- -: Marcel Dicke: Why not eat insects?
December 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Marcel Dicke makes an appetizing case for adding insects to everyone's diet. His message to squeamish chefs and foodies: delicacies like locusts and caterpillars compete with meat in flavor, nutrition and eco-friendliness. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks an...
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- -: William Ury: The walk from "no" to "yes"
December 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com William Ury, author of "Getting to Yes," offers an elegant, simple (but not easy) way to create agreement in even the most difficult situations -- from family conflict to, perhaps, the Middle East. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the T...
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- -: Arthur Potts Dawson: A vision for sustainable restaurants
December 3, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com If you've been in a restaurant kitchen, you've seen how much food, water and energy can be wasted there. Chef Arthur Potts-Dawson shares his very personal vision for the waste-free restaurant -- recycling, composting, sustainable engines for good (and good food). TEDTalks is a...
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- -: Halla Tomasdottir: A feminine response to Iceland's financial crash
December 10, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Halla Tomasdottir managed to take her company Audur Capital through the eye of the financial storm in Iceland by applying 5 traditionally "feminine" values to financial services. At TEDWomen, she talks about these values and the importance of balance. TEDTalks is a daily video...
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- -: Tony Porter: A call to men
December 10, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDWomen, Tony Porter makes a call to men everywhere: Don't "act like a man." Telling powerful stories from his own life, he shows how this mentality, drummed into so many men and boys, can lead men to disrespect, mistreat and abuse women and each other. His solution: Break ...
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- -: Kiran Bedi: How I remade one of India's toughest prisons
December 13, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Kiran Bedi managed one of India's toughest prisons -- and used a new focus on prevention and education to turn it into a center of learning and meditation. She shares her thoughts on crime and punishment from the stage at TEDWomen. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best...
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- -: Hanna Rosin: New data on the rise of women
December 15, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Hanna Rosin reviews startling new data that shows women actually surpassing men in several important measures, such as college graduation rates. Do these trends, both US-centric and global, signal the "end of men"? Probably not -- but they point toward an important societal shi...
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- -: Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes
December 15, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Diana Laufenberg shares 3 surprising things she has learned about teaching -- including a key insight about learning from mistakes. 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 t...
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- -: Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman: It's time to explode 4 taboos of parenting
December 16, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Babble.com publishers Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman, in a lively tag-team, expose 4 facts that parents never, ever admit -- and why they should. Funny and honest, for parents and nonparents alike. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the ...
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- -: Rachel Botsman: The case for collaborative consumption
December 17, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDxSydney, Rachel Botsman says we're "wired to share" -- and shows how websites like Zipcar and Swaptree are changing the rules of human behavior. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinke...
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- -: Beverly + Dereck Joubert: Life lessons from big cats
December 20, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Beverly + Dereck Joubert live in the bush, filming and photographing lions and leopards in their natural habitat. With stunning footage (some never before seen), they discuss their personal relationships with these majestic animals -- and their quest to save the big cats from h...
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- -: Majora Carter: 3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship
January 3, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com The future of green is local -- and entrepreneurial. At TEDxMidwest, Majora Carter brings us the stories of three people who are saving their own communities while saving the planet. Call it "hometown security." TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performan...
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- -: Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability
January 3, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Brene Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share. TEDT...
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- -: Barry Schwartz: Using our practical wisdom
January 3, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com In an intimate talk, Barry Schwartz dives into the question "How do we do the right thing?" With help from collaborator Kenneth Sharpe, he shares stories that illustrate the difference between following the rules and truly choosing wisely. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of ...
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- -: Arianna Huffington: How to succeed? Get more sleep
January 3, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com In this short talk, Arianna Huffington shares a small idea that can awaken much bigger ones: the power of a good night's sleep. Instead of bragging about our sleep deficits, she urges us to shut our eyes and see the big picture: We can sleep our way to increased productivity an...
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- -: Lesley Hazleton: A "tourist" reads the Koran
January 5, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Lesley Hazleton sat down one day to read the Koran. And what she found -- as a non-Muslim, a self-identified "tourist" in the Islamic holy book -- wasn't what she expected. With serious scholarship and warm humor, Hazleton shares the grace, flexibility and mystery she found, in...
