- -: 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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- -: 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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- -: 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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