- -: Phil Plait: How to defend Earth from asteroids
November 21, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com What's six miles wide and can end civilization in an instant? An asteroid - and there are lots of them out there. With humor and great visuals, Phil Plait enthralls the TEDxBoulder audience with all the ways asteroids can kill, and what we must do to avoid them. TEDTalks is a ...
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- -: Péter Fankhauser: Meet Rezero, the dancing ballbot
November 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Onstage at TEDGlobal, Péter Fankhauser demonstrates Rezero, a robot that balances on a ball. Designed and built by a group of engineering students, Rezero is the first ballbot made to move quickly and gracefully -- and even dance. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best ...
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- -: Joe Sabia: The technology of storytelling
November 23, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling: the pop-up book. Sabia shows how new technology has always helped us tell our own stories, from the walls of caves to his own onstage iPad. TEDTalks is a daily vide...
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- -: Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment
November 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Britta Riley wanted to grow her own food (in her tiny apartment). So she and her friends developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles -- researching, testing and tweaking the system using social media, trying many variations at once and quickly arriving at...
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- -: Damon Horowitz: Philosophy in prison
November 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Damon Horowitz teaches philosophy through the Prison University Project, bringing college-level classes to inmates of San Quentin State Prison. In this powerful short talk, he tells the story of an encounter with right and wrong that quickly gets personal. TEDTalks is a daily ...
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- -: Annie Murphy Paul: What we learn before we're born
November 29, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Pop quiz: When does learning begin? Answer: Before we are born. Science writer Annie Murphy Paul talks through new research that shows how much we learn in the womb -- from the lilt of our native language to our soon-to-be-favorite foods. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of t...
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- -: Christoph Adami: Finding life we can't imagine
October 4, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com How do we search for alien life if it's nothing like the life that we know? At TEDxUIUC Christoph Adami shows how he uses his research into artificial life -- self-replicating computer programs -- to find a signature, a 'biomarker,' that is free of our preconceptions of what li...
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- -: Graham Hill: Less stuff, more happiness
October 5, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Writer and designer Graham Hill asks: Can having less stuff, in less room, lead to more happiness? He makes the case for taking up less space, and lays out three rules for editing your life. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conf...
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- -: Mike Biddle: We can recycle plastic
October 6, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Less than 10% of plastic trash is recycled -- compared to almost 90% of metals -- because of the massively complicated problem of finding and sorting the different kinds. Frustrated by this waste, Mike Biddle has developed a cheap and incredibly energy efficient plant that can,...
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- -: Charles Hazlewood: Trusting the ensemble
October 7, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Conductor Charles Hazlewood talks about the role of trust in musical leadership -- then shows how it works, as he conducts the Scottish Ensemble onstage. He also shares clips from two musical projects: the opera "U-Carmen eKhayelitsha" and the ParaOrchestra. TEDTalks is a dail...
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- -: Alison Gopnik: What do babies think?
October 10, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com "Babies and young children are like the R&D division of the human species," says psychologist Alison Gopnik. Her research explores the sophisticated intelligence-gathering and decision-making that babies are really doing when they play. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the...
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- -: Richard Seymour: How beauty feels
October 12, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com A story, a work of art, a face, a designed object -- how do we tell that something is beautiful? And why does it matter so much to us? Designer Richard Seymour explores our response to beauty and the surprising power of objects that exhibit it. TEDTalks is a daily video podcas...
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- -: Ian Ritchie: The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee
October 12, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Imagine it's late 1990, and you've just met a nice young man named Tim Berners-Lee, who starts telling you about his proposed system called the World Wide Web. Ian Ritchie was there. And ... he didn't buy it. A short story about information, connectivity and learning from mista...
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- -: Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar
October 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com On any given day we're lied to from 10 to 200 times, and the clues to detect those lie can be subtle and counter-intuitive. Pamela Meyer, author of Liespotting, shows the manners and "hotspots" used by those trained to recognize deception -- and she argues honesty is a value wo...
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- -: Jae Rhim Lee: My mushroom burial suit
October 14, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Here's a powerful provocation from artist Jae Rhim Lee. Can we commit our bodies to a cleaner, greener Earth, even after death? Naturally -- using a special burial suit seeded with pollution-gobbling mushrooms. Yes, this just might be the strangest TEDTalk you'll ever see ... ...
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- -: Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement
October 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men -- many of them illiterate -- to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It's called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works. TEDTalk...
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- -: Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid
October 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that could make that possible, and how questioning our notion of 'normal' can lead to extraordinary breakthroughs. TEDTalks is a daily v...
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- -: Guy-Philippe Goldstein: How cyberattacks threaten real-world peace
October 19, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com More and more, nations are waging attacks with cyber weapons -- silent strikes on another country's computer systems that leave behind no trace. (Think of the Stuxnet worm.) At TEDxParis, Guy-Philippe Goldstein shows how cyberattacks can leap between the digital and physical wo...