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- -: Deborah Rhodes: A tool that finds 3x more breast tumors, and why it's not available to you
January 6, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Working with a team of physicists, Dr. Deborah Rhodes developed a new tool for tumor detection that's 3 times as effective as traditional mammograms for women with dense breast tissue. The life-saving implications are stunning. So why haven't we heard of it? Rhodes shares the s...
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- -: Neil Pasricha: The 3 A's of awesome
January 11, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Neil Pasricha's blog 1000 Awesome Things savors life's simple pleasures, from free refills to clean sheets. In this heartfelt talk from TEDxToronto, he reveals the 3 secrets (all starting with A) to leading a life that's truly awesome. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the ...
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- -: Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now
January 11, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Technology is evolving us, says Amber Case, as we become a screen-staring, button-clicking new version of homo sapiens. We now rely on "external brains" (cell phones and computers) to communicate, remember, even live out secondary lives. But will these machines ultimately conne...
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- -: Thomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster -- from scratch
January 14, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com It takes an entire civilization to build a toaster. Designer Thomas Thwaites found out the hard way, by attempting to build one from scratch: mining ore for steel, deriving plastic from oil ... it's frankly amazing he got as far as he got. A parable of our interconnected societ...
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- -: Elizabeth Lesser: Take "the Other" to lunch
January 14, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com There's an angry divisive tension in the air that threatens to make modern politics impossible. Elizabeth Lesser explores the two sides of human nature within us (call them "the mystic" and "the warrior") that can be harnessed to elevate the way we treat each other. She shares ...
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- -: Ali Carr-Chellman: Gaming to re-engage boys in learning
January 14, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Ali Carr-Chellman spells out three reasons boys are tuning out of school in droves, and lays out her bold plan to re-engage them: bringing their culture into the classroom, with new rules that let boys be boys, and video games that teach as well as entertain. TEDTalks is a dai...
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- -: Naomi Klein: Addicted to risk
January 18, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Days before this talk, journalist Naomi Klein was on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, looking at the catastrophic results of BP's risky pursuit of oil. Our societies have become addicted to extreme risk in finding new energy, new financial instruments and more ... and too often, w...
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- -: Charity Tillemann-Dick: After a lung transplant, an aria
January 18, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com You'll never sing again, said her doctor. But in a story from the very edge of medical possibility, operatic soprano Charity Tillemann-Dick tells a double story of survival -- of her body, from a double lung transplant -- and of her spirit, fueled by an unwavering will to sing....
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- -: Van Jones: The economic injustice of plastic
January 21, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Van Jones lays out a case against plastic pollution from the perspective of social justice. Because plastic trash, he shows us, hits poor people and poor countries "first and worst," with consequences we all share no matter where we live and what we earn. At TEDxGPGP, he offers...
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- -: Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion
January 21, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Today medical scans produce thousands of images and terabytes of data for a single patient in mere seconds, but how do doctors parse this information and determine what's useful? At TEDxGöteborg, scientific visualization expert Anders Ynnerman shows us sophisticated new tools -...
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- -: Heather Knight: Silicon-based comedy
January 21, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com In this first-of-its-kind demo, Heather Knight introduces Data, a robotic stand-up comedian that does much more than rattle off one-liners -- it gathers audience feedback through advanced sensors and tunes its act as the crowd responds. Is this thing on? TEDTalks is a daily vi...
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- -: Martin Jacques: Understanding the rise of China
January 24, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Speaking at a TED Salon in London, economist Martin Jacques asks: How do we in the West make sense of China and its phenomenal rise? The author of "When China Rules the World," he examines why the West often puzzles over the growing power of the Chinese economy, and offers thre...
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- -: Thomas Goetz: It's time to redesign medical data
January 27, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Your medical chart: it's hard to access, impossible to read -- and full of information that could make you healthier if you just knew how to use it. At TEDMED, Thomas Goetz looks at medical data, making a bold call to redesign it and get more insight from it. TEDTalks is a dai...
