- -: TEDx Great Wall - Charles Rycroft Celebrating the Wiggly World of Alan Watts.mp4
July 10, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Charles Rycroft: Senior Consultant at IWNC, He will be "Celebrating the Wiggly World of Alan Watts". Charles is from the UK where Alan Watts was also born--Charles journey has taken him through Italy and across Asia, working in jobs as diverse as advertising executive, disc-jockey, nightclub man...
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- -: TEDxDoiSuthep - Mohezin Tejani - Global Nomads Bridging Gaps Between Cultures
August 3, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Mohezin Tejani, an Indian-Shia Muslim by ancestry, is a political refugee from Idi Amin's Uganda and an award-winning writer. Liberated from the confines of his own culture by political realities, he set out at the age of twenty-one to learn how to be rooted in the absence of a place to call home...
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- -: Bjorn Lomborg: Our priorities for saving the world
January 12, 2007 (over 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com Given $50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global warming? Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with surprising answers.
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- -: Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it
January 16, 2007 (over 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease -- and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he says, all of which can be averted. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the...
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- -: Richard Dawkins on our "queer" universe
January 16, 2007 (over 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com Biologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for "thinking the improbable" by looking at how the human frame of reference limits our understanding of the universe. 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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- -: Tony Robbins: Why we do what we do, and how we can do it better
January 16, 2007 (over 17 years ago)Tony Robbins discusses the "invisible forces" that make us do what we do -- and high-fives Al Gore in the front row. 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 minut...
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- -: Hans Rosling: No more boring data: TEDTalks
January 16, 2007 (over 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling uses an amazing new presentation tool, Gapminder, to present data that debunks several myths about world development. Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, and f...
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- -: Richard Dawkins: An atheist's call to arms
April 15, 2008 (about 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Biologist Richard Dawkins launches into a full-on appeal for atheists to make public their beliefs and to aggressively fight the incursion of religion into politics and education. Dawkins' scornful tone drew strongly mixed reactions from the audience; some stood and applauded h...
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- -: John Francis: I walk the Earth
November 6, 2008 (over 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com For almost three decades, John Francis has been a planetwalker, traveling the globe by foot and sail with a message of environmental respect and responsibility (for 10 of those years without speaking). A funny, thoughtful talk with occasional banjo. Follow us on Twitter at htt...
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- -: Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
October 7, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding. T...
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