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TEDTalks (video)
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Each year, the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference hosts some of the world's most fascinating people: Trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses. These podcasts (also available in audio format) capture the most extraordinary presentations delivered from the TED stage.
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TED: William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes - William Noel (2012)

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...

13 h ago

TED: Reggie Watts disorients you in the most entertaining way - Reggie Watts (2012)

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.

4 days ago

TED: Shereen El-Feki: HIV -- how to fight an epidemic of bad laws - Shereen El Feki (2012)

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 argume...

5 days ago 1 person likes this

TED: Philippe Petit: The journey across the high wire - Philippe Petit (2012)

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.

6 days ago

TED: Hans Rosling: Religions and babies - Hans Rosling (2012)

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 ove...

22 may 12

TED: Nathan Wolfe: Whats left to explore? - Nathan Wolfe (2012)

Weve been to the moon, weve mapped the continents, weve even been to the deepest point in the ocean -- twice. Whats left for the next generation to explore? Biologist and explorer Nathan Wolfe sugges...

21 may 12

TED: JR: One year of turning the world inside out - JR (2012)

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 ...

18 may 12

TED: Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain - Carl Schoonover (2012)

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 to...

17 may 12

TED: David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence - David Kelley (2012)

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 le...

16 may 12 1 person likes this

TED: Jean-Baptiste Michel: The mathematics of history - Jean-Baptiste Michel (2012)

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 ...

15 may 12

TED: Tali Sharot: The optimism bias - Tali Sharot (2012)

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.

14 may 12

TED: Renny Gleeson: 404, the story of a page not found - Renny Gleeson (2012)

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 r...

11 may 12

TED: Joshua Foer: Feats of memory anyone can do - Joshua Foer (2012)

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 th...

10 may 12

TED: Karen Bass: Unseen footage, untamed nature - Karen Bass (2012)

At TED2012, filmmaker Karen Bass shares some of the astonishing nature footage shes shot for the BBC and National Geographic -- including brand-new, previously unseen footage of the tube-lipped necta...

09 may 12

TED: JP Rangaswami: Information is food - JP Rangaswami (2012)

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.

08 may 12

TED: Michael Tilson Thomas: Music and emotion through time - Michael Tilson Thomas (2012)

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.

07 may 12

TED: Rory Sutherland: Perspective is everything - Rory Sutherland (2011)

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.

04 may 12

TED: Gary Kovacs: Tracking the trackers - Gary Kovacs (2012)

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 bu...

03 may 12

TED: Reuben Margolin: Sculpting waves in wood and time - Reuben Margolin (2012)

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 -- inspir...

02 may 12

TED: Amory Lovins: A 50-year plan for energy - Amory Lovins (2012)

In this intimate talk filmed at TEDs offices, energy theorist Amory Lovins lays out the steps we must take to end the worlds dependence on oil (before we run out). Some changes are already happening ...

01 may 12

TED: Liz Diller: A giant bubble for debate - Liz Diller (2012)

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...

30 apr 12

TED: Nancy Lublin: Texting that saves lives - Nancy Lublin (2012)

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 depressi...

27 apr 12

TED: Eduardo Paes: The 4 commandments of cities - Eduardo Paes (2012)

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 (...

26 apr 12

TED: Michael Norton: How to buy happiness - Michael Norton (2011)

At TEDxCambridge, Michael Norton shares fascinating research on how money can, indeed buy happiness -- when you dont spend it on yourself. Listen for surprising data on the many ways pro-social spend...

24 apr 12

TED: Brian Greene: Is our universe the only universe? - Brian Greene (2012)

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...

23 apr 12

TED: Christina Warinner: Tracking ancient diseases using ... plaque - Christina Warinner (2012)

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 s...

20 apr 12

TED: Laura Carstensen: Older people are happier - Laura Carstensen (2011)

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 d...

19 apr 12

TED: Taryn Simon: The stories behind the bloodlines - Taryn Simon (2011)

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 stor...

18 apr 12

TED: Drew Curtis: How I beat a patent troll - Drew Curtis (2012)

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...

17 apr 12

TED: Atul Gawande: How do we heal medicine? - Atul Gawande (2012)

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 suggest...

16 apr 12

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