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- -: Liza Donnelly: Drawing upon humor for change
January 27, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly shares a portfolio of her wise and funny cartoons about modern life -- and talks about how humor can empower women to change the rules. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the w...
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- -: Bruce Feiler: The council of dads
January 28, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Diagnosed with cancer, Bruce Feiler worried first about his young family. So -- as he shares in this funny, rambling and ultimately thoughtful talk -- he asked his closest friends to become a "council of dads," bringing their own lifetimes of wisdom to advise his twin daughters...
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- -: Kate Orff: Reviving New York's rivers -- with oysters!
January 31, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Architect Kate Orff sees the oyster as an agent of urban change. Bundled into beds and sunk into city rivers, oysters slurp up pollution and make legendarily dirty waters clean -- thus driving even more innovation in "oyster-tecture." Orff shares her vision for an urban landsca...
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- -: Dale Dougherty: We are makers
February 2, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com America was built by makers -- curious, enthusiastic amateur inventors whose tinkering habit sparked whole new industries. At TED@MotorCity, MAKE magazine publisher Dale Dougherty says we're all makers at heart, and shows cool new tools to tinker with, like Arduinos, affordable...
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- -: Johanna Blakley: Social media and the end of gender
February 2, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Media and advertising companies still use the same old demographics to understand audiences, but they're becoming increasingly harder to track online, says media researcher Johanna Blakley. As social media outgrows traditional media, and women users outnumber men, Blakley expla...
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- -: Suheir Hammad: Poems of war, peace, women, power
February 4, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Poet Suheir Hammad performs two spine-tingling spoken-word pieces: "What I Will" and "break (clustered)" -- meditations on war and peace, on women and power. Wait for the astonishing line: "Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded." TEDTalks is a daily v...
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- -: Christopher McDougall: Are we born to run?
February 4, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Christopher McDougall explores the mysteries of the human desire to run. How did running help early humans survive -- and what urges from our ancient ancestors spur us on today? At TEDxPennQuarter, McDougall tells the story of the marathoner with a heart of gold, the unlikely u...
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- -: Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work
February 7, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Work-life balance, says Nigel Marsh, is too important to be left in the hands of your employer. At TEDxSydney, Marsh lays out an ideal day balanced between family time, personal time and productivity -- and offers some stirring encouragement to make it happen. TEDTalks is a da...
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- -: Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots
February 8, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com As a grad student, Cynthia Breazeal wondered why we were using robots on Mars, but not in our living rooms. The key, she realized: training robots to interact with people. Now she dreams up and builds robots that teach, learn -- and play. Watch for amazing demo footage of a new...
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- -: Mother and daughter doctor-heroes: Hawa Abdi + Deqo Mohamed
February 9, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com They've been called the "saints of Somalia." Doctors Hawa Abdi and Deqo Mohamed talk about their medical clinic in Somalia, where -- in the face of civil war and open oppression of women -- they've built a hospital, a school and a community of peace. TEDTalks is a daily video ...
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- -: Jacqueline Novogratz: Inspiring a life of immersion
February 18, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com We each want to live a life of purpose, but where to start? In this luminous, wide-ranging talk, Jacqueline Novogratz introduces us to people she's met in her work in "patient capital" -- people who have immersed themselves in a cause, a community, a passion for justice. These ...
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- -: Noreena Hertz: How to use experts -- and when not to
February 21, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com We make important decisions every day -- and we often rely on experts to help us decide. But, says economist Noreena Hertz, relying too much on experts can be limiting and even dangerous. She calls for us to start democratizing expertise -- to listen not only to "surgeons and C...
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- -: Courtney Martin: Reinventing feminism
March 8, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Blogger Courtney Martin examines the perennially loaded word "feminism." In a personal and heartfelt talk, she describes the three paradoxes that define her generation's quest to define the term for themselves. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performanc...
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- -: Deb Roy: The birth of a word
March 14, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing...
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- -: Rob Harmon: How the market can keep streams flowing
March 14, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com With streams and rivers drying up because of over-usage, Rob Harmon has implemented an ingenious market mechanism to bring back the water. Farmers and beer companies find their fates intertwined in the intriguing century-old tale of Prickly Pear Creek. TEDTalks is a daily vide...
