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2011x111
Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of all knowledge
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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, .. show full overview
2011x63
Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms
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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.
2011x108
Joan Halifax: Compassion and the true meaning of empathy
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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 the nature of empathy.
2011x113
Shawn Achor: The Happy Secret to Better Work
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We believe we should work hard in order to be happy, but could we be thinking about things backwards? In this fast-moving and very funny talk, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that, .. show full overview
2011x112
Leonard Susskind: My friend Richard Feynman
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What's it like to be pals with a genius? Onstage, physicist Leonard Susskind spins a few stories about his friendship with the legendary Richard Feynman, discussing his unconventional .. show full overview
2011x59
Lesley Hazleton: On reading the Koran
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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 .. show full overview
2011x114
Skylar Tibbits: Can we make things that make themselves?
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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 .. show full overview
2011x61
Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work
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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 .. show full overview
2011x27
David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve
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2011x8
Lisa Gansky: The future of business is the mesh
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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 .. show full overview
2011x110
Homaro Cantu + Ben Roche: Cooking as alchemy
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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 for good?
2011x1
Wadah Khanfar: A historic moment in the Arab world
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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 .. show full overview
2011x2
JR's TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out
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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 .. show full overview
2011x3
Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution
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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 .. show full overview
2011x4
Bill Gates: How state budgets are breaking US schools
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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 .. show full overview
2011x5
Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney
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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 .. show full overview
2011x6
Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education
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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 .. show full overview
2011x7
Deb Roy: The birth of a word
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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, .. show full overview
2011x51
Rob Harmon: How the market can keep streams flowing
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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 .. show full overview
2011x9
David Brooks: The social animal
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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 .. show full overview
2011x10
Janna Levin: The sound the universe makes
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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. .. show full overview
2011x11
Mark Bezos: A life lesson from a volunteer firefighter
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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.
2011x12
Sarah Kay: If I should have a daughter
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"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 .. show full overview
2011x13
Isabel Behncke: Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans
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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 .. show full overview
2011x14
Eythor Bender demos human exoskeletons
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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 .. show full overview
2011x15
Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon
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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 .. show full overview
2011x16
Handspring Puppet Co.: The genius puppetry behind War Horse
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"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 .. show full overview
2011x17
Sebastian Thrun: Google's driverless car
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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 .. show full overview
2011x18
Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong
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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 .. show full overview
2011x19
AnnMarie Thomas: Hands-on science with squishy circuits
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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 kids into circuit designers.
2011x20
Stanley McChrystal: Listen, learn ... then lead
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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 .. show full overview
2011x21
Morgan Spurlock: The greatest TED Talk ever sold
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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. .. show full overview
2011x22
Mick Ebeling: The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist
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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 .. show full overview
2011x23
David Christian: Big history
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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 .. show full overview
2011x24
Roger Ebert: Remaking my voice
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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, .. show full overview
2011x25
Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization
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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 .. show full overview
2011x26
Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong
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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.
2011x27
John Hunter on the World Peace Game
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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 .. show full overview
2011x28
Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed
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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 story publicly for the first time.
2011x29
Harvey Fineberg: Are we ready for neo-evolution?
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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 .. show full overview
2011x30
Angela Belcher: Using nature to grow batteries
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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, .. show full overview
2011x31
Mike Matas: A next-generation digital book
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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. .. show full overview
2011x32
Carlo Ratti: Architecture that senses and responds
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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 .. show full overview
2011x33
Suzanne Lee: Grow your own clothes
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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 .. show full overview
2011x34
Louie Schwartzberg: The hidden beauty of pollination
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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 .. show full overview
2011x35
Paul Nicklen: Tales of ice-bound wonderlands
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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 .. show full overview
2011x36
Fiorenzo Omenetto: Silk, the ancient material of the future
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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 .. show full overview
2011x37
Ron Gutman: The hidden power of smiling
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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 .. show full overview
2011x50
Ron Gutman: The hidden power of smiling
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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 .. show full overview
2011x38
Amit Sood: Building a museum of museums on the web
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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 just that.
2011x39
Ed Boyden: A light switch for neurons
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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 .. show full overview
2011x40
Thomas Heatherwick: Building the Seed Cathedral
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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 .. show full overview
2011x41
Elliot Krane: The mystery of chronic pain
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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 .. show full overview
2011x42
Edith Widder: The weird, wonderful world of bioluminescence
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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 .. show full overview
2011x43
Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity
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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 .. show full overview
2011x44
Bruce Aylward: How we'll stop polio for good
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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 .. show full overview
2011x45
Mustafa Akyol: Faith versus tradition in Islam
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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 .. show full overview
2011x46
Dennis Hong: Making a car for blind drivers
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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 .. show full overview
2011x47
Stefan Sagmeister: 7 rules for making more happiness
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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 .. show full overview
2011x48
Aaron O'Connell: Making sense of a visible quantum object
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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 .. show full overview
2011x49
Jessi Arrington: Wearing nothing new
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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 creativity.
