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Speaker Name Short Summary Event Duration Publish date Al Gore 15 ways to avert a climate crisis With the same humor and humanity he exuded in An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore spells out 15 ways that individuals can address climate change immediately, from buying a hybrid to inventing a new, hotter TED2006 "brand name" for global warming. 0:16:17 Hans Rosling Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world." TED2006 0:19:50 Sir Ken Robinson Do schools kill creativity? Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. TED2006 0:19:24 Majora Carter Greening the ghetto In an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur-winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx -- and shows how minority neighborhood suffer most from flawed urban TED2006 policy. 0:00:00 David Pogue When it comes to tech, simplicity sells New York Times columnist David Pogue takes aim at technology's worst interface-design offenders, and provides encouraging examples of products that get it right. To funny things up, he bursts into song. TED2006 0:21:26 Tony Robbins Why we do what we do, and how we can do it better Tony Robbins discusses the "invisible forces" that motivate everyone's actions -- and high-fives Al Gore in the front row. TED2006 0:21:45 Julia Sweeney "Letting Go of God" (an excerpt) Julia Sweeney (God Said, "Ha!") performs the first 15 minutes of her 2006 solo show "Letting Go of God." When two young Mormon missionaries knock on her door one day, it touches off a quest to completely TED2006 rethink her own beliefs. 0:16:32 Joshua Prince-Ramus Designing the Seattle Central Library Architect Joshua Prince-Ramus takes the audience on dazzling, dizzying virtual tours of three recent projects: the Central Library in Seattle, the Museum Plaza in Louisville and the Charles Wyly Theater in Dallas. TED2006 0:19:58 Dan Dennett A secular, scientific rebuttal to Rick Warren Philosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion -- all religion -- to be taught in schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon. Then he takes on The Purpose-Driven Life, disputing its claim that, TED2006 to be moral, one must deny evolution. 0:24:45 Rick Warren Living a life of purpose Pastor Rick Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven Life, reflects on his own crisis of purpose in the wake of his book's wild success. He explains his belief that God's intention is for each of us to use our talents TED2006 and influence to do good. 0:21:02 Larry Brilliant TED Prize wish: Help stop the next pandemic Accepting the 2006 TED Prize, Dr. Larry Brilliant talks about how smallpox was eradicated from the planet, and calls for a new global system that can identify and contain pandemics before they spread. TED2006 0:25:50 Cameron Sinclair TED Prize wish: Open-source architecture to house the world Accepting his 2006 TED Prize, Cameron Sinclair demonstrates how passionate designers and architects can respond to world housing crises. He unveils his TED Prize wish for a network to improve global living TED2006 standards through collaborative 0:23:34 design. Jehane Noujaim TED Prize wish: Unite the world on Pangea Day, a global day of film In this hopeful talk, Jehane Noujaim unveils her 2006 TED Prize wish: to bring the world together for one day a year through the power of film. TED2006 0:25:38 Nicholas Negroponte The vision behind One Laptop Per Child Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Laboratory, describes how the One Laptop Per Child project will build and distribute the "$100 laptop." TED2006 0:17:37 Jeff Han Unveiling the genius of multi-touch interface design Jeff Han shows off a cheap, scalable multi-touch and pressure-sensitive computer screen interface that may spell the end of point-and-click. TED2006 0:08:47 Sirena Huang Dazzling set by 11-year-old violinist Violinist Sirena Huang gives a technically brilliant and emotionally nuanced performance. In a charming interlude, the 11-year-old praises the timeless design of her instrument. TED2006 0:24:41 Jennifer Lin Magical improv from 14-year-old pianist Pianist and composer Jennifer Lin gives a magical performance, talks about the process of creativity and improvises a moving solo piece based on a random sequence of notes. TED2004 0:24:05 Amy Smith Simple designs that could save millions of childrens' lives Fumes from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in the developing world. MIT engineer Amy Smith details an exciting but simple solution: a tool for turning farm waste into clean-burning TED2006 charcoal. 0:15:06 Ross Lovegrove The power and beauty of organic design Designer Ross Lovegrove expounds his philosophy of "fat-free" design and offers insight into several of his extraordinary products, including the Ty Nant water bottle and the Go chair. TED2005 0:19:30 Richard Baraniuk Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learning Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials TED2006 freely, anywhere in the world. 0:18:34 Jimmy Wales How a ragtag band created Wikipedia Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia. TEDGlobal 2005 0:20:01 Mena Trott How blogs are building a friendlier world The founding mother of the blog revolution, Movable Type's Mena Trott, talks about the early days of blogging, when she realized that giving regular people the power to share our lives online is the key to building TED2006 a friendlier, more connected world. 0:16:46 Ze Frank What's so funny about the Web? Performer and web toymaker Ze Frank delivers a hilarious nerdcore standup routine, then tells us what he's seriously passionate about: helping people create and interact using simple, addictive web tools. TED2004 0:18:56 Eve Ensler Finding happiness in body and soul Eve Ensler, creator of The Vagina Monologues, shares how a discussion about menopause with her friends led to talking about all sorts of sexual acts onstage, waging a global campaign to end violence toward TED2004 women and finding her own happiness. 0:20:25 Helen Fisher The science of love, and the future of women Anthropologist Helen Fisher takes on a tricky topic -- love -- and explains its evolution, its biochemical foundations and its social importance. She closes with a warning about the potential disaster inherent in TED2006 antidepressant abuse. 0:23:27 Richard Dawkins The universe is queerer than we can suppose Biologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for "thinking the improbable" by looking at how the human frame of reference limits our understanding of the universe. TEDGlobal 2005 0:21:56 David Deutsch What is our place in the cosmos? Legendary scientist David Deutsch puts theoretical physics on the back burner to discuss a more urgent matter: the survival of our species. The first step toward solving global warming, he says, is to admit that TEDGlobal we have 2005 a problem. 0:19:00 Malcolm Gladwell What we can learn from spaghetti sauce Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce -- and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness. TED2004 0:17:30 Steven Levitt Why do crack dealers still live with their moms? Freakonomics author Steven Levitt presents new data on the finances of drug dealing. Contrary to popular myth, he says, being a street-corner crack dealer isn't lucrative: It pays below minimum wage. AndTED2004 your boss can kill you. 0:21:15 Barry Schwartz The paradox of choice Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied. TEDGlobal 2005 0:19:37 Dan Gilbert Why are we happy? Why aren't we happy? Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we'll be miserable if we don't get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don't go TED2004 as planned. 0:21:16 Eva Vertes My dream about the future of medicine Eva Vertes -- only 19 when she gave this talk -- discusses her journey toward studying medicine and her drive to understand the roots of cancer and Alzheimer's. TED2005 0:18:49 Aubrey de Grey Why we age and how we can avoid it Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease -- and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he says, all of which can be averted. TEDGlobal 2005 0:22:45 Jacqueline Novogratz Investing in Africa's own solutions Jacqueline Novogratz applauds the world's heightened interest in Africa and poverty, but argues persuasively for a new approach. TEDGlobal 2005 0:12:53 Iqbal Quadir The power of the mobile phone to end poverty Iqbal Quadir tells how his experiences as a kid in poor Bangladesh, and later as a banker in New York, led him to start a mobile phone operator connecting 80 million rural Bangladeshi -- and to become a champion TEDGlobal of bottom-up 2005 development. 0:15:52 Ashraf Ghani How to fix broken states Ashraf Ghani's passionate and powerful 10-minute talk, emphasizing the necessity of both economic investment and design ingenuity to rebuild broken states, is followed by a conversation with TED curatorTEDGlobal Chris Anderson 2005 on the future of Afghanistan. 0:18:45 Sasa Vucinic Why a free press is the best investment A free press -- papers, magazines, radio, TV, blogs -- is the backbone of any true democracy (and a vital watchdog on business). Sasa Vucinic, a journalist from Belgrade, talks about his new fund, which supports TEDGlobal media 2005 by selling "free press bonds." 0:18:00 Burt Rutan Entrepreneurs are the future of space flight In this passionate talk, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan lambasts the US government-funded space program for stagnating and asks entrepreneurs to pick up where NASA has left off. TED2006 0:19:37 Ben Saunders Three things to know before you ski to the North Pole Arctic explorer Ben Saunders recounts his harrowing solo ski trek to the North Pole, complete with engaging anecdotes, gorgeous photos and never-before-seen video. TED2005 0:18:03 Robert Fischell TED Prize wish: Finding new cures for migraine, depression, malpractice Accepting his 2005 TED Prize, inventor Robert Fischell makes three wishes: redesigning a portable device that treats migraines, finding new cures for clinical depression and reforming the medical malpractice TED2005 system. 0:26:50 Bono TED Prize wish: Join my call to action on Africa Musician and activist Bono accepts the 2005 TED Prize with a riveting talk, arguing that aid to Africa isn't just another celebrity cause; it's a global emergency. TED2005 0:27:52 Edward Burtynsky TED Prize wish: Share the story of Earth's manufactured landscapes Accepting his 2005 TED Prize, photographer Edward Burtynsky makes a wish: that his images -- stunning landscapes that document humanity's impact on the world -- help persuade millions to join a globalTED2005 conversation on sustainability. 0:34:25 Peter Donnelly How juries are fooled by statistics Oxford mathematician Peter Donnelly reveals the common mistakes humans make in interpreting statistics -- and the devastating impact these errors can have on the outcome of criminal trials. TEDGlobal 2005 0:21:20 Michael Shermer Why people believe strange things Why do people see the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich or hear demonic lyrics in "Stairway to Heaven"? Using video and music, skeptic Michael Shermer shows how we convince ourselves to believe -- and TED2006 overlook the facts. 0:13:25 Kevin Kelly How does technology evolve? Like we did Tech enthusiast Kevin Kelly asks "What does technology want?" and discovers that its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like the evolution of life. TED2005 0:20:00 Ray Kurzweil How technology's accelerating power will transform us Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness. TED2005 0:22:56 Peter Gabriel Fighting injustice with a videocamera Musician and activist Peter Gabriel shares his very personal motivation for standing up for human rights with the watchdog group WITNESS -- and tells stories of citizen journalists in action. TED2006 0:14:08 Rives "If I controlled the Internet" (a poem) How many poets could cram eBay, Friendster and Monster.com into 3-minute poem worthy of a standing ovation? Enjoy Rives' unique talent. TEDSalon 2006 0:04:07 Richard St. John Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes Why do people succeed? Is it because they're smart? Or are they just lucky? Neither. Analyst Richard St. John condenses years of interviews into an unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success. TED2005 0:03:30 Dr. Dean Ornish The world now eats (and dies) like Americans Stop wringing your hands over AIDS, cancer and the avian flu. Cardiovascular disease kills more people than everything else combined -- and it's mostly preventable. Dr. Dean Ornish explains how changing TED2006 our eating habits will save lives. 0:03:18 Bjorn Lomborg Our priorities for saving the world Given $50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global warming? Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with surprising answers. TED2005 0:16:41 Robert Neuwirth The "shadow cities" of the future Robert Neuwirth, author of "Shadow Cities," finds the world's squatter sites -- where a billion people now make their homes -- to be thriving centers of ingenuity and innovation. He takes us on a tour. TEDGlobal 2005 0:14:03 Wade Davis Cultures at the far edge of the world With stunning photos and stories, National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous cultures, which are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate. TED2003 0:22:01 Phil Borges Documenting our endangered cultures Photographer Phil Borges shows rarely seen images of people from the mountains of Dharamsala, India, and the jungles of the Ecuadorean Amazon. In documenting these endangered cultures, he intends TED2006 to help preserve them. 0:18:35 Sir Martin Rees Earth in its final century? Speaking as both an astronomer and "a concerned member of the human race," Sir Martin Rees examines our planet and its future from a cosmic perspective. He urges action to prevent dark consequences TEDGlobal from our scientific 2005 and technological 0:17:26 development. Robert Wright How cooperation (eventually) trumps conflict Author Robert Wright explains "non-zero-sumness" -- the network of linked fortunes and cooperation that has guided our evolution to this point -- and how we can use it to help save humanity today. TED2006 0:19:11 Steven Johnson A guided tour of the Ghost Map Author Steven Johnson takes us on a 10-minute tour of "The Ghost Map," his book about a cholera outbreak in 1854 London and the impact it had on science, cities and modern society. TEDSalon 2006 0:10:03 Charles Leadbeater The rise of the amateur professional In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms TEDGlobal that companies 2005 can't. 0:19:01 Pilobolus A performance merging dance and biology Two Pilobolus dancers perform "Symbiosis." Does it trace the birth of a relationship? Or the co-evolution of symbiotic species? Music: "God Music," George Crumb; "Fratres," Arvo Part; "MorangoAlmost TED2005 a Tango," Thomas Oboe Lee. 0:13:45 Anna Deavere Smith Four American characters Writer and actor Anna Deavere Smith gives life to author Studs Terkel, convict Paulette Jenkins, a Korean shopkeeper and a bull rider, excerpts from her solo show "On the Road: A Search for American Character." TED2005 0:23:05 Saul Griffith Hardware solutions to everyday problems Inventor and MacArthur fellow Saul Griffith shares some innovative ideas from his lab -- from "smart rope" to a house-sized kite for towing large loads. TED2006 0:14:29 Neil Gershenfeld The beckoning promise of personal fabrication MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab -- a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools. It's a simple idea with powerful results. TED2006 0:17:18 Carl Honore Slowing down in a world built for speed Journalist Carl Honore believes the Western world's emphasis on speed erodes health, productivity and quality of life. But there's a backlash brewing, as everyday people start putting the brakes on their all-too-modern TEDGlobal 2005 lives. 0:19:15 E.O. Wilson TED Prize wish: Help build the Encyclopedia of Life As E.O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of all creatures that we learn more about our biosphere -- and build a networked encyclopedia of all the world's knowledge about life. TED2007 0:22:35 Bill Clinton TED Prize wish: Let's build a health care system in Rwanda Accepting the 2007 TED Prize, Bill Clinton asks for help in bringing health care to Rwanda -- and the rest of the world. TED2007 0:24:07 James Nachtwey TED Prize wish: Share a vital story with the world Accepting his 2007 TED Prize, war photographer James Nachtwey shows his life's work and asks TED to help him continue telling the story with innovative, exciting uses of news photography in the digital era. TED2007 0:21:56 Nora York "What I Want" Nora York gives a stunning performance of her song "What I Want," with Jamie Lawrence (keyboards), Steve Tarshis (guitar) and Arthur Kell (bass). TEDSalon 2006 0:04:36 Janine Benyus 12 sustainable design ideas from nature In this inspiring talk about recent developments in biomimicry, Janine Benyus provides heartening examples of ways in which nature is already influencing the products and systems we build. TED2005 0:23:19 Frans Lanting A lyrical view of life on Earth In this stunning slideshow, celebrated nature photographer Frans Lanting presents The LIFE Project, a poetic collection of photographs that tell the story of our planet, from its eruptive beginnings to its present TED2005 diversity. Soundtrack by Philip Glass. 0:16:17 Craig Venter A voyage of DNA, genes and the sea Genomics pioneer Craig Venter takes a break from his epic round-the-world expedition to talk about the millions of genes his team has discovered so far in its quest to map the ocean's biodiversity. TED2005 0:16:51 Susan Savage-Rumbaugh Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Man Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology TED2004 -- and how much by cultural exposure. 0:17:25 Thom Mayne Architecture is a new way to connect to the world Architect Thom Mayne has never been one to take the easy option, and this whistle-stop tour of the buildings he's created makes you glad for it. These are big ideas cast in material form. TED2005 0:20:40 Vik Muniz Art with wire, thread, sugar, chocolate Vik Muniz makes art from pretty much anything, be it shredded paper, wire, clouds or diamonds. Here he describes the thinking behind his work and takes us on a tour of his incredible images. TED2003 0:14:51 Juan Enriquez Decoding the future with genomics Scientific discoveries, futurist Juan Enriquez notes, demand a shift in code, and our ability to thrive depends on our mastery of that code. Here, he applies this notion to the field of genomics. TED2003 0:22:20 Paul Bennett Design is in the details Showing a series of inspiring, unusual and playful products, British branding and design guru Paul Bennett explains that design doesn't have to be about grand gestures, but can solve small, universal and overlooked TEDGlobal problems. 2005 0:14:10 Chris Bangle Great cars are Art American designer Chris Bangle explains his philosophy that car design is an art form in its own right, with an entertaining -- and ultimately moving -- account of the BMW Group's Deep Blue project, intended TED2002 to create the SUV of the future. 0:20:04 Nick Bostrom Humanity's biggest problems aren't what you think they are Oxford philosopher and transhumanist Nick Bostrom examines the future of humankind and asks whether we might alter the fundamental nature of humanity to solve our most intrinsic problems. TEDGlobal 2005 0:16:52 Alex Steffen Inspired ideas for a sustainable future Worldchanging.com founder Alex Steffen argues that reducing humanity's ecological footprint is incredibly vital now, as the western consumer lifestyle spreads to developing countries. TEDGlobal 2005 0:17:34 Sheila Patek Measuring the fastest animal on earth Biologist Sheila Patek talks about her work measuring the feeding strike of the mantis shrimp, one of the fastest movements in the animal world, using video cameras recording at 20,000 frames per second.TED2004 0:16:25 Dean Kamen Rolling along, helping students and the third world Inventor Dean Kamen lays out his argument for the Segway and offers a peek into his next big ideas (portable energy and water purification for developing countries). TED2002 0:20:07 Seth Godin Sliced bread and other marketing delights In a world of too many options and too little time, our obvious choice is to just ignore the ordinary stuff. Marketing guru Seth Godin spells out why, when it comes to getting our attention, bad or bizarre ideas TED2003 are more successful than boring ones. 0:17:01 James Watson The double helix and today's DNA mysteries Nobel laureate James Watson opens TED2005 with the frank and funny story of how he and his research partner, Francis Crick, discovered the structure of DNA. TED2005 0:20:11 Golan Levin The truly soft side of software Engineer and artist Golan Levin pushes the boundaries of what's possible with audiovisuals and technology. In an amazing TED display, he shows two programs he wrote to perform his original compositions. TED2004 0:14:53 Jane Goodall What separates us from the apes? Jane Goodall hasn't found the missing link, but she's come closer than nearly anyone else. The primatologist says the only real difference between humans and chimps is our sophisticated language. She urges TED2002 us to start using it to change the 0:27:25 world. Stefan Sagmeister Yes, design can make you happy Graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister takes the audience on a whimsical journey through moments of his life that made him happy -- and notes how many of these moments have to do with good design. TED2004 0:15:30 Al Seckel Your brain is badly wired -- enjoy it! Al Seckel, a cognitive neuroscientist, explores the perceptual illusions that fool our brains. Loads of eye tricks help him prove that not only are we easily fooled, we kind of like it. TED2004 0:14:33 Caroline Lavelle A cello performance that casts a spell Caroline Lavelle plays the cello like a sorceress casting a spell, occasionally hiding behind her wild mane of blond hair as she sings of pastoral themes. She performs "Farther than the Sun," backed by Thomas TED2005 Dolby on keyboards. 0:07:39 Jill Sobule A happy song about global warming A happy song about global warming, from Jill Sobule. TED2006 0:02:43 Dan Dennett Can we know our own minds? 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. TED2003 0:21:48 Evelyn Glennie How to listen to music with your whole body In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums. TED2003 0:32:09 William McDonough The wisdom of designing Cradle to Cradle Green-minded architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "all children, all species, for all time." TED2005 0:20:05 Rives A mockingbird remix of TED2006 Rives recaps the most memorable moments of TED2006 in the free-spirited rhyming verse of a fantastical mockingbird lullaby. TED2006 0:04:11 Jeff Bezos After the gold rush, there's innovation ahead The dot-com boom and bust is often compared to the Gold Rush. But Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos says it's more like the early days of the electric industry. TED2003 0:17:11 Eddi Reader "Kiteflyer's Hill" Singer/songwriter Eddi Reader performs "Kiteflyer's Hill," a tender look back at a lost love. With Thomas Dolby on piano. TED2003 0:06:18 Eddi Reader, Thomas Dolby "What You Do With What You've Got" Singer/songwriter Eddi Reader performs "What You Do With What You've Got," a meditation on a very TED theme: how to use your gifts and talents to make a difference. With Thomas Dolby on piano. TED2003 0:05:12 Thomas Dolby, Rachelle Garniez "La Vie en Rose" Featuring the vocals and mischievous bell-playing of accordionist and singer Rachelle Garniez, the TED House Band -- led by Thomas Dolby on keyboard -- delivers this delightful rendition of the Edith Piaf TED2004 standard "La Vie en Rose." 0:03:21 Tom Rielly A comic send-up of TED2006 Satirist Tom Rielly delivers a wicked parody of the 2006 TED conference, taking down the $100 laptop, the plight of the polar bear, and people who mention, one too many times, that they work at Harvard. Watch TED2006 for a special moment between 0:19:55 Tom and Al Gore. Richard Dawkins An atheist's call to arms Richard Dawkins urges all atheists to openly state their position -- and to fight the incursion of the church into politics and science. A fiery, funny, powerful talk. TED2002 0:29:10
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Speaker Name Rev. Tom Honey How could God have allowed the tsunami? Chris Anderson (Wired) Technology's Long Tail Natalie MacMaster, Thomas Dolby Fiddling in reel time Sergey Brin and Larry Page Inside the Google machine Stew "Black Men Ski" James Howard Kunstler The tragedy of suburbia David Kelley The future of design is human-centered Stewart Brand Why squatter cities are a good thing Jeff Hawkins Brain science is about to fundamentally change computing Tierney Thys Swim with giant sunfish in the open ocean Blaise Aguera y Arcas Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo John Doerr Seeking salvation and profit in greentech Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala How to help Africa? Do business there Anand Agarawala BumpTop desktop is a beautiful mess Bob Thurman Becoming Buddha -- on the Web David Rockwell Building the Ground Zero viewing platform Thomas Barnett The Pentagon's new map for war and peace Ethel "Blue Room" Stephen Lawler Look! Up in the sky! It's Virtual Earth! Hans Rosling New insights on poverty and life around the world Bill Stone Journey to the center of the Earth ... and beyond! Dan Dennett Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes Alan Russell Why can't we grow new body parts? Jonathan Harris The Web's secret stories Emily Oster What do we really know about the spread of AIDS? Rives Is 4 a.m. the new midnight? Will Wright Toys that make worlds David Bolinsky Fantastic voyage inside a cell Allison Hunt How I got my new hip George Ayittey Cheetahs vs. Hippos for Africa's future Euvin Naidoo Africa as an investment William Kamkwamba How I built my family a windmill Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Let's have a deeper discussion on aid Patrick Awuah Educating a new generation of African leaders Chris Abani Learning the stories of Africa Jacqueline Novogratz Tackling poverty with "patient capital" Vusi Mahlasela "Thula Mama" Vusi Mahlasela "Woza" Jeff Skoll Making movies that make change Dean Kamen New prosthetic arm for veterans Erin McKean Redefining the dictionary Andrew Mwenda Let's take a new look at African aid Theo Jansen The art of creating creatures Steven Pinker The stuff of thought Steven Pinker A brief history of violence Deborah Scranton Scenes from "The War Tapes" Zeresenay Alemseged Finding the origins of humanity John Maeda Simplicity patterns Stephen Petranek 10 ways the world could end Paul MacCready Flying on solar wings Carolyn Porco Fly me to the moons of Saturn Kenichi Ebina Hip-hop dance and a little magic Richard Branson Life at 30,000 feet Hod Lipson Robots that are "self-aware" Maira Kalman The illustrated woman Jan Chipchase Our cell phones, ourselves Vilayanur Ramachandran A journey to the center of your mind Eleni Gabre-Madhin Building a commodities market in Ethiopia Sherwin Nuland My history of electroshock therapy Matthieu Ricard Habits of happiness Larry Lessig How creativity is being strangled by the law Paul Rothemund Casting spells with DNA David Keith A surprising idea for "solving" climate change Juan Enriquez Why can't we grow new energy? Larry Brilliant The case for informed optimism Robert Full Secrets of movement, from geckos and roaches Ron Eglash African fractals, in buildings and braids Philippe Starck Why design? Murray Gell-Mann Beauty and truth in physics Amory Lovins We must win the oil endgame Arthur Benjamin Lightning calculation and other "Mathemagic" Daniel Goleman Why aren't we all Good Samaritans? Lakshmi Pratury The lost art of letter-writing Gever Tulley 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do Isabel Allende Tales of passion Yossi Vardi Help fight local warming Deborah Gordon How do ants know what to do? J.J. Abrams The mystery box David Gallo Underwater astonishments Paola Antonelli Treating design as art Frank Gehry Nice building. Then what? Raul Midon "All the Answers" and "Tembererana" Bill Strickland Rebuilding America, one slide show at a time Ben Dunlap The story of a passionate life David Pogue A 4-minute medley on the music wars Alison Jackson A surprising look at celebrity Chris Anderson (TED) A vision for TED Robin Chase Getting cars off the road and data into the skies Jaime Lerner Sing a song of sustainable cities David Macaulay All roads lead to Rome Antics Michael Pollan The omnivore's next dilemma Howard Rheingold Way-new collaboration Pamelia Kurstin Theremin, the untouchable music George Dyson Let's take a nuclear-powered rocket to Saturn Moshe Safdie What makes a building unique? Jill Sobule, Julia Sweeney The Jill and Julia Show Raspyni Brothers Welcome to Vaudeville 2.0 Joseph Lekuton A parable for Kenya
Short Summary Event Duration Publish date In the days following the tragic South Asian tsunami of 2004, the Rev. Tom Honey pondered the question, "How could a loving God have done this?" Here is his answer. TED2005 0:19:32 Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired, explores the four key stages of any viable technology: setting the right price, gaining market share, displacing an established technology and, finally, becoming ubiquitous. TED2004 0:14:18 Violinist Natalie MacMaster and TED Musical Director Thomas Dolby play Dolby's original song "Blue Is a River" in this ethereal duet -- with a little dancing. TED2002 0:05:11 Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin offer a peek inside the Google machine, sharing tidbits about international search patterns, the philanthropic Google Foundation, and the company's dedication TED2004 to innovation and employee happiness. 0:20:33 What happens when a black man visits Aspen? Singer/songwriter Stew and his band are about to let you know. TED2006 0:04:37 In James Howard Kunstler's view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life and the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, he argues, what we have in America is a nation of places TED2004 not worth caring about. 0:19:44 IDEO's David Kelley says that product design has become much less about the hardware and more about the user experience. He shows video of this new, broader approach, including footage from the Prada TED2002 store in New York. 0:17:00 Rural villages worldwide are being deserted, as billions of people flock to cities to live in teeming squatter camps and slums. Stewart Brand says this is a good thing. Why? It'll take you 3 minutes to find out. TED2006 0:00:00 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 TED2003 happen next. 0:20:11 Marine biologist Tierney Thys asks us to step into the water to visit the world of the Mola mola, or giant ocean sunfish. Basking, eating jellyfish and getting massages, this behemoth offers clues to life in the TED2003 open sea. 0:16:41 Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled from the Web, Photosynth builds breathtaking dreamscapes TED2007 and lets us navigate them. 0:07:30 "I don't think we're going to make it," John Doerr proclaims, in an emotional talk about climate change and investment. Spurred on by his daughter, who demanded he fix the mess the world is heading for, he TED2007 and his partners. 0:17:52 We know the negative images of Africa -- famine and disease, conflict and corruption. But, says Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, there's another, less-told story happening in many African nations: one of reform, economic TED2007 growth and business opportunity. 0:20:13 Anand Agarawala presents BumpTop, a user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3-D extreme, transforming file navigation into a freewheeling playground of crumpled documents and TED2007 clipping-covered "walls." 0:04:39 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. TEDSalon 2006 0:12:06 In this emotionally charged conversation with journalist Kurt Andersen, designer David Rockwell discusses the process of building a viewing platform at Ground Zero shortly after 9/11. TED2002 0:24:37 In this bracingly honest talk, international security strategist Thomas Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering U.S. military that is both sensible and breathtaking in its simplicity: Break it inTED2005 two. 0:23:43 The avant-garde string quartet Ethel performs the third movement from Phil Kline's four-part suite "The Blue Room and Other Stories." Searching melodic lines show off the deep, emotional musicality of these TED2006 passionate players. 0:03:34 Microsoft's Stephen Lawler gives a whirlwind tour of Virtual Earth, moving up, down and through its hyper-real cityscapes with dazzlingly fluidity, a remarkable feat that requires staggering amounts of data to TED2007 bring into focus. 0:06:10 Researcher Hans Rosling uses his cool data tools to show how countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He demos Dollar Street, comparing households of varying income levels worldwide. Then he does TED2007 something really amazing. 0:18:57 Bill Stone, a maverick cave explorer who has plumbed Earth's deepest abysses, discusses his efforts to mine lunar ice for space fuel and to build an autonomous robot for studying Jupiter's moon Europa. TED2007 0:17:43 Starting with the simple tale of an ant, philosopher Dan Dennett unleashes a devastating salvo of ideas, making a powerful case for the existence of memes -- concepts that are literally alive. TED2002 0:15:26 Alan Russell studies regenerative medicine -- a breakthrough way of thinking about disease and injury, using a process that can signal the body to rebuild itself. TED2006 0:19:25 Jonathan Harris wants to make sense of the emotional world of the Web. With deep compassion for the human condition, his projects troll the Internet to find out what we're all feeling and looking for. TED2007 0:17:10 Emily Oster re-examines the stats on AIDS in Africa from an economic perspective and reaches a stunning conclusion: Everything we know about the spread of HIV on the continent is wrong. TED2007 0:15:34 Poet Rives does 8 minutes of lyrical origami, folding history into a series of coincidences surrounding that most surreal of hours, 4 o'clock in the morning. TED2007 0:09:12 In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterpieces. TED2007 0:16:37 Medical animator David Bolinsky presents 3 minutes of stunning animation that show the bustling life inside a cell. TED2007 0:09:45 When Allison Hunt found out that she needed a new hip -- and that Canada's national health care system would require her to spend nearly 2 years on a waiting list (and in pain) -- she took matters into her own TED2007 hands. 0:04:48 Ghanaian economist George Ayittey unleashes a torrent of controlled anger toward corrupt leaders in Africa -- and calls on the "Cheetah generation" to take back the continent. TEDGlobal 2007 0:17:50 South African investment banker Euvin Naidoo explains why investing in Africa can make great business sense. TEDGlobal 2007 0:19:01 When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working from rough plans he found in a library book. TEDGlobal 2007 0:04:12 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former finance minister of Nigeria, sums up four days of intense discussion on aid versus trade on the closing day of TEDGlobal 2007, and shares a personal story explaining her own TEDGlobal commitment 2007to this cause. 0:22:10 Patrick Awuah makes the case that a liberal arts education is critical to forming true leaders. TEDGlobal 2007 0:17:31 In this deeply personal talk, Nigerian writer Chris Abani says that "what we know about how to be who we are" comes from stories. He searches for the heart of Africa through its poems and narrative, including TEDGlobal his own.2007 0:17:36 Jacqueline Novogratz shares stories of how "patient capital" can bring sustainable jobs, goods, services -- and dignity -- to the world's poorest. TEDGlobal 2007 0:18:23 South African singer-songwriter Vusi Mahlasela dedicates his song, "Thula Mama," to all women -- and especially his grandmother. TEDGlobal 2007 0:10:06 After Vusi Mahlasela's 3-song set at TEDGlobal, the audience wouldn't let him go. His encore, "Woza," showcases his brilliant guitar playing and multilingual lyrics. TEDGlobal 2007 0:04:59 Film producer Jeff Skoll (An Inconvenient Truth) talks about his film company, Participant Productions, and the people who've inspired him to do good. TED2007 0:15:31 Inventor Dean Kamen previews the prosthetic arm he's developing at the request of the US Department of Defense. His quiet commitment to using technology to solve problems -- while honoring the humanTED2007 spirit -- has never been more clear.0:05:10 Is the beloved paper dictionary doomed to extinction? In this infectiously exuberant talk, leading lexicographer Erin McKean looks at the many ways today's print dictionary is poised for transformation. TED2007 0:15:50 In this provocative talk, journalist Andrew Mwenda asks us to reframe the "African question" -- to look beyond the media's stories of poverty, civil war and helplessness and see the opportunities for creating TEDGlobal wealth and 2007 happiness throughout the 0:17:07 continent. 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. TED2007 0:08:13 In an exclusive preview of his book "The Stuff of Thought," Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than TEDGlobal we realize. 2005 0:17:27 Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time TED2007 in our species' existence. 0:19:15 Filmmaker Deborah Scranton talks about and shows clips from her documentary "The War Tapes," which puts cameras in the hands of soldiers fighting in Iraq. TED2007 0:17:36 Paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged looks for the roots of humanity in Ethiopia's badlands. Here he talks about finding the oldest skeleteon of a humanoid child -- and how Africa holds the clues to our TEDGlobal humanity. 2007 0:15:51 The MIT Media Lab's John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art, a place that can get very complicated. Here he talks about paring down to basics. TED2007 0:15:59 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 TED2002 wild? 0:29:42 Paul MacCready -- aircraft designer, environmentalist, and lifelong lover of flight -- talks about his long career. TED2003 0:21:20 Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco shows images from the Cassini voyage to Saturn, focusing on its largest moon, Titan, and on frozen Enceladus, which seems to shoot jets of ice. TED2007 0:17:09 Kenichi Ebina moves his body in a manner that appears to defy the limits imposed by the human skeleton. He combines breakdancing and hip-hop with mime using movements that are simultaneously precise TED2007 and fluid. 0:03:32 Richard Branson talks to TED's Chris Anderson about the ups and the downs of his career, from his multibillionaire success to his multiple near-death experiences -- and reveals some of his (very surprising) TED2007 motivations. 0:29:51 Hod Lipson demonstrates a few of his cool little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate. TED2007 0:06:18 Author and illustrator Maira Kalman talks about her life and work, from her covers for The New Yorker to her books for children and grown-ups. She is as wonderful, as wise and as deliciously off-kilter in person TED2007 as she is on paper. 0:17:30 Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase's investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our pockets. He's made some unexpected discoveries along TED2007 the way. 0:16:03 Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples. TED2007 0:23:34 Economist Eleni Gabre-Madhin outlines her ambitious vision to found the first commodities market in Ethiopia. Her plan would create wealth, minimize risk for farmers and turn the world's largest recipient ofTEDGlobal food aid into 2007 a regional food basket. 0:20:34 Surgeon and author Sherwin Nuland discusses the development of electroshock therapy as a cure for severe, life-threatening depression -- including his own. It's a moving and heartfelt talk about relief, redemption TED2003 and second chances. 0:22:18 What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Biochemist turned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard says we can train our minds in habits of well-being, to generate a true sense of serenity and fulfillment. TED2004 0:20:54 Larry Lessig, the Net's most celebrated lawyer, cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the "ASCAP cartel" in his argument for reviving our creative culture. TED2007 0:18:56 Paul Rothemund writes code that causes DNA to arrange itself into a star, a smiley face and more. Sure, it's a stunt, but it's also a demonstration of self-assembly at the smallest of scales -- with vast implications TED2007 for the future of making things. 0:04:59 Environmental scientist David Keith proposes a cheap, effective, shocking means to address climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of ash into the atmosphere to deflect sunlight and heat? TEDSalon 2007:Hot Science 0:15:58 Juan Enriquez challenges our definition of bioenergy. Oil, coal, gas and other hydrocarbons are not chemical but biological products, based on plant matter -- and thus, growable. Our whole approach to fuel, TEDSalon he argues, 2007:Hot needs to Science change. 0:18:10 We've known about global warming for 50 years and done little about it, says Google.org director Larry Brilliant. In spite of this and other depressing trends, he's optimistic and tells us why. From Skoll WorldSkoll Forum, World Oxford, Forum UK, 2007 www.skollfoundation.org 0:21:01 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 TED2005 straight up walls. 0:19:24 I am a mathematician, and I would like to stand on your roof.' That is how Ron Eglash greeted many African families he met while researching the fractal patterns he'd noticed in villages across the continent. TEDGlobal 2007 0:16:57 Designer Philippe Starck -- with no pretty slides to show -- spends 18 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question "Why design?" Listen carefully for one perfect mantra for all of us, genius or not. TED2007 0:17:06 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 TED2007 right than inelegant ones? 0:16:02 In this energizing talk, Amory Lovins lays out his simple plan for weaning the US off oil and revitalizing the economy. TED2005 0:19:44 In a lively show, mathemagician Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares, solves another massive mental equation and guesses a few birthdays. How does he do it? He'll tell TED2005 you. 0:15:14 Daniel Goleman, author of "Emotional Intelligence," asks why we aren't more compassionate more of the time. TED2007 0:13:13 Lakshmi Pratury remembers the lost art of letter-writing and shares a series of notes her father wrote to her before he died. Her short but heartfelt talk may inspire you to set pen to paper, too. TED2007 0:04:09 Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, spells out 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do. From TED University 2007. TED2007 0:09:18 Author and activist Isabel Allende discusses women, creativity, the definition of feminism -- and, of course, passion -- in this talk. TED2007 0:17:56 Investor and prankster Yossi Vardi delivers a careful lecture on the dangers of blogging. Specifically, for men. TED2007 0:06:15 With a dusty backhoe, a handful of Japanese paint markers and a few students in tow, Deborah Gordon digs up ant colonies in the Arizona desert in search of keys to understanding complex systems. TED2003 0:20:31 J.J. Abrams traces his love for the unseen mystery -- a passion that's evident in his films and TV shows, including Cloverfield, Lost and Alias -- back to its magical beginnings. TED2007 0:18:02 David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a color-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times Square's worth of neon light displays from fish who live TED2007 in the blackest depths of the ocean. 0:05:27 Paola Antonelli, design curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art, wants to spread her appreciation of design -- in all shapes and forms -- around the world. TED2007 0:18:17 In a wildly entertaining discussion with Richard Saul Wurman, architect Frank Gehry gives TEDsters his take on the power of failure, his recent buildings, and the all-important "Then what?" factor. TED2002 0:22:00 Singer/guitarist Raul Midon performs "All the Answers" in a world premiere at TED2007, followed by the sprightly "Tembererana." TED2007 0:10:40 Bill Strickland tells a quiet and astonishing tale of redemption through arts, music, and unlikely partnerships. TED2002 0:35:28 Wofford College president Ben Dunlap tells the story of Sandor Teszler, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who taught him about passionate living and lifelong learning. TED2007 0:19:08 New York Times tech columnist David Pogue performs a satirical mini-medley about iTunes and the downloading wars, borrowing a few notes from Sonny and Cher and the Village People. TED2007 0:04:12 By making photographs that seem to show our favorite celebs (Diana, Elton John) doing what we really, secretly, want to see them doing, Alison Jackson explores our desire to get personal with celebs. Contains TEDGlobal graphic 2005 images. 0:17:36 When Curator Chris Anderson gave this talk in 2002, TED's future was hanging in the balance. Here, he attempts to persuade TEDsters that his vision for turning his for-profit conference into a nonprofit event TED2002 would work. It did. 0:12:55 Robin Chase founded Zipcar, the world's biggest car-sharing business. That was one of her smaller ideas. Here she travels much farther, contemplating road-pricing schemes that will shake up our driving habits TED2007 and a mesh network vast as the 0:13:39 Interstate. Jaime Lerner reinvented urban space in his native Curitiba, Brazil. Along the way, he changed the way city planners worldwide see what's possible in the metropolitan landscape. TED2007 0:15:43 David Macaulay relives the winding and sometimes surreal journey toward the completion of Rome Antics, his illustrated homage to the historic city. TED2002 0:21:35 What if human consciousness isn't the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn's clever strategy game to rule the Earth? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see the world from a plant's-eye TED2007 view. 0:17:25 Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. TED2005 0:19:31 Virtuoso Pamelia Kurstin performs and discusses her theremin, the not-just-for-sci-fi electronic instrument that is played without being touched. Songs include "Autumn Leaves," "Lush Life" and David Mash's TED2002 "Listen, Words Are Gone." 0:19:11 Author George Dyson spins the story of Project Orion, a massive, nuclear-powered spacecraft that could have taken us to Saturn in five years. His insider's perspective and a secret cache of documents bring TED2002 an Atomic Age dream to life. 0:08:38 Looking back over his long career, architect Moshe Safdie delves into four of his design projects and explains how he labored to make each one truly unique for its site and its users. TED2002 0:17:46 Two TED favorites, Jill Sobule and Julia Sweeney, team up for a delightful set that mixes witty songwriting with a little bit of social commentary. TED2007 0:06:14 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... TED2002 0:15:27 Joseph Lekuton, a member of parliament in Kenya, starts with the story of his remarkable education, then offers a parable of how Africa can grow. His message of hope has never been more relevant. TEDGlobal 2007 0:05:26
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Speaker Name Steve Jurvetson The joy of rockets Roy Gould, Curtis Wong WorldWide Telescope Alan Kay A powerful idea about teaching ideas Craig Venter On the verge of creating synthetic life Nicholas Negroponte From 1984, 4 predictions about the future (3 of them correct) Jill Bolte Taylor My stroke of insight Frank Gehry From 1990, defending a vision for architecture Dave Eggers 2008 TED Prize wish: Once Upon a School Karen Armstrong 2008 TED Prize wish: Charter for Compassion Neil Turok 2008 TED Prize wish: An African Einstein Norman Foster Building on the green agenda Christopher deCharms Looking inside the brain in real time Clifford Stoll 18 minutes with an agile mind Rokia Traore "M'Bifo" Siegfried Woldhek The true face of Leonardo Da Vinci? David Hoffman Catch Sputnik mania! Jakob Trollback Rethinking the music video Stephen Hawking Asking big questions about the universe Al Gore New thinking on the climate crisis Johnny Lee Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote Tod Machover, Dan Ellsey Releasing the music in your head Yochai Benkler Open-source economics Ernest Madu Bringing world-class health care to the poorest Brian Greene The universe on a string Amy Tan Where does creativity hide? Brian Cox An inside tour of the world's biggest supercollider They Might Be Giants Wake up! It's They Might Be Giants Hector Ruiz The power to connect the world Paul Stamets 6 ways mushrooms can save the world Paul Ewald Can we domesticate germs? Michael Moschen Juggling rhythm and motion Joshua Klein The amazing intelligence of crows Alisa Miller Why we know less than ever about the world Mark Bittman What's wrong with what we eat Robert Ballard Exploring the ocean's hidden worlds Yves Behar Creating objects that tell stories Seyi Oyesola Rich hospital, poor hospital Arthur Ganson Sculpture that's truly moving Paul Collier 4 ways to improve the lives of the "bottom billion" Susan Blackmore Memes and "temes" Nathan Myhrvold A life of fascinations Rokia Traore "Kounandi" Wade Davis The worldwide web of belief and ritual Murray Gell-Mann Do all languages have a common ancestor? Chris Jordan Picturing excess George Dyson The birth of the computer Dr. Dean Ornish Your genes are not your fate Robert Full How engineers learn from evolution Adam Grosser A new vision for refrigeration Steven Levitt Are children's carseats necessary? Benjamin Zander Classical music with shining eyes Nicholas Negroponte One Laptop per Child, two years on Nellie McKay "Clonie" Sxip Shirey, Rachelle Garniez Breath, music, passion Peter Diamandis Stephen Hawking hits zero g Rick Smolan A girl, a photograph, a homecoming Raul Midon "Everybody" and "Peace on Earth" Corneille Ewango A hero of the Congo Basin forest Torsten Reil Using biology to make better animation David Hoffman How would you feel if you lost everything? Clay Shirky Institutions vs. collaboration Nellie McKay "Mother of Pearl" and "If I Had You" Freeman Dyson Let's look for life in the outer solar system Helen Fisher The brain in love Billy Graham Technology, faith and human shortcomings A.J. Jacobs My year of living biblically Keith Barry Brain magic Marisa Fick-Jordan The wonders of Zulu wire art Martin Seligman What positive psychology can help you become Chris Abani Telling stories of our shared humanity Louise Leakey Digging for humanity's origins Jonathan Harris The art of collecting stories Reed Kroloff Architecture, modern and romantic Kevin Kelly Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web Robert Lang Idea + square = origami Kwabena Boahen Making a computer that works like the brain Bruno Bowden, Rufus Cappadocia Origami, blindfolded and to music Patricia Burchat The search for dark energy and dark matter Spencer Wells Building a family tree for all humanity David Griffin Photography connects us with the world Lennart Green Close-up card magic Ian Dunbar Dog-friendly dog training Nellie McKay "The Dog Song" John Q. Walker Re-creating great performances Sugata Mitra Can kids teach themselves? Ory Okolloh The making of an African activist Einstein the Parrot Talking and squawking TED2006 Paul Rothemund The astonishing promise of DNA folding Peter Diamandis Taking the next giant leap in space Peter Hirshberg The Web and TV, a sibling rivalry Jonathan Drori Why we don't understand as much as we think we do Jane Goodall Helping humans and animals live together in Africa Irwin Redlener How to survive a nuclear attack Brewster Kahle A digital library, free to the world David Gallo The deep oceans: a ribbon of life Carmen Agra Deedy Spinning a story of Mama Keith Bellows Celebrating the camel Ann Cooper Reinventing the school lunch