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- -: David Brooks: The social animal
March 14, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Tapping into the findings of his latest book, NYTimes columnist David Brooks unpacks new insights into human nature from the cognitive sciences -- insights with massive implications for economics and politics as well as our own self-knowledge. In a talk full of humor, he shows ...
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- -: Janna Levin: The sound the universe makes
March 15, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com We think of space as a silent place. But physicist Janna Levin says the universe has a soundtrack -- a sonic composition that records some of the most dramatic events in outer space. (Black holes, for instance, bang on spacetime like a drum.) An accessible and mind-expanding so...
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- -: Danny Hillis: Understanding cancer through proteomics
March 16, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Danny Hills makes a case for the next frontier of cancer research: proteomics, the study of proteins in the body. As Hillis explains it, genomics shows us a list of the ingredients of the body -- while proteomics shows us what those ingredients produce. Understanding what's goi...
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- -: Mark Bezos: A life lesson from a volunteer firefighter
March 16, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Volunteer firefighter Mark Bezos tells a story of an act of heroism that didn't go quite as expected -- but that taught him a big lesson: Don't wait to be a hero. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's le...
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- -: Rogier van der Heide: Why light needs darkness
March 21, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Lighting architect Rogier van der Heide offers a beautiful new way to look at the world -- by paying attention to light (and to darkness). Examples from classic buildings illustrate a deeply thought-out vision of the play of light around us. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast o...
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- -: Sarah Kay: If I should have a daughter ...
March 21, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com "If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, she's gonna call me Point B ... " began spoken word poet Sarah Kay, in a talk that inspired two standing ovations at TED2011. She tells the story of her metamorphosis -- from a wide-eyed teenager soaking in verse at New York's Bower...
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- -: Paul Root Wolpe: It's time to question bio-engineering
March 24, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDxPeachtree, bioethicist Paul Root Wolpe describes an astonishing series of recent bio-engineering experiments, from hybrid pets to mice that grow human ears. He asks: isn't it time to set some ground rules? TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and perform...
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- -: Eythor Bender demos human exoskeletons
March 24, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Eythor Bender of Berkeley Bionics brings onstage two amazing exoskeletons, HULC and eLEGS -- robotic add-ons that could one day allow a human to carry 200 pounds without tiring, or allow a wheelchair user to stand and walk. It's a powerful onstage demo, with implications for hu...
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- -: Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon
March 29, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com When first discovered in 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm posed a baffling puzzle. Beyond its unusually high level of sophistication loomed a more troubling mystery: its purpose. Ralph Langner and team helped crack the code that revealed this digital warhead's final target -- an...
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- -: Handspring Puppet Company: The genius puppetry behind War Horse
March 30, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com "Puppets always have to try to be alive," says Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppet Company, a gloriously ambitious troupe of human and wooden actors. Beginning with the tale of a hyena's subtle paw, puppeteers Kohler and Basil Jones build to the story of their latest astonis...
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- -: Chade-Meng Tan: Everyday compassion at Google
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Google's "Jolly Good Fellow," Chade-Meng Tan, talks about how the company practices compassion in its everyday business -- and its bold side projects. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinke...
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- -: Stanley McChrystal: Listen, learn ... then lead
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Four-star general Stanley McChrystal shares what he learned about leadership over his decades in the military. How can you build a sense of shared purpose among people of many ages and skill sets? By listening and learning -- and addressing the possibility of failure. TEDTalks...
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- -: Mick Ebeling: The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist
April 7, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com The nerve disease ALS left graffiti artist TEMPT paralyzed from head to toe, forced to communicate blink by blink. In a remarkable talk at TEDActive, entrepreneur Mick Ebeling shares how he and a team of collaborators built an open-source invention that gave the artist -- and g...
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- -: Dave Meslin: The antidote to apathy
April 14, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Local politics -- schools, zoning, council elections -- hit us where we live. So why don't more of us actually get involved? Is it apathy? Dave Meslin says no. He identifies 7 barriers that keep us from taking part in our communities, even when we truly care. TEDTalks is a dai...
