gyre. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world...
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- -: Patrick Chappatte: The power of cartoons
October 21, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com In a series of witty punchlines, Swiss editiorial cartoonist Patrick Chappatte makes a poignant case for the power of the humble cartoon. His projects in Lebanon, West Africa and Gaza show how, in the right hands, the pencil can illuminate serious issues and bring the most unli...
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- -: David Byrne sings "(Nothing But) Flowers"
October 22, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com David Byrne sings the Talking Heads' 1988 hit, "(Nothing But) Flowers." He's accompanied by Thomas Dolby and string quartet Ethel, who made up the TED2010 house band. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world'...
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- -: Joseph Nye on global power shifts
October 27, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Historian and diplomat Joseph Nye gives us the 30,000-foot view of the shifts in power between China and the US, and the global implications as economic, political and "soft" power shifts and moves around the globe. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and perfo...
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- -: R.A. Mashelkar: Breakthrough designs for ultra-low-cost products
October 27, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Engineer RA Mashelkar shares three stories of ultra-low-cost design from India that use bottom-up rethinking, and some clever engineering, to bring expensive products (cars, prosthetics) into the realm of the possible for everyone. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best...
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- -: Barton Seaver: Sustainable seafood? Let's get smart
October 27, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bol...
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- -: Shimon Steinberg: Natural pest control ... using bugs!
October 28, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDxTelAviv, Shimon Steinberg looks at the difference between pests and bugs -- and makes the case for using good bugs to fight bad bugs, avoiding chemicals in our quest for perfect produce. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED C...
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- -: Miwa Matrayek's glorious visions
November 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Using animation, projections and her own moving shadow, Miwa Matreyek performs a gorgeous, meditative piece about inner and outer discovery. Take a quiet 10 minutes and dive in. With music from Anna Oxygen, Mirah, Caroline Lufkin and Mileece. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast ...
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- -: Tom Chatfield: 7 ways video games engage the brain
November 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com As we bring gameplay into more aspects of our lives (from socializing to exercising), Tom Chatfield talks about one compelling aspect of videogaming: its measurability. Parceling out rewards at carefully calibrated percentages, games collect reams of data about what humans trul...
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- -: David Bismark: E-voting without fraud
November 2, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com David Bismark demos a new system for voting that contains a simple, verifiable way to prevent fraud and miscounting -- while keeping each person's vote secret. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leadi...
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- -: Greg Stone: Saving the ocean one island at a time
November 3, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Aboard Mission Blue, oceanographer Greg Stone tells the story of how he helped the Republic of Kiribati create an enormous protected area in the middle of the Pacific -- protecting fish, sealife and the island nation itself. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks ...
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- -: Andrew Bird's one-man orchestra of the imagination
November 5, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Musical innovator Andrew Bird winds together his trademark violin technique with xylophone, vocals and sophisticated electronic looping. Add in his uncanny ability to whistle anything, and he becomes a riveting one-man orchestra. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best t...
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- -: Emily Pilloton: Teaching design for change
November 10, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Designer Emily Pilloton moved to rural Bertie County, in North Carolina, to engage in a bold experiment of design-led community transformation. She's teaching a design-build class called Studio H that engages high schoolers' minds and bodies while bringing smart design and new ...
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- -: Aaron Huey: America's native prisoners of war
November 10, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Aaron Huey's effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people -- appalling, and largely ignored -- compelled him to refocus. Five years of work later, his haunting photos intertwine with a shock...
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- -: Auret van Heerden: Making global labor fair
November 11, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Labor activist Auret van Heerden talks about the next frontier of workers' rights -- globalized industries where no single national body can keep workers safe and protected. How can we keep our global supply chains honest? Van Heerden makes the business case for fair labor. TE...
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- -: Eric Berlow: How complexity leads to simplicity
November 12, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Ecologist Eric Berlow doesn't feel overwhelmed when faced with complex systems. He knows that more information can lead to a better, simpler solution. Illustrating the tips and tricks for breaking down big issues, he distills an overwhelming infographic on U.S. strategy in Afgh...
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- -: Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty
November 16, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com TED collaborates with animator Andrew Park to illustrate Denis Dutton's provocative theory on beauty -- that art, music and other beautiful things, far from being simply "in the eye of the beholder," are a core part of human nature with deep evolutionary origins. TEDTalks is a...
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- -: Shimon Schocken's rides of hope
November 17, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is also an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor program with Israel's juvenile inmates and was touched by both their intense difficulties and profound successes. TEDTalks is a dai...
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- -: John Hardy: My green school dream
November 22, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Join John Hardy on a tour of the Green School, his off-the-grid school in Bali that teaches kids how to build, garden, create (and get into college). The centerpiece of campus is the spiraling Heart of School, perhaps the world's largest freestanding bamboo building. TEDTalks ...
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- -: Kristina Gjerde: Making law on the high seas
November 22, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Kristina Gjerde studies the law of the high seas -- the 64 percent of our ocean that isn't protected by any national law at all. Gorgeous photos show the hidden worlds that Gjerde and other lawyers are working to protect from trawling and trash-dumping, through smart policymaki...
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- -: Kim Gorgens: Protecting the brain against concussion
November 22, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Neuropsychologist Kim Gorgens makes the case for better protecting our brains against the risk of concussion -- with a compelling pitch for putting helmets on kids. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's ...
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- -: Zainab Salbi: Women, wartime and the dream of peace
November 24, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com In war we often see only the frontline stories of soldiers and combat. AT TEDGlobal 2010, Zainab Salbi tells powerful "backline" stories of women who keep everyday life going during conflicts, and calls for women to have a place at the negotiating table once fighting is over. ...
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- -: Jason Fried: Why work doesn't happen at work
November 24, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Jason Fried has a radical theory of working: that the office isn't a good place to do it. At TEDxMidwest he lays out the main problems (call them the M&Ms) and offers three suggestions to make work work. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from...
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- -: Dan Phillips: Creative houses from reclaimed stuff
November 29, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com In this funny and insightful talk from TEDxHouston, builder Dan Phillips tours us through a dozen homes he's built in Texas using recycled and reclaimed materials in wildly creative ways. Brilliant, low-tech design details will refresh your own creative drive. TEDTalks is a da...
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- -: Birke Baehr: What's wrong with our food system
November 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com 11-year-old Birke Baehr presents his take on a major source of our food -- far-away and less-than-picturesque industrial farms. Keeping farms out of sight promotes a rosy, unreal picture of big-box agriculture, he argues, as he outlines the case to green and localize food produ...
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