Short Summary Event Duration Publish date Moneyman Steve Jurvetson takes TEDsters inside his awesome hobby -- launching model rockets -- by sharing some gorgeous photos, his infectious glee and just a whiff of danger. TED2007 0:03:22 2/27/2008 Educator Roy Gould and researcher Curtis Wong show a sneak preview of Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope, which compiles images from telescopes and satellites to build a comprehensive, interactive view TED2008 of our universe. 0:06:48 2/27/2008 With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways -- mathematically and scientifically -- thatTED2007 only computers can. 0:20:37 3/4/2008 "Can we create new life out of our digital universe?" Craig Venter asks. His answer is "yes" -- and pretty soon. He walks through his latest research and promises that we'll soon be able to build and boot up TED2008 a synthetic chromosome. 0:15:54 3/6/2008 With surprising accuracy, Nicholas Negroponte predicts what will happen with CD-ROMs, web interfaces, service kiosks, the touchscreen interface of the iPhone and his own One Laptop per Child project. TED1(1984) 0:25:23 3/11/2008 Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motion, speech, self-awareness -- shut down one by one. An astonishing TED2008 story. 0:18:44 3/12/2008 Before he was a legend, architect Frank Gehry takes a whistlestop tour of his early work, from his house in Venice Beach to the American Center in Paris, which was under construction (and much on his mind) N/A when he gave this talk. 0:44:38 3/13/2008 Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbinding eagerness, he talks about how his 826 Valencia tutoring TED2008 center inspired others around the 0:25:35 world to open 3/18/2008 People want to be religious, says scholar Karen Armstrong; we should act to help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help her build a Charter for Compassion -- to help restore TED2008 the Golden Rule as the central global 0:21:28 religious do 3/19/2008 Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, physicist Neil Turok speaks out for talented young Africans starved of opportunity: by unlocking and nurturing the continent's creative potential, we can create a change in Africa's TED2008 future. 0:24:50 3/20/2008 Architect Norman Foster discusses his own work to show how computers can help architects design buildings that are green, beautiful and "basically pollution-free." From the 2007 DLD Conference, Munich; DLD www.dld-conference.com 2007 0:31:57 3/24/2008 Neuroscientist and inventor Christopher deCharms demonstrates a new way to use fMRI to show brain activity -- thoughts, emotions, pain -- while it is happening. In other words, you can actually see how you TED2008 feel. 0:04:02 3/24/2008 Clifford Stoll captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides -- and even a science experiment. After all, by his own definition, he's a scientist: "Once I do something, TED2006 I want to do something else." 0:17:57 3/26/2008 Rokia Traore sings the moving "M'Bifo," accompanied on the n'goni, a lute-like Malian stringed instrument with a soulful timbre. A quietly mesmerizing performance. TEDGlobal 2007 0:06:59 3/27/2008 Mona Lisa has one of the best-known faces on the planet. But would you recognize an image of Leonardo da Vinci? Illustrator Siegfried Woldhek uses some thoughtful image-analysis techniques to find what TED2008 he believes is the true face of Leonardo. 0:04:24 4/1/2008 Filmmaker David Hoffman shares footage from his feature-length documentary Sputnik Mania, which shows how the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in 1957 led to both the space race and the arms race --TED2007 and jump-started science and math0:03:50 education around the w 4/2/2008 What would a music video look like if it were directed by the music, purely as an expression of a great song, rather than driven by a filmmaker's concept? Designer Jakob Trollback shares the results of his experiment TED2007 in the form. 0:04:00 4/3/2008 In keeping with the theme of TED2008, 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 TED2008 might go about answering them. 0:10:12 4/4/2008 In this brand-new slideshow (premiering on TED.com), Al Gore presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists recently predicted. He challenges us to act. TED2008 0:27:54 4/8/2008 Building sophisticated educational tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the $40 video game controller into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted TED2008 3-D viewer. 0:05:40 4/11/2008 Tod Machover of MIT's Media Lab is devoted to extending musical expression to everyone, from virtuosos to amateurs, and in the most diverse forms, from opera to video games. He and composer Dan Ellsey TED2008 shed light on what's next. 0:20:41 4/15/2008 Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization. TEDGlobal 2005 0:17:52 4/16/2008 Dr. Ernest Madu runs the Heart Institute of the Caribbean in Kingston, Jamaica, where he proves that -- with careful design, smart technical choices, and a true desire to serve -- it's possible to offer world-class TEDGlobal healthcare 2005 in the developing world. 0:16:43 4/17/2008 Physicist Brian Greene explains superstring theory, the idea that minscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe. TED2005 0:19:06 4/22/2008 Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, looking for hints of how hers evolved. TED2008 0:22:52 4/22/2008 "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 TED2008 project. 0:14:59 4/29/2008 In a very, very early-morning set, They Might Be Giants rock the final day of TED2007. TED2007 0:17:21 4/29/2008 Hector Ruiz, the executive chair of AMD, wants to give Internet access to everyone. In this talk, he shares his extraordinary life story and describes AMD's 50x15 initiative that calls for connecting 50 percentTEDGlobal of the world 2007 by 2015. 0:19:57 5/1/2008 Mycologist Paul Stamets lists 6 ways the mycelium fungus can help save the universe: cleaning polluted soil, making insecticides, treating smallpox and even flu ... TED2008 0:17:44 5/6/2008 Evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald drags us into the sewer to discuss germs. Why are some more harmful than others? How could we make the harmful ones benign? Searching for answers, he examines a disgusting, TED2007 fascinating case: diarrhea. 0:17:51 5/7/2008 Michael Moschen puts on a quietly mesmerizing show of juggling. Don't think juggling is an art? You might just change your mind after watching Moschen in motion. TED2002 0:37:02 5/8/2008 Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he's come up with an elegant machine that may TED2008 form a new bond between animal 0:10:06 and human. 5/13/2008 Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, talks about why -- though we want to know more about the world than ever -- the US media is actually showing less. Eye-opening stats and graphs. TED2008 0:04:29 5/14/2008 In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what's wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why EG07 it's putting the entire planet at risk.0:20:08 5/15/2008 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 TED2008 serious exploration and mapping. 0:18:19 Google Ocean, anyone? 5/20/2008 Designer Yves Behar digs up his creative roots to discuss some of the iconic objects he's created (the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset). Then he turns to the witty, surprising, elegant objects he's working on TED2008 now -- including the "$100 laptop."0:17:43 5/21/2008 Dr. Seyi Oyesola takes a searing look at health care in underdeveloped countries. His photo tour of a Nigerian teaching hospital -- all low-tech hacks and donated supplies -- drives home the challenge of doing TEDGlobal basic health 2007care there. 0:14:23 5/27/2008 Sculptor and engineer Arthur Ganson talks about his work -- kinetic art that explores deep philosophical ideas and is gee-whiz fun to look at. TED2002 0:15:44 5/27/2008 Around the world right now, one billion people are trapped in poor or failing countries. How can we help them? Economist Paul Collier lays out a bold, compassionate plan for closing the gap between rich and TED2008 poor. 0:16:51 5/28/2008 Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself TED2008 via technology -- and invents ways 0:19:28 to keep itself alive 6/3/2008 Nathan Myhrvold talks about a few of his latest fascinations -- animal photography, archeology, BBQ and generally being an eccentric genius multimillionaire. Listen for wild stories from the (somewhat raunchy) TED2007 edge of the animal world. 0:17:14 6/4/2008 Singer-songwriter Rokia Traore performs "Kounandi," a breathtaking song that blends Malian instruments with a modern, heartfelt vocal. Note: This song is not available for download. TEDGlobal 2007 0:06:26 6/5/2008 Anthropologist Wade Davis muses on the worldwide web of belief and ritual that makes us human. He shares breathtaking photos and stories of the Elder Brothers, a group of Sierra Nevada indians whose TED2008 spiritual practice holds the world in balance. 0:19:12 6/10/2008 After speaking at TED2007 on elegance in physics, the amazing Murray Gell-Mann gives a quick overview of another passionate interest: finding the common ancestry of our modern languages. TED2007 0:02:15 6/11/2008 Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics -- like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every TED2008 single day. 0:11:14 6/15/2008 Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer -- from its 16th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of some early computer engineers. TED2003 0:17:18 6/15/2008 Dean Ornish shares new research that shows how adopting healthy lifestyle habits can affect a person at a genetic level. For instance, he says, when you live healthier, eat better, exercise, and love more, your TED2008 brain cells actually increase. 0:03:12 6/16/2008 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 TED2002 learn from animals' tricks. 0:20:22 6/19/2008 Adam Grosser talks about a project to build a refrigerator that works without electricity -- to bring the vital tool to villages and clinics worldwide. Tweaking some old technology, he's come up with a system that TED2007 works. 0:03:31 6/23/2008 Steven Levitt shares data that shows car seats are no more effective than seatbelts in protecting kids from dying in cars. However, during the Q&A, he makes one crucial caveat. TEDGlobal 2005 0:18:58 6/24/2008 Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it -- and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections. TED2008 0:20:43 6/25/2008 Nicholas Negroponte talks about how One Laptop per Child is doing, two years in. Speaking at the EG conference while the first XO laptops roll off the production line, he recaps the controversies and recommits TED2008 to the goals of this far-reaching 0:16:40 project. 6/26/2008 Singer-songwriter Nellie McKay performs the semi-serious song "Clonie" -- about creating the ultimate companion. TED2008 0:02:20 6/27/2008 Composer Sxip Shirey makes music from the simple, dramatic act of breathing -- alone and together. Open your ears to a passionate 3 minutes. TED2008 0:03:06 6/30/2008 X Prize founder Peter Diamandis talks about how he helped Stephen Hawking fulfill his dream of going to space -- by flying together into the upper atmosphere and experiencing weightlessness at zero g. TED2008 0:04:01 6/30/2008 Photographer Rick Smolan tells the unforgettable story of a young Amerasian girl, a fateful photograph, and an adoption saga with a twist. EG07 0:25:07 7/2/2008 Guitarist and singer Raul Midon plays "Everybody" and "Peace on Earth" during his 2007 set at TED. TED2007 0:09:19 7/3/2008 Botanist Corneille Ewango talks about his work at the Okapi Faunal Reserve in the Congo Basin -- and his heroic work protecting it from poachers, miners and raging civil wars. TEDGlobal 2007 0:18:18 7/7/2008 Torsten Reil talks about how the study of biology can help make natural-looking animated people -- by building a human from the inside out, with bones, muscles and a nervous system. He spoke at TED in TED2003 2003; see his work now in GTA4. 0:18:20 7/8/2008 Nine days before TED2008, filmmaker David Hoffman lost almost everything he owned in a fire that destroyed his home, office and 30 years of passionate collecting. He looks back at a life that's been wiped TED2008 clean in an instant -- and looks forward. 0:04:00 7/9/2008 In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning. TEDGlobal 2005 0:20:46 7/10/2008 The wonderful Nellie McKay sings "Mother of Pearl" (with the immortal first line "Feminists don't have a sense of humor") and "If I Had You" from her sparkling set at TED2008. TED2008 0:05:34 7/11/2008 Physicist Freeman Dyson suggests that we start looking for life on the moons of Jupiter and out past Neptune, in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud. He talks about what such life would be like -- and how we TED2003 might find it. 0:19:11 7/14/2008 Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love, Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of people in TED2008 love -- and people who had just been 0:15:56 dumped. 7/15/2008 Speaking at TED in 1998, Rev. Billy Graham marvels at technology's power to improve lives and change the world -- but says the end of evil, suffering and death will come only after the world accepts Christ. TED1998 A legendary talk from TED's archives. 0:26:20 7/16/2008 Speaking at the most recent EG conference, author, philosopher, prankster and journalist A.J. Jacobs talks about the year he spent living biblically -- following the rules in the Bible as literally as possible. EG07 0:17:40 7/17/2008 First, Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies -- in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some jaw-dropping (and even a bit dangerous) feats of brain magic. TED2004 0:19:49 7/18/2008 In this short, image-packed talk, Marisa Fick-Jordan talks about how a village of traditional Zulu wire weavers built a worldwide market for their dazzling work. TEDGlobal 2007 0:02:33 7/21/2008 Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us TED2004 to become? 0:23:42 7/21/2008 Chris Abani tells stories of people: People standing up to soldiers. People being compassionate. People being human and reclaiming their humanity. It's "ubuntu," he says: the only way for me to be human is TED2008 for you to reflect my humanity back 0:16:14 at me. 7/22/2008 Louise Leakey asks, "Who are we?" The question takes her to the Rift Valley in Eastern Africa, where she digs for the evolutionary origins of humankind -- and suggests a stunning new vision of our competing TED2008 ancestors. 0:15:36 7/23/2008 At the EG conference in December 2007, artist Jonathan Harris discusses his latest projects, which involve collecting stories: his own, strangers', and stories collected from the Internet, including his amazing TED2007 "We Feel Fine." 0:20:29 7/24/2008 Reed Kroloff gives us a new lens for judging new architecture: is it modern, or is it romantic? Look for glorious images from two leading practices -- and a blistering critique of the 9/11 planning process. TED2003 0:15:21 7/28/2008 At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what's coming in the next 5,000 days? EG07 0:19:34 7/28/2008 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. TED2008 0:15:53 7/30/2008 Researcher Kwabena Boahen is looking for ways to mimic the brain's supercomputing powers in silicon -- because the messy, redundant processes inside our heads actually make for a small, light, superfast TEDGlobal computer. 2007 0:16:22 7/30/2008 After Robert Lang's talk on origami at TED2008, Bruno Bowden stepped onstage with a challenge -- he would fold one of Lang's astonishingly complicated origami figures, blindfolded, in under 2 minutes. He's TED2008 accompanied by the cellist Rufus0:02:58 Cappadocia. 8/1/2008 Physicist Patricia Burchat sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe: dark matter and dark energy. Comprising 96% of the universe between them, they can't be directly measured, but their influence TED2008 is immense. 0:16:09 8/17/2008 All humans share some common bits of DNA, passed down to us from our African ancestors. Geneticist Spencer Wells talks about how his Genographic Project will use this shared DNA to figure out how we TEDGlobal are -- in all 2007 our diversity -- truly connected. 0:20:53 8/18/2008 The photo director for National Geographic, David Griffin knows the power of photography to connect us to our world. In a talk filled with glorious images, he talks about how we all use photos to tell our stories. TED2008 0:14:53 8/19/2008 Like your uncle at a family party, the rumpled Swedish doctor Lennart Green says, "Pick a card, any card." But what he does with those cards is pure magic -- flabbergasting, lightning-fast, how-does-he-do-it? TED2005 magic. 0:31:08 8/20/2008 Speaking at the 2007 EG conference, trainer Ian Dunbar asks us to see the world through the eyes of our beloved dogs. By knowing our pets' perspective, we can build their love and trust. It's a message that EG07 resonates well beyond the animal0:14:46 world. 8/21/2008 Animal fan Nellie McKay sings a sparkling tribute to her dear dog. She suggests we all do the same: "Just go right to the pound/ And find yourself a hound/ And make that doggie proud/ 'cause that's what it's TED2008 all about." 0:03:33 8/22/2008 Imagine hearing great, departed pianists play again today, just as they would in person. John Q. Walker demonstrates how recordings can be analyzed for precise keystrokes and pedal motions, then played EG07 back on computer-controlled grand0:13:41 pianos. 8/26/2008 Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own -- and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children LIFT teach 2007 themselves? 0:20:59 8/27/2008 Ory Okolloh tells the story of her life and her family -- and how she came to do her heroic work reporting on the doings of Kenya's parliament. TEDGlobal 2007 0:16:38 8/28/2008 This whimsical wrap-up of TED2006 -- presented by Einstein, the African grey parrot, and her trainer, Stephanie White -- simply tickles. Watch for the moment when Einstein has a moment with Al Gore. TED2006 0:05:48 8/29/2008 In 2007, Paul Rothemund gave TED a short summary of his specialty, DNA folding. Now he lays out in clear, adundant detail the immense promise of this field -- to create tiny machines that assemble themselves. TED2008 0:16:24 9/2/2008 Peter Diamandis says it's our moral imperative to keep exploring space -- and he talks about how, with the X Prize and other incentives, we're going to do just that. TEDGlobal 2005 0:15:31 9/3/2008 In this absorbing look at emerging media and tech history, Peter Hirshberg shares some crucial lessons from Silicon Valley and explains why the web is so much more than "better TV." EG07 0:31:39 9/4/2008 Starting with four basic questions (that you may be surprised to find you can't answer), Jonathan Drori looks at the gaps in our knowledge -- and specifically, what we don't about science that we might think TED2007 we do. 0:12:28 9/5/2008 The legendary chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall talks about TACARE and her other community projects, which help people in booming African towns live side-by-side with threatened animals. TEDGlobal 2007 0:23:46 9/8/2008 The face of nuclear terror has changed since the Cold War, but disaster-medicine expert Irwin Redlener reminds us the threat is still real. He looks at some of history's farcical countermeasures and offers practical TED2008 advice on how to survive an attack. 0:25:18 9/9/2008 Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library -- every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history ... It's all free to the public -- unless someone else gets to it first. TED2007 0:20:06 9/10/2008 With vibrant video clips captured by submarines, David Gallo takes us to some of Earth's darkest, most violent, toxic and beautiful habitats, the valleys and volcanic ridges of the oceans' depths, where life isTED1998 bizarre, resilient and shockingly abundant. 0:13:20 9/11/2008 Storyteller Carmen Agra Deedy spins a funny, wise and luminous tale of parents and kids, starring her Cuban mother. Settle in and enjoy the ride -- Mama's driving! TED2005 0:23:34 9/12/2008 Keith Bellows gleefully outlines the engineering marvels of the camel, a vital creature he calls "the SUV of the desert." Though he couldn't bring a live camel to TED, he gets his camera crew as close as humanly TED2002 possible to a one-ton beast in full 0:16:06 rut. 9/15/2008 Speaking at the 2007 EG conference, "renegade lunch lady" Ann Cooper talks about the coming revolution in the way kids eat at school -- local, sustainable, seasonal and even educational food. EG07 0:19:42 9/16/2008
Speaker Name Short Summary Event Duration Publish date Jonathan Haidt The real difference between liberals and conservatives Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and TED2008 conservatives tend to honor most. 0:18:42 9/17/2008 Eve Ensler Security and insecurity Playwright Eve Ensler explores our modern craving for security -- and why it makes us less secure. Listen for inspiring, heartbreaking stories of women making change. TEDGlobal 2005 0:13:45 9/18/2008 David S. Rose 10 things to know before you pitch a VC for money Thinking startup? David S. Rose's rapid-fire TED U talk on pitching to a venture capitalist tells you the 10 things you need to know about yourself -- and prove to a VC -- before you fire up your slideshow. TED2007 0:14:39 9/19/2008 Marvin Minsky Health, population and the human mind Listen closely -- Marvin Minsky's arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety: wit, wisdom and just an ounce of wily, is-he-joking? advice. TED2003 0:13:33 9/22/2008 Philip Zimbardo How ordinary people become monsters ... or heroes Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials. Then he talks about the flip side: how easy it is to be a TED2008 hero, and how we can rise to the challenge. 0:23:16 9/23/2008 Laura Trice The power of saying thank you In this deceptively simple 3-minute talk, Dr. Laura Trice muses on the power of the magic words "thank you" -- to deepen a friendship, to repair a bond, to make sure another person knows what they mean to TED2008 you. Try it. 0:03:29 9/24/2008 Caleb Chung Come play with Pleo the dinosaur Pleo the robot dinosaur acts like a living pet -- exploring, cuddling, playing, reacting and learning. Inventor Caleb Chung talks about Pleo and his wild toy career at EG07, on the week that Pleo shipped to stores TED2007 for the first time. 0:18:27 9/25/2008 Steven Pinker Chalking it up to the blank slate Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate argues that all humans are born with some innate traits. Here, Pinker talks about his thesis, and why some people found it incredibly upsetting. TED2003 0:22:42 9/26/2008 Rodney Brooks How robots will invade our lives In this prophetic talk from 2003, roboticist Rodney Brooks talks about how robots are going to work their way into our lives -- starting with toys and moving into household chores ... and beyond. TED2003 0:18:47 9/29/2008 Stefan Sagmeister Things I have learned in my life so far Rockstar designer Stefan Sagmeister delivers a short, witty talk on life lessons, expressed through surprising modes of design (including ... inflatable monkeys?). TED2008 0:04:45 9/30/2008 Noah Feldman Politics and religion are technologies Noah Feldman makes a searing case that both politics and religion -- whatever their differences -- are similar technologies, designed to efficiently connect and manage any group of people. TED2003 0:15:07 10/1/2008 Liz Diller Architecture is a special effects machine In this engrossing EG talk, architect Liz Diller shares her firm DS+R's more unusual work, including the Blur Building, whose walls are made of fog, and the revamped Alice Tully Hall, which is wrapped in glowing EG07wooden skin. 0:19:24 10/2/2008 James Nachtwey Use my photographs to stop the worldwide XDR-TB epidemic Photojournalist James Nachtwey sees his TED Prize wish come true, as we share his powerful photographs of XDR-TB, a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis that's touching off a global medical crisis. Learn TED how Prize to help Wish at http://www.xdrtb.org0:05:52 10/3/2008 David Perry Will videogames become better than life? Game designer David Perry says tomorrow's videogames will be more than mere fun to the next generation of gamers. They'll be lush, complex, emotional experiences -- more involving and meaningful to some TED2006 than real life. 0:21:06 10/6/2008 Doris Kearns Goodwin Learning from past presidents in moments of crisis Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can learn from American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson. Then she shares a moving memory of her own father, and of theirTED2008 shared love of baseball. 0:18:48 10/7/2008 Steven Johnson The Web and the city Outside.in's Steven Johnson says the Web is like a city: built by many people, completely controlled by no one, intricately interconnected and yet functioning as many independent parts. While disaster strikes TED2003 in one place, elsewhere, life goes 0:16:30 on. 10/8/2008 James Burchfield Sound stylings by a human beatbox Human beatbox James "AudioPoet" Burchfield performs an intricate three-minute breakdown -- sexy, propulsive hip-hop rhythms and turntable textures -- all using only his voice. TED2003 0:04:44 10/10/2008 Garrett Lisi A beautiful new theory of everything Physicist and surfer Garrett Lisi presents a controversial new model of the universe that -- just maybe -- answers all the big questions. If nothing else, it's the most beautiful 8-dimensional model of elementary TED2008 particles and forces you've ever seen. 0:21:26 10/14/2008 Paola Antonelli Design and the elastic mind MOMA design curator Paola Antonelli previews the groundbreaking show "Design and the Elastic Mind" -- full of products and designs that reflect the way we think now. EG07 0:17:40 10/15/2008 Virginia Postrel The power of glamour In a timely talk, cultural critic Virginia Postrel muses on the true meaning, and the powerful uses, of glamour -- which she defines as any calculated, carefully polished image designed to impress and persuade. TED2004 0:16:15 10/16/2008 Dr. Dean Ornish Healing and other natural wonders Dean Ornish talks about simple, low-tech and low-cost ways to take advantage of the body's natural desire to heal itself. TED2004 0:16:49 10/17/2008 John Hodgman A brief digression on matters of lost time 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. TED2008 0:16:40 10/21/2008 Paul MacCready Nature vs. humans, and what we can do about it In 1998, aircraft designer Paul MacCready looks at a planet on which humans have utterly dominated nature, and talks about what we all can do to preserve nature's balance. His contribution: solar planes, superefficient TED1998 gliders and the electric 0:22:48 car. 10/22/2008 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Creativity, fulfillment and flow Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow." TED2004 0:18:55 10/23/2008 Kristen Ashburn Heartrending pictures of AIDS In this moving talk, documentary photographer Kristen Ashburn shares unforgettable images of the human impact of AIDS in Africa. TED2003 0:04:37 10/24/2008 Jared Diamond Why societies collapse Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about the signs that collapse is near, and how -- if we see TED2003 it in time -- we can prevent it. 0:18:21 10/27/2008 Rives A 3-minute story of mixed emoticons Rives tells a typographical fairy tale that's short and bittersweet ;) TED2008 0:03:17 10/28/2008 Keith Schacht, Zach Kaplan Products (and toys) from the future The Inventables guys, Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht, demo some amazing new materials and how we might use them. Look for squishy magnets, odor-detecting ink, "dry" liquid and a very surprising 10-foot TED2005 pole. 0:15:46 10/30/2008 Newton Aduaka The story of Ezra, a child soldier Filmmaker Newton Aduaka shows clips from his powerful, lyrical feature film "Ezra," about a child soldier in Sierra Leone. TEDGlobal 2007 0:18:44 10/31/2008 Graham Hawkes Fly the seas on a submarine with wings Graham Hawkes takes us aboard his graceful, winged submarines to the depths of planet Ocean (a.k.a. "Earth"). It's a deep blue world we landlubbers rarely see in 3D. TED2005 0:12:11 11/3/2008 James Surowiecki The moment when social media became the news James Surowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering: the 2005 tsunami, when YouTube video, blogs, IMs and txts carried the news -- and preserved TED2005 moving personal stories from 0:16:59 the tragedy. 11/4/2008 John Francis I walk the Earth For almost three decades, John Francis has been a planetwalker, traveling the globe by foot and sail with a message of environmental respect and responsibility (for 17 of those years without speaking). A funny, TED2008 thoughtful talk with occasional 0:19:24 banjo. 11/5/2008 Tim Brown The powerful link between creativity and play At the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play -- with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn't). Art Center Design Conference 2008: 0:27:58 Serious Play 11/6/2008 Luca Turin The science of scent What's the science behind a sublime perfume? With charm and precision, biophysicist Luca Turin explains the molecular makeup -- and the art -- of a scent. TED2005 0:15:53 11/7/2008 Lee Smolin How science is like democracy Physicist Lee Smolin talks about how the scientific community works: as he puts it, "we fight and argue as hard as we can," but everyone accepts that the next generation of scientists will decide who's right.TED2003 And, he says, that's how democracy 0:12:25 works, too. 11/10/2008 Samantha Power Shaking hands with the devil Samantha Power tells a story of a complicated hero, Sergio Vieira de Mello. This UN diplomat walked a thin moral line, negotiating with the world's worst dictators to help their people survive crisis. It's a compelling TED2008 story told with a fiery passion. 0:23:09 11/11/2008 Charles Elachi The story of the Mars Rovers At Serious Play 2008, Charles Elachi shares stories from NASA's legendary Jet Propulsion Lab -- including tales and video from the Mars Rover project. Art Center Design Conference 2008: 0:28:17 Serious Play 11/12/2008 Ursus Wehrli Tidying up art Ursus Wehrli shares his vision for a cleaner, more organized, tidier form of art -- by deconstructing the paintings of modern masters into their component pieces, sorted by color and size. TED2006 0:15:57 11/13/2008 Stewart Brand Building a home for the Clock of the Long Now Stewart Brand works on the Clock of the Long Now, a timepiece that counts down the next 10,000 years. It's a beautiful project that asks us to think about the far, far future. Here, he discusses a tricky side problem TED2004 with the Clock: Where can we 0:23:23 put it? 11/17/2008 Isaac Mizrahi Fashion, passion, and about a million other things Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi spins through a dizzying array of inspirations -- from '50s pinups to a fleeting glimpse of a hole in a shirt that makes him shout "Stop the cab!" Inside this rambling talk are realTED2008 clues to living a happy, creative life. 0:14:16 11/18/2008 Franco Sacchi Welcome to Nollywood Zambia-born filmmaker Franco Sacchi tours us through Nollywood, Nigeria's booming film industry (the world's 3rd largest). Guerrilla filmmaking and brilliance under pressure from crews that can shoot a full-length TEDGlobal feature 2007 in a week. 0:17:34 11/19/2008 George Smoot The design of the universe At Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep-space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos -- with its giant webs of dark matter and mysterious gaping Artvoids Center -- got Design builtConference this way. 2008: 0:19:00 Serious Play 11/20/2008 Dan Barber A surprising parable of foie gras At the Taste3 conference, chef Dan Barber tells the story of a small farm in Spain that has found a humane way to produce foie gras. Raising his geese in a natural environment, farmer Eduardo Sousa embodies Taste3 the 2008 kind of food production Barber 0:20:24 believes in. 11/24/2008 Bill Joy What I'm worried about, what I'm excited about Technologist and futurist Bill Joy talks about several big worries for humanity -- and several big hopes in the fields of health, education and future tech. TED2006 0:19:02 11/24/2008 Andy Hobsbawm Do the green thing Andy Hobsbawm shares a fresh ad campaign about going green -- and some of the fringe benefits. TED2008 0:03:22 11/26/2008 Gregory Petsko The coming neurological epidemic Biochemist Gregory Petsko makes a convincing argument that, in the next 50 years, we'll see an epidemic of neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer's, as the world population ages. His solution: more research TED2008 into the brain and its functions. 0:03:47 11/30/2008 Richard Preston Climbing the world's biggest trees Science writer Richard Preston talks about some of the most enormous living beings on the planet, the giant trees of the US Pacific Northwest. Growing from a tiny seed, they support vast ecosystems -- and TED2008 are still, largely, a mystery. 0:19:31 12/2/2008 Philip Rosedale Second Life, where anything is possible Why build a virtual world? Philip Rosedale talks about the virtual society he founded, Second Life, and its underpinnings in human creativity. It's a place so different that anything could happen. Art Center Design Conference 2008: 0:28:31 Serious Play 12/3/2008 Larry Burns Reinventing the car General Motors veep Larry Burns previews cool next-gen car design: sleek, customizable (and computer-enhanced) vehicles that run clean on hydrogen -- and pump energy back into the electrical grid when TED2005 they're idle. 0:09:12 12/4/2008 Nick Sears Presenting the Orb Inventor Nick Sears demos the first generation of the Orb, a rotating persistence-of-vision display that creates glowing 3D images. A short, cool tale of invention. TED2007 0:03:58 12/5/2008 David Holt The stories and song of Appalachia Folk musician and storyteller David Holt plays the banjo and shares photographs and old wisdom from the Appalachian Mountains. He also demonstrates some unusual instruments like the mouth bow -- and TED2004 a surprising electric drum kit he calls 0:25:17 "thunderwear." 12/7/2008 Eva Zeisel The playful search for beauty The ceramics designer Eva Zeisel looks back on a 75-year career. What keeps her work as fresh today (her latest line debuted in 2008) as in 1926? Her sense of play and beauty, and her drive for adventure. TED2001 Listen for stories from a rich, colorful 0:18:09 life. 12/9/2008 Dennis vanEngelsdorp Where have the bees gone? Bees are dying in droves. Why? Leading apiarist Dennis vanEngelsdorp looks at the gentle, misunderstood creature's important place in nature and the mystery behind its alarming disappearance. Taste3 2008 0:16:28 12/10/2008 Jay Walker A library of human imagination Jay Walker, curator of the Library of Human Imagination, conducts a surprising show-and-tell session highlighting a few of the intriguing artifacts that backdropped the 2008 TED stage. TED2008 0:07:09 12/14/2008 Dan Gilbert Exploring the frontiers of happiness Dan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness -- sharing some surprising tests and experiments that you can also try on yourself. Watch through to the end for a sparkling Q&A with TEDGlobal some familiar 2005 TED faces. 0:33:38 12/16/2008 Benjamin Wallace Does happiness have a price tag? Can happiness be bought? To find out, author Benjamin Wallace sampled the world's most expensive products, including a bottle of 1947 Chateau Cheval Blanc, 8 ounces of Kobe beef and the fabled (notorious) Taste3Kopi 2008 Luwak coffee. His critique 0:14:40 may surprise you. 12/17/2008 Penelope Boston Life on Mars? Let's look in the caves So the Mars Rovers didn't scoop up any alien lifeforms. Scientist Penelope Boston thinks there's a good chance -- a 25 to 50 percent chance, in fact -- that life might exist on Mars, deep inside the planet's caves. TED2006 She details how we should look 0:18:29 and why. 12/17/2008 Nicholas Negroponte Bringing One Laptop per Child to Colombia: TED in the Field TED follows Nicholas Negroponte to Colombia as he delivers laptops inside territory once controlled by guerrillas. His partner? Colombia's Defense Department, who see One Laptop per Child as an investment TED in in the the region. Field (And you too can 0:06:48 get involved.) 12/22/2008 Steven Strogatz How things in nature tend to sync up Mathematician Steven Strogatz shows how flocks of creatures (like birds, fireflies and fish) manage to synchronize and act as a unit -- when no one's giving orders. The powerful tendency extends into the realm TED2004 of objects, too. 0:21:58 12/22/2008 Jennifer 8. Lee Who was General Tso? and other mysteries of American Chinese food Reporter Jennifer 8. Lee talks about her hunt for the origins of familiar Chinese-American dishes -- exploring the hidden spots where these two cultures have (so tastily) combined to form a new cuisine. Taste3 2008 0:16:38 12/24/2008 Kary Mullis Celebrating the scientific experiment Biochemist Kary Mullis talks about the basis of modern science: the experiment. Sharing tales from the 17th century and from his own backyard-rocketry days, Mullis celebrates the curiosity, inspiration and TED2002 rigor of good science in all its forms.0:29:32 1/5/2009 John Maeda My journey in design, from tofu to RISD Designer John Maeda talks about his path from a Seattle tofu factory to the Rhode Island School of Design, where he became president in 2008. Maeda, a tireless experimenter and a witty observer, explores Artthe Center crucial Design moment Conference when design 2008: met 0:17:06 Serious computers. Play 1/6/2009 Paul Sereno What can fossils teach us? Strange landscapes, scorching heat and (sometimes) mad crocodiles await scientists seeking clues to evolution's genius. Paleontologist Paul Sereno talks about his surprising encounters with prehistory -- and TED2005 a new way to help students join the 0:21:46 adventure. 1/7/2009 Paul Moller Take a ride in the Skycar Paul Moller talks about the future of personal air travel -- the marriage of autos and flight that will give us true freedom to travel off-road. He shows two things he's working on: the Moller Skycar (a jet + car) and TED2004 a passenger-friendly hovering disc. 0:15:39 1/8/2009 Greg Lynn How calculus is changing architecture Greg Lynn talks about the mathematical roots of architecture -- and how calculus and digital tools allow modern designers to move beyond the traditional building forms. A glorious church in Queens (and a titanium TED2005 tea set) illustrate his theory. 0:18:54 1/9/2009 Rob Forbes Ways of seeing Rob Forbes, the founder of Design Within Reach, shows a gallery of snapshots that inform his way of seeing the world. Charming juxtapositions, found art, urban patterns -- this slideshow will open your eyes TED2006 to the world around you. 0:15:37 1/12/2009 Scott McCloud Understanding comics In this unmissable look at the magic of comics, Scott McCloud bends the presentation format into a cartoon-like experience, where colorful diversions whiz through childhood fascinations and imagined futures TED2005 that our eyes can hear and touch.0:17:08 1/13/2009 Peter Reinhart The art of baking bread Batch to batch, crust to crust ... In tribute to the beloved staple food, baking master Peter Reinhart reflects on the cordial couplings (wheat and yeast, starch and heat) that give us our daily bread. Try not to eat Taste3 a slice. 2008 0:15:34 1/14/2009 Joseph Pine What do consumers really want? Customers want to feel what they buy is authentic, but "Mass Customization" author Joseph Pine says selling authenticity is tough because, well, there's no such thing. He talks about a few experiences thatTED2004 may be artificial but make millions anyway. 0:14:19 1/15/2009 Paula Scher Great design is serious (not solemn) Paula Scher looks back at a life in design (she's done album covers, books, the Citibank logo ...) and pinpoints the moment when she started really having fun. Look for gorgeous designs and images from her Artlegendary Center Design career. Conference 2008: 0:21:56 Serious Play 1/16/2009 David Carson Design, discovery and humor Great design is a never-ending journey of discovery -- for which it helps to pack a healthy sense of humor. Sociologist and surfer-turned-designer David Carson walks through a gorgeous (and often quite funny) TED2003 slide deck of his work and found 0:22:39 images. 1/19/2009 Jamais Cascio Tools for building a better world We all want to make the world better -- but how? Jamais Cascio looks at some specific tools and techniques that can make a difference. It's a fascinating talk that might just inspire you to act. TED2006 0:16:15 1/21/2009 Barry Schuler An introduction to genomics What is genomics? How will it affect our lives? In this intriguing primer on the genomics revolution, entrepreneur Barry Schuler says we can at least expect healthier, tastier food. He suggests we start with the Taste3 pinot 2008 noir grape, to build better wines. 0:21:26 1/22/2009 Sherwin Nuland A meditation on hope Surgeon and writer Sherwin Nuland meditates on the idea of hope -- the desire to become our better selves and make a better world. It's a thoughtful 12 minutes that will help you focus on the road ahead. TED2003 0:12:36 1/23/2009 Woody Norris Inventing the next amazing thing Woody Norris shows off two of his inventions that treat sound in new ways, and talks about his untraditional approach to inventing and education. As he puts it: "Almost nothing has been invented yet." So -- TED2004 what's next? 0:13:49 1/26/2009 Peter Ward Earth's mass extinctions Asteroid strikes get all the coverage, but "Medea Hypothesis" author Peter Ward argues that most of Earth's mass extinctions were caused by lowly bacteria. The culprit, a poison called hydrogen sulfide, may TED2008 have an interesting application in 0:19:41 medicine. 1/27/2009 Aimee Mullins Running on high-tech legs In this TED archive video from 1998, paralympic sprinter Aimee Mullins talks about her record-setting career as a runner, and about the amazing carbon-fiber prosthetic legs (then a prototype) that helped her TED1998 cross the finish line. 0:20:43 1/28/2009 Joe DeRisi Hunting the next killer virus Biochemist Joe DeRisi talks about amazing new ways to diagnose viruses (and treat the illnesses they cause) using DNA. His work may help us understand malaria, SARS, avian flu -- and the 60 percent ofTED2006 everyday viral infections that go undiagnosed. 0:16:05 1/29/2009 Natalie MacMaster Playing the Cape Breton fiddle Natalie MacMaster and her musical partner Donnell Leahy play several tunes from the Cape Breton tradition -- a sprightly, soulful style of folk fiddling. It's an inspired collaboration that will have you clappingTED2003 (and maybe dancing) along. 0:18:47 1/30/2009 Bill Gross Great ideas for finding new energy Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab, talks about his life as an inventor, starting with his high-school company selling solar energy plans and kits. Learn here about a groundbreaking system for solar cells -- and TED2003 some questions we haven't yet solved. 0:19:55 2/2/2009 Bill Gates How I'm trying to change the world now Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world's biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer TED2009 them. (And see the Q&A on the 0:20:16 TED Blog.) 2/5/2009 Elizabeth Gilbert A different way to think about creative genius Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal TED2009 and surprisingly moving talk. 0:19:28 2/9/2009 Milton Glaser How great design makes ideas new From the TED archives: The legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser dives deep into a new painting inspired by Piero della Francesca. From here, he muses on what makes a convincing poster, by breaking TED1998 down an idea and making it new. 0:15:14 2/11/2009 David Merrill Siftables, the toy blocks that think MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the TED2009 next thing in hands-on learning? 0:07:09 2/12/2009 Barry Schwartz The real crisis? We stopped being wise Barry Schwartz makes a passionate call for "practical wisdom" as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. He argues powerfully that rules often fail us, incentives often backfire, and practical, everyday TED2009 wisdom will help rebuild our 0:20:45 world. 2/16/2009 Juan Enriquez Beyond the crisis, mindboggling science and the arrival of Homo evolutis Even as mega-banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reboot is yet to come. But don't look for it on your ballot -- or in the stock exchange. It'll come from science labs, and it promises keener bodies and minds. TED2009 Our kids are going to be ... different. 0:18:50 2/17/2009 Jose Antonio Abreu Help me bring music to kids worldwide (TED Prize winner!) Jose Antonio Abreu is the charismatic founder of a youth orchestra system that has transformed thousands of kids' lives in Venezuela. Here he shares his amazing story and unveils a TED Prize wish that could TED2009 have a big impact in the US and 0:16:58 beyond. 2/18/2009 Gustavo Dudamel and the Teresa ACarreo musical sensation Youth Orchestra from Venezuela The Teresa Carreo Youth Orchestra contains the best high school musicians from Venezuela's life-changing music program, El Sistema. Led here by Gustavo Dudamel, they play Shostakovich's Symphony TED2009 No. 10, 2nd movement, and Arturo 0:17:06 Mrquez' Danzn No. 2. 2/18/2009 Sylvia Earle Here's how to protect the blue heart of the planet (TED Prize winner!) Legendary ocean researcher Sylvia Earle shares astonishing images of the ocean -- and shocking stats about its rapid decline -- as she makes her TED Prize wish: that we will join her in protecting the vital TED2009 blue heart of the planet. 0:18:16 2/19/2009 Jill Tarter Why the search for alien intelligence matters (TED Prize winner!) The SETI Institute's Jill Tarter makes her TED Prize wish: to accelerate our search for cosmic company. Using a growing array of radio telescopes, she and her team listen for patterns that may be a sign of TED2009 intelligence elsewhere in the universe. 0:21:23 2/20/2009 Ed Ulbrich How Benjamin Button got his face Ed Ulbrich, the digital-effects guru from Digital Domain, explains the Oscar-winning technology that allowed his team to digitally create the older versions of Brad Pitt's face for "The Curious Case of Benjamin TED2009 Button." 0:18:07 2/23/2009 Charles Moore Sailing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the growing, choking TED2009 problem of plastic debris in our0:07:20 seas. 2/24/2009 Richard Pyle Exploring the reef's Twilight Zone In this illuminating talk, Richard Pyle shows us thriving life on the cliffs of coral reefs and groundbreaking diving technologies he has pioneered to explore it. He and his team risk everything to reveal the secrets TED2004 of undiscovered species. 0:16:48 2/25/2009 Miru Kim Making art of New York's urban ruins At the 2008 EG Conference, artist Miru Kim talks about her work. Kim explores industrial ruins underneath New York and then photographs herself in them, nude -- to bring these massive, dangerous, hidden EG08 spaces into sharp focus. 0:14:30 2/26/2009 Evan Williams How Twitter's spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses In the year leading up to this talk, the web tool Twitter exploded in size (up 10x during 2008 alone). Co-founder Evan Williams reveals that many of the ideas driving that growth came from unexpected uses TED2009 invented by the users themselves. 0:08:00 2/27/2009 Brenda Laurel Why didn't girls play videogames? A TED archive gem. At TED in 1998, Brenda Laurel asks: Why are all the top-selling videogames aimed at little boys? She spent two years researching the world of girls (and shares amazing interviews andTED1998 photos) to create a game that girls would 0:13:08 love. 3/2/2009 Willie Smits A 20-year tale of hope: How we re-grew a rainforest By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re-grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans -- and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile TED2009 ecosystems. 0:20:42 3/3/2009 Nalini Nadkarni Unveiling the beautiful, fragile world of rainforest treetop ecosystems A unique ecosystem of plants, birds and monkeys thrives in the treetops of the rainforest. Nalini Nadkarni explores these canopy worlds -- and shares her findings with the world below, through dance, art and TED2009 bold partnerships. 0:16:30 3/4/2009
Speaker Mike Rowe Eric Lewis Don Norman Pattie Maes, Pranav Mistry Aimee Mullins Stuart Brown Tim Berners-Lee Dan Dennett Dan Ariely Adam Savage Bruce McCall Kamal Meattle Saul Griffith Jacqueline Novogratz David Pogue John Wooden Nathan Wolfe C.K. Williams Jacek Utko Ueli Gegenschatz Christopher C. Deam P.W. Singer Nathaniel Kahn Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Bonnie Bassler Emily Levine Renny Gleeson Shai Agassi Gregory Stock JoAnn Kuchera-Morin Tim Ferriss Matthew Childs Margaret Wertheim Niels Diffrient Erik Hersman Ben Katchor Nate Silver Alex Tabarrok Michael Merzenich Sarah Jones Laurie Garrett Brian Cox Sean Gourley Mae Jemison Tom Shannon Al Gore Louise Fresco Seth Godin Eric Lewis Hans Rosling Nandan Nilekani Naturally 7 Ray Anderson Dan Ariely Mary Roach Carolyn Porco Yves Behar Joachim de Posada Jay Walker Michelle Obama Jonathan Drori Kaki King Liz Coleman Ray Kurzweil Yann Arthus-Bertrand Felix Dennis Pete Alcorn Kevin Surace John La Grou Nancy Etcoff Robert Full Richard St. John Jane Poynter Clay Shirky Diane Benscoter Catherine Mohr Qi Zhang Philip Zimbardo Paul Collier Katherine Fulton Ray Zahab Arthur Benjamin Gever Tulley Daniel Libeskind Eames Demetrios Tom Wujec Sophal Ear Kary Mullis Stewart Brand Olafur Eliasson Daniel Kraft Jim Fallon Nina Jablonski Gordon Brown Alain de Botton Golan Levin Elaine Morgan Willard Wigan
Name Celebrating work -- all kinds of work Striking chords to rock the jazz world The three ways that good design makes you happy Unveiling the "Sixth Sense," game-changing wearable tech How my legs give me super-powers Why play is vital -- no matter your age The next Web of open, linked data Cute, sexy, sweet and funny -- an evolutionary riddle Why we think it's OK to cheat and steal (sometimes) My quest for the dodo bird, and other obsessions Nostalgia for a future that never happened How to grow your own fresh air Inventing a super-kite to tap the energy of high-altitude wind From a Nairobi slum, a tale of hope Cool new things you can do with your mobile phone Coaching for people, not points Hunting the next killer virus Poetry for all seasons of life Can design save the newspaper? Fulfilling the dream of flight in a high-tech wingsuit Restyling the classic Airstream trailer Military robots and the future of war My father, my architect Three predictions on the future of Iran, and the math to back it up Discovering bacteria's amazing communication system A trickster's theory of everything Busted! The sneaky moves of anti-social smartphone users A bold plan for mass adoption of electric cars How biotech will drive our evolution Tour the AlloSphere, a stunning new way to see scientific data How to feel like the Incredible Hulk Matthew Childs' 9 life lessons from rock climbing Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral Niels Diffrient rethinks the way we sit down Erik Hersman on reporting crisis via texting Ben Katchor's comics of bygone New York Nate Silver: Does race affect votes? Alex Tabarrok on how ideas trump crises Michael Merzenich on re-wiring the brain Sarah Jones as a one-woman global village Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu Brian Cox: What went wrong at the LHC Sean Gourley on the mathematics of war Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together Tom Shannon's anti-gravity sculpture Al Gore warns on latest climate trends Louise Fresco on feeding the whole world Seth Godin on the tribes we lead Eric Lewis plays chaos and harmony Hans Rosling on HIV: New facts and stunning data visuals Nandan Nilekani's ideas for India's future Naturally 7 beatboxes a whole band Ray Anderson on the business logic of sustainability Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions? Mary Roach: 10 things you didn't know about orgasm Carolyn Porco: Could a Saturn moon harbor life? Yves Behar's supercharged motorcycle design Joachim de Posada says, Don't eat the marshmallow yet Jay Walker on the world's English mania Michelle Obama's plea for education Jonathan Drori: Why we're storing billions of seeds Kaki King rocks out to "Pink Noise" Liz Coleman's call to reinvent liberal arts education Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularity Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle Publisher Felix Dennis' odes to vice and consequences Pete Alcorn on the world in 2200 Kevin Surace invents eco-friendly drywall John La Grou plugs smart power outlets Nancy Etcoff on the surprising science of happiness Robert Full: Learning from the gecko's tail Richard St. John: "Success is a continuous journey" Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2 Clay Shirky: How social media can make history Diane Benscoter on how cults rewire the brain Catherine Mohr: Surgery's past, present and robotic future Qi Zhang's electrifying organ performance Philip Zimbardo prescribes a healthy take on time Paul Collier's new rules for rebuilding a broken nation Katherine Fulton: You are the future of philanthropy Ray Zahab treks to the South Pole Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education Gever Tulley teaches life lessons through tinkering Daniel Libeskind's 17 words of architectural inspiration The design genius of Charles + Ray Eames Tom Wujec on 3 ways the brain creates meaning Sophal Ear: Escaping the Khmer Rouge Kary Mullis' next-gen cure for killer infections Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental 'heresies' Olafur Eliasson: Playing with space and light Daniel Kraft invents a better way to harvest bone marrow Jim Fallon: Exploring the mind of a killer Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin color Gordon Brown: Wiring a web for global good Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success Golan Levin makes art that looks back at you Elaine Morgan says we evolved from aquatic apes Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculpture