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- -: Roger Ebert: Remaking my voice
April 14, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com When film critic Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw to cancer, he lost the ability to eat and speak. But he did not lose his voice. In a moving talk from TED2011, Ebert and his wife, Chaz, with friends Dean Ornish and John Hunter, come together to tell his remarkable story. TEDTal...
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- -: Mike Matas: A next-generation digital book
April 28, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad -- with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is "Our Choice," Al Gore's sequel to "An Inconvenient Truth." Read our community Q&...
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- -: Paul Nicklen: Tales of ice-bound wonderlands
May 11, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Diving under the Antarctic ice to get close to the much-feared leopard seal, photographer Paul Nicklen found an extraordinary new friend. Share his hilarious, passionate stories of the polar wonderlands, illustrated by glorious images of the animals who live on and under the ic...
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- -: Fiorenzo Omenetto: Silk, the ancient material of the future
May 11, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Fiorenzo Omenetto shares 20+ astonishing new uses for silk, one of nature's most elegant materials -- in transmitting light, improving sustainability, adding strength and making medical leaps and bounds. On stage, he shows a few intriguing items made of the versatile stuff. TE...
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- -: Amit Sood: Building a museum of museums on the web
May 16, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Imagine being able to see artwork in the greatest museums around the world without leaving your chair. Driven by his passion for art, Amit Sood tells the story of how he developed Art Project to let people do just that. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and p...
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- -: Leonard Susskind: My friend Richard Feynman
May 16, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com What's it like to be pals with a genius? Onstage at TEDxCaltech, physicist Leonard Susskind spins a few stories about his friendship with the legendary Richard Feynman, discussing his unconventional approach to problems both serious and ... less so. TEDTalks is a daily video p...
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- -: Ed Boyden: A light switch for neurons
May 17, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Ed Boyden shows how, by inserting genes for light-sensitive proteins into brain cells, he can selectively activate or de-activate specific neurons with fiber-optic implants. With this unprecedented level of control, he's managed to cure mice of analogs of PTSD and certain forms...
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- -: Thomas Heatherwick: Building the Seed Cathedral
May 17, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com A future more beautiful? Architect Thomas Heatherwick shows five recent projects featuring ingenious bio-inspired designs. Some are remakes of the ordinary: a bus, a bridge, a power station ... And one is an extraordinary pavilion, the Seed Cathedral, a celebration of growth an...
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- -: Elliot Krane: The mystery of chronic pain
May 19, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com We think of pain as a symptom, but there are cases where the nervous system develops feedback loops and pain becomes a terrifying disease in itself. Starting with the story of a girl whose sprained wrist turned into a nightmare, Elliot Krane talks about the complex mystery of c...
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- -: Edith Widder: The weird and wonderful world of bioluminescence
May 19, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com In the deep, dark ocean, many sea creatures make their own light for hunting, mating and self-defense. Bioluminescence expert Edith Widder was one of the first to film this glimmering world. At TED2011, she brings some of her glowing friends onstage, and shows more astonishing ...
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- -: Terry Moore: How to tie your shoes
May 20, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Terry Moore found out he'd been tying his shoes the wrong way his whole life. In the spirit of TED, he takes the stage to share a better way. (Historical note: This was the very first 3-minute audience talk given from the TED stage, in 2005.) TEDTalks is a daily video podcast ...
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- -: Bruce Aylward: How we'll stop polio for good
May 24, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Polio is almost completely eradicated. But as Bruce Aylward says: Almost isn't good enough with a disease this terrifying. Aylward lays out the plan to continue the scientific miracle that ended polio in most of the world -- and to snuff it out everywhere, forever. TEDTalks is...
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- -: Shirin Neshat: Art in exile
May 25, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Iranian-born artist Shirin Neshat explores the paradox of being an artist in exile: a voice for her people, but unable to go home. In her work, she explores Iran pre- and post-Islamic Revolution, tracing political and societal change through powerful images of women. TEDTalks ...
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- -: Mustafa Akyol: Faith versus tradition in Islam
May 26, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDxWarwick, journalist Mustafa Akyol talks about the way that some local cultural practices (such as wearing a headscarf) have become linked, in the popular mind, to the articles of faith of Islam. Has the world's general idea of the Islamic faith focused too much on tradit...
