- -: Charles Limb: Building the musical muscle
December 1, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Charles Limb performs cochlear implantation, a surgery that treats hearing loss and can restore the ability to hear speech. But as a musician too, Limb thinks about what the implants lack: They don't let you fully experience music yet. (There's a hair-raising example.) At TEDME...
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- -: Kathryn Schulz: Don't regret regret
December 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com We're taught to try to live life without regret. But why? Using her own tattoo as an example, Kathryn Schulz makes a powerful and moving case for embracing our regrets. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the worl...
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- -: Ben Kacyra: Ancient wonders captured in 3D
November 9, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Ancient monuments give us clues to astonishing past civilizations -- but they're under threat from pollution, war, neglect. Ben Kacyra, who invented a groundbreaking 3D scanning system, is using his invention to scan and preserve the world's heritage in archival detail. (Watch ...
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- -: Allan Jones: A map of the brain
November 10, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com How can we begin to understand the way the brain works? The same way we begin to understand a city: by making a map. In this visually stunning talk, Allan Jones shows how his team is mapping which genes are turned on in each tiny region, and how it all connects up. TEDTalks is...
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- -: Charlie Todd: The shared experience of absurdity
November 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Charlie Todd causes bizarre, hilarious, and unexpected public scenes: Seventy synchronized dancers in storefront windows, "ghostbusters" running through the New York Public Library, and the annual no-pants subway ride. At TEDxBloomington he shows how his group, Improv Everywher...
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- -: Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to birth -- visualized
November 14, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. (Some graphic images.) TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading ...
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- -: Yves Rossy: Fly with the Jetman
November 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Strapped to a jet-powered wing, Yves Rossy is the Jetman -- flying free, his body as the rudder, above the Swiss Alps and the Grand Canyon. After a powerful short film shows how it works, Rossy takes the TEDGlobal stage to share the experience and thrill of flying. TEDTalks is...
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- -: Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives
November 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com What controls aging? Biochemist Cynthia Kenyon has found a simple genetic mutation that can double the lifespan of a simple worm, C. Elegans. The lessons from that discovery, and others, are pointing to how we might one day significantly extend youthful human life. TEDTalks is...
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- -: Robin Ince: Science versus wonder?
November 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Does science ruin the magic of life? In this grumpy but charming monologue, Robin Ince makes the argument against. The more we learn about the astonishing behavior of the universe -- the more we stand in awe. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances...
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- -: 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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- -: TEDxSol - José María Ordovás - Nutrición saludable: Qué, cuánto, cuándo y dónde
October 25, 2011 (over 12 years ago)José María Ordovás es Director del Laboratorio de Nutrición y Genética de la Universidad de Tufts (Boston). En su intervención, ha destacado que vivimos en una sociedad acelerada y en lo referente a la nutrición buscamos soluciones rápidas para alimentarnos y para mejorar nuestra salud. Sí que ex...
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- -: TEDxPennQuarter 2011 Rob Wilder Reinventing A Mission
October 25, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Rob Wilder is the CEO and co-founder of ThinkFoodGroup (TFG), the management company responsible for the daily operations of Washington's landmark restaurants Café Atlántico, minibar by josé andrés, Zaytinya, Oyamel and Jaleo. In addition, the company oversees Los Angeles' four star dining destin...
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- -: Yasuo SATO [ 佐藤 康雄 ] - TEDxSeeds 2011
November 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)You can enjoy this video with English subtitle if you turn on "CC" button located at the lower right of youtube screen. TEDxSeeds http://tedxseeds.org About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that b...
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- -: TEDxSeeds - PatriciaTsai
November 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)TEDxSeeds http://tedxseeds.org About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark de...
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- -: 藤野真人 [ Masato FUJINO ] - TEDxSeeds 2011
November 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)TEDxSeeds http://tedxseeds.org About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark de...
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- -: 淺間一 [ Hajime ASAMA ] - TEDxSeeds 2011
November 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)TEDxSeeds http://tedxseeds.org About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark de...
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- -: TEDxSol - Estrella de Diego - Modos de mirar, modos de ver
November 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Estrella de Diego es catedrática de Arte Contemporáneo de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y profesora invitada de la New York University. Medalla de oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes 2010. Su investigación se centra en la teoría del género, los estudios poscoloniales y los orígenes de la Mod...