Short Summary Event Duration Publish date Mike Rowe, the host of "Dirty Jobs," tells some compelling (and horrifying) real-life job stories. Listen for his insights and observations about the nature of hard work, and how it's been unjustifiably degraded EG08 in society today. 0:20:02 3/5/2009 Eric Lewis, an astonishingly talented crossover jazz pianist -- seen by many for the first time at TED2009 -- sets fire to the keys with his shattering rendition of Evanescence's chart-topper, "Going Under." TED2009 0:10:36 3/6/2009 In this talk from 2003, design critic Don Norman turns his incisive eye toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion, as he looks at design that makes people happy. He names the three emotional cues that a well-designed TED2003 product must hit to succeed. 0:12:41 3/9/2009 This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine TED2009 "Minority Report" and then some. 0:08:42 3/10/2009 Athlete, actor and activist Aimee Mullins talks about her prosthetic legs -- she's got a dozen amazing pairs -- and the superpowers they grant her: speed, beauty, an extra 6 inches of height ... Quite simply, she TED2009 redefines what the body can be. 0:09:58 3/11/2009 A pioneer in research on play, Dr. Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults -- and keeping it upArt can Center make Design us smarter Conference at any age. 2008: 0:26:42 Serious Play 3/12/2009 20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our TED2009 data and reframe the way we use it 0:16:23 together. 3/13/2009 Why are babies cute? Why is cake sweet? Philosopher Dan Dennett has answers you wouldn't expect, as he shares evolution's counterintuitive reasoning on cute, sweet and sexy things (plus a new theory TED2009 from Matthew Hurley on why jokes are 0:07:45 funny). 3/16/2009 Behavioral economist Dan Ariely studies the bugs in our moral code: the hidden reasons we think it's OK to cheat or steal (sometimes). Clever studies help make his point that we're predictably irrational -- and TED2009 can be influenced in ways we can't 0:16:23 grasp. 3/17/2009 At EG'08, Adam Savage talks about his fascination with the dodo bird, and how it led him on a strange and surprising double quest. It's an entertaining adventure through the mind of a creative obsessive. EG08 0:15:38 3/18/2009 Bruce McCall paints a future that never happened -- full of flying cars, polo-playing tanks and the RMS Tyrannic, "The Biggest Thing in All the World." At Serious Play '08, he narrates a brisk and funny slideshow Art Center of hisDesign faux-nostalgic Conference art. 2008: 0:13:01 Serious Play 3/19/2009 Researcher Kamal Meattle shows how an arrangement of three common houseplants, used in specific spots in a home or office building, can result in measurably cleaner indoor air. TED2009 0:04:04 3/20/2009 In this brief talk, Saul Griffith unveils the invention his new company Makani Power has been working on: giant kite turbines that create surprising amounts of clean, renewable energy. TED2009 0:05:25 3/23/2009 Jacqueline Novogratz tells a moving story of an encounter in a Nairobi slum with Jane, a former prostitute, whose dreams of escaping poverty, of becoming a doctor and of getting married were fulfilled in an TED2009 unexpected way. 0:07:30 3/24/2009 In this engaging talk from the EG'08 conference, New York Times tech columnist David Pogue rounds up some handy cell phone tools and services that can boost your productivity and lower your bills (and EG08 your blood pressure). 0:27:03 3/25/2009 With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. In this inspiring talk he shares the advice he gave his players at UCLA, quotes poetry and remembers TED2001 his father's wisdom. 0:17:36 3/26/2009 Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe is outwitting the next pandemic by staying two steps ahead: discovering deadly new viruses where they first emerge -- passing from animals to humans among poor subsistence hunters TED2009 in Africa -- before they claim 0:12:20 millions of lives. 3/26/2009 Poet C.K. Williams reads his work at TED2001. As he colors scenes of childhood resentments, college loves, odd neighbors and the literal death of youth, he reminds us of the unique challenges of living. TED2001 0:23:17 3/30/2009 Jacek Utko is an extraordinary Polish newspaper designer whose redesigns for papers in Eastern Europe not only win awards, but increase circulation by up to 100%. Can good design save the newspaper? TED2009 It just might. 0:06:05 3/31/2009 Wingsuit jumping is the leading edge of extreme sports -- an exhilarating feat of almost unbelievable daring, where skydivers soar through canyons at over 100MPH. Ueli Gegenschatz talks about how (and TED2009 why) he does it, and shows jawdropping 0:12:13 film. 4/1/2009 In this low-key, image-packed talk from 2002, designer Christopher C. Deam talks about his makeover of an American classic: the Airstream travel trailer. TED2002 0:06:21 4/2/2009 In this powerful talk, P.W. Singer shows how the widespread use of robots in war is changing the realities of combat. He shows us scenarios straight out of science fiction -- that now may not be so fictitious.TED2009 0:16:05 4/3/2009 Nathaniel Kahn shares clips from his documentary "My Architect," about his quest to understand his father, the legendary architect Louis Kahn. It's a film with meaning to anyone who seeks to understand the TED2002 relationship between art and love. 0:10:27 4/6/2009 Bruce Bueno de Mesquita uses mathematical analysis to predict (very often correctly) such messy human events as war, political power shifts, Intifada ... After a crisp explanation of how he does it, he offers TED2009 three predictions on the future of Iran. 0:19:05 4/7/2009 Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria "talk" to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning implications for medicine, industry -- and TED2009 our understanding of ourselves. 0:18:14 4/8/2009 Philosopher-comedian Emily Levine talks (hilariously) about science, math, society and the way everything connects. She's a brilliant trickster, poking holes in our fixed ideas and bringing hidden truths to light. TED2002 Settle in and let her ping your brain. 0:22:52 4/9/2009 In this funny (and actually poignant) 3-minute talk, social strategist Renny Gleeson breaks down our always-on social world -- where the experience we're having right now is less interesting than what we'll tweet TED2009 about it later. 0:03:46 4/10/2009 Forget about the hybrid auto -- Shai Agassi says it's electric cars or bust if we want to impact emissions. His company, Better Place, has a radical plan to take entire countries oil-free by 2020. TED2009 0:18:06 4/13/2009 In this prophetic 2003 talk -- just days before Dolly the sheep was stuffed -- biotech ethicist Gregory Stock looked forward to new, more meaningful (and controversial) technologies, like customizable babies, TED2003 whose adoption might drive human0:17:51 evolution. 4/14/2009 JoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, an entirely new way to see and interpret scientific data, in full color and surround sound inside a massive metal sphere. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear TED2009 the music of the elements ... 0:06:27 4/15/2009 Productivity guru Tim Ferriss' fun, encouraging anecdotes show how one simple question -- "What's the worst that could happen?" -- is all you need to learn to do anything. EG 2008 0:16:25 4/15/2009 In this talk from TED University 2009, veteran rock climber Matthew Childs shares nine pointers for rock climbing. These handy tips bear on an effective life at sea level, too. TED2009 0:04:48 4/17/2009 Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician -- celebrating the amazements of the reef, and deep-diving into the hyperbolic TED2009 geometry underlying coral creation. 0:15:33 4/20/2009 Design legend Niels Diffrient talks about his life in industrial design (and the reason he became a designer instead of a jet pilot). He details his quest to completely rethink the office chair starting from one fundamental TED2002 data set: the human body. 0:17:20 4/21/2009 At TEDU 2009, Erik Hersman presents the remarkable story of Ushahidi, a GoogleMap mashup that allowed Kenyans to report and track violence via cell phone texts following the 2008 elections, and has evolved TED2009 to continue saving lives in other 0:03:56 countries. 4/22/2009 In this captivating talk from the TED archive, cartoonist Ben Katchor reads from his comic strips. These perceptive, surreal stories find the profound hopes and foibles of history (and modern New York) preserved TED2002 in objects like light switches and 0:11:11 signs. 4/22/2009 Nate Silver has answers to controversial questions about race in politics: Did Obama's race hurt his votes in some places? Stats and myths collide in this fascinating talk that ends with a remarkable insight on TED2009 how town planning can promote tolerance. 0:09:16 4/22/2009 The "dismal science" truly shines in this optimistic talk, as economist Alex Tabarrok argues free trade and globalization are shaping our once-divided world into a community of idea-sharing more healthy, happy TED2009 and prosperous than anyone's predictions. 0:14:33 4/27/2009 Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich looks at one of the secrets of the brain's incredible power: its ability to actively re-wire itself. He's researching ways to harness the brain's plasticity to enhance our skills and TED2004 recover lost function. 0:23:07 4/28/2009 In this hilariously lively performance, actress Sarah Jones channels an opinionated elderly Jewish woman, a fast-talking Dominican college student and more, giving TED2009 just a sample of her spectacular TED2009 character range. 0:21:00 4/29/2009 In 2007, as the world worried about a possible avian flu epidemic, Laurie Garrett, author of "The Coming Plague," gave this powerful talk to a small TED University audience. Her insights from past pandemics TED2007 are suddenly more relevant than ever. 0:21:05 4/30/2009 In this short talk from TED U 2009, Brian Cox shares what's new with the CERN supercollider. He covers the repairs now underway and what the future holds for the largest science experiment ever attempted. TED2009 0:03:29 5/1/2009 By pulling raw data from the news and plotting it onto a graph, Sean Gourley and his team have come up with a stunning conclusion about the nature of modern war -- and perhaps a model for resolving conflicts. TED2009 0:07:19 5/4/2009 Mae Jemison is an astronaut, a doctor, an art collector, a dancer ... Telling stories from her own education and from her time in space, she calls on educators to teach both the arts and sciences, both intuition TED2002 and logic, as one -- to create bold0:14:48 thinker 5/5/2009 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 TED2003 heavenly. 0:11:55 5/5/2009 At TED2009, Al Gore presents updated slides from around the globe to make the case that worrying climate trends are even worse than scientists predicted, and to make clear his stance on "clean coal." TED2009 0:07:44 5/7/2009 Louise Fresco argues that a smart approach to large-scale, industrial farming and food production will feed our planet's incoming population of nine billion. Only foods like (the scorned) supermarket white bread, TED2009 she says, will nourish on a global 0:18:00 scale. 5/7/2009 Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and TED2009 make big change. He urges us to 0:17:23 do so. 5/10/2009 Eric Lewis explores the piano's expressive power as he pounds and caresses the keys (and the strings) in a performance during the 2009 TED Prize session. He plays an original song, a tribute to ocean and TED2009 sky and the vision of the TED Prize 0:04:54 winners. 5/12/2009 Hans Rosling unveils new data visuals that untangle the complex risk factors of one of the world's deadliest (and most misunderstood) diseases: HIV. He argues that preventing transmissions -- not drug treatments TED2009 -- is the key to ending the epidemic. 0:09:56 5/13/2009 Nandan Nilekani, visionary CEO of outsourcing pioneer Infosys, explains four brands of ideas that will determine whether India can continue its recent breakneck progress. TED2009 0:15:12 5/14/2009 One-of-a-kind R&B group Naturally 7 beatboxes an orchestra's worth of instruments to groove through their smooth single, "Fly Baby." TED2009 0:03:56 5/15/2009 At his carpet company, Ray Anderson has increased sales and doubled profits while turning the traditional "take / make / waste" industrial system on its head. In a gentle, understated way, he shares a powerful TED2009 vision for sustainable commerce. 0:15:54 5/18/2009 Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we're not as rational as EG we 2008 think when we make decisions. 0:17:26 5/19/2009 "Bonk" author Mary Roach delves into obscure scientific research, some of it centuries old, to make 10 surprising claims about sexual climax, ranging from the bizarre to the hilarious. (This talk is aimed at adults. TED2009 Viewer discretion advised.) 0:16:43 5/20/2009 Carolyn Porco shares exciting new findings from the Cassini spacecraft's recent sweep of one of Saturn's moons, Enceladus. Samples gathered from the moon's icy geysers hint that an ocean under its surface TED2009 could harbor life. 0:03:29 5/21/2009 Yves Behar and Forrest North unveil Mission One, a sleek, powerful electric motorcycle. They share slides from distant (yet similar) childhoods that show how collaboration kick-started their friendship -- andTED2009 shared dreams. 0:02:23 5/22/2009 In this short talk from TED U, Joachim de Posada shares a landmark experiment on delayed gratification -- and how it can predict future success. With priceless video of kids trying their hardest not to eat the TED2009 marshmallow. 0:05:58 5/25/2009 Jay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine-tingling audio of Chinese students rehearsing English -- "the world's second language" --TED2009 by the thousands. 0:04:34 5/27/2009 Speaking at a London girls' school, Michelle Obama makes a passionate, personal case for each student to take education seriously. It is this new, brilliant generation, she says, that will close the gap between Best the of world the Web as it is and the world as 0:12:29 it should be. 5/27/2009 In this brief talk from TED U 2009, Jonathan Drori encourages us to save biodiversity -- one seed at a time. Reminding us that plants support human life, he shares the vision of the Millennium Seed Bank, which TED2009 has stored over 3 billion seeds 0:06:34 to date from dwindling yet 5/28/2009 essential plant species. Kaki King, the first female on Rolling Stone's "guitar god" list, rocks out to a full live set at TED2008, including her breakout single, "Playing with Pink Noise." Jaw-dropping virtuosity meets a guitar techniqueTED2008 that truly stands out. 0:14:49 5/29/2009 Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary TED2009 education -- one that dynamically 0:18:38 combines all areas6/1/2009 of study to address the grea Ray Kurzweil's latest graphs show that technology's breakneck advances will only accelerate -- recession or not. He unveils his new project, Singularity University, to study oncoming tech and guide it to benefit TED2009 humanity. 0:08:41 6/2/2009 In this image-filled talk, Yann Arthus-Bertrand displays his three most recent projects on humanity and our habitat -- stunning aerial photographs in his series "The Earth From Above," personal interviews from TED2009 around the globe featured in his web 0:14:54 project "6 billion Others," 6/3/2009 and his soon-to-be-relea Media big shot Felix Dennis roars his fiery, funny, sometimes racy original poetry, revisiting haunting memories and hard-won battle scars from a madcap -- yet not too repentant -- life. Best enjoyed with a glass TED2004 of wine. 0:17:24 6/5/2009 In this short, optimistic talk from TED2009, Pete Alcorn shares a vision of the world of two centuries from now -- when declining populations and growing opportunity prove Malthus was wrong. TED2009 0:03:50 6/8/2009 Kevin Surace suggests we rethink basic construction materials -- such as the familiar wallboard -- to reduce the huge carbon footprint generated by the manufacturing and construction of our buildings. He introduces TED2009 EcoRock, a clean, recyclable 0:03:19 and energy-efficient drywall 6/9/2009 created by his team at John La Grou unveils an ingenious new technology that will smarten up the electrical outlets in our homes, using microprocessors and RFID tags. The invention, Safeplug, promises to prevent deadly accidents TED2009 like house fires -- and to conserve 0:04:12 energy. 6/9/2009 Cognitive researcher Nancy Etcoff looks at happiness -- the ways we try to achieve and increase it, the way it's untethered to our real circumstances, and its surprising effect on our bodies. TED2004 0:19:45 6/10/2009 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. TED2009 0:11:54 6/11/2009 In his typically candid style, Richard St. John reminds us that success is not a one-way street, but a constant journey. He uses the story of his business' rise and fall to illustrate a valuable lesson -- when weTED2009 stop trying, we fail. 0:03:57 6/12/2009 Jane Poynter tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2 -- an experience that provoked her to explore how we might sustain life in the harshest of environments. This is the first TED talk TEDxUSC drawn from an independently organized 0:15:53 TEDx event, held 6/15/2009 at the University of Southern C While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down TED@State control of news is changing 0:15:48 the nature of politics. 6/16/2009 Diane Benscoter spent five years as a "Moonie." She shares an insider's perspective on the mind of a cult member, and proposes a new way to think about today's most troubling conflicts and extremist movements. TED2009 0:06:24 6/17/2009 Surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demos some of the newest tools for surgery through tiny incisions, performed using nimble robot TED2009 hands. Fascinating -- but not for 0:18:55 the squeamish. 6/18/2009 Organ virtuoso Qi Zhang plays her electric rendering of "Ridiculous Fellows" from Prokofiev's "The Love for Three Oranges" orchestral suite. This exhilarating performance from TEDx USC features the Yamaha TEDxUSC Electone Stagea, a rare, imported 0:03:05 instrument specially programmed 6/19/2009 by Qi herself. Psychologist Philip Zimbardo says happiness and success are rooted in a trait most of us disregard: the way we orient toward the past, present and future. He suggests we calibrate our outlook on time as aTED2009 first step to improving our lives. 0:06:34 6/22/2009 Long conflict can wreck a country, leaving behind poverty and chaos. But what's the right way to help war-torn countries rebuild? At TED@State, Paul Collier explains the problems with current post-conflict aid TED@State plans, and suggests 3 ideas for a 0:16:34 better approach. 6/24/2009 In this uplifting talk, Katherine Fulton sketches the new future of philanthropy -- one where collaboration and innovation allow regular people to do big things, even when money is scarce. Giving five practical TED2007 examples of crowd-driven philanthropy, 0:12:34 she calls for a new 6/25/2009 generation of citizen leaders. Extreme runner Ray Zahab shares an enthusiastic account of his record-breaking trek on foot to the South Pole -- a 33-day sprint through the snow. TED2009 0:05:53 6/26/2009 Someone always asks the math teacher, "Am I going to use calculus in real life?" And for most of us, says Arthur Benjamin, the answer is no. He offers a bold proposal on how to make math education relevant TED2009 in the digital age. 0:02:58 6/29/2009 Gever Tulley usesengaging photos and footage to demonstrate the valuable lessons kids learn at his Tinkering School. When given tools, materials and guidance, these young imaginations run wild and creative TED2009 problem-solving takes over to build 0:04:05 unique boats, bridges 6/30/2009 and even a rollercoaster! Daniel Libeskind builds on very big ideas. Here, he shares 17 words that underlie his vision for architecture -- raw, risky, emotional, radical -- and that offer inspiration for any bold creative pursuit. TED2009 0:18:36 7/1/2009 The legendary design team Charles and Ray Eames made films, houses and classic midcentury modern furniture. Eames Demetrios, their grandson, shows rarely seen films and archival footage in a lively, TED2007 loving tribute to their creative process. 0:15:08 7/6/2009 Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains TED2009 to help us better understand big ideas? 0:06:26 7/7/2009 TED Fellow Sophal Ear shares the compelling story of his family's escape from Cambodia under the rule of the Khmer Rouge. He recounts his mother's cunning and determination to save her children. TED2009 0:05:57 7/8/2009 Drug-resistant bacteria kills, even in top hospitals. But now tough infections like staph and anthrax may be in for a surprise. Nobel-winning chemist Kary Mullis, who watched a friend die when powerful antibiotics TED2009 failed, unveils a radical new cure 0:04:35 that shows extraordinary 7/9/2009 promise. The man who helped usher in the environmental movement in the 1960s and '70s has been rethinking his positions on cities, nuclear power, genetic modification and geo-engineering. This talk at the US State TED@State Department is a foretaste of his major 0:16:42 new book, sure to 7/13/2009 provoke widespread debate. In the spectacular large-scale projects he's famous for (such as "Waterfalls" in New York harbor), Olafur Eliasson creates art from a palette of space, distance, color and light. This idea-packed talk begins with TED2009 an experiment in the nature of perception. 0:09:36 7/14/2009 Daniel Kraft demos his Marrow Miner -- a new device that quickly harvests life-saving bone marrow with minimal pain to the donor. He emphasizes that the adult stem cells found in bone marrow can be used TED2009 to treat many terminal conditions, from 0:04:14 Parkinson's to heart 7/15/2009 disease. Psychopathic killers are the basis for some must-watch TV, but what really makes them tick? Neuroscientist Jim Fallon talks about brain scans and genetic analysis that may uncover the rotten wiring in the nature TED2009 (and nurture) of murderers. In 0:06:32 a too-strange-for-fiction 7/16/2009 twist, he shares a fascinating Nina Jablonski says that differing skin colors are simply our bodies' adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Charles Darwin disagreed with this theory, but she explains, that's because he did TED2009 not have access to NASA. 0:14:48 7/17/2009 We're at a unique moment in history, says UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown: we can use today's interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethic -- and work together to confront the challenges of poverty, TEDGlobal security, 2009 climate change and the 0:16:43 economy. 7/21/2009 Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure -- and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move TEDGlobal beyond snobbery 2009 to find true pleasure 0:16:51 in our work. 7/28/2009 Golan Levin, an artist and engineer, uses modern tools -- robotics, new software, cognitive research -- to make artworks that surprise and delight. Watch as sounds become shapes, bodies create paintings,TED2009 and a curious eye looks back at the0:15:33 curious viewer. 7/30/2009 Elaine Morgan is a tenacious proponent of the aquatic ape hypothesis: the idea that humans evolved from primate ancestors who dwelt in watery habitats. Hear her spirited defense of the idea -- and her theory TEDGlobal on why 2009 mainstream science doesn't 0:17:13 take it seriously. 7/31/2009 Willard Wigan tells the story of how a difficult and lonely childhood drove him to discover his unique ability -- to create art so tiny that it can't be seen with the naked eye. His slideshow of figures, as seen through TEDGlobal a microscope, 2009 can only be described 0:19:43 as mind-boggling. 8/3/2009
Speaker Michael Pritchard Paul Romer Janine Benyus Emmanuel Jal Dan Pink Eric Giler Hans Rosling Natasha Tsakos Cary Fowler Joshua Silver Geoff Mulgan Evan Grant Steve Truglia James Balog Lewis Pugh Rebecca Saxe Vishal Vaid Misha Glenny Bjarke Ingels John Lloyd Oliver Sacks Imogen Heap Jonathan Zittrain Evgeny Morozov William Kamkwamba Taryn Simon Jacqueline Novogratz Parag Khanna Tim Brown Karen Armstrong Garik Israelian Stefan Sagmeister Carolyn Steel David Logan Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Beau Lotto Sam Martin Eric Sanderson David Hanson Rory Sutherland Henry Markram Julian Treasure John Gerzema Paul Debevec Itay Talgam Marc Koska Ian Goldin David Deutsch Rachel Armstrong Becky Blanton Marcus du Sautoy Andrea Ghez Matthew White Jackie Tabick Dayananda Saraswati James Forbes Feisal Abdul Rauf Robert Thurman Robert Wright Stefana Broadbent Cameron Sinclair Rachel Pike Edward Burtynsky Cynthia Schneider Pranav Mistry Devdutt Pattanaik Mallika Sarabhai Shashi Tharoor Gordon Brown Mathieu Lehanneur Fields Wicker-Miurin Tom Wujec Hans Rosling Rob Hopkins Magnus Larsson Anupam Mishra Marc Pachter Sunitha Krishnan Scott Kim Rory Bremner Thulasiraj Ravilla Shereen El Feki Loretta Napoleoni Ryan Lobo Alexis Ohanian Charles Anderson James Geary Shaffi Mather Steven Cowley Asher Hasan Steve Jobs Michael Sandel Cat Laine Bertrand Piccard Vilayanur Ramachandran Dan Buettner Nick Veasey Romulus Whitaker
Name Michael Pritchard's water filter turns filthy water drinkable Paul Romer's radical idea: Charter cities Janine Benyus: Biomimicry in action Emmanuel Jal: The music of a war child Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation Eric Giler demos wireless electricity Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset Natasha Tsakos' multimedia theatrical adventure Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food Josh Silver demos adjustable liquid-filled eyeglasses Geoff Mulgan: Post-crash, investing in a better world Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics Steve Truglia: A leap from the edge of space James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss Lewis Pugh swims the North Pole Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds Vishal Vaid's hypnotic song Misha Glenny investigates global crime networks Bjarke Ingels: 3 warp-speed architecture tales John Lloyd inventories the invisible Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds Imogen Heap plays "Wait It Out" Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness Evgeny Morozov: How the Net aids dictatorships William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind Taryn Simon photographs secret sites Jacqueline Novogratz: A third way to think about aid Parag Khanna maps the future of countries Tim Brown urges designers to think big Karen Armstrong: Let's revive the Golden Rule Garik Israelian: How spectroscopy could reveal alien life Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off Carolyn Steel: How food shapes our cities David Logan on tribal leadership Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see Sam Martin: The quirky world of "manspaces" Eric Sanderson pictures New York -- before the City David Hanson: Robots that "show emotion" Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man Henry Markram builds a brain in a supercomputer Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects us John Gerzema: The post-crisis consumer Paul Debevec animates a photo-real digital face Itay Talgam: Lead like the great conductors Marc Koska: 1.3m reasons to re-invent the syringe Ian Goldin: Navigating our global future David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation Rachel Armstrong: Architecture that repairs itself? Becky Blanton: The year I was homeless Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, reality's riddle Andrea Ghez: The hunt for a supermassive black hole Matthew White gives the euphonium a new voice Rabbi Jackie Tabick: The balancing act of compassion Swami Dayananda Saraswati: The profound journey of compassion Rev. James Forbes: Compassion at the dinner table Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf: Lose your ego, find your compassion Robert Thurman: Expanding your circle of compassion Robert Wright: The evolution of compassion Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet enables intimacy Cameron Sinclair: The refugees of boom-and-bust Rachel Pike: The science behind a climate headline Edward Burtynsky photographs the landscape of oil Cynthia Schneider: The surprising spread of "Idol" TV Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. West -- the myths that mystify Mallika Sarabhai: Dance to change the world Shashi Tharoor: Why nations should pursue "soft" power Gordon Brown on global ethic vs. national interest Mathieu Lehanneur demos science-inspired design Fields Wicker-Miurin: Learning from leadership's "missing manual" Tom Wujec demos the 13th-century astrolabe Hans Rosling: Asia's rise -- how and when Rob Hopkins: Transition to a world without oil Magnus Larsson: Turning dunes into architecture Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting Marc Pachter: The art of the interview Sunitha Krishnan fights sex slavery Scott Kim takes apart the art of puzzles Rory Bremner's one-man world summit Thulasiraj Ravilla: How low-cost eye care can be world-class Shereen El Feki: Pop culture in the Arab world Loretta Napoleoni: The intricate economics of terrorism Ryan Lobo: Photographing the hidden story Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media Charles Anderson discovers dragonflies that cross oceans James Geary, metaphorically speaking Shaffi Mather: A new way to fight corruption Steven Cowley: Fusion is energy's future Asher Hasan's message of peace from Pakistan Steve Jobs: How to live before you die Michael Sandel: What's the right thing to do? Cat Laine: Engineering a better life for all Bertrand Piccard's solar-powered adventure VS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization Dan Buettner: How to live to be 100+ Nick Veasey: Exposing the invisible Romulus Whitaker: The real danger lurking in the water
Short Summary Event Duration Publish date Too much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it -- inventing the portable Lifesaver filter, which can make the most revolting water drinkable in seconds. TEDGlobal An2009 amazing demo from TEDGlobal 0:09:31 2009. 8/4/2009 How can a struggling country break out of poverty if it's trapped in a system of bad rules? Economist Paul Romer unveils a bold idea: "charter cities," city-scale administrative zones governed by a coalition of TEDGlobal nations. (Could 2009 Guantnamo Bay0:18:29 become the next Hong Kong?) 8/5/2009 Janine Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you'll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more. HereTEDGlobal she reveals 2009 dozens of new products 0:17:42 that take their cue from 8/6/2009 nature with spectacular resul For five years, young Emmanuel Jal fought as a child soldier in the Sudan. Rescued by an aid worker, he's become an international hip-hop star and an activist for kids in war zones. In words and lyrics, he tells TEDGlobal the story 2009 of his amazing life. 0:18:03 8/7/2009 Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating TEDGlobal stories 2009 -- and maybe, a way forward. 0:18:36 8/24/2009 Eric Giler wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power. Here, he covers what this sci-fi tech offers, and demos MIT's breakthrough version, WiTricity -- a near-to-market invention that may TEDGlobal soon recharge 2009 your cell phone, car, 0:10:09 pacemaker. 8/25/2009 Talking at the US State Department this summer, Hans Rosling uses his fascinating data-bubble software to burst myths about the developing world. Look for new analysis on China and the post-bailout world, TED@State mixed with classic data shows. 0:19:57 8/26/2009 Natasha Tsakos presents part of her one-woman, multimedia show, "Upwake." As the character Zero, she blends dream and reality with an inventive virtual world projected around her in 3D animation and electric TED2009 sound. 0:14:39 8/28/2009 The varieties of wheat, corn and rice we grow today may not thrive in a future threatened by climate change. Cary Fowler takes us inside a vast global seed bank, buried within a frozen mountain in Norway,TEDGlobal that stores 2009 a diverse group of food-crop 0:17:08 for whatever tomorrow 8/31/2009 may bring. Josh Silver delivers his brilliantly simple solution for correcting vision at the lowest cost possible -- adjustable, liquid-filled lenses. At TEDGlobal 2009, he demos his affordable eyeglasses and reveals his global TEDGlobal plan to distribute 2009 them to a billion 0:05:34 people in need by 2020.9/1/2009 As we reboot the world's economy, Geoff Mulgan poses a question: Instead of sending bailout money to doomed old industries, why not use stimulus funds to bootstrap some new, socially responsible companies TEDGlobal -- and 2009 make the world a little bit 0:18:00 better? 9/2/2009 Evan Grant demonstrates the science and art of cymatics, a process for making soundwaves visible. Useful for analyzing complex sounds (like dolphin calls), it also makes complex and beautiful designs. TEDGlobal 2009 0:04:39 9/3/2009 At his day job, Steve Truglia flips cars, walks through fire and falls out of buildings -- pushing technology to make stunts bigger, safer, more awesome. He talks us through his next stunt: the highest jump ever TEDGlobal attempted, 2009 from the very edge of space. 0:14:30 9/4/2009 Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet TEDGlobal of climate change. 2009 0:19:22 9/8/2009 Lewis Pugh talks about his record-breaking swim across the North Pole. He braved the icy waters (in a Speedo) to highlight the melting icecap. Watch for astonishing footage -- and some blunt commentary TEDGlobal on the realities 2009 of supercold-water swims. 0:18:53 9/9/2009 Sensing the motives and feelings of others is a natural talent for humans. But how do we do it? Here, Rebecca Saxe shares fascinating lab work that uncovers how the brain thinks about other peoples' thoughts TEDGlobal -- and judges 2009 their actions. 0:16:51 9/10/2009 Vishal Vaid and his band explore a traditional South Asian musical form in this mesmerizing improv performance. Sit back and let his music transport you. TED2006 0:13:34 9/11/2009 Journalist Misha Glenny spent several years in a courageous investigation of organized crime networks worldwide, which have grown to an estimated 15% of the global economy. From the Russian mafia, to TEDGlobal giant drug2009 cartels, his sources include 0:19:30 not just intelligence 9/14/2009 and law enforcement officials Danish architect Bjarke Ingels rockets through photo/video-mingled stories of his eco-flashy designs. His buildings not only look like nature -- they act like nature: blocking the wind, collecting solar energy -- TEDGlobal and creating 2009 stunning views. 0:18:14 9/15/2009 Nature's mysteries meet tack-sharp wit in this hilarious, 10-minute mix of quips and fun lessons, as comedian, writer and TV man John Lloyd plucks at the substance of several things not seen. TEDGlobal 2009 0:10:24 9/16/2009 Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnett syndrome -- when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming TED2009 detail and walks us through 0:18:48 the biology of this under-reported 9/17/2009 phenomenon. Imogen Heap plays a powerful stripped-down version of "Wait It Out," from her new record, Ellipse. TEDGlobal 2009 0:03:57 9/18/2009 Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to difffer. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust. TEDGlobal 2009 0:19:51 9/21/2009 TED Fellow and journalist Evgeny Morozov punctures what he calls "iPod liberalism" -- the assumption that tech innovation always promotes freedom, democracy -- with chilling examples of ways the Internet TEDGlobal helps oppressive 2009 regimes stifle dissent. 0:11:53 9/22/2009 At age 14, in poverty and famine, a Malawian boy built a windmill to power his family's home. Now at 22, William Kamkwamba, who speaks at TED, here, for the second time, shares in his own words the moving TEDGlobal tale of2009 invention that changed his 0:05:59 life. 9/23/2009 Taryn Simon exhibits her startling take on photography -- to reveal worlds and people we would never see otherwise. She shares two projects: one documents otherworldly locations typically kept secret from TEDGlobal the public, 2009 the other involves haunting 0:17:32 portraits of men convicted 9/24/2009 for crimes they did not The debate over foreign aid often pits those who mistrust "charity" against those who mistrust reliance on the markets. Jacqueline Novogratz proposes a middle way she calls patient capital, with promising examples TED@State of entrepreneurial innovation 0:17:04 driving social change. 9/25/2009 Many people think the lines on the map no longer matter, but Parag Khanna says they do. Using maps of the past and present, he explains the root causes of border conflicts worldwide and proposes simple TEDGlobal yet cunning 2009 solutions for each. 0:18:53 9/28/2009 Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects -- even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, TEDGlobal collaborative, 2009 participatory "design0:16:50 thinking." 9/29/2009 Weeks from the Charter for Compassion launch, Karen Armstrong looks at religion's role in the 21st century: Will its dogmas divide us? Or will it unite us for common good? She reviews the catalysts that can TEDGlobal drive the world's 2009 faiths to rediscover 0:09:54 the Golden Rule. 9/29/2009 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 TEDGlobal to finding 2009 a planet friendly to life. 0:15:52 10/1/2009 Every seven years, designer Stefan Sagmeister closes his New York studio for a yearlong sabbatical to rejuvenate and refresh their creative outlook. He explains the often overlooked value of time off and shows TEDGlobal the innovative 2009 projects inspired 0:17:40 by his time in Bali. 10/2/2009 Every day, in a city the size of London, 30 million meals are served. But where does all the food come from? Architect Carolyn Steel discusses the daily miracle of feeding a city, and shows how ancient food TEDGlobal routes shaped 2009 the modern world. 0:15:40 10/5/2009 At TEDxUSC, David Logan talks about the five kinds of tribes that humans naturally form -- in schools, workplaces, even the driver's license bureau. By understanding our shared tribal tendencies, we can help TEDxUSC lead each other to become better 0:16:39 individuals. 10/6/2009 Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about TEDGlobal another 2009 person or country, we 0:18:49 risk a critical misunderstanding. 10/7/2009 Beau Lotto's color games puzzle your vision, but they also spotlight what you can't normally see: how your brain works. This fun, first-hand look at your own versatile sense of sight reveals how evolution tints TEDGlobal your perception 2009 of what's really out 0:16:31 there. 10/8/2009 Author Sam Martin shares photos of a quirky world hobby that's trending with the XY set: the "manspace." (They're custom-built hangouts where a man can claim a bit of his own territory to work, relax, be himself.) TEDGlobal Grab 2009 a cold one and enjoy. 0:04:27 10/9/2009 400 years after Hudson found New York harbor, Eric Sanderson shares how he made a 3D map of Mannahatta's fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife -- accurate down to the block -- when Times TEDGlobal Square was 2009 a wetland and you couldn't 0:16:09 get delivery. 10/12/2009 David Hanson's robot faces look and act like yours: They recognize and respond to emotion, and make expressions of their own. Here, an "emotional" live demo of the Einstein robot offers a peek at a future TED2009 where robots truly mimic humans. 0:04:58 10/13/2009 Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what TEDGlobal we consider2009 real value -- and his conclusion 0:16:39 has interesting 10/14/2009 consequences for how we lo Henry Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved -- soon. Mental illness, memory, perception: they're made of neurons and electric signals, and he plans to find them with a supercomputer that models TEDGlobal all the 2009 brain's 100,000,000,000,000 0:14:51synapses. 10/15/2009 Playing sound effects both pleasant and awful, Julian Treasure shows how sound affects us in four significant ways. Listen carefully for a shocking fact about noisy open-plan offices. TEDGlobal 2009 0:05:47 10/16/2009 John Gerzema says there's an upside to the recent financial crisis -- the opportunity for positive change. Speaking at TEDxKC, he identifies four major cultural shifts driving new consumer behavior and shows TEDxKC how businesses are evolving to connect 0:16:35with thoughtful spending. 10/19/2009 At TEDxUSC, computer graphics trailblazer Paul Debevec explains the scene-stealing technology behind Digital Emily, a digitally constructed human face so realistic it stands up to multiple takes. TEDxUSC 0:06:07 10/20/2009 An orchestra conductor faces the ultimate leadership challenge: creating perfect harmony without saying a word. In this charming talk, Itay Talgam demonstrates the unique styles of six great 20th-century conductors, TEDGlobalillustrating 2009 crucial lessons 0:20:52 for all leaders. 10/21/2009 Reuse of syringes, all too common in under-funded clinics, kills 1.3 million each year. Marc Koska clues us in to this devastating global problem with facts, photos and hidden-camera footage. He shares his TEDGlobal solution: a low-cost 2009 syringe that can't 0:04:46 be used twice. 10/22/2009 As globalization and technological advances bring us hurtling towards a new integrated future, Ian Goldin warns that not all people may benefit equally. But, he says, if we can recognize this danger, we might TEDGlobal yet realize 2009 the possibility of improved 0:07:07 life for everyone. 10/23/2009 For tens of thousands of years our ancestors understood the world through myths, and the pace of change was glacial. The rise of scientific understanding transformed the world within a few centuries. Why? TEDGlobal Physicist David 2009 Deutsch proposes0:16:39 a subtle answer. 10/26/2009 Venice is sinking. To save it, Rachel Armstrong says we need to outgrow architecture made of inert materials and, well, make architecture that grows itself. She proposes a not-quite-alive material that does TEDGlobal its own repairs 2009 and sequesters carbon, 0:07:32 too. 10/27/2009 Becky Blanton planned to live in her van for a year and see the country, but when depression set in and her freelance job ended, her camping trip turned into homelessness. In this intimate talk, she describes TEDGlobal her experience 2009 of becoming one of 0:07:09 America's working homeless. 10/28/2009 The world turns on symmetry -- from the spin of subatomic particles to the dizzying beauty of an arabesque. But there's more to it than meets the eye. Here, Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy offers a TEDGlobal glimpse of 2009 the invisible numbers that 0:18:19 marry all symmetrical 10/29/2009 objects. With new data from the Keck telescopes, Andrea Ghez shows how state-of-the-art adaptive optics are helping astronomers understand our universe's most mysterious objects: black holes. She shares evidence TEDGlobal that a supermassive 2009 black hole0:16:26 may be lurking at the center 12/2/2009 of the Milky Way. The euphonium, with its sweet brass sound, is rarely heard outside of traditional brass bands. Cutting loose on the euph, prodigy Matthew White performs Nat McIntosh's hip-hop-inflected "The Warrior Comes TEDGlobal Out to Play." 2009 0:02:21 10/30/2009 While we all agree that compassion is a great idea, Rabbi Tabick acknowledges there are challenges to its execution. She explains how a careful balance of compassion and justice allows us to do good deeds, TEDSalon and keep 2009 our Compassion sanity. 0:15:46 10/31/2008 Swami Dayananda Saraswati unravels the parallel paths of personal development and attaining true compassion. He walks us through each step of self-realization, from helpless infancy to the fearless act of Chautauqua caring for others. Institution 0:16:54 10/31/2008 Join Rev. James Forbes at the dinner table of his Southern childhood, where his mother and father taught him what compassion really means day to day -- sharing with those who need love. Chautauqua Institution 0:18:38 10/31/2008 Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf combines the teachings of the Quran, the stories of Rumi, and the examples of Muhammad and Jesus, to demonstrate that only one obstacle stands between each of us and absolute TEDSalon compassion 2009 Compassion -- ourselves. 0:16:47 10/31/2008 Its hard to always show compassion -- even to the people we love, but Robert Thurman asks that we develop compassion for our enemies. He prescribes a seven-step meditation exercise to extend compassion Chautauqua beyond Institution our inner circle. 0:18:07 10/31/2008 Robert Wright uses evolutionary biology and game theory to explain why we appreciate the Golden Rule ("Do unto others..."), why we sometimes ignore it and why theres hope that, in the near future, we TEDSalon might all have 2009the Compassion compassion to follow 0:16:56 it. 10/31/2008 We worry that IM, texting, Facebook are spoiling human intimacy, but Stefana Broadbent's research shows how communication tech is capable of cultivating deeper relationships, bringing love across barriers TEDGlobal like distance 2009 and workplace rules. 0:08:51 11/2/2009 At TEDGlobal U, Cameron Sinclair shows the unreported cost of real estate megaprojects gone bust: thousands of migrant construction laborers left stranded and penniless. To his fellow architects, he saysTED2009 there is only one ethical response. 0:03:05 11/9/2009 In 4 minutes, atmospheric chemist Rachel Pike provides a glimpse of the massive scientific effort behind the bold headlines on climate change, with her team -- one of thousands who contributed -- taking a TEDGlobal risky flight over 2009 the rainforest in pursuit 0:04:13 of data on a key molecule. 11/10/2009 In stunning large-format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows the path of oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine -- and then beyond to the projected peak-oil endgame. TEDGlobal 2009 0:03:40 11/11/2009 Cynthia Schneider looks at two international "American Idol"-style shows -- one in Afghanistan, and one in the United Arab Emirates -- and shows the surprising effect that these reality-TV competitions are TEDGlobal creating in their 2009 societies. 0:05:37 11/13/2009 At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an TEDIndia onstage 2009 Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source 0:13:50 the software 11/16/2009 behind SixthSense, to open its Devdutt Pattanaik takes an eye-opening look at the myths of India and of the West -- and shows how these two fundamentally different sets of beliefs about God, death and heaven help us consistently misunderstand TEDIndia 2009 one another. 0:18:26 11/19/2009 At TEDIndia, Mallika Sarabhai, a dancer/actor/politician, tells a transformative story in dance -- and argues that the arts may be the most powerful way to effect change, whether political, social or personal. TEDIndia 2009 0:16:52 11/26/2009 India is fast becoming a superpower, says Shashi Tharoor -- not just through trade and politics, but through "soft" power, its ability to share its culture with the world through food, music, technology, Bollywood. TEDIndia He argues 2009that in the long run it's 0:17:53 not the size of the army 11/30/2009 that matters as much as a co Can the interests of an individual nation be reconciled with humanity's greater good? Can a patriotic, nationally elected politician really give people in other countries equal consideration? Following his TEDTalk TEDGlobal calling for 2009 a global ethic, UK Prime 0:17:10 Minister Gordon Brown 12/1/2009 fields questions from TED C Naming science as his chief inspiration, Mathieu Lehanneur shows a selection of his ingenious designs -- an interactive noise-neutralizing ball, an antibiotic course in one layered pill, asthma treatment that reminds TEDGlobal kids 2009 to take it, a living air filter, 0:18:04 a living-room fish farm 11/17/2009 and more. Leadership doesn't have a user's manual, but Fields Wicker-Miurin says stories of remarkable, local leaders are the next best thing. At a TED salon in London, she shares three. TEDSalon London 2009 0:16:35 11/18/2009 Rather than demo another new technology, Tom Wujec reaches back to one of our earliest but most ingenious devices -- the astrolabe. With thousands of uses, from telling time to mapping the night sky, this TEDGlobal old tech reminds 2009 us that the ancient 0:09:25 can be as brilliant as11/20/2009 the brand-new. Hans Rosling was a young guest student in India when he first realized that Asia had all the capacities to reclaim its place as the world's dominant economic force. At TEDIndia, he graphs global economic growth TEDIndia since 2009 1858 and predicts the exact 0:15:50 date that India and 11/23/2009 China will outstrip the US. Rob Hopkins reminds us that the oil our world depends on is steadily running out. He proposes a unique solution to this problem -- the Transition response, where we prepare ourselves for life without oil and TEDGlobal sacrifice our 2009 luxuries to build systems 0:16:40 and communities that 11/24/2009 are completely independent Architecture student Magnus Larsson details his bold plan to transform the harsh Sahara desert using bacteria and a surprising construction material: the sand itself. TEDGlobal 2009 0:11:43 11/25/2009 With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India's Golden Desert to harvest water. These structures are still used today -- and are TEDIndia often superior 2009 to modern water megaprojects. 0:17:14 12/3/2009 Marc Pachter has conducted live interviews with some of the most intriguing characters in recent American history as part of a remarkable series created for the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. He reveals EG 2008 the secret to a great interview0:20:54 and shares extraordinary 12/9/2009 stories of talking with Steve Sunitha Krishnan has dedicated her life to rescuing women and children from sex slavery, a multimilion-dollar global market. In this courageous talk, she tells three powerful stories, as well as her own, and calls TEDIndia for a more 2009 humane approach to0:12:42 helping these young victims 12/7/2009 rebuild their lives. At the 2008 EG conference, famed puzzle designer Scott Kim takes us inside the puzzle-maker's frame of mind. Sampling his career's work, he introduces a few of the most popular types, and shares the fascinations EG 2008 that inspired some of his best. 0:11:49 12/4/2009 Scottish funnyman Rory Bremner convenes a historic council on the TEDGlobal stage -- as he lampoons Gordon Brown, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and a cast of other world leaders with his hilarious TEDGlobal impressions 2009 and biting commentary. 0:14:41 See if you can catch a 12/7/2009 few sharp TED in-jokes. India's revolutionary Aravind Eye Care System has given sight to millions. Thulasiraj Ravilla looks at the ingenious approach that drives its treatment costs down and quality up, and why its methods should trigger TEDIndia a re-think 2009 of all human services. 0:17:27 12/9/2009 At TEDGlobal University, Shereen El Feki shows how some Arab cultures are borrowing trademarks of Western pop culture -- music videos, comics, even Barbie -- and adding a culturally appropriate twist. The TEDGlobal hybridized 2009 media shows how two 0:05:05 civilizations, rather than 12/11/2009 dividing, can dovetail. Loretta Napoleoni details her rare opportunity to talk to the secretive Italian Red Brigades -- an experience that sparked a lifelong interest in terrorism. She gives a behind-the-scenes look at its complex economics, TEDGlobal revealing 2009 a surprising connection 0:15:44 between money laundering 12/14/2009 and the US Patriot A Ryan Lobo has traveled the world, taking photographs that tell stories of unusual human lives. In this haunting talk, he reframes controversial subjects with empathy, so that we see the pain of a Liberian war TEDIndia criminal, 2009 the quiet strength of UN women 0:11:20 peacekeepers and 12/15/2009 the perseverance of Delhi's u In a funny, rapid-fire 4 minutes, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit tells the real-life fable of one humpback whale's rise to Web stardom. The lesson of Mister Splashy Pants is a shoo-in classic for meme-makers and TEDIndia marketers2009 in the Facebook age. 0:04:26 12/15/2009 While living and working as a marine biologist in Maldives, Charles Anderson noticed sudden explosions of dragonflies at certain times of year. He explains how he carefully tracked the path of a plain, little dragonfly TEDIndia called 2009 the globe skimmer, only 0:16:38 to discover that it had 12/17/2009 the longest migratory journe Aphorism enthusiast and author James Geary waxes on a fascinating fixture of human language: the metaphor. Friend of scribes from Aristotle to Elvis, metaphor can subtly influence the decisions we make, TEDGlobal Geary says. 2009 0:09:30 12/17/2009 Shaffi Mather explains why he left his first career to become a social entrepreneur, providing life-saving transportation with his company 1298 for Ambulance. Now, he has a new idea and plans to begin a company TEDIndia to2009 fight the booming business 0:10:41 of corruption in public 12/21/2009 service, eliminating it one brib Physicist Steven Cowley is certain that nuclear fusion is the only truly sustainable solution to the fuel crisis. He explains why fusion will work -- and details the projects that he and many others have devoted TEDGlobal their lives to, 2009 working against the clock 0:09:54 to create a new source 12/22/2009 of energy. One of a dozen Pakistanis who came to TEDIndia despite security hassles entering the country, TED Fellow Asher Hasan shows photos of ordinary Pakistanis that drive home a profound message for citizens TEDIndia of all nations: 2009 look beyond disputes, 0:04:28 and see the humanity 12/23/2009 we share. At his Stanford University commencement speech, Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar, urges us to pursue our dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself. Stanford University 0:15:04 12/23/2009 Is torture ever justified? Would you steal a drug that your child needs to survive? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? How much is one human life worth? In the "Justice" program that bears his name, Harvard Justice professor with Michael Michael Sandel Sandel probes 0:54:56 these questions -- and 12/23/2009 asks what you think, and wh At the BIF innovation summit, Cat Laine draws on the Greek myth of Tantalus to explain the frustration developing countries face. She shows how we might help communities rich in human capital, but poor Business in resources Innovation and infrastructure, Factory with0:14:49 cleverly engineered solutions. 12/23/2009 For the dawn of a new decade, adventurer Bertrand Piccard offers us a challenge: Find motivation in what seems impossible. He shares his own plans to do what many say can't be done -- to fly around theTEDGlobal world, day and 2009 night, in a solar-powered 0:17:46 aircraft. 1/1/2010 Neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran outlines the fascinating functions of mirror neurons. Only recently discovered, these neurons allow us to learn complex social behaviors, some of which formed the foundations TEDIndia 2009 of human civilization as we 0:07:43 know it. 1/4/2010 To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the world's "Blue Zones," communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. At TEDxTC, he shares the 9 common TEDxTC diet and lifestyle habits that keep them 0:19:39 spry past age 100. 1/6/2010 Nick Veasey shows outsized X-ray images that reveal the otherworldly inner workings of familiar objects -- from the geometry of a wildflower to the anatomy of a Boeing 747. Producing these photos is dangerous TEDGlobal and painstaking, 2009 but the reward 0:13:18 is a superpower: looking 1/5/2010 at what the human eye can The gharial and king cobra are two of India's most iconic reptiles, and they're endangered because of polluted waterways. Conservationist Romulus Whitaker shows rare footage of these magnificent animals TEDIndia and urges 2009 us to save the rivers that 0:17:18 sustain their lives and our 1/7/2010 own.