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- -: Robert Gupta and Joshua Roman duet on "Passacaglia"
May 27, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com It's a master class in collaboration as violinist Robert Gupta and cellist Joshua Roman perform Halvorsen's "Passacaglia" for violin and viola. Roman takes the viola part on his Stradivarius cello. It's powerful to watch the two musicians connect moment to moment (and recover f...
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- -: Dennis Hong: Making a car for blind drivers
June 3, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Using robotics, laser rangefinders, GPS and smart feedback tools, Dennis Hong is building a car for drivers who are blind. It's not a "self-driving" car, he's careful to note, but a car in which a non-sighted driver can determine speed, proximity and route -- and drive independ...
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- -: Stefan Sagmeister: 7 rules for making more happiness
June 3, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Using simple, delightful illustrations, designer Stefan Sagmeister shares his latest thinking on happiness -- both the conscious and unconscious kind. His seven rules for life and design happiness can (with some customizations) apply to everyone seeking more joy. TEDTalks is a...
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- -: Aaron O'Connell: Making sense of a visible quantum object
June 3, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Physicists are used to the idea that subatomic particles behave according to the bizarre rules of quantum mechanics, completely different to human-scale objects. In a breakthrough experiment, Aaron O'Connell has blurred that distinction by creating an object that is visible to ...
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- -: Jessi Arrington: Wearing nothing new
June 3, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Designer Jessi Arrington packed nothing for TED but 7 pairs of undies, buying the rest of her clothes in thrift stores around LA. It's a meditation on conscious consumption -- wrapped in a rainbow of color and creativity. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and...
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- -: Damon Horowitz calls for a "moral operating system"
June 6, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDxSiliconValley, Damon Horowitz reviews the enormous new powers that technology gives us: to know more -- and more about each other -- than ever before. Drawing the audience into a philosophical discussion, Horowitz invites us to pay new attention to the basic philosophy -...
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- -: Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken
June 7, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he's taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chicken...
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- -: Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously
June 8, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Janet Echelman found her true voice as an artist when her paints went missing -- which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes billowing, flowing, building-sized sculpture with a surprisingly geeky edge. A transporting 10 minutes of pure creativity. ...
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- -: Paul Romer: The world's first charter city?
June 9, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Back in 2009, Paul Romer unveiled the idea for a "charter city" -- a new kind of city with rules that favor democracy and trade. This year, at TED2011, he tells the story of how such a city might just happen in Honduras ... with a little help from his TEDTalk. TEDTalks is a da...
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- -: Alice Dreger: Is anatomy destiny?
June 10, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Alice Dreger works with people at the edge of anatomy, such as conjoined twins and intersexed people. In her observation, it's often a fuzzy line between male and female, among other anatomical distinctions. Which brings up a huge question: Why do we let our anatomy determine o...
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- -: JD Schramm: Break the silence for suicide survivors
June 11, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Even when our lives appear fine from the outside, locked within can be a world of quiet suffering, leading some to the decision to end their life. At TEDYou, JD Schramm asks us to break the silence surrounding suicide and suicide attempts, and to create much-needed resources to...
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- -: Daniel Kraft: Medicine's future? There's an app for that
June 13, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDxMaastricht, Daniel Kraft offers a fast-paced look at the next few years of innovations in medicine, powered by new tools, tests and apps that bring diagnostic information right to the patient's bedside. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performance...
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- -: Shea Hembrey: How I became 100 artists
June 14, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com How do you stage an international art show with work from 100 different artists? If you're Shea Hembrey, you invent all of the artists and artwork yourself -- from large-scale outdoor installations to tiny paintings drawn with a single-haired brush. Watch this funny, mind-bendi...
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- -: Steve Keil: A manifesto for play, for Bulgaria and beyond
June 15, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDxBG in Sofia, Steve Keil fights the "serious meme" that has infected his home of Bulgaria -- and calls for a return to play to revitalize the economy, education and society. A sparkling talk with a universal message for people everywhere who are reinventing their workplac...