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- -: Cesar HARADA - TEDxSeeds 2011
November 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)TEDxSeeds http://tedxseeds.org About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark de...
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- -: TEDxHouston 2011 - Kurt Podezwa
November 3, 2011 (over 12 years ago)As the Camp Director for Camp For All in Burton Texas, a camp for children and adults with special needs and chronic illness, Kurt has had the opportunity to work with a variety of special populations including; traumatic brain injury, spina bifida, down syndrome, muscular dystrophy, cancer, kidn...
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- -: TEDxHouston 2011 - Donte Newman - Spoken Word Artist
November 3, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Born May 12, 1991 in Houston, Texas, Donte Newman is a Spoken Word Artist who has worked collaboratively and individually on a variety of artistic projects. He has performed original pieces in Germany, Tanzania, Africa and Budapest, Hungary. He has written odes for Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Le...
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- -: TEDxHouston 2011 - Michael Holthouse
November 4, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Michael Holthouse became a Houstonian in 1980 after obtaining a degree in Economics and Computer Science from Indiana State University. He is best known in the business world as founder and President of Paranet, Inc., a computer network services company. As an INC. Magazine Entrepreneur of the Ye...
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- -: TEDxHouston 2011 - Jazz Ensemble
November 4, 2011 (over 12 years ago)TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Starting as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 m...
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- -: TEDxHouston 2011 - Micki Fine
November 4, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Founder of Mindful Living in Houston, Texas, and Certified Mindfulness Teacher, Micki Fine was awarded this credential from the University of Massachusetts Medical Center where Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn founded the renowned Center for Mindfulness. She holds a master's degree in counseling psychology and...
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- -: TEDxHouston 2011 - Michael Skelly
November 4, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Michael Skelly led the development of Horizon Wind Energy from a two-man company to a leadership position in the U.S. wind industry. Founded by the Houston-based Zilkha family, Horizon was acquired by Goldman Sachs in 2005. In mid-2007 Goldman Sachs sold Horizon Wind to EDP in the largest trans...
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- -: TEDxHouston 2011 - Laura Spanjian
November 4, 2011 (over 12 years ago)TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Starting as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 m...
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- -: TEDxHouston 2011 - Nina Godiwalla
November 4, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Nina Godiwalla is the bestselling author of Suits: A Woman on Wall Street, which The New York Times describes as the Devil Wears Prada of investment banking. It's an insider's perspective on her experience at Morgan Stanley from an outsider's point of view- woman, second-generation Indian America...
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- -: TEDxHouston 2011 - Will Reed
November 4, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Will Reed serves as the President and CEO of Technology For All (TFA), an organization he helped found in October 1997. With TFA, Dr. Reed has focused on digital inclusion projects in Houston and beyond that empower low-income and under-resourced communities through the tools of technology. He cu...
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- -: TEDxHouston 2011 - Angela Blanchard
November 4, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Angela Blanchard is recognized for her pioneering work in asset-based community development that focuses on the human, social and cultural strengths of vulnerable populations. Blanchard is the President and CEO of Houston-based Neighborhood Centers Inc., one of the top 1% of U.S.-based charitable...
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- -: Hajime NARUKAWA [ 鳴川 肇 ] - TEDxSeeds 2011
November 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)You can enjoy this video with English subtitle if you turn on "CC" button located at the lower right of youtube screen. TEDxSeeds http://tedxseeds.org About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that b...
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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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Philippe Starck: Philippe Starck Thinks Deep on Design
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Philippe Starck thinks deep on how our life has become and how mutation has influenced our intelligence and design.
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Chris Bangle: Great Cars are Art
February 1, 2002 (over 22 years ago)Art, love and trust mingle as Chris Bangle shares the story of how his team of designers and engineers came up with ideas for BMW's next big thing.
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Richard Branson: Life at 30,000 feet
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Richard Branson's discusses his various brands, companies and business explorations to help save the environment in this interview with Chris Anderson.
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Don Norman: 3 Ways Good Design Makes You Happy
February 1, 2003 (over 21 years ago)In this engaging talk, cognitive scientist Don Norman tells us about good design. He delves into the reasons why good design can make you happy. He explains how this is happening on a subconcious level and why all this is a beautiful thing to experience.
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