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Speaker Herbie Hancock Randy Pausch Matt Weinstein Robert Sapolsky Kartick Satyanarayan Kiran Sethi Lalitesh Katragadda Edwidge Danticat Charles Fleischer Martin Luther King Jr. David Blaine Anthony Atala Ravin Agrawal Sivamani Richard Dawkins Taylor Mali Bill Davenhall Joshua Prince-Ramus Eve Ensler Jane Chen Derek Sivers JK Rowling Sendhil Mullainathan Jamie Heywood George Whitesides David Agus Tom Shannon Peter Eigen Blaise Aguera y Arcas Jamie Oliver Bill Gates David Cameron Aimee Mullins Kevin Kelly Philip K. Howard Eric Topol Temple Grandin Sean Carroll Bobby McFerrin Pawan Sinha Raghava KK Sean Carroll Daniel Kahneman Harsha Bhogle Gary Flake Richard Feynman James Cameron The LXD Srikumar Rao Tim Berners-Lee Gary Lauder Dan Barber Ken Kamler Eric Mead Mark Roth Gary Vaynerchuk Eric Dishman Douglas Adams Jane McGonigal Shekhar Kapur Sam Harris Juliana Machado Ferreira Alan Siegel Joel Levine Robert Gupta Patsy Rodenburg Kevin Bales Shukla Bose Jor-El Kirk Citron Derek Sivers Adora Svitak Jesse Schell Dean Kamen Elizabeth Pisani Dennis Hong Jonathan Drori Natalie Merchant Michael Specter Jonathan Klein Catherine Mohr Mike deGruy Thelma Golden Eric Whitacre Edith Widder James Randi Frederick Balagadde Tom Wujec Omar Ahmad Kavita Ramdas Stephen Wolfram Roz Savage George Whitesides Sebastian Wernicke Esther Duflo Simon Sinek Thomas Dolby
Name Herbie Hancock's all-star set Randy Pausch: Really achieving your childhood dreams Matt Weinstein: What Bernie Madoff couldn't steal from me Robert Sapolsky: The uniqueness of humans Kartick Satyanarayan: How we rescued the "dancing" bears Kiran Bir Sethi teaches kids to take charge Lalitesh Katragadda: Making maps to fight disaster, build economies Edwidge Danticat: Stories of Haiti Charles Fleischer insists: All things are Moleeds Martin Luther King Jr.: I have a dream David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 min Anthony Atala on growing new organs Ravin Agrawal: 10 young Indian artists to watch Sivamani: Rhythm is everything, everywhere Richard Dawkins: Growing up in the universe Taylor Mali: What teachers make Bill Davenhall: Your health depends on where you live Joshua Prince-Ramus: Building a theater that remakes itself Eve Ensler: Embrace your inner girl Jane Chen: A warm embrace that saves lives Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different? JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure Sendhil Mullainathan: Solving social problems with a nudge Jamie Heywood: The big idea my brother inspired George Whitesides: A lab the size of a postage stamp David Agus: A new strategy in the war on cancer Tom Shannon: The painter and the pendulum Peter Eigen: How to expose the corrupt Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero! David Cameron: The next age of government Aimee Mullins: The opportunity of adversity Kevin Kelly tells technology's epic story Philip K. Howard: Four ways to fix a broken legal system Eric Topol: The wireless future of medicine Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds Sean Carroll on the arrow of time (Part 1) Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with music Pawan Sinha on how brains learn to see Raghava KK: Five lives of an artist Sean Carroll on the arrow of time (Part 2) Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory Harsha Bhogle: The rise of cricket, the rise of India Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration? Richard Feynman: Physics is fun to imagine James Cameron: Before Avatar ... a curious boy The LXD: In the Internet age, dance evolves ... Srikumar Rao: Plug into your hard-wired happiness Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide Gary Lauder's new traffic sign: Take Turns Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish Ken Kamler: Medical miracle on Everest Eric Mead: The magic of the placebo Mark Roth: Suspended animation is within our grasp Gary Vaynerchuk: Do what you love (no excuses!) Eric Dishman: Take health care off the mainframe Douglas Adams: Parrots, the universe and everything Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world Shekhar Kapur: We are the stories we tell ourselves Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions Juliana Machado Ferreira: The fight to end rare-animal trafficking in Brazil Alan Siegel: Let's simplify legal jargon! Joel Levine: Why we need to go back to Mars Robert Gupta: Music is medicine, music is sanity Patsy Rodenburg: Why I do theater Kevin Bales: How to combat modern slavery Shukla Bose: Teaching one child at a time Jor-El: Last-ditch appeal to save the planet Kirk Citron: And now, the real news Derek Sivers: How to start a movement Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids Jesse Schell: When games invade real life Dean Kamen: The emotion behind invention Elizabeth Pisani: Sex, drugs and HIV -- let's get rational Dennis Hong: My seven species of robot Jonathan Drori: Every pollen grain has a story Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life Michael Specter: The danger of science denial Jonathan Klein: Photos that changed the world Catherine Mohr builds green Mike deGruy: Hooked by an octopus Thelma Golden: How art gives shape to cultural change Eric Whitacre: A choir as big as the Internet Edith Widder: Glowing life in an underwater world James Randi's fiery takedown of psychic fraud Frederick Balagadde: Bio-lab on a microchip Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team Omar Ahmad: Political change with pen and paper Kavita Ramdas: Radical women, embracing tradition Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything Roz Savage: Why I'm rowing across the Pacific George Whitesides: Toward a science of simplicity Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks) Esther Duflo: Social experiments to fight poverty Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action Thomas Dolby: "Love Is a Loaded Pistol"
Short Summary Event Duration Publish date Legendary jazz musician Herbie Hancock delivers a stunning performance alongside two old friends -- past drummer for the Headhunters, Harvey Mason, and bassist Marcus Miller. Listen to the end to hear TED2009 them sweeten the classic "Watermelon 0:25:05 Man." 1/8/2010 In 2007, Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch, who was dying of pancreatic cancer, delivered a one-of-a-kind last lecture that made the world stop and pay attention. This moving talk will teach you how Carnegie to really Mellon achieve University your childhood dreams. 1:16:27 Unmissable. 1/8/2010 Matt Weinstein lost his life savings to Bernie Madoff's notorious scam. But his response to the disaster is unexpectedly hopeful. AORN Congress 0:08:30 1/9/2010 At Stanford University, primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a fascinating and funny look at human behaviors which the rest of the animal kingdom would consider bizarre. Stanford University 0:37:26 1/8/2010 Traditionally, the Kalandar community of India has survived by capturing sloth bear cubs and training them to "dance" through extreme cruelty. Kartick Satyanarayan has been able to put an end to this centuries-old TEDIndia practice, 2009 and in so doing discovered 0:04:02 a lesson of wider 1/11/2010 significance: make the prac Kiran Bir Sethi shows how her groundbreaking Riverside School in India teaches kids life's most valuable lesson: "I can." Watch her students take local issues into their own hands, lead other young people, TEDIndia even educate 2009their parents. 0:09:32 1/12/2010 As of 2005, only 15 percent of the world was mapped. This slows the delivery of aid after a disaster -- and hides the economic potential of unused lands and unknown roads. In this short talk, Google's Lalitesh TEDIndia Katragadda 2009 demos Map Maker, a 0:02:54 group map-making tool 1/13/2010 that people around the globe In the midst of an earlier crisis, Haitian author Edwidge Danticat reminds us of the contributions of Haiti's vibrant culture and people. This reading offers a timely message for today -- as the nation struggles in University the aftermath of California of a devastating earthquake. 0:59:33 1/14/2010 In a presentation that can only be described as epic, comedian Charles Fleischer delivers a hysterical send-up of a time-honored TED theme: the map. Geometry, numbers, charts and stamp art also factor TED2005 in (somehow), as he weaves together 0:18:03 a unique theory of everything 1/15/2010 called "Moleeds." 1963. Atop the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. stood before 200,000 supporters to call for racial equality, in what would become the defining moment of the African-American civil rights March movement on Washington, -- and a turning 1963 point in human 0:17:28 history. 1/17/2010 In this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician and stuntman David Blaine describes what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17 minutes -- a world record (only two minutes shorter than this entireTEDMED talk!) -- and 2009 what his often death-defying 0:20:19 work means to him. 1/19/2010 Warning: do NOT try this at Anthony Atala's state-of-the-art lab grows human organs -- from muscles to blood vessels to bladders, and more. At TEDMED, he shows footage of his bio-engineers working with some of its sci-fi gizmos, including TEDMED an 2009 oven-like bioreactor (preheat 0:17:52 to 98.6 F) and a machine 1/21/2010 that "prints" human tiss Collector Ravin Agrawal delivers a glowing introduction to 10 of India's most exciting young contemporary artists. Working in a variety of media, each draws on their local culture for inspiration. TEDIndia 2009 0:06:34 1/20/2010 Percussionist Sivamani delivers one of TED's liveliest and most inventive performances yet. He uses traditional Western and Eastern instruments to create a rhythmic tour de force, along with a tub of water, TEDIndia corrugated 2009 metal, spoons, luggage, 0:16:40 our stage props and even 1/22/2010 a little audience participatio At the Royal Institution in 1991, Richard Dawkins asks us to look at our universe with new eyes. Packed with big questions and illuminating visuals, this memorable journey through the history of life magnifies Royal the splendor Institution of evolution and our place 0:57:55 in it. 1/23/2010 Ever heard the phrase "Those who can't do, teach"? At the Bowery Poetry Club, slam poet Taylor Mali begs to differ, and delivers a powerful, 3-minute response on behalf of educators everywhere. Bowery Poetry Club 0:03:02 1/23/2010 Where you live: It impacts your health as much as diet and genes do, but it's not part of your medical records. At TEDMED, Bill Davenhall shows how overlooked government geo-data (from local heart-attack TEDMED rates to 2009 toxic dumpsite info) can mesh 0:09:25 with mobile GPS apps 1/25/2010 to keep doctors in the loop Joshua Prince-Ramus believes that if architects re-engineer their design process, the results can be spectacular. Speaking at TEDxSMU, Dallas, he walks us through his fantastic re-creation of the local Wyly TEDxSMU Theater as a giant "theatrical machine" 0:18:42 that reconfigures itself 1/26/2010 at the touch of a button. In this passionate talk, Eve Ensler declares that there is a girl cell in us all -- a cell that we have all been taught to suppress. She tells heartfelt stories of girls around the world who have overcome shocking adversity TEDIndiaand 2009 violence to reveal the astonishing 0:19:54 strength of being 1/27/2010 a girl. In the developing world, access to incubators is limited by cost and distance, and millions of premature babies die each year. TED Fellow Jane Chen shows an invention that could keep millions of these infants TEDIndia warm 2009 -- a design that's safe, portable, 0:04:46 low-cost and life-saving. 1/28/2010 There's a flip side to everything, the saying goes, and in 2 minutes, Derek Sivers shows this is true in a few ways you might not expect. TEDIndia 2009 0:02:42 1/29/2010 At her Harvard commencement speech, "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems "worth more Harvard than any University qualification I ever earned." 0:20:58 1/30/2010 MacArthur winner Sendhil Mullainathan uses the lens of behavioral economics to study a tricky set of social problems -- those we know how to solve, but don't. We know how to reduce child deaths due to diarrhea, TEDIndia how 2009 to prevent diabetes-related 0:18:01 blindness and how to 2/1/2010 implement solar-cell techno When Jamie Heywood's brother was diagnosed with ALS, he devoted his life to fighting the disease as well. The Heywood brothers built an ingenious website where people share and track data on their illnesses TEDMED -- and 2009 they discovered that the 0:16:54 collective data had enormous 2/2/2010 power to comfort, expla Traditional lab tests for disease diagnosis can be too expensive and cumbersome for the regions most in need. George Whitesides' ingenious answer, at TEDxBoston, is a foolproof tool that can be manufactured TEDxBoston at virtually zero cost. 0:16:16 2/3/2010 Traditionally, David Agus explains, cancer treatments have had a short-sighted focus on the offending individual cells. He suggests a new, cross-disciplinary approach, using atypical drugs, computer modeling TEDMED and protein 2009 analysis to treat and 0:23:44 analyze the whole body. 2/4/2010 TED visits Tom Shannon in his Manhattan studio for an intimate look at his science-inspired art. An eye-opening, personal conversation with John Hockenberry reveals how nature's forces -- and the onset of TED Parkinson's in the Field tremors -- interact in his 0:13:21 life and craft. 2/5/2010 Some of the world's most baffling social problems, says Peter Eigen, can be traced to systematic, pervasive government corruption, hand-in-glove with global companies. At TEDxBerlin, Eigen describes theTEDxBerlin thrilling counter-attack led by his organization 0:17:01 Transparency 2/8/2010 International. In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft. TED2010 0:07:45 2/13/2010 The way we eat in the developed world is causing needless death -- and shortening the lives of the next generation of kids. Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., JamieTED2010 Oliver makes the case for an all-out0:21:53 assault on our ignorance 2/11/2010 of food. At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear TED2010 reactor. The necessary goal? Zero 0:27:49 carbon emissions globally 2/18/2010 by 2050. The leader of Britain's Conservative Party says we're entering a new era -- where governments themselves have less power (and less money) and people empowered by technology have more. Tapping into TED2010 new ideas on behavioral economics, 0:13:59 he explores how these 2/15/2010 trends could be turned into s The thesaurus might equate "disabled" with synonyms like "useless" and "mutilated," but ground-breaking runner Aimee Mullins is out to redefine the word. Defying these associations, she shows how adversity TEDMED -- in her 2009 case, being born without 0:21:58 shinbones -- actually opens 2/17/2010 the door for human pote In this wide-ranging, thought-provoking talk from TEDxAmsterdam, Kevin Kelly muses on what technology means in our lives -- from its impact at the personal level to its place in the cosmos. TEDxAmsterdam 0:16:32 2/19/2010 The land of the free has become a legal minefield, says Philip K. Howard -- especially for teachers and doctors, whose work has been paralyzed by fear of suits. What's the answer? A lawyer himself, Howard TED2010 has four propositions for simplifying 0:18:21 US law. 2/21/2010 Eric Topol says we'll soon use our smartphones to monitor our vital signs and chronic conditions. At TEDMED, he highlights several of the most important wireless devices in medicine's future -- all helping to TEDMED keep more 2009 of us out of hospital beds. 0:16:58 2/23/2010 Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks about how her mind works -- sharing her ability to "think in pictures," which helps her solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss. She makes TED2010 the case that the world needs people 0:19:43 on the autism spectrum: 2/24/2010 visual thinkers, pattern think In Part 1 of his lecture at the University of Sydney, cosmologist Sean Carroll gives an entertaining and thought-provoking talk about the nature of time, the origin of entropy, and how what happened before the University Big Bang of might Sydney be responsible for 0:28:57 the arrow of time we observe 2/27/2010 today. (Don't miss Part In this fun, 3-min performance from the World Science Festival, musician Bobby McFerrin uses the pentatonic scale to reveal one surprising result of the way our brains are wired. World Science Festival 0:03:04 2/27/2010 Pawan Sinha details his groundbreaking research into how the brain's visual system develops. Sinha and his team provide free vision-restoring treatment to children born blind, and then study how their brains TEDIndia learn to 2009 interpret visual data. The0:18:23 work offers insights into2/25/2010 neuroscience, engineering an With endearing honesty and vulnerability, Raghava KK tells the colorful tale of how art has taken his life to new places, and how life experiences in turn have driven his multiple reincarnations as an artist -- from TED2010 cartoonist to painter, media darling 0:17:55 to social outcast, and 2/26/2010 son to father. In Part 2 of his lecture at the University of Sydney, cosmologist Sean Carroll continues his entertaining and thought-provoking talk about the nature of time, the origin of entropy, and how what happened before University the Bigof Bang Sydney might be responsible 0:24:21 for the arrow of time we 1/27/2010 observe today. (Don't miss Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness TED2010 differently. This new insight has 0:20:06 profound implications for 3/1/2010 economics, public policy -The tale of a major global cultural phenomenon: Cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle describes the spectacular arrival of fast-paced 20-20 cricket as it parallels the rise of modern India. He traces the gameTEDIndia from its sleepy 2009 English roots to the 0:16:59 current world of celebrity 3/2/2010 owners and million-dollar pla Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, TED2010 and the discovery of patterns 0:06:25 and links invisible in standard 3/3/2010 web browsing. In this archival footage from BBC TV, celebrated physicist Richard Feynman explains what fire, magnets, rubber bands (and more) are like at the scale of the jiggling atoms they're made of. This accessible, BBC enchanting TV conversation in physics 1:05:55 reveals a teeming nano-world 3/3/2010 that's just plain fun to im James Cameron's big-budget (and even bigger-grossing) films create unreal worlds all their own. In this personal talk, he reveals his childhood fascination with the fantastic -- from reading science fiction to deep-sea TED2010 diving -- and how it ultimately 0:17:08 drove the success of his 3/4/2010 blockbuster hits "Aliens," The LXD (the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers) electrify the TED2010 stage with an emerging global street-dance culture, revved up by the Internet. In a preview of Jon Chus upcoming Web series, this TED2010 astonishing troupe show off their superpowers. 0:17:29 3/5/2010 Srikumar Rao says we spend most of our lives learning to be unhappy, even as we strive for happiness. At Arbejdsglaede Live! 2009, he teaches us how to break free of the "I'd be happy if ..." mental model, Arbejdsglaede and embrace Live our hard-wired happiness. 0:18:00 3/5/2010 At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting TED2010 results when the data gets linked 0:05:33 up. 3/8/2010 Fifty percent of traffic accidents happen at intersections. Gary Lauder shares a brilliant and cheap idea for helping drivers move along smoothly: a new traffic sign that combines the properties of "Stop" and "Yield" TED2010 -- and asks drivers to be polite. 0:04:26 3/9/2010 Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, TED2010 and the foodie's honeymoon he's 0:19:02 enjoyed since discovering 3/10/2010 an outrageously delicious When the worst disaster in the history of Mount Everest climbs occurred, Ken Kamler was the only doctor on the mountain. 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The Internet has made the formula for success simpler than ever, he argues. Web So 2.0 there's Exponow 2008 no excuse not to do 0:15:27 what makes you happy. 3/12/2010 At TEDMED, Eric Dishman makes a bold argument: The US health care system is like computing circa 1959, tethered to big, unwieldy central systems: hospitals, doctors, nursing homes. As our aging population TEDMED booms, 2009 it's imperative, he says, 0:16:41 to create personal, networked, 3/16/2010 home-based health c Blind river dolphins, reclusive lemurs, a parrot as fearless as it is lovelorn ... Douglas Adams' close encounters with these rare and unusual animals reveal that evolution, ever ingenious, can be fickle too -- in University a University of California of California talk that sparkles 1:27:36 with his trademark 3/16/2010 satiric wit. Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says TED2010 we can, and explains how. 0:20:03 3/17/2010 Where does creative inspiration spring from? At TEDIndia, Hollywood/Bollywood director Shekhar Kapur ("Elizabeth," "Mr. India") pinpoints his source of creativity: sheer, utter panic. He shares a powerful way TEDIndia to unleash 2009 your inner storyteller. 0:21:14 3/19/2010 Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can -- and should -- be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values TED2010 and setting out what constitutes a good 0:23:06 life. 3/22/2010
Biologist Juliana Machado Ferreira, a TED Senior Fellow, talks about her work helping to save birds and other animals stolen from the wild in Brazil. Once these animals are seized from smugglers, she asks, TED2010 then what? 0:05:34 3/23/2010 Tax forms, credit agreements, healthcare legislation: They're crammed with gobbledygook, says Alan Siegel, and incomprehensibly long. He calls for a simple, sensible redesign -- and plain English -- to make TED2010 legal paperwork intelligible to the0:04:26 rest of us. 3/24/2010 At TEDxNASA, planetary scientist Joel Levine shows some intriguing -- and puzzling -- new discoveries about Mars: craters full of ice, traces of ancient oceans, and compelling hints at the presence, sometime TEDxNASA in the past, of life. He makes the 0:16:14 case for going back to Mars 3/25/2010 to find out more. 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 TED2010 of the prelude from Bach's Cello 0:09:26 Suite No. 1. 3/26/2010 Patsy Rodenburg says the world needs actors more than ever. In this talk at Michael Howard Studios, she tells the story of a profound encounter that reveals the deeper role theater can play in people's lives. Michael Howard Studios 0:06:47 3/26/2010 In this moving yet pragmatic talk, Kevin Bales explains the business of modern slavery, a multibillion-dollar economy that underpins some of the worst industries on earth. He shares stats and personal stories TED2010 from his on-the-ground research -0:18:01 and names the price of 3/29/2010 freeing every slave on earth r Educating the poor is more than just a numbers game, says Shukla Bose. She tells the story of her groundbreaking Parikrma Humanity Foundation, which brings hope to India's slums by looking past the daunting TEDIndia statistics 2009 and focusing on treating 0:16:23 each child as an individual. 3/30/2010 (This clip from the classic "Superman" TV show was originally posted for April Fool's Day, but is staying on the site by popular request.) With the planet facing a growing threat from the sun, this passionate speech Science from Council, the geo-visionary Krypton known 0:02:22 as Jor-El challenged a packed 4/1/2010 council chamber to ta How many of today's headlines will matter in 100 years? 1000? Kirk Citron's "Long News" project collects stories that not only matter today, but will resonate for decades -- even centuries -- to come. At TED2010, TED2010 he highlights recent headlines 0:03:21 with the potential to shape 4/1/2010 our future. With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two.) TED2010 0:03:09 4/1/2010 Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs "childish" thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids' big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups' willingness TED2010 to learn from children as much as 0:08:12 to teach. 4/1/2010 Games are invading the real world -- and the runaway popularity of Farmville and Guitar Hero is just the beginning, says Jesse Schell. At the DICE Summit, he makes a startling prediction: a future where 1-ups DICE and Summit experience 2010 points break "out 0:28:19 of the box" and into every 4/3/2010 part of our daily lives. Soldiers who've lost limbs in service face a daily struggle unimaginable to most of us. At TEDMED, Dean Kamen talks about the profound people and stories that motivated his work to give parts of their lives TEDMED back with 2009 his design for a remarkable 0:19:32 prosthetic arm. 4/6/2010 Armed with bracing logic, wit and her "public-health nerd" glasses, Elizabeth Pisani reveals the myriad of inconsistencies in today's political systems that prevent our dollars from effectively fighting the spread TED2010 of HIV. Her research with at-risk populations 0:19:14 -- from junkies4/5/2010 in prison to sex workers on t At TEDxNASA, Dennis Hong introduces seven award-winnning, all-terrain robots -- like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR -- all built by his team at RoMeLa, Virginia Tech. TEDxNASA Watch to the end to hear the five creative 0:15:55 secrets to his lab's 4/7/2010 incredible technical success Pollen goes unnoticed by most of us, except when hay fever strikes. But microscopes reveal it comes in stunning colors and shapes -- and travels remarkably well. Jonathan Drori gives an up-close glimpse TED2010 of these fascinating flecks of plant courtship. 0:07:12 4/8/2010 Natalie Merchant sings from her new album, "Leave Your Sleep." Lyrics from near-forgotten 19th-century poetry pair with her unmistakable voice for a performance that brought the TED audience to its feet.TED2010 0:29:18 4/9/2010 Vaccine-autism claims, "Frankenfood" bans, the herbal cure craze: All point to the public's growing fear (and, often, outright denial) of science and reason, says Michael Specter. He warns the trend spells disaster TED2010 for human progress. 0:19:01 4/12/2010 Photographs do more than document history -- they make it. At TED University, Jonathan Klein of Getty Images shows some of the most iconic, and talks about what happens when a generation sees an image TED2010 so powerful it can't look away --0:06:02 or back. 4/13/2010 In a short, funny, data-packed talk at TED U, Catherine Mohr walks through all the geeky decisions she made when building a green new house -- looking at real energy numbers, not hype. What choices matter TED2010 most? Not the ones you think. 0:06:13 4/14/2010 Underwater filmmaker Mike deGruy has spent decades looking intimately at the ocean. A consummate storyteller, he takes the stage at Mission Blue to share his awe and excitement -- and his fears -- about Mission the blue Blue heart Voyage of our planet. 0:18:12 4/15/2010 Thelma Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, talks through three recent shows that explore how art examines and redefines culture. The "post-black" artists she works with are using their art to provoke TED2009 a new dialogue about race and 0:12:28 culture -- and about the 4/16/2010 meaning of art itself. 185 voices from 12 countries join a choir that spans the globe: "Lux Aurumque," composed and conducted by Eric Whitacre, merges hundreds of tracks individually recorded and posted to YouTube. It's an astonishing Eric Whitacre's illustration Virtual of Choir how technology 0:04:15 can connect us. 4/16/2010 Some 80 to 90 percent of undersea creatures make light -- and we know very little about how or why. Bioluminescence expert Edith Widder explores this glowing, sparkling, luminous world, sharing glorious Mission images Blue and insight Voyage into the unseen depths 0:17:19(and brights) of the 4/19/2010 ocean. Legendary skeptic James Randi takes a fatal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills onstage, kicking off a searing 18-minute indictment of irrational beliefs. He throws out a challenge to the world's psychics: Prove TED2007 what you do is real, and I'll give 0:17:19 you a million dollars. (No 4/19/2010 takers yet.) Drugs alone can't stop disease in sub-Saharan Africa: We need diagnostic tools to match. TED Senior Fellow Frederick Balagadde shows how we can multiply the power and availability of an unwieldy, expensive TED2010 diagnostic lab -- by miniaturizing 0:06:11 it to the size of a chip. 4/21/2010 Tom Wujec presents some surprisingly deep research into the "marshmallow problem" -- a simple team-building exercise that involves dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a marshmallow. Who can build theTED2010 tallest tower with these ingredients?0:06:51 And why does a surprising 4/22/2010 group always beat the ave Politicians are strange creatures, says politician Omar Ahmad. And the best way to engage them on your pet issue is a monthly handwritten letter. Ahmad shows why old-fashioned correspondence is more TED2010 effective than email, phone or even writing 0:06:07 a check -- and shares 4/23/2010 the four simple steps to w Investing in women can unlock infinite potential around the globe. But how can women walk the line between Western-style empowerment and traditional culture? Kavita Ramdas of the Global Fund for Women TEDIndia talks about 2009 three encounters with 0:23:38 powerful women who fight 4/26/2010 to make the world better Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new search engine, Wolfram Alpha, has no lesser TED2010 goal than to model and explain the 0:19:58 physics underlying the 4/27/2010 universe. Five years ago, Roz Savage quit her high-powered London job to become an ocean rower. She's crossed the Atlantic solo, and just started the third leg of a Pacific solo row, the first for a woman. Why doesMission she do it? Blue Hear Voyage her reasons, both deeply 0:18:35 personal and urgently 4/28/2010 activist. Simplicity: We know it when we see it -- but what is it, exactly? In this funny, philosophical talk, George Whitesides chisels out an answer. TED2010 0:18:35 4/28/2010 In a brilliantly tongue-in-cheek analysis, Sebastian Wernicke turns the tools of statistical analysis on TEDTalks, to come up with a metric for creating "the optimum TEDTalk" based on user ratings. How do you TED2010 rate it? "Jaw-dropping"? "Unconvincing"? 0:05:59 Or just plain "Funny"? 4/30/2010 Alleviating poverty is more guesswork than science, and lack of data on aid's impact raises questions about how to provide it. But Clark Medal-winner Esther Duflo says it's possible to know which development TED2010 efforts help and which hurt -- by 0:16:47 testing solutions with randomized 5/3/2010 trials. Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers -- TEDxPuget and as a counterpoint Sound Tivo, which (until 0:18:04 a recent court victory5/4/2010 that tripled its stock price) ap For his first studio album release in decades, musical innovator Thomas Dolby has been composing music in the uniquely inspirational setting of a restored life-boat. Here he premieres a gorgeous, evocative TED2010 song from that album -- about one 0:04:57 night with a legend. He's 5/7/2010 backed by members of the m
Speaker Name Jeremy Jackson Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean Anil Gupta Anil Gupta: India's hidden hotbeds of invention Nicholas Christakis Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks Nathan Myhrvold Nathan Myhrvold: Could this laser zap malaria? Enric Sala Enric Sala: Glimpses of a pristine ocean Dan Meyer Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover Julia Sweeney Julia Sweeney has "The Talk" Viktor E Frankl Viktor Frankl: Why to believe in others William Li William Li: Can we eat to starve cancer? Graham Hill Graham Hill: Why I'm a weekday vegetarian Dee Boersma Dee Boersma: Pay attention to penguins Richard Sears Richard Sears: Planning for the end of oil Craig Venter Craig Venter unveils "synthetic life" Ken Robinson Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! Johanna Blakley Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion's free culture Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: Inside a school for suicide bombers Seth Berkley Seth Berkley: HIV and flu -- the vaccine strategy Sophie Hunger Sophie Hunger plays songs of secrets, city lights Larry Lessig Lawrence Lessig: Re-examining the remix John Underkoffler John Underkoffler points to the future of UI Brian Skerry Brian Skerry reveals ocean's glory -- and horror Christopher "moot" Poole Christopher "moot" Poole: The case for anonymity online Brian Cox Brian Cox: Why we need the explorers Adam Sadowsky Adam Sadowsky engineers a viral music video Michael Sandel Michael Sandel: The lost art of democratic debate John Kasaona John Kasaona: How poachers became caretakers Rory Sutherland Rory Sutherland: Sweat the small stuff Stewart Brand, Mark Z. JacobsonDebate: Does the world need nuclear energy? David Byrne David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve Michael Shermer Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception Margaret Gould Stewart Margaret Gould Stewart: How YouTube thinks about copyright Peter Tyack Peter Tyack: The intriguing sound of marine mammals Cameron Herold Cameron Herold: Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs Ananda Shankar Jayant Ananda Shankar Jayant fights cancer with dance Chip Conley Chip Conley: Measuring what makes life worthwhile Marian Bantjes Marian Bantjes: Intricate beauty by design Charles Leadbeater Charles Leadbeater: Education innovation in the slums Aditi Shankardass Aditi Shankardass: A second opinion on learning disorders Hillel Cooperman Hillel Cooperman: Legos for grownups Clay Shirky Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world Ellen Dunham-Jones Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia Stephen Palumbi Stephen Palumbi: Following the mercury trail Carter Emmart Carter Emmart demos a 3D atlas of the universe Mitchell Joachim Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it! Benoit Mandelbrot Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness Ellen Gustafson Ellen Gustafson: Obesity + Hunger = 1 global food issue Nalini Nadkarni Nalini Nadkarni: Life science in prison Hans Rosling Hans Rosling on global population growth Carl Safina Carl Safina: The oil spill's unseen culprits, victims Matt Ridley Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex Ethan Zuckerman Ethan Zuckerman: Listening to global voices Elif Shafak Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction Julian Assange Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks Naif Al-Mutawa Naif Al-Mutawa: Superheroes inspired by Islam Dimitar Sasselov: How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like Dimitar Sasselov planets Tan Le Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves Kevin Stone Kevin Stone: The bio-future of joint replacement Sheena Iyengar Sheena Iyengar on the art of choosing Jeff Bezos Jeff Bezos: What matters more than your talents Susan Shaw Susan Shaw: The oil spill's toxic trade-off John Delaney John Delaney: Wiring an interactive ocean Laurie Santos Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours Lewis Pugh Lewis Pugh's mind-shifting Mt. Everest swim Jason Clay Jason Clay: How big brands can help save biodiversity Sheryl WuDunn Sheryl WuDunn: Our century's greatest injustice Diane J Savino Diane J. Savino: The case for same-sex marriage Peter Molyneux Peter Molyneux demos Milo, the virtual boy Jamil Abu-Wardeh Jamil Abu-Wardeh: The Axis of Evil Middle East Comedy Tour Maz Jobrani Maz Jobrani: Did you hear the one about the Iranian-American? Seth Priebatsch Seth Priebatsch: The game layer on top of the world David McCandless David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization Robert Lee Hotz Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic time machine Jeremy Rifkin Jeremy Rifkin on "the empathic civilization" Jim Toomey Jim Toomey: Learning from Sherman the shark Lisa Margonelli Lisa Margonelli: The political chemistry of oil Dan Cobley Dan Cobley: What physics taught me about marketing Nic Marks Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index Johan Rockstrom Johan Rockstrom: Let the environment guide our development His Holiness the Karmapa His Holiness the Karmapa: The technology of the heart Derek Sivers Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself Rachel Sussman Rachel Sussman: The world's oldest living things Sugata Mitra Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education Alwar Balasubramaniam Alwar Balasubramaniam: Art of substance and absence Carne Ross Carne Ross: An independent diplomat Ben Cameron Ben Cameron: The true power of the performing arts Seth Godin Seth Godin: This is broken Rob Dunbar Rob Dunbar: Discovering ancient climates in oceans and ice Chris Anderson (TED) Chris Anderson: How web video powers global innovation Jessa Gamble Jessa Gamble: Our natural sleep cycle Nicholas Christakis Nicholas Christakis: How social networks predict epidemics Caroline Phillips Caroline Phillips: Hurdy-gurdy for beginners Christien Meindertsma Christien Meindertsma: How pig parts make the world turn Steven Johnson Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from Mitchell Besser Mitchell Besser: Mothers helping mothers fight HIV Annie Lennox Annie Lennox: Why I am an HIV/AIDS activist Fabian Hemmert Fabian Hemmert: The shape-shifting future of the mobile phone Julian Treasure Julian Treasure: Shh! 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Short Summary Event Duration Publish date In this bracing talk, coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the shocking state of the ocean today: overfished, overheated, polluted, with indicators that things will get much worse. Astonishing photos and Mission stats Blue makeVoyage the case. 0:18:19 5/5/2010 Anil Gupta is on the hunt for the developing world's unsung inventors -- indigenous entrepreneurs whose ingenuity, hidden by poverty, could change many people's lives. He shows how the Honey Bee Network TEDIndia helps 2009 them build the connections 0:22:55 they need -- and gain the 5/6/2010 recognition they deserve. We're all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of traits -- from happiness to obesity -- can spread from person to person, showing TED2010 how your location in the network 0:20:59 might impact your life 5/10/2010 in ways you don't even know Nathan Myhrvold and team's latest inventions -- as brilliant as they are bold -- remind us that the world needs wild creativity to tackle big problems like malaria. And just as that idea sinks in, he rolls out a live TED2010 demo of a new, mosquito-zapping 0:16:58 gizmo you have to see to 5/11/2010 believe. Enric Sala shares glorious images -- and surprising insights and data -- from some of the most pristine areas of the ocean. He shows how we can restore more of our oceans to this healthy, balanced state, and Mission the powerful Blue Voyage ecological and economic 0:19:55 benefits of doing so. 5/12/2010 Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer TEDxNYED shows classroom-tested math exercises 0:11:39 that prompt students 5/13/2010 to stop and think. Despite her best efforts, comedian Julia Sweeney is forced to tell a little white lie when her 8-year-old begins learning about frog reproduction -- and starts to ask some very smart questions. TED2010 0:05:16 5/14/2010 In this rare clip from 1972, legendary psychiatrist and Holocaust-survivor Viktor Frankl delivers a powerful message about the human search for meaning -- and the most important gift we can give others. Toronto Youth Corps 0:04:22 5/14/2010 William Li presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases: anti-angiogenesis, preventing the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor. The crucial first (and best) step: Eating cancer-fighting TED2010 foods that cut off the supply lines 0:20:02 and beat cancer at 5/17/2010 its own game. We all know the arguments that being vegetarian is better for the environment and for the animals -- but in a carnivorous culture, it can be hard to make the change. Graham Hill has a powerful, pragmatic suggestion: TED2010 Be a weekday veg. 0:05:45 5/18/2010 Think of penguins as ocean sentinels, says Dee Boersma -- they're on the frontlines of sea change. Sharing stories of penguin life and culture, she suggests that we start listening to what penguins are telling Mission us. Blue Voyage 0:15:09 5/19/2010 As the world's attention focuses on the perils of oil exploration, we present Richard Sears' talk from early February 2010. Sears, an expert in developing new energy resources, talks about our inevitable andTED2010 necessary move away from oil. Toward 0:09:48 ... what? 5/20/2010 Craig Venter and team make a historic announcement: they've created the first fully functioning, reproducing cell controlled by synthetic DNA. He explains how they did it and why the achievement marks the TED beginning in the Field of a new era for science.0:18:17 5/21/2010 In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning -- creating conditions where kids' natural talents TED2010 can flourish. 0:16:48 5/24/2010 Copyright law's grip on film, music and software barely touches the fashion industry ... and fashion benefits in both innovation and sales, says Johanna Blakley. At TEDxUSC 2010, she talks about what all creative TEDxUSC industries can learn from fashion's 0:15:36 free culture. 5/25/2010 Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy takes on a terrifying question: How does the Taliban convince children to become suicide bombers? Propaganda footage from a training camp is intercut with her interviews TED2010 of young camp graduates. A shocking 0:08:09 vision. 5/26/2010 Seth Berkley explains how smart advances in vaccine design, production and distribution are bringing us closer than ever to eliminating a host of global threats -- from AIDS to malaria to flu pandemics. TED2010 0:21:05 5/27/2010 This haunting, intimate performance by European singer-songwriter Sophie Hunger features songs from her breakout debut "Monday's Ghost" and the just-released album "1983." TEDGlobal 2009 0:23:04 5/28/2010 At TEDxNYED, former "young Republican" Larry Lessig talks about what Democrats can learn about copyright from their opposite party, considered more conservative. A surprising lens on remix culture. TEDxNYED 0:18:45 5/31/2010 Minority Report science advisor and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak -- the real-life version of the film's eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow's computers TED2010 will be controlled? 0:15:22 6/1/2010 Photographer Brian Skerry shoots life above and below the waves -- as he puts it, both the horror and the magic of the ocean. Sharing amazing, intimate shots of undersea creatures, he shows how powerful Mission images Blue can Voyage help make change. 0:16:13 6/1/2010 The founder of 4chan, a controversial, uncensored online imageboard, describes its subculture, some of the Internet "memes" it has launched, and the incident in which its users managed a very public, precision TED2010 hack of a mainstream media website. 0:13:10 The talk raises questions 6/2/2010about the power -- an In tough economic times, our exploratory science programs -- from space probes to the LHC -- are first to suffer budget cuts. Brian Cox explains how curiosity-driven science pays for itself, powering innovation TEDSalon and a profound London 2010 appreciation of our 0:16:29 existence. 6/3/2010 The band "OK Go" dreamed up the idea of a massive Rube Goldberg machine for their next music video -- and Adam Sadowsky's team was charged with building it. He tells the story of the effort and engineering TEDxUSC behind their labyrinthine creation 0:14:28 that quickly became a 6/4/2010 YouTube sensation. Democracy thrives on civil debate, Michael Sandel says -- but we're shamefully out of practice. He leads a fun refresher, with TEDsters sparring over a recent Supreme Court case (PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin) TED2010 whose outcome reveals the critical0:19:42 ingredient in justice. 6/7/2010 In his home of Namibia, John Kasaona is working on an innovative way to protect endangered animal species: giving nearby villagers (including former poachers) responsibility for caring for the animals. And TED2010 it's working. 0:15:46 6/8/2010 It may seem that big problems require big solutions, but ad man Rory Sutherland says many flashy, expensive fixes are just obscuring better, simpler answers. To illustrate, he uses behavioral economics and TEDSalon hilariousLondon examples. 2010 0:12:37 6/9/2010 Nuclear power: the energy crisis has even die-hard environmentalists reconsidering it. In this first-ever TED debate, Stewart Brand and Mark Z. Jacobson square off over the pros and cons. A discussion that'll TED2010 make you think -- and might even 0:22:59 change your mind. 6/10/2010 As his career grew, David Byrne went from playing CBGB to Carnegie Hall. He asks: Does the venue make the music? From outdoor drumming to Wagnerian operas to arena rock, he explores how context TED2010 has pushed musical innovation. 0:17:47 6/11/2010 Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things -- from alien abductions to dowsing rods -- boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, TED2010 and how they get us into trouble. 0:19:01 6/14/2010 Margaret Gould Stewart, YouTube's head of user experience, talks about how the ubiquitous video site works with copyright holders and creators to foster (at the best of times) a creative ecosystem where everybody TED2010 wins. 0:05:45 6/15/2010 Peter Tyack of Woods Hole talks about a hidden wonder of the sea: underwater sound. Onstage at Mission Blue, he explains the amazing ways whales use sound and song to communicate across hundreds Mission of miles Blue of ocean. Voyage 0:21:20 6/16/2010 Bored in school, failing classes, at odds with peers: This child might be an entrepreneur, says Cameron Herold. At TEDxEdmonton, he makes the case for parenting and education that helps would-be entrepreneurs TEDxEdmonton flourish -- as kids and as adults. 0:21:24 6/17/2010 Renowned classical Indian dancer Ananda Shankar Jayant was diagnosed with cancer in 2008. She tells her personal story of not only facing the disease but dancing through it, and gives a performance revealing TEDIndia the 2009 metaphor of strength that 0:16:07 helped her do it. 6/18/2010 When the dotcom bubble burst, hotelier Chip Conley went in search of a business model based on happiness. In an old friendship with an employee and in the wisdom of a Buddhist king, he learned that success TED2010 comes from what you count. 0:17:39 6/21/2010 In graphic design, Marian Bantjes says, throwing your individuality into a project is heresy. She explains how she built her career doing just that, bringing her signature delicate illustrations to storefronts, valentines TED2010 and even genetic diagrams. 0:16:28 6/22/2010 Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education -- and found them in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where some of the world's poorest kids are finding transformative new ways to learn. And TEDSalon this informal, London disruptive 2010 new kind 0:18:58 of school, he says, is what 6/23/2010 all schools need to become Developmental disorders in children are typically diagnosed by observing behavior, but Aditi Shankardass knew that we should be looking directly at their brains. She explains how a remarkable EEG deviceTEDIndia has revealed 2009 mistaken diagnoses and 0:09:01 transformed children's 6/24/2010 lives. Lego blocks: playtime mainstay for industrious kids, obsession for many (ahem!) mature adults. Hillel Cooperman takes us on a trip through the beloved bricks' colorful, sometimes oddball grownup subculture, TED2010 featuring CAD, open-source robotics 0:05:50 and a little adult behavior. 6/25/2010 Clay Shirky looks at "cognitive surplus" -- the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. While we're busy editing Wikipedia, posting to Ushahidi (and yes, making LOLcats), we're building a better, TED@Cannes more cooperative world. 0:13:07 6/28/2010 Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years' big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. To come: Dying malls rehabilitated, dead "big box" stores re-inhabited, parking lots transformed TEDxAtlanta into thriving wetlands. 0:19:23 6/29/2010 There's a tight and surprising link between the ocean's health and ours, says marine biologist Stephen Palumbi. He shows how toxins at the bottom of the ocean food chain find their way into our bodies, with Mission a shocking Blue story Voyage of toxic contamination 0:15:42 from a Japanese fish 6/30/2010 market. His work points a w For the last 12 years, Carter Emmart has been coordinating the efforts of scientists, artists and programmers to build a complete 3D visualization of our known universe. He demos this stunning tour and explains TED2010 how it's being shared with facilities 0:06:57 around the world. 7/1/2010 TED Fellow and urban designer Mitchell Joachim presents his vision for sustainable, organic architecture: eco-friendly abodes grown from plants and -- wait for it -- meat. TED2010 0:02:56 7/2/2010 At TED2010, mathematics legend Benoit Mandelbrot develops a theme he first discussed at TED in 1984 -- the extreme complexity of roughness, and the way that fractal math can find order within patterns TED2010 that seem unknowably complicated.0:17:09 7/6/2010 Co-creator of the philanthropic FEED bags, Ellen Gustafson says hunger and obesity are two sides of the same coin. At TEDxEast, she launches The 30 Project -- a way to change how we farm and eat in the TEDxEast next 30 years, and solve the global 0:11:15 food inequalities behind 7/7/2010 both epidemics. Nalini Nadkarni challenges our perspective on trees and prisons -- she says both can be more dynamic than we think. Through a partnership with the state of Washington, she brings science classes and conservation TED2010 programs to inmates, with 0:05:07 unexpected results. 7/8/2010 The world's population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years -- and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth. This is the paradoxical answer that Hans RoslingTED@Cannes unveils at TED@Cannes using colorful 0:10:04 new data display technology 7/9/2010 (you'll see). The Gulf oil spill dwarfs comprehension, but we know this much: it's bad. Carl Safina scrapes out the facts in this blood-boiling cross-examination, arguing that the consequences will stretch far beyond the Gulf TEDxOilSpill -- and many so-called solutions are 0:19:55 making the situation 7/12/2010 worse. At TEDGlobal 2010, author Matt Ridley shows how, throughout history, the engine of human progress has been the meeting and mating of ideas to make new ideas. It's not important how clever individuals TEDGlobal are, he says; 2010 what really matters is how 0:16:26 smart the collective 7/14/2010 brain is. Sure, the web connects the globe, but most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves. Blogger and technologist Ethan Zuckerman wants to help share the stories of the whole wide world. He TEDGlobal talks about 2010 clever strategies to open 0:19:45 up your Twitter world 7/15/2010 and read the news in languag Listening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel. Elif Shafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction can overcome TEDGlobal identity 2010 politics. 0:19:45 7/16/2010 The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who's reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED's ChrisTEDGlobal Anderson about 2010 how the site operates, 0:19:33 what it has accomplished 7/19/2010 -- and what drives him. T In "THE 99," Naif Al-Mutawa's new generation of comic book heroes fight more than crime -- they smash stereotypes and battle extremism. Named after the 99 attributes of Allah, his characters reinforce positive TEDGlobal messages 2010of Islam and cross cultures 0:18:22 to create a new 7/20/2010 moral framework for confrontin
Astronomer Dimitar Sasselov and his colleagues search for Earth-like planets that may, someday, help us answer centuries-old questions about the origin and existence of biological life elsewhere (and on Earth). TEDGlobal Preliminary 2010 results show that 0:18:30 they have found 706 "candidates" 7/21/2010 -- some of which fur Tan Le's astonishing new computer interface reads its user's brainwaves, making it possible to control virtual objects, and even physical electronics, with mere thoughts (and a little concentration). She demos TEDGlobal the headset, 2010 and talks about its far-reaching 0:10:36 applications. 7/21/2010 Arthritis and injury grind down millions of joints, but few get the best remedy -- real biological tissue. Kevin Stone shows a treatment that could sidestep the high costs and donor shortfall of human-to-humanTED2010 transplants with a novel use of animal 0:06:51 tissue. 7/22/2010 Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices -- and how we feel about the choices we make. At TEDGlobal, she talks about both trivial choices (Coke v. Pepsi) and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking TEDGlobal research 2010 that has uncovered 0:24:08 some surprising attitudes 7/26/2010 about our decisions. In this Princeton University graduation address, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos makes the case that our character is reflected not in the gifts we're endowed with at birth, but by the choices we make over the course Princeton of a University lifetime. 0:18:44 7/27/2010 Break down the oil slick, keep it off the shores: that's grounds for pumping toxic dispersant into the Gulf, say clean-up overseers. Susan Shaw shows evidence it's sparing some beaches only at devastating TEDxOilSpill cost to the health of the deep sea. 0:16:42 7/27/2010 Oceanographer John Delaney is leading the team that is building an underwater network of high-def cameras and sensors that will turn our ocean into a global interactive lab -- sparking an explosion of rich Mission data about Blue the Voyage world below. 0:20:50 7/28/2010 Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in "monkeynomics" shows that some of the silly choices we make, TEDGlobal monkeys 2010 make too. 0:19:45 7/29/2010 After he swam the North Pole, Lewis Pugh vowed never to take another cold-water dip. Then he heard of Mt. Everest's Lake Imja -- a body of water at an altitude of 5300 m, entirely created by recent glacialTEDGlobal melting -- and 2010 began a journey that 0:09:45 would teach him a radical 7/30/2010 new way to approach swimm Convince just 100 key companies to go sustainable, and WWF's Jason Clay says global markets will shift to protect the planet our consumption has already outgrown. Hear how his extraordinary roundtables TEDGlobal are getting 2010 big brand rivals to agree 0:19:29 on green practices first 8/16/2010 -- before their products duke Sheryl WuDunn's book "Half the Sky" investigates the oppression of women globally. Her stories shock. Only when women in developing countries have equal access to education and economic opportunityTEDGlobal will we be using 2010 all our human resources. 0:18:22 8/17/2010 Hours before New York lawmakers rejected a key marriage equality bill (38-24), State Senator Diane J. Savino made the passionate case for a government that recognizes and administers same-sex marriages. New York Here's State her fresh, Senate thought-provoking 0:07:33 perspective on one8/17/2010 of the most contentious issue Peter Molyneux demos Milo, a hotly anticipated video game for Microsoft's Kinect controller. Perceptive and impressionable like a real 11-year-old, the virtual boy watches, listens and learns -- recognizing and TEDGlobal responding 2010 to you. 0:10:55 8/18/2010 Jamil Abu-Wardeh jump-started the comedy scene in the Arab world by founding the Axis of Evil Middle East Comedy Tour, which brings standup comedians to laughing audiences all over the region. He's found TEDGlobal that, by 2010 respecting the "three B's" 0:08:59 (blue material, beliefs 8/19/2010 and "bolitics"), the Axis of Ev A founding member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, standup comic Maz Jobrani riffs on the challenges and conflicts of being Iranian-American -- "like, part of me thinks I should have a nuclear program; the TEDGlobal other part thinks 2010 I can't be trusted ..." 0:09:14 8/19/2010 By now, we're used to letting Facebook and Twitter capture our social lives on the web -- building a "social layer" on top of the real world. At TEDxBoston, Seth Priebatsch looks at the next layer in progress:TEDxBoston the "game layer," 2010 a pervasive net of0:12:02 behavior-steering game 8/20/2010 dynamics that will reshape e David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, TEDGlobal he suggests, 2010 is the best way to 0:17:56 navigate information glut 8/23/2010 -- and it may just change th Science columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten-thousand-year-old ice to extract vital data on our changing climate. TEDGlobal 2010 0:09:45 8/24/2010 In this talk from RSA Animate, bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways it has shaped human development and society. RSA Animate 0:10:39 8/24/2010 Cartoonist Jim Toomey created the comic strip Sherman's Lagoon, a wry look at underwater life starring Sherman the talking shark. As he sketches some of his favorite sea creatures live onstage, Toomey shares Mission his Blue love Voyage of the ocean and the0:14:15 stories it can tell. 8/25/2010 In the Gulf oil spill's aftermath, Lisa Margonelli says drilling moratoriums and executive ousters make for good theater, but distract from the issue at its heart: our unrestrained oil consumption. She shares her TEDxOilSpill bold plan to wean America off of oil 0:17:14 -- by confronting consumers 8/26/2010 with its real cost. Physics and marketing don't seem to have much in common, but Dan Cobley is passionate about both. He brings these unlikely bedfellows together using Newton's second law, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, TEDGlobal the scientific 2010 method and the 0:07:38 second law of thermodynamics 8/27/2010 to explain the fundame Statistician Nic Marks asks why we measure a nation's success by its productivity -- instead of by the happiness and well-being of its people. He introduces the Happy Planet Index, which tracks national well-being TEDGlobal against 2010 resource use (because 0:16:49 a happy life doesn't have 8/30/2010 to cost the earth). Which Human growth has strained the Earth's resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine "planetary TEDGlobal boundaries" 2010 that can guide us in protecting 0:18:10 our planet's many 8/31/2010 overlapping ecosystems. His Holiness the Karmapa talks about how he was discovered to be the reincarnation of a revered figure in Tibetan Buddhism. In telling his story, he urges us to work on not just technology and design, but the TEDIndia technology 2009and design of the heart. 0:25:23 He is translated onstage 9/1/2010 by Tyler Dewar. After hitting on a brilliant new life plan, our first instinct is to tell someone, but Derek Sivers says it's better to keep goals secret. He presents research stretching as far back as the 1920s to show why peopleTEDGlobal who talk about 2010 their ambitions may 0:03:15 be less likely to achieve them. 9/2/2010 Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world's oldest continuously living organisms -- from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago's coast to an "underground forest" in South Africa that has lived since before TEDGlobal the dawn 2010 of agriculture. 0:14:08 9/3/2010 Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New DelhiTEDGlobal to South Africa 2010 to Italy, he gave kids 0:17:13 self-supervised access to 9/7/2010 the web and saw results th Alwar Balasubramaniam's sculpture plays with time, shape, shadow, perspective: four tricky sensations that can reveal -- or conceal -- what's really out there. At TEDIndia, the artist shows slides of his extraordinary TEDIndia installations. 2009 0:16:51 9/8/2010 After 15 years in the British diplomatic corps, Carne Ross became a "freelance diplomat," running a bold nonprofit that gives small, developing and yet-unrecognized nations a voice in international relations.Business At the BIF-5 Innovation conference, Factory he calls for 0:20:38 a new kind of diplomacy 9/9/2010 that gives voice to small cou Arts administrator and live-theater fan Ben Cameron looks at the state of the live arts -- asking: How can the magic of live theater, live music, live dance compete with the always-on Internet? At TEDxYYC, he TEDxYYC offers a bold look forward. 0:12:44 9/10/2010 Why are so many things broken? In a hilarious talk from the 2006 Gel conference, Seth Godin gives a tour of things poorly designed, the 7 reasons why they are that way, and how to fix them. Gel Conference 2006 0:20:14 9/10/2010 Rob Dunbar hunts for data on our climate from 12,000 years ago, finding clues inside ancient seabeds and corals and inside ice sheets. His work is vital in setting baselines for fixing our current climate -- and Mission in tracking Blue Voyage the rise of deadly ocean 0:18:14 acidification. 9/13/2010 TED's Chris Anderson says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation -- a self-fueling cycle of learning that could be as significant as the invention of print. TEDGlobal But to tap 2010 into its power, organizations 0:18:53will need to embrace 9/14/2010 radical openness. And for In today's world, balancing school, work, kids and more, most of us can only hope for the recommended eight hours of sleep. Examining the science behind our body's internal clock, Jessa Gamble reveals the TEDGlobal surprising 2010 and substantial program 0:04:01 of rest we should be observing. 9/15/2010 After mapping humans' intricate social networks, Nicholas Christakis and colleague James Fowler began investigating how this information could better our lives. Now, he reveals his hot-off-the-press findings: TED@Cannes These networks can be used to detect 0:17:54 epidemics earlier than 9/16/2010 ever, from the spread of in Caroline Phillips cranks out tunes on a seldom-heard folk instrument: the hurdy-gurdy, a.k.a. the wheel fiddle. A searching, Basque melody follows her fun lesson on its unique anatomy and 1,000-year history. TEDGlobal 2010 0:05:41 9/17/2010 Christien Meindertsma, author of "Pig 05049" looks at the astonishing afterlife of the ordinary pig, parts of which make their way into at least 185 non-pork products, from bullets to artificial hearts. TEDGlobal 2010 0:08:54 9/20/2010 People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the "liquid networks" of London's coffee houses TEDGlobal to Charles 2010 Darwin's long, slow hunch 0:17:45 to today's high-velocity 9/21/2010 web. In sub-Saharan Africa, HIV infections are more prevalent and doctors scarcer than anywhere else in the world. With a lack of medical professionals, Mitchell Besser enlisted the help of his patients to create TEDGlobal mothers2mothers 2010 -- an extraordinary 0:18:30 network of HIV-positive 9/22/2010 women whose support for ea For the last eight years, pop singer Annie Lennox has devoted the majority of her time to her SING campaign, raising awareness and money to combat HIV/AIDS. She shares the experiences that have inspired TEDGlobal her, from 2010 working with Nelson Mandela 0:09:16 to meeting a little 9/22/2010 African girl in a desperate si At TEDxBerlin, Fabian Hemmert demos one future of the mobile phone -- a shape-shifting and weight-shifting handset that "displays" information nonvisually, offering a delightfully intuitive way to communicate. TEDxBerlin 0:04:15 9/23/2010 Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health -- even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step plan to soften this sonic assault (starting with those cheap earbuds) and restore TEDGlobal our relationship 2010 with sound. 0:07:14 9/23/2010
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Speaker Tim Birkhead Gary Wolf Sebastian Seung Inge Missmahl Mechai Viravaidya Eben Bayer Tim Jackson Barbara Block Hans Rosling Stacey Kramer Stefano Mancuso Melinda French Gates Peter Haas Natalie Jeremijenko Ze Frank Joel Burns Jessica Jackley Heribert Watzke Dianna Cohen
Name Tim Birkhead: The early birdwatchers Gary Wolf: The quantified self Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome Inge Missmahl brings peace to the minds of Afghanistan Mechai Viravaidya: How Mr. Condom made Thailand a better place Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic? Tim Jackson's economic reality check Barbara Block: Tagging tuna in the deep ocean Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade? Stacey Kramer: The best gift I ever survived Stefano Mancuso: The roots of plant intelligence Melinda French Gates: What nonprofits can learn from Coca-Cola Peter Haas: Haiti's disaster of engineering Natalie Jeremijenko: The art of the eco-mindshift Ze Frank's web playroom Joel Burns tells gay teens "it gets better" Jessica Jackley: Poverty, money -- and love Heribert Watzke: The brain in your gut Dianna Cohen: Tough truths about plastic pollution
Short Summary Event Duration Publish date Birds, a perennial human fascination, entertained medieval homes long before science took them for serious study. "Wisdom of Birds" author Tim Birkhead tours some intriguing birdwatcher lore (dug up in old The field Do journals) Lectures -- and talks about the 0:28:30 role it plays in ornithology 9/26/2010 today. At TED@Cannes, Gary Wolf gives a 5-min intro to an intriguing new pastime: using mobile apps and always-on gadgets to track and analyze your body, mood, diet, spending -- just about everything in dailyTED@Cannes life you can measure -- in gloriously0:05:10 geeky detail. 9/27/2010 Sebastian Seung is mapping a massively ambitious new model of the brain that focuses on the connections between each neuron. He calls it our "connectome," and it's as individual as our genome -- and understanding TEDGlobal 2010 it could open a new way 0:19:26 to understand our brains 9/28/2010 and our minds. When Jungian analyst Inge Missmahl visited Afghanistan, she saw the inner wounds of war -- widespread despair, trauma and depression. And yet, in this county of 30 million people, there were only two dozen TEDGlobal psychiatrists. 2010 Missmahl talks about 0:10:41 her work helping to 9/29/2010 build the country's system of p At TEDxChange, Thailand's "Mr. Condom," Mechai Viravaidya, walks us through the country's bold plan to raise its standard of living, starting in the 1970s. First step: population control. And that means a lot TEDxChange of frank, funny -- and very effective0:13:50 -- talk about condoms. 9/30/2010 Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens -- and the environment. TEDGlobal 2010 0:09:05 10/4/2010 As the world faces recession, climate change, inequity and more, Tim Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to established economic principles, explaining how we might stop feeding the crises and start investing TEDGlobal in our 2010 future. 0:20:23 10/5/2010 Tuna are ocean athletes -- fast, far-ranging predators whose habits we're just beginning to understand. Marine biologist Barbara Block fits tuna with tracking tags (complete with transponders) that record unprecedented Mission Blue amounts Voyage of data about 0:20:06 these gorgeous, threatened 10/6/2010 fish and the ocean habita Hans Rosling reframes 10 years of UN data with his spectacular visuals, lighting up an astonishing -- mostly unreported -- piece of front-page-worthy good news: We're winning the war against child mortality. TEDxChange Along the way, he debunks one flawed 0:15:34 approach to stats that 10/7/2010 blots out such vital stories. Stacey Kramer offers a moving, personal, 3-minute parable that shows how an unwanted experience -- frightening, traumatic, costly -- can turn out to be a priceless gift. TED2010 0:03:17 10/8/2010 Plants behave in some oddly intelligent ways: fighting predators, maximizing food opportunities ... But can we think of them as actually having a form of intelligence of their own? Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso TEDGlobal presents 2010 intriguing evidence. 0:13:50 10/11/2010 At TEDxChange, Melinda Gates makes a provocative case for nonprofits taking a cue from corporations such as Coca-Cola, whose plugged-in, global network of marketers and distributors ensures that every TEDxChange remote village wants -- and can get 0:16:28 -- a Coke. Why shouldn't 10/12/2010 this work for condoms, san "Haiti was not a natural disaster," says TED Fellow Peter Haas: "It was a disaster of engineering." As the country rebuilds after January's deadly quake, are bad old building practices creating another ticking time bomb? Haas's group, AIDG, is helping Haiti's builders learn modern building and eng TED Senior Fellows at TEDGlobal 2010 0:08:30 10/13/2010 Natalie Jeremijenko's unusual lab puts art to work, and addresses environmental woes by combining engineering know-how with public art and a team of volunteers. These real-life experiments include: Walking Business tadpoles, Innovation texting Factory "fish," planting0:19:50 fire-hydrant gardens and 10/14/2010 more. On the web, a new "Friend" may be just a click away, but true connection is harder to find and express. Ze Frank presents a medley of zany Internet toys that require deep participation -- and reward it with something TEDGlobal more 2010 nourishing. You're invited, 0:18:00 if you promise you'll 10/15/2010 share. In a courageous, intensely emotional talk at the city council in Fort Worth, Texas, councilman Joel Burns reaches out to the targets of teen bullying -- kids who are gay, perceived as gay, or just different -- with Fort a Worth vital message City Council about their lives, 0:12:55 and the harassment they 10/17/2010 face. What do you think of people in poverty? Maybe what Jessica Jackley once did: "they" need "our" help, in the form of a few coins in a jar. The co-founder of Kiva.org talks about how her attitude changed -- and TEDGlobal how her work 2010 with microloans has 0:18:33 brought new power to 10/18/2010 people who live on a few dolla Did you know you have functioning neurons in your intestines -- about a hundred million of them? Food scientist Heribert Watzke tells us about the "hidden brain" in our gut and the surprising things it makesTEDGlobal us feel. 2010 0:15:14 10/19/2010 Artist Dianna Cohen shares some tough truths about plastic pollution in the ocean and in our lives -- and some thoughts on how to free ourselves from the plastic gyre. Mission Blue Voyage 0:05:18 10/20/2010 In a series of witty punchlines, Patrick Chappatte makes a poignant case for the power of the humble cartoon. His projects in Lebanon, West Africa and Gaza show how, in the right hands, the pencil can illuminate serious issues and bring the most unlikely people together.
