TEDxPhoenix - Lucianne Walkowicz - Look Up for a Change
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- About Lucianne Walkowicz - Lucianne Walkowicz, a 2011 TEDGlobal Fellow, studies the inscrutable faces of the stars for clues to the inner workings of their hearts. She got her taste for astronomy as an undergrad at Johns Hopkins, testing detectors for the Hubble Space Telescope's new camera (installed in 2002). She also learned to love the da... Read more
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- -: TEDxPhoenix - Lucianne Walkowicz - Look Up for a Change
February 12, 2012 (about 12 years ago)- About Lucianne Walkowicz - Lucianne Walkowicz, a 2011 TEDGlobal Fellow, studies the inscrutable faces of the stars for clues to the inner workings of their hearts. She got her taste for astronomy as an undergrad at Johns Hopkins, testing detectors for the Hubble Space Telescope's new camera (i...
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- -: TEDxRaleigh 2011 - Tony Rice - What The Planets Can Tell Us
January 14, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Space enthusiast and lecturer Tony Rice navigates the galaxy answering fundamental questions and revealing new ones.
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- -: Interstellar Travel: Will We Ever Get Out of the Solar System?
January 12, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/02/Martin_Rees_Lifes_Future_in_the_Cosmos Astronomer Royal Martin Rees examines the various options for colonizing worlds beyond our own solar system, and expresses skepticism that humanity will ever achieve faster-than-light travel. "There are hypotheti...
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- -: TEDxUniversityofGothenburg - Maria Sundin - Water - a necessity for life on Earth and other Planets
January 10, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Why is there water on earth? Life is highly connected to liquid water so the question arises, are there other worlds like ours? Maria Sundin is an associate professor in theoretical physics at the University of Gothenburg. Her main research interests are computer simulations of barred and intera...
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- -: TEDxUSC - Dr. Jill Tarter - The Search for Cosmic Company
September 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dr. Jill Tarter, Astronomer and Director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California explains the technology and significance of NASA's Kepler, which detects when stars "blink" or a planet passes in front of it, and her role in SETI, the Search for Extraterr...
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- -: TEDxMidAtlantic 2011 - Vint Cerf - Interplanetary Internet
December 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Vinton G. Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. Cerf has served as vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google since October 2005. In this role, he is responsible for identifying new ...
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- -: Sir Martin Rees: Earth in its final century?
April 15, 2008 (about 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com In a taut soliloquy that takes us from the origins of the universe to the last days of a dying sun 6 billion years later, renowned cosmologist Sir Martin Rees explains why the 21st century is a pivotal moment in the history of humanity: the first time in history when we can ma...
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- -: John Hodgman: A brief digression on matters of lost time
October 21, 2008 (over 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Humorist John Hodgman rambles through a new story about aliens, physics, time, space and the way all of these somehow contribute to a sweet, perfect memory of falling in love.
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- -: Tom Shannon's gravity-defying sculpture
May 6, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Tom Shannon shows off his gravity-defying, otherworldly sculpture -- made of simple, earthly materials -- that floats and spins like planets on magnets and suspension wire. It's science-inspired art at its most heavenly.
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- -: Garik Israelian: What's inside a star?
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Garik Israelian is a spectroscopist, studying the spectrum emitted by a star to figure out what it's made of and how it might behave. It's a rare and accessible look at this discipline, which may be coming close to finding a planet friendly to life. TEDTalks is a daily video p...
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