TedTalks


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See VideoShai Agassi: A bold plan for mass adoption of electric cars (TEDTalks)

A fascinating talk about a major paradigm shift in the car industry: electric cars and electric recharge grids could soon become common place, and entire countries could become oil-free by 2020 starting with Denmark, Israel and Australia.

276513 Apr 20096.6
See VideoDonald Norman: The three ways that good design makes you happy (TEDTalks)

Pleasant things work better while design that makes you fearful or anxious can paralyze you. Donald Norman explains how design can impact the way you think and act.

26879 Mar 20096.5
See VideoJuan Enriquez: Tech evolution will eclipse the financial crisis (TEDTalks)

A humorous, inspiring and eye-opening presentation about the financial crisis and the potential of technology to reboot the economy.

126117 Feb 20096.3
See VideoSugata Mitra: Indian kids teach themselves to use a computer

Can children learn how to use a computer without any help from adults? Sugata Mitra discusses his experiments in India and the surprising results.

11627 Aug 20086.0
See VideoMartin Seligman: Why is psychology good? (TedTalks)

Martin Seligman talks about moving away from the 'disease model', Positive Psychology, happiness, flow and positive intervention.

16821 Jul 20085.0
See VideoJoshua Klein: The amazing intelligence of crows (TEDTalks)

Crows are so successful at survival because of their high intelligence and ability to learn from each other. Hacker/writer Joshua Klein explores whether crows could be trained to pick up garbage or other useful tasks.

7915 May 20086.0
See VideoJohnny Lee: Wii Remote hacks

"Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer."

243311 Apr 20086.5
See VideoStephen Hawking: Asking big questions about the universe

Professor Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe -- How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone?

12944 Apr 20085.3
See VideoNeil Turok on the future of Africa

"They want to be the next Einstein" - speaking of bright and ambitious young Africans applying to the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) he founded.

16720 Mar 20086.0
See VideoNeurology: How it feels to have a stroke

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke.

277113 Mar 20086.6
See VideoAmazing creatures of the ocean - David Gallo

Only a small percentage of the ocean's marine life has been discovered.

3021 Jan 20086.0
See VideoMathemagician Arthur Benjamin's lightning math

"Mathemagician" Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares in his head

1309 Jan 20085.0
See VideoVilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind

"Vilayanur Ramachandran explores how brain damage can reveal the connection between the internal structures of the brain and the corresponding functions of the mind."

15623 Oct 20076.0
See VideoSteven Pinker: A brief history of violence

Contrary to popular belief, our ancestors were far more violent than we are. Today we probably live in the most peaceful time of our species' existence.

12211 Sep 20075.0
See VideoTheo Jansen: The art of creating creatures

Dutch artist and engineer Theo Jansen uses plastic tubes and bottles to create amazangly lifelike creatures moved by windpower.

7036 Sep 20076.1
See VideoPhotosynth demo: multidimensional spaces

Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped
from around the Web, Photosynth creates breathtaking multidimensional

6734 Jun 20076.1
See VideoBonobos that write, start fires and play Pac-Man (TEDTalks)

Bonobos can walk upright, understand spoken language, write and develop stone tools. Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobos forces us to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology and how much by cultural exposure.

5617 May 20075.5
See VideoTony Robbins on internal drive and motivation (TEDTalks)

Tony Robbins' inspirational talk on how to unlock your true potential. From TedTalks 2006.

144916 Jan 20075.3
See VideoSteven Levitt: the Freakonomics of inner-city gangs

TedTalks: Steven Levitt is an economics professor at the University of Chicago and the best-selling author of Freakonomics.

8516 Jan 20076.0
See VideoSpaghetti Sauce - Malcolm Gladwell (TEDTalks)

Malcolm Gladwell (best-selling author of The Tipping Point and Blink) explains what every business can learn from spaghetti sauce, and why we have so much choice in food nowadays.

14116 Jan 20076.0
See VideoRichard Dawkins on the Strangeness of Science

Mind-expanding talk that probes the limits of human understanding: Why can't we see atoms? Why can't we hear color?

26116 Jan 20076.1
See VideoAl Gore on Climate Change (TedTalks)

A follow-up to Al Gore's famous "Inconvenient Truth" presentation. What can we do to avert the crisis of global climate change?

3116 Jan 20075.0
See VideoGapminder - no more boring data

TedTalks 2007. Hans Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a nonprofit that brings vital

32014 Jan 20076.1
See VideoDo schools today kill creativity?

Education guru Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it.

5586 Jan 20076.1
See VideoJeff Han: Multi-Touch Interaction

TedTalks 2006: Jeff Han is a research scientist for NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and the inventor of a Minority Report style "interface-free" touch-driven computer

3691 Aug 20066.1
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