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Patrick Chappatte Patrick Chappatte: The power of cartoons David Byrne, Thomas Dolby, Ethel David Byrne sings "(Nothing But) Flowers" R.A. Mashelkar R.A. Mashelkar: Breakthrough designs for ultra-low-cost products Joseph Nye Joseph Nye on global power shifts Barton Seaver Barton Seaver: Sustainable seafood? Let's get smart Shimon Steinberg Shimon Steinberg: Natural pest control ... using bugs! Miwa Matreyek Miwa Matreyek's glorious visions Tom Chatfield Tom Chatfield: 7 ways games reward the brain David Bismark David Bismark: E-voting without fraud Greg Stone Greg Stone: Saving the ocean one island at a time Gero Miesenboeck Gero Miesenboeck reengineers a brain Andrew Bird Emily Pilloton Stefan Wolff Aaron Huey Auret van Heerden Eric Berlow Conrad Wolfram Denis Dutton Shimon Schocken John Hardy Kristina Gjerde Kim Gorgens Zainab Salbi Jason Fried Dan Phillips Birke Baehr William Ury Marcel Dicke Bart Weetjens Arthur Potts Dawson Halla Tomasdottir Tony Porter Kiran Bedi Hanna Rosin Diana Laufenberg Rufus Griscom + Alisa Volkman Rachel Botsman Ken Robinson Beverly + Dereck Joubert Sheryl Sandberg Majora Carter Brene Brown Barry Schwartz Arianna Huffington Lesley Hazleton Charles Limb Andrew Bird's one-man orchestra of the imagination Emily Pilloton: Teaching design for change Stefan Wolff: The path to ending ethnic conflicts Aaron Huey: America's native prisoners of war Auret van Heerden: Making global labor fair Eric Berlow: How complexity leads to simplicity Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty Shimon Schocken's rides of hope John Hardy: My green school dream Kristina Gjerde: Making law on the high seas Kim Gorgens: Protecting the brain against concussion Zainab Salbi: Women, wartime and the dream of peace Jason Fried: Why work doesn't happen at work Dan Phillips: Creative houses from reclaimed stuff Birke Baehr: What's wrong with our food system William Ury: The walk from "no" to "yes" Marcel Dicke: Why not eat insects? Bart Weetjens: How I taught rats to sniff out land mines Arthur Potts Dawson: A vision for sustainable restaurants Halla Tomasdottir: A feminine response to Iceland's financial crash Tony Porter: A call to men Kiran Bedi: A police chief with a difference
Hanna Rosin: New data on the rise of women Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes Let's talk parenting taboos: Rufus Griscom + Alisa Volkman Rachel Botsman: The case for collaborative consumption Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms Beverly + Dereck Joubert: Life lessons from big cats Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders Majora Carter: 3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability Barry Schwartz: Using our practical wisdom Arianna Huffington: How to succeed? Get more sleep Lesley Hazleton: On reading the Koran Charles Limb: Your brain on improv Deborah Rhodes: A tool that finds 3x more breast tumors, and why it's Deborah Rhodes not available to you Neil Pasricha Neil Pasricha: The 3 A's of awesome Jody Williams Jody Williams: A realistic vision for world peace Amber Case Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now Thomas Thwaites Thomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster -- from scratch Elizabeth Lesser Elizabeth Lesser: Take "the Other" to lunch Ali Carr-Chellman Ali Carr-Chellman: Gaming to re-engage boys in learning Naomi Klein Naomi Klein: Addicted to risk Charity Tillemann-Dick Charity Tillemann-Dick: Singing after a double lung transplant Van Jones Van Jones: The economic injustice of plastic Anders Ynnerman Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion Heather Knight Heather Knight: Silicon-based comedy Martin Jacques Martin Jacques: Understanding the rise of China Thomas Goetz Thomas Goetz: It's time to redesign medical data Liza Donnelly Liza Donnelly: Drawing upon humor for change Bruce Feiler Bruce Feiler: The council of dads Jake Shimabukuro Jake Shimabukuro plays "Bohemian Rhapsody" Kate Orff Reviving New York's rivers -- with oysters! Dale Dougherty Dale Dougherty: We are makers Johanna Blakley Johanna Blakley: Social media and the end of gender Christopher McDougall Christopher McDougall: Are we born to run? Suheir Hammad Suheir Hammad: Poems of war, peace, women, power Nigel Marsh Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work Cynthia Breazeal Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots Dr. Hawa Abdi + Dr. Deqo Mohamed Mother and daughter doctor-heroes: Hawa Abdi + Deqo Mohamed Michael Pawlyn Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture
TEDGlobal 2010 0:12:32 10/21/2010 David Byrne sings the Talking Heads' 1988 hit, "(Nothing But) Flowers." He's accompanied by Thomas Dolby and string quartet Ethel, who made up the TED2010 house band. TED2010 0:03:15 10/22/2010 Engineer RA Mashelkar shares three stories of ultra-low-cost design from India that use bottom-up rethinking, and some clever engineering, to bring expensive products (cars, prosthetics) into the realm of the TEDIndia possible 2009 for everyone. 0:19:40 10/25/2010 Historian and diplomat Joseph Nye gives us the 30,000-foot view of the shifts in power between China and the US, and the global implications as economic, political and "soft" power shifts and moves around TEDGlobal the globe.2010 0:18:15 10/26/2010 Chef Barton Seaver presents a modern dilemma: Seafood is one of our healthier protein options, but overfishing is desperately harming our oceans. He suggests a simple way to keep fish on the dinner table Mission that includes Blue Voyage every mom's favorite0:09:26 adage -- "Eat your vegetables!" 10/27/2010 At TEDxTelAviv, Shimon Steinberg looks at the difference between pests and bugs -- and makes the case for using good bugs to fight bad bugs, avoiding chemicals in our quest for perfect produce. TEDxTelAviv 2010 0:15:23 10/28/2010 Using animation, projections and her own moving shadow, Miwa Matreyek performs a gorgeous, meditative piece about inner and outer discovery. Take a quiet 10 minutes and dive in. With music from Anna TEDGlobal Oxygen, Mirah, 2010 Caroline Lufkin and 0:11:11 Mileece. 10/29/2010 We're bringing gameplay into more aspects of our lives, spending countless hours -- and real money -- exploring virtual worlds for imaginary treasures. Why? As Tom Chatfield shows, games are perfectly tuned TEDGlobal to dole2010 out rewards that engage 0:16:28 the brain and keep us questing 11/1/2010 for more. David Bismark demos a new system for voting that contains a simple, verifiable way to prevent fraud and miscounting -- while keeping each person's vote secret. TEDGlobal 2010 0:07:02 11/2/2010 Aboard Mission Blue, scientist Greg Stone tells the story of how he helped the Republic of Kiribati create an enormous protected area in the middle of the Pacific -- protecting fish, sealife and the island nation Mission itself. Blue Voyage 0:17:15 11/3/2010 In the quest to map the brain, many scientists have attempted the incredibly daunting task of recording the activity of each neuron. Gero Miesenboeck works backward -- manipulating specific neurons to figure TEDGlobal out exactly 2010 what they do, through 0:17:34 a series of stunning experiments 11/3/2010 that reengineer the Musical innovator Andrew Bird winds together his trademark violin technique with xylophone, vocals and sophisticated electronic looping. Add in his uncanny ability to whistle anything, and he becomes a riveting one-man orchestra. TED2010 0:19:19 11/5/2010 Designer Emily Pilloton moved to rural Bertie County, in North Carolina, to engage in a bold experiment of design-led community transformation. She's teaching a design-build class called Studio H that engages TEDGlobal high schoolers' 2010 minds and bodies 0:16:43 while bringing smart design 11/8/2010 and new opportunities Civil wars and ethnic conflicts have brought the world incredible suffering, but Stefan Wolff's figures show that, in the last 20 years, their number has steadily decreased. He extracts critical lessons from Northern TEDGlobal Ireland, 2010 Liberia, Timor and more 0:17:35 to show that leadership, 11/9/2010 diplomacy and institutional Aaron Huey's effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people -- appalling, and largely ignored -- compelled him to refocus. TEDxDU Five years 2010 of work later, his haunting 0:15:27 photos intertwine with 11/10/2010 a shocking history lesson in Labor activist Auret van Heerden talks about the next frontier of workers' rights -- globalized industries where no single national body can keep workers safe and protected. How can we keep our global supply TEDGlobal chains honest? 2010 Van Heerden makes 0:17:46 the business case for 11/11/2010 fair labor. Ecologist Eric Berlow doesn't feel overwhelmed when faced with complex systems. He knows that more information can lead to a better, simpler solution. Illustrating the tips and tricks for breaking down big TEDGlobal issues, he distills 2010 an overwhelming infographic 0:03:42 on U.S. strategy 11/12/2010 in Afghanistan to a few ele From rockets to stock markets, many of humanity's most thrilling creations are powered by math. So why do kids lose interest in it? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach -- calculation by hand -- isn't TEDGlobal just tedious, 2010it's mostly irrelevant0:17:19 to real mathematics and 11/15/2010 the real world. He presents h TED collaborates with animator Andrew Park to illustrate Denis Dutton's provocative theory on beauty -- that art, music and other beautiful things, far from being simply "in the eye of the beholder," are a core TED2010 part of human nature with deep evolutionary 0:15:33 origins. 11/16/2010 Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is also an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor program with Israel's juvenile inmates and was touched TEDxTelAviv by both their intense 2010 difficulties and 0:15:46 profound successes. Photographs 11/17/2010 by Raphael Rabino Join John Hardy on a tour of the Green School, his off-the-grid school in Bali that teaches kids how to build, garden, create (and get into college). The centerpiece of campus is the spiraling Heart of School, TEDGlobal perhaps the 2010 world's largest freestanding 0:13:35 bamboo building. 11/18/2010 Kristina Gjerde studies the law of the high seas -- the 64 percent of our ocean that isn't protected by any national law at all. Gorgeous photos show the hidden worlds that Gjerde and other lawyers are working Mission to protect Blue from Voyage trawling and trash-dumping, 0:15:46 through smart 11/19/2010 policymaking and a healthy d In a lively talk from TEDxDU, neuropsychologist Kim Gorgens makes the case for better protecting our brains against the risk of concussion -- with a compelling pitch for putting helmets on kids. TEDxDU 2010 0:09:21 11/22/2010 In war we often see only the frontline stories of soldiers and combat. AT TEDGlobal 2010, Zainab Salbi tells powerful "backline" stories of women who keep everyday life going during conflicts, and calls for women TEDGlobal to have 2010 a place at the negotiating 0:17:46 table once fighting 11/23/2010 is over. Jason Fried has a radical theory of working: that the office isn't a good place to do it. At TEDxMidwest, he lays out the main problems (call them the M&Ms) and offers three suggestions to make work work. TEDxMidwest 0:15:21 11/24/2010 In this funny and insightful talk from TEDxHouston, builder Dan Phillips tours us through a dozen homes he's built in Texas using recycled and reclaimed materials in wildly creative ways. Brilliant, low-tech design TEDxHouston details will refresh your own creative 0:17:57drive. 11/25/2010 11-year-old Birke Baehr presents his take on a major source of our food -- far-away and less-than-picturesque industrial farms. Keeping farms out of sight promotes a rosy, unreal picture of big-box agriculture, TEDxNextGenerationAsheville he argues, as he outlines the case 0:05:14 to green and localize 11/29/2010 food production. William Ury, author of "Getting to Yes," offers an elegant, simple (but not easy) way to create agreement in even the most difficult situations -- from family conflict to, perhaps, the Middle East. TEDxMidwest 0:18:45 11/30/2010 Marcel Dicke makes an appetizing case for adding insects to everyone's diet. His message to squeamish chefs and foodies: delicacies like locusts and caterpillars compete with meat in flavor, nutrition and eco-friendliness. TEDGlobal 2010 0:16:34 12/1/2010 At TEDxRotterdam, Bart Weetjens talks about his extraordinary project: training rats to sniff out land mines. He shows clips of his "hero rats" in action, and previews his work's next phase: teaching them to turn TEDxRotterdam up tuberculosis 2010 in the lab. 0:12:11 12/2/2010 If you've been in a restaurant kitchen, you've seen how much food, water and energy can be wasted there. Chef Arthur Potts-Dawson shares his very personal vision for drastically reducing restaurant, and supermarket, TEDGlobal 2010 waste -- creating recycling, 0:08:49 composting, sustainable 12/3/2010 engines for good (and go Halla Tomasdottir managed to take her company Audur Capital through the eye of the financial storm in Iceland by applying 5 traditionally "feminine" values to financial services. At TEDWomen, she talks about TEDWomen these values and the importance 0:09:45 of balance. 12/8/2010 At TEDWomen, Tony Porter makes a call to men everywhere: Don't "act like a man." Telling powerful stories from his own life, he shows how this mentality, drummed into so many men and boys, can lead men TEDWomen to disrespect, mistreat and abuse 0:11:13 women and each other. 12/9/2010 His solution: Break free of th Kiran Bedi has a surprising resume. Before becoming Director General of the Indian Police Service, she managed one of the country's toughest prisons -- and used a new focus on prevention and educationTEDWomen to turn it into a center of learning and 0:08:47 meditation. She shares 12/13/2010 her thoughts on visionary lea Hanna Rosin reviews startling new data that shows women actually surpassing men in several important measures, such as college graduation rates. Do these trends, both US-centric and global, signal the "end of men"? Probably not -- but they point toward an important societal shift worth deep TEDWomen 0:16:12 12/15/2010 Diana Laufenberg shares 3 surprising things she has learned about teaching -- including a key insight about learning from mistakes. TEDxMidAtlantic 0:10:05 12/15/2010 Babble.com publishers Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman, in a lively tag-team, expose 4 facts that parents never, ever admit -- and why they should. Funny and honest, for parents and nonparents alike. TEDWomen 0:17:08 12/16/2010 At TEDxSydney, Rachel Botsman says we're "wired to share" -- and shows how websites like Zipcar and Swaptree are changing the rules of human behavior. TEDxSydney 0:16:34 12/17/2010 In this talk from RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3 troubling trends: rising drop-out rates, schools' dwindling stake in the arts, and ADHD. An important, timely talk for parents and teachers. RSA Animate 0:11:40 12/19/2010 Beverly + Dereck Joubert live in the bush, filming and photographing lions and leopards in their natural habitat. With stunning footage (some never before seen), they discuss their personal relationships with TEDWomen these majestic animals -- and their 0:17:20 quest to save the big cats 12/20/2010 from human threats. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions -- and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women aiming for the C-suite. TEDWomen 0:14:58 12/21/2010 The future of green is local -- and entrepreneurial. At TEDxMidwest, Majora Carter brings us the stories of three people who are saving their own communities while saving the planet. Call it "hometown security." TEDxMidwest 0:17:59 12/22/2010 Brene Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest TEDxHouston to know herself as well as to understand 0:20:19 humanity. A talk12/23/2010 to share. In an intimate talk, Barry Schwartz dives into the question "How do we do the right thing?" With help from collaborator Kenneth Sharpe, he shares stories that illustrate the difference between following the rules TEDand in the truly Field choosing wisely. 0:23:07 12/31/2010 In this short talk, Arianna Huffington shares a small idea that can awaken much bigger ones: the power of a good night's sleep. Instead of bragging about our sleep deficits, she urges us to shut our eyes and TEDWomen see the big picture: We can sleep our 0:04:10 way to increased productivity 1/3/2011 and happiness -- and Lesley Hazleton sat down one day to read the Koran. And what she found -- as a non-Muslim, a self-identified "tourist" in the Islamic holy book -- wasn't what she expected. With serious scholarship and warm TEDxRainier humor, Hazleton shares the grace, 0:09:33 flexibility and mystery she 1/4/2011 found, in this myth-debun Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation -- so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications TEDxMidAtlantic for our understanding of creativity 0:16:31 of all kinds. 1/5/2011
Working with a team of physicists, Dr. Deborah Rhodes developed a new tool for tumor detection that's 3 times as effective as traditional mammograms for women with dense breast tissue. The life-saving implications TEDWomen are stunning. So why haven't 0:21:08 we heard of it? Rhodes 1/6/2011 shares the story behind th Neil Pasricha's blog 1000 Awesome Things savors life's simple pleasures, from free refills to clean sheets. In this heartfelt talk from TEDxToronto, he reveals the 3 secrets (all starting with A) to leading a lifeTEDxToronto that's truly awesome. 2010 0:17:33 1/7/2011 Nobel Peace laureate Jody Williams brings tough love to the dream of world peace, with her razor-sharp take on what "peace" really means, and a set of profound stories that zero in on the creative struggleTEDWomen -- and sacrifice -- of those who work 0:10:52 for it. 1/10/2011 Technology is evolving us, says Amber Case, as we become a screen-staring, button-clicking new version of homo sapiens. We now rely on "external brains" (cell phones and computers) to communicate, remember, TEDWomen even live out secondary lives. 0:07:53 But will these machines 1/11/2011 ultimately connect or con It takes an entire civilization to build a toaster. Designer Thomas Thwaites found out the hard way, by attempting to build one from scratch: mining ore for steel, deriving plastic from oil ... it's frankly amazing TEDSalon he got as far London as he2010 got. A parable of0:10:51 our interconnected society, 1/12/2011 for designers and consum There's an angry divisive tension in the air that threatens to make modern politics impossible. Elizabeth Lesser explores the two sides of human nature within us (call them "the mystic" and "the warrior") thatTEDWomen can be harnessed to elevate the way 0:11:08 we treat each other. She 1/13/2011 shares a simple way to be At TEDxPSU, Ali Carr-Chellman pinpoints three reasons boys are tuning out of school in droves, and lays out her bold plan to re-engage them: bringing their culture into the classroom, with new rules that let TEDxPSU boys be boys, and video games that 0:12:30 teach as well as entertain. 1/14/2011 Days before this talk, journalist Naomi Klein was on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, looking at the catastrophic results of BP's risky pursuit of oil. Our societies have become addicted to extreme risk in finding new TEDWomen energy, new financial instruments 0:19:49 and more ... and too often, 1/17/2011 we're left to clean up a m You'll never sing again, said her doctor. But in a story from the very edge of medical possibility, operatic soprano Charity Tillemann-Dick tells a double story of survival -- of her body, from a double lung transplant, TEDMED and 2010 of her spirit, fueled by an0:18:05 unwavering will to sing.1/18/2011 A powerful story from TEDME Van Jones lays out a case against plastic pollution from the perspective of social justice. Because plastic trash, he shows us, hits poor people and poor countries "first and worst," with consequences we all share TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch no matter where we live and what 0:12:49 we earn. At TEDxGPGP, 1/19/2011 he offers a few powerful Today medical scans produce thousands of images and terabytes of data for a single patient in mere seconds, but how do doctors parse this information and determine what's useful? At TEDxGteborg, scientific TEDxGteborg visualization 2010 expert Anders Ynnerman 0:16:36 shows us sophisticated 1/20/2011 new tools -- like virt In this first-of-its-kind demo, Heather Knight introduces Data, a robotic stand-up comedian that does much more than rattle off one-liners -- it gathers audience feedback (using software co-developed with Scott TEDWomen Satkin and Varun Ramakrishna at 0:06:04 CMU) and tunes its act 1/21/2011 as the crowd responds. Is th Speaking at a TED Salon in London, economist Martin Jacques asks: How do we in the West make sense of China and its phenomenal rise? The author of "When China Rules the World," he examines whyTEDSalon the West often London puzzles 2010 over the growing 0:21:30 power of the Chinese 1/24/2011 economy, and offers three Your medical chart: it's hard to access, impossible to read -- and full of information that could make you healthier if you just knew how to use it. At TEDMED, Thomas Goetz looks at medical data, making a bold TEDMED call to2010 redesign it and get more insight 0:16:33 from it. 1/25/2011 New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly shares a portfolio of her wise and funny cartoons about modern life -- and talks about how humor can empower women to change the rules. TEDWomen 0:06:42 1/26/2011 Diagnosed with cancer, Bruce Feiler worried first about his young family. So -- as he shares in this funny, rambling and ultimately thoughtful talk -- he asked his closest friends to become a "council of dads,"TEDMED bringing their 2010 own lifetimes of wisdom 0:20:33 to advise his twin daughters 1/27/2011 as they grow. Jake Shimabukuro strums monster sounds out of the tiny Hawaiian ukulele, as he plays a cover of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody." A sensational performance from TED2010 -- it'll send shivers down your spine. TED2010 0:07:08 1/28/2011 Architect Kate Orff sees the oyster as an agent of urban change. Bundled into beds and sunk into city rivers, oysters slurp up pollution and make legendarily dirty waters clean -- thus driving even more innovation TEDWomen in "oyster-tecture." Orff shares 0:10:07 her vision for an urban 1/31/2011 landscape that links nature an America was built by makers -- curious, enthusiastic amateur inventors whose tinkering habit sparked whole new industries. At TED@MotorCity, MAKE magazine publisher Dale Dougherty says we're all makers TED@MotorCity at heart, and shows cool new tools 0:11:47 to tinker with, like Arduinos, 2/1/2011 affordable 3D printers Media and advertising companies still use the same old demographics to understand audiences, but they're becoming increasingly harder to track online, says media researcher Johanna Blakley. As social media TEDWomen outgrows traditional media, and 0:08:27 women users outnumber 2/2/2011 men, Blakley explains wha Christopher McDougall explores the mysteries of the human desire to run. How did running help early humans survive -- and what urges from our ancient ancestors spur us on today? At TEDxPennQuarter, TEDxPennQuarter McDougall tells the story of the marathoner 0:15:52 with a heart of gold, 2/3/2011 the unlikely ultra-runner, a Poet Suheir Hammad performs two spine-tingling spoken-word pieces: "What I Will" and "break (clustered)" -- meditations on war and peace, on women and power. Wait for the astonishing line: "Do not fear TEDWomen what has blown up. If you must, fear 0:05:53 the unexploded." 2/4/2011 Work-life balance, says Nigel Marsh, is too important to be left in the hands of your employer. At TEDxSydney, Marsh lays out an ideal day balanced between family time, personal time and productivity -- and TEDxSydney offers some stirring encouragement 0:10:05 to make it happen. 2/7/2011 As a grad student, Cynthia Breazeal wondered why we were using robots on Mars, but not in our living rooms. The key, she realized: training robots to interact with people. Now she dreams up and builds robots TEDWomen that teach, learn -- and play. Watch 0:14:04 for amazing demo footage 2/8/2011 of a new interactive ga They've been called the "saints of Somalia." Doctor Hawa Abdi and her daughter Deqo Mohamed discuss their medical clinic in Somalia, where -- in the face of civil war and open oppression of women -- they've TEDWomen built a hospital, a school and a 0:08:43 community of peace. 2/9/2011 How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature. At TEDSalon in London, Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of nature that could transform architecture and society: TEDSalon radical resource London efficiency, 2010 closed loops, 0:13:46 and drawing energy 2/10/2011 from the sun.
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Speaker Geert Chatrou Krista Tippett Patricia Kuhl Jacqueline Novogratz Lisa Gansky Madeleine Albright Noreena Hertz
Short Summary Event Duration Publish date At TEDxRotterdam, world champion whistler Geert Chatrou performs the whimsical "Eleonora" by A. Honhoff, and his own "Fte de la Belle." In a fascinating interlude, he talks about what brought him to the TEDxRotterdam craft. 2010 0:11:56 2/11/2011 The term "compassion" -- typically reserved for the saintly or the sappy -- has fallen out of touch with reality. At a special TEDPrize@UN, journalist Krista Tippett deconstructs the meaning of compassion through TEDPrize@UN several moving stories, and proposes 0:15:53 a new, more attainable 2/14/2011 definition for the word. At TEDxRainier, Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another -- by listening to the humans around them and "taking statistics" on the sounds they need to know. TEDxRainier Clever lab experiments (and brain 0:10:17 scans) show how 6-month-old 2/15/2011 babies use sophistica We each want to live a life of purpose, but where to start? In this luminous, wide-ranging talk, Jacqueline Novogratz introduces us to people she's met in her work in "patient capital" -- people who have immersed TEDWomen themselves in a cause, a community, 0:17:48a passion for justice. 2/16/2011 These human stories carr At TED@MotorCity, Lisa Gansky, author of "The Mesh," talks about a future of business that's about sharing all kinds of stuff, either via smart and tech-enabled rental or, more boldly, peer-to-peer. Examples TED@MotorCity across industries -- from music to cars 0:14:47 -- show how close we 2/17/2011 are to this meshy future. Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright talks bluntly about politics and diplomacy, making the case that women's issues deserve a place at the center of foreign policy. Far from being a "soft" issue, TEDWomen she says, women's issues are often 0:12:59 the very hardest ones,2/18/2011 dealing directly with life and d We make important decisions every day -- and we often rely on experts to help us decide. But, says economist Noreena Hertz, relying too much on experts can be limiting and even dangerous. She calls forTEDSalon us to start London democratizing 2010 expertise -0:18:18 to listen not only to "surgeons 2/21/2011 and CEOs, but also to Facial surgeon Iain Hutchison works with people whose faces have been severely disfigured. By pushing to improve surgical techniques, he helps to improve their lives; and by commissioning their portraits, he celebrates their humanity. NOTE: This talk contains images of disfigured and badly inju Iain Hutchison Iain Hutchison: Saving faces TEDGlobal 2010 0:15:54 2/22/2011 Elizabeth Lindsey Elizabeth Lindsey: Curating humanity's heritage It's been said that when an elder dies, it's as if a library is burned. Anthropologist Elizabeth Lindsey, a National Geographic Fellow, collects the deep cultural knowledge passed down as stories and lore. TEDWomen 0:10:13 2/23/2011 Danny Hillis Danny Hillis: Understanding cancer through proteomics Danny Hills makes a case for the next frontier of cancer research: proteomics, the study of proteins in the body. As Hillis explains it, genomics shows us a list of the ingredients of the body -- while proteomics TEDMED shows us 2010 what those ingredients produce. 0:19:55 Understanding 2/24/2011 what's going on in your body a Ahn Trio Ahn Trio: A modern take on piano, violin, cello The three Ahn sisters (cellist Maria, pianist Lucia, violinist Angella) breathe new life into the piano trio with their passionate musicmaking. At TEDWomen, they start with the bright and poppy "Skylife," by David TEDWomen Balakrishnan, then play a gorgeous, 0:09:25 slinky version of "Oblivion," 2/25/2011 by Astor Piazzolla. Wadah Khanfar Wadah Khanfar: A historic moment in the Arab world As a democratic revolution led by tech-empowered young people sweeps the Arab world, Wadah Khanfar, the head of Al Jazeera, shares a profoundly optimistic view of what's happening in Egypt, Tunisia, TED2011 Libya and beyond -- at this powerful 0:17:12 moment when people realized 3/2/2011 they could step out of t JR JR's TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out JR, a semi-anonymous French street artist, uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. At TED2011, he makes his audacious TED PrizeTED2011 wish: to use art to turn the world inside 0:24:09 out. Learn more about 3/4/2011 his work and learn how you Wael Ghonim Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution Wael Ghonim is the Google executive who helped jumpstart Egypt's democratic revolution ... with a Facebook page memorializing a victim of the regime's violence. Speaking at TEDxCairo, he tells the inside TED2011 story of the past two months, when 0:09:51 everyday Egyptians showed 3/4/2011 that "the power of the pe Bill Gates Bill Gates: How state budgets are breaking US schools America's school systems are funded by the 50 states. In this fiery talk, Bill Gates says that state budgets are riddled with accounting tricks that disguise the true cost of health care and pensions and weighted TED2011 with worsening deficits -- with the0:10:16 financing of education at3/4/2011 the losing end. Anthony Atala Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, TED2011 Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella 0:17:24 received an engineered 3/7/2011bladder 10 years ago Courtney E. Martin Courtney Martin: Reinventing feminism Blogger Courtney Martin examines the perennially loaded word "feminism" in this personal and heartfelt talk. She talks through the three essential paradoxes of her generation's quest to define the term for themselves. TEDWomen 0:11:26 3/8/2011 Salman Khan Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows TED2011 the power of interactive exercises, and 0:20:27 calls for teachers to consider 3/9/2011 flipping the traditional Deb Roy Deb Roy: The birth of a word MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 TED2011 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" 0:19:52 slowly turn into "water." 3/10/2011 Astonishing, data-rich r Rob Harmon Rob Harmon: How the market can keep streams flowing With streams and rivers drying up because of over-usage, Rob Harmon has implemented an ingenious market mechanism to bring back the water. Farmers and beer companies find their fates intertwined in TEDxRainier the intriguing century-old tale of Prickly 0:08:46 Pear Creek. 3/11/2011 David Brooks David Brooks: The social animal Tapping into the findings of his latest book, NYTimes columnist David Brooks unpacks new insights into human nature from the cognitive sciences -- insights with massive implications for economics and politics TED2011 as well as our own self-knowledge. 0:18:44 In a talk full of humor, 3/14/2011 he shows how you can't hop Janna Levin Janna Levin: The sound the universe makes We think of space as a silent place. But physicist Janna Levin says the universe has a soundtrack -- a sonic composition that records some of the most dramatic events in outer space. (Black holes, for instance, TED2011 bang on spacetime like a drum.) 0:17:43 An accessible and mind-expanding 3/15/2011 soundwalk throu Mark Bezos Mark Bezos: A life lesson from a volunteer firefighter Volunteer firefighter Mark Bezos tells a story of an act of heroism that didn't go quite as expected -- but that taught him a big lesson: Don't wait to be a hero. TED2011 0:04:07 3/16/2011 Rogier van der Heide Rogier van der Heide: Why light needs darkness Lighting architect Rogier van der Heide offers a beautiful new way to look at the world -- by paying attention to light (and to darkness). Examples from classic buildings illustrate a deeply thought-out vision ofTEDxAmsterdam the play of light around us. 0:16:51 3/17/2011 Sarah Kay Sarah Kay: If I should have a daughter ... If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, she's gonna call me Point B ... began spoken word poet Sarah Kay, in a talk that inspired two standing ovations at TED2011. She tells the story of her metamorphosis TED2011 -- from a wide-eyed teenager 0:18:28 soaking in verse at New 3/18/2011 York's Bowery Poetry Club to Hans Rosling Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up TEDWomen when economic growth and electricity 0:09:15 turn a boring wash day 3/21/2011 into an intellectual day of re Isabel Behncke Izquierdo Isabel Behncke: Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans With never-before-seen video, primatologist Isabel Behncke Izquierdo (a TED Fellow) shows how bonobo ape society learns from constantly playing -- solo, with friends, even as a prelude to sex. Indeed, play TED2011 appears to be the bonobos' key to 0:07:01 problem-solving and avoiding 3/21/2011 conflict. If it works for o Paul Root Wolpe Paul Root Wolpe: It's time to question bio-engineering At TEDxPeachtree, bioethicist Paul Root Wolpe describes an astonishing series of recent bio-engineering experiments, from hybrid pets to mice that grow human ears. He asks: isn't it time to set some ground TEDxPeachtree rules? 0:19:42 3/23/2011 Eythor Bender Eythor Bender demos human exoskeletons Eythor Bender of Berkeley Bionics brings onstage two amazing exoskeletons, HULC and eLEGS -- robotic add-ons that could one day allow a human to carry 200 pounds without tiring, or allow a wheelchair TED2011 user to stand and walk. It's a powerful 0:06:23 onstage demo, with 3/24/2011 implications for human potenti Claron McFadden Claron McFadden: Singing the primal mystery The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. With these words, soprano Claron McFadden invites us to explore the mysteries of breathing and singing, as she performs the challenging "Aria," by John TEDxAmsterdam Cage. 0:10:54 3/25/2011 Patricia Ryan Patricia Ryan: Don't insist on English! At TEDxDubai, longtime English teacher Patricia Ryan asks a provocative question: Is the world's focus on English preventing the spread of great ideas in other languages? (For instance: what if Einstein had TEDxDubai to pass the TOEFL?) It's a passionate 0:10:35 defense of translating 3/28/2011 and sharing ideas. Ralph Langner Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon When first discovered in 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm posed a baffling puzzle. Beyond its unusually high level of sophistication loomed a more troubling mystery: its purpose. Ralph Langner and team helped TED2011 crack the code that revealed this 0:10:40 digital warhead's final 3/29/2011 target -- and its covert origin Handspring Puppet Company Handspring Puppet Co.: The genius puppetry behind War Horse Puppets always have to try to be alive, says Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppet Company, a gloriously ambitious troupe of human and wooden actors. Beginning with the tale of a hyena's subtle paw, puppeteers TED2011 Kohler and Basil Jones build 0:18:11 to the story of their latest 3/30/2011 astonishment: the wonde Sebastian Thrun Sebastian Thrun: Google's driverless car Sebastian Thrun helped build Google's amazing driverless car, powered by a very personal quest to save lives and reduce traffic accidents. Jawdropping video shows the DARPA Challenge-winning car motoring TED2011 through busy city traffic with no 0:04:14 one behind the wheel,3/31/2011 and dramatic test drive footag Eric Whitacre Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong In a moving and madly viral video last year, composer Eric Whitacre led a virtual choir of singers from around the world. He talks through the creative challenges of making music powered by YouTube, and TED2011 unveils the first 2 minutes of his new0:14:34 work, "Sleep," with a video 4/1/2011 choir of 2,052. The full pie AnnMarie Thomas AnnMarie Thomas: Hands-on science with squishy circuits In a zippy demo at TED U, AnnMarie Thomas shows how two different kinds of homemade play dough can be used to demonstrate electrical properties -- by lighting up LEDs, spinning motors, and turning little TED2011 kids into circuit designers. 0:04:08 4/4/2011 Stanley McChrystal Stanley McChrystal: Listen, learn ... then lead Four-star general Stanley McChrystal shares what he learned about leadership over his decades in the military. How can you build a sense of shared purpose among people of many ages and skill sets? ByTED2011 listening and learning -- and addressing 0:15:38 the possibility of failure. 4/5/2011 Chade-Meng Tan Chade-Meng Tan: Everyday compassion at Google Google's "Jolly Good Fellow," Chade-Meng Tan, talks about how the company practices compassion in its everyday business -- and its bold side projects. TEDPrize@UN 0:14:08 4/5/2011 Morgan Spurlock Morgan Spurlock: The greatest TED Talk ever sold With humor and persistence, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock dives into the hidden but influential world of brand marketing, on his quest to make a completely sponsored film about sponsorship. (And yes, onstage TED2011 naming rights for this talk were sponsored 0:19:28 too. By whom and 4/6/2011 for how much? He'll tell yo Mick Ebeling Mick Ebeling: The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist The nerve disease ALS left graffiti artist TEMPT paralyzed from head to toe, forced to communicate blink by blink. In a remarkable talk at TEDActive, entrepreneur Mick Ebeling shares how he and a team of TEDActive collaborators 2011 built an open-source invention 0:07:49 that gave the artist 4/7/2011 -- and gives others in his Caroline Casey Caroline Casey: Looking past limits Activist Caroline Casey tells the story of her extraordinary life, starting with a revelation (no spoilers). In a talk that challenges perceptions, Casey asks us all to move beyond the limits we may think we have. TEDWomen 0:19:17 4/8/2011 Jackson Browne Jackson Browne: "If I Could Be Anywhere" At TEDxGPGP, Jackson Browne plays a song he started writing last April aboard Mission Blue Voyage, the Sylvia Earle-inspired trip to brainstorm ways to save the ocean. "If I could be anywhere," he sings, TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch "anywhere right now, I would be here." 0:04:26 4/8/2011 David Christian David Christian: Big history Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes. This is "Big History": an enlightening, wide-angle look TED2011 at complexity, life and humanity, set0:17:40 against our slim share of 4/11/2011 the cosmic timeline. Dave Meslin Dave Meslin: The antidote to apathy Local politics -- schools, zoning, council elections -- hit us where we live. So why don't more of us actually get involved? Is it apathy? Dave Meslin says no. He identifies 7 barriers that keep us from taking part TEDxToronto in our communities, 2010 even when we 0:07:05 truly care. 4/12/2011 Roger Ebert Roger Ebert: Remaking my voice When film critic Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw to cancer, he lost the ability to eat and speak. But he did not lose his voice. In a moving talk from TED2011, Ebert and his wife, Chaz, with friends Dean OrnishTED2011 and John Hunter, come together to 0:19:29 tell his remarkable story. 4/13/2011 Marcin Jakubowski Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only TED2011 the first step in a project to write0:04:10 an instruction set for an 4/14/2011 entire self-sustaining village ( Susan Lim Susan Lim: Transplant cells, not organs Pioneering surgeon Susan Lim performed the first liver transplant in Asia. But a moral concern with transplants (where do donor livers come from ...) led her to look further, and to ask: Could we be transplanting INK Conference cells, not whole organs? At the 0:16:26 INK Conference, she talks 4/15/2011 through her new research, Sam Richards Sam Richards: A radical experiment in empathy By leading the Americans in his audience at TEDxPSU step by step through the thought process, sociologist Sam Richards sets an extraordinary challenge: can they understand -- not approve of, but understand TEDxPSU -- the motivations of an Iraqi insurgent? 0:18:07 And by extension, 4/18/2011 can anyone truly understa Kathryn Schulz Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong Most of us will do anything to avoid being wrong. But what if we're wrong about that? "Wrongologist" Kathryn Schulz makes a compelling case for not just admitting but embracing our fallibility. TED2011 0:17:51 4/19/2011 John Hunter John Hunter on the World Peace Game John Hunter puts all the problems of the world on a 4'x5' plywood board -- and lets his 4th-graders solve them. At TED2011, he explains how his World Peace Game engages schoolkids, and why the complex TED2011 lessons it teaches -- spontaneous, 0:20:27 and always surprising4/20/2011 -- go further than classroom le Anil Ananthaswamy Anil Ananthaswamy: What it takes to do extreme astrophysics All over the planet, giant telescopes and detectors are looking (and listening) for clues to the workings of the universe. At the INK Conference, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy tours us around these amazing INK installations, Conference taking us to some of 0:14:08 the most remote and silent 4/21/2011 places on Earth. Ric Elias Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. What went through his mind as the doomed plane went down? At TED, he tells his TED2011 story publicly for the first time. 0:05:02 4/22/2011 Harvey Fineberg Harvey Fineberg: Are we ready for neo-evolution? Medical ethicist Harvey Fineberg shows us three paths forward for the ever-evolving human species: to stop evolving completely, to evolve naturally -- or to control the next steps of human evolution, using genetic TED2011 modification, to make ourselves 0:17:21 smarter, faster, better. 4/25/2011 Neo-evolution is within our g Bruce Schneier Bruce Schneier: The security mirage The feeling of security and the reality of security don't always match, says computer-security expert Bruce Schneier. At TEDxPSU, he explains why we spend billions addressing news story risks, like the "security TEDxPSU theater" now playing at your local 0:21:05 airport, while neglecting 4/26/2011 more probable risks -- an Angela Belcher Angela Belcher: Using nature to grow batteries Inspired by an abalone shell, Angela Belcher programs viruses to make elegant nanoscale structures that humans can use. Selecting for high-performing genes through directed evolution, she's produced viruses TEDxCaltech that can construct powerful new 0:10:25 batteries, clean hydrogen 4/27/2011 fuels and record-breaking Mike Matas Mike Matas: A next-generation digital book Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad -- with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is "Our Choice," TED2011 Al Gore's sequel to "An Inconvenient 0:04:34 Truth." 4/28/2011 Arvind Gupta Arvind Gupta: Turning trash into toys for learning At the INK Conference, Arvind Gupta shares simple yet stunning plans for turning trash into seriously entertaining, well-designed toys that kids can build themselves -- while learning basic principles of science INK and Conference design. 0:15:30 4/29/2011 Eli Pariser Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed TED2011 to information that could challenge 0:09:04 or broaden our worldview. 5/2/2011 Eli Pariser argues pow Aicha el-Wafi + Phyllis Rodriguez9/11 healing: The mothers who found forgiveness, friendship Phyllis Rodriguez and Aicha el-Wafi have a powerful friendship born of unthinkable loss. Rodriguez' son was killed in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001; el-Wafi's son Zacarias Moussaoui TEDWomen was convicted of a role in those attacks 0:09:54and is serving a life 5/2/2011 sentence. In hoping to find Carlo Ratti Carlo Ratti: Architecture that senses and responds With his team at SENSEable City Lab, MIT's Carlo Ratti makes cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data sets -- like the calls we make, the garbage we throw away -- to create surprising TED2011visualizations of city life. And 0:15:46 he and his team create5/3/2011 dazzling interactive environm Suzanne Lee Suzanne Lee: Grow your own clothes Designer Suzanne Lee shares her experiments in growing a kombucha-based material that can be used like fabric or vegetable leather to make clothing. The process is fascinating, the results are beautiful (though TED2011 there's still one minor drawback 0:06:40 ...) and the potential is 5/4/2011 simply stunning. Sean Carroll Sean Carroll: Distant time and the hint of a multiverse At TEDxCaltech, cosmologist Sean Carroll attacks -- in an entertaining and thought-provoking tour through the nature of time and the universe -- a deceptively simple question: Why does time exist at all? The TEDxCaltech potential answers point to a surprising 0:15:54 view of the nature of5/5/2011 the universe, and our place Louie Schwartzberg Louie Schwartzberg: The hidden beauty of pollination Pollination: it's vital to life on Earth, but largely unseen by the human eye. Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg shows us the intricate world of pollen and pollinators with gorgeous high-speed images from his filmTED2011 "Wings of Life," inspired by the vanishing 0:07:48 of one of nature's primary 5/6/2011 pollinators, the honey Paul Nicklen Paul Nicklen: Tales of ice-bound wonderlands Diving under the Antarctic ice to get close to the much-feared leopard seal, photographer Paul Nicklen found an extraordinary new friend. Share his hilarious, passionate stories of the polar wonderlands, illustrated TED2011 by glorious images of the animals 0:17:55 who live on and under 5/9/2011 the ice. Fiorenzo Omenetto Fiorenzo Omenetto: Silk, the ancient material of the future Fiorenzo Omenetto shares 20+ astonishing new uses for silk, one of nature's most elegant materials -- in transmitting light, improving sustainability, adding strength and making medical leaps and bounds. On TED2011 stage, he shows a few intriguing items 0:09:40 made of the versatile 5/10/2011 stuff. Ron Gutman Ron Gutman: The hidden power of smiling Ron Gutman reviews a raft of studies about smiling, and reveals some surprising results. Did you know your smile can be a predictor of how long you'll live -- and that a simple smile has a measurable effectTED2011 on your overall well-being? Prepare0:07:26 to flex a few facial muscles 5/11/2011 as you learn more about t Amit Sood Amit Sood: Building a museum of museums on the web Imagine being able to see artwork in the greatest museums around the world without leaving your chair. Driven by his passion for art, Amit Sood tells the story of how he developed Art Project to let people do TED2011 just that. 0:05:35 5/12/2011 Leonard Susskind Leonard Susskind: My friend Richard Feynman What's it like to be pals with a genius? Onstage at TEDxCaltech, physicist Leonard Susskind spins a few stories about his friendship with the legendary Richard Feynman, discussing his unconventional approach TEDxCaltech to problems both serious and 0:14:41 ... less so. 5/13/2011 Ed Boyden Ed Boyden: A light switch for neurons Ed Boyden shows how, by inserting genes for light-sensitive proteins into brain cells, he can selectively activate or de-activate specific neurons with fiber-optic implants. With this unprecedented level of control, TED2011 he's managed to cure mice of analogs 0:18:24 of PTSD and certain 5/15/2011 forms of blindness. On the Thomas Heatherwick Thomas Heatherwick: Building the Seed Cathedral A future more beautiful? Architect Thomas Heatherwick shows five recent projects featuring ingenious bio-inspired designs. Some are remakes of the ordinary: a bus, a bridge, a power station ... And one is TED2011 an extraordinary pavilion, the Seed Cathedral, 0:16:52 a celebration5/17/2011 of growth and light. Elliot Krane Elliot Krane: The mystery of chronic pain We think of pain as a symptom, but there are cases where the nervous system develops feedback loops and pain becomes a terrifying disease in itself. Starting with the story of a girl whose sprained wrist turned TED2011 into a nightmare, Elliot Krane talks 0:08:14 about the complex 5/18/2011 mystery of chronic pain, and re Edith Widder Edith Widder: The weird, wonderful world of bioluminescence In the deep, dark ocean, many sea creatures make their own light for hunting, mating and self-defense. Bioluminescence expert Edith Widder was one of the first to film this glimmering world. At TED2011, she TED2011 brings some of her glowing friends 0:12:45 onstage, and shows more 5/19/2011 astonishing footage of glo Terry Moore Terry Moore: How to tie your shoes Terry Moore found out he'd been tying his shoes the wrong way his whole life. In the spirit of TED, he takes the stage to share a better way. (Historical note: This was the very first 3-minute audience talk given TED2005 from the TED stage, in 2005.) 0:02:59 5/20/2011 Improv Everywhere Gel: Gotta share! At the onstage introduction of Twirlr, a new social-sharing platform, someone forgets to silence their cell phone. And then ... this happens. (Song by Scott Brown and Anthony King; edit by Nathan Russell.) Gel Conference 0:03:20 5/22/2011 Aaron Koblin Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data -- and at times vast numbers of people -- and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, TED2011 from a Johnny Cash video assembled 0:18:18 from crowd-sourced 5/23/2011 drawings to the "Wilderness Bruce Aylward Bruce Aylward: How we'll stop polio for good Polio is almost completely eradicated. But as Bruce Aylward says: Almost isn't good enough with a disease this terrifying. Aylward lays out the plan to continue the scientific miracle that ended polio in most of TED2011 the world -- and to snuff it out everywhere, 0:23:09 forever. 5/24/2011 Shirin Neshat Shirin Neshat: Art in exile Iranian-born artist Shirin Neshat explores the paradox of being an artist in exile: a voice for her people, but unable to go home. In her work, she explores Iran pre- and post-Islamic Revolution, tracing political TEDWomen and societal change through powerful 0:10:44 images of women. 5/25/2011 Mustafa Akyol Mustafa Akyol: Faith versus tradition in Islam At TEDxWarwick, journalist Mustafa Akyol talks about the way that some local cultural practices (such as wearing a headscarf) have become linked, in the popular mind, to the articles of faith of Islam. Has the TEDxWarwick world's general idea of the Islamic 0:17:11 faith focused too much 5/26/2011 on tradition, and not enough Robert Gupta and Joshua RomanRobert Gupta and Joshua Roman duet on "Passacaglia" 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 TED2011 to watch the two musicians connect 0:09:21 moment to moment (and 5/27/2011 recover from a mid-perform Malcolm McLaren Malcolm McLaren: Authentic creativity vs. karaoke culture How does one find authentic creativity? In his last talk before passing away, Malcolm McLaren tells remarkable stories from his own life, from failing school to managing the Sex Pistols. He argues that we'reHandheld living in aLearning karaoke culture, with false 0:46:01 promises of instant success, 5/30/2011 and that messiness and Dennis Hong Dennis Hong: Making a car for blind drivers Using robotics, laser rangefinders, GPS and smart feedback tools, Dennis Hong is building a car for drivers who are blind. It's not a "self-driving" car, he's careful to note, but a car in which a non-sighted driver TED2011 can determine speed, proximity and 0:09:08 route -- and drive independently. 5/31/2011 Stefan Sagmeister Stefan Sagmeister: 7 rules for making more happiness Using simple, delightful illustrations, designer Stefan Sagmeister shares his latest thinking on happiness -- both the conscious and unconscious kind. His seven rules for life and design happiness can (with some TED@Cannes customizations) apply to everyone 0:09:33 seeking more joy. 6/1/2011 Aaron O'Connell Aaron O'Connell: Making sense of a visible quantum object Physicists are used to the idea that subatomic particles behave according to the bizarre rules of quantum mechanics, completely different to human-scale objects. In a breakthrough experiment, Aaron O'Connell TED2011 has blurred that distinction by creating 0:07:51 an object that is visible 6/2/2011 to the unaided eye, but Jessi Arrington Jessi Arrington: Wearing nothing new Designer Jessi Arrington packed nothing for TED but 7 pairs of undies, buying the rest of her clothes in thrift stores around LA. It's a meditation on conscious consumption -- wrapped in a rainbow of color and TED2011 creativity. 0:05:24 6/3/2011 Damon Horowitz Damon Horowitz calls for a "moral operating system" At TEDxSiliconValley, Damon Horowitz reviews the enormous new powers that technology gives us: to know more -- and more about each other -- than ever before. Drawing the audience into a philosophical TEDxSiliconValley discussion, Horowitz invites us to 0:16:18 pay new attention to the basic 6/6/2011 philosophy -- the ethica Jack Horner Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in TED2011 a new approach, he's taking living descendants 0:16:36 of the dinosaur 6/7/2011 (chickens) and genetically Janet Echelman Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously Janet Echelman found her true voice as an artist when her paints went missing -- which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes billowing, flowing, building-sized sculpture with TED2011 a surprisingly geeky edge. A transporting 0:09:26 10 minutes of pure creativity. 6/7/2011 Paul Romer Paul Romer: The world's first charter city? Back in 2009, Paul Romer unveiled the idea for a "charter city" -- a new kind of city with rules that favor democracy and trade. This year, at TED2011, he tells the story of how such a city might just happen in TED2011 Honduras ... with a little help from his 0:09:13 TEDTalk. 6/9/2011 Alice Dreger Alice Dreger: Is anatomy destiny? Alice Dreger works with people at the edge of anatomy, such as conjoined twins and intersexed people. In her observation, it's often a fuzzy line between male and female, among other anatomical distinctions. TEDxNorthwesternU Which brings up a huge question: 0:18:48 Why do we let our anatomy 6/10/2011 determine our fate? JD Schramm JD Schramm: Break the silence for suicide survivors Even when our lives appear fine from the outside, locked within can be a world of quiet suffering, leading some to the decision to end their life. At TEDYou, JD Schramm asks us to break the silence surrounding TED2011 suicide and suicide attempts, and 0:04:14 to create much-needed 6/11/2011 resources to help people w At TEDxMaastricht, Daniel Kraft offers a fast-paced look at the next few years of innovations in medicine, powered by new tools, tests and apps that bring diagnostic information right to the patient's Daniel Kraft Daniel Kraft: Medicine's future? There's an app for that bedside. TEDxMaastricht 0:18:21 6/13/2011 How do you stage an international art show with work from 100 different artists? If you're Shea Hembrey, you invent all of the artists and artwork yourself -- from large-scale outdoor installations to tiny Shea Hembrey Shea Hembrey: How I became 100 artists paintings drawn with a single-haired brush. Watch this funny, mind-bending talk to see the explosion of creativity and diversity of skills a single artist is capable of. TED2011 0:16:48 6/14/2011 At TEDxBG in Sofia, Steve Keil fights the "serious meme" that has infected his home of Bulgaria -- and calls for a return to play to revitalize the economy, education and society. A sparkling talk with a Steve Keil Steve Keil: A manifesto for play, for Bulgaria and beyond universal message for people everywhere who are reinventing their workplaces, schools, lives. TEDxBG 0:17:56 6/15/2011 Camille Seaman Camille Seaman: Haunting photos of polar ice Photographer Camille Seaman shoots icebergs, showing the world the complex beauty of these massive, ancient chunks of ice. Dive in to her photo slideshow, "The Last Iceberg." TED2011 0:04:11 6/16/2011 Onyx Ashanti Onyx Ashanti: This is beatjazz Musician and inventor Onyx Ashanti demonstrates "beatjazz" -- his music created with two handheld controllers, an iPhone and a mouthpiece, and played with the entire body. At TED's Full Spectrum Auditions, Full Spectrum after locking Auditions in his beats and loops, 0:06:29 he plays a 3-minute 6/17/2011 song that shares his vision fo
