- -: Jeff Hawkins: Brain science is about to fundamentally change computing
May 23, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com Treo creator Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain -- to see it not as a fast processor, but as a memory system that stores and plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will happen next. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks...
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- -: Theo Jansen: The art of creating creatures
September 6, 2007 (over 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to move -- and even survive -- on their own. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TE...
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- -: Stephen Petranek: 10 ways the world could end
October 11, 2007 (over 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com How might the world end? Stephen Petranek lays out the challenges that face us in the drive to preserve the human race. Will we be wiped out by an asteroid? Eco-collapse? How about a particle collider gone wild? TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performan...
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- -: Hod Lipson: Robots that are "self-aware"
October 13, 2007 (over 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Hod Lipson demonstrates a few of his cool little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers ...
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- -: Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics
December 7, 2007 (over 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Armed with a sense of humor and laypeople's terms, Nobel winner Murray Gell-Mann drops some knowledge on TEDsters about particle physics, asking questions like, Are elegant equations more likely to be right than inelegant ones? TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best ta...
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- -: George Dyson: Let's take a nuclear-powered rocket to Saturn
February 19, 2008 (about 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com George Dyson tells the amazing story of Project Orion, a massive, nuclear-powered spacecraft that could have taken us to Saturn in five years. With a priceless insider's perspective and a cache of documents, photos and film, Dyson brings this dusty Atomic Age dream to vivid life.
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- -: Raspyni Brothers: Welcome to Vaudeville 2.0
February 29, 2008 (about 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Illustrious jugglers the Raspyni Brothers show off their uncanny balance, agility, coordination and willingness to sacrifice (others). Now, if you'll just stand completely still...
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- -: Stephen Hawking: Asking big questions about the universe
April 4, 2008 (about 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Professor Stephen Hawking asks some big questions about our universe -- How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone? -- and discusses how we might go about answering them. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Confer...
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- -: Brian Greene: The universe on a string
April 23, 2008 (about 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com In clear, nontechnical language, string theorist Brian Greene explains how our understanding of the universe has evolved from Einstein's notions of gravity and space-time to superstring theory, where minuscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle ...
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- -: Brian Cox: What really goes on at the Large Hadron Collider
April 29, 2008 (about 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com "Rock star physicist" Brian Cox talks about his work on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Discussing the biggest of big science in an engaging, accessible way, Cox brings us along on a tour of the massive complex and describes his part in it -- and the vital role it's going t...
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