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- -: Camille Seaman: Haunting photos of polar ice
June 16, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Photographer Camille Seaman shoots icebergs, showing the world the complex beauty of these massive, ancient chunks of ice. Dive in to her photo slideshow, "The Last Iceberg." TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where th...
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- -: Maya Beiser(s) and her cello(s)
June 17, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Cellist Maya Beiser plays a gorgeous eight-part modern etude with seven copies of herself, and segues into a meditative music/video hybrid -- using tech to create endless possibilities for transformative sound. Music is Steve Reich's "Cello Counterpoint," then David Lang's "Wor...
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- -: Onyx Ashanti: This is beatjazz
June 17, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Musician and inventor Onyx Ashanti demonstrates "beatjazz" -- his music created with two handheld controllers, an iPhone and a mouthpiece, and played with the entire body. At TED's Full Spectrum Auditions, after locking in his beats and loops, he plays a 3-minute song that shar...
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- -: Bill Ford: A future beyond traffic gridlock
June 20, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Bill Ford is a car guy -- his great-grandfather was Henry Ford, and he grew up inside the massive Ford Motor Co. So when he worries about cars' impact on the environment, and about our growing global gridlock problem, it's worth a listen. His vision for the future of mobility i...
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- -: Daniel Tammet: Different ways of knowing
June 22, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Daniel Tammet has linguistic, numerical and visual synesthesia -- meaning that his perception of words, numbers and colors are woven together into a new way of perceiving and understanding the world. The author of "Born on a Blue Day," Tammet shares his art and his passion for ...
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- -: Jok Church: A circle of caring
June 22, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com In this 3-minute talk, cartoonist and educator Jok Church tells a moving story of the teacher who cared for him when no one else did -- and how he returned the favor. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world'...
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- -: Honor Harger: A history of the universe in sound
June 23, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Artist-technologist Honor Harger listens to the weird and wonderful noises of stars and planets and pulsars. In her work, she tracks the radio waves emitted by ancient celestial objects and turns them into sound, including "the oldest song you will ever hear," the sound of cosm...
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- -: Joshua Walters: On being just crazy enough
June 24, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TED's Full Spectrum Auditions, comedian Joshua Walters, who's bipolar, walks the line between mental illness and mental "skillness." In this funny, thought-provoking talk, he asks: What's the right balance between medicating craziness away and riding the manic edge of creati...
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- -: Emiliano Salinas: A civil response to violence
June 24, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com In this passionate talk from TEDxSanMigueldeAllende that's already caused a sensation in Mexico, Emiliano Salinas, son of former president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, confronts the current climate of violence in Mexico -- or rather, how Mexican society responds to it. He plots t...
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- -: Rajesh Rao: Computing a Rosetta Stone for the Indus script
June 28, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Rajesh Rao is fascinated by "the mother of all crossword puzzles": How to decipher the 4000 year old Indus script. At TED 2011 he tells how he is enlisting modern computational techniques to read the Indus language, the key piece to understanding this ancient civilization. TED...
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- -: Dave deBronkart: Meet e-Patient Dave
July 1, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com When Dave deBronkart learned he had a rare and terminal cancer, he turned to a group of fellow patients online -- and found a medical treatment that even his own doctors didn't know. It saved his life. Now he calls on all patients to talk with one another, know their own health...
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- -: Robert Hammond: Building a park in the sky
July 1, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com New York was planning to tear down the High Line, an abandoned elevated railroad in Manhattan, when Robert Hammond and a few friends suggested: Why not make it a park? He shares how it happened in this tale of local cultural activism. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the b...
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- -: Nathan Myhrvold: Cut your food in half
July 5, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Cookbook author (and geek) Nathan Myhrvold talks about his magisterial work, "Modernist Cuisine" -- and shares the secret of its cool photographic illustrations, which show cross-sections of food in the very act of being cooked. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best ta...
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- -: Jonathan Drori: The beautiful tricks of flowers
July 6, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com In this visually dazzling talk, Jonathan Drori shows the extraordinary ways flowering plants -- over a quarter million species -- have evolved to attract insects to spread their pollen: growing 'landing-strips' to guide the insects in, shining in ultraviolet, building elaborate...
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