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Maajid Nawaz Maajid Nawaz: A global culture to fight extremism Tim Harford Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex Nadia Al-Sakkaf Nadia Al-Sakkaf: See Yemen through my eyes Mikko Hypponen Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net Thandie Newton Thandie Newton: Embracing otherness, embracing myself Kevin Slavin Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world Markus Fischer A robot that flies like a bird Rory Stewart Rory Stewart: Time to end the war in Afghanistan Geoffrey West Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations Paul Bloom Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure Josette Sheeran Josette Sheeran: Ending hunger now Julian Treasure Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better Adam Ostrow Adam Ostrow: After your final status update Harald Haas Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulb Mark Pagel Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity Jessica Green Jessica Green: Are we filtering the wrong microbes? Philip Zimbardo Philip Zimbardo: The demise of guys? Eve Ensler Eve Ensler: Suddenly, my body Alex Steffen Alex Steffen: The shareable future of cities Dyan deNapoli Dyan deNapoli: The great penguin rescue Jeremy Gilley Jeremy Gilley: One day of peace Lucianne Walkowicz Lucianne Walkowicz: Finding planets around other stars Marco Tempest Marco Tempest: The magic of truth and lies (and iPods) Dan Ariely Dan Ariely: Beware conflicts of interest Svante Paabo Svante Paabo: DNA clues to our inner neanderthal Julia Bacha Julia Bacha: Pay attention to nonviolence Skylar Tibbits Skylar Tibbits: Can we make things that make themselves? Joan Halifax Joan Halifax: Compassion and the true meaning of empathy Edward Tenner Edward Tenner: Unintended consequences Sarah Kaminsky Sarah Kaminsky: My father the forger Lee Cronin Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive Raghava KK Raghava KK: Shake up your story Yasheng Huang Yasheng Huang: Does democracy stifle economic growth? Misha Glenny Misha Glenny: Hire the hackers! Kate Hartman Kate Hartman: The art of wearable communication Richard Resnick Richard Resnick: Welcome to the genomic revolution Lauren Zalaznick Lauren Zalaznick: The conscience of television Sasha Dichter Sasha Dichter: The Generosity Experiment Niall Ferguson Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste What weMichel learned from 5 million books Amy Lockwood Amy Lockwood: Selling condoms in the Congo Elizabeth Murchison Elizabeth Murchison: Fighting a contagious cancer Sunni Brown Sunni Brown: Doodlers, unite! Abraham Verghese Abraham Verghese: A doctor's touch Geoff Mulgan Geoff Mulgan: A short intro to the Studio School Jarreth Merz Jarreth Merz: Filming democracy in Ghana Ben Goldacre Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science Danielle de Niese Danielle de Niese: A flirtatious aria Yang Lan Yang Lan: The generation that's remaking China Christoph Adami Christoph Adami: Finding life we can't imagine Graham Hill Graham Hill: Less stuff, more happiness Mike Biddle Mike Biddle: We can recycle plastic Charles Hazlewood Charles Hazlewood: Trusting the ensemble Alison Gopnik Richard Seymour Ian Ritchie Pamela Meyer Jae Rhim Lee Bunker Roy Justin Hall-Tipping Guy-Philippe Goldstein Todd Kuiken Nathalie Miebach Richard Wilkinson Iain McGilchrist Malcolm Gladwell Jay Bradner Batrice Coron Hasan Elahi Paul Zak Anna Mracek Dietrich Daniel Wolpert Marco Tempest Paul Lewis Sandra Fisher-Martins Martin Hanczyc Aparna Rao Ben Kacyra Allan Jones Charlie Todd Roger McNamee Alison Gopnik: What do babies think? Richard Seymour: How beauty feels Ian Ritchie: The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar Jae Rhim Lee: My mushroom burial suit Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid Guy-Philippe Goldstein: How cyberattacks threaten real-world peace Todd Kuiken: A prosthetic arm that "feels" Nathalie Miebach: Art made of storms Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies Iain McGilchrist: The divided brain Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsight Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research Batrice Coron: Stories cut from paper Hasan Elahi: FBI, here I am! Paul Zak: Trust, morality -- and oxytocin Anna Mracek Dietrich: A plane you can drive Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains Marco Tempest: Augmented reality, techno-magic Paul Lewis: Crowdsourcing the news Sandra Fisher-Martins: The right to understand Martin Hanczyc: The line between life and not-life Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor) Ben Kacyra: Ancient wonders captured in 3D Allan Jones: A map of the brain Charlie Todd: The shared experience of absurdity Roger McNamee: Six ways to save the internet
Short Summary Event Duration Publish date Cellist Maya Beiser plays a gorgeous eight-part modern etude with seven copies of herself, and segues into a meditative music/video hybrid -- using tech to create endless possibilities for transformative sound. TED2011 Music is Steve Reich's "Cello Counterpoint," 0:20:09 with video from 6/17/2011 Bill Morrison, then David Bill Ford is a car guy -- his great-grandfather was Henry Ford, and he grew up inside the massive Ford Motor Co. So when he worries about cars' impact on the environment, and about our growing global gridlock TED2011 problem, it's worth a listen. His 0:16:47 vision for the future of 6/20/2011 mobility includes "smart roads Daniel Tammet has linguistic, numerical and visual synesthesia -- meaning that his perception of words, numbers and colors are woven together into a new way of perceiving and understanding the world. The TED2011 author of "Born on a Blue Day," Tammet 0:10:54 shares his art and 6/21/2011 his passion for languages in In this 3-minute talk, cartoonist and educator Jok Church tells a moving story of the teacher who cared for him when no one else did -- and how he returned the favor. TED2007 0:03:34 6/22/2011 Artist-technologist Honor Harger listens to the weird and wonderful noises of stars and planets and pulsars. In her work, she tracks the radio waves emitted by ancient celestial objects and turns them into sound, TEDSalon including 2010 "the oldest song you 0:11:17 will ever hear," the sound 6/23/2011 of cosmic rays left over from At TED's Full Spectrum Auditions, comedian Joshua Walters, who's bipolar, walks the line between mental illness and mental "skillness." In this funny, thought-provoking talk, he asks: What's the right balance Full between Spectrum medicating Auditionscraziness away 0:05:51 and riding the manic6/24/2011 edge of creativity and drive? In this passionate talk from TEDxSanMigueldeAllende that's already caused a sensation in Mexico, Emiliano Salinas, son of former president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, confronts the current climate of violence TEDxSanMigueldeAllende in Mexico -- or rather, how Mexican 0:12:17 society responds to it. 6/27/2011 He calls on ordinary citizens Rajesh Rao is fascinated by "the mother of all crossword puzzles": How to decipher the 4000 year old Indus script. At TED 2011 he tells how he is enlisting modern computational techniques to read the Indus TED2011 language, the key piece to understanding 0:17:01 this ancient civilization. 6/28/2011 When Dave deBronkart learned he had a rare and terminal cancer, he turned to a group of fellow patients online -- and found a medical treatment that even his own doctors didn't know. It saved his life. Now TEDxMaastricht he calls on all patients to talk with one 0:16:31 another, know their own 6/29/2011 health data, and make he New York was planning to tear down the High Line, an abandoned elevated railroad in Manhattan, when Robert Hammond and a few friends suggested: Why not make it a park? He shares how it happenedTED2011 in this tale of local cultural activism.0:05:41 6/30/2011 Is there something you've always meant to do, wanted to do, but just ... haven't? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals. TED2011 0:03:27 7/1/2011 Cookbook author (and geek) Nathan Myhrvold talks about his magisterial work, "Modernist Cuisine" -- and shares the secret of its cool photographic illustrations, which show cross-sections of food in the very TED2011 act of being cooked. 0:10:05 7/5/2011 In this visually dazzling talk, Jonathan Drori shows the extraordinary ways flowering plants -- over a quarter million species -- have evolved to attract insects to spread their pollen: growing 'landing-strips' to guide TED2011 the insects in, shining in ultraviolet, 0:13:48 building elaborate traps, 7/6/2011 and even mimicking othe After a catastrophic car accident that left him in a coma, Simon Lewis found ways to recover -- physically and mentally -- beyond all expectations. At the INK Conference he tells how this remarkable story led INK him Conference to concern over all threats to consciousness, 0:22:17 and how to 7/7/2011 overcome them. Tissue engineer and TED Fellow Nina Tandon is growing artificial hearts and bones. To do that, she needs new ways of caring for artificially grown cells -- techniques she's developed by the simple but powerful TED2011 method of copying their natural0:04:13 environments. 7/8/2011 In this powerful talk from TEDGlobal, Rebecca MacKinnon describes the expanding struggle for freedom and control in cyberspace, and asks: How do we design the next phase of the Internet with accountability TEDGlobal and freedom 2011 at its core, rather 0:14:52 than control? She believes 7/13/2011 the internet is headed for a Why do transnational extremist organizations succeed where democratic movements have a harder time taking hold? Maajid Nawaz, a former Islamist extremist, asks for new grassroots stories and global social TEDGlobal activism 2011 to spread democracy 0:17:53 in the face of nationalism 7/14/2011 and xenophobia. A powerful Economics writer Tim Harford studies complex systems -- and finds a surprising link among the successful ones: they were built through trial and error. In this sparkling talk from TEDGlobal 2011, he asks us TEDGlobal to embrace 2011 our randomness and start 0:18:07 making better mistakes. 7/15/2011 As political turmoil in Yemen continues, the editor of the Yemen Times, Nadia Al-Sakkaf, talks at TEDGlobal with host Pat Mitchell. Al-Sakkaf's independent, English-language paper is vital for sharing news TEDGlobal -- and for sharing 2011 a new vision of Yemen 0:13:38 and of that country's 7/18/2011 women as equal partners in It's been 25 years since the first PC virus (Brain A) hit the net, and what was once an annoyance has become a sophisticated tool for crime and espionage. Computer security expert Mikko Hyppnen tells us TEDGlobal how we can 2011 stop these new viruses 0:17:34 from threatening the internet 7/19/2011 as we know it. Actor Thandie Newton tells the story of finding her "otherness" -- first, as a child growing up in two distinct cultures, and then as an actor playing with many different selves. A warm, wise talk, fresh from stage TEDGlobal at TEDGlobal 20112011. 0:13:55 7/20/2011 Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage TEDGlobaltactics, 2011 stock prices, movie 0:15:22 scripts, and architecture. 7/21/2011 And he warns that we are w Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A TEDGlobal soaring demo 2011 fresh from TEDGlobal 0:06:22 2011. 7/22/2011 British MP Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan after 9/11, talking with citizens and warlords alike. Now, a decade later, he asks: Why are Western and coalition forces still fighting there? He shares lessons TEDGlobal from past 2011 military interventions that 0:20:02 worked -- Bosnia, for 7/25/2011 instance -- and shows that hu Physicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities -- that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other aspects of a city can be deduced from a single number: TEDGlobal the city's 2011 population. In this mind-bending 0:17:33 talk from TEDGlobal 7/26/2011 he shows how it works Why do we like an original painting better than a forgery? Psychologist Paul Bloom argues that human beings are essentialists -- that our beliefs about the history of an object change how we experience it, not TEDGlobal simply as 2011 an illusion, but as a deep 0:16:17 feature of what pleasure 7/27/2011 (and pain) is. Josette Sheeran, the head of the UN's World Food Program, talks about why, in a world with enough food for everyone, people still go hungry, still die of starvation, still use food as a weapon of war. Her vision: TEDGlobal "Food is 2011 one issue that cannot be 0:19:10 solved person by person. 7/28/2011 We have to stand togethe In our louder and louder world, says sound expert Julian Treasure, "We are losing our listening." In this short, fascinating talk, Treasure shares five ways to re-tune your ears for conscious listening -- to other TEDGlobal people and 2011 the world around you. 0:07:50 7/29/2011 Many of us have a social media presence -- a virtual personality made up of status updates, tweets and connections, stored in the cloud. Adam Ostrow asks a big question: What happens to that personalityTEDGlobal after you've 2011 died? Could it ... live on? 0:05:29 8/1/2011 What if every light bulb in the world could also transmit data? At TEDGlobal, Harald Haas demonstrates, for the first time, a device that could do exactly that. By flickering the light from a single LED, a change TEDGlobal too quick 2011 for the human eye to detect, 0:12:51 he can transmit far more 8/2/2011 data than a cellular towe Biologist Mark Pagel shares an intriguing theory about why humans evolved our complex system of language. He suggests that language is a piece of "social technology" that allowed early human tribes to access TEDGlobal a powerful 2011 new tool: cooperation. 0:20:10 8/3/2011 Should we keep the outdoors out of hospitals? Ecologist and TED Fellow Jessica Green has found that mechanical ventilation does get rid of many types of microbes, but the wrong kinds: the ones left in the TEDGlobal hospital are 2011 much more likely to be 0:05:25 pathogens. 8/4/2011 Psychologist Philip Zimbardo asks, "Why are boys struggling?" He shares some stats (lower graduation rates, greater worries about intimacy and relationships) and suggests a few reasons -- and he asks for TED2011 your help! Watch his talk, then take 0:04:46 his short 10-question survey: 8/5/2011 http://on.ted.com/PZSu Poet, writer, activist Eve Ensler lived in her head. In this powerful talk from TEDWomen, she talks about her lifelong disconnection from her body -- and how two shocking events helped her to connect with the TEDWomen reality, the physicality of being human. 0:12:58 8/5/2011 How can cities help save the future? Alex Steffen shows some cool neighborhood-based green projects that expand our access to things we want and need -- while reducing the time we spend in cars. TEDGlobal 2011 0:10:13 8/8/2011 A personal story, a collective triumph: Dyan deNapoli tells the story of the world's largest volunteer animal rescue, which saved more than 40,000 penguins after an oil spill off the coast of South Africa. How TEDxBoston does a job this 2011 big get done? Penguin 0:11:43 by penguin by penguin8/9/2011 ... Here's a crazy idea: Persuade the world to try living in peace for just one day, every September 21. In this energetic, honest talk, Jeremy Gilley tells the story of how this crazy idea became real -- real enough TEDGlobal to help millions 2011 of kids in war-torn0:17:41 regions. 8/10/2011 How do we find planets -- even habitable planets -- around other stars? By looking for tiny dimming as a planet passes in front of its sun, TED Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz and the Kepler mission have foundTEDGlobal some 1,200 2011 potential new planetary0:04:24 systems. With new techniques, 8/11/2011 they may even find on Using three iPods like magical props, Marco Tempest spins a clever, surprisingly heartfelt meditation on truth and lies, art and emotion. TEDGlobal 2011 0:05:07 8/12/2011 In this short talk, psychologist Dan Ariely tells two personal stories that explore scientific conflict of interest: How the pursuit of knowledge and insight can be affected, consciously or not, by shortsighted personal TED2011 goals. When we're thinking about 0:05:35 the big questions, he8/29/2011 reminds us, let's be aware of Sharing the results of a massive, worldwide study, geneticist Svante Pbo shows the DNA proof that early humans mated with Neanderthals after we moved out of Africa. (Yes, many of us have Neanderthal TEDGlobal DNA.)2011 He also shows how a tiny 0:17:01 bone from a baby finger 8/30/2011 was enough to identify a wh In 2003, the Palestinian village of Budrus mounted a 10-month-long nonviolent protest to stop a barrier being built across their olive groves. Did you hear about it? Didn't think so. Brazilian filmmaker Julia Bacha TEDGlobal asks why 2011 we only pay attention0:10:51 to violence in the Israel-Palestine 8/31/2011 conflict -- and not to MIT researcher Skylar Tibbits works on self-assembly -- the idea that instead of building something (a chair, a skyscraper), we can create materials that build themselves, much the way a strand of DNA zips TED2011 itself together. It's a big concept at early 0:06:04 stages; Tibbits shows 9/1/2011 us three in-the-lab projects Buddhist roshi Joan Halifax works with people at the last stage of life (in hospice and on death row). She shares what she's learned about compassion in the face of death and dying, and a deep insight into TEDWomen the nature of empathy. 0:14:01 9/2/2011 Every new invention changes the world -- in ways both intentional and unexpected. Historian Edward Tenner tells stories that illustrate the under-appreciated gap between our ability to innovate and our ability TED2011 to foresee the consequences. 0:16:10 9/6/2011 Sarah Kaminsky tells the extraordinary story of her father, Adolfo, and his activity during World War II -- using his ingenuity and talent for forgery to save lives. (This talk from TEDxParis is given in French; it TEDxParis has English subtitles by default.) 0:14:00 9/7/2011 Before life existed on Earth, there was just matter, inorganic dead "stuff." How improbable is it that life arose? And -- could it use a different type of chemistry? Using an elegant definition of life (anything thatTEDGlobal can evolve), 2011 chemist Lee Cronin is 0:15:11 exploring this question by9/8/2011 attempting to create a fully i Artist Raghava KK demos his new children's book for iPad with a fun feature: when you shake it, the story -- and your perspective -- changes. In this charming short talk, he invites all of us to shake up our perspective TEDGlobala 2011 little bit. 0:04:30 9/9/2011 Economist Yasheng Huang compares China to India, and asks how China's authoritarian rule contributed to its astonishing economic growth -- leading to a big question: Is democracy actually holding India back? TEDGlobal Huang's 2011 answer may surprise0:18:51 you. 9/12/2011 Despite multibillion-dollar investments in cybersecurity, one of its root problems has been largely ignored: who are the people who write malicious code? Underworld investigator Misha Glenny profiles several TEDGlobal convicted2011 coders from around the 0:18:39 world and reaches a startling 9/13/2011 conclusion. Artist Kate Hartman uses wearable electronics to explore how we communicate, with ourselves and with the world. In this quirky and thought-provoking talk, she shows the "Talk to Yourself Hat", the "Inflatable TED2011 Heart", the "Glacier Embracing Suit", 0:09:05 and other unexpected 9/14/2011 devices. In this accessible talk from TEDxBoston, Richard Resnick shows how cheap and fast genome sequencing is about to turn health care (and insurance, and politics) upside down. TEDxBoston 2011 0:11:02 9/15/2011 TV executive Lauren Zalaznick thinks deeply about pop television. Sharing results of a bold study that tracks attitudes against TV ratings over five decades, she makes a case that television reflects who we TEDWomen truly are -- in ways we might not have 0:13:12 expected. 9/16/2011 In this inspiring talk at the NextGen:Charity conference, Sasha Dichter of the Acumen Fund shares the results of his month-long "Generosity Experiment" where he said "yes" to every request for help. NextGen:Charity 9/17/2011 Over the past few centuries, Western cultures have been very good at creating general prosperity for themselves. Historian Niall Ferguson asks: Why the West, and less so the rest? He suggests half a dozen TEDGlobal big ideas2011 from Western culture -- 0:20:19 call them the 6 killer apps 9/19/2011 -- that promote wealth, stabi Have you played with Google Labs' Ngram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste TEDxBoston Michel show 2011 us how it works, and 0:14:08 a few of the surprising 9/20/2011 things we can learn from 50 HIV is a serious problem in the DR Congo, and aid agencies have flooded the country with free and cheap condoms. But few people are using them. Why? "Reformed marketer" Amy Lockwood offers a surprising TEDGlobal answer 2011 that upends a traditional 0:04:16 model of philanthropy. 9/21/2011 (Some NSFW images.) What is killing the Tasmanian devil? A virulent cancer is infecting them by the thousands -- and unlike most cancers, it's contagious. Researcher Elizabeth Murchison tells us how she's fighting to save the Taz, TEDGlobal and what 2011 she's learning about all 0:13:03 cancers from this unusual 9/22/2011 strain. Contains disturbing Studies show that sketching and doodling improve our comprehension -- and our creative thinking. So why do we still feel embarrassed when we're caught doodling in a meeting? Sunni Brown says: Doodlers, TED2011 unite! She makes the case for unlocking 0:05:50 your brain via pad 9/23/2011 and pen. Modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool: human touch. Physician and writer Abraham Verghese describes our strange new world where patients are merely data points, and calls TEDGlobal for a return 2011 to the traditional one-on-one 0:18:32 physical exam. 9/26/2011 Some kids learn by listening; others learn by doing. Geoff Mulgan gives a short introduction to the Studio School, a new kind of school in the UK where small teams of kids learn by working on projects that are, TEDGlobal as Mulgan 2011 puts it, "for real." 0:06:16 9/27/2011 Jarreth Merz, a Swiss-Ghanaian filmmaker, came to Ghana in 2008 to film the national elections. What he saw there taught him new lessons about democracy -- and about himself. TEDGlobal 2011 0:08:36 9/28/2011 Every day there are news reports of new health advice, but how can you know if they're right? Doctor and epidemiologist Ben Goldacre shows us, at high speed, the ways evidence can be distorted, from the TEDGlobal blindingly obvious 2011 nutrition claims to 0:14:19 the very subtle tricks of 9/29/2011 the pharmaceutical industry. Can opera be ever-so-slightly sexy? The glorious soprano Danielle de Niese shows how, singing the flirty "Meine Lippen, sie kssen so heiss." Which, translated, means, as you might guess: "I kiss so hot." TEDGlobal From Giuditta 2011 by Frans Lehr; accompanist: 0:05:55 Ingrid Surgenor. 9/30/2011 Yang Lan, a journalist and entrepreneur who's been called "the Oprah of China," offers insight into the next generation of young Chinese citizens -- urban, connected (via microblogs) and alert to injustice. TEDGlobal 2011 0:17:14 10/3/2011 How do we search for alien life if it's nothing like the life that we know? At TEDxUIUC Christoph Adami shows how he uses his research into artificial life -- self-replicating computer programs -- to find a signature, TEDxUIUC a 'biomarker,' that is free of our 0:18:51 preconceptions of what 10/4/2011 life is. Writer and designer Graham Hill asks: Can having less stuff, in less room, lead to more happiness? He makes the case for taking up less space, and lays out three rules for editing your life. TED2011 0:05:49 10/5/2011 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 TEDGlobal has developed 2011 a cheap and incredibly 0:10:58 energy efficient plant 10/6/2011 that can, and does, recycle 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 TEDGlobal opera "U-Carmen 2011 eKhayelitsha" and 0:19:36 the ParaOrchestra. 10/7/2011 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. TEDGlobal 2011 0:18:29 10/10/2011 A story, a work of art, a face, a designed object -- how do we tell that something is beautiful? And why does it matter so much to us? Designer Richard Seymour explores our response to beauty and the surprising TEDSalon power London of objects 2010 that exhibit 0:17:15 it. 10/11/2011 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 TEDGlobal it. A short 2011 story about information,0:05:41 connectivity and learning 10/12/2011 from mistakes. 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" TEDGlobal used by those 2011 trained to recognize 0:18:50 deception -- and she argues 10/13/2011 honesty is a value worth 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. TEDGlobal Yes, 2011 this just might be the strangest 0:07:30TEDTalk you'll ever 10/14/2011 see ... 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, TEDGlobal and2011 its founder, Bunker Roy, 0:19:07 explains how it works. 10/17/2011 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 TEDGlobal of 'normal' 2011 can lead to extraordinary 0:12:45 breakthroughs. 10/18/2011 More and more, nations are waging attacks with cyber weapons -- silent strikes on another country's computer systems that leave behind no trace. (Think of the Stuxnet worm.) At TEDxParis, Guy-Philippe Goldstein TEDxParis shows 2010 how cyberattacks can 0:09:24 leap between the digital 10/19/2011 and physical worlds to prom Physiatrist 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 TEDGlobal this next-gen 2011 robotic arm. 0:18:51 10/20/2011 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 TEDGlobal to play. 2011 0:04:19 10/21/2011 We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are tooTEDGlobal far apart: real 2011 effects on health, lifespan, 0:16:54 even such basic values 10/24/2011 as trust. Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist describes the real differences between the left and right halves of the human brain. It's not simply "emotion on the right, reason on the left," but something far more complex and RSA interesting. Animate A Best of the Web talk from RSA Animate. 10/25/2011 Master storyteller Malcolm Gladwell tells the tale of the Norden bombsight, a groundbreaking piece of World War II technology with a deeply unexpected result. TEDGlobal 2011 0:15:00 10/26/2011 How does cancer know it's cancer? At Jay Bradner's lab, they found a molecule that might hold the answer, JQ1 -- and instead of patenting JQ1, they published their findings and mailed samples to 40 otherTEDxBoston labs to work 2011 on. An inspiring look at 0:12:47 the open-source future 10/27/2011 of medical research. With scissors and paper, artist Batrice Coron creates intricate worlds, cities and countries, heavens and hells. Striding onstage in a glorious cape cut from Tyvek, she describes her creative process and the TED2011 way her stories develop from snips0:18:15 and slices. 10/28/2011 After he ended up on a watch list by accident, Hasan Elahi was advised by his local FBI agents to let them know when he was traveling. He did that and more ... much more. TEDGlobal 2011 0:14:30 10/31/2011 What drives our desire to behave morally? Neuroeconomist Paul Zak shows why he believes oxytocin (he calls it "the moral molecule") is responsible for trust, empathy and other feelings that help build a stable TEDGlobal society. 2011 0:16:34 11/1/2011 A flying car -- it's an iconic image of the future. But after 100 years of flight and automotive engineering, no one has really cracked the problem. Pilot Anna Mracek Dietrich and her team flipped the question,TEDGlobal asking: Why 2011 not build a plane that you 0:09:38 can drive? 11/2/2011 Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement. In this entertaining, data-rich talk he gives us a glimpse into how the brain creates TEDGlobal the grace 2011 and agility of human motion. 0:19:59 11/3/2011 Using sleight-of-hand techniques and charming storytelling, illusionist Marco Tempest brings a jaunty stick figure to life onstage at TEDGlobal. TEDGlobal 2011 0:05:44 11/4/2011 When every cellphone can record video and take pictures, everyone is a potential news source. Reporter Paul Lewis tells two stories that show us the future of investigative journalism. TEDxThessaloniki 11/5/2011 Medical, legal, and financial documents should be easy to read, but too often they aren't. With spot-on (and funny) examples, Sandra Fisher Martins shows how overly complex language separates us from the TEDxO'Porto information we need -- and three steps to change that. In11/6/2011 Portuguese with English subt In his lab, Martin Hanczyc makes "protocells," experimental blobs of chemicals that behave like living cells. His work demonstrates how life might have first occurred on Earth ... and perhaps elsewhere too. TEDSalon London Spring 2011 0:14:37 11/7/2011 Artist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, Rao creates high-tech art installations -- a typewriter that sends emails, a camera TEDGlobal that tracks 2011 you through the room 0:07:50 only to make you invisible 11/8/2011 on screen -- that put a p Ancient monuments give us clues to astonishing past civilizations -- but they're under threat from pollution, war, neglect. Ben Kacyra, who invented a groundbreaking 3D scanning system, is using his invention TEDGlobal to scan and 2011 preserve the world's0:12:20 heritage in archival detail. 11/9/2011 (Watch to the end for a little How can we begin to understand the way the brain works? The same way we begin to understand a city: by making a map. In this visually stunning talk, Allan Jones shows how his team is mapping which genes TEDGlobal are turned 2011on in each tiny region, 0:15:21 and how it all connects 11/10/2011 up. Charlie Todd causes bizarre, hilarious, and unexpected public scenes: Seventy synchronized dancers in storefront windows, "ghostbusters" running through the New York Public Library, and the annual no-pants TEDxBloomington subway ride. At TEDxBloomington 0:12:04 he shows how his 11/11/2011 group, Improv Everywhere, use The next big shift is now, and it's not what you think: Facebook is the new Windows; Google must be sacrificed. At TEDxSantaCruz, tech investor Roger McNamee presents 6 bold ways to prepare for the next TEDxSantaCruz internet. 11/12/2011
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Speaker Name Michael Nielsen Michael Nielsen: Open science now! Alexander Tsiaras Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to birth -- visualized Yves Rossy Yves Rossy: Fly with the Jetman Thomas Suarez Thomas Suarez: A 12-year-old app developer Cynthia Kenyon Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives Robin Ince Robin Ince: Science versus wonder? Gabe Zichermann Gabe Zichermann: How games make kids smarter Natalie Warne Natalie Warne: Being young and making an impact Phil Plait Phil Plait: How to defend Earth from asteroids Pter Fankhauser Pter Fankhauser: Meet Rezero, the dancing ballbot Joe Sabia Joe Sabia: The technology of storytelling Louie Schwartzberg Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude. Britta Riley Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment Amy Purdy Amy Purdy: Living beyond limits Damon Horowitz Damon Horowitz: Philosophy in prison Kathryn Schulz Kathryn Schulz: Don't regret regret Karen Tse Karen Tse: How to stop torture Annie Murphy Paul Annie Murphy Paul: What we learn before we're born John Bohannon John Bohannon: Dance vs. powerpoint, a modest proposal Charles Limb Charles Limb: Building the musical muscle Leslie Dodson Leslie Dodson: Don't misrepresent Africa Sarah Kay Sarah Kay: How many lives can you live? Srdja Popovic Srdja Popovic: How to topple a dictator Luis von Ahn Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration Cheryl Hayashi Cheryl Hayashi: The magnificence of spider silk Yoav Medan Yoav Medan: Ultrasound surgery -- healing without cuts Stefon Harris Stefon Harris: There are no mistakes on the bandstand Klaus Stadlmann Klaus Stadlmann: The world's smallest 3D printer David Damberger David Damberger: What happens when an NGO admits failure Monika Bulaj Monika Bulaj: The hidden light of Afghanistan Quyen Nguyen Quyen Nguyen: Color-coded surgery Pavan Sukhdev Pavan Sukhdev: Put a value on nature! Homaro Cantu, Ben Roche Homaro Cantu + Ben Roche: Cooking as alchemy Ramona Pierson Ramona Pierson: An unexpected place of healing Roger Doiron Roger Doiron: My subversive (garden) plot Thomas Pogge Thomas Pogge: Medicine for the 99 percent Antonio Damasio Antonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness Sheila Nirenberg Sheila Nirenberg: A prosthetic eye to treat blindness Daniel Goldstein Daniel Goldstein: The battle between your present and future self Alberto Cairo Alberto Cairo: There are no scraps of men AJ Jacobs AJ Jacobs: How healthy living nearly killed me Jane Fonda Jane Fonda: Life's third act Paddy Ashdown Paddy Ashdown: The global power shift Sebastian Wernicke Sebastian Wernicke: 1000 TEDTalks, 6 words Nate Garvis Nate Garvis: Change our culture, change our world Michelle Borkin Michelle Borkin: Can astronomers help doctors? Tyler Cowen Tyler Cowen: Be suspicious of stories Lauren Hodge, Shree Bose, Naomi Award-winning Shah teen-age science in action Jonas Gahr Stre Jonas Gahr Stre: In defense of dialogue Drew Berry Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology Morley Morley sings "Women of Hope" Kirk Sorensen Kirk Sorensen: Thorium, an alternative nuclear fuel Charles Hazlewood, British Paraorchestra The debut of the British Paraorchestra Sonaar Luthra Sonaar Luthra: Meet the Water Canary Alain de Botton Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0 Mikko Hypponen Mikko Hypponen: Three types of online attack Clay Shirky Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea Sheena Iyengar Sheena Iyengar: How to make choosing easier Scott Rickard Scott Rickard: The beautiful math behind the ugliest music Bilal Bomani Bilal Bomani: Plant fuels that could power a jet Julian Baggini Julian Baggini: Is there a real you? Lisa Harouni Lisa Harouni: A primer on 3D printing Diana Nyad: Extreme swimming with the world's most dangerous Diana Nyad jellyfish Brian Goldman Brian Goldman: Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that? Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: Women entrepreneurs, example not Gayle Tzemach Lemmon exception Bjarke Ingels Bjarke Ingels: Hedonistic sustainability Mick Mountz Mick Mountz: The hidden world of box-packing Peter van Uhm Peter van Uhm: Why I chose a gun Bill Doyle Bill Doyle: Treating cancer with electric fields Shawn Achor Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work Erica Frenkel Erica Frenkel: The universal anesthesia machine Danny Hillis Danny Hillis: Back to the future (of 1994) Mike deGruy Mike deGruy: Hooked by an octopus Aleph Molinari Aleph Molinari: Let's bridge the digital divide! Nancy Duarte Nancy Duarte: The secret structure of great talks Neil Burgess Neil Burgess: How your brain tells you where you are Stephen Coleman Stephen Coleman: The moral dangers of non-lethal weapons Sheikha Al Mayassa Sheikha Al Mayassa: Globalizing the local, localizing the global Jack Horner Jack Horner: Shape-shifting dinosaurs Erik Johannson Erik Johansson: Impossible photography Drew Dudley Drew Dudley: Everyday leadership Keith Nolan Keith Nolan: Deaf in the military Tyrone Hayes, Penelope Jagessar Tyrone Chaffer Hayes + Penelope Jagessar Chaffer: The toxic baby? Jenna McCarthy Jenna McCarthy: What you don't know about marriage Inara George Inara George sings 'Family Tree' Lucien Engelen Lucien Engelen: Crowdsource your health Simon Berrow Simon Berrow: How do you save a shark you know nothing about? Paul Conneally Paul Conneally: Digital humanitarianism Garth Lenz Garth Lenz: The true cost of oil Lucianne Walkowicz Lucianne Walkowicz: Look up for a change Neil MacGregor Neil MacGregor: 2600 years of history in one object Chris Bliss Chris Bliss: Comedy is translation Shilo Shiv Suleman Shilo Shiv Suleman: Using tech to enable dreaming Shlomo Benartzi Shlomo Benartzi: Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow Tan Le Tan Le: My immigration story Avi Rubin Avi Rubin: All your devices can be hacked
Short Summary Event Duration Publish date What if every scientist could share their data as easily as they tweet about their lunch? Michael Nielsen calls for scientists to embrace new tools for collaboration that will enable discoveries to happen at the TEDxWaterloo speed of twitter. 11/13/2011 Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. (Some graphic images.) INK Conference 0:09:37 11/14/2011 Strapped to a jet-powered wing, Yves Rossy is the Jetman -- flying free, his body as the rudder, above the Swiss Alps and the Grand Canyon. After a powerful short film shows how it works, Rossy takes the TEDGlobal TEDGlobal 2011 stage to share the experience 0:14:48and thrill of flying. 11/15/2011 Most 12-year-olds love playing videogames -- Thomas Suarez taught himself how to create them. After developing iPhone apps like "Bustin Jeiber," a whack-a-mole game, he is now using his skills to help other TEDxManhattanBeach kids become developers. 11/16/2011 What controls aging? Biochemist Cynthia Kenyon has found a simple genetic mutation that can double the lifespan of a simple worm, C. elegans. The lessons from that discovery, and others, are pointing toTEDGlobal how we might 2011 one day significantly 0:16:23 extend youthful human 11/17/2011 life. Does science ruin the magic of life? In this grumpy but charming monologue, Robin Ince makes the argument against. The more we learn about the astonishing behavior of the universe -- the more we stand TEDGlobal in awe. 2011 0:08:38 11/18/2011 Can playing video games make you more productive? Gabe Zichermann shows how games are making kids better problem-solvers, and will make us better at everything from driving to multi-tasking. TEDxKids@Brussels 11/19/2011 At 18, Natalie Warne's work with the Invisible Children movement made her a hero for young activists. At TEDxTeen she uses her inspiring story to remind us that no one is too young to change the world. TEDxTeen 11/20/2011 What's six miles wide and can end civilization in an instant? An asteroid - and there are lots of them out there. With humor and great visuals, Phil Plait enthralls the TEDxBoulder audience with all the ways asteroids TEDxBoulder can kill, and what we must do 0:14:16 to avoid them. 11/21/2011 Onstage at TEDGlobal, Pter Fankhauser demonstrates Rezero, a robot that balances on a ball. Designed and built by a group of engineering students, Rezero is the first ballbot made to move quickly and TEDGlobal gracefully --2011 and even dance. 0:05:16 11/22/2011 iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling: the pop-up book. Sabia shows how new technology has always helped us tell our own stories, Full from Spectrum the walls Auditions of caves to his own onstage 0:03:51 iPad. 11/23/2011 Nature's beauty can be easily missed -- but not through Louie Schwartzberg's lens. His stunning time-lapse photography, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk David Steindl-Rast, servesTEDxSF as a meditation on being grateful for every day. 11/24/2011 Britta Riley wanted to grow her own food (in her tiny apartment). So she and her friends developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles -- researching, testing and tweaking the system using TEDxManhattan social media, trying many variations 0:07:52 at once and quickly 11/25/2011 arriving at the optimal system. When she was 19, Amy Purdy lost both her legs below the knee. And now ... she's a pro snowboarder. In this powerful talk, she shows us how to draw inspiration from life's obstacles. TEDxOrangeCoast 11/27/2011 Damon Horowitz teaches philosophy through the Prison University Project, bringing college-level classes to inmates of San Quentin State Prison. In this powerful short talk, he tells the story of an encounter TED2011 with right and wrong that quickly gets 0:03:50 personal. 11/28/2011 We're taught to try to live life without regret. But why? Using her own tattoo as an example, Kathryn Schulz makes a powerful and moving case for embracing our regrets. TEDSalon NY2011 0:16:51 12/2/2011 Political prisoners aren't the only ones being tortured -- the vast majority of judicial torture happens in ordinary cases, even in 'functioning' legal systems. Social activist Karen Tse shows how we can, and should, TEDGlobal stand 2011 up and end the use of routine 0:12:43 torture. 12/22/2011 Pop quiz: When does learning begin? Answer: Before we are born. Science writer Annie Murphy Paul talks through new research that shows how much we learn in the womb -- from the lilt of our native language TEDGlobal to our2011 soon-to-be-favorite foods. 0:16:46 11/29/2011 Use dancers instead of powerpoint. That's science writer John Bohannon's "modest proposal." In this spellbinding choreographed talk from TEDxBrussels he makes his case by example, aided by dancers from TEDxBrussels Black Label Movement. 11/30/2011 Charles Limb performs cochlear implantation, a surgery that treats hearing loss and can restore the ability to hear speech. But as a musician too, Limb thinks about what the implants lack: They don't let youTEDMED fully experience 2011 music yet. (There's0:15:59 a hair-raising example.)12/1/2011 At TEDMED, Limb reviews th Real narratives are complicated: Africa isn't a country, and it's not a disaster zone, says reporter and researcher Leslie Dodson. At TEDxBoulder, she calls for journalists, researchers and NGOs to stop representing TEDxBoulder entire continents as one big tragedy. 12/3/2011 Spoken-word poet Sarah Kay was stunned to find she couldn't be a princess, ballerina and astronaut all in one lifetime. In this talk from TEDxEast, she delivers two powerful poems that show us how we can TEDxEast live other lives. 12/4/2011 2011 was a year of extraordinary people-powered resistance, starting with Arab Spring and spreading across the world. How did this resistance work so well? At TEDxKrakow, Srdja Popovic (who led the nonviolent TEDxKrakow movement that took down Milosevic in Serbia in 2000) 12/5/2011 lays out the plans, skills an After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the Internet for greater good. At TEDxCMU, he shares TEDxCMU how his ambitious new project,0:16:39 Duolingo, will help millions 12/6/2011 learn a new language whil Cheryl Hayashi studies spider silk, one of nature's most high-performance materials. Each species of spider can make up to 7 very different kinds of silk. How do they do it? Hayashi explains at the DNA level TED2010 -- then shows us how this super-strong, 0:14:28 super-flexible material 12/7/2011 can inspire. Imagine having a surgery with no knives involved. At TEDMED, Yoav Medan shares a technique that uses MRI to find trouble spots and focused ultrasound to treat such issues as brain lesions, uterine fibroids TEDMED and several 2011 kinds of cancerous growths. 0:16:13 12/8/2011 What is a mistake? By talking through examples with his improvisational Jazz quartet, Stefon Harris walks us to a profound truth: many actions are perceived as mistakes only because we don't react to them TEDSalon appropriately. NY2011 0:13:11 12/9/2011 What could you do with the world's smallest 3D printer? At TEDxVienna Klaus Stadlmann demos his tiny, affordable printer that could someday make customized hearing aids -- or sculptures smaller than a TEDxVienna human hair. 12/10/2011 International aid groups make the same mistakes over and over again. At TEDxYYC David Damberger uses his own engineering failure in India to call for the development sector to publicly admit, analyze, and TEDxYYC learn from their missteps. 12/11/2011 Photographer Monika Bulaj shares powerful, intimate images of Afghanistan -- of home life, of ritual, of men and women. Behind the headlines, what does the world truly know about this place? TEDGlobal 2011 0:04:44 12/12/2011 Surgeons are taught from textbooks which conveniently color-code the types of tissues, but that's not what it looks like in real life -- until now. At TEDMED Quyen Nguyen demonstrates how a molecular marker TEDMED can make 2011 tumors light up in neon 0:16:08 green, showing surgeons 12/13/2011 exactly where to cut. Every day, we use materials from the earth without thinking, for free. But what if we had to pay for their true value: would it make us more careful about what we use and what we waste? Think of Pavan Sukhdev TEDGlobal as nature's 2011 banker -- assessing 0:16:31 the value of the Earth's 12/14/2011 assets. Eye-opening charts w Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche come from Moto, a Chicago restaurant that plays with new ways to cook and eat food. But beyond the fun and flavor-tripping, there's a serious intent: Can we use new food technology TED2011 for good? 0:09:34 12/15/2011 When Ramona Pierson was 22, she was hit by a drunk driver and spent 18 months in a coma. At TEDxDU she tells the remarkable story of her recovery -- drawing on the collective skills and wisdom of a senior TEDxDU citizens' 2011 home. 0:11:13 12/16/2011 A vegetable garden can do more than save you money -- it can save the world. At TEDxDirigo Roger Doiron shows how gardens can re-localize our food and feed our growing population. TEDxDirigo 12/17/2011 Can we incentivize companies to produce much-needed drugs? At TEDxCanberra, Thomas Pogge proposes a $6 billion plan to revolutionize the way medications are developed and sold. TEDxCanberra 12/18/2011 Every morning we wake up and regain consciousness -- that is a marvelous fact -- but what exactly is it that we regain? Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio uses this simple question to give us a glimpse into how TED2011 our brains create our sense of self. 0:18:42 12/19/2011 At TEDMED, Sheila Nirenberg shows a bold way to create sight in people with certain kinds of blindness: by hooking into the optic nerve and sending signals from a camera direct to the brain. TEDMED 2011 0:10:01 12/20/2011 Every day, we make decisions that have good or bad consequences for our future selves. (Can I skip flossing just this one time?) Daniel Goldstein makes tools that help us imagine ourselves over time, so that TEDSalon we make NY2011 smart choices for Future 0:15:59 Us. 12/21/2011 Alberto Cairo's clinics in Afghanistan used to close down during active fighting. Now, they stay open. At TEDxRC2 (the RC stands for Red Cross/Red Crescent), Cairo tells the powerful story of why -- and how TEDxRC2 he found humanity and dignity in 0:19:02 the midst of war. 12/23/2011 For a full year, AJ Jacobs followed every piece of health advice he could -- from applying sunscreen by the shotglass to wearing a bicycle helmet while shopping. Onstage at TEDMED, he shares the surprising TEDMED things 2011 he learned. 0:08:43 1/3/2012 Within this generation, an extra 30 years have been added to our life expectancy -- and these years aren't just a footnote or a pathology. At TEDxWomen, Jane Fonda asks how we can think about this new TEDxWomen phase of our lives. 2011 0:11:20 1/4/2012 16:18:00 Paddy Ashdown claims that we are living in a moment in history where power is changing in ways it never has before. In a spellbinding talk at TEDxBrussels he outlines the three major global shifts that he sees TEDxBrussels coming. 0:18:29 1/5/2012 16:04:00 Sebastian Wernicke thinks every TEDTalk can be summarized in six words. At TEDxZurich, he shows how to do just that -- and less. TEDxZurich 0:07:34 1/6/2012 16:30:00 We don't just need better laws -- we need better culture. At TEDxTC Nate Garvis asks what we can do to create an environment in which powerful institutions are used for the common good. TEDxTC 1/7/2012 16:08:00 How do you measure a nebula? With a brain scan. At TEDxBoston, TED Fellow Michelle Borkin shows why collaboration between doctors and astronomers can lead to surprising discoveries. TEDxBoston 2011 1/8/2012 14:54:00 Like all of us, economist Tyler Cowen loves a good story. But in this intriguing talk from TEDxMidAtlantic, he asks us to step away from thinking of our lives -- and our messy, complicated irrational world -- in TEDxMidAtlantic terms of a simple narrative. 1/9/2012 17:06:00 In 2011 three young women swept the top prizes of the first Google Science Fair. At TEDxWomen Lauren Hodge, Shree Bose and Naomi Shah described their extraordinary projects-- and their route to a passion TEDxWomen for science. 2011 0:16:16 1/10/2012 16:10:00 In politics, it seems counterintuitive to engage in dialogue with violent groups, with radicals and terrorists, and with the states that support them. But Jonas Gahr Stre, the foreign minister of Norway, makes TEDxRC2 a compelling case for open discussion, 0:14:58 even when 1/11/2012 values diverge, 16:18:00 in an attempt to build We have no ways to directly observe molecules and what they do -- Drew Berry wants to change that. At TEDxSydney he shows his scientifically accurate (and entertaining!) animations that help researchers TEDxSydney see unseeable processes within our 0:09:08 own cells. 1/12/2012 15:51:00 Inspired by Aung San Suu Kyi's call to action, "If you're feeling helpless, help someone," Morley composed this song. She sings it at TEDxWomen in her gorgeous, warm voice. TEDxWomen 2011 0:05:30 1/13/2012 16:11:00 At TEDxYYC Kirk Sorensen shows us the liquid fuel thorium reactor -- a way to produce energy that is safer, cleaner and more efficient than current nuclear power. TEDxYYC 1/14/2012 15:01:00 There are millions of prodigiously gifted musicians of disability around the world, and Charles Hazlewood is determined to give them a platform. Watch the debut performance of the British Paraorchestra at TEDxBrussels. TEDxBrussels 1/15/2012 15:24:00 After a crisis, how can we tell if water is safe to drink? Current tests are slow and complex, and the delay can be deadly, as in the cholera outbreak after Haiti's earthquake in 2010. TED Fellow Sonaar Luthra TEDGlobal previews his 2011 design for a simple tool 0:03:37 that quickly 1/16/2012 tests water 16:33:00 for safety -- the Water Cana What aspects of religion should atheists (respectfully) adopt? Alain de Botton suggests a "religion for atheists" -- call it Atheism 2.0 -- that incorporates religious forms and traditions to satisfy our human need TEDGlobal for connection, 2011 ritual and transcendence. 0:19:20 1/17/2012 15:05:00 Cybercrime expert Mikko Hypponen talks us through three types of online attack on our privacy and data -- and only two are considered crimes. "Do we blindly trust any future government? Because any right TEDxBrussels we give away, we give away for good." 0:09:23 1/18/2012 14:54:00 What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto -- a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively TEDSalon consume. NY2012 0:13:59 1/18/2012 17:47:00 We all want customized experiences and products -- but when faced with 700 options, consumers freeze up. With fascinating new research, Sheena Iyengar demonstrates how businesses (and others) can TEDSalon improve the NY2011 experience of choosing. 0:16:05 1/19/2012 15:46:00 Scott Rickard set out to engineer the ugliest possible piece of music, devoid of repetition, using a mathematical concept known as the Golomb ruler. At TEDxMIA, he shares the math behind musical beauty TEDxMIA (and its opposite). 1/20/2012 16:41:00 Algae plus salt water equals fuel? At TEDxNASA@SiliconValley, Bilal Bomani reveals a self-sustaining ecosystem that produces biofuels -- without wasting arable land or fresh water. TEDxNASA@SiliconValley 1/21/2012 14:58:00 What makes you, you? Is it how you think of yourself, how others think of you, or something else entirely? At TEDxYouth@Manchester, Julian Baggini draws from philosophy and neuroscience to give a surprising TEDxYouth@Manchester answer. 1/22/2012 14:59:00 2012 may be the year of 3D printing, when this three-decade-old technology finally becomes accessible and even commonplace. Lisa Harouni gives a useful introduction to this fascinating way of making things TEDSalon -- including London intricate Spring objects 2011 once 0:14:49 impossible to 1/23/2012 create. 16:17:00 In the 1970s, Diana Nyad set long-distance swim records that are still unbroken. Thirty years later, at 60, she attempted her longest swim yet, from Cuba to Florida. In this funny, powerful talk at TEDMED, she TEDMED talks about 2011how to prepare mentally 0:16:57 to achieve an 1/24/2012 extreme 16:23:00 dream, and asks: What will Every doctor makes mistakes. But, says physician Brian Goldman, medicine's culture of denial (and shame) keeps doctors from ever talking about those mistakes, or using them to learn and improve. Telling TEDxToronto stories from his 2010 own long practice, 0:19:28 he calls on doctors 1/25/2012 to start 16:50:00 talking about being wrong.
