- -: Bob Thurman: Becoming Buddha -- on the Web
June 20, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com In our hyperlinked world, we can know anything, anytime. And this mass enlightenment, says Buddhist scholar Bob Thurman, is our first step toward Buddha nature. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's lea...
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- -: Robert Full: Secrets of movement, from geckos and roaches
December 4, 2007 (over 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Biologist Robert Full shares slo-mo video of some captivating critters. Take a closer look at the spiny legs that allow cockroaches to scuttle across mesh and the nanobristle-packed feet that let geckos to run straight up walls. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best ...
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- -: Robert Wright: How cooperation (eventually) trumps conflict
April 15, 2008 (about 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Author Robert Wright explains "non-zero-sumness," a game-theory term describing how players with linked fortunes tend to cooperate for mutual benefit. This dynamic has guided our biological and cultural evolution, he says -- but our unwillingness to understand one another, as ...
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- -: Robert Ballard: Exploring the ocean's hidden worlds
May 21, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Ocean explorer Robert Ballard takes us on a mindbending trip to hidden worlds underwater, where he and other researchers are finding unexpected life, resources, even new mountains. He makes a case for serious exploration and mapping. Google Ocean, anyone?
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- -: Robert Full: How engineers learn from evolution
June 23, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Insects and animals have evolved some amazing skills -- but, as Robert Full notes, many animals are actually over-engineered. The trick is to copy only what's necessary. He shows how human engineers can learn from animals' tricks.
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- -: Robert Lang: Idea + square = origami
July 31, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Robert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami -- using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful.
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- -: Robert Full: Learning from the gecko's tail
June 12, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Biologist Robert Full studies the amazing gecko, with its supersticky feet and tenacious climbing skill. But high-speed footage reveals that the gecko's tail harbors perhaps the most surprising talents of all. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performance...
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- -: Robert Gupta: Music is medicine, music is sanity
March 26, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Robert Gupta, violinist with the LA Philharmonic, talks about a violin lesson he once gave to a brilliant, schizophrenic musician -- and what he learned. Called back onstage later, Gupta plays his own transcription of the prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1. TEDTalks is a da...
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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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- -: Authors@Google: Robert Shiller
January 8, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Robert Shiller visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do About It." This event took place on October 30, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. The subprime mortgage crisis has alre...
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