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- -: Todd Kuiken: A prosthetic arm that "feels"
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Surgeon and engineer Todd Kuiken is building a prosthetic arm that connects with the human nervous system -- improving motion, control and even feeling. Onstage, patient Amanda Kitts helps demonstrate this next-gen robotic arm. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best tal...
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- -: Nathalie Miebach: Art made of storms
October 21, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Artist Nathalie Miebach takes weather data from massive storms and turns it into complex sculptures that embody the forces of nature and time. These sculptures then become musical scores for a string quartet to play. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and perf...
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- -: Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
October 24, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust. ...
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- -: Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsight
October 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Master storyteller Malcolm Gladwell tells the tale of the Norden bombsight, a groundbreaking piece of World War II technology with a deeply unexpected result. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leadin...
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- -: Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research
October 27, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com How does cancer know it's cancer? At Jay Bradner's lab, they found a molecule that might hold the answer, JQ1 -- and instead of patenting JQ1, they published their findings and mailed samples to 40 other labs to work on. An inspiring look at the open-source future of medical r...
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- -: Béatrice Coron: Stories cut from paper
October 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com With scissors and paper, artist Béatrice Coron creates intricate worlds, cities and countries, heavens and hells. Striding onstage in a glorious cape cut from Tyvek, she describes her creative process and the way her stories develop from snips and slices. TEDTalks is a daily v...
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- -: Hasan Elahi: FBI, here I am!
October 31, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com After he ended up on a watch list by accident, Hasan Elahi was advised by his local FBI agents to let them know when he was traveling. He did that and more ... much more. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the wo...
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- -: Paul Zak: Trust, morality - and oxytocin
November 1, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Where does morality come from -- physically, in the brain? In this talk neuroeconomist Paul Zak shows why he believes oxytocin (he calls it "the moral molecule") is responsible for trust, empathy, and other feelings that help build a stable society. TEDTalks is a daily video p...
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- -: Anna Mracek Dietrich: A plane you can drive
November 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com A flying car -- it's an iconic image of the future. But after 100 years of flight and automotive engineering, no one has really cracked the problem. Pilot Anna Mracek Dietrich and her team flipped the question, asking: Why not build a plane that you can drive? TEDTalks is a da...
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- -: Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains
November 3, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement. In this entertaining, data-rich talk he gives us a glimpse into how the brain creates the grace and agility of human motion. TEDTalks is a daily vi...
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- -: Marco Tempest: The augmented reality of techno-magic
November 4, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Using sleight-of-hand techniques and charming storytelling, illusionist Marco Tempest brings a jaunty stick figure to life onstage at TEDGlobal. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and...
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- -: Martin Hanczyc: The line between life and not-life
November 7, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com In his lab, Martin Hanczyc makes "protocells," experimental blobs of chemicals that behave like living cells. His work demonstrates how life might have first occurred on Earth ... and perhaps elsewhere too. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances f...
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- -: Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor)
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Artist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, Rao creates high-tech art installations -- a typewriter that sends emails, a camera that tracks you through the room only to make you invisible on scr...
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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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Yves Behar: Designing Objects that Tell Stories
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Yves Behar tells different stories using the designs he made throughout his designing career.
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Dan Dennett: Dan Dennett on Dangerous Memes
February 1, 2002 (over 22 years ago)Words are indeed powerful weapons in a society and can be used to change or alter beliefs. Dan Dennet warns the audience of the danger a meme could bring and asks the sudience to develop antivurulence against it.
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Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop per Child
February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)In this talk, Tech Visionary Nicholas Negroponte tells us some details about the One laptop per child project. He talks about his reasons for starting this project. He describes how they're building it and how these laptops will be distributed. He also provides feedback on the initial positive ef...
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Nicholas Negroponte: Negroponte Takes OLPC to Colombia
December 1, 2008 (over 15 years ago)In this talk, Tech visionary Nicholas Negroponte takes the One Laptop per Child project to Colombia, and he has gotten amazing results. He also defines this endeavor as an education project which will help make children the agents of change.
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Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop per Child, Two Years On
December 1, 2007 (over 16 years ago)In this talk, Tech visionary Nicholas Negroponte gives us an update on the One Laptop per Child project. He first gives a background on how this idea started. He then shows us how these devices are being distributed, narrates some of the difficulties they've encountered, and reports the positive ...
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Richard Baraniuk: Open-Source Learning
February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)Richard Baraniuk shares how connections and open-content can change the very foundations of education and educational materials publishing.
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Nicholas Negroponte: Nicholas Negroponte, in 1984, Makes 5 Predictions
February 1, 1984 (over 40 years ago)In this 1984 talk, Tech Visionary Nicholas Negroponte makes uncanny predictions about technology. We shows us samples from his then current projects and explains the technological advancements for each.
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