Women aren't micro--so why do they only get micro-loans? At TEDxWomen reporter Gayle Tzemach Lemmon argues that women running all types of firms-- from home businesses to major factories-- are the TEDxWomen overlooked 2011 key to economic development. 0:13:16 1/27/2012 16:06:00 Bjarke Ingels' architecture is luxurious, sustainable and community-driven. At TEDxEast he shows us his playful designs, from a factory chimney that blows smoke rings to a ski slope built atop a waste processing TEDxEast plant. 1/28/2012 15:03:00 We make millions of online purchases daily, but who (or what) actually puts our items into packages? At TEDxBoston, Mick Mountz weaves a fascinating tale out of a seemingly boring subject: online ordering, TEDxBoston its challenges 2011 -- and the surprisingly high-tech solutions. 1/29/2012 14:58:00 Peter van Uhm is the Netherlands' chief of defense, but that does not mean he is pro-war. At TEDxAmsterdam he explains how his career is one shaped by a love of peace, not a desire for bloodshed -- andTEDxAmsterdam why we need armies if we want peace. 0:17:10 1/30/2012 15:51:00 Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation are the best-known methods for treating cancer. At TEDMED, Bill Doyle presents a new approach, called Tumor Treating Fields, which uses electric fields to interrupt cancer TEDMED cell 2011 division. Still in its infancy 0:15:35 -- and approved 1/31/2012 for only certain 16:01:00 types of cancer -- the We believe that we should work to be happy, but could that be backwards? In this fast-moving and entertaining talk from TEDxBloomington, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that actually happiness inspires TEDxBloomington productivity. 0:12:20 2/1/2012 16:09:00 What if you're in surgery and the power goes out? No lights, no oxygen -- and your anesthesia stops flowing. It happens constantly in hospitals throughout the world, turning routine procedures into tragedies. TEDxMidAtlantic Erica Frenkel demos one solution:0:11:23 the universal anesthesia 2/2/2012 16:28:00 machine. From deep in the TED archive, Danny Hillis outlines an intriguing theory of how and why technological change seems to be accelerating, by linking it to the very evolution of life itself. The presentation techniques TED1994 he uses may look dated, but the 0:19:10 ideas are as 2/3/2012 relevant as 16:06:00 ever. Underwater filmmaker Mike deGruy has spent decades looking intimately at the ocean. A consummate storyteller, he takes the stage at Mission Blue to share his awe and excitement -- and his fears -- about Mission the blue Blue heart Voyage of our planet. 0:18:12 2/4/2012 8:14:00 Five billion people can't use the Internet. Aleph Molinari empowers the digitally excluded by giving them access to computers and the know-how to use them. TEDxSanMigueldeAllende 2/4/2012 15:01:00 From the "I have a dream" speech to Steve Jobs' iPhone launch, all great presentations have a common architecture. At TEDxEast, Nancy Duarte draws lessons on how to make a powerful call-to-action. TEDxEast 2/5/2012 14:58:00 How do you remember where you parked your car? How do you know if you're moving in the right direction? Neuroscientist Neil Burgess studies the neural mechanisms that map the space around us, and how TEDSalon they link London to memory Spring and 2011 imagination. 0:09:03 2/6/2012 15:58:00 Pepper spray and tasers are in increasing use by both police and military, and more exotic non-lethal weapons such as heat rays are in the works. At TEDxCanberra, ethicist Stephen Coleman explores the TEDxCanberra unexpected consequences of their introduction 0:17:32 and 2/7/2012 asks some 16:08:00 challenging questions. Sheikha Al Mayassa, a patron of artists, storytellers and filmmakers in Qatar, talks about how art and culture create a country's identity -- and allow every country to share its unique identity with the wider world. TEDWomen As she says: "We don't want to 0:10:53 be all the same,2/8/2012 but we do 16:28:00 want to understand each o Where are the baby dinosaurs? In a spellbinding talk from TEDxVancouver paleontologist Jack Horner describes how slicing open fossil skulls revealed a shocking secret about some of our most beloved dinosaurs. TEDxVancouver 0:18:23 2/9/2012 15:59:00 Erik Johansson creates realistic photos of impossible scenes -- capturing ideas, not moments. In this witty how-to, the Photoshop wizard describes the principles he uses to make these fantastical scenariosTEDSalon come to life, London while Fall keeping 2011 them visually 0:06:21 plausible. 2/10/2012 16:01:00 We have all changed someone's life -- usually without even realizing it. In this funny talk from TEDxToronto, Drew Dudley calls on all of us to celebrate leadership as the everyday act of improving each other's TEDxToronto lives. 2010 2/11/2012 15:03:00 Keith Nolan always wanted to join the United States military -- but he's deaf, an automatic disqualification according to military rules. At TEDxIslay, he describes his fight to fight for his country. (In American TEDxIslay Sign Language, with real time translation.) 2/12/2012 14:56:00 Filmmaker Penelope Jagessar Chaffer was curious about the chemicals she was exposed to while pregnant: Could they affect her unborn child? So she asked scientist Tyrone Hayes to brief her on one he studied TEDWomen closely: atrazine, a herbicide0:17:48 used on corn.2/13/2012 (Hayes, an 16:31:00 expert on amphibians, is a In this funny, casual talk from TEDx, writer Jenna McCarthy shares surprising research on how marriages (especially happy marriages) really work. One tip: Do not try to win an Oscar for best actress. TEDxAmericanRiviera 0:11:17 2/14/2012 15:41:00 Singer Inara George and guitarist Mike Andrews play the quietly lovely love song "Family Tree." TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch 0:03:19 2/14/2012 22:43:00 You can use your smartphone to find a local ATM, but what if you need a defibrillator? At TEDxMaastricht, Lucien Engelen shows us online innovations that are changing the way we save lives, including a crowdsourced TEDxMaastricht map of local defibrillators. 0:06:12 2/15/2012 16:07:00 They're the second largest fish in the world, they're almost extinct, and we know almost nothing about them. At TEDxDublin, Simon Berrow describes the fascinating basking shark ("Great Fish of the Sun" in TEDxDublin Irish), and the exceptional -- and wonderfully 0:16:46 low-tech 2/16/2012 -- ways 15:52:00 he's learning enough to sa The disastrous earthquake in Haiti taught humanitarian groups an unexpected lesson: the power of mobile devices to coordinate, inform, and guide relief efforts. At TEDxRC2, Paul Conneally shows extraordinary TEDxRC2 examples of social media and0:10:57 other new technologies 2/17/2012 becoming 16:08:00 central to humanita What does environmental devastation actually look like? At TEDxVictoria, photographer Garth Lenz shares shocking photos of the Alberta Tar Sands mining project -- and the beautiful (and vital) ecosystems TEDxVictoria under threat. 2/18/2012 14:54:00 TED Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz asks: How often do you see the true beauty of the night sky? At TEDxPhoenix, she shows how light pollution is ruining the extraordinary -- and often ignored -- experience of TEDxPhoenix seeing directly into space. 2/19/2012 14:53:00 A clay cylinder covered in Akkadian cuneiform script, damaged and broken, the Cyrus Cylinder is a powerful symbol of religious tolerance and multi-culturalism. In this enthralling talk Neil MacGregor, Director TEDGlobal of the British 2011 Museum, traces 2600 0:19:37 years of Middle 2/20/2012 Eastern 16:37:00 history through this single o Every act of communication is, in some way, an act of translation. Onstage at TEDxRainier, writer Chris Bliss thinks hard about the way that great comedy can translate deep truths for a mass audience. TEDxRainier 0:16:00 2/21/2012 16:54:00 Has our technology -- our cell phones and iPods and cameras -- stopped us from dreaming? Young artist Shilo Shiv Suleman says no, as she demos "Khoya," her new storybook for iPad, which floats us through INK Conference a magical world in 7 minutes of 0:07:36 pure creativity. 2/22/2012 16:59:00 It's easy to imagine saving money next week, but how about right now? Generally, we want to spend it. Economist Shlomo Benartzi says this is one of the biggest obstacles to saving enough for retirement, and TEDSalon asks: How NY2011 do we turn this behavioral 0:17:45 challenge 2/23/2012 into a behavioral 16:40:00 solution? In 2010, technologist Tan Le took the TEDGlobal stage to demo a powerful new interface. But now, at TEDxWomen, she tells a very personal story: the story of her family -- mother, grandmother and sister -TEDxWomen fleeing Vietnam 2011 and building a new 0:12:16 life. 2/24/2012 16:59:00 Could someone hack your pacemaker? At TEDxMidAtlantic, Avi Rubin explains how hackers are compromising cars, smartphones and medical devices, and warns us about the dangers of an increasingly hack-able TEDxMidAtlantic world. 2/25/2012 16:49:00
Speaker Jeffrey Kluger Kevin Allocca Paul Snelgrove Daniel Pauly Paul Gilding Peter Diamandis Vijay Kumar Susan Cain Bryan Stevenson Andrew Stanton James Hansen Jennifer Pahlka Colin Robertson Kelli Anderson Larry Smith Greg Gage Chris Anderson (TED) David Gallo Adam Savage
Name Jeffrey Kluger: The sibling bond Kevin Allocca: Why videos go viral Paul Snelgrove: A census of the ocean Daniel Pauly: The ocean's shifting baseline Paul Gilding: The Earth is full Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly ... and cooperate Susan Cain: The power of introverts Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate change Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government A TED speaker's worst nightmare Kelli Anderson: Design to challenge reality Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career The cockroach beatbox Questions no one knows the answers to Deep ocean mysteries and wonders How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of selfJonathan Haidt transcendence Rob Reid Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod Bren Brown Bren Brown: Listening to shame Scott Summit Scott Summit: Beautiful artificial limbs Mark Raymond Mark Raymond: Victims of the city T. Boone Pickens T. Boone Pickens: Let's transform energy -- with natural gas Myshkin Ingawale Myshkin Ingawale: A blood test without bleeding C. Noel Bairey Merz Noel Bairey Merz: The single biggest health threat women face Taylor Wilson Taylor Wilson: Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor Billy Collins Billy Collins: Everyday moments, caught in time Jer Thorp Jer Thorp: Make data more human Peter Saul Peter Saul: Let's talk about dying Donald Sadoway Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy Regina Dugan Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone Leymah Gbowee Leymah Gbowee: Unlock the intelligence, passion, greatness of girls Ayah Bdeir Ayah Bdeir: Building blocks that blink, beep and teach Marco Tempest Marco Tempest: A magical tale (with augmented reality) Daniel Schnitzer Daniel Schnitzer: Inventing is the easy part Rick Falkvinge Rick Falkvinge: I am a pirate Tierney Thys, Plankton Chronicles The Project secret life of plankton Sherry Turkle Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone? Chip Kidd Chip Kidd: Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is. Jack Choi Jack Choi: On the virtual dissection table Lucy McRae Lucy McRae: How can technology transform the human body? Carvens Lissaint Put the financial aid in the bag Jonathan Foley Jonathan Foley: The other inconvenient truth Frank Warren Frank Warren: Half a million secrets Frans de Waal Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in animals Melinda Gates Melinda Gates: Let's put birth control back on the agenda Tal Golesworthy Tal Golesworthy: How I repaired my own heart Abigail Washburn Abigail Washburn: Building US-China relations ... by banjo Atul Gawande Atul Gawande: How do we heal medicine? Drew Curtis Drew Curtis: How I beat a patent troll Taryn Simon Taryn Simon: The stories behind the bloodlines Laura Carstensen Laura Carstensen: Older people are happier Christina Warinner Christina Warinner: Tracking ancient diseases using ... plaque Brian Greene Brian Greene: Is our universe the only universe? Michael Norton Michael Norton: How to buy happiness Eduardo Paes Eduardo Paes: The 4 commandments of cities Nancy Lublin Nancy Lublin: Texting that saves lives Joe Smith Joe Smith: How to use a paper towel Brenda Brathwaite Brenda Brathwaite: Gaming for understanding Liz Diller Liz Diller: A giant bubble for debate Amory Lovins Amory Lovins: A 40-year plan for energy Reuben Margolin Reuben Margolin: Sculpting waves in wood and time Gary Kovacs Gary Kovacs: Tracking the trackers Rory Sutherland Rory Sutherland: Perspective is everything Tavi Gevinson Tavi Gevinson: A teen just trying to figure it out Rick Guidotti Rick Guidotti: From stigma to supermodel Michael Tilson Thomas Michael Tilson Thomas: Music and emotion through time JP Rangaswami JP Rangaswami: Information is food Joshua Foer Joshua Foer: Feats of memory anyone can do Renny Gleeson Renny Gleeson: 404, the story of a page not found Jos Bowen Jos Bowen: Beethoven the businessman Bart Knols Bart Knols: Cheese, dogs, and pills to end malaria Tali Sharot Tali Sharot: The optimism bias Jean-Baptiste Michel Jean-Baptiste Michel: The mathematics of history David Kelley David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence Carl Schoonover Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain JR JR: One year of turning the world inside out Melissa Garren Melissa Garren: The sea we've hardly seen Nathan Wolfe Nathan Wolfe: What's left to explore? Hans Rosling Hans Rosling: Religions and babies Philippe Petit Philippe Petit: The journey across the high wire Shereen El Feki Shereen El-Feki: HIV -- how to fight an epidemic of bad laws Reggie Watts Reggie Watts disorients you in the most entertaining way David MacKay David MacKay: A reality check on renewables Ken Goldberg Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons from robots about being human William Noel William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes Dalia Mogahed Dalia Mogahed: The attitudes that sparked Arab Spring Sebastian Deterding Quixotic Fusion Seth Shostak David Birch Juan Enriquez Diane Kelly Sebastian Deterding: What your designs say about you Quixotic Fusion: Dancing with light Seth Shostak: ET is (probably) out there -- get ready David Birch: Identity without a name Juan Enriquez: Will our kids be a different species? Diane Kelly: What we didn't know about penis anatomy
Short Summary Event Duration Publish date Were you the favorite child, the wild child or the middle child? At TEDxAsheville, Jeffrey Kluger explores the profound life-long bond between brothers and sisters, and the influence of birth order, favoritism and TEDxAsheville sibling rivalry. 2/26/2012 15:09:00 Kevin Allocca is YouTube's trends manager, and he has deep thoughts about silly web video. In this talk from TEDYouth, he shares the 4 reasons a video goes viral. (This is the first talk posted from an amazing TEDYouth TEDYouth event. Many others 0:07:20 will come on line 2/27/2012 next month 18:09:00 as part of our TED-Ed lau Oceanographer Paul Snelgrove shares the results of a ten-year project with one goal: to take a census of all the life in the oceans. He shares amazing photos of some of the surprising finds of the Census of TEDGlobal Marine Life. 2011 0:16:47 2/28/2012 17:13:00 The ocean has degraded within our lifetimes, as shown in the decreasing average size of fish. And yet, as Daniel Pauly shows us onstage at Mission Blue, each time the baseline drops, we call it the new "normal." Mission At Blue what Voyage point do we stop readjusting 0:09:02 downward? 2/28/2012 17:45:00 Have we used up all our resources? Have we filled up all the livable space on Earth? Paul Gilding suggests we have, and the possibility of devastating consequences, in a talk that's equal parts terrifying and, TED2012 oddly, hopeful. 0:16:46 2/29/2012 17:30:00 Onstage at TED2012, Peter Diamandis makes a case for optimism -- that we'll invent, innovate and create ways to solve the challenges that loom over us. "I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems; TED2012 we surely do. But ultimately, we knock 0:16:14 them down." 2/29/2012 17:30:00 In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams -- for construction, surveying disasters and far more. TED2012 0:16:46 3/1/2012 15:34:00 In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate talk, introverts bring extraordinary talents TED2012 and abilities to the world, and should 0:19:04 be encouraged 3/2/2012 and20:28:00 celebrated. In an engaging and personal talk -- with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks -- human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting TED2012 with a massive imbalance along racial 0:23:41 lines: a third3/5/2012 of the country's 16:18:00 black male population Filmmaker Andrew Stanton ("Toy Story," "WALL-E") shares what he knows about storytelling -- starting at the end and working back to the beginning. (Contains graphic language ...) TED2012 0:19:16 3/6/2012 16:39:00 Top climate scientist James Hansen tells the story of his involvement in the science of and debate over global climate change. In doing so he outlines the overwhelming evidence that change is happening and TED2012 why that makes him deeply worried 0:17:51 about the future. 3/7/2012 16:08:00 Can government be run like the Internet, permissionless and open? Coder and activist Jennifer Pahlka believes it can -- and that apps, built quickly and cheaply, are a powerful new way to connect citizens to TED2012 their governments -- and their neighbors. 0:12:11 3/8/2012 16:07:00 Colin Robertson had 3 minutes on the TED stage to tell the world about his solar-powered crowdsourced health care solution. And then... TED2012 0:03:49 3/9/2012 16:03:00 Kelli Anderson shatters our expectations about reality by injecting humor and surprise into everyday objects. At TEDxPhoenix she shares her disruptive and clever designs. TEDxPhoenix 3/10/2012 15:00:00 In this funny and blunt talk from TEDxUW, Larry Smith pulls no punches when he calls out the absurd excuses people invent when they fail to pursue their passions. TEDxUW 3/11/2012 13:58:00 By dissecting a cockroach ... yes, live on stage ... TED Fellow and neuroscientist Greg Gage shows how brains receive and deliver electric impulses -- and how legs can respond. This talk comes from the TED-Ed TED-Ed project. Find more TED-Ed videos on our new 3/12/2012 YouTube 15:49:00 channel: <a href="http://yo In a new TED-Ed series designed to catalyze curiosity, TED Curator Chris Anderson shares his obsession with questions that no one (yet) knows the answers to. A short intro leads into two questions: Why TED-Ed can't we see evidence of alien life? <a href="http://on.ted.com/AlienLife">on.ted.com/Alien 3/12/2012 19:01:00 In the deepest, darkest parts of the oceans are ecosystems with more diversity than a tropical rainforest. Taking us on a voyage into the ocean -- from the deepest trenches to the remains of Titanic --TED-Ed marine biologist David Gallo explores the wonder 3/13/2012 and beauty 15:04:00 of marine life. Find more TE Adam Savage walks through two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative methods anyone could have followed -- Eratosthenes' calculation of the Earth's circumference TED-Ed around 200 BC and Hippolyte Fizeau's measurement 3/13/2012 19:02:00 of the speed of light in 18
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: why do we search for self-transcendence? Why do we attempt to lose ourselves? In a tour through the science of evolution by group selection, TED2012 he proposes a provocative answer. 0:18:16 3/14/2012 15:04:00 Comic author Rob Reid unveils Copyright Math (TM), a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers and lobbyists. TED2012 0:05:11 3/15/2012 15:09:00 Shame is an unspoken epidemic, the secret behind many forms of broken behavior. Bren Brown, whose earlier talk on vulnerability became a viral hit, explores what can happen when people confront theirTED2012 shame head-on. Her own humor, humanity 0:20:38 and vulnerability 3/16/2012 15:16:00 shine through every word. Prosthetics can't replicate the look and feel of lost limbs but they can carry a lot of personality. At TEDxCambridge, Scott Summit shows 3D-printed, individually designed prosthetic legs that are unabashedly TEDxCambridge artificial and completely personal -- from macho to 3/17/2012 fabulous. 13:56:00 Architecture can bring people together, or divide them -- witness the skyscraper, costly, inefficient, and only serving small portions of the community. At TEDxPortofSpain, Mark Raymond encourages city governments TEDxPortofSpain to let go of their old notions of success and 3/18/2012 consider 14:17:00 the balance of environmen The US consumes 25% of the world's oil -- but as energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens points out onstage, the country has no energy policy to prepare for the inevitable. Is alternative energy our bridge to an oil-free TED2012 future? After losing $150 million 0:19:42 investing in wind 3/19/2012 energy, 15:43:00 Pickens suggests it isn't, no Anemia is a major -- and completely preventable -- cause of deaths in childbirth in many places around the world, but the standard test is invasive and slow. In this witty and inspiring talk, TED Fellow Myshkin TED2012 Ingawale describes how (after 32 0:06:43 tries) he and his 3/20/2012 team created 15:01:00 a simple, portable, lowSurprising, but true: More women now die of heart disease than men, yet cardiovascular research has long focused on men. Pioneering doctor C. Noel Bairey Merz shares what we know and don't know about TEDxWomen women's heart 2011 health -- including0:15:59 the remarkably 3/21/2012 different 15:30:00 symptoms women present du Taylor Wilson believes nuclear fusion is a solution to our future energy needs, and that kids can change the world. And he knows something about both of those: When he was 14, he built a working fusion reactor TED2012 in his parents' garage. Now 17, 0:03:32 he takes the3/22/2012 TED stage 15:08:00 at short notice to tell (the sh Combining dry wit with artistic depth, Billy Collins shares a project in which several of his poems were turned into delightful animated films in a collaboration with Sundance Channel. Five of them are included TED2012 in this wonderfully entertaining and 0:15:13 moving talk -3/23/2012 and don't 15:42:00 miss the hilarious final poem Jer Thorp creates beautiful data visualizations to put abstract data into a human context. At TEDxVancouver, he shares his moving projects, from graphing an entire year's news cycle, to mapping the way people TEDxVancouver share articles across the internet. 3/24/2012 14:01:00 We can't control if we'll die, but we can "occupy death," in the words of Dr. Peter Saul. At TEDxNewy he calls on us to make clear our preferences for end of life care -- and suggests two questions for starting TEDxNewy the conversation. 3/25/2012 14:00:00 What's the key to using alternative energy, like solar and wind? Storage -- so we can have power on tap even when the sun's not out and the wind's not blowing. In this accessible, inspiring talk, Donald Sadoway TED2012 takes to the blackboard to show 0:15:15 us the future3/26/2012 of large-scale 15:19:00 batteries that store renew What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? asks Regina Dugan, then director of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In this breathtaking talk she describes some ofTED2012 the extraordinary projects -- a robotic 0:25:01 hummingbird, 3/27/2012 a prosthetic 15:03:00 arm controlled by though Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee has two powerful stories to tell -- of her own life's transformation, and of the untapped potential of girls around the world. Can we transform the world by unlocking TED2012 the greatness of girls? 0:14:39 3/28/2012 15:23:00 Imagine a set of electronics as easy to play with as Legos. TED Fellow Ayah Bdeir introduces littleBits, a set of simple, interchangeable blocks that make programming as simple and important a part of creativity TED2012 as snapping blocks together. 0:05:27 3/29/2012 15:00:00 Marco Tempest spins a beautiful story of what magic is, how it entertains us and how it highlights our humanity -- all while working extraordinary illusions with his hands and an augmented reality machine. TED2012 0:05:27 3/30/2012 Daniel Schnitzer knew that small-scale solar products (like solar-powered LED lightbulbs) could transform the lives of rural Haitians, but found that despite their value, they wouldn't simply sell themselves. At TEDxPittsburgh TEDxPittsburgh, he explains how health and energy solutions 3/31/2012 for the developing world ar The Pirate Party fights for transparency, anonymity and sensible copyright laws. At TEDxObserver, Rick Falkvinge explains how he became the leader of Europe's tech-driven political party, which so far has TEDxObserver won 17 seats across national parliaments in Europe. 4/1/2012 New videography techniques have opened up the oceans' microscopic ecosystem, revealing it to be both mesmerizingly beautiful and astoundingly complex. Explore this hidden world that underpins our own TED-Ed food chain -- in the first-ever TEDTalk given by a fish ... 4/2/2012 As we expect more from technology, do we expect less from each other? Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication -- and asks us to think TED2012 deeply about the new kinds of connection 0:19:48 we want to have. 4/3/2012 Chip Kidd doesn't judge books by their cover, he creates covers that embody the book -- and he does it with a wicked sense of humor. In one of the funniest talks from TED2012, he shows the art and deep TED2012 thought of his cover designs. (From 0:17:16 The Design Studio session 4/4/2012 at TED2012, guest cura Onstage at TED2012, Jack Choi demonstrates a powerful tool for training medical students: a stretcher-sized multi-touch screen of the human body that lets you explore, dissect and understand the body's parts TED2012 and systems. 0:06:36 4/5/2012 15:14:00 TED Fellow Lucy McRae is a body architect -- she imagines ways to merge biology and technology in our own bodies. In this visually stunning talk, she shows her work, from clothes that recreate the body'sTED2012 insides for a music video with pop-star 0:03:59 Robyn, to a 4/6/2012 pill that, when 15:40:00 swallowed, lets you swe At TEDYouth 2011, performance artist Carvens Lissaint shows how to use language, metaphor and imagery to express a powerful idea -- as in this spoken-word performance, a stirring plea to make collegeTED-Ed education more accessible. 4/7/2012 14:17:00 A skyrocketing demand for food means that agriculture has become the largest driver of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental destruction. At TEDxTC Jonathan Foley shows why we desperately TEDxTC need to begin "terraculture" -- farming for the whole 4/8/2012 planet. 14:00:00 Secrets can take many forms -- they can be shocking, or silly, or soulful. Frank Warren, the founder of PostSecret.com, shares some of the half-million secrets that strangers have mailed him on postcards. TED2012 0:11:24 4/9/2012 15:08:00 Empathy, cooperation, fairness and reciprocity -- caring about the well-being of others seems like a very human trait. But Frans de Waal shares some surprising videos of behavioral tests, on primates and other TEDxPeachtree mammals, that show how many 0:16:52 of these moral 4/10/2012 traits all of 15:10:00 us share. Contraception. The topic has become controversial in recent years. But should it be? Melinda Gates believes that many of the world's social change issues depend on ensuring that women are able to control TEDxChange their rate of having kids. In this significant 0:25:27 talk, she 4/11/2012 makes the 15:02:00 case for the world to re-ex Tal Golesworthy is a boiler engineer -- he knows piping and plumbing. When he needed surgery to repair a life-threatening problem with his aorta, he mixed his engineering skills with his doctors' medical knowledge TEDxKrakow to design a better repair job. 0:13:14 4/12/2012 15:00:00 TED Fellow Abigail Washburn wanted to be a lawyer improving US-China relations -- until she picked up a banjo. She tells a moving story of the remarkable connections she's formed touring across the United TED2012 States and China while playing that 0:06:34 banjo and singing 4/13/2012 in Chinese. 15:02:00 Our medical systems are broken. Doctors are capable of extraordinary (and expensive) treatments, but they are losing their core focus: actually treating people. Doctor and writer Atul Gawande suggests weTED2012 take a step back and look at new ways 0:19:19 to do medicine 4/16/2012 -- with 15:28:00 fewer cowboys and more pi Drew Curtis, the founder of fark.com, tells the story of how he fought a lawsuit from a company that had a patent, "...for the creation and distribution of news releases via email." Along the way he shares some TED2012 nutty statistics about the growing 0:06:40 legal problem 4/17/2012 of frivolous15:00:00 patents. Taryn Simon captures the essence of vast, generation-spanning stories by photographing the descendants of people at the center of the narrative. In this riveting talk she shows a stream of these stories from TEDSalon all over the London world, Fall investigating 2011 the 0:17:59 nature of genealogy 4/18/2012 and 15:04:00 the way our lives are shape In the 20th century we added an unprecedented number of years to our lifespans, but is the quality of life as good? Surprisingly, yes! At TEDxWomen psychologist Laura Carstensen shows research that demonstrates TEDxWomen that 2011 as people get older 0:11:38 they become happier, 4/19/2012 more 15:25:00 content, and have a more Imagine what we could learn about diseases by studying the history of human disease, from ancient hominids to the present. But how? TED Fellow Christina Warinner is an achaeological geneticist, and she's TED2012 found a spectacular new tool -- the 0:05:31 microbial DNA 4/20/2012 in fossilized 15:13:00 dental plaque. Is there more than one universe? In this visually rich, action-packed talk, Brian Greene shows how the unanswered questions of physics (starting with a big one: What caused the Big Bang?) have led to the TED2012 theory that our own universe is just 0:21:47 one of many in4/23/2012 the "multiverse." 15:19:00 At TEDxCambridge, Michael Norton shares fascinating research on how money can, indeed buy happiness -- when you don't spend it on yourself. Listen for surprising data on the many ways pro-social spending TEDxCambridge can benefit you, your work, and 0:10:58 (of course) other 4/24/2012 people. 15:17:00 Eduardo Paes is the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, a sprawling, complicated, beautiful city of 6.5 million. He shares four big ideas about leading Rio -- and all cities -- into the future, including bold (and do-able) infrastructure TED2012 upgrades and how to make 0:12:21 a city "smarter." 4/26/2012 15:11:00 When Nancy Lublin started texting teenagers to help with her social advocacy organization, what she found was shocking -- they started texting back about their own problems, from bullying to depression to TED2012 abuse. So she's setting up a text-only 0:05:24 crisis line, and 4/27/2012 the results 15:12:00 might be even more impo You use paper towels to dry your hands every day, but chances are, you're doing it wrong. In this enlightening and funny short talk at TEDxConcordiaUPortland, Joe Smith reveals the trick to perfect paper towel TEDxConcordiaUPortland technique. 4/28/2012 13:57:00 It's never easy to get across the magnitude of complex tragedies -- so when Brenda Brathwite's daughter came home from school asking about slavery, she did what she does for a living -- she designed a game. TEDxPhoenix At TEDxPhoenix she describes the surprising 4/29/2012 effectiveness 14:27:00 of this game, and others How do you make a great public space inside a not-so-great building? Liz Diller shares the story of creating a welcoming, lighthearted (even, dare we say it, sexy) addition to the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, TED2012 DC. (From The Design Studio 0:12:06 session at 4/30/2012 TED2012, 15:32:00 guest-curated by <a href="h In this intimate talk filmed at TED's offices, energy innovator Amory Lovins shows how to get the US off oil and coal by 2050, $5 trillion cheaper, with no Act of Congress, led by business for profit. The key isTED2012 integrating all four energy-using sectorsand 0:27:10 four5/1/2012 kinds of 15:30:00 innovation. Reuben Margolin is a kinetic sculptor, crafting beautiful pieces that move in the pattern of raindrops falling and waves combining. Take nine minutes and be mesmerized by his meditative art -- inspired in equal TED2012 parts by math and nature. 0:08:58 5/2/2012 15:00:00 As you surf the Web, information is being collected about you. Web tracking is not 100% evil -- personal data can make your browsing more efficient; cookies can help your favorite websites stay in business. TED2012 But, says Gary Kovacs, it's your right 0:06:39 to know what 5/3/2012 data is being 15:00:00 collected about you and The circumstances of our lives may matter less than how we see them, says Rory Sutherland. At TEDxAthens, he makes a compelling case for how reframing is the key to happiness. TEDxAthens 0:18:24 5/4/2012 15:07:00 Fifteen-year-old Tavi Gevinson had a hard time finding strong female, teenage role models -- so she built a space where they could find each other. At TEDxTeen, she illustrates how the conversations on sites TEDxTeen like Rookie, her wildly popular web magazine for 5/5/2012 and by teen 13:58:00 girls, are putting a new, u Rick Guidotti is a fashion photographer with a passion project: finding and sharing the unmistakable beauty of kids with albinism and other conditions that affect their physical appearance -- and the way society TEDxPhoenix treats them. At TEDxPhoenix, he shares some of 5/6/2012 their stories 15:41:00 and the empowering effe In this epic overview, Michael Tilson Thomas traces the development of classical music through the development of written notation, the record, and the re-mix. TED2012 0:20:13 5/7/2012 14:59:00 How do we consume data? At TED@SXSWi, technologist JP Rangaswami muses on our relationship to information, and offers a surprising and sharp insight: we treat it like food. TED@SXSWi 0:08:08 5/8/2012 16:16:00 There are people who can quickly memorize lists of thousands of numbers, the order of all the cards in a deck (or ten!), and much more. Science writer Joshua Foer describes the technique -- called the memory TED2012 palace -- and shows off its most 0:20:28 remarkable feature: 5/10/2012 anyone 15:00:00 can learn how to use it, Oops! Nobody wants to see the 404: Page Not Found. But as Renny Gleeson shows us, while he runs through a slideshow of creative and funny 404 pages, every error is really a chance to build a better relationship. TED2012 0:04:07 5/11/2012 15:08:00 The revolution that made music more marketable, more personal and easier to pirate began ... at the dawn of the nineteenth-century. At TEDxSMU, Jos Bowen outlines how new printing technology and TEDxSMU an improved piano gave rise to the first music industry 5/12/2012 and influenced 13:58:00 a generation of com We can use a mosquito's own instincts against her. At TEDxMaastricht speaker Bart Knols demos the imaginative solutions his team is developing to fight malaria -- including limburger cheese and a deadlyTEDxMaastricht pill. 5/13/2012 14:03:00 Are we born to be optimistic, rather than realistic? Tali Sharot shares new research that suggests our brains are wired to look on the bright side -- and how that can be both dangerous and beneficial. TED2012 0:17:40 5/14/2012 15:10:00 What can mathematics say about history? According to TED Fellow Jean-Baptiste Michel, quite a lot. From changes to language to the deadliness of wars, he shows how digitized history is just starting to reveal TED2012 deep underlying patterns. 0:04:26 5/15/2012 15:00:00 Is your school or workplace divided into "creatives" versus practical people? Yet surely, David Kelley suggests, creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few. Telling stories from his legendary design career TED2012 and his own life, he offers ways to 0:11:46 build the confidence 5/16/2012 to 15:30:00 create... (From The Desig There have been remarkable advances in understanding the brain, but how do you actually study the neurons inside it? Using gorgeous imagery, neuroscientist and TED Fellow Carl Schoonover shows the TED2012 tools that let us see inside our brains. 0:19:17 5/17/2012 15:01:00 Street artist JR made a wish in 2011: Join me in a worldwide photo project to show the world its true face. Now, a year after his TED Prize wish, he shows how giant posters of human faces, pasted in public, TED2012 are connecting communities, making 0:06:31 change, and 5/18/2012 turning the 15:05:00 world inside out. You can jo An average teaspoon of ocean water contains five million bacteria and fifty million viruses and yet we are just starting to discover how these "invisible engineers" control our ocean's chemistry. At TEDxMonterey, TEDxMonterey Melissa Garren sheds light on marine microbes 5/20/2012 that14:01:00 provide half the oxygen we b We've been to the moon, we've mapped the continents, we've even been to the deepest point in the ocean -- twice. What's left for the next generation to explore? Biologist and explorer Nathan Wolfe suggests TED2012 this answer: Almost everything. And 0:07:10 we can start, 5/21/2012 he says, 14:38:00 with the world of the unseea Hans Rosling had a question: Do some religions have a higher birth rate than others -- and how does this affect global population growth? Speaking at the TEDxSummit in Doha, Qatar, he graphs data over TEDxSummit time and across religions. With his trademark 0:13:20 humor 5/22/2012 and sharp 15:00:00 insight, Hans reaches a su Even a death-defying magician has to start somewhere. High-wire artist Philippe Petit takes you on an intimate journey from his first card trick at age 6 to his tightrope walk between the Twin Towers. TED2012 0:19:07 5/23/2012 15:02:00 There is an epidemic of HIV, and with it an epidemic of bad laws -- laws that effectively criminalize being HIV positive. At the TEDxSummit in Doha, TED Fellow Shereen El-Feki gives a forceful argument that TEDxSummit these laws, based in stigma, are actually 0:15:28helping5/24/2012 the disease 15:00:00 spread. Reggie Watts' beats defy boxes. Unplug your logic board and watch as he blends poetry and crosses musical genres in this larger-than-life performance. TED2012 0:09:43 5/25/2012 15:00:00 How much land mass would renewables need to power a nation like the UK? An entire country's worth. In this pragmatic talk from TEDxWarwick, David MacKay tours the basic mathematics that show worrying TEDxWarwick limitations on our sustainable energy options and 5/26/2012 explains 14:31:00 why we should pursue them The more that robots ingrain themselves into our everyday lives, the more we're forced to examine ourselves as people. At TEDxBerkeley, Ken Goldberg shares four very human lessons that he's learned from TEDxBerkeley working with robots. 5/27/2012 14:13:00 How do you read a two-thousand-year-old manuscript that has been erased, cut up, written on and painted over? With a powerful particle accelerator, of course! Ancient books curator William Noel tells the fascinating TEDxSummit story behind the Archimedes 0:14:53 palimpsest, 5/29/2012 a Byzantine 15:07:00 prayer book containing p Pollster Dalia Mogahed shares surprising data on Egyptian people's attitudes and hopes before the Arab Spring -- with a special focus on the role of women in sparking change. TEDxSummit 0:14:32 5/30/2012 15:25:00 What does your chair say about what you value? Designer Sebastian Deterding shows how our visions of morality and what the good life is are reflected in the design of objects around us. (Filmed at <a href=http://www.tedxhogeschoolutrecht.com/>TEDxHogeschoolUtrecht</a>.) TEDxHogeschoolUtrecht 0:12:23 5/31/2012 15:13:00 Quixotic Fusion is an ensemble of artists that brings together aerial acrobatics, dance, theater, film, music and visual fx. Watch as they perform three transporting dance pieces at TED2012. TED2012 0:12:22 6/1/2012 15:10:00 SETI researcher Seth Shostak bets that we will find extraterrestrial life in the next twenty-four years, or he'll buy you a cup of coffee. At TEDxSanJoseCA, he explains why new technologies and the laws of probability make the breakthrough so likely -- and forecasts how the discovery of civilization (Filmed at <a href=http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/3642>TEDxSanJoseCA</a>.) TEDxSanJoseCA 0:18:40 6/2/2012 13:54:00 Bartenders needs to know your age, retailers need your PIN, but almost no-one needs your name -- except for identity thieves. At TEDxSussexUniversity, David Birch proposes a safer, fractured and conditional approach to personal identification that would almost never require your real name. (Filmed at <a href=http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/4736>TEDxSussexUniversity</a>.) TEDxSussexUniversity 6/3/2012 14:08:00 Throughout human evolution, multiple versions of humans co-existed. Could we be mid-upgrade now? At TEDxSummit, Juan Enriquez sweeps across time and space to bring us to the present moment -- and TEDxSummit shows how technology is revealing 0:16:48 evidence that6/4/2012 suggests15:52:00 rapid evolution may be unde We're not done with anatomy. We know a tremendous amount about genomics, proteomics and cell biology, but as Diane Kelly makes clear at TEDMED, there are basic facts about the human body we're still TEDMED learning. 2012 Case in point: How does 0:11:20 the mammalian 6/5/2012 erection14:59:00 work?