2011x52
Damon Horowitz calls for a moral operating system
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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 .. show full overview
2011x53
Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken
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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 .. show full overview
2011x54
Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously
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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, .. show full overview
2011x55
Paul Romer: The world's first charter city
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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 .. show full overview
2011x56
Alice Dreger: Is anatomy destiny
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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 .. show full overview
2011x57
JD Schramm: Break the silence for suicide survivors
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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 .. show full overview
2011x62
Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar
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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 .. show full overview
2011x64
Annie Murphy Paul: What we learn before we're born
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Ted Global 2011 Session 1: Beginnings Pop quiz: When does learning begin? Answer: Before we are born. Science writer Annie Murphy Paul talks through new research that shows how .. show full overview
2011x65
Rebecca MacKinnon: Let's take back the Internet
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Ted Global 2011 Session 1: Beginnings Rebecca MacKinnon describes the expanding struggle for freedom and control in cyberspace, and asks: How do we design the next phase of the .. show full overview
2011x66
Danielle De Niese: A flirtatious aria
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Ted Global 2011 Session 1: Beginnings Can opera be ever-so-slightly sexy? The glorious soprano Danielle de Niese shows how, singing the flirty "Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiss." .. show full overview
2011x67
Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
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Ted Global 2011 Session 1: Beginnings We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic .. show full overview
2011x68
Hasan Elahi: FBI, here I am!
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Ted Global 2011 Session 2: Everyday rebellions 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.
2011x70
Justin Hall Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid
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Ted Global 2011 Session 2: Everyday rebellions What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the .. show full overview
2011x74
Allan Jones: A map of the brain
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Ted Global 2011 Session 3: Coded Patterns 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 .. show full overview
2011x82
Elizabeth Murchison: Fighting a contagious cancer
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Ted Global 2011 Session 5: Emerging Order What is killing the Tasmanian devil? A virulent cancer is infecting them by the thousands -- and unlike most cancers, it's contagious. .. show full overview
2011x83
Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives
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Ted Global 2011 Session 5: Emerging Order What controls aging? Biochemist Cynthia Kenyon has found a simple genetic mutation that can double the lifespan of a simple worm, C. .. show full overview
2011x86
Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science
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Ted Global 2011 Session 6: The Dark Side
2011x88
Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains
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Ted Global 2011 Session 7: Bodies Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement. In this .. show full overview
2011x91
Jae Rhim Lee: My mushroom burial suit
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Ted Global 2011 Session 7: Bodies 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 .. show full overview
2011x94
Jarreth Merz: Filming democracy in Ghana
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Ted Global 2011 Session 8: Embracing Otherness 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.
2011x96
Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement
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Ted Global 2011 Session 8: Embracing Otherness In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men -- many of them illiterate -- to become solar engineers, .. show full overview
2011x97
Charles Hazlewood: Trusting the ensemble
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Ted Global 2011 Session 9: Living Systems Conductor Charles Hazlewood talks about the role of trust in musical leadership -- then shows how it works, as he conducts the Scottish .. show full overview
2011x98
Alison Gopnik: What do babies think?
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Ted Global 2011 Session 10: Feeling "Babies and young children are like the R&D division of the human species," says psychologist Alison Gopnik. Her research explores the .. show full overview
2011x102
Abrham Verghese: A doctor's touch
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Ted Global 2011 Session 10: Feeling Modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool: human touch. Physician and writer Abraham Verghese describes our strange .. show full overview
2011x103
Ben Kacyra: Ancient wonders captured in 3D
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Ted Global 2011 Session 11: Things we make Ancient monuments give us clues to astonishing past civilizations -- but they're under threat from pollution, war, neglect. Ben Kacyra, .. show full overview
2011x105
Anna Mracek Dietrich: A plane you can drive
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Ted Global 2011 Session 11: Things we make 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 .. show full overview
2011x107
Harald Haas: Wireless data from a light bulb
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Ted Global 2011 Session 12: Next Up 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 .. show full overview
2011x60
Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world
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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 .. show full overview
2011x99
Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net
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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 .. show full overview
2011x58
Rory Stewart: Time to end the war in Afghanistan
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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 .. show full overview
2011x109
AJ Jacobs: How healthy living nearly killed me
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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 things he learned.
2011x116
Avi Rubin: All your devices can be hacked
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Could someone hack your pacemaker? Avi Rubin shows how hackers are compromising cars, smartphones and medical devices, and warns us about the dangers of an increasingly hack-able world.
2011x115
Daniel Goldstein: The battle between your present and future self
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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 we make smart choices for Future Us.