TEDx: Donna Cox – Visualizing Emergence
Donna is the first Michael Aiken Chair, Director of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and Director of the Emerging Digital Research and...
View ArticleTED: Michael Shermer – The pattern behind self-deception
Via TED: 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...
View ArticleTED: Peter Tyack – The intriguing sound of marine mammals
Via TED: 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...
View ArticleTED: Chip Conley – Measuring What Makes Life Worthwhile
Via TED: 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...
View ArticleTED: Marian Bantjes – Intricate Beauty by Design
Via TED: 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...
View ArticleTED: Charles Leadbeater – Education innovation in the slums
Via TED: 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...
View ArticleTED: Aditi Shankardass – A Second Opinion on Learning Disorders
Via TED: 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...
View ArticleTED: Hillel Cooperman – Legos for Grownups
Via TED: 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...
View ArticleTED: Clay Shirky – How Cognitive Surplus Will Change The World
Via TED: 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...
View ArticleTED: Ellen Dunham-Jones – Retrofitting Suburbia
Via TED: 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,...
View ArticleTED: Carter Emmart demos a 3D Atlas of the Universe
Via TED: 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...
View ArticleTED: Benoit Mandelbrot – Fractals and the Art of Roughness
Via TED: 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...
View ArticleBig Think: New Dan Ariely interview
Big Think put up a new interview with Dan Ariely on their site: In his most recent Big Think interview, Ariely talks at length about the issues around dating and mating, also telling us about a...
View ArticleTED: Hans Rosling on global population growth, HIV, Asia, poverty
With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling uses an amazing new presentation tool, Gapminder, to debunk several myths about world development. Rosling is professor of...
View ArticleTEDx: Alan Cross – The Slow-Motion Music Revolution
Alan Cross, host of The Ongoing History of New Music and curator of ExploreMusic, provides a engaging TED Talk on the state of the music industry and the revolution it is going through (29m 18s). He...
View ArticleTED: Carl Safina – The oil spill’s unseen culprits, victims
Via TED: 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...
View ArticleTED: Matt Ridley – When ideas have sex
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...
View ArticleTED: Julian Assange – Why the world needs WikiLeaks
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...
View ArticleTED: Naif Al-Mutawa – Superheroes inspired by Islam
Via TED: 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...
View ArticleTED: Dimitar Sasselov – How we found hundreds of Earth-like planets
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...
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