Speaker Terry Moore Damian Palin John Hodgman Ami Klin John Hockenberry Rebecca Onie Beeban Kidron Sarah Parcak LZ Granderson Rodney Mullen Megan Kamerick David R. Dow Ivan Oransky Marco Tempest Peter Norvig Wolfgang Kessling Jon Nguyen Nirmalya Kumar E.O. Wilson Rives Massimo Banzi Don Tapscott Elyn Saks Boaz Almog Alanna Shaikh Raghava KK Cesar Harada Preston Reed, Usman Riaz Jane McGonigal Jonathan Eisen Chris Gerdes Marc Goodman Jared Ficklin Todd Humphreys Gabriel Barcia-Colombo Mina Bissell Jamie Drummond Baba Shiv Matt Mills, Tamara Roukaerts Neil Harbisson John Graham-Cumming Vinay Venkatraman James Stavridis Malte Spitz Tracy Chevalier Ramesh Raskar Michael Hansmeyer Noah Wilson-Rich Giles Duley Michael Anti Stephen Ritz Daphne Koller Becci Manson Mark Applebaum Hannah Fry Scilla Elworthy Margaret Heffernan Max Little Aman Mojadidi Pam Warhurst Kirby Ferguson Mark Forsyth Ivan Krastev Caitria O'Neill, Morgan O'Neill Jon Ronson Timothy Prestero Rob Legato Candy Chang Robert Neuwirth Shyam Sankar Antony Gormley Jonathan Trent Kent Larson Scott Fraser Vikram Patel Leslie T. Chang Susan Solomon Wayne McGregor Beth Noveck Tristram Stuart Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Julian Treasure Andrew Blum Bandi Mbubi Ed Gavagan Rachel Botsman Andrew McAfee Read Montague Clay Shirky John Lloyd Ben Goldacre Bahia Shehab Aris Venetikidis Vicki Arroyo Amy Cuddy
Name Terry Moore: Why is 'x' the unknown? Damian Palin: Mining minerals from seawater John Hodgman: Design, explained.
Short Summary Event Duration Publish date Why is 'x' the symbol for an unknown? In this short and funny talk, Terry Moore gives the surprising answer. TED2012 0:03:57 6/6/2012 15:00:00 The world needs clean water, and more and more, we're pulling it from the oceans, desalinating it, and drinking it. But what to do with the salty brine left behind? In this intriguing short talk, TED Fellow Damian TED2012 Palin proposes an idea: Mine it for 0:03:01 other minerals 6/7/2012 we need, 16:30:00 with the help of some collab John Hodgman, comedian and resident expert, "explains" the design of three iconic modern objects. (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell.) TED2012 0:06:23 6/8/2012 15:56:00 Early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder can improve the lives of everyone affected, but the complex network of causes make it incredibly difficult to predict. At TEDxPeachtree, Ami Klin describes a new early detection method that uses eye-tracking technologies to gauge babies' social engag Ami Klin: A new way to diagnose autism (Filmed at <a href=http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/1796>TEDxPeachTree</a>.) TEDxPeachtree 0:19:44 6/9/2012 14:02:00 John Hockenberry: We are all designers Journalist John Hockenberry tells a personal story inspired by a pair of flashy wheels in a wheelchair-parts catalogue -- and how they showed him the value of designing a life of intent. (From The Design TED2012 Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated 0:21:57by Chee 6/11/2012 Pearlman 15:24:00 and David Rockwell.) Rebecca Onie: What if our healthcare system kept us healthy? Rebecca Onie asks audacious questions: What if waiting rooms were a place to improve daily health care? What if doctors could prescribe food, housing and heat in the winter? At TEDMED she describes Health TEDMED Leads, 2012 an organization that does 0:16:34 just that -- 6/12/2012 and does it 15:00:00 by building a volunteer base Beeban Kidron: The shared wonder of film Movies have the power to create a shared narrative experience and to shape memories and worldviews. British film director Beeban Kidron invokes iconic film scenes -- from Miracle in Milan to Boyz TEDSalon London n the Hood Spring 2012 -- as she 0:13:12 shows how her 6/13/2012 group FILMCLUB 15:03:00 shares great films Sarah Parcak: Archeology from space In this short talk, TED Fellow Sarah Parcak introduces the field of "space archeology" -- using satellite images to search for clues to the lost sites of past civilizations. TED2012 0:05:20 6/14/2012 15:00:00 LZ Granderson: The myth of the gay agenda In a humorous talk with an urgent message, LZ Granderson points out the absurdity in the idea that there's a "gay lifestyle," much less a "gay agenda." (Filmed at <a href=http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/3082>TEDxGrandRapids</a>.) TEDxGrandRapids 0:17:51 6/15/2012 14:59:00 Rodney Mullen: Pop an ollie and innovate! The last thing Rodney Mullen, the godfather of street skating, wanted were competitive victories. In this exuberant talk he shares his love of the open skateboarding community and how the unique environments TEDxUSC it plays in drive the creation of new 0:18:19 tricks -- fostering 6/16/2012 prolific 14:02:00 ingenuity purely for passi Megan Kamerick: Women should represent women in media How do you tell women's stories? Ask women to tell them. At TEDxABQ, Megan Kamerick shows how the news media underrepresents women as reporters and news sources, and because of that tells an incomplete TEDxABQ story. (Filmed at <a0:10:31 href=http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/2141>TEDxABQ 6/17/2012 14:00:00 David R. Dow: Lessons from death row inmates What happens before a murder? In looking for ways to reduce death penalty cases, David R. Dow realized that a surprising number of death row inmates had similar biographies. In this talk he proposes a bold TEDxAustin plan, one that prevents murders 0:18:16 in the first place. 6/18/2012 (Filmed 15:21:00 at <a href=http://www.t Ivan Oransky: Are we over-medicalized? Reuters health editor Ivan Oransky warns that we're suffering from an epidemic of preposterous preconditions -- pre-diabetes, pre-cancer, and many more. In this engaging talk from TEDMED he shows how TEDMED health care 2012 can find a solution... by0:10:24 taking an important 6/19/2012 lesson 15:01:00 from baseball. Marco Tempest: The electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla Combining projection mapping and a pop-up book, Marco Tempest tells the visually arresting story of Nikola Tesla -- called "the greatest geek who ever lived" -- from his triumphant invention of alternating current TED2012 to his penniless last days. 0:06:05 6/20/2012 15:02:00 Peter Norvig: The 100,000-student classroom In the fall of 2011 Peter Norvig taught a class with Sebastian Thrun on artificial intelligence at Stanford attended by 175 students in situ -- and over 100,000 via an interactive webcast. He shares what he learned TED2012 about teaching to a global classroom. 0:06:11 6/21/2012 15:34:00 Wolfgang Kessling: How to air-condition outdoor spaces During the hot summer months, watching an outdoor sports match or concert can be tantamount to baking uncomfortably in the sun -- but it doesn't have to be. At the TEDxSummit in Doha, physicist Wolfgang TEDxSummit Kessling reveals sustainable design 0:11:35 innovations 6/22/2012 that cool us 15:00:00 from above and below, an Jon Nguyen: Tour the solar system from home Want to navigate the solar system without having to buy that expensive spacecraft? Jon Nguyen demos NASAJPL's <a href=http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eyes/>"Eyes on the Solar System"</a> -- free-to-use TEDxSanDiego software for exploring the planets, moons, 0:07:53 asteroids, 6/23/2012 and spacecraft 14:04:00that rotate around ou Nirmalya Kumar: India's invisible innovation Can India become a global hub for innovation? Nirmalya Kumar thinks it already has. He details four types of "invisible innovation" currently coming out of India and explains why companies that used to justTEDxLondonBusinessSchool outsource manufacturing jobs are starting 0:15:12 to move 6/24/2012 top management 14:00:00 positions overseas, t E.O. Wilson: Advice to young scientists "The world needs you, badly," begins celebrated biologist E.O. Wilson in his letter to a young scientist. Previewing his upcoming book, he gives advice collected from a lifetime of experience -- reminding us TEDMED that wonder 2012 and creativity are the center 0:14:56 of the scientific 6/25/2012 life. (Filmed 15:00:00 at TEDMED.)</ Rives: Reinventing the encyclopedia game Prompted by the Encyclopaedia Britannica ending its print publication, performance poet Rives resurrects a game from his childhood. Speaking at the TEDxSummit in Doha, Rives takes us on a charming tour TEDxSummit through random (and less random) 0:10:46 bits of human 6/26/2012 knowledge: 15:26:00 from Chimborazo, the fart Massimo Banzi: How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination Massimo Banzi helped invent the Arduino, a tiny, easy-to-use open-source microcontroller that's inspired thousands of people around the world to make the coolest things they can imagine -- from toys to satellite TEDGlobal gear. 2012 Because, as he says, "You 0:15:46 don't need 6/27/2012 anyone's permission 13:56:00 to make something Don Tapscott: Four principles for the open world The recent generations have been bathed in connecting technology from birth, says futurist Don Tapscott, and as a result the world is transforming into one that is far more open and transparent. In this inspiring TEDGlobal talk, he 2012 lists the four core principles 0:17:50 that show6/28/2012 how this open 14:31:00 world can be a far better Elyn Saks: A tale of mental illness -- from the inside Is it okay if I totally trash your office? It's a question Elyn Saks once asked her doctor, and it wasn't a joke. A legal scholar, in 2007 Saks came forward with her own story of schizophrenia, controlled by drugs TEDGlobal and therapy 2012 but ever-present. In this 0:14:52 powerful talk, 6/29/2012 she asks 13:36:00 us to see people with menta Boaz Almog "levitates" a superconductor How can a super-thin 3-inch disk levitate something 70,000 times its own weight? In a riveting demonstration, Boaz Almog shows how a phenomenon known as quantum locking allows a superconductor disk TEDGlobal to float over 2012 a magnetic rail -- completely 0:10:25frictionlessly 7/2/2012 and with 15:25:00 zero energy loss. Exp Alanna Shaikh: How I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's When faced with a parent suffering from Alzheimer's, most of us respond with denial ("It won't happen to me") or extreme efforts at prevention. But global health expert and TED Fellow Alanna Shaikh sees it TEDGlobal differently.2012 She's taking three concrete 0:06:26 steps to prepare 7/3/2012 for the 15:00:00 moment -- should it arrive Raghava KK: What's your 200-year plan? You might have a 5-year plan, but what about a 200-year plan? Artist Raghava KK has set his eyes on an ultra-long-term horizon; at TEDxSummit, he shows how it helps guide today's choices and tomorrow's TEDxSummit goals -- and encourages you to make 0:10:58 your own 200-year 7/4/2012plan 14:16:00 too. Cesar Harada: A novel idea for cleaning up oil spills When TED Senior Fellow Cesar Harada heard about the devastating effects of the BP Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, he quit his dream job and moved to New Orleans to develop a more efficient wayTEDxSummit to soak up the oil. He designed a highly 0:14:30 maneuverable, 7/5/2012 flexible 14:57:00 boat capable of cleaning l Usman Riaz and Preston Reed: A young guitarist meets his hero Usman Riaz is a 21-year-old whiz at the percussive guitar, a style he learned to play by watching his heroes on YouTube. The TED Fellow plays onstage at TEDGlobal 2012 -- followed by a jawdropping solo TEDGlobal from the master 2012 of percussive guitar, 0:16:50 Preston Reed. 7/6/2012 And watch 14:54:00 these two guitarists take Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life When game designer Jane McGonigal found herself bedridden and suicidal following a severe concussion, she had a fascinating idea for how to get better. She dove into the scientific research and created TEDGlobal the healing 2012 game, SuperBetter. In this 0:19:30 moving talk, McGonigal 7/9/2012 15:02:00 explains how a game can b Jonathan Eisen: Meet your microbes Our bodies are covered in a sea of microbes -- both the pathogens that make us sick and the "good" microbes, about which we know less, that might be <a href="http://blog.ted.com/2012/07/10/6-great-things-microbes-do-for-us/" TEDMED 2012 target="_blank">keeping 0:14:23 us 7/10/2012 healthy</a>. 15:09:00 At TEDMED, microbiolog Chris Gerdes: The future race car -- 150mph, and no driver Autonomous cars are coming -- and they're going to drive better than you. Chris Gerdes reveals how he and his team are developing robotic race cars that can drive at 150 mph while avoiding every possible TEDxStanford accident. And yet, in studying the brainwaves 0:10:47 of professional 7/11/2012 15:00:00 racing drivers, Gerdes says Marc Goodman: A vision of crimes in the future The world is becoming increasingly open, and that has implications both bright and dangerous. Marc Goodman paints a portrait of a grave future, in which technology's rapid development could allow crime to TEDGlobal take a turn 2012 for the worse. 0:19:25 7/12/2012 15:08:00 Jared Ficklin: New ways to see music (with color! and fire!) Designer Jared Ficklin creates wild visualizations that let us see music, using color and even fire (a first for the TED stage) to analyze how sound makes us feel. He takes a brief digression to analyze the sound TED2012 of a skatepark -- and how audio0:10:00 can clue us in7/13/2012 to developing 15:28:00 creativity. Todd Humphreys: How to fool a GPS Todd Humphreys forecasts the near-future of geolocation when millimeter-accurate GPS "dots" will enable you to find pin-point locations, index-search your physical possessions ... or to track people without TEDxAustin their knowledge. And the response0:15:45 to the sinister 7/14/2012 side of this 13:58:00 technology may have uninte Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: Capturing memories in video art Using video mapping and projection, artist Gabriel Barcia-Colombo captures and shares his memories and friendships. At TED Fellow Talks, he shows his charming, thoughtful work -- which appears to preserve TED2012 the people in his life in jars, suitcases, 0:04:45 blenders 7/15/2012 ... 15:12:00 Mina Bissell: Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer For decades, researcher Mina Bissell pursued a revolutionary idea -- that a cancer cell doesn't automatically become a tumor, but rather, depends on surrounding cells (its microenvironment) for cues on how TEDGlobal to develop. 2012 She shares the two key 0:16:18 experiments 7/16/2012 that proved 15:18:00 the prevailing wisdom abou Jamie Drummond: Let's crowdsource the world's goals In 2000, the UN laid out 8 goals to make the world better by reducing poverty and disease -- with a deadline of 2015. As that deadline approaches, Jamie Drummond of ONE.org runs down the surprising successes TEDGlobal of the 2012 8 Millennium Development 0:12:10 Goals, and 7/17/2012 suggests 15:07:00 a crowdsourced reboot for Baba Shiv: Sometimes it's good to give up the driver's seat Over the years, research has shown a counterintuitive fact about human nature: That sometimes, having too much choice makes us less happy. This may even be true when it comes to medical treatment. Baba TEDxStanford Shiv shares a fascinating study 0:09:47 that measures 7/18/2012 why choice 14:59:00 opens the door to doubt, a Matt Mills: Image recognition that triggers augmented reality Matt Mills and Tamara Roukaerts demonstrate Aurasma, a new augmented reality tool that can seamlessly animate the world as seen through a smartphone. Going beyond previous augmented reality, their TEDGlobal "auras" can 2012 do everything from making 0:08:04 a painting 7/19/2012 talk to overlaying 15:00:00 live news onto a printe Neil Harbisson: I listen to color Artist Neil Harbisson was born completely color blind, but these days a device attached to his head turns color into audible frequencies. Instead of seeing a world in grayscale, Harbisson can hear TEDGlobal a symphony 2012 of color -- and yes, even 0:09:35 listen to faces 7/20/2012 and paintings. 15:00:00 John Graham-Cumming: The greatest machine that never was Computer science began in the '30s ... the 1830s. John Graham-Cumming tells the story of Charles Babbage's mechanical, steam-powered "analytical engine" and how Ada Lovelace, mathematician and daughter TEDxImperialCollege of Lord Byron, saw beyond its 0:12:14 simple computational 7/21/2012 abilities 13:56:00 to imagine the future o Vinay Venkatraman: "Technology crafts" for the digitally underserved Two-thirds of the world may not have access to the latest smartphone, but local electronic shops are adept at fixing older tech using low-cost parts. Vinay Venkatraman explains his work in "technology crafts," TEDxSummit through which a mobile phone, a0:14:08 lunchbox and 7/22/2012 a flashlight 14:59:00 can become a digital projec James Stavridis: A Navy Admiral's thoughts on global security Imagine global security driven by collaboration -- among agencies, government, the private sector and the public. That's not just the distant hope of open-source fans, it's the vision of James Stavridis, a highly TEDGlobal accomplished 2012 Navy Admiral. Stavridis 0:16:43 shares vivid 7/23/2012 moments 15:00:00 from recent military history Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching What kind of data is your cell phone company collecting? Malte Spitz wasn't too worried when he asked his operator in Germany to share information stored about him. Multiple unanswered requests and a lawsuit TEDGlobal later, 2012 Spitz received 35,830 lines 0:09:56 of code -- 7/24/2012 a detailed, 15:10:00 nearly minute-by-minute acc Tracy Chevalier: Finding the story inside the painting When Tracy Chevalier looks at paintings, she imagines the stories behind them: How did the painter meet his model? What would explain that look in her eye? Why is that man blushing? She shares three TEDSalon stories inspired London by Spring portraits, 2012including 0:14:21 the one that 7/25/2012 led to her 15:27:00 best-selling novel "Girl With Ramesh Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames per second Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a new type of imaging so fast it visualizes the world one trillion frames per second, so detailed it shows light itself in motion. This technology may someday be used TEDGlobal to build 2012 cameras that can look "around" 0:11:02 corners 7/26/2012 or see inside 15:01:00 the body without X-rays Michael Hansmeyer: Building unimaginable shapes Inspired by cell division, Michael Hansmeyer writes algorithms that design outrageously fascinating shapes and forms with millions of facets. No person could draft them by hand, but they're buildable -- and TEDGlobal they could revolutionize 2012 the way we 0:11:07 think of architectural 7/27/2012 form. 15:17:00 Noah Wilson-Rich: Every city needs healthy honey bees Bees have been rapidly and mysteriously disappearing from rural areas, with grave implications for agriculture. But bees seem to flourish in urban environments -- and cities need their help, too. Noah TEDxBoston Wilson-Rich suggests 2012 that urban beekeeping 0:12:43 might 7/28/2012 play a 14:01:00 role in revitalizing both a ci Giles Duley: When a reporter becomes the story Giles Duley gave up a life of glamour and celebrity as a fashion photographer to travel the world and document the stories of the forgotten and marginalized. While on assignment in Afghanistan he stepped TEDxObserver on a landmine, a horrific event that left him a triple 7/29/2012 amputee. In 14:55:00 this moving talk Duley tells Michael Anti: Behind the Great Firewall of China Michael Anti (aka Jing Zhao) has been blogging from China for 12 years. Despite the control the central government has over the Internet -- "All the servers are in Beijing" -- he says that hundreds of millions TEDGlobal of microbloggers 2012 are in fact creating 0:18:51 the first national 7/30/2012 public sphere 15:03:00 in the country's history Stephen Ritz: A teacher growing green in the South Bronx A whirlwind of energy and ideas, Stephen Ritz is a teacher in New York's tough South Bronx, where he and his kids grow lush gardens for food, greenery -- and jobs. Just try to keep up with this New York treasure TEDxManhattan as he spins through the many, 0:13:59 many ways 7/31/2012 there are to 15:02:00 grow hope in a neighborhoo Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each TEDGlobal keystroke, 2012 quiz, peer-to-peer discussion 0:20:40 and self-graded 8/1/2012 assignment 15:02:00 builds an unpreced Becci Manson: (Re)touching lives through photos In the wake of the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, mixed into the wreckage were lost and damaged photos of families and loved ones. Photo retoucher Becci Manson, together with local volunteers TEDGlobal and a global 2012 group of colleagues she 0:09:49 recruited online, 8/2/2012 helped 15:07:00 clean and fix them, restorin Mark Applebaum: The mad scientist of music Mark Applebaum writes music that breaks the rules in fantastic ways, composing a concerto for a florist and crafting a musical instrument from junk and found objects. This quirky talk might just inspire you to TEDxStanford shake up the "rules" of your own creative 0:16:50work. (Filmed 8/3/2012at 15:03:00 TEDxStanford.) Hannah Fry: Is life really that complex? Can an algorithm forecast the site of the next riot? In this accessible talk, Mathematician Hannah Fry shows how complex social behavior can be analyzed and perhaps predicted through apt analogies to natural TEDxUCL phenomena, like the patterns of a leopard's spots 8/4/2012 or the 13:57:00 distribution of predators and Scilla Elworthy: Fighting with non-violence How do you deal with a bully without becoming a thug? In this wise and soulful talk, peace activist Scilla Elworthy maps out the skills we need -- as nations and individuals -- to fight extreme force without using TEDxExeter force in return. To answer the question 0:15:47 of why and 8/5/2012 how non-violence 15:03:00 works, she evo Margaret Heffernan: Dare to disagree Most people instinctively avoid conflict, but as Margaret Heffernan shows us, good disagreement is central to progress. She illustrates (sometimes counterintuitively) how the best partners aren't echo chambers TEDGlobal -- and how 2012 great research teams, 0:12:56 relationships 8/6/2012 and businesses 15:00:00 allow people to deeply Max Little: A test for Parkinson's with a phone call Parkinson's disease affects 6.3 million people worldwide, causing weakness and tremors, but there's no objective way to detect it early on. Yet. Applied mathematician and TED Fellow Max Little is testing a TEDGlobal simple, cheap 2012 tool that in trials is able 0:06:04 to detect Parkinson's 8/7/2012with 15:04:00 99 percent accuracy -- in A sense of humor about Afghanistan? Artist Aman Mojadidi shows how Afghan-American artist Aman Mojadidi calls himself "Afghan by blood, redneck by the grace of god." Playing off his two identities, the TED Fellow's bold, funny, thought-provoking artwork explores jihad, gangsterism, TEDGlobal consumers 2012 and corruption0:04:29 in modern Afghanistan. 8/8/2012 15:23:00 Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together TEDSalon to turn plots London of unused Spring land 2012 into communal 0:13:21vegetable 8/9/2012 gardens, 15:04:00 and to change the narrative Kirby Ferguson: Embrace the remix Nothing is original, says Kirby Ferguson, creator of Everything is a Remix. From Bob Dylan to Steve Jobs, he says our most celebrated creators borrow, steal and transform. TEDGlobal 2012 0:09:42 8/10/2012 15:02:00 Mark Forsyth: What's a snollygoster? A short lesson in political speak Most politicians choose their words carefully, to shape the reality they hope to create. But does it work? Etymologist Mark Forsyth shares a few entertaining word-origin stories from British and American history TEDxHousesofParliament (for instance, did you ever wonder 0:07:04 how George8/12/2012 Washington 15:13:00 became "president"?) and Ivan Krastev: Can democracy exist without trust? Five great revolutions have shaped political culture over the past 50 years, says theorist Ivan Krastev. He shows how each step forward -- from the cultural revolution of the 60s to recent revelations in the TEDGlobal field of neuroscience 2012 -- has also helped 0:14:04 erode trust 8/13/2012 in the tools 15:20:00 of democracy. As he says Caitria and Morgan O'Neill: How to step up in the face of disaster After a natural disaster strikes, there's only a tiny window of opportunity to rally effective recovery efforts before the world turns their attention elsewhere. Who should be in charge? When a freak tornado hit TEDxBoston their hometown, 2012 sisters Caitria and Morgan 0:09:23 O'Neill8/14/2012 -- just 20 and 15:04:00 24 at the time -- took the Jon Ronson: Strange answers to the psychopath test Is there a definitive line that divides crazy from sane? With a hair-raising delivery, Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, illuminates the gray areas between the two. (With live-mixed TED2012 sound by Julian Treasure and animation 0:18:01 by Evan 8/15/2012 Grant.) 15:18:00 Timothy Prestero: Design for people, not awards Timothy Prestero thought he'd designed the perfect incubator for newborns in the developing world -- but his team learned a hard lesson when it failed to go into production. A manifesto on the importance of TEDxBoston designing for 2012 real-world use, rather0:11:05 than accolades. 8/16/2012 (Filmed 15:00:00 at TEDxBoston.) Rob Legato: The art of creating awe Rob Legato creates movie effects so good they (sometimes) trump the real thing. In this warm and funny talk, he shares his vision for enhancing reality on-screen in movies like Apollo 13, Titanic TEDGlobal 2012 and Hugo.0:16:27 8/17/2012 15:01:00 Candy Chang: Before I die I want to... In her New Orleans neighborhood, artist and TED Fellow Candy Chang turned an abandoned house into a giant chalkboard asking a fill-in-the-blank question: "Before I die I want to ___." Her neighbors' answers TEDGlobal -- surprising, 2012 poignant, funny -0:06:20 became an unexpected 9/4/2012 15:07:00 mirror for the community. (W Robert Neuwirth: The power of the informal economy Robert Neuwirth spent four years among the chaotic stalls of street markets, talking to pushcart hawkers and gray marketers, to study the remarkable "System D," the world's unlicensed economic network. Responsible TEDGlobal 2012 for some 1.8 billion jobs, 0:12:29 it's an economy 9/5/2012 of underappreciated 15:19:00 power and scop Shyam Sankar: The rise of human-computer cooperation Brute computing force alone can't solve the world's problems. Data mining innovator Shyam Sankar explains why solving big problems (like catching terrorists or identifying huge hidden trends) is not a question TEDGlobal of finding 2012 the right algorithm, but 0:12:12 rather the right 9/6/2012 symbiotic 15:11:00 relationship between compu Antony Gormley: Sculpted space, within and without Legendary sculptor Antony Gormley riffs on space and the human form. His works explore the interior space we feel within our own bodies -- and the exterior space we feel around us, knowing that we are just TEDGlobal dots in space 2012 and time. 0:15:56 9/7/2012 15:00:00 Jonathan Trent: Energy from floating algae pods Call it "fuel without fossils": Jonathan Trent is working on a plan to grow new biofuel by farming micro-algae in floating offshore pods that eat wastewater from cities. Hear his team's bold vision for Project OMEGA TEDGlobal (Offshore 2012 Membrane Enclosures 0:14:45 for Growing9/8/2012 Algae) and 15:09:00 how it might power the futu Kent Larson: Brilliant designs to fit more people in every city How can we fit more people into cities without overcrowding? Kent Larson shows off folding cars, quick-change apartments and other innovations that could make the city of the future work a lot like a small TEDxBoston village of the 2012 past. 0:16:41 9/9/2012 14:07:00 Scott Fraser: Why eyewitnesses get it wrong Scott Fraser studies how humans remember crimes -- and bear witness to them. In this powerful talk, which focuses on a deadly shooting at sunset, he suggests that even close-up eyewitnesses to a crime TEDxUSC can create "memories" they could not 0:20:50 have seen. Why? 9/10/2012 Because 14:59:00 the brain abhors a vacuu Vikram Patel: Mental health for all by involving all Nearly 450 million people are affected by mental illness worldwide. In wealthy nations, just half receive appropriate care, but in developing countries, close to 90 percent go untreated because psychiatrists are TEDGlobal in such short 2012supply. Vikram Patel 0:12:22 outlines a highly 9/11/2012 promising 15:00:00 approach -- training mem Leslie T. Chang: The voices of China's workers In the ongoing debate about globalization, what's been missing is the voices of workers -- the millions of people who migrate to factories in China and other emerging countries to make goods sold all over the TEDGlobal world. Reporter 2012 Leslie T. Chang sought 0:14:25 out women 9/12/2012 who work 15:04:00 in one of China's booming Susan Solomon: The promise of research with stem cells Calling them "our bodies' own repair kits," Susan Solomon advocates research using lab-grown stem cells. By growing individual pluripotent stem cell lines, her team creates testbeds that could accelerate research TEDGlobal into2012 curing diseases -- and perhaps 0:14:58 lead to 9/13/2012 individualized 15:16:00 treatment, targeted not j Wayne McGregor: A choreographer's creative process in real time We all use our body on a daily basis, and yet few of us think about our physicality the way Wayne McGregor does. He demonstrates how a choreographer communicates ideas to an audience, working with TEDGlobal two dancers 2012 to build phrases of dance, 0:15:18 live and unscripted, 9/14/2012 on 14:58:00 the TEDGlobal stage. Beth Noveck: Demand a more open-source government What can governments learn from the open-data revolution? In this stirring talk, Beth Noveck, the former deputy CTO at the White House, shares a vision of practical openness -- connecting bureaucracies to TEDGlobal citizens, sharing 2012 data, creating a truly 0:17:23 participatory 9/15/2012 democracy. 15:29:00 Imagine the "writable soc Tristram Stuart: The global food waste scandal Western countries throw out nearly half of their food, not because it's inedible -- but because it doesn't look appealing. Tristram Stuart delves into the shocking data of wasted food, calling for a more responsible TEDSalon use ofLondon global resources. Spring 2012 0:14:15 9/16/2012 13:57:00 Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain Why do teenagers seem so much more impulsive, so much less self-aware than grown-ups? Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore compares the prefrontal cortex in adolescents to that of adults,TEDGlobal to show us2012 how typically "teenage" 0:14:26 behavior is caused 9/17/2012 by the 15:01:00 growing and developing bra Julian Treasure: Why architects need to use their ears Because of poor acoustics, students in classrooms miss 50 percent of what their teachers say and patients in hospitals have trouble sleeping because they continually feel stressed. Julian Treasure sounds TEDGlobal a call to action 2012 for designers to pay attention 0:09:51 to the9/18/2012 "invisible architecture" 15:00:00 of sound. Andrew Blum: What is the Internet, really? When a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline, journalist Andrew Blum started wondering what the Internet was really made of. So he set out to go see it -- the underwater cables, secret switches TEDGlobal and 2012 other physical bits that0:11:59 make up the net. 9/19/2012 15:08:00 Bandi Mbubi: Demand a fair trade cell phone Your mobile phone, computer and game console have a bloody past tied to tantalum mining, which funds the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Drawing on his personal story, activist and refugee TEDxExeter Bandi Mbubi gives a stirring call 0:09:21 to action. (Filmed 9/20/2012 at TEDxExeter.) 14:56:00 Ed Gavagan: A story about knots and surgeons One day, Ed Gavagan was sitting on the subway, watching two young med students practicing their knots. And a powerful memory washed over him -- of one shocking moment that changed his life forever. TEDMED An unforgettable 2012 story of crime, skill0:12:21 and gratitude.9/21/2012 14:15:00 Rachel Botsman: The currency of the new economy is trust There's been an explosion of collaborative consumption -- web-powered sharing of cars, apartments, skills. Rachel Botsman explores the currency that makes systems like Airbnb and Taskrabbit work: trust, TEDGlobal influence, and 2012 what she calls "reputation 0:19:46 capital." 9/22/2012 15:38:00 Andrew McAfee: Are droids taking our jobs? Robots and algorithms are getting good at jobs like building cars, writing articles, translating -- jobs that once required a human. So what will we humans do for work? Andrew McAfee walks through recent labor TEDxBoston data to say: 2012 We ain't seen nothing 0:14:07 yet. But then 9/23/2012 he steps 15:10:00 back to look at big history, an Read Montague: What we're learning from 5,000 brains Mice, bugs and hamsters are no longer the only way to study the brain. Functional MRI (fMRI) allows scientists to map brain activity in living, breathing, decision-making human beings. Read Montague gives TEDGlobal an overview 2012 of how this technology 0:13:23 is helping us understand 9/24/2012 15:02:00 the complicated ways in wh Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub -- so why can't governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky shows how democracies TEDGlobal can take 2012a lesson from the Internet, 0:18:32to be not 9/25/2012 just transparent 14:51:00 but also to draw on th John Lloyd: An animated tour of the invisible Gravity. The stars in day. Thoughts. The human genome. Time. Atoms. So much of what really matters in the world is impossible to see. A stunning animation of John Lloyd's classic TEDTalk from 2009, which TED-Ed will make you question what you actually know. 9/26/2012 15:01:00 Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world -- except much of the time, negative or inconclusive findings go unreported, leaving doctors and researchers TEDMED 2012 in the dark. In this impassioned 0:13:29 talk, Ben9/27/2012 Goldacre explains 15:01:00 why these unreporte Bahia Shehab: A thousand times no Art historian Bahia Shehab has long been fascinated with the Arabic script for no.' When revolution swept through Egypt in 2011, she began spraying the image in the streets saying no to dictators, no to TEDGlobal military rule2012 and no to violence. 0:05:56 9/28/2012 15:23:00 Aris Venetikidis: Making sense of maps Map designer Aris Venetikidis is fascinated by the maps we draw in our minds as we move around a city -- less like street maps, more like schematics or wiring diagrams, abstract images of relationships between TEDxDublin places. How can we learn from 0:16:36 these mental 9/29/2012 maps to make 14:02:00 better real ones? As a t Vicki Arroyo: Let's prepare for our new climate Set aside the politics: Data shows that climate change is happening, measurably, now. And as Vicki Arroyo says, it's time to prepare our homes and cities for the new climate, with its increased risk of flooding, TEDGlobal drought and 2012 uncertainty. She illustrates 0:14:36 this inspiring 9/30/2012 talk with 14:00:00 bold projects from cities a Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how "power posing" -- standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don't TEDGlobal feel confident 2012 -- can affect testosterone 0:21:02 and cortisol 10/1/2012 levels 15:00:00 in the brain, and might even
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Speaker Robert Gupta Jason McCue Shimon Schocken Thomas P. Campbell Eddie Obeng Ryan Merkley Aris Venetikidis Vicki Arroyo Ruby Wax John Wilbanks Jason McCue Beau Lotto, Amy O'Toole Maurizio Seracini Tim Leberecht Melissa Marshall Pankaj Ghemawat Heather Brooke David Pizarro Lemn Sissay Doris Kim Sung Marco Tempest Rory Stewart Sanjay Pradhan Emma Teeling Adam Garone Faith Jegede Matt Killingsworth Jake Wood Gary Greenberg Georgette Mulheir Jeff Hancock Julie Burstein Arunachalam Muruganantham Hannah Brencher Leah Buechley David Binder Daphne Bavelier Amos Winter Sleepy Man Banjo Boys Ernesto Sirolli Jonas Eliasson Janine Shepherd Munir Virani
Name Robert Gupta: Between music and medicine Jason McCue: Terrorism is a failed brand Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer course Thomas P. Campbell: Weaving narratives in museum galleries Eddie Obeng: Smart failure for a fast-changing world Ryan Merkley: Online video -- annotated, remixed and popped Aris Venetikidis: Making sense of maps Vicki Arroyo: Let's prepare for our new climate Ruby Wax: What's so funny about mental illness? John Wilbanks: Let's pool our medical data Jason McCue: Terrorism is a failed brand Beau Lotto + Amy O'Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included Maurizio Seracini: The secret lives of paintings Tim Leberecht: 3 ways to (usefully) lose control of your brand Melissa Marshall: Talk nerdy to me Pankaj Ghemawat: Actually, the world isn't flat Heather Brooke: My battle to expose government corruption David Pizarro: The strange politics of disgust Lemn Sissay: A child of the state Doris Kim Sung: Metal that breathes Marco Tempest: A cyber-magic card trick like no other Rory Stewart: Why democracy matters Sanjay Pradhan: How open data is changing international aid Emma Teeling: The secret of the bat genome Adam Garone: Healthier men, one moustache at a time Faith Jegede: What I've learned from my autistic brothers Matt Killingsworth: Want to be happier? Stay in the moment Jake Wood: A new mission for veterans -- disaster relief Gary Greenberg: The beautiful nano details of our world Georgette Mulheir: The tragedy of orphanages Jeff Hancock: The future of lying Julie Burstein: 4 lessons in creativity Arunachalam Muruganantham: How I started a sanitary napkin revolution! Hannah Brencher: Love letters to strangers Leah Buechley: How to "sketch" with electronics David Binder: The arts festival revolution Daphne Bavelier: Your brain on video games Amos Winter: The cheap all-terrain wheelchair Teenaged boy wonders play bluegrass Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and listen! Jonas Eliasson: How to solve traffic jams Janine Shepherd: A broken body isn't a broken person Munir Virani: Why I love vultures
Short Summary Event Duration Publish date When Robert Gupta was caught between a career as a doctor and as a violinist, he realized his place was in the middle, with a bow in his hand and a sense of social justice in his heart. He tells a moving story TEDMED of society's 2012marginalized and the0:16:27 power of music 10/2/2012 therapy, 15:00:00 which can succeed where co In this gripping talk, lawyer Jason McCue urges for a new way to attack terrorism, to weaken its credibility with those who are buying the product -- the recruits. He shares stories of real cases where he and TEDGlobal other activists 2012 used this approach to0:19:02 engage and create 10/3/2012 change. 15:01:00 Shimon Schocken and Noam Nisan developed a curriculum for their students to build a computer, piece by piece. When they put the course online -- giving away the tools, simulators, chip specifications and TEDGlobal other building 2012 blocks -- they were surprised 0:16:25 that thousands 10/4/2012 jumped 15:00:00 at the opportunity to l As the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Thomas P. Campbell thinks deeply about curatingnot just selecting art objects, but placing them in a setting where the public can learn their TED2012 stories. With glorious images, he shows 0:16:36 how his curation 10/5/2012 philosophy 15:00:00 works for displaying The world is changing much more rapidly than most people realize, says business educator Eddie Obeng -- and creative output cannot keep up. In this spirited talk, he highlights three important changes weTEDGlobal should understand 2012 for better productivity, 0:12:37 and calls 10/15/2012 for a stronger 15:00:00 culture of "smart failure. Videos on the web should work like the web itself: Dynamic, full of links, maps and information that can be edited and updated live, says Mozilla Foundation COO Ryan Merkley. On the TED stage he demos TEDGlobal Popcorn Maker, 2012 a new web-based 0:04:25 tool for easy video 10/19/2012 remixing. 15:00:00 (<a href="http://on.ted.co Map designer Aris Venetikidis is fascinated by the maps we draw in our minds as we move around a city -- less like street maps, more like schematics or wiring diagrams, abstract images of relationships between TEDxDublin places. How can we learn from 0:16:36 these mental 9/29/2012 maps to make 14:02:00 better real ones? As a t As Vicki Arroyo says, it's time to prepare our homes and cities for our changing climate, with its increased risk of flooding, drought and uncertainty. She illustrates this inspiring talk with bold projects from cities TEDGlobal all over the 2012 world -- local examples 0:14:36 of thinking ahead. 9/30/2012 <a href="http://www.ted.com/conv 14:00:00 Diseases of the body garner sympathy, says comedian Ruby Wax -- except those of the brain. Why is that? With dazzling energy and humor, Wax, diagnosed a decade ago with clinical depression, urges us TEDGlobal to put an end 2012 to the stigma of mental 0:08:44 illness. 10/10/2012 15:01:00 When you're getting medical treatment, or taking part in medical testing, privacy is important; strict laws limit what researchers can see and know about you. But what if your medical data could be used -- anonymously TEDGlobal 2012 -- by anyone seeking to 0:16:25 test a hypothesis? 10/16/2012 John Wilbanks 15:00:00 wonders if the desir In this gripping talk, lawyer Jason McCue urges for a new way to attack terrorism, to weaken its credibility with those who are buying the product -- the recruits. He shares stories of real cases where he and TEDGlobal other activists 2012 used this approach to0:19:02 engage and create 10/3/2012 change. 15:01:00 What do science and play have in common? Neuroscientist Beau Lotto thinks all people (kids included) should participate in science and, through the process of discovery, change perceptions. He's seconded TEDGlobal by 12-year-old 2012 Amy O'Toole, who, 0:15:25 along with 25 10/17/2012 of her classmates, 15:13:00 published the first p Art history is far from set in stone. Engineer Maurizio Seracini spent 30 years searching for Leonardo da Vinci's lost fresco "The Battle of Anghiari," and in the process discovered that many paintings have layers TEDGlobal of history 2012 hidden underneath. Should 0:12:34 they be 10/12/2012 part of the 15:43:00 viewing experience too? The days are past (if they ever existed) when a person, company or brand could tightly control their reputation -- online chatter and spin mean that if you're relevant, there's a constant, free-form conversation TEDGlobal happening 2012 about you that you have 0:06:30 no control over. 10/8/2012 Tim Leberecht 15:16:00 offers three big ideas Melissa Marshall brings a message to all scientists (from non-scientists): We're fascinated by what you're doing. So tell us about it -- in a way we can understand. In just 4 minutes, she shares powerful tips on TEDGlobal presenting 2012 complex scientific ideas 0:04:34 to a general 10/11/2012 audience. 15:00:00 It may seem that we're living in a borderless world where ideas, goods and people flow freely from nation to nation. We're not even close, says Pankaj Ghemawat. With great data (and an eye-opening survey), TEDGlobal he argues 2012 that there's a delta between 0:17:03 perception 10/22/2012 and reality 15:04:00 in a world that's maybe n Our leaders need to be held accountable, says journalist Heather Brooke. And she should know: Brooke uncovered the British Parliamentary financial expenses that led to a major political scandal in 2009. She TEDGlobal urges us 2012 to ask our leaders questions 0:18:57 through 10/18/2012 platforms like 15:02:00 Freedom of Information re What does a disgusting image have to do with how you vote? Equipped with surveys and experiments, psychologist David Pizarro demonstrates a correlation between sensitivity to disgusting cues -- a photo TEDxEast of feces, an unpleasant odor -- and 0:14:02 moral and political 10/23/2012 conservatism. 15:03:00 (Filmed at TE Literature has long been fascinated with fostered, adopted and orphaned children, from Moses to Cinderella to Oliver Twist to Harry Potter. So why do many parentless children feel compelled to hide their pasts? TEDxHousesofParliament Poet and playwright Lemn Sissay 0:15:17 tells his own 10/24/2012 moving story. 15:00:00 (Filmed at TEDxH Modern buildings with floor-to-ceiling windows give spectacular views, but they require a lot of energy to cool. Doris Kim Sung works with thermo-bimetals, smart materials that act more like human skin, dynamically TEDxUSC and responsively, and can shade 0:08:59 a room 10/25/2012 from sun and 15:00:00 self-ventilate. The suits, numbers and colors in a deck of cards correspond to the seasons, moon cycles and calendar. Marco Tempest straps on augmented reality goggles and does a card trick like you've never seen before, TEDGlobal weaving 2012 a lyrical tale as he deals. 0:06:35 (This 10/26/2012 version fixes 15:00:00 a glitch in the original perf The public is losing faith in democracy, says British MP Rory Stewart. Iraq and Afghanistan's new democracies are deeply corrupt; meanwhile, 84 percent of people in Britain say politics is broken. In this important TEDxHousesofParliament talk, Stewart sounds a call to0:13:41 action to rebuild 10/29/2012 democracy, 15:00:00 starting with recognizing How do we make sure that development and aid money actually goes to the people who most need it? Sanjay Pradhan of the World Bank Institute lays out three guidelines to help relief efforts make the most TEDGlobal impact -- 2012 while curbing corruption.0:14:26 One key: connecting 10/30/2012 the14:55:00 players who are working to c In Western society, bats are often characterized as creepy, even evil. Zoologist Emma Teeling encourages us to rethink our attitude toward bats, whose unique and fascinating biology gives us insight into our TEDxDublin own genetic makeup. (Filmed at TEDxDublin.) 10/31/2012 15:00:00 Adam Garone has an impressive moustache, and it's for a good cause. A co-founder of Movember, Garone's initiative to raise awareness for men's health -- by having men grow out their moustaches every TEDxToronto November -- began 2011 as a dare in a bar 0:16:41 in 2003. Now, 11/1/2012 it's a worldwide 15:01:00 movement that raised Faith Jegede tells the moving and funny story of growing up with her two brothers, both autistic -- and both extraordinary. In this talk from the TED Talent Search, she reminds us to pursue a life beyond what TED@London is normal. 0:05:20 11/2/2012 15:03:00 When are humans most happy? To gather data on this question, Matt Killingsworth built an app, Track Your Happiness, that let people report their feelings in real time. Among the surprising results: We're often TEDxCambridge happiest when we're lost in the moment. 0:10:16 And the 11/5/2012 flip side: 16:09:00 The more our mind wanders After months or years fighting overseas, 92 percent of American veterans say they want to continue their service; meanwhile, one after another, natural disasters continue to wreak havoc worldwide. What do TEDxSanDiego these two challenges have in common? 0:04:59 Team Rubicon 11/6/2012 co-founder 16:01:00 Jake Wood gives a m When photographed under a 3D microscope, grains of sand appear like colorful pieces of candy and the stamens in a flower become like fantastical spires at an amusement park. Gary Greenberg reveals the TEDxMaui thrilling details of the micro world. 0:12:06 (Filmed at 11/7/2012 TEDxMaui.) 16:01:00 Orphanages are costly and can cause irreparable damage both mentally and physically for its charges -- so why are they still so ubiquitous? Georgette Mulheir gravely describes the tragedy of orphanages and TEDSalon urges us London to endSpring our reliance 2012 on them, 0:10:41 by finding 11/8/2012 alternate 16:03:00 ways of supporting children i Who hasn't sent a text message saying "I'm on my way" when it wasn't true or fudged the truth a touch in their online dating profile? But Jeff Hancock doesn't believe that the anonymity of the internet encourages dishonesty. In fact, he says the searchability and permanence TEDxWinnipeg 0:18:31 11/9/2012 16:05:00 of information onlin Radio host Julie Burstein talks with creative people for a living -- and shares four lessons about how to create in the face of challenge, self-doubt and loss. Hear insights from filmmaker Mira Nair, writer Richard TED2012 Ford, sculptor Richard Serra and 0:17:20 photographer 11/12/2012 Joel Meyerowitz. 16:07:00
When he realized his wife had to choose between buying family meals and buying her monthly "supplies," Arunachalam Muruganantham vowed to help her solve the problem of the sanitary pad. His research TED@Bangalore got very very personal -- and led him 0:09:21 to a powerful 11/13/2012 business 16:38:00 model. (Filmed in Bangalor Hannah Brencher's mother always wrote her letters. So when she felt herself bottom into depression after college, she did what felt natural -- she wrote love letters and left them for strangers to find. The actTED@New has become York a global initiative, The 0:04:52 World Needs11/14/2012 More Love 16:01:00 Letters, which rushes handw Designing electronics is generally cumbersome and expensive -- or was, until Leah Buechley and her team at MIT developed tools to treat electronics just like paper and pen. In this talk from TEDYouth 2011, TEDYouth Buechley shows some of her charming 0:06:33 designs, 11/15/2012 like a paper 16:00:00 piano you can sketch and t David Binder is a major Broadway producer, but last summer he found himself in a small Australian neighborhood, watching locals dance and perform on their lawns -- and loving it. He shows us the new face TEDGlobal of arts festivals, 2012 which break the boundary 0:09:06 between 11/16/2012 audience 16:00:00 and performer and help ci How do fast-paced video games affect the brain? Step into the lab with cognitive researcher Daphne Bavelier to hear surprising news about how video games, even action-packed shooter games, can help us TEDxCHUV learn, focus and, fascinatingly, multitask. 0:17:57 (Filmed 11/19/2012 at TEDxCHUV.) 16:19:00 How do you build a wheelchair ready to blaze through mud and sand, all for under $200? MIT engineer Amos Winter guides us through the mechanics of an all-terrain wheelchair that's cheap and easy to build TEDxBoston -- for true 2012 accessibility -- and gives 0:11:14 us some lessons 11/20/2012 he learned 16:02:00 along the road. Brothers Jonny, Robbie and Tommy Mizzone are The Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, a trio of virtuoso bluegrass musicians who play with dazzling vivacity. Did we mention they're all under 16? TED@New York 0:05:02 11/21/2012 16:09:00 When most well-intentioned aid workers hear of a problem they think they can fix, they go to work. This, Ernesto Sirolli suggests, is nave. In this funny and impassioned talk, he proposes that the first stepTEDxEQChCh is to listen to the people you're trying 0:17:09 to help, and 11/26/2012 tap into their 16:15:00 own entrepreneurial spirit. It's an unfortunate reality in nearly every major city: road congestion, especially during rush hours. Jonas Eliasson reveals how subtly nudging just a small percentage of drivers to stay off major roads can make TEDxHelvetia traffic jams a thing of the past. (Filmed 0:08:27 at 11/27/2012 TEDxHelvetia.) 15:59:00 Cross-country skier Janine Shepherd hoped for an Olympic medal -- until she was hit by a truck during a training bike ride. She shares a powerful story about the human potential for recovery. Her message: TEDxKC you are not your body, and giving up 0:18:57 old dreams11/28/2012 can allow new 16:00:00 ones to soar. As natural garbage collectors, vultures are vital to our ecosystem -- so why all the bad press? Why are so many in danger of extinction? Raptor biologist Munir Virani says we need to pay more attention to these TED@Nairobi unique and misunderstood creatures, 0:06:41 to change 11/29/2012 our perception 16:02:00 and save the vultures

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