URL Speaker Namehttp://www.ted.com/talks/view/Al Gore 15 ways to avert a climate crisishttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewHans Rosling Debunking third-world myths with the best stats http://www.ted.com/talks/viewSir Ken Robinson Do schools kill creativity?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewMajora Carter Greening the ghettohttp://www.ted.com/talks/view/David Pogue When it comes to tech, simplicity sellshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTony Robbins Why we do what we do, and how we can do it bethttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJulia Sweeney "Letting Go of God" (an excerpt)http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJoshua Prince-Ra Designing the Seattle Central Libraryhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDan Dennett A secular, scientific rebuttal to Rick Warrenhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRick Warren Living a life of purposehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLarry Brilliant TED Prize wish: Help stop the next pandemichttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCameron Sinclair TED Prize wish: Open-source architecture to houhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJehane Noujaim TED Prize wish: Unite the world on Pangea Day, ahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNicholas NegroponThe vision behind One Laptop Per Childhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJeff Han Unveiling the genius of multi-touch interface desihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSirena Huang Dazzling set by 11-year-old violinisthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJennifer Lin Magical improv from 14-year-old pianisthttp://www.ted.com/talks/view/Amy Smith Simple designs that could save millions of childrenhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRoss Lovegrove The power and beauty of organic designhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard Baraniuk Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learninghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJimmy Wales How a ragtag band created Wikipediahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMena Trott How blogs are building a friendlier worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewZe Frank What's so funny about the Web?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewEve Ensler Finding happiness in body and soulhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewHelen Fisher The science of love, and the future of womenhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard Dawkins The universe is queerer than we can supposehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Deutsch What is our place in the cosmos?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewMalcolm Gladwell What we can learn from spaghetti saucehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Levitt Why do crack dealers still live with their moms?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewBarry Schwartz The paradox of choicehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDan Gilbert Why are we happy? Why aren't we happy?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewEva Vertes My dream about the future of medicinehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAubrey de Grey Why we age and how we can avoid ithttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJacqueline NovogrInvesting in Africa's own solutionshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewIqbal Quadir The power of the mobile phone to end povertyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/view/Ashraf Ghani How to fix broken stateshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSasa Vucinic Why a free press is the best investmenthttp://www.ted.com/talks/view/Burt Rutan Entrepreneurs are the future of space flighthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBen Saunders Three things to know before you ski to the North http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Fischell TED Prize wish: Finding new cures for migraine, http://www.ted.com/talks/viewBono TED Prize wish: Join my call to action on Africahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEdward Burtynsky TED Prize wish: Share the story of Earth's manuhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPeter Donnelly How juries are fooled by statisticshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMichael Shermer Why people believe strange thingshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKevin Kelly How does technology evolve? Like we didhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRay Kurzweil How technology's accelerating power will transfohttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPeter Gabriel Fighting injustice with a videocamerahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRives "If I controlled the Internet" (a poem)http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard St. John Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minuteshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDr. Dean Ornish The world now eats (and dies) like Americanshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBjorn Lomborg Our priorities for saving the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Neuwirth The "shadow cities" of the futurehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewWade Davis Cultures at the far edge of the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPhil Borges Documenting our endangered cultureshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSir Martin Rees Earth in its final century?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Wright How cooperation (eventually) trumps conflict

http://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Johnson A guided tour of the Ghost Maphttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCharles LeadbeateThe rise of the amateur professionalhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPilobolus A performance merging dance and biologyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAnna Deavere SmiFour American charactershttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSaul Griffith Hardware solutions to everyday problemshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNeil Gershenfeld The beckoning promise of personal fabricationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCarl Honore Slowing down in a world built for speedhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewE.O. Wilson TED Prize wish: Help build the Encyclopedia of Lihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBill Clinton TED Prize wish: Let's build a health care systemhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJames Nachtwey TED Prize wish: Share a vital story with the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNora York "What I Want"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJanine Benyus 12 sustainable design ideas from naturehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewFrans Lanting A lyrical view of life on Earthhttp://www.ted.com/talks/view/Craig Venter A voyage of DNA, genes and the seahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSusan Savage-Ru Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Manhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewThom Mayne Architecture is a new way to connect to the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewVik Muniz Art with wire, thread, sugar, chocolatehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJuan Enriquez Decoding the future with genomicshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Bennett Design is in the detailshttp://www.ted.com/talks/view/Chris Bangle Great cars are Arthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNick Bostrom Humanity's biggest problems aren't what you thinhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAlex Steffen Inspired ideas for a sustainable futurehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSheila Patek Measuring the fastest animal on earthhttp://www.ted.com/talks/view/Dean Kamen Rolling along, helping students and the third worlhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSeth Godin Sliced bread and other marketing delightshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJames Watson The double helix and today's DNA mysterieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGolan Levin The truly soft side of softwarehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJane Goodall What separates us from the apes?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewStefan SagmeisterYes, design can make you happyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAl Seckel Your brain is badly wired -- enjoy it!http://www.ted.com/talks/viewCaroline Lavelle A cello performance that casts a spellhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJill Sobule A happy song about global warminghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDan Dennett Can we know our own minds?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewEvelyn Glennie How to listen to music with your whole bodyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewWilliam McDonougThe wisdom of designing Cradle to Cradlehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRives A mockingbird remix of TED2006http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJeff Bezos After the gold rush, there's innovation aheadhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEddi Reader "Kiteflyer's Hill"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewEddi Reader, Tho "What You Do With What You've Got"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewThomas Dolby, Rac"La Vie en Rose"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewTom Rielly A comic send-up of TED2006http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard Dawkins An atheist's call to armshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRev. Tom Honey How could God have allowed the tsunami?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewChris Anderson (WTechnology's Long Tailhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNatalie MacMasterFiddling in reel timehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSergey Brin and L Inside the Google machinehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStew "Black Men Ski"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJames Howard KunThe tragedy of suburbiahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Kelley The future of design is human-centeredhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStewart Brand Why squatter cities are a good thinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJeff Hawkins Brain science is about to fundamentally change http://www.ted.com/talks/viewTierney Thys Swim with giant sunfish in the open oceanhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBlaise Aguera y A Jaw-dropping Photosynth demohttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohn Doerr Seeking salvation and profit in greentechhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNgozi Okonjo-IweaHow to help Africa? Do business therehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAnand Agarawala BumpTop desktop is a beautiful messhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBob Thurman Becoming Buddha -- on the Web

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/David Rockwell Building the Ground Zero viewing platformhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewThomas Barnett The Pentagon's new map for war and peacehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEthel "Blue Room"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewStephen Lawler Look! Up in the sky! It's Virtual Earth!http://www.ted.com/talks/viewHans Rosling New insights on poverty and life around the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBill Stone Journey to the center of the Earth ... and beyond!http://www.ted.com/talks/viewDan Dennett Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAlan Russell Why can't we grow new body parts?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJonathan Harris The Web's secret storieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEmily Oster What do we really know about the spread of AIDhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRives Is 4 a.m. the new midnight?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewWill Wright Toys that make worldshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Bolinsky Fantastic voyage inside a cellhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAllison Hunt How I got my new hiphttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGeorge Ayittey Cheetahs vs. Hippos for Africa's futurehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEuvin Naidoo Africa as an investmenthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewWilliam Kamkwam How I built my family a windmillhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNgozi Okonjo-IweaLet's have a deeper discussion on aidhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPatrick Awuah Educating a new generation of African leadershttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewChris Abani Learning the stories of Africahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJacqueline NovogrTackling poverty with "patient capital"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewVusi Mahlasela "Thula Mama"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewVusi Mahlasela "Woza"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJeff Skoll Making movies that make changehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDean Kamen New prosthetic arm for veteranshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewErin McKean Redefining the dictionaryhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAndrew Mwenda Let's take a new look at African aidhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTheo Jansen The art of creating creatureshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Pinker The stuff of thoughthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Pinker A brief history of violencehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDeborah Scranton Scenes from "The War Tapes"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewZeresenay AlemseFinding the origins of humanityhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohn Maeda Simplicity patternshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStephen Petranek 10 ways the world could endhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul MacCready Flying on solar wingshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCarolyn Porco Fly me to the moons of Saturnhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKenichi Ebina Hip-hop dance and a little magichttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard Branson Life at 30,000 feethttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewHod Lipson Robots that are "self-aware"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewMaira Kalman The illustrated womanhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJan Chipchase Our cell phones, ourselveshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewVilayanur Ramach A journey to the center of your mindhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEleni Gabre-MadhiBuilding a commodities market in Ethiopiahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSherwin Nuland My history of electroshock therapyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMatthieu Ricard Habits of happinesshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLarry Lessig How creativity is being strangled by the lawhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Rothemund Casting spells with DNAhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Keith A surprising idea for "solving" climate changehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJuan Enriquez Why can't we grow new energy?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewLarry Brilliant The case for informed optimismhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Full Secrets of movement, from geckos and roacheshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRon Eglash African fractals, in buildings and braidshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPhilippe Starck Why design?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewMurray Gell-Mann Beauty and truth in physicshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAmory Lovins We must win the oil endgamehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewArthur Benjamin Lightning calculation and other "Mathemagic"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewDaniel Goleman Why aren't we all Good Samaritans?

http://www.ted.com/talks/viewLakshmi Pratury The lost art of letter-writinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGever Tulley 5 dangerous things you should let your kids dohttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewIsabel Allende Tales of passionhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewYossi Vardi Help fight local warminghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDeborah Gordon How do ants know what to do?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJ.J. Abrams The mystery boxhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Gallo Underwater astonishmentshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaola Antonelli Treating design as arthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewFrank Gehry Nice building. Then what?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRaul Midon "All the Answers" and "Tembererana"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewBill Strickland Rebuilding America, one slide show at a timehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBen Dunlap The story of a passionate lifehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Pogue A 4-minute medley on the music warshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAlison Jackson A surprising look at celebrityhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewChris Anderson (T A vision for TEDhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobin Chase Getting cars off the road and data into the skieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJaime Lerner Sing a song of sustainable citieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Macaulay All roads lead to Rome Anticshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMichael Pollan The omnivore's next dilemmahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewHoward RheingoldWay-new collaborationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPamelia Kurstin Theremin, the untouchable musichttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGeorge Dyson Let's take a nuclear-powered rocket to Saturnhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMoshe Safdie What makes a building unique?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJill Sobule, Julia The Jill and Julia Showhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRaspyni Brothers Welcome to Vaudeville 2.0http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJoseph Lekuton A parable for Kenyahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteve Jurvetson The joy of rocketshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRoy Gould, Curtis WorldWide Telescopehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAlan Kay A powerful idea about teaching ideashttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCraig Venter On the verge of creating synthetic lifehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNicholas NegroponFrom 1984, 4 predictions about the future (3 of thttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJill Bolte Taylor My stroke of insighthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewFrank Gehry From 1990, defending a vision for architecturehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDave Eggers 2008 TED Prize wish: Once Upon a Schoolhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKaren Armstrong 2008 TED Prize wish: Charter for Compassionhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNeil Turok 2008 TED Prize wish: An African Einsteinhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNorman Foster Building on the green agendahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewChristopher deCh Looking inside the brain in real timehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewClifford Stoll 18 minutes with an agile mindhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRokia Traore "M'Bifo"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewSiegfried Woldhek The true face of Leonardo Da Vinci?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Hoffman Catch Sputnik mania!http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJakob Trollback Rethinking the music videohttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStephen Hawking Asking big questions about the universehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAl Gore New thinking on the climate crisishttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Koontz Tourist snapshots from North Koreahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohnny Lee Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remotehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTod Machover, DanReleasing the music in your headhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewYochai Benkler Open-source economicshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewErnest Madu Bringing world-class health care to the pooresthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBrian Greene The universe on a stringhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAmy Tan Where does creativity hide?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewBrian Cox An inside tour of the world's biggest supercolliderhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewThey Might Be GiaWake up! It's They Might Be Giantshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewHector Ruiz The power to connect the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Stamets 6 ways mushrooms can save the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Ewald Can we domesticate germs?

http://www.ted.com/talks/viewMichael Moschen Juggling rhythm and motionhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJoshua Klein The amazing intelligence of crowshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAlisa Miller Why we know less than ever about the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMark Bittman What's wrong with what we eathttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Ballard Exploring the ocean's hidden worldshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewYves Behar Creating objects that tell storieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSeyi Oyesola Rich hospital, poor hospitalhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewArthur Ganson Sculpture that's truly movinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Collier 4 ways to improve the lives of the "bottom billion"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewSusan Blackmore Memes and "temes"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewNathan Myhrvold A life of fascinationshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRokia Traore "Kounandi"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewWade Davis The worldwide web of belief and ritualhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMurray Gell-Mann Do all languages have a common ancestor?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewChris Jordan Picturing excesshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGeorge Dyson The birth of the computerhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDr. Dean Ornish Your genes are not your fatehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Full How engineers learn from evolutionhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAdam Grosser A new vision for refrigerationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Levitt Are children's carseats necessary?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewBenjamin Zander Classical music with shining eyeshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNicholas NegroponOne Laptop per Child, two years onhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNellie McKay "Clonie"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewSxip Shirey, RacheBreath, music, passionhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPeter Diamandis Stephen Hawking hits zero ghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRick Smolan A girl, a photograph, a homecominghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRaul Midon "Everybody" and "Peace on Earth"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewCorneille Ewango A hero of the Congo Basin foresthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTorsten Reil Using biology to make better animationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Hoffman How would you feel if you lost everything?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewClay Shirky Institutions vs. collaborationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNellie McKay "Mother of Pearl" and "If I Had You"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewFreeman Dyson Let's look for life in the outer solar systemhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewHelen Fisher The brain in lovehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBilly Graham Technology, faith and human shortcomingshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewA.J. Jacobs My year of living biblicallyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKeith Barry Brain magichttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMarisa Fick-Jorda The wonders of Zulu wire arthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMartin Seligman What positive psychology can help you becomehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewChris Abani Telling stories of our shared humanityhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLouise Leakey Digging for humanity's originshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJonathan Harris The art of collecting storieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewReed Kroloff Architecture, modern and romantichttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKevin Kelly Predicting the next 5,000 days of the webhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Lang Idea + square = origamihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKwabena Boahen Making a computer that works like the brainhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBruno Bowden, RuOrigami, blindfolded and to musichttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPatricia Burchat The search for dark energy and dark matterhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSpencer Wells Building a family tree for all humanityhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Griffin Photography connects us with the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLennart Green Close-up card magichttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewIan Dunbar Dog-friendly dog traininghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNellie McKay "The Dog Song"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohn Q. Walker Re-creating great performanceshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSugata Mitra Can kids teach themselves?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewOry Okolloh The making of an African activisthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEinstein the ParrotTalking and squawking TED2006

http://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Rothemund The astonishing promise of DNA foldinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPeter Diamandis Taking the next giant leap in spacehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPeter Hirshberg The Web and TV, a sibling rivalryhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJonathan Drori Why we don't understand as much as we think whttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJane Goodall Helping humans and animals live together in Afrihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewIrwin Redlener How to survive a nuclear attackhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBrewster Kahle A digital library, free to the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Gallo The deep oceans: a ribbon of lifehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCarmen Agra Dee Spinning a story of Mamahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKeith Bellows Celebrating the camelhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAnn Cooper Reinventing the school lunchhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJonathan Haidt The real difference between liberals and conservahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEve Ensler Security and insecurityhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid S. Rose 10 things to know before you pitch a VC for monhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMarvin Minsky Health, population and the human mindhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPhilip Zimbardo How ordinary people become monsters ... or herhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLaura Trice The power of saying thank youhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCaleb Chung Come play with Pleo the dinosaurhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Pinker Chalking it up to the blank slatehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRodney Brooks How robots will invade our liveshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStefan SagmeisterThings I have learned in my life so farhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNoah Feldman Politics and religion are technologieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLiz Diller Architecture is a special effects machinehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJames Nachtwey Use my photographs to stop the worldwide XDR-http://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Perry Will videogames become better than life?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewDoris Kearns Goo Learning from past presidents in moments of crisihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Johnson The Web and the cityhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohn Markoff Why newspapers still matter (and why tech news http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJames Burchfield Sound stylings by a human beatboxhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGarrett Lisi A beautiful new theory of everythinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaola Antonelli Design and the elastic mindhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewVirginia Postrel The power of glamourhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDr. Dean Ornish Healing and other natural wondershttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohn Hodgman A brief digression on matters of lost timehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul MacCready Nature vs. humans, and what we can do about ithttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMihaly CsikszentmiCreativity, fulfillment and flowhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKristen Ashburn Heartrending pictures of AIDShttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJared Diamond Why societies collapsehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRives A 3-minute story of mixed emoticonshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKeith Schacht, Za Products (and toys) from the futurehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNewton Aduaka The story of Ezra, a child soldierhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGraham Hawkes Fly the seas on a submarine with wingshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJames Surowiecki The moment when social media became the newhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohn Francis I walk the Earthhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTim Brown The powerful link between creativity and playhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLuca Turin The science of scenthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLee Smolin How science is like democracyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSamantha Power Shaking hands with the devilhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCharles Elachi The story of the Mars Rovershttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewUrsus Wehrli Tidying up arthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStewart Brand Building a home for the Clock of the Long Nowhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewIsaac Mizrahi Fashion, passion, and about a million other thinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewFranco Sacchi Welcome to Nollywoodhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGeorge Smoot The design of the universehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDan Barber A surprising parable of foie grashttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBill Joy What I'm worried about, what I'm excited abouthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAndy Hobsbawm Do the green thing

http://www.ted.com/talks/viewGregory Petsko The coming neurological epidemichttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard Preston Climbing the world's biggest treeshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPhilip Rosedale Second Life, where anything is possiblehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLarry Burns Reinventing the carhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNick Sears Presenting the Orbhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Holt The stories and song of Appalachiahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEva Zeisel The playful search for beautyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMichael Milken Leveraging big ideas to make changehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDennis vanEngels Where have the bees gone?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJay Walker A library of human imaginationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDan Gilbert Exploring the frontiers of happinesshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBenjamin Wallace Does happiness have a price tag?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewPenelope Boston Life on Mars? Let's look in the caveshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNicholas NegroponBringing One Laptop per Child to Colombia: TED ihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Strogatz How things in nature tend to sync uphttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJennifer 8. Lee Who was General Tso? and other mysteries of Ahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKary Mullis Celebrating the scientific experimenthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohn Maeda My journey in design, from tofu to RISDhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Sereno What can fossils teach us?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Moller Take a ride in the Skycarhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGreg Lynn How calculus is changing architecturehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRob Forbes Ways of seeinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewScott McCloud Understanding comicshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPeter Reinhart The art of baking breadhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJoseph Pine What do consumers really want?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaula Scher Great design is serious (not solemn)http://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Carson Design, discovery and humorhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJamais Cascio Tools for building a better worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBarry Schuler An introduction to genomicshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSherwin Nuland A meditation on hopehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewWoody Norris Inventing the next amazing thinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPeter Ward Earth's mass extinctionshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAimee Mullins Running on high-tech legshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJoe DeRisi Hunting the next killer virushttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNatalie MacMasterPlaying the Cape Breton fiddlehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBill Gross Great ideas for finding new energyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBill Gates How I'm trying to change the world nowhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewElizabeth Gilbert A different way to think about creative geniushttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMilton Glaser How great design makes ideas newhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Merrill Siftables, the toy blocks that thinkhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBarry Schwartz The real crisis? We stopped being wisehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJuan Enriquez Beyond the crisis, mindboggling science and the ahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJose Antonio Abre Help me bring music to kids worldwide (TED Prizehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGustavo Dudamel aA musical sensation from Venezuelahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSylvia Earle Here's how to protect the blue heart of the planethttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJill Tarter Why the search for alien intelligence matters (TEhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEd Ulbrich How Benjamin Button got his facehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCharles Moore Sailing the Great Pacific Garbage Patchhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard Pyle Exploring the reef's Twilight Zonehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMiru Kim Making art of New York's urban ruinshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEvan Williams How Twitter's spectacular growth is being drivenhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBrenda Laurel Why didn't girls play videogames?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewWillie Smits A 20-year tale of hope: How we re-grew a rainforhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNalini Nadkarni Unveiling the beautiful, fragile world of rainforeshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMike Rowe Celebrating work -- all kinds of workhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEric Lewis Striking chords to rock the jazz worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDon Norman The three ways that good design makes you hap

