Interstellar Travel: Will We Ever Get Out of the Solar System?
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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 hypothetical time machines, but the only one that's been wo... Read more
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- -: Interstellar Travel: Will We Ever Get Out of the Solar System?
January 12, 2012 (over 1 year 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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Michio Kaku: What If Einstein Is Wrong?
January 12, 2012 (over 1 year ago)We'll have to recalibrate everything -- the age of the universe, the age of stars, the distance to the stars, the basic structure of modern electronics, the GPS, nuclear weapons -- all of that would have to be recalibrated and rethought ...
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- -: Oliver Stone: The Untold History of JFK's Assassination
December 21, 2011 (over 1 year ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/12/15/Exploring_Untold_History_Oliver_Stone_and_David_Talbot Oliver Stone, filmmaker and author of Oliver Stone's Untold History of America, talks with Salon founder David Talbot about alternate theories of the Kennedy assassination. Stone argues the assass...
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- -: Tim Ferriss Scoffs at Gladwell's 10,000 Hours
December 20, 2011 (over 1 year ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/09/14/Tim_Ferriss_Accelerated_Learning_in_Accelerated_Times Bestselling author Tim Ferriss scoffs at Malcolm Gladwell's theory that most people can master a skill in 10,000 hours, quipping, "For most people, they do things the wrong way." However, Ferriss a...
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- -: TEDxBRISTOL 2011 - DAVID GLOWASKI - DANCEROOM SPECTROSCOPY
December 16, 2011 (over 1 year ago)TEDxBristol 2011 took place on Thursday 8th September 2011, at the MSHED Museum, in Bristol, South West England. Find more of our talks, the videos, the audio and the TEDxBristol experience, online at: http://www.tedxbristol.com ABOUT THE SPEAKER: More information from the TEDxBristol website...
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- -: Dan Dennett: Can we know our own minds?
May 3, 2007 (about 6 years ago)http://www.ted.com Philosopher Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don't we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are actively fooling us. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the worl...
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- -: Jeff Hawkins: Brain science is about to fundamentally change computing
May 23, 2007 (about 6 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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- -: Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics
December 7, 2007 (over 5 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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- -: Robert Wright: How cooperation (eventually) trumps conflict
April 15, 2008 (about 5 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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- -: Brian Greene: The universe on a string
April 23, 2008 (about 5 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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