http://www.ted.com/talks/viewPattie Maes, PranaUnveiling the "Sixth Sense," game-changing wearhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAimee Mullins How my legs give me super-powershttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStuart Brown Why play is vital -- no matter your agehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTim Berners-Lee The next Web of open, linked datahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDan Dennett Cute, sexy, sweet and funny -- an evolutionary rihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDan Ariely Why we think it's OK to cheat and steal (sometimhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAdam Savage My quest for the dodo bird, and other obsessionshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBruce McCall Nostalgia for a future that never happenedhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKamal Meattle How to grow your own fresh airhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSaul Griffith Inventing a super-kite to tap the energy of high-alhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJacqueline NovogrFrom a Nairobi slum, a tale of hopehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Pogue Cool new things you can do with your mobile phohttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohn Wooden Coaching for people, not pointshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNathan Wolfe Hunting the next killer virushttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewC.K. Williams Poetry for all seasons of lifehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJacek Utko Can design save the newspaper?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewUeli Gegenschatz Fulfilling the dream of flight in a high-tech wingsuihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewChristopher C. De Restyling the classic Airstream trailerhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewP.W. Singer Military robots and the future of warhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNathaniel Kahn My father, my architecthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBruce Bueno de MThree predictions on the future of Iran, and the mhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBonnie Bassler Discovering bacteria's amazing communication shttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEmily Levine A trickster's theory of everythinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRenny Gleeson Busted! The sneaky moves of anti-social smartphttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewShai Agassi A bold plan for mass adoption of electric carshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGregory Stock How biotech will drive our evolutionhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJoAnn Kuchera-MoTour the AlloSphere, a stunning new way to see schttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTim Ferriss How to feel like the Incredible Hulkhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMatthew Childs Matthew Childs' 9 life lessons from rock climbinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMargaret Werthei Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coralhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNiels Diffrient Niels Diffrient rethinks the way we sit downhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewErik Hersman Erik Hersman on reporting crisis via textinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBen Katchor Ben Katchor's comics of bygone New Yorkhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNate Silver Nate Silver: Does race affect votes?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewAlex Tabarrok Alex Tabarrok on how ideas trump criseshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMichael MerzenichMichael Merzenich on re-wiring the brainhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSarah Jones Sarah Jones as a one-woman global villagehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLaurie Garrett Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 fluhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBrian Cox Brian Cox: What went wrong at the LHChttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSean Gourley Sean Gourley on the mathematics of warhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMae Jemison Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences togehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTom Shannon Tom Shannon's anti-gravity sculpturehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAl Gore Al Gore warns on latest climate trendshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLouise Fresco Louise Fresco on feeding the whole worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSeth Godin Seth Godin on the tribes we leadhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEric Lewis Eric Lewis plays chaos and harmonyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewHans Rosling Hans Rosling on HIV: New facts and stunning dathttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNandan Nilekani Nandan Nilekani's ideas for India's futurehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNaturally 7 Naturally 7 beatboxes a whole bandhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRay Anderson Ray Anderson on the business logic of sustainabilhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDan Ariely Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own dechttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMary Roach Mary Roach: 10 things you didn't know about orhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCarolyn Porco Carolyn Porco: Could a Saturn moon harbor life?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewYves Behar Yves Behar's supercharged motorcycle designhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJoachim de PosadJoachim de Posada says, Don't eat the marshmalhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJay Walker Jay Walker on the world's English maniahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMichelle Obama Michelle Obama's plea for education

http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJonathan Drori Jonathan Drori: Why we're storing billions of seehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKaki King Kaki King rocks out to "Pink Noise"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewLiz Coleman Liz Coleman's call to reinvent liberal arts educatihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRay Kurzweil Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewYann Arthus-Bertr Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in whttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewFelix Dennis Publisher Felix Dennis' odes to vice and conseqhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPete Alcorn Pete Alcorn on the world in 2200http://www.ted.com/talks/viewKevin Surace Kevin Surace invents eco-friendly drywallhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohn La Grou John La Grou plugs smart power outletshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNancy Etcoff Nancy Etcoff on the surprising science of happinhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Full Robert Full: Learning from the gecko's tailhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard St. John Richard St. John: "Success is a continuous journhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJane Poynter Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2http://www.ted.com/talks/viewClay Shirky Clay Shirky: How social media can make historyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDiane Benscoter Diane Benscoter on how cults rewire the brainhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCatherine Mohr Catherine Mohr: Surgery's past, present and robothttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewQi Zhang Qi Zhang's electrifying organ performancehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPhilip Zimbardo Philip Zimbardo prescribes a healthy take on timehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Collier Paul Collier's new rules for rebuilding a broken nahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKatherine Fulton Katherine Fulton: You are the future of philanthrohttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRay Zahab Ray Zahab treks to the South Polehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewArthur Benjamin Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math eduhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGever Tulley Gever Tulley teaches life lessons through tinkerihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDaniel Libeskind Daniel Libeskind's 17 words of architectural inspirhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEames Demetrios The design genius of Charles + Ray Eameshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTom Wujec Tom Wujec on 3 ways the brain creates meaninghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSophal Ear Sophal Ear: Escaping the Khmer Rougehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKary Mullis Kary Mullis' next-gen cure for killer infectionshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStewart Brand Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental 'heresiehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewOlafur Eliasson Olafur Eliasson: Playing with space and lighthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDaniel Kraft Daniel Kraft invents a better way to harvest bonhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJim Fallon Jim Fallon: Exploring the mind of a killerhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNina Jablonski Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin colorhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGordon Brown Gordon Brown: Wiring a web for global goodhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAlain de Botton Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of http://www.ted.com/talks/viewGolan Levin Golan Levin makes art that looks back at youhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewElaine Morgan Elaine Morgan says we evolved from aquatic apehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewWillard Wigan Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculptuhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMichael Pritchard Michael Pritchard's water filter turns filthy water http://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Romer Paul Romer's radical idea: Charter citieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJanine Benyus Janine Benyus: Biomimicry in actionhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEmmanuel Jal Emmanuel Jal: The music of a war childhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDan Pink Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEric Giler Eric Giler demos wireless electricityhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewHans Rosling Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNatasha Tsakos Natasha Tsakos' multimedia theatrical adventurehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCary Fowler Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the fhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJoshua Silver Josh Silver demos adjustable liquid-filled eyeglahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGeoff Mulgan Geoff Mulgan: Post-crash, investing in a better whttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEvan Grant Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteve Truglia Steve Truglia: A leap from the edge of spacehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJames Balog James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice lohttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLewis Pugh Lewis Pugh swims the North Polehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRebecca Saxe Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's mindshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewVishal Vaid Vishal Vaid's hypnotic songhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMisha Glenny Misha Glenny investigates global crime networkshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBjarke Ingels Bjarke Ingels: 3 warp-speed architecture tales

http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohn Lloyd John Lloyd inventories the invisiblehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewOliver Sacks Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about ohttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewImogen Heap Imogen Heap plays "Wait It Out"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJonathan Zittrain Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEvgeny Morozov Evgeny Morozov: How the Net aids dictatorshipshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewWilliam Kamkwam William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the windhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTaryn Simon Taryn Simon photographs secret siteshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJacqueline NovogrJacqueline Novogratz: A third way to think about http://www.ted.com/talks/viewParag Khanna Parag Khanna maps the future of countrieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTim Brown Tim Brown urges designers to think bighttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKaren Armstrong Karen Armstrong: Let's revive the Golden Rulehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGarik Israelian Garik Israelian: How spectroscopy could reveal alihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStefan SagmeisterStefan Sagmeister: The power of time offhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCarolyn Steel Carolyn Steel: How food shapes our citieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Logan David Logan on tribal leadershiphttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewChimamanda NgoziChimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single stohttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBeau Lotto Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we seehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSam Martin Sam Martin: The quirky world of "manspaces"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewEric Sanderson Eric Sanderson pictures New York -- before the Chttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Hanson David Hanson: Robots that "show emotion"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRory Sutherland Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad manhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewHenry Markram Henry Markram builds a brain in a supercomputehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJulian Treasure Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects ushttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohn Gerzema John Gerzema: The post-crisis consumerhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Debevec Paul Debevec animates a photo-real digital facehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewItay Talgam Itay Talgam: Lead like the great conductorshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMarc Koska Marc Koska: 1.3m reasons to re-invent the syringhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewIan Goldin Ian Goldin: Navigating our global futurehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Deutsch David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation

Short SummaryWith the same humor and humanity he exuded in <em>An Inconvenient Truth,</em> Al Gore spells out 15 ways that individuals can address climate chanYou've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-calSir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativityIn an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur-winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx -- and shows how<i>New York Times</i> columnist David Pogue takes aim at technology's worst interface-design offenders, and provides encouraging examples of products Tony Robbins discusses the "invisible forces" that motivate everyone's actions -- and high-fives Al Gore in the front row.Julia Sweeney <em>(God Said, "Ha!")</em> performs the first 15 minutes of her 2006 solo show <em>Letting Go of God.</em> When two young Mormon miArchitect Joshua Prince-Ramus takes the audience on dazzling, dizzying virtual tours of three recent projects: the Central Library in Seattle, the MuseuPhilosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion -- all religion -- to be taught in schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon. Then he tPastor Rick Warren, author of <em>The Purpose-Driven Life,</em> reflects on his own crisis of purpose in the wake of his book's wild success. He explainAccepting 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 Accepting his 2006 TED Prize, Cameron Sinclair demonstrates how passionate designers and architects can respond to world housing crises. He unveils 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.Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Laboratory, describes how the One Laptop Per Child project will build and distribute the "$100 laptop."Jeff Han shows off a cheap, scalable multi-touch and pressure-sensitive computer screen interface that may spell the end of point-and-click.Violinist Sirena Huang gives a technically brilliant and emotionally nuanced performance. In a charming interlude, the 11-year-old praises the timeless dPianist and composer Jennifer Lin gives a magical performance, talks about the process of creativity and improvises a moving solo piece based on a 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 soDesigner Ross Lovegrove expounds his philosophy of "fat-free" design and offers insight into several of his extraordinary products, including the Ty NanRice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, aJimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-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 peopPerformer and web toymaker Ze Frank delivers a hilarious nerdcore standup routine, then tells us what he's seriously passionate about: helping people cEve Ensler, creator of <em>The Vagina Monologues,</em> shares how a discussion about menopause with her friends led to talking about all sorts ofAnthropologist Helen Fisher takes on a tricky topic -- love -- and explains its evolution, its biochemical foundations and its social importance. She closeBiologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for "thinking the improbable" by looking at how the human frame of reference limits our understanding of the uLegendary scientist David Deutsch puts theoretical physics on the back burner to discuss a more urgent matter: the survival of our species. The first stTipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce -- and makes a larger argument about the n<i>Freakonomics</i> author Steven Levitt presents new data on the finances of drug dealing. Contrary to popular myth, he says, being a street-corner crPsychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freeDan 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 sysEva Vertes -- only 19 when she gave this talk -- discusses her journey toward studying medicine and her drive to understand the roots of cancer and AlCambridge 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, alJacqueline Novogratz applauds the world's heightened interest in Africa and poverty, but argues persuasively for a new approach.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 conneAshraf Ghani's passionate and powerful 10-minute talk, emphasizing the necessity of both economic investment and design ingenuity to rebuild broken sA free press -- papers, magazines, radio, TV, blogs -- is the backbone of any true democracy (and a vital watchdog on business). Sasa Vucinic, a journaIn this passionate talk, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan lambasts the US government-funded space program for stagnating and asks entreprenArctic explorer Ben Saunders recounts his harrowing solo ski trek to the North Pole, complete with engaging anecdotes, gorgeous photos and never-beAccepting his 2005 TED Prize, inventor Robert Fischell makes three wishes: redesigning a portable device that treats migraines, finding new cures for 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 emeAccepting his 2005 TED Prize, photographer Edward Burtynsky makes a wish: that his images -- stunning landscapes that document humanity's impact on tOxford mathematician Peter Donnelly reveals the common mistakes humans make in interpreting statistics -- and the devastating impact these errors canWhy do people see the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich or hear demonic lyrics in "Stairway to Heaven"? Using video and music, skeptic Michael SherTech enthusiast Kevin Kelly asks "What does technology want?" and discovers that its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like the evolutioInventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the humaMusician and activist Peter Gabriel shares his very personal motivation for standing up for human rights with the watchdog group WITNESS -- and tells stoHow many poets could cram eBay, Friendster and Monster.com into 3-minute poem worthy of a standing ovation? Enjoy Rives' unique talent.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 uStop wringing your hands over AIDS, cancer and the avian flu. Cardiovascular disease kills more people than everything else combined -- and it's mostlGiven $50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global warming? Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with surprising answRobert Neuwirth, author of <i>Shadow Cities</i>, finds the world's squatter sites -- where a billion people now make their homes -- to be thriving centersWith stunning photos and stories, National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous cultures, whPhotographer Phil Borges shows rarely seen images of people from the mountains of Dharamsala, India, and the jungles of the Ecuadorean Amazon. InSpeaking as both an astronomer and "a concerned member of the human race," Sir Martin Rees examines our planet and its future from a cosmic perspeAuthor Robert Wright explains "non-zero-sumness" -- the network of linked fortunes and cooperation that has guided our evolution to this point -- and h

Author Steven Johnson takes us on a 10-minute tour of <i>The Ghost Map</i>, his book about a cholera outbreak in 1854 London and the impact it had In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, Two Pilobolus dancers perform "Symbiosis." Does it trace the birth of a relationship? Or the co-evolution of symbiotic species? Music: "God Music,"Writer and actor Anna Deavere Smith gives life to author Studs Terkel, convict Paulette Jenkins, a Korean shopkeeper and a bull rider, excerpts fromInventor and MacArthur fellow Saul Griffith shares some innovative ideas from his lab -- from "smart rope" to a house-sized kite for towing large loads.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 simpJournalist Carl Honore believes the Western world's emphasis on speed erodes health, productivity and quality of life. But there's a backlash brewing, asAs 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 Accepting the 2007 TED Prize, Bill Clinton asks for help in bringing health care to Rwanda -- and the rest of 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 innovativNora York gives a stunning performance of her song "What I Want," with Jamie Lawrence (keyboards), Steve Tarshis (guitar) and Arthur Kell (bass).In this inspiring talk about recent developments in biomimicry, Janine Benyus provides heartening examples of ways in which nature is already influencIn this stunning slideshow, celebrated nature photographer Frans Lanting presents The LIFE Project, a poetic collection of photographs that tell the story 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 Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how muArchitect 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 aVik Muniz makes art from pretty much anything, be it shredded paper, wire, clouds or diamonds. Here he describes the thinking behind his work and takeScientific discoveries, futurist Juan Enriquez notes, demand a shift in code, and our ability to thrive depends on our mastery of that code. Here, he applieShowing a series of inspiring, unusual and playful products, British branding and design guru Paul Bennett explains that design doesn't have to be aboAmerican designer Chris Bangle explains his philosophy that car design is an art form in its own right, with an entertaining -- and ultimately moving --Oxford philosopher and transhumanist Nick Bostrom examines the future of humankind and asks whether we might alter the fundamental nature of humanWorldchanging.com founder Alex Steffen argues that reducing humanity's ecological footprint is incredibly vital now, as the western consumer lifestyle Biologist Sheila Patek talks about her work measuring the feeding strike of the mantis shrimp, one of the fastest movements in the animal world, usinInventor Dean Kamen lays out his argument for the Segway and offers a peek into his next big ideas (portable energy and water purification for developiIn 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, wheNobel laureate James Watson opens TED2005 with the frank and funny story of how he and his research partner, Francis Crick, discovered the structuEngineer and artist Golan Levin pushes the boundaries of what's possible with audiovisuals and technology. In an amazing TED display, he shows two pJane Goodall hasn't found the missing link, but she's come closer than nearly anyone else. The primatologist says the only real difference between humGraphic designer Stefan Sagmeister takes the audience on a whimsical journey through moments of his life that made him happy -- and notes how manAl 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 fCaroline Lavelle plays the cello like a sorceress casting a spell, occasionally hiding behind her wild mane of blond hair as she sings of pastoral theA happy song about global warming, from Jill Sobule.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 acIn this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves Green-minded architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "all children, Rives recaps the most memorable moments of TED2006 in the free-spirited rhyming verse of a fantastical mockingbird lullaby.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 iSinger/songwriter Eddi Reader performs "Kiteflyer's Hill," a tender look back at a lost love. With Thomas Dolby on piano.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 toFeaturing the vocals and mischievous bell-playing of accordionist and singer Rachelle Garniez, the TED House Band -- led by Thomas Dolby on keyboard --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 mRichard Dawkins urges all atheists to openly state their position -- and to fight the incursion of the church into politics and science. A fiery, funny, powerfuIn 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?" HeChris Anderson, the editor of <em>WIRED</em>, explores the four key stages of any viable technology: setting the right price, gaining market share, diViolinist Natalie MacMaster and TED Musical Director Thomas Dolby play Dolby's original song "Blue Is a River" in this ethereal duet -- with a little dancGoogle co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin offer a peek inside the Google machine, sharing tidbits about international search patterns, the philaWhat happens when a black man visits Aspen? Singer/songwriter Stew and his band are about to let you know.In James Howard Kunstler's view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life and the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, heIDEO'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 nRural 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 aTreo 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 backMarine biologist Tierney Thys asks us to step into the water to visit the world of the <i>Mola mola</i>, or giant ocean sunfish. Basking, eating jellyfish 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"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, whoWe know the negative images of Africa -- famine and disease, conflict and corruption. But, says Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, there's another, less-told story Anand Agarawala presents BumpTop, a user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3-D extreme, transforming file navigation inIn our hyperlinked world, we can know anything, anytime. And this mass enlightenment, says Buddhist scholar Bob Thurman, is our first step toward B

In this emotionally charged conversation with journalist Kurt Andersen, designer David Rockwell discusses the process of building a viewing platform at In this bracingly honest talk, international security strategist Thomas Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering U.S. military that is bothThe avant-garde string quartet Ethel performs the third movement from Phil Kline's four-part suite "The Blue Room and Other Stories." Searching melodiMicrosoft's Stephen Lawler gives a whirlwind tour of Virtual Earth, moving up, down and through its hyper-real cityscapes with dazzlingly fluidity, a remaResearcher Hans Rosling uses his cool data tools to show how countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He demos Dollar Street, comparing hoBill 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 aStarting with the simple tale of an ant, philosopher Dan Dennett unleashes a devastating salvo of ideas, making a powerful case for the existence of memeAlan Russell studies regenerative medicine -- a breakthrough way of thinking about disease and injury, using a process that can signal the body to rebuildJonathan 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 fEmily Oster re-examines the stats on AIDS in Africa from an economic perspective and reaches a stunning conclusion: Everything we know about the spPoet 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 morningIn a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterMedical animator David Bolinsky presents 3 minutes of stunning animation that show the bustling life inside a cell.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 wGhanaian economist George Ayittey unleashes a torrent of controlled anger toward corrupt leaders in Africa -- and calls on the "Cheetah generation" to South African investment banker Euvin Naidoo explains why investing in Africa can make great business sense.When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working from 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 TEDGloPatrick Awuah makes the case that a liberal arts education is critical to forming true leaders.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 hJacqueline Novogratz shares stories of how "patient capital" can bring sustainable jobs, goods, services -- and dignity -- to the world's poorest.South African singer-songwriter Vusi Mahlasela dedicates his song, "Thula Mama," to all women -- and especially his grandmother.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 multilingFilm producer Jeff Skoll (<em>An Inconvenient Truth</em>) talks about his film company, Participant Productions, and the people who've inspired him Inventor Dean Kamen previews the prosthetic arm he's developing at the request of the US Department of Defense. His quiet commitment to using technIs the beloved paper dictionary doomed to extinction? In this infectiously exuberant talk, leading lexicographer Erin McKean looks at the many ways todayIn this provocative talk, journalist Andrew Mwenda asks us to reframe the "African question" -- to look beyond the media's stories of poverty, civil war Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed In an exclusive preview of his book <i>The Stuff of Thought</i>, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -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 IrFilmmaker Deborah Scranton talks about and shows clips from her documentary The War Tapes, which puts cameras in the hands of soldiers fighting inPaleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged looks for the roots of humanity in Ethiopia's badlands. Here he talks about finding the oldest skeleteon of a 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 downHow 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 asPaul MacCready -- aircraft designer, environmentalist, and lifelong lover of flight -- talks about his long career.Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco shows images from the Cassini voyage to Saturn, focusing on its largest moon, Titan, and on frozen Enceladus, which 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 withRichard 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 exHod Lipson demonstrates a few of his cool little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate.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 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 oVilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusEconomist Eleni Gabre-Madhin outlines her ambitious vision to found the first commodities market in Ethiopia. Her plan would create wealth, minimize riskSurgeon and author Sherwin Nuland discusses the development of electroshock therapy as a cure for severe, life-threatening depression -- including hisWhat 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, tLarry Lessig, the Net's most celebrated lawyer, cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the "ASCAP cartel" in his argument for reviving our creaPaul 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-Environmental scientist David Keith proposes a cheap, effective, shocking means to address climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of ash inJuan Enriquez challenges our definition of bioenergy. Oil, coal, gas and other hydrocarbons are not chemical but biological products, based on plant mWe'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 tBiologist Robert Full shares slo-mo video of some captivating critters. Take a closer look at the spiny legs that allow cockroaches to scuttle across meshI 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 Designer Philippe Starck -- with no pretty slides to show -- spends 18 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question "Why design?" Listen carefully fArmed with a sense of humor and laypeople's terms, Nobel winner Murray Gell-Mann drops some knowledge on TEDsters about particle physics, asking quIn this energizing talk, Amory Lovins lays out his simple plan for weaning the US off oil and revitalizing the economy.In a lively show, mathemagician Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares, solves another massive mental equation and gDaniel Goleman, author of <em>Emotional Intelligence</em>, asks why we aren't more compassionate more of the time.

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 Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, spells out 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do. From TED University 2007.Author and activist Isabel Allende discusses women, creativity, the definition of feminism -- and, of course, passion -- in this talk.Investor and prankster Yossi Vardi delivers a careful lecture on the dangers of blogging. Specifically, for men.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 sJ.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 David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a color-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times SquPaola Antonelli, design curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art, wants to spread her appreciation of design -- in all shapes and forms -- around thIn a wildly entertaining discussion with Richard Saul Wurman, architect Frank Gehry gives TEDsters his take on the power of failure, his recent buildingsSinger/guitarist Raul Midon performs "All the Answers" in a world premiere at TED2007, followed by the sprightly "Tembererana."Bill Strickland tells a quiet and astonishing tale of redemption through arts, music, and unlikely partnerships.Wofford College president Ben Dunlap tells the story of Sandor Teszler, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who taught him about passionate living and life<i>New York Times</i> tech columnist David Pogue performs a satirical mini-medley about iTunes and the downloading wars, borrowing a few notes fBy making photographs that seem to show our favorite celebs (Diana, Elton John) doing what we really, secretly, want to see them doing, Alison JacksoWhen 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 tRobin Chase founded Zipcar, the world's biggest car-sharing business. That was one of her smaller ideas. Here she travels much farther, contemplating 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 tDavid Macaulay relives the winding and sometimes surreal journey toward the completion of Rome Antics, his illustrated homage to the historic city.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? AHoward Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth ofVirtuoso Pamelia Kurstin performs and discusses her theremin, the not-just-for-sci-fi electronic instrument that is played without being touched. SongAuthor George Dyson spins the story of Project Orion, a massive, nuclear-powered spacecraft that could have taken us to Saturn in five years. His insiLooking 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 uniqTwo TED favorites, Jill Sobule and Julia Sweeney, team up for a delightful set that mixes witty songwriting with a little bit of social commentary.Illustrious jugglers the Raspyni Brothers show off their uncanny balance, agility, coordination and willingness to sacrifice (others). Now, if you'll just stand 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. HiMoneyman Steve Jurvetson takes TEDsters inside his awesome hobby -- launching model rockets -- by sharing some gorgeous photos, his infectious gleEducator Roy Gould and researcher Curtis Wong show a sneak preview of Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope, which compiles images from telescopes and sWith all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experi"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 anWith surprising accuracy, Nicholas Negroponte predicts what will happen with CD-ROMs, web interfaces, service kiosks, the touchscreen interface of tJill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motionBefore 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 PaAccepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbindingPeople 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 helpAccepting his 2008 TED Prize, physicist Neil Turok speaks out for talented young Africans starved of opportunity: by unlocking and nurturing the continenArchitect Norman Foster discusses his own work to show how computers can help architects design buildings that are green, beautiful and "basicallyNeuroscientist and inventor Christopher deCharms demonstrates a new way to use fMRI to show brain activity -- thoughts, emotions, pain -- while it is Clifford Stoll captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides -- and even a science experiment. After all, byRokia Traore sings the moving "M'Bifo," accompanied on the n'goni, a lute-like Malian stringed instrument with a soulful timbre. A quietly mesmerizing <i>Mona Lisa</i> is one of the best-known faces on the planet. But would you recognize an image of Leonardo da Vinci? Illustrator Siegfried Woldhek uFilmmaker David Hoffman shares footage from his feature-length documentary Sputnik Mania, which shows how the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik inWhat 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 concepIn keeping with the theme of TED2008, professor Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe -- How did the universe begin? How diIn this brand-new slideshow (premiering on TED.com), Al Gore presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists recWhile on vacation in Asia in 2007, Paul Koontz got the rare chance to spend a few days in North Korea as a tourist. He brought along his kids and his caBuilding sophisticated educational tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the $40 video game controller inTod Machover of MIT's Media Lab is devoted to extending musical expression to everyone, from virtuosos to amateurs, and in the most diverse forms,Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization.Dr. Ernest Madu runs the Heart Institute of the Caribbean in Kingston, Jamaica, where he proves that -- with careful design, smart technical choices, and aPhysicist Brian Greene explains superstring theory, the idea that minscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force iNovelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, looking for hints of how hers evolved."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, accesIn a very, very early-morning set, They Might Be Giants rock the final day of TED2007.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 AMDMycologist Paul Stamets lists 6 ways the mycelium fungus can help save the universe: cleaning polluted soil, making insecticides, treating smallpox aEvolutionary biologist Paul Ewald drags us into the sewer to discuss germs. Why are some more harmful than others? How could we make the harmful o

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 MoscheHacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of coAlisa 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 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; tOcean explorer Robert Ballard takes us on a mindbending trip to hidden worlds underwater, where he and other researchers are finding unexpected lDesigner 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 toDr. Seyi Oyesola takes a searing look at health care in underdeveloped countries. His photo tour of a Nigerian teaching hospital -- all low-tech hacks aSculptor and engineer Arthur Ganson talks about his work -- kinetic art that explores deep philosophical ideas and is gee-whiz fun to look at.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, Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawnedNathan Myhrvold talks about a few of his latest fascinations -- animal photography, archeology, BBQ and generally being an eccentric genius multimillioSinger-songwriter Rokia Traore performs "Kounandi," a breathtaking song that blends Malian instruments with a modern, heartfelt vocal. Note: This songAnthropologist Wade Davis muses on the worldwide web of belief and ritual that makes us human. He shares breathtaking photos and stories of the ElderAfter speaking at TED2007 on elegance in physics, the amazing Murray Gell-Mann gives a quick overview of another passionate interest: finding theArtist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics -Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer -- from its 16th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of some early comDean 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 Insects and animals have evolved some amazing skills -- but, as Robert Full notes, many animals are actually over-engineered. The trick is to copy onAdam Grosser talks about a project to build a refrigerator that works without electricity -- to bring the vital tool to villages and clinics worldwide. TweSteven 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, heBenjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it -- and by extension, our untapped love 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 pSinger-songwriter Nellie McKay performs the semi-serious song "Clonie" -- about creating the ultimate companion.Composer Sxip Shirey makes music from the simple, dramatic act of breathing -- alone and together. Open your ears to a passionate 3 minutes.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 atPhotographer Rick Smolan tells the unforgettable story of a young Amerasian girl, a fateful photograph, and an adoption saga with a twist.Guitarist and singer Raul Midon plays "Everybody" and "Peace on Earth" during his 2007 set at TED.Botanist Corneille Ewango talks about his work at the Okapi Faunal Reserve in the Congo Basin -- and his heroic work protecting it from poachers, minerTorsten Reil talks about how the study of biology can help make natural-looking animated people -- by building a human from the inside out, with boNine days before TED2008, filmmaker David Hoffman lost almost everything he owned in a fire that destroyed his home, office and 30 years of passionate In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big rolesThe 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 sPhysicist 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 tWhy 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, HeSpeaking 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 aSpeaking at the most recent EG conference, author, philosopher, prankster and journalist A.J. Jacobs talks about the year he spent living biblically -- folloFirst, 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-droppIn this short, image-packed talk, Marisa Fick-Jordan talks about how a village of traditional Zulu wire weavers built a worldwide market for their dazzlingMartin 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 beyondChris Abani tells stories of people: People standing up to soldiers. People being compassionate. People being human and reclaiming their humanity. It'sLouise Leakey asks, "Who are we?" The question takes her to the Rift Valley in Eastern Africa, where she digs for the evolutionary origins of humankinAt the EG conference in December 2007, artist Jonathan Harris discusses his latest projects, which involve collecting stories: his own, strangers', and sReed 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 aAt 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 preRobert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami -- using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautifResearcher Kwabena Boahen is looking for ways to mimic the brain's supercomputing powers in silicon -- because the messy, redundant processes insidAfter Robert Lang's talk on origami at TED2008, Bruno Bowden stepped onstage with a challenge -- he would fold one of Lang's astonishingly complicatPhysicist Patricia Burchat sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe: dark matter and dark energy. Comprising 96% of the universe between thAll humans share some common bits of DNA, passed down to us from our African ancestors. Geneticist Spencer Wells talks about how his Genographic ProjThe 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,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 maSpeaking 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' perspectiveAnimal 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 hounImagine hearing great, departed pianists play again today, just as they would in person. John Q. Walker demonstrates how recordings can be analyzedSpeaking 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 -- andOry 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.This whimsical wrap-up of TED2006 -- presented by Einstein, the African grey parrot, and her trainer, Stephanie White -- simply tickles. Watch for th

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 thiPeter 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 dIn this absorbing look at emerging media and tech history, Peter Hirshberg shares some crucial lessons from Silicon Valley and explains why the web iStarting 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 specifiThe legendary chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall talks about TACARE and her other community projects, which help people in booming African towns 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 sBrewster 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 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 aStoryteller Carmen Agra Deedy spins a funny, wise and luminous tale of parents and kids, starring her Cuban mother. Settle in and enjoy the ride -- MamKeith 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 Speaking at the 2007 EG conference, "renegade lunch lady" Ann Cooper talks about the coming revolution in the way kids eat at school -- local, sustaiPsychologist 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-opePlaywright Eve Ensler explores our modern craving for security -- and why it makes us less secure. Listen for inspiring, heartbreaking stories of womeThinking 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 -- andListen closely -- Marvin Minsky's arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety: wit, wisdPhilip 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. TIn 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 bondPleo the robot dinosaur acts like a living pet -- exploring, cuddling, playing, reacting and learning. Inventor Caleb Chung talks about Pleo and his wild toSteven 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 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 movRockstar designer Stefan Sagmeister delivers a short, witty talk on life lessons, expressed through surprising modes of design (including ... inflatable Noah Feldman makes a searing case that both politics and religion -- whatever their differences -- are similar technologies, designed to efficiently coIn 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, anPhotojournalist James Nachtwey sees his TED Prize wish come true, as we share his powerful photographs of XDR-TB, a drug-resistant strain of tuberculoGame designer David Perry says tomorrow's videogames will be more than mere fun to the next generation of gamers. They'll be lush, complex, emotionaHistorian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can learn from American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson. Then she shaOutside.in's Steven Johnson says the Web is like a city: built by many people, completely controlled by no one, intricately interconnected and yet functiAt the EG conference, John Markoff talks about why newspapers still matter -- even in the days of RSS. He gives an inside look at editorial process atHuman beatbox James "AudioPoet" Burchfield performs an intricate three-minute breakdown -- sexy, propulsive hip-hop rhythms and turntable textures --Physicist and surfer Garrett Lisi presents a controversial new model of the universe that -- just maybe -- answers all the big questions. If nothing else, MOMA design curator Paola Antonelli previews the groundbreaking show "<a href="http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/">Design and the ElaIn a timely talk, cultural critic Virginia Postrel muses on the true meaning, and the powerful uses, of glamour -- which she defines as any calculated, cDean Ornish talks about simple, low-tech and low-cost ways to take advantage of the body's natural desire to heal itself.Humorist John Hodgman rambles through a new story about aliens, physics, time, space and the way all of these somehow contribute to a sweet, perfectIn 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 preservMihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting sIn this moving talk, documentary photographer Kristen Ashburn shares unforgettable images of the human impact of AIDS in Africa.Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about tRives -- star of the Bravo special "Ironic Iconic America" -- tells a typographical fairy tale that's short and bittersweet.The Inventables guys, Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht, demo some amazing new materials and how we might use them. Look for squishy magnets, odor-detFilmmaker Newton Aduaka shows clips from his powerful, lyrical feature film "Ezra," about a child soldier in Sierra Leone.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 rJames Surowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering: the 2005 tsunami, when YouTube videFor almost three decades, John Francis has been a planetwalker, traveling the globe by foot and sail with a message of environmental respect and responsAt the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play -- with many examplWhat's the science behind a sublime perfume? With charm and precision, biophysicist Luca Turin explains the molecular makeup -- and the art -- of a sPhysicist 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 thSamantha 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 diAt Serious Play 2008, Charles Elachi shares stories from NASA's legendary Jet Propulsion Lab -- including tales and video from the Mars Rover projectUrsus Wehrli shares his vision for a cleaner, more organized, tidier form of art -- by deconstructing the paintings of modern masters into their componenStewart 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 abouFashion 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 shZambia-born filmmaker Franco Sacchi tours us through Nollywood, Nigeria's booming film industry (the world's 3rd largest). Guerrilla filmmaking and brilAt Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep-space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos -- with 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 geesTechnologist and futurist Bill Joy talks about several big worries for humanity -- and several big hopes in the fields of health, education and future tech.Andy Hobsbawm shares a fresh ad campaign about going green -- and some of the fringe benefits.

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, 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 fWhy build a virtual world? Philip Rosedale talks about the virtual society he founded, Second Life, and its underpinnings in human creativity. It's a placeGeneral Motors veep Larry Burns previews cool next-gen car design: sleek, customizable (and computer-enhanced) vehicles that run clean on hydrogen -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 iFolk musician and storyteller David Holt plays the banjo and shares photographs and old wisdom from the Appalachian Mountains. He also demonstrates 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 senMichael Milken talks about using your own particular set of skills to make real change in the world. In his case, the energetic mind that once created exotBees are dying in droves. Why? Leading apiarist Dennis vanEngelsdorp looks at the gentle, misunderstood creature's important place in nature and theJay Walker, curator of the Library of Human Imagination, conducts a surprising show-and-tell session highlighting a few of the intriguing artifacts thatDan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness -- sharing some surprising tests and experiments that you can also try on youCan happiness be bought? To find out, author Benjamin Wallace sampled the world's most expensive products, including a bottle of 1947 Chateau ChevaSo 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 -- TED follows Nicholas Negroponte to Colombia as he delivers laptops inside territory once controlled by guerrillas. His partner? Colombia's Defense DeMathematician Steven Strogatz shows how flocks of creatures (like birds, fireflies and fish) manage to synchronize and act as a unit -- when no one's giReporter Jennifer 8. Lee talks about her hunt for the origins of familiar Chinese-American dishes -- exploring the hidden spots where these two culturesBiochemist Kary Mullis talks about the basis of modern science: the experiment. Sharing tales from the 17th century and from his own backyard-rocketry dayDesigner John Maeda talks about his path from a Seattle tofu factory to the Rhode Island School of Design, where he became president in 2008. MaedaStrange landscapes, scorching heat and (sometimes) mad crocodiles await scientists seeking clues to evolution's genius. Paleontologist Paul Sereno talPaul 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 twoGreg Lynn talks about the mathematical roots of architecture -- and how calculus and digital tools allow modern designers to move beyond the traditional Rob Forbes, the founder of Design Within Reach, shows a gallery of snapshots that inform his way of seeing the world. Charming juxtapositions, found arIn this unmissable look at the magic of comics, Scott McCloud bends the presentation format into a cartoon-like experience, where colorful diversions 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, staCustomers want to feel what they buy is authentic, but "Mass Customization" author Joseph Pine says selling authenticity is tough because, well, there'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 haGreat design is a never-ending journey of discovery -- for which it helps to pack a healthy sense of humor. Sociologist and surfer-turned-designer DavWe 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 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 expecSurgeon 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 12Woody 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 Asteroid strikes get all the coverage, but "Medea Hypothesis" author Peter Ward argues that most of Earth's mass extinctions were caused by lowly bacteIn this TED archive video from 1998, paralympic sprinter Aimee Mullins talks about her record-setting career as a runner, and about the amazing carbon-fiBiochemist Joe DeRisi talks about amazing new ways to diagnose viruses (and treat the illnesses they cause) using DNA. His work may help us understaNatalie MacMaster and her musical partner Donnell Leahy play several tunes from the Cape Breton tradition -- a sprightly, soulful style of folk fiddling. IBill 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 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 askElizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "beingFrom the TED archives: The legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser dives deep into a new painting inspired by Piero della Francesca. From here, hMIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math,Barry Schwartz makes a passionate call for "practical wisdom" as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. He argues powerfully that rules ofteEven 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 Jose Antonio Abreu is the charismatic founder of a youth orchestra system that has transformed thousands of kids' lives in Venezuela. Here he shares The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra contains the best high school musicians from Venezuela's life-changing music program, El Sistema. Led hereLegendary ocean researcher Sylvia Earle shares astonishing images of the ocean -- and shocking stats about its rapid decline -- as she makes her TED PrizThe 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 aEd Ulbrich, the digital-effects guru from Digital Domain, explains the Oscar-winning technology that allowed his team to digitally create the older versioCapt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic In this illuminating talk, Richard Pyle shows us thriving life on the cliffs of coral reefs and groundbreaking diving technologies he has pioneered to exploAt the 2008 EG Conference, artist Miru Kim talks about her work. Kim explores industrial ruins underneath New York and then photographs herself in tIn 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 tA 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 tBy piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re-grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans -A unique ecosystem of plants, birds and monkeys thrives in the treetops of the rainforest. Nalini Nadkarni explores these canopy worlds -- and shares heMike Rowe, the host of "Dirty Jobs," tells some compelling (and horrifying) real-life job stories. Listen for his insights and observations about the natureEric Lewis, an astonishingly talented crossover jazz pianist -- seen by many for the first time at TED2009 -- sets fire to the keys with his shattering renIn 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 peo

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 theAthlete, actor and activist Aimee Mullins talks about her prosthetic legs -- she's got a dozen amazing pairs -- and the superpowers they grant her: speedA pioneer in research on play, Dr. Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in chil20 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 wWhy are babies cute? Why is cake sweet? Philosopher Dan Dennett has answers you wouldn't expect, as he shares evolution's counterintuitive reasoniBehavioral 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 heAt 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 entertainingBruce 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." AtResearcher Kamal Meattle shows how an arrangement of three common houseplants, used in specific spots in a home or office building, can result in mIn this brief talk, Saul Griffith unveils the invention his new company Makani Power has been working on: giant kite turbines that create surprising amoJacqueline Novogratz tells a moving story of an encounter in a Nairobi slum with Jane, a former prostitute, whose dreams of escaping poverty, of becomIn 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 cWith profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. In this inspiring talk he shares the Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe is outwitting the next pandemic by staying two steps ahead: discovering deadly new viruses where they first emerge -- passinPoet C.K. Williams reads his work at TED2001. As he colors scenes of childhood resentments, college loves, odd neighbors and the literal death of youthJacek Utko is an extraordinary Polish newspaper designer whose redesigns for papers in Eastern Europe not only win awards, but increase circulationWingsuit jumping is the leading edge of extreme sports -- an exhilarating feat of almost unbelievable daring, where skydivers soar through canyons aIn this low-key, image-packed talk from 2002, designer Christopher C. Deam talks about his makeover of an American classic: the Airstream travel traileIn 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 oNathaniel Kahn shares clips from his documentary "My Architect," about his quest to understand his father, the legendary architect Louis Kahn. It's a fBruce Bueno de Mesquita uses mathematical analysis to predict (very often correctly) such messy human events as war, political power shifts, Intifada ... Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria "talk" to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find hPhilosopher-comedian Emily Levine talks (hilariously) about science, math, society and the way everything connects. She's a brilliant trickster, poking holeIn this funny (and actually poignant) 3-minute talk, social strategist Renny Gleeson breaks down our always-on social world -- where the experience we're 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 toIn this prophetic 2003 talk -- just days before Dolly the sheep was stuffed -- biotech ethicist Gregory Stock looked forward to new, more meaningful (aJoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, an entirely new way to see and interpret scientific data, in full color and surround sound inside a massive metProductivity guru Tim Ferriss' fun, encouraging anecdotes show how one simple question -- "What's the worst that could happen?" -- is all you need to lIn this talk from TED University 2009, veteran rock climber Matthew Childs shares nine pointers for rock climbing. These handy tips bear on an effective lMargaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician -- celebrating thDesign 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 At TEDU 2009, Erik Hersman presents the remarkable story of Ushahidi, a GoogleMap mashup that allowed Kenyans to report and track violence via cell pIn this captivating talk from the TED archive, cartoonist Ben Katchor reads from his comic strips. These perceptive, surreal stories find the profound hoNate 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 thThe "dismal science" truly shines in this optimistic talk, as economist Alex Tabarrok argues free trade and globalization are shaping our once-divided 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 toIn this hilariously lively performance, actress Sarah Jones channels an opinionated elderly Jewish woman, a fast-talking Dominican college student anIn 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 TIn 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 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 ofMae 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 educaTom Shannon shows off his gravity-defying, otherworldly sculpture -- made of simple, earthly materials -- that floats and spins like planets on magnets aAt TED2009, Al Gore presents updated slides from around the globe to make the case that worrying climate trends are even worse than scientists predicLouise Fresco argues that a smart approach to large-scale, industrial farming and food production will feed our planet's incoming population of nine billiSeth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and vEric 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 sessHans Rosling unveils new data visuals that untangle the complex risk factors of one of the world's deadliest (and most misunderstood) diseases: HIV. HeNandan Nilekani, visionary CEO of outsourcing pioneer Infosys, explains four brands of ideas that will determine whether India can continue its recent One-of-a-kind R&B group Naturally 7 beatboxes an orchestra's worth of instruments to groove through their smooth single, "Fly Baby."At his carpet company, Ray Anderson has increased sales and doubled profits while turning the traditional "take / make / waste" industrial system on itBehavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocki"Bonk" author Mary Roach delves into obscure scientific research, some of it centuries old, to make 10 surprising claims about sexual climax, ranging fromCarolyn Porco shares exciting new findings from the Cassini spacecraft's recent sweep of one of Saturn's moons, Enceladus. Samples gathered from the Yves Behar and Forrest North unveil Mission One, a sleek, powerful electric motorcycle. They share slides from distant (yet similar) childhoods that shoIn this short talk from TED U, Joachim de Posada shares a landmark experiment on delayed gratification -- and how it can predict future success. With prJay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine-tingling audio of Chinese students Speaking at a London girls' school, Michelle Obama makes a passionate, personal case for each student to take education seriously. It is this new, brillia

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 lifeKaki 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 NBennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly Ray Kurzweil's latest graphs show that technology's breakneck advances will only accelerate -- recession or not. He unveils his new project, Singularity In this image-filled talk, Yann Arthus-Bertrand displays his three most recent projects on humanity and our habitat -- stunning aerial photographs in Media big shot Felix Dennis roars his fiery, funny, sometimes racy original poetry, revisiting haunting memories and hard-won battle scars from a madcap In this short, optimistic talk from TED2009, Pete Alcorn shares a vision of the world of two centuries from now -- when declining populations and growKevin Surace suggests we rethink basic construction materials -- such as the familiar wallboard -- to reduce the huge carbon footprint generated by theJohn La Grou unveils an ingenious new technology that will smarten up the electrical outlets in our homes, using microprocessors and RFID tags. The inCognitive researcher Nancy Etcoff looks at happiness -- the ways we try to achieve and increase it, the way it's untethered to our real circumstances, andBiologist Robert Full studies the amazing gecko, with its supersticky feet and tenacious climbing skill. But high-speed footage reveals that the gecko's taiIn 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' riJane 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 iWhile news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real newsDiane 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 abSurgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demos some of the newest tools for sOrgan virtuoso Qi Zhang plays her electric rendering of "Ridiculous Fellows" from Prokofiev's "The Love for Three Oranges" orchestral suite. This exPsychologist Philip Zimbardo says happiness and success are rooted in a trait most of us disregard: the way we orient toward the past, present and futurLong 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 ColIn this uplifting talk, Katherine Fulton sketches the new future of philanthropy -- one where collaboration and innovation allow regular people to do big 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.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 offersGever Tulley usesengaging photos and footage to demonstrate the valuable lessons kids learn at his Tinkering School. When given tools, materials and Daniel Libeskind builds on very big ideas. Here, he shares 17 words that underlie his vision for architecture -- raw, risky, emotional, radical -- and that offThe legendary design team Charles and Ray Eames made films, houses and classic midcentury modern furniture. 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He emphasizes that 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 Nina Jablonski says that differing skin colors are simply our bodies' adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Charles Darwin disagreed 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 -Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure -- and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned?Golan Levin, an artist and engineer, uses modern tools -- robotics, new software, cognitive research -- to make artworks that surprise and delight. WaElaine Morgan is a tenacious proponent of the aquatic ape hypothesis: the idea that humans evolved from primate ancestors who dwelt in watery habitatsWillard 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 seToo much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it -- inventing the portable Lifesaver filHow 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,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 wFor 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 actiCareer analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aEric 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 vTalking at the US State Department this summer, Hans Rosling uses his fascinating data-bubble software to burst myths about the developing world. LoNatasha Tsakos presents part of her one-woman, multimedia show, "Upwake." As the character Zero, she blends dream and reality with an inventive virtThe 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 globalJosh Silver delivers his brilliantly simple solution for correcting vision at the lowest cost possible -- adjustable, liquid-filled lenses. 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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 tNeurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnett syndrome -- when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations.Imogen Heap plays a powerful stripped-down version of "Wait It Out," from her new record, Ellipse.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 disiTED Fellow and journalist Evgeny Morozov punctures what he calls "iPod liberalism" -- the assumption that tech innovation always promotes freedom, demAt 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, Taryn Simon exhibits her startling take on photography -- to reveal worlds and people we would never see otherwise. She shares two projects: one documeThe debate over foreign aid often pits those who mistrust "charity" against those who mistrust reliance on the markets. Jacqueline Novogratz proposes aMany 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 causTim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects -- even as pressing questions like clean water access show it hWeeks 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 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 accessiEvery seven years, designer Stefan Sagmeister closes his New York studio for a yearlong sabbatical to rejuvenate and refresh their creative outlook. He 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 daiAt TEDxUSC, David Logan talks about the five kinds of tribes that humans naturally form -- in schools, workplaces, even the driver's license bureau. ByOur lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural vBeau 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 oAuthor 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 can400 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, riverDavid Hanson's robot faces look and act like yours: They recognize and respond to emotion, and make expressions of their own. Here, an "emotional" liAdvertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a changeHenry Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved -- soon. Mental illness, memory, perception: they're made of neurons and electric signalsPlaying sound effects both pleasant and awful, Julian Treasure shows how sound affects us in four significant ways. Listen carefully for a shocking fact John Gerzema says there's an upside to the recent financial crisis -- the opportunity for positive change. Speaking at TEDxKC, he identifies four majoAt TEDxUSC, computer graphics trailblazer Paul Debevec explains the scene-stealing technology behind Digital Emily, a digitally constructed human face An orchestra conductor faces the ultimate leadership challenge: creating perfect harmony without saying a word. In this charming talk, Itay Talgam demonstReuse 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 faAs globalization and technological advances bring us hurtling towards a new integrated future, Ian Goldin warns that not all people may benefit equally. BFor tens of thousands of years our ancestors understood the world through myths, and the pace of change was glacial. The rise of scientific understan

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URL Speaker Namehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJane Poynter Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2http://www.ted.com/talks/viewQi Zhang Qi Zhang's electrifying organ performancehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Keith A surprising idea for "solving" climate changehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJuan Enriquez Why can't we grow new energy?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRives "If I controlled the Internet" (a poem)http://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Johnson A guided tour of the Ghost Maphttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNora York "What I Want"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Thurman Becoming Buddha -- on the Webhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGeoff Mulgan Geoff Mulgan: Post-crash, investing in a better whttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEvan Grant Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteve Truglia Steve Truglia: A leap from the edge of spacehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJames Balog James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice lohttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLewis Pugh Lewis Pugh swims the North Polehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRebecca Saxe Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's mindshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMisha Glenny Misha Glenny investigates global crime networkshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBjarke Ingels Bjarke Ingels: 3 warp-speed architecture taleshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohn Lloyd John Lloyd inventories the invisiblehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewImogen Heap Imogen Heap plays "Wait It Out"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJonathan Zittrain Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEvgeny Morozov Evgeny Morozov: How the Net aids dictatorshipshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewWilliam Kamkwam William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the windhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTaryn Simon Taryn Simon photographs secret siteshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewParag Khanna Parag Khanna maps the future of countrieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTim Brown Tim Brown urges designers to think bighttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKaren Armstrong Karen Armstrong: Let's revive the Golden Rulehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGarik Israelian Garik Israelian: How spectroscopy could reveal alihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStefan SagmeisterStefan Sagmeister: The power of time offhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJoshua Silver Josh Silver demos adjustable liquid-filled eyeglahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewElaine Morgan Elaine Morgan says we evolved from aquatic apehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewWillard Wigan Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculptuhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMichael Pritchard Michael Pritchard's water filter turns filthy water http://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Romer Paul Romer's radical idea: Charter citieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJanine Benyus Janine Benyus: Biomimicry in actionhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEmmanuel Jal Emmanuel Jal: The music of a war childhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDan Pink Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEric Giler Eric Giler demos wireless electricityhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGordon Brown Gordon Brown: Wiring a web for global goodhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAlain de Botton Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of http://www.ted.com/talks/viewGeorge Ayittey Cheetahs vs. Hippos for Africa's futurehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEuvin Naidoo Africa as an investmenthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewWilliam Kamkwam How I built my family a windmillhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNgozi Okonjo-IweaLet's have a deeper discussion on aidhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPatrick Awuah Educating a new generation of African leadershttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewChris Abani Learning the stories of Africahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJacqueline NovogrTackling poverty with "patient capital"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewVusi Mahlasela "Thula Mama"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewVusi Mahlasela "Woza"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewAndrew Mwenda Let's take a new look at African aidhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewZeresenay AlemseFinding the origins of humanityhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEleni Gabre-MadhiBuilding a commodities market in Ethiopiahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRon Eglash African fractals, in buildings and braidshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJoseph Lekuton A parable for Kenyahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRokia Traore "M'Bifo"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewHector Ruiz The power to connect the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSeyi Oyesola Rich hospital, poor hospitalhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRokia Traore "Kounandi"

http://www.ted.com/talks/viewCorneille Ewango A hero of the Congo Basin foresthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMarisa Fick-Jorda The wonders of Zulu wire arthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKwabena Boahen Making a computer that works like the brainhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSpencer Wells Building a family tree for all humanityhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewOry Okolloh The making of an African activisthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJane Goodall Helping humans and animals live together in Afrihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNewton Aduaka The story of Ezra, a child soldierhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewFranco Sacchi Welcome to Nollywoodhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJimmy Wales How a ragtag band created Wikipediahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard Dawkins The universe is queerer than we can supposehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Deutsch What is our place in the cosmos?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewBarry Schwartz The paradox of choicehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAubrey de Grey Why we age and how we can avoid ithttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJacqueline NovogrInvesting in Africa's own solutionshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewIqbal Quadir The power of the mobile phone to end povertyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/view/Ashraf Ghani How to fix broken stateshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSasa Vucinic Why a free press is the best investmenthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPeter Donnelly How juries are fooled by statisticshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Neuwirth The "shadow cities" of the futurehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSir Martin Rees Earth in its final century?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewCharles LeadbeateThe rise of the amateur professionalhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCarl Honore Slowing down in a world built for speedhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Bennett Design is in the detailshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNick Bostrom Humanity's biggest problems aren't what you thinhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAlex Steffen Inspired ideas for a sustainable futurehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Pinker The stuff of thoughthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAlison Jackson A surprising look at celebrityhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewYochai Benkler Open-source economicshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewErnest Madu Bringing world-class health care to the pooresthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Levitt Are children's carseats necessary?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewClay Shirky Institutions vs. collaborationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPeter Diamandis Taking the next giant leap in spacehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEve Ensler Security and insecurityhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDan Gilbert Exploring the frontiers of happinesshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewOliver Sacks Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about ohttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGolan Levin Golan Levin makes art that looks back at youhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBill Gates How I'm trying to change the world nowhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewElizabeth Gilbert A different way to think about creative geniushttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Merrill Siftables, the toy blocks that thinkhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBarry Schwartz The real crisis? We stopped being wisehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJuan Enriquez Beyond the crisis, mindboggling science and the ahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJose Antonio Abre Help me bring music to kids worldwide (TED Prizehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGustavo Dudamel aA musical sensation from Venezuelahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSylvia Earle Here's how to protect the blue heart of the planethttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJill Tarter Why the search for alien intelligence matters (TEhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEd Ulbrich How Benjamin Button got his facehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCharles Moore Sailing the Great Pacific Garbage Patchhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEvan Williams How Twitter's spectacular growth is being drivenhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewWillie Smits A 20-year tale of hope: How we re-grew a rainforhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNalini Nadkarni Unveiling the beautiful, fragile world of rainforeshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEric Lewis Striking chords to rock the jazz worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPattie Maes, PranaUnveiling the "Sixth Sense," game-changing wearhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAimee Mullins How my legs give me super-powershttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTim Berners-Lee The next Web of open, linked datahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDan Dennett Cute, sexy, sweet and funny -- an evolutionary rihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDan Ariely Why we think it's OK to cheat and steal (sometimhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKamal Meattle How to grow your own fresh air

http://www.ted.com/talks/viewSaul Griffith Inventing a super-kite to tap the energy of high-alhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJacqueline NovogrFrom a Nairobi slum, a tale of hopehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNathan Wolfe Hunting the next killer virushttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJacek Utko Can design save the newspaper?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewUeli Gegenschatz Fulfilling the dream of flight in a high-tech wingsuihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewP.W. Singer Military robots and the future of warhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBruce Bueno de MThree predictions on the future of Iran, and the mhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBonnie Bassler Discovering bacteria's amazing communication shttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRenny Gleeson Busted! The sneaky moves of anti-social smartphttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewShai Agassi A bold plan for mass adoption of electric carshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJoAnn Kuchera-MoTour the AlloSphere, a stunning new way to see schttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMatthew Childs Matthew Childs' 9 life lessons from rock climbinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMargaret Werthei Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coralhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewErik Hersman Erik Hersman on reporting crisis via textinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNate Silver Nate Silver: Does race affect votes?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewAlex Tabarrok Alex Tabarrok on how ideas trump criseshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSarah Jones Sarah Jones as a one-woman global villagehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBrian Cox Brian Cox: What went wrong at the LHChttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSean Gourley Sean Gourley on the mathematics of warhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAl Gore Al Gore warns on latest climate trendshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLouise Fresco Louise Fresco on feeding the whole worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSeth Godin Seth Godin on the tribes we leadhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEric Lewis Eric Lewis plays chaos and harmonyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewHans Rosling Hans Rosling on HIV: New facts and stunning dathttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNandan Nilekani Nandan Nilekani's ideas for India's futurehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNaturally 7 Naturally 7 beatboxes a whole bandhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRay Anderson Ray Anderson on the business logic of sustainabilhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMary Roach Mary Roach: 10 things you didn't know about orhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCarolyn Porco Carolyn Porco: Could a Saturn moon harbor life?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewYves Behar Yves Behar's supercharged motorcycle designhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJoachim de PosadJoachim de Posada says, Don't eat the marshmalhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJay Walker Jay Walker on the world's English maniahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJonathan Drori Jonathan Drori: Why we're storing billions of seehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLiz Coleman Liz Coleman's call to reinvent liberal arts educatihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRay Kurzweil Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewYann Arthus-Bertr Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in whttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPete Alcorn Pete Alcorn on the world in 2200http://www.ted.com/talks/viewKevin Surace Kevin Surace invents eco-friendly drywallhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohn La Grou John La Grou plugs smart power outletshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Full Robert Full: Learning from the gecko's tailhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard St. John Richard St. John: "Success is a continuous journhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDiane Benscoter Diane Benscoter on how cults rewire the brainhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCatherine Mohr Catherine Mohr: Surgery's past, present and robothttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPhilip Zimbardo Philip Zimbardo prescribes a healthy take on timehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRay Zahab Ray Zahab treks to the South Polehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewArthur Benjamin Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math eduhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGever Tulley Gever Tulley teaches life lessons through tinkerihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDaniel Libeskind Daniel Libeskind's 17 words of architectural inspirhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTom Wujec Tom Wujec on 3 ways the brain creates meaninghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSophal Ear Sophal Ear: Escaping the Khmer Rougehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKary Mullis Kary Mullis' next-gen cure for killer infectionshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewOlafur Eliasson Olafur Eliasson: Playing with space and lighthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDaniel Kraft Daniel Kraft invents a better way to harvest bonhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJim Fallon Jim Fallon: Exploring the mind of a killerhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNina Jablonski Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin colorhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRoy Gould, Curtis WorldWide Telescopehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCraig Venter On the verge of creating synthetic life

http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJill Bolte Taylor My stroke of insighthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDave Eggers 2008 TED Prize wish: Once Upon a Schoolhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKaren Armstrong 2008 TED Prize wish: Charter for Compassionhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNeil Turok 2008 TED Prize wish: An African Einsteinhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewChristopher deCh Looking inside the brain in real timehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSiegfried Woldhek The true face of Leonardo Da Vinci?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewStephen Hawking Asking big questions about the universehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAl Gore New thinking on the climate crisishttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohnny Lee Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remotehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTod Machover, DanReleasing the music in your headhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAmy Tan Where does creativity hide?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewBrian Cox An inside tour of the world's biggest supercolliderhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Stamets 6 ways mushrooms can save the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJoshua Klein The amazing intelligence of crowshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAlisa Miller Why we know less than ever about the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Ballard Exploring the ocean's hidden worldshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewYves Behar Creating objects that tell storieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Collier 4 ways to improve the lives of the "bottom billion"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewSusan Blackmore Memes and "temes"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewWade Davis The worldwide web of belief and ritualhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewChris Jordan Picturing excesshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDr. Dean Ornish Your genes are not your fatehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBenjamin Zander Classical music with shining eyeshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNicholas NegroponOne Laptop per Child, two years onhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNellie McKay "Clonie"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewSxip Shirey, RacheBreath, music, passionhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPeter Diamandis Stephen Hawking hits zero ghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Hoffman How would you feel if you lost everything?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewNellie McKay "Mother of Pearl" and "If I Had You"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewHelen Fisher The brain in lovehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewChris Abani Telling stories of our shared humanityhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLouise Leakey Digging for humanity's originshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Lang Idea + square = origamihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBruno Bowden, RuOrigami, blindfolded and to musichttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPatricia Burchat The search for dark energy and dark matterhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Griffin Photography connects us with the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNellie McKay "The Dog Song"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Rothemund The astonishing promise of DNA foldinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewIrwin Redlener How to survive a nuclear attackhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJonathan Haidt The real difference between liberals and conservahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPhilip Zimbardo How ordinary people become monsters ... or herhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLaura Trice The power of saying thank youhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStefan SagmeisterThings I have learned in my life so farhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDoris Kearns Goo Learning from past presidents in moments of crisihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGarrett Lisi A beautiful new theory of everythinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohn Hodgman A brief digression on matters of lost timehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRives A 3-minute story of mixed emoticonshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohn Francis I walk the Earthhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSamantha Power Shaking hands with the devilhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewIsaac Mizrahi Fashion, passion, and about a million other thinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAndy Hobsbawm Do the green thinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGregory Petsko The coming neurological epidemichttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard Preston Climbing the world's biggest treeshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJay Walker A library of human imaginationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPeter Ward Earth's mass extinctionshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKaki King Kaki King rocks out to "Pink Noise"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewE.O. Wilson TED Prize wish: Help build the Encyclopedia of Li

http://www.ted.com/talks/viewBill Clinton TED Prize wish: Let's build a health care systemhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJames Nachtwey TED Prize wish: Share a vital story with the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBlaise Aguera y A Jaw-dropping Photosynth demohttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohn Doerr Seeking salvation and profit in greentechhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNgozi Okonjo-IweaHow to help Africa? Do business therehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAnand Agarawala BumpTop desktop is a beautiful messhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStephen Lawler Look! Up in the sky! It's Virtual Earth!http://www.ted.com/talks/viewHans Rosling New insights on poverty and life around the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBill Stone Journey to the center of the Earth ... and beyond!http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJonathan Harris The Web's secret storieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEmily Oster What do we really know about the spread of AIDhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRives Is 4 a.m. the new midnight?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewWill Wright Toys that make worldshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Bolinsky Fantastic voyage inside a cellhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAllison Hunt How I got my new hiphttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJeff Skoll Making movies that make changehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDean Kamen New prosthetic arm for veteranshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewErin McKean Redefining the dictionaryhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTheo Jansen The art of creating creatureshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Pinker A brief history of violencehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDeborah Scranton Scenes from "The War Tapes"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohn Maeda Simplicity patternshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCarolyn Porco Fly me to the moons of Saturnhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKenichi Ebina Hip-hop dance and a little magichttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard Branson Life at 30,000 feethttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewHod Lipson Robots that are "self-aware"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewMaira Kalman The illustrated womanhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJan Chipchase Our cell phones, ourselveshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewVilayanur Ramach A journey to the center of your mindhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLarry Lessig How creativity is being strangled by the lawhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Rothemund Casting spells with DNAhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPhilippe Starck Why design?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewMurray Gell-Mann Beauty and truth in physicshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDaniel Goleman Why aren't we all Good Samaritans?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewLakshmi Pratury The lost art of letter-writinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGever Tulley 5 dangerous things you should let your kids dohttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewIsabel Allende Tales of passionhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewYossi Vardi Help fight local warminghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJ.J. Abrams The mystery boxhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Gallo Underwater astonishmentshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaola Antonelli Treating design as arthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRaul Midon "All the Answers" and "Tembererana"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewBen Dunlap The story of a passionate lifehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Pogue A 4-minute medley on the music warshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobin Chase Getting cars off the road and data into the skieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJaime Lerner Sing a song of sustainable citieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMichael Pollan The omnivore's next dilemmahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJill Sobule, Julia The Jill and Julia Showhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteve Jurvetson The joy of rocketshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAlan Kay A powerful idea about teaching ideashttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Hoffman Catch Sputnik mania!http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJakob Trollback Rethinking the music videohttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Koontz Tourist snapshots from North Koreahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewThey Might Be GiaWake up! It's They Might Be Giantshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Ewald Can we domesticate germs?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewNathan Myhrvold A life of fascinationshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMurray Gell-Mann Do all languages have a common ancestor?

http://www.ted.com/talks/viewAdam Grosser A new vision for refrigerationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRaul Midon "Everybody" and "Peace on Earth"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJonathan Harris The art of collecting storieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJonathan Drori Why we don't understand as much as we think whttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBrewster Kahle A digital library, free to the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid S. Rose 10 things to know before you pitch a VC for monhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCaleb Chung Come play with Pleo the dinosaurhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohn Markoff Why newspapers still matter (and why tech news http://www.ted.com/talks/viewNick Sears Presenting the Orbhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLaurie Garrett Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 fluhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKatherine Fulton Katherine Fulton: You are the future of philanthrohttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEames Demetrios The design genius of Charles + Ray Eameshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewVishal Vaid Vishal Vaid's hypnotic songhttp://www.ted.com/talks/view/Al Gore 15 ways to avert a climate crisishttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewHans Rosling Debunking third-world myths with the best stats http://www.ted.com/talks/viewSir Ken Robinson Do schools kill creativity?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewMajora Carter Greening the ghettohttp://www.ted.com/talks/view/David Pogue When it comes to tech, simplicity sellshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTony Robbins Why we do what we do, and how we can do it bethttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJulia Sweeney "Letting Go of God" (an excerpt)http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJoshua Prince-Ra Designing the Seattle Central Libraryhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDan Dennett A secular, scientific rebuttal to Rick Warrenhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRick Warren Living a life of purposehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLarry Brilliant TED Prize wish: Help stop the next pandemichttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCameron Sinclair TED Prize wish: Open-source architecture to houhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJehane Noujaim TED Prize wish: Unite the world on Pangea Day, ahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNicholas NegroponThe vision behind One Laptop Per Childhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJeff Han Unveiling the genius of multi-touch interface desihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSirena Huang Dazzling set by 11-year-old violinisthttp://www.ted.com/talks/view/Amy Smith Simple designs that could save millions of childrenhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard Baraniuk Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learninghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMena Trott How blogs are building a friendlier worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewHelen Fisher The science of love, and the future of womenhttp://www.ted.com/talks/view/Burt Rutan Entrepreneurs are the future of space flighthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMichael Shermer Why people believe strange thingshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPeter Gabriel Fighting injustice with a videocamerahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDr. Dean Ornish The world now eats (and dies) like Americanshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPhil Borges Documenting our endangered cultureshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Wright How cooperation (eventually) trumps conflicthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSaul Griffith Hardware solutions to everyday problemshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNeil Gershenfeld The beckoning promise of personal fabricationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJill Sobule A happy song about global warminghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRives A mockingbird remix of TED2006http://www.ted.com/talks/viewTom Rielly A comic send-up of TED2006http://www.ted.com/talks/viewStew "Black Men Ski"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewStewart Brand Why squatter cities are a good thinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEthel "Blue Room"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewAlan Russell Why can't we grow new body parts?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewClifford Stoll 18 minutes with an agile mindhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEinstein the ParrotTalking and squawking TED2006http://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Perry Will videogames become better than life?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewUrsus Wehrli Tidying up arthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBill Joy What I'm worried about, what I'm excited abouthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPenelope Boston Life on Mars? Let's look in the caveshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRob Forbes Ways of seeinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJamais Cascio Tools for building a better worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJoe DeRisi Hunting the next killer virus

http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRoss Lovegrove The power and beauty of organic designhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEva Vertes My dream about the future of medicinehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBen Saunders Three things to know before you ski to the North http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Fischell TED Prize wish: Finding new cures for migraine, http://www.ted.com/talks/viewBono TED Prize wish: Join my call to action on Africahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEdward Burtynsky TED Prize wish: Share the story of Earth's manuhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKevin Kelly How does technology evolve? Like we didhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRay Kurzweil How technology's accelerating power will transfohttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard St. John Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minuteshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBjorn Lomborg Our priorities for saving the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPilobolus A performance merging dance and biologyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAnna Deavere SmiFour American charactershttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJanine Benyus 12 sustainable design ideas from naturehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewFrans Lanting A lyrical view of life on Earthhttp://www.ted.com/talks/view/Craig Venter A voyage of DNA, genes and the seahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewThom Mayne Architecture is a new way to connect to the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJames Watson The double helix and today's DNA mysterieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCaroline Lavelle A cello performance that casts a spellhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewWilliam McDonougThe wisdom of designing Cradle to Cradlehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRev. Tom Honey How could God have allowed the tsunami?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewThomas Barnett The Pentagon's new map for war and peacehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Full Secrets of movement, from geckos and roacheshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAmory Lovins We must win the oil endgamehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewArthur Benjamin Lightning calculation and other "Mathemagic"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewHoward RheingoldWay-new collaborationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBrian Greene The universe on a stringhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLennart Green Close-up card magichttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCarmen Agra Dee Spinning a story of Mamahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKeith Schacht, Za Products (and toys) from the futurehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGraham Hawkes Fly the seas on a submarine with wingshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJames Surowiecki The moment when social media became the newhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLuca Turin The science of scenthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLarry Burns Reinventing the carhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Sereno What can fossils teach us?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewGreg Lynn How calculus is changing architecturehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewScott McCloud Understanding comicshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJennifer Lin Magical improv from 14-year-old pianisthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewZe Frank What's so funny about the Web?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewEve Ensler Finding happiness in body and soulhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMalcolm Gladwell What we can learn from spaghetti saucehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Levitt Why do crack dealers still live with their moms?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewDan Gilbert Why are we happy? Why aren't we happy?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewSusan Savage-Ru Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Manhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSheila Patek Measuring the fastest animal on earthhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGolan Levin The truly soft side of softwarehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStefan SagmeisterYes, design can make you happyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAl Seckel Your brain is badly wired -- enjoy it!http://www.ted.com/talks/viewThomas Dolby, Rac"La Vie en Rose"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewChris Anderson (WTechnology's Long Tailhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSergey Brin and L Inside the Google machinehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJames Howard KunThe tragedy of suburbiahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMatthieu Ricard Habits of happinesshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKeith Barry Brain magichttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMartin Seligman What positive psychology can help you becomehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewVirginia Postrel The power of glamourhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDr. Dean Ornish Healing and other natural wondershttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMihaly CsikszentmiCreativity, fulfillment and flow

http://www.ted.com/talks/viewStewart Brand Building a home for the Clock of the Long Nowhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Holt The stories and song of Appalachiahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Strogatz How things in nature tend to sync uphttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Moller Take a ride in the Skycarhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJoseph Pine What do consumers really want?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewWoody Norris Inventing the next amazing thinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard Pyle Exploring the reef's Twilight Zonehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMichael MerzenichMichael Merzenich on re-wiring the brainhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewFelix Dennis Publisher Felix Dennis' odes to vice and conseqhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNancy Etcoff Nancy Etcoff on the surprising science of happinhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewWade Davis Cultures at the far edge of the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewVik Muniz Art with wire, thread, sugar, chocolatehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJuan Enriquez Decoding the future with genomicshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSeth Godin Sliced bread and other marketing delightshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDan Dennett Can we know our own minds?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewEvelyn Glennie How to listen to music with your whole bodyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJeff Bezos After the gold rush, there's innovation aheadhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEddi Reader "Kiteflyer's Hill"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewEddi Reader, Tho "What You Do With What You've Got"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJeff Hawkins Brain science is about to fundamentally change http://www.ted.com/talks/viewTierney Thys Swim with giant sunfish in the open oceanhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul MacCready Flying on solar wingshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSherwin Nuland My history of electroshock therapyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDeborah Gordon How do ants know what to do?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewGeorge Dyson The birth of the computerhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTorsten Reil Using biology to make better animationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewFreeman Dyson Let's look for life in the outer solar systemhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewReed Kroloff Architecture, modern and romantichttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMarvin Minsky Health, population and the human mindhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Pinker Chalking it up to the blank slatehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRodney Brooks How robots will invade our liveshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNoah Feldman Politics and religion are technologieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Johnson The Web and the cityhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJames Burchfield Sound stylings by a human beatboxhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKristen Ashburn Heartrending pictures of AIDShttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJared Diamond Why societies collapsehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLee Smolin How science is like democracyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Carson Design, discovery and humorhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSherwin Nuland A meditation on hopehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNatalie MacMasterPlaying the Cape Breton fiddlehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBill Gross Great ideas for finding new energyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDon Norman The three ways that good design makes you haphttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGregory Stock How biotech will drive our evolutionhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTom Shannon Tom Shannon's anti-gravity sculpturehttp://www.ted.com/talks/view/Chris Bangle Great cars are Arthttp://www.ted.com/talks/view/Dean Kamen Rolling along, helping students and the third worlhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJane Goodall What separates us from the apes?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard Dawkins An atheist's call to armshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNatalie MacMasterFiddling in reel timehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Kelley The future of design is human-centeredhttp://www.ted.com/talks/view/David Rockwell Building the Ground Zero viewing platformhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDan Dennett Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStephen Petranek 10 ways the world could endhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewFrank Gehry Nice building. Then what?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewBill Strickland Rebuilding America, one slide show at a timehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewChris Anderson (T A vision for TEDhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Macaulay All roads lead to Rome Antics

http://www.ted.com/talks/viewPamelia Kurstin Theremin, the untouchable musichttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGeorge Dyson Let's take a nuclear-powered rocket to Saturnhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMoshe Safdie What makes a building unique?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRaspyni Brothers Welcome to Vaudeville 2.0http://www.ted.com/talks/viewMichael Moschen Juggling rhythm and motionhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewArthur Ganson Sculpture that's truly movinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Full How engineers learn from evolutionhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKeith Bellows Celebrating the camelhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewKary Mullis Celebrating the scientific experimenthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewChristopher C. De Restyling the classic Airstream trailerhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNathaniel Kahn My father, my architecthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEmily Levine A trickster's theory of everythinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNiels Diffrient Niels Diffrient rethinks the way we sit downhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBen Katchor Ben Katchor's comics of bygone New Yorkhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMae Jemison Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences togehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewEva Zeisel The playful search for beautyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohn Wooden Coaching for people, not pointshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewC.K. Williams Poetry for all seasons of lifehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBilly Graham Technology, faith and human shortcomingshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Gallo The deep oceans: a ribbon of lifehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul MacCready Nature vs. humans, and what we can do about ithttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAimee Mullins Running on high-tech legshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMilton Glaser How great design makes ideas newhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBrenda Laurel Why didn't girls play videogames?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewMichael Milken Leveraging big ideas to make changehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNicholas NegroponFrom 1984, 4 predictions about the future (3 of thttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJacqueline NovogrJacqueline Novogratz: A third way to think about http://www.ted.com/talks/viewClay Shirky Clay Shirky: How social media can make historyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Collier Paul Collier's new rules for rebuilding a broken nahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStewart Brand Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental 'heresiehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewHans Rosling Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJames Nachtwey Use my photographs to stop the worldwide XDR-http://www.ted.com/talks/viewNicholas NegroponBringing One Laptop per Child to Colombia: TED ihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDan Barber A surprising parable of foie grashttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDennis vanEngels Where have the bees gone?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewBenjamin Wallace Does happiness have a price tag?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewJennifer 8. Lee Who was General Tso? and other mysteries of Ahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPeter Reinhart The art of baking breadhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBarry Schuler An introduction to genomicshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewLarry Brilliant The case for informed optimismhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTim Brown The powerful link between creativity and playhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewCharles Elachi The story of the Mars Rovershttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewGeorge Smoot The design of the universehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPhilip Rosedale Second Life, where anything is possiblehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewJohn Maeda My journey in design, from tofu to RISDhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaula Scher Great design is serious (not solemn)http://www.ted.com/talks/viewStuart Brown Why play is vital -- no matter your agehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewBruce McCall Nostalgia for a future that never happenedhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewFrank Gehry From 1990, defending a vision for architecturehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSugata Mitra Can kids teach themselves?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewMiru Kim Making art of New York's urban ruinshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMike Rowe Celebrating work -- all kinds of workhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewAdam Savage My quest for the dodo bird, and other obsessionshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewDavid Pogue Cool new things you can do with your mobile phohttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewMark Bittman What's wrong with what we eathttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRick Smolan A girl, a photograph, a homecominghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewA.J. Jacobs My year of living biblically

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Using maps of the past and present, he explains the root causTim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects -- even as pressing questions like clean water access show it hWeeks 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 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 accessiEvery seven years, designer Stefan Sagmeister closes his New York studio for a yearlong sabbatical to rejuvenate and refresh their creative outlook. He Josh Silver delivers his brilliantly simple solution for correcting vision at the lowest cost possible -- adjustable, liquid-filled lenses. At TEDGlobal 2009Elaine Morgan is a tenacious proponent of the aquatic ape hypothesis: the idea that humans evolved from primate ancestors who dwelt in watery habitatsWillard 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 seToo much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it -- inventing the portable Lifesaver filHow 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,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 wFor five years, young Emmanuel Jal fought as a child soldier in the Sudan. 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He searches for the hJacqueline Novogratz shares stories of how "patient capital" can bring sustainable jobs, goods, services -- and dignity -- to the world's poorest.South African singer-songwriter Vusi Mahlasela dedicates his song, "Thula Mama," to all women -- and especially his grandmother.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 multilingIn this provocative talk, journalist Andrew Mwenda asks us to reframe the "African question" -- to look beyond the media's stories of poverty, civil war Paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged looks for the roots of humanity in Ethiopia's badlands. Here he talks about finding the oldest skeleteon of a Economist Eleni Gabre-Madhin outlines her ambitious vision to found the first commodities market in Ethiopia. Her plan would create wealth, minimize riskI am a mathematician, and I would like to stand on your roof.' 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Geneticist Spencer Wells talks about how his Genographic ProjOry 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.The legendary chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall talks about TACARE and her other community projects, which help people in booming African towns Filmmaker Newton Aduaka shows clips from his powerful, lyrical feature film "Ezra," about a child soldier in Sierra Leone.Zambia-born filmmaker Franco Sacchi tours us through Nollywood, Nigeria's booming film industry (the world's 3rd largest). Guerrilla filmmaking and brilJimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-Biologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for "thinking the improbable" by looking at how the human frame of reference limits our understanding of the uLegendary scientist David Deutsch puts theoretical physics on the back burner to discuss a more urgent matter: the survival of our species. The first stPsychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freeCambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease -- and a curable one at that. 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Sasa Vucinic, a journaOxford mathematician Peter Donnelly reveals the common mistakes humans make in interpreting statistics -- and the devastating impact these errors canRobert Neuwirth, author of <i>Shadow Cities</i>, finds the world's squatter sites -- where a billion people now make their homes -- to be thriving centersSpeaking as both an astronomer and "a concerned member of the human race," Sir Martin Rees examines our planet and its future from a cosmic perspeIn this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, Journalist Carl Honore believes the Western world's emphasis on speed erodes health, productivity and quality of life. But there's a backlash brewing, asShowing a series of inspiring, unusual and playful products, British branding and design guru Paul Bennett explains that design doesn't have to be aboOxford philosopher and transhumanist Nick Bostrom examines the future of humankind and asks whether we might alter the fundamental nature of humanWorldchanging.com founder Alex Steffen argues that reducing humanity's ecological footprint is incredibly vital now, as the western consumer lifestyle In an exclusive preview of his book <i>The Stuff of Thought</i>, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -By making photographs that seem to show our favorite celebs (Diana, Elton John) doing what we really, secretly, want to see them doing, Alison JacksoYochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization.Dr. Ernest Madu runs the Heart Institute of the Caribbean in Kingston, Jamaica, where he proves that -- with careful design, smart technical choices, and aSteven 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, heIn this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big rolesPeter 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 dPlaywright Eve Ensler explores our modern craving for security -- and why it makes us less secure. Listen for inspiring, heartbreaking stories of womeDan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness -- sharing some surprising tests and experiments that you can also try on youNeurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnett syndrome -- when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations.Golan Levin, an artist and engineer, uses modern tools -- robotics, new software, cognitive research -- to make artworks that surprise and delight. WaBill 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 askElizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "beingMIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math,Barry Schwartz makes a passionate call for "practical wisdom" as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. He argues powerfully that rules ofteEven 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 Jose Antonio Abreu is the charismatic founder of a youth orchestra system that has transformed thousands of kids' lives in Venezuela. 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Co-founder Evan Williams reveals that many of tBy piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re-grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans -A unique ecosystem of plants, birds and monkeys thrives in the treetops of the rainforest. Nalini Nadkarni explores these canopy worlds -- and shares heEric Lewis, an astonishingly talented crossover jazz pianist -- seen by many for the first time at TED2009 -- sets fire to the keys with his shattering renThis 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 theAthlete, actor and activist Aimee Mullins talks about her prosthetic legs -- she's got a dozen amazing pairs -- and the superpowers they grant her: speed20 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 wWhy are babies cute? Why is cake sweet? Philosopher Dan Dennett has answers you wouldn't expect, as he shares evolution's counterintuitive reasoniBehavioral 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 heResearcher Kamal Meattle shows how an arrangement of three common houseplants, used in specific spots in a home or office building, can result in m

In this brief talk, Saul Griffith unveils the invention his new company Makani Power has been working on: giant kite turbines that create surprising amoJacqueline Novogratz tells a moving story of an encounter in a Nairobi slum with Jane, a former prostitute, whose dreams of escaping poverty, of becomVirus hunter Nathan Wolfe is outwitting the next pandemic by staying two steps ahead: discovering deadly new viruses where they first emerge -- passinJacek Utko is an extraordinary Polish newspaper designer whose redesigns for papers in Eastern Europe not only win awards, but increase circulationWingsuit jumping is the leading edge of extreme sports -- an exhilarating feat of almost unbelievable daring, where skydivers soar through canyons aIn 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 oBruce Bueno de Mesquita uses mathematical analysis to predict (very often correctly) such messy human events as war, political power shifts, Intifada ... Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria "talk" to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find hIn this funny (and actually poignant) 3-minute talk, social strategist Renny Gleeson breaks down our always-on social world -- where the experience we're 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 toJoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, an entirely new way to see and interpret scientific data, in full color and surround sound inside a massive metIn this talk from TED University 2009, veteran rock climber Matthew Childs shares nine pointers for rock climbing. These handy tips bear on an effective lMargaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician -- celebrating thAt TEDU 2009, Erik Hersman presents the remarkable story of Ushahidi, a GoogleMap mashup that allowed Kenyans to report and track violence via cell pNate 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 thThe "dismal science" truly shines in this optimistic talk, as economist Alex Tabarrok argues free trade and globalization are shaping our once-divided In this hilariously lively performance, actress Sarah Jones channels an opinionated elderly Jewish woman, a fast-talking Dominican college student anIn 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 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 ofAt TED2009, Al Gore presents updated slides from around the globe to make the case that worrying climate trends are even worse than scientists predicLouise Fresco argues that a smart approach to large-scale, industrial farming and food production will feed our planet's incoming population of nine billiSeth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and vEric 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 sessHans Rosling unveils new data visuals that untangle the complex risk factors of one of the world's deadliest (and most misunderstood) diseases: HIV. HeNandan Nilekani, visionary CEO of outsourcing pioneer Infosys, explains four brands of ideas that will determine whether India can continue its recent One-of-a-kind R&B group Naturally 7 beatboxes an orchestra's worth of instruments to groove through their smooth single, "Fly Baby."At his carpet company, Ray Anderson has increased sales and doubled profits while turning the traditional "take / make / waste" industrial system on it"Bonk" author Mary Roach delves into obscure scientific research, some of it centuries old, to make 10 surprising claims about sexual climax, ranging fromCarolyn Porco shares exciting new findings from the Cassini spacecraft's recent sweep of one of Saturn's moons, Enceladus. Samples gathered from the Yves Behar and Forrest North unveil Mission One, a sleek, powerful electric motorcycle. They share slides from distant (yet similar) childhoods that shoIn this short talk from TED U, Joachim de Posada shares a landmark experiment on delayed gratification -- and how it can predict future success. With prJay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine-tingling audio of Chinese students 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 lifeBennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly Ray Kurzweil's latest graphs show that technology's breakneck advances will only accelerate -- recession or not. He unveils his new project, Singularity In this image-filled talk, Yann Arthus-Bertrand displays his three most recent projects on humanity and our habitat -- stunning aerial photographs in In this short, optimistic talk from TED2009, Pete Alcorn shares a vision of the world of two centuries from now -- when declining populations and growKevin Surace suggests we rethink basic construction materials -- such as the familiar wallboard -- to reduce the huge carbon footprint generated by theJohn La Grou unveils an ingenious new technology that will smarten up the electrical outlets in our homes, using microprocessors and RFID tags. The inBiologist Robert Full studies the amazing gecko, with its supersticky feet and tenacious climbing skill. But high-speed footage reveals that the gecko's taiIn 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' riDiane 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 abSurgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demos some of the newest tools for sPsychologist Philip Zimbardo says happiness and success are rooted in a trait most of us disregard: the way we orient toward the past, present and futurExtreme 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.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 offersGever Tulley usesengaging photos and footage to demonstrate the valuable lessons kids learn at his Tinkering School. When given tools, materials and Daniel Libeskind builds on very big ideas. Here, he shares 17 words that underlie his vision for architecture -- raw, risky, emotional, radical -- and that offInformation designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talTED 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 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 KarIn 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, diDaniel Kraft demos his Marrow Miner -- a new device that quickly harvests life-saving bone marrow with minimal pain to the donor. He emphasizes that 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 Nina Jablonski says that differing skin colors are simply our bodies' adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Charles Darwin disagreed Educator Roy Gould and researcher Curtis Wong show a sneak preview of Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope, which compiles images from telescopes and s"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 an

Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motionAccepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbindingPeople 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 helpAccepting his 2008 TED Prize, physicist Neil Turok speaks out for talented young Africans starved of opportunity: by unlocking and nurturing the continenNeuroscientist and inventor Christopher deCharms demonstrates a new way to use fMRI to show brain activity -- thoughts, emotions, pain -- while it is <i>Mona Lisa</i> is one of the best-known faces on the planet. But would you recognize an image of Leonardo da Vinci? Illustrator Siegfried Woldhek uIn keeping with the theme of TED2008, professor Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe -- How did the universe begin? How diIn this brand-new slideshow (premiering on TED.com), Al Gore presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists recBuilding sophisticated educational tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the $40 video game controller inTod Machover of MIT's Media Lab is devoted to extending musical expression to everyone, from virtuosos to amateurs, and in the most diverse forms,Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, looking for hints of how hers evolved."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, accesMycologist Paul Stamets lists 6 ways the mycelium fungus can help save the universe: cleaning polluted soil, making insecticides, treating smallpox aHacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of coAlisa 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 Ocean explorer Robert Ballard takes us on a mindbending trip to hidden worlds underwater, where he and other researchers are finding unexpected lDesigner 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 toAround 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, Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawnedAnthropologist Wade Davis muses on the worldwide web of belief and ritual that makes us human. He shares breathtaking photos and stories of the ElderArtist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics -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 Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it -- and by extension, our untapped love 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 pSinger-songwriter Nellie McKay performs the semi-serious song "Clonie" -- about creating the ultimate companion.Composer Sxip Shirey makes music from the simple, dramatic act of breathing -- alone and together. Open your ears to a passionate 3 minutes.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 atNine days before TED2008, filmmaker David Hoffman lost almost everything he owned in a fire that destroyed his home, office and 30 years of passionate 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 sWhy 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, HeChris Abani tells stories of people: People standing up to soldiers. People being compassionate. People being human and reclaiming their humanity. It'sLouise Leakey asks, "Who are we?" The question takes her to the Rift Valley in Eastern Africa, where she digs for the evolutionary origins of humankinRobert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami -- using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautifAfter Robert Lang's talk on origami at TED2008, Bruno Bowden stepped onstage with a challenge -- he would fold one of Lang's astonishingly complicatPhysicist Patricia Burchat sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe: dark matter and dark energy. Comprising 96% of the universe between thThe 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,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 hounIn 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 thiThe 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 sPsychologist 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-opePhilip 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. TIn 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 bondRockstar designer Stefan Sagmeister delivers a short, witty talk on life lessons, expressed through surprising modes of design (including ... inflatable Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can learn from American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson. Then she shaPhysicist and surfer Garrett Lisi presents a controversial new model of the universe that -- just maybe -- answers all the big questions. If nothing else, Humorist John Hodgman rambles through a new story about aliens, physics, time, space and the way all of these somehow contribute to a sweet, perfectRives -- star of the Bravo special "Ironic Iconic America" -- tells a typographical fairy tale that's short and bittersweet.For almost three decades, John Francis has been a planetwalker, traveling the globe by foot and sail with a message of environmental respect and responsSamantha 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 diFashion 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 shAndy Hobsbawm shares a fresh ad campaign about going green -- and some of the fringe benefits.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, 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 fJay Walker, curator of the Library of Human Imagination, conducts a surprising show-and-tell session highlighting a few of the intriguing artifacts thatAsteroid strikes get all the coverage, but "Medea Hypothesis" author Peter Ward argues that most of Earth's mass extinctions were caused by lowly bacteKaki 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 NAs 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

Accepting the 2007 TED Prize, Bill Clinton asks for help in bringing health care to Rwanda -- and the rest of 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 innovativBlaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled"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, whoWe know the negative images of Africa -- famine and disease, conflict and corruption. But, says Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, there's another, less-told story Anand Agarawala presents BumpTop, a user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3-D extreme, transforming file navigation inMicrosoft's Stephen Lawler gives a whirlwind tour of Virtual Earth, moving up, down and through its hyper-real cityscapes with dazzlingly fluidity, a remaResearcher Hans Rosling uses his cool data tools to show how countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He demos Dollar Street, comparing hoBill 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 aJonathan 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 fEmily Oster re-examines the stats on AIDS in Africa from an economic perspective and reaches a stunning conclusion: Everything we know about the spPoet 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 morningIn a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterMedical animator David Bolinsky presents 3 minutes of stunning animation that show the bustling life inside a cell.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 wFilm producer Jeff Skoll (<em>An Inconvenient Truth</em>) talks about his film company, Participant Productions, and the people who've inspired him Inventor Dean Kamen previews the prosthetic arm he's developing at the request of the US Department of Defense. His quiet commitment to using technIs the beloved paper dictionary doomed to extinction? In this infectiously exuberant talk, leading lexicographer Erin McKean looks at the many ways todayArtist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed 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 IrFilmmaker Deborah Scranton talks about and shows clips from her documentary The War Tapes, which puts cameras in the hands of soldiers fighting inThe 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 downPlanetary scientist Carolyn Porco shows images from the Cassini voyage to Saturn, focusing on its largest moon, Titan, and on frozen Enceladus, which 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 withRichard 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 exHod Lipson demonstrates a few of his cool little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate.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 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 oVilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusLarry Lessig, the Net's most celebrated lawyer, cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the "ASCAP cartel" in his argument for reviving our creaPaul 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-Designer Philippe Starck -- with no pretty slides to show -- spends 18 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question "Why design?" Listen carefully fArmed with a sense of humor and laypeople's terms, Nobel winner Murray Gell-Mann drops some knowledge on TEDsters about particle physics, asking quDaniel Goleman, author of <em>Emotional Intelligence</em>, asks why we aren't more compassionate more of the time.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 Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, spells out 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do. From TED University 2007.Author and activist Isabel Allende discusses women, creativity, the definition of feminism -- and, of course, passion -- in this talk.Investor and prankster Yossi Vardi delivers a careful lecture on the dangers of blogging. Specifically, for men.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 David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a color-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times SquPaola Antonelli, design curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art, wants to spread her appreciation of design -- in all shapes and forms -- around thSinger/guitarist Raul Midon performs "All the Answers" in a world premiere at TED2007, followed by the sprightly "Tembererana."Wofford College president Ben Dunlap tells the story of Sandor Teszler, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who taught him about passionate living and life<i>New York Times</i> tech columnist David Pogue performs a satirical mini-medley about iTunes and the downloading wars, borrowing a few notes fRobin Chase founded Zipcar, the world's biggest car-sharing business. That was one of her smaller ideas. Here she travels much farther, contemplating 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 tWhat 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? ATwo TED favorites, Jill Sobule and Julia Sweeney, team up for a delightful set that mixes witty songwriting with a little bit of social commentary.Moneyman Steve Jurvetson takes TEDsters inside his awesome hobby -- launching model rockets -- by sharing some gorgeous photos, his infectious gleWith all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experiFilmmaker David Hoffman shares footage from his feature-length documentary Sputnik Mania, which shows how the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik inWhat 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 concepWhile on vacation in Asia in 2007, Paul Koontz got the rare chance to spend a few days in North Korea as a tourist. He brought along his kids and his caIn a very, very early-morning set, They Might Be Giants rock the final day of TED2007.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 oNathan Myhrvold talks about a few of his latest fascinations -- animal photography, archeology, BBQ and generally being an eccentric genius multimillioAfter speaking at TED2007 on elegance in physics, the amazing Murray Gell-Mann gives a quick overview of another passionate interest: finding the

Adam Grosser talks about a project to build a refrigerator that works without electricity -- to bring the vital tool to villages and clinics worldwide. TweGuitarist and singer Raul Midon plays "Everybody" and "Peace on Earth" during his 2007 set at TED.At the EG conference in December 2007, artist Jonathan Harris discusses his latest projects, which involve collecting stories: his own, strangers', and sStarting 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 specifiBrewster 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 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 -- andPleo the robot dinosaur acts like a living pet -- exploring, cuddling, playing, reacting and learning. Inventor Caleb Chung talks about Pleo and his wild toAt the EG conference, John Markoff talks about why newspapers still matter -- even in the days of RSS. He gives an inside look at editorial process atInventor 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 iIn 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 TIn this uplifting talk, Katherine Fulton sketches the new future of philanthropy -- one where collaboration and innovation allow regular people to do big The legendary design team Charles and Ray Eames made films, houses and classic midcentury modern furniture. Eames Demetrios, their grandson, shows raVishal Vaid and his band explore a traditional South Asian musical form in this mesmerizing improv performance. Sit back and let his music transport yoWith the same humor and humanity he exuded in <em>An Inconvenient Truth,</em> Al Gore spells out 15 ways that individuals can address climate chanYou've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-calSir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativityIn an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur-winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx -- and shows how<i>New York Times</i> columnist David Pogue takes aim at technology's worst interface-design offenders, and provides encouraging examples of products Tony Robbins discusses the "invisible forces" that motivate everyone's actions -- and high-fives Al Gore in the front row.Julia Sweeney <em>(God Said, "Ha!")</em> performs the first 15 minutes of her 2006 solo show <em>Letting Go of God.</em> When two young Mormon miArchitect Joshua Prince-Ramus takes the audience on dazzling, dizzying virtual tours of three recent projects: the Central Library in Seattle, the MuseuPhilosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion -- all religion -- to be taught in schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon. Then he tPastor Rick Warren, author of <em>The Purpose-Driven Life,</em> reflects on his own crisis of purpose in the wake of his book's wild success. He explainAccepting 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 Accepting his 2006 TED Prize, Cameron Sinclair demonstrates how passionate designers and architects can respond to world housing crises. He unveils 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.Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Laboratory, describes how the One Laptop Per Child project will build and distribute the "$100 laptop."Jeff Han shows off a cheap, scalable multi-touch and pressure-sensitive computer screen interface that may spell the end of point-and-click.Violinist Sirena Huang gives a technically brilliant and emotionally nuanced performance. In a charming interlude, the 11-year-old praises the timeless dFumes 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 soRice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, aThe founding mother of the blog revolution, Movable Type's Mena Trott, talks about the early days of blogging, when she realized that giving regular peopAnthropologist Helen Fisher takes on a tricky topic -- love -- and explains its evolution, its biochemical foundations and its social importance. She closeIn this passionate talk, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan lambasts the US government-funded space program for stagnating and asks entreprenWhy do people see the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich or hear demonic lyrics in "Stairway to Heaven"? Using video and music, skeptic Michael SherMusician and activist Peter Gabriel shares his very personal motivation for standing up for human rights with the watchdog group WITNESS -- and tells stoStop wringing your hands over AIDS, cancer and the avian flu. Cardiovascular disease kills more people than everything else combined -- and it's mostlPhotographer Phil Borges shows rarely seen images of people from the mountains of Dharamsala, India, and the jungles of the Ecuadorean Amazon. InAuthor Robert Wright explains "non-zero-sumness" -- the network of linked fortunes and cooperation that has guided our evolution to this point -- and hInventor and MacArthur fellow Saul Griffith shares some innovative ideas from his lab -- from "smart rope" to a house-sized kite for towing large loads.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 simpA happy song about global warming, from Jill Sobule.Rives recaps the most memorable moments of TED2006 in the free-spirited rhyming verse of a fantastical mockingbird lullaby.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 mWhat happens when a black man visits Aspen? Singer/songwriter Stew and his band are about to let you know.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 aThe avant-garde string quartet Ethel performs the third movement from Phil Kline's four-part suite "The Blue Room and Other Stories." Searching melodiAlan Russell studies regenerative medicine -- a breakthrough way of thinking about disease and injury, using a process that can signal the body to rebuildClifford Stoll captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides -- and even a science experiment. After all, byThis whimsical wrap-up of TED2006 -- presented by Einstein, the African grey parrot, and her trainer, Stephanie White -- simply tickles. Watch for thGame designer David Perry says tomorrow's videogames will be more than mere fun to the next generation of gamers. They'll be lush, complex, emotionaUrsus Wehrli shares his vision for a cleaner, more organized, tidier form of art -- by deconstructing the paintings of modern masters into their componenTechnologist and futurist Bill Joy talks about several big worries for humanity -- and several big hopes in the fields of health, education and future tech.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 -- Rob Forbes, the founder of Design Within Reach, shows a gallery of snapshots that inform his way of seeing the world. Charming juxtapositions, found arWe 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 Biochemist Joe DeRisi talks about amazing new ways to diagnose viruses (and treat the illnesses they cause) using DNA. His work may help us understa

Designer Ross Lovegrove expounds his philosophy of "fat-free" design and offers insight into several of his extraordinary products, including the Ty NanEva Vertes -- only 19 when she gave this talk -- discusses her journey toward studying medicine and her drive to understand the roots of cancer and AlArctic explorer Ben Saunders recounts his harrowing solo ski trek to the North Pole, complete with engaging anecdotes, gorgeous photos and never-beAccepting his 2005 TED Prize, inventor Robert Fischell makes three wishes: redesigning a portable device that treats migraines, finding new cures for 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 emeAccepting his 2005 TED Prize, photographer Edward Burtynsky makes a wish: that his images -- stunning landscapes that document humanity's impact on tTech enthusiast Kevin Kelly asks "What does technology want?" and discovers that its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like the evolutioInventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the humaWhy 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 uGiven $50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global warming? Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with surprising answTwo Pilobolus dancers perform "Symbiosis." Does it trace the birth of a relationship? Or the co-evolution of symbiotic species? Music: "God Music,"Writer and actor Anna Deavere Smith gives life to author Studs Terkel, convict Paulette Jenkins, a Korean shopkeeper and a bull rider, excerpts fromIn this inspiring talk about recent developments in biomimicry, Janine Benyus provides heartening examples of ways in which nature is already influencIn this stunning slideshow, celebrated nature photographer Frans Lanting presents The LIFE Project, a poetic collection of photographs that tell the story 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 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 aNobel laureate James Watson opens TED2005 with the frank and funny story of how he and his research partner, Francis Crick, discovered the structuCaroline Lavelle plays the cello like a sorceress casting a spell, occasionally hiding behind her wild mane of blond hair as she sings of pastoral theGreen-minded architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "all children, 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?" HeIn this bracingly honest talk, international security strategist Thomas Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering U.S. military that is bothBiologist Robert Full shares slo-mo video of some captivating critters. Take a closer look at the spiny legs that allow cockroaches to scuttle across meshIn this energizing talk, Amory Lovins lays out his simple plan for weaning the US off oil and revitalizing the economy.In a lively show, mathemagician Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares, solves another massive mental equation and gHoward Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth ofPhysicist Brian Greene explains superstring theory, the idea that minscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force iLike 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 maStoryteller Carmen Agra Deedy spins a funny, wise and luminous tale of parents and kids, starring her Cuban mother. Settle in and enjoy the ride -- MamThe Inventables guys, Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht, demo some amazing new materials and how we might use them. Look for squishy magnets, odor-detGraham 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 rJames Surowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering: the 2005 tsunami, when YouTube videWhat's the science behind a sublime perfume? With charm and precision, biophysicist Luca Turin explains the molecular makeup -- and the art -- of a sGeneral Motors veep Larry Burns previews cool next-gen car design: sleek, customizable (and computer-enhanced) vehicles that run clean on hydrogen -Strange landscapes, scorching heat and (sometimes) mad crocodiles await scientists seeking clues to evolution's genius. Paleontologist Paul Sereno talGreg Lynn talks about the mathematical roots of architecture -- and how calculus and digital tools allow modern designers to move beyond the traditional In this unmissable look at the magic of comics, Scott McCloud bends the presentation format into a cartoon-like experience, where colorful diversions Pianist and composer Jennifer Lin gives a magical performance, talks about the process of creativity and improvises a moving solo piece based on a Performer and web toymaker Ze Frank delivers a hilarious nerdcore standup routine, then tells us what he's seriously passionate about: helping people cEve Ensler, creator of <em>The Vagina Monologues,</em> shares how a discussion about menopause with her friends led to talking about all sorts ofTipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce -- and makes a larger argument about the n<i>Freakonomics</i> author Steven Levitt presents new data on the finances of drug dealing. Contrary to popular myth, he says, being a street-corner crDan 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 sysSavage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how muBiologist Sheila Patek talks about her work measuring the feeding strike of the mantis shrimp, one of the fastest movements in the animal world, usinEngineer and artist Golan Levin pushes the boundaries of what's possible with audiovisuals and technology. In an amazing TED display, he shows two pGraphic designer Stefan Sagmeister takes the audience on a whimsical journey through moments of his life that made him happy -- and notes how manAl 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 fFeaturing the vocals and mischievous bell-playing of accordionist and singer Rachelle Garniez, the TED House Band -- led by Thomas Dolby on keyboard --Chris Anderson, the editor of <em>WIRED</em>, explores the four key stages of any viable technology: setting the right price, gaining market share, diGoogle co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin offer a peek inside the Google machine, sharing tidbits about international search patterns, the philaIn James Howard Kunstler's view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life and the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, heWhat 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, tFirst, 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-droppMartin 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 beyondIn a timely talk, cultural critic Virginia Postrel muses on the true meaning, and the powerful uses, of glamour -- which she defines as any calculated, cDean Ornish talks about simple, low-tech and low-cost ways to take advantage of the body's natural desire to heal itself.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 s

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 abouFolk musician and storyteller David Holt plays the banjo and shares photographs and old wisdom from the Appalachian Mountains. He also demonstrates 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 giPaul 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 twoCustomers want to feel what they buy is authentic, but "Mass Customization" author Joseph Pine says selling authenticity is tough because, well, there'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 In this illuminating talk, Richard Pyle shows us thriving life on the cliffs of coral reefs and groundbreaking diving technologies he has pioneered to exploNeuroscientist 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 toMedia big shot Felix Dennis roars his fiery, funny, sometimes racy original poetry, revisiting haunting memories and hard-won battle scars from a madcap 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, andWith stunning photos and stories, National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous cultures, whVik Muniz makes art from pretty much anything, be it shredded paper, wire, clouds or diamonds. Here he describes the thinking behind his work and takeScientific discoveries, futurist Juan Enriquez notes, demand a shift in code, and our ability to thrive depends on our mastery of that code. Here, he applieIn 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, whePhilosopher Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don't we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are acIn this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves 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 iSinger/songwriter Eddi Reader performs "Kiteflyer's Hill," a tender look back at a lost love. With Thomas Dolby on piano.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 toTreo 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 backMarine biologist Tierney Thys asks us to step into the water to visit the world of the <i>Mola mola</i>, or giant ocean sunfish. Basking, eating jellyfish Paul MacCready -- aircraft designer, environmentalist, and lifelong lover of flight -- talks about his long career.Surgeon and author Sherwin Nuland discusses the development of electroshock therapy as a cure for severe, life-threatening depression -- including hisWith 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 sHistorian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer -- from its 16th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of some early comTorsten Reil talks about how the study of biology can help make natural-looking animated people -- by building a human from the inside out, with boPhysicist 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 tReed 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 aListen closely -- Marvin Minsky's arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety: wit, wisdSteven 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 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 movNoah Feldman makes a searing case that both politics and religion -- whatever their differences -- are similar technologies, designed to efficiently coOutside.in's Steven Johnson says the Web is like a city: built by many people, completely controlled by no one, intricately interconnected and yet functiHuman beatbox James "AudioPoet" Burchfield performs an intricate three-minute breakdown -- sexy, propulsive hip-hop rhythms and turntable textures --In this moving talk, documentary photographer Kristen Ashburn shares unforgettable images of the human impact of AIDS in Africa.Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about tPhysicist 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 thGreat design is a never-ending journey of discovery -- for which it helps to pack a healthy sense of humor. Sociologist and surfer-turned-designer DavSurgeon 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 12Natalie MacMaster and her musical partner Donnell Leahy play several tunes from the Cape Breton tradition -- a sprightly, soulful style of folk fiddling. IBill 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 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 peoIn this prophetic 2003 talk -- just days before Dolly the sheep was stuffed -- biotech ethicist Gregory Stock looked forward to new, more meaningful (aTom Shannon shows off his gravity-defying, otherworldly sculpture -- made of simple, earthly materials -- that floats and spins like planets on magnets aAmerican designer Chris Bangle explains his philosophy that car design is an art form in its own right, with an entertaining -- and ultimately moving --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 developiJane Goodall hasn't found the missing link, but she's come closer than nearly anyone else. The primatologist says the only real difference between humRichard Dawkins urges all atheists to openly state their position -- and to fight the incursion of the church into politics and science. A fiery, funny, powerfuViolinist Natalie MacMaster and TED Musical Director Thomas Dolby play Dolby's original song "Blue Is a River" in this ethereal duet -- with a little dancIDEO'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 nIn this emotionally charged conversation with journalist Kurt Andersen, designer David Rockwell discusses the process of building a viewing platform at 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 memeHow 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 asIn a wildly entertaining discussion with Richard Saul Wurman, architect Frank Gehry gives TEDsters his take on the power of failure, his recent buildingsBill Strickland tells a quiet and astonishing tale of redemption through arts, music, and unlikely partnerships.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 tDavid Macaulay relives the winding and sometimes surreal journey toward the completion of Rome Antics, his illustrated homage to the historic city.

Virtuoso Pamelia Kurstin performs and discusses her theremin, the not-just-for-sci-fi electronic instrument that is played without being touched. SongAuthor George Dyson spins the story of Project Orion, a massive, nuclear-powered spacecraft that could have taken us to Saturn in five years. His insiLooking 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 uniqIllustrious jugglers the Raspyni Brothers show off their uncanny balance, agility, coordination and willingness to sacrifice (others). Now, if you'll just stand 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 MoscheSculptor and engineer Arthur Ganson talks about his work -- kinetic art that explores deep philosophical ideas and is gee-whiz fun to look at.Insects and animals have evolved some amazing skills -- but, as Robert Full notes, many animals are actually over-engineered. The trick is to copy onKeith 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 Biochemist Kary Mullis talks about the basis of modern science: the experiment. Sharing tales from the 17th century and from his own backyard-rocketry dayIn this low-key, image-packed talk from 2002, designer Christopher C. Deam talks about his makeover of an American classic: the Airstream travel traileNathaniel Kahn shares clips from his documentary "My Architect," about his quest to understand his father, the legendary architect Louis Kahn. It's a fPhilosopher-comedian Emily Levine talks (hilariously) about science, math, society and the way everything connects. She's a brilliant trickster, poking holeDesign 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 In this captivating talk from the TED archive, cartoonist Ben Katchor reads from his comic strips. These perceptive, surreal stories find the profound hoMae 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 educaThe 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 senWith profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. In this inspiring talk he shares the 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 youthSpeaking 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 aWith vibrant video clips captured by submarines, David Gallo takes us to some of Earth's darkest, most violent, toxic and beautiful habitats, the valleys aIn 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 preservIn this TED archive video from 1998, paralympic sprinter Aimee Mullins talks about her record-setting career as a runner, and about the amazing carbon-fiFrom the TED archives: The legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser dives deep into a new painting inspired by Piero della Francesca. From here, hA 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 tMichael Milken talks about using your own particular set of skills to make real change in the world. In his case, the energetic mind that once created exotWith surprising accuracy, Nicholas Negroponte predicts what will happen with CD-ROMs, web interfaces, service kiosks, the touchscreen interface of tThe debate over foreign aid often pits those who mistrust "charity" against those who mistrust reliance on the markets. Jacqueline Novogratz proposes aWhile news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real newsLong 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 ColThe man who helped usher in the environmental movement in the 1960s and '70s has been rethinking his positions on cities, nuclear power, genetic modTalking at the US State Department this summer, Hans Rosling uses his fascinating data-bubble software to burst myths about the developing world. LoPhotojournalist James Nachtwey sees his TED Prize wish come true, as we share his powerful photographs of XDR-TB, a drug-resistant strain of tuberculoTED follows Nicholas Negroponte to Colombia as he delivers laptops inside territory once controlled by guerrillas. His partner? Colombia's Defense DeAt 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 geesBees are dying in droves. Why? Leading apiarist Dennis vanEngelsdorp looks at the gentle, misunderstood creature's important place in nature and theCan happiness be bought? To find out, author Benjamin Wallace sampled the world's most expensive products, including a bottle of 1947 Chateau ChevaReporter Jennifer 8. Lee talks about her hunt for the origins of familiar Chinese-American dishes -- exploring the hidden spots where these two culturesBatch to batch, crust to crust ... In tribute to the beloved staple food, baking master Peter Reinhart reflects on the cordial couplings (wheat and yeast, staWhat is genomics? How will it affect our lives? In this intriguing primer on the genomics revolution, entrepreneur Barry Schuler says we can at least expecWe'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 tAt the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play -- with many examplAt Serious Play 2008, Charles Elachi shares stories from NASA's legendary Jet Propulsion Lab -- including tales and video from the Mars Rover projectAt Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep-space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos -- with 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 placeDesigner John Maeda talks about his path from a Seattle tofu factory to the Rhode Island School of Design, where he became president in 2008. MaedaPaula 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 haA pioneer in research on play, Dr. Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in chilBruce 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." AtBefore 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 PaSpeaking 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 -- andAt the 2008 EG Conference, artist Miru Kim talks about her work. Kim explores industrial ruins underneath New York and then photographs herself in tMike Rowe, the host of "Dirty Jobs," tells some compelling (and horrifying) real-life job stories. Listen for his insights and observations about the natureAt 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 entertainingIn 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 cIn 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; tPhotographer Rick Smolan tells the unforgettable story of a young Amerasian girl, a fateful photograph, and an adoption saga with a twist.Speaking at the most recent EG conference, author, philosopher, prankster and journalist A.J. Jacobs talks about the year he spent living biblically -- follo

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 preSpeaking 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' perspectiveImagine hearing great, departed pianists play again today, just as they would in person. John Q. Walker demonstrates how recordings can be analyzedIn this absorbing look at emerging media and tech history, Peter Hirshberg shares some crucial lessons from Silicon Valley and explains why the web iSpeaking at the 2007 EG conference, "renegade lunch lady" Ann Cooper talks about the coming revolution in the way kids eat at school -- local, sustaiIn 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, anMOMA design curator Paola Antonelli previews the groundbreaking show "<a href="http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/">Design and the ElaProductivity guru Tim Ferriss' fun, encouraging anecdotes show how one simple question -- "What's the worst that could happen?" -- is all you need to lBehavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shockiArchitect Norman Foster discusses his own work to show how computers can help architects design buildings that are green, beautiful and "basicallySpeaking at a London girls' school, Michelle Obama makes a passionate, personal case for each student to take education seriously. It is this new, brillia

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http://www.ted.com/talks/viewNgozi Okonjo-IweaLet's have a deeper discussion on aidhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNicholas NegroponThe vision behind One Laptop Per Childhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNicholas NegroponFrom 1984, 4 predictions about the future (3 of thttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNicholas NegroponOne Laptop per Child, two years onhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNicholas NegroponBringing One Laptop per Child to Colombia: TED ihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNick Bostrom Humanity's biggest problems aren't what you thinhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNick Sears Presenting the Orbhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNiels Diffrient Niels Diffrient rethinks the way we sit downhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNina Jablonski Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin colorhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNoah Feldman Politics and religion are technologieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewNora York "What I Want"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewNorman Foster Building on the green agendahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewOlafur Eliasson Olafur Eliasson: Playing with space and lighthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewOliver Sacks Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about ohttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewOry Okolloh The making of an African activisthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewP.W. Singer Military robots and the future of warhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPamelia Kurstin Theremin, the untouchable musichttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaola Antonelli Treating design as arthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaola Antonelli Design and the elastic mindhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewParag Khanna Parag Khanna maps the future of countrieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPatricia Burchat The search for dark energy and dark matterhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPatrick Awuah Educating a new generation of African leadershttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPattie Maes, PranaUnveiling the "Sixth Sense," game-changing wearhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Bennett Design is in the detailshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Collier 4 ways to improve the lives of the "bottom billion"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Collier Paul Collier's new rules for rebuilding a broken nahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Ewald Can we domesticate germs?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Koontz Tourist snapshots from North Koreahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul MacCready Flying on solar wingshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul MacCready Nature vs. humans, and what we can do about ithttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Moller Take a ride in the Skycarhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Romer Paul Romer's radical idea: Charter citieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Rothemund Casting spells with DNAhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Rothemund The astonishing promise of DNA foldinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Sereno What can fossils teach us?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaul Stamets 6 ways mushrooms can save the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPaula Scher Great design is serious (not solemn)http://www.ted.com/talks/viewPenelope Boston Life on Mars? Let's look in the caveshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPete Alcorn Pete Alcorn on the world in 2200http://www.ted.com/talks/viewPeter Diamandis Stephen Hawking hits zero ghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPeter Diamandis Taking the next giant leap in spacehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPeter Donnelly How juries are fooled by statisticshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPeter Gabriel Fighting injustice with a videocamerahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPeter Hirshberg The Web and TV, a sibling rivalryhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPeter Reinhart The art of baking breadhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPeter Ward Earth's mass extinctionshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPhil Borges Documenting our endangered cultureshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPhilip Rosedale Second Life, where anything is possiblehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPhilip Zimbardo How ordinary people become monsters ... or herhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPhilip Zimbardo Philip Zimbardo prescribes a healthy take on timehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewPhilippe Starck Why design?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewPilobolus A performance merging dance and biologyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewQi Zhang Qi Zhang's electrifying organ performancehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRaspyni Brothers Welcome to Vaudeville 2.0http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRaul Midon "All the Answers" and "Tembererana"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRaul Midon "Everybody" and "Peace on Earth"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRay Anderson Ray Anderson on the business logic of sustainabil

http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRay Kurzweil How technology's accelerating power will transfohttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRay Kurzweil Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRay Zahab Ray Zahab treks to the South Polehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRebecca Saxe Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's mindshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewReed Kroloff Architecture, modern and romantichttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRenny Gleeson Busted! The sneaky moves of anti-social smartphttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRev. Tom Honey How could God have allowed the tsunami?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard Baraniuk Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learninghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard Branson Life at 30,000 feethttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard Dawkins The universe is queerer than we can supposehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard Dawkins An atheist's call to armshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard Preston Climbing the world's biggest treeshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard Pyle Exploring the reef's Twilight Zonehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard St. John Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minuteshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRichard St. John Richard St. John: "Success is a continuous journhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRick Smolan A girl, a photograph, a homecominghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRick Warren Living a life of purposehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRives "If I controlled the Internet" (a poem)http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRives A mockingbird remix of TED2006http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRives Is 4 a.m. the new midnight?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRives A 3-minute story of mixed emoticonshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRob Forbes Ways of seeinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Ballard Exploring the ocean's hidden worldshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Fischell TED Prize wish: Finding new cures for migraine, http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Full Secrets of movement, from geckos and roacheshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Full How engineers learn from evolutionhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Full Robert Full: Learning from the gecko's tailhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Lang Idea + square = origamihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Neuwirth The "shadow cities" of the futurehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobert Wright How cooperation (eventually) trumps conflicthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRobin Chase Getting cars off the road and data into the skieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRodney Brooks How robots will invade our liveshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRokia Traore "M'Bifo"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRokia Traore "Kounandi"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewRon Eglash African fractals, in buildings and braidshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRoss Lovegrove The power and beauty of organic designhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewRoy Gould, Curtis WorldWide Telescopehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSamantha Power Shaking hands with the devilhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSarah Jones Sarah Jones as a one-woman global villagehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSasa Vucinic Why a free press is the best investmenthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSaul Griffith Hardware solutions to everyday problemshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSaul Griffith Inventing a super-kite to tap the energy of high-alhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewScott McCloud Understanding comicshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSean Gourley Sean Gourley on the mathematics of warhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSergey Brin and L Inside the Google machinehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSeth Godin Sliced bread and other marketing delightshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSeth Godin Seth Godin on the tribes we leadhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSeyi Oyesola Rich hospital, poor hospitalhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewShai Agassi A bold plan for mass adoption of electric carshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSheila Patek Measuring the fastest animal on earthhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSherwin Nuland My history of electroshock therapyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSherwin Nuland A meditation on hopehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSiegfried Woldhek The true face of Leonardo Da Vinci?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewSir Ken Robinson Do schools kill creativity?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewSir Martin Rees Earth in its final century?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewSirena Huang Dazzling set by 11-year-old violinisthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSophal Ear Sophal Ear: Escaping the Khmer Rouge

http://www.ted.com/talks/viewSpencer Wells Building a family tree for all humanityhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStefan SagmeisterYes, design can make you happyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStefan SagmeisterThings I have learned in my life so farhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStefan SagmeisterStefan Sagmeister: The power of time offhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStephen Hawking Asking big questions about the universehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStephen Lawler Look! Up in the sky! It's Virtual Earth!http://www.ted.com/talks/viewStephen Petranek 10 ways the world could endhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteve Jurvetson The joy of rocketshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteve Truglia Steve Truglia: A leap from the edge of spacehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Johnson A guided tour of the Ghost Maphttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Johnson The Web and the cityhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Levitt Why do crack dealers still live with their moms?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Levitt Are children's carseats necessary?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Pinker The stuff of thoughthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Pinker A brief history of violencehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Pinker Chalking it up to the blank slatehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSteven Strogatz How things in nature tend to sync uphttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStew "Black Men Ski"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewStewart Brand Why squatter cities are a good thinghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStewart Brand Building a home for the Clock of the Long Nowhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStewart Brand Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental 'heresiehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewStuart Brown Why play is vital -- no matter your agehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSugata Mitra Can kids teach themselves?http://www.ted.com/talks/viewSusan Blackmore Memes and "temes"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewSusan Savage-Ru Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Manhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSxip Shirey, RacheBreath, music, passionhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewSylvia Earle Here's how to protect the blue heart of the planethttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTaryn Simon Taryn Simon photographs secret siteshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTheo Jansen The art of creating creatureshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewThey Might Be GiaWake up! It's They Might Be Giantshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewThom Mayne Architecture is a new way to connect to the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewThomas Barnett The Pentagon's new map for war and peacehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewThomas Dolby, Rac"La Vie en Rose"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewTierney Thys Swim with giant sunfish in the open oceanhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTim Berners-Lee The next Web of open, linked datahttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTim Brown The powerful link between creativity and playhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTim Brown Tim Brown urges designers to think bighttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTim Ferriss How to feel like the Incredible Hulkhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTod Machover, DanReleasing the music in your headhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTom Rielly A comic send-up of TED2006http://www.ted.com/talks/viewTom Shannon Tom Shannon's anti-gravity sculpturehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTom Wujec Tom Wujec on 3 ways the brain creates meaninghttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTony Robbins Why we do what we do, and how we can do it bethttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewTorsten Reil Using biology to make better animationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewUeli Gegenschatz Fulfilling the dream of flight in a high-tech wingsuihttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewUrsus Wehrli Tidying up arthttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewVik Muniz Art with wire, thread, sugar, chocolatehttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewVilayanur Ramach A journey to the center of your mindhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewVirginia Postrel The power of glamourhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewVishal Vaid Vishal Vaid's hypnotic songhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewVusi Mahlasela "Thula Mama"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewVusi Mahlasela "Woza"http://www.ted.com/talks/viewWade Davis Cultures at the far edge of the worldhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewWade Davis The worldwide web of belief and ritualhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewWill Wright Toys that make worldshttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewWillard Wigan Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculptuhttp://www.ted.com/talks/viewWilliam Kamkwam How I built my family a windmill

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MIT engineer Amy Smith details an exciting but simple soNovelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, looking for hints of how hers evolved.Anand Agarawala presents BumpTop, a user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3-D extreme, transforming file navigation inIn this provocative talk, journalist Andrew Mwenda asks us to reframe the "African question" -- to look beyond the media's stories of poverty, civil war Andy Hobsbawm shares a fresh ad campaign about going green -- and some of the fringe benefits.Speaking at the 2007 EG conference, "renegade lunch lady" Ann Cooper talks about the coming revolution in the way kids eat at school -- local, sustaiWriter and actor Anna Deavere Smith gives life to author Studs Terkel, convict Paulette Jenkins, a Korean shopkeeper and a bull rider, excerpts fromIn a lively show, mathemagician Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares, solves another massive mental equation and gSomeone 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 offersSculptor and engineer Arthur Ganson talks about his work -- kinetic art that explores deep philosophical ideas and is gee-whiz fun to look at.Ashraf Ghani's passionate and powerful 10-minute talk, emphasizing the necessity of both economic investment and design ingenuity to rebuild broken sCambridge 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, alWhat is genomics? How will it affect our lives? In this intriguing primer on the genomics revolution, entrepreneur Barry Schuler says we can at least expecPsychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freeBarry Schwartz makes a passionate call for "practical wisdom" as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. He argues powerfully that rules ofteWofford College president Ben Dunlap tells the story of Sandor Teszler, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who taught him about passionate living and lifeIn this captivating talk from the TED archive, cartoonist Ben Katchor reads from his comic strips. These perceptive, surreal stories find the profound hoArctic explorer Ben Saunders recounts his harrowing solo ski trek to the North Pole, complete with engaging anecdotes, gorgeous photos and never-beCan happiness be bought? To find out, author Benjamin Wallace sampled the world's most expensive products, including a bottle of 1947 Chateau ChevaBenjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it -- and by extension, our untapped love Accepting the 2007 TED Prize, Bill Clinton asks for help in bringing health care to Rwanda -- and the rest of the world.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 askBill 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 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.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 aBill Strickland tells a quiet and astonishing tale of redemption through arts, music, and unlikely partnerships.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 aDanish architect Bjarke Ingels rockets through photo/video-mingled stories of his eco-flashy designs. His buildings not only look like nature -- they act liGiven $50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global warming? Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with surprising answBlaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culledIn our hyperlinked world, we can know anything, anytime. And this mass enlightenment, says Buddhist scholar Bob Thurman, is our first step toward BBonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria "talk" to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find hMusician 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 emeA 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 tBrewster 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 "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, accesIn 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 Physicist Brian Greene explains superstring theory, the idea that minscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force i

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita uses mathematical analysis to predict (very often correctly) such messy human events as war, political power shifts, Intifada ... 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." AtAfter Robert Lang's talk on origami at TED2008, Bruno Bowden stepped onstage with a challenge -- he would fold one of Lang's astonishingly complicatIn this passionate talk, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan lambasts the US government-funded space program for stagnating and asks entreprenPoet C.K. Williams reads his work at TED2001. As he colors scenes of childhood resentments, college loves, odd neighbors and the literal death of youthPleo the robot dinosaur acts like a living pet -- exploring, cuddling, playing, reacting and learning. Inventor Caleb Chung talks about Pleo and his wild toAccepting his 2006 TED Prize, Cameron Sinclair demonstrates how passionate designers and architects can respond to world housing crises. He unveils Journalist Carl Honore believes the Western world's emphasis on speed erodes health, productivity and quality of life. But there's a backlash brewing, asStoryteller Carmen Agra Deedy spins a funny, wise and luminous tale of parents and kids, starring her Cuban mother. Settle in and enjoy the ride -- MamCaroline Lavelle plays the cello like a sorceress casting a spell, occasionally hiding behind her wild mane of blond hair as she sings of pastoral thePlanetary scientist Carolyn Porco shows images from the Cassini voyage to Saturn, focusing on its largest moon, Titan, and on frozen Enceladus, which Carolyn Porco shares exciting new findings from the Cassini spacecraft's recent sweep of one of Saturn's moons, Enceladus. Samples gathered from the 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 sAt Serious Play 2008, Charles Elachi shares stories from NASA's legendary Jet Propulsion Lab -- including tales and video from the Mars Rover projectIn this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic 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 hChris Abani tells stories of people: People standing up to soldiers. People being compassionate. People being human and reclaiming their humanity. It'sWhen 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 tChris Anderson, the editor of <em>WIRED</em>, explores the four key stages of any viable technology: setting the right price, gaining market share, diAmerican designer Chris Bangle explains his philosophy that car design is an art form in its own right, with an entertaining -- and ultimately moving --Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics -In this low-key, image-packed talk from 2002, designer Christopher C. Deam talks about his makeover of an American classic: the Airstream travel traileNeuroscientist and inventor Christopher deCharms demonstrates a new way to use fMRI to show brain activity -- thoughts, emotions, pain -- while it is In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big rolesWhile news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real newsClifford Stoll captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides -- and even a science experiment. After all, byBotanist Corneille Ewango talks about his work at the Okapi Faunal Reserve in the Congo Basin -- and his heroic work protecting it from poachers, minerGenomics 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 "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 anBehavioral 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 heBehavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shockiAt 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 geesPhilosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion -- all religion -- to be taught in schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon. Then he tPhilosopher Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don't we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are acStarting with the simple tale of an ant, philosopher Dan Dennett unleashes a devastating salvo of ideas, making a powerful case for the existence of memeWhy are babies cute? Why is cake sweet? Philosopher Dan Dennett has answers you wouldn't expect, as he shares evolution's counterintuitive reasoniDan 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 sysDan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness -- sharing some surprising tests and experiments that you can also try on youCareer analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aDaniel Goleman, author of <em>Emotional Intelligence</em>, asks why we aren't more compassionate more of the time.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 Daniel Libeskind builds on very big ideas. Here, he shares 17 words that underlie his vision for architecture -- raw, risky, emotional, radical -- and that offAccepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbindingMedical animator David Bolinsky presents 3 minutes of stunning animation that show the bustling life inside a cell.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 DavLegendary scientist David Deutsch puts theoretical physics on the back burner to discuss a more urgent matter: the survival of our species. The first stDavid Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a color-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times SquWith vibrant video clips captured by submarines, David Gallo takes us to some of Earth's darkest, most violent, toxic and beautiful habitats, the valleys aThe 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,Filmmaker David Hoffman shares footage from his feature-length documentary Sputnik Mania, which shows how the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik inNine days before TED2008, filmmaker David Hoffman lost almost everything he owned in a fire that destroyed his home, office and 30 years of passionate Folk musician and storyteller David Holt plays the banjo and shares photographs and old wisdom from the Appalachian Mountains. He also demonstrates Environmental scientist David Keith proposes a cheap, effective, shocking means to address climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of ash inIDEO'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 nDavid Macaulay relives the winding and sometimes surreal journey toward the completion of Rome Antics, his illustrated homage to the historic city.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,

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, emotiona<i>New York Times</i> columnist David Pogue takes aim at technology's worst interface-design offenders, and provides encouraging examples of products <i>New York Times</i> tech columnist David Pogue performs a satirical mini-medley about iTunes and the downloading wars, borrowing a few notes fIn 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 cIn this emotionally charged conversation with journalist Kurt Andersen, designer David Rockwell discusses the process of building a viewing platform at 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 -- andInventor Dean Kamen lays out his argument for the Segway and offers a peek into his next big ideas (portable energy and water purification for developiInventor Dean Kamen previews the prosthetic arm he's developing at the request of the US Department of Defense. His quiet commitment to using technWith 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 sFilmmaker Deborah Scranton talks about and shows clips from her documentary The War Tapes, which puts cameras in the hands of soldiers fighting inBees are dying in droves. Why? Leading apiarist Dennis vanEngelsdorp looks at the gentle, misunderstood creature's important place in nature and theDiane 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 abIn 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 peoHistorian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can learn from American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson. Then she shaStop wringing your hands over AIDS, cancer and the avian flu. Cardiovascular disease kills more people than everything else combined -- and it's mostlDean 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 Dean Ornish talks about simple, low-tech and low-cost ways to take advantage of the body's natural desire to heal itself.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 The legendary design team Charles and Ray Eames made films, houses and classic midcentury modern furniture. Eames Demetrios, their grandson, shows raEd Ulbrich, the digital-effects guru from Digital Domain, explains the Oscar-winning technology that allowed his team to digitally create the older versioSinger/songwriter Eddi Reader performs "Kiteflyer's Hill," a tender look back at a lost love. With Thomas Dolby on piano.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 toAccepting his 2005 TED Prize, photographer Edward Burtynsky makes a wish: that his images -- stunning landscapes that document humanity's impact on tThis whimsical wrap-up of TED2006 -- presented by Einstein, the African grey parrot, and her trainer, Stephanie White -- simply tickles. Watch for thElaine Morgan is a tenacious proponent of the aquatic ape hypothesis: the idea that humans evolved from primate ancestors who dwelt in watery habitatsEconomist Eleni Gabre-Madhin outlines her ambitious vision to found the first commodities market in Ethiopia. Her plan would create wealth, minimize riskElizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "beingPhilosopher-comedian Emily Levine talks (hilariously) about science, math, society and the way everything connects. She's a brilliant trickster, poking holeEmily Oster re-examines the stats on AIDS in Africa from an economic perspective and reaches a stunning conclusion: Everything we know about the spFor 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 actiEric 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 vEric Lewis, an astonishingly talented crossover jazz pianist -- seen by many for the first time at TED2009 -- sets fire to the keys with his shattering renEric 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 sessAt TEDU 2009, Erik Hersman presents the remarkable story of Ushahidi, a GoogleMap mashup that allowed Kenyans to report and track violence via cell pIs the beloved paper dictionary doomed to extinction? In this infectiously exuberant talk, leading lexicographer Erin McKean looks at the many ways todayDr. Ernest Madu runs the Heart Institute of the Caribbean in Kingston, Jamaica, where he proves that -- with careful design, smart technical choices, and aThe avant-garde string quartet Ethel performs the third movement from Phil Kline's four-part suite "The Blue Room and Other Stories." Searching melodiSouth African investment banker Euvin Naidoo explains why investing in Africa can make great business sense.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 AlThe 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 senEvan Grant demonstrates the science and art of cymatics, a process for making soundwaves visible. Useful for analyzing complex sounds (like dolphin cIn 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 tEve Ensler, creator of <em>The Vagina Monologues,</em> shares how a discussion about menopause with her friends led to talking about all sorts ofPlaywright Eve Ensler explores our modern craving for security -- and why it makes us less secure. Listen for inspiring, heartbreaking stories of womeIn this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves TED Fellow and journalist Evgeny Morozov punctures what he calls "iPod liberalism" -- the assumption that tech innovation always promotes freedom, demMedia big shot Felix Dennis roars his fiery, funny, sometimes racy original poetry, revisiting haunting memories and hard-won battle scars from a madcap Zambia-born filmmaker Franco Sacchi tours us through Nollywood, Nigeria's booming film industry (the world's 3rd largest). Guerrilla filmmaking and brilIn a wildly entertaining discussion with Richard Saul Wurman, architect Frank Gehry gives TEDsters his take on the power of failure, his recent buildingsBefore 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 PaIn this stunning slideshow, celebrated nature photographer Frans Lanting presents The LIFE Project, a poetic collection of photographs that tell the story 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 tGarik 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 accessiPhysicist and surfer Garrett Lisi presents a controversial new model of the universe that -- just maybe -- answers all the big questions. If nothing else, 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 fundGhanaian economist George Ayittey unleashes a torrent of controlled anger toward corrupt leaders in Africa -- and calls on the "Cheetah generation" to 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 insi

Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer -- from its 16th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of some early comAt Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep-space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos -- with Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, spells out 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do. From TED University 2007.Gever Tulley usesengaging photos and footage to demonstrate the valuable lessons kids learn at his Tinkering School. When given tools, materials and Engineer and artist Golan Levin pushes the boundaries of what's possible with audiovisuals and technology. In an amazing TED display, he shows two pGolan Levin, an artist and engineer, uses modern tools -- robotics, new software, cognitive research -- to make artworks that surprise and delight. WaWe'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 -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 rGreg Lynn talks about the mathematical roots of architecture -- and how calculus and digital tools allow modern designers to move beyond the traditional 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, In this prophetic 2003 talk -- just days before Dolly the sheep was stuffed -- biotech ethicist Gregory Stock looked forward to new, more meaningful (aThe Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra contains the best high school musicians from Venezuela's life-changing music program, El Sistema. Led hereYou've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-calResearcher Hans Rosling uses his cool data tools to show how countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He demos Dollar Street, comparing hoHans Rosling unveils new data visuals that untangle the complex risk factors of one of the world's deadliest (and most misunderstood) diseases: HIV. HeTalking at the US State Department this summer, Hans Rosling uses his fascinating data-bubble software to burst myths about the developing world. LoHector Ruiz, the executive chair of AMD, wants to give Internet access to everyone. In this talk, he shares his extraordinary life story and describes AMDAnthropologist Helen Fisher takes on a tricky topic -- love -- and explains its evolution, its biochemical foundations and its social importance. She closeWhy 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, HeHod Lipson demonstrates a few of his cool little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate.Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth ofSpeaking 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' perspectiveImogen Heap plays a powerful stripped-down version of "Wait It Out," from her new record, Ellipse.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 conneThe 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 sFashion 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 shAuthor and activist Isabel Allende discusses women, creativity, the definition of feminism -- and, of course, passion -- in this talk.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 Jacek Utko is an extraordinary Polish newspaper designer whose redesigns for papers in Eastern Europe not only win awards, but increase circulationJacqueline Novogratz applauds the world's heightened interest in Africa and poverty, but argues persuasively for a new approach.Jacqueline Novogratz shares stories of how "patient capital" can bring sustainable jobs, goods, services -- and dignity -- to the world's poorest.Jacqueline Novogratz tells a moving story of an encounter in a Nairobi slum with Jane, a former prostitute, whose dreams of escaping poverty, of becomThe debate over foreign aid often pits those who mistrust "charity" against those who mistrust reliance on the markets. Jacqueline Novogratz proposes aJaime Lerner reinvented urban space in his native Curitiba, Brazil. Along the way, he changed the way city planners worldwide see what's possible in tWhat 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 concepWe 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 Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at aHuman beatbox James "AudioPoet" Burchfield performs an intricate three-minute breakdown -- sexy, propulsive hip-hop rhythms and turntable textures --In James Howard Kunstler's view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life and the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, heAccepting his 2007 TED Prize, war photographer James Nachtwey shows his life's work and asks TED to help him continue telling the story with innovativPhotojournalist James Nachtwey sees his TED Prize wish come true, as we share his powerful photographs of XDR-TB, a drug-resistant strain of tuberculoJames Surowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering: the 2005 tsunami, when YouTube videNobel laureate James Watson opens TED2005 with the frank and funny story of how he and his research partner, Francis Crick, discovered the structuNokia researcher Jan Chipchase's investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of oJane Goodall hasn't found the missing link, but she's come closer than nearly anyone else. The primatologist says the only real difference between humThe legendary chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall talks about TACARE and her other community projects, which help people in booming African towns 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 iIn this inspiring talk about recent developments in biomimicry, Janine Benyus provides heartening examples of ways in which nature is already influencJanine Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you'll find inspired designs for making things wWhy do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about tJay Walker, curator of the Library of Human Imagination, conducts a surprising show-and-tell session highlighting a few of the intriguing artifacts thatJay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine-tingling audio of Chinese students 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 iJeff Han shows off a cheap, scalable multi-touch and pressure-sensitive computer screen interface that may spell the end of point-and-click.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 backFilm producer Jeff Skoll (<em>An Inconvenient Truth</em>) talks about his film company, Participant Productions, and the people who've inspired him 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.

Reporter Jennifer 8. Lee talks about her hunt for the origins of familiar Chinese-American dishes -- exploring the hidden spots where these two culturesPianist and composer Jennifer Lin gives a magical performance, talks about the process of creativity and improvises a moving solo piece based on a Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motionA happy song about global warming, from Jill Sobule.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.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 aPsychopathic killers are the basis for some must-watch TV, but what really makes them tick? Neuroscientist Jim Fallon talks about brain scans and genetic Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-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 prJoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, an entirely new way to see and interpret scientific data, in full color and surround sound inside a massive metBiochemist Joe DeRisi talks about amazing new ways to diagnose viruses (and treat the illnesses they cause) using DNA. His work may help us understa"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, whoFor almost three decades, John Francis has been a planetwalker, traveling the globe by foot and sail with a message of environmental respect and responsHumorist John Hodgman rambles through a new story about aliens, physics, time, space and the way all of these somehow contribute to a sweet, perfectJohn La Grou unveils an ingenious new technology that will smarten up the electrical outlets in our homes, using microprocessors and RFID tags. The inNature'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 tThe 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 downDesigner John Maeda talks about his path from a Seattle tofu factory to the Rhode Island School of Design, where he became president in 2008. MaedaAt the EG conference, John Markoff talks about why newspapers still matter -- even in the days of RSS. He gives an inside look at editorial process atImagine hearing great, departed pianists play again today, just as they would in person. John Q. Walker demonstrates how recordings can be analyzedWith profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. In this inspiring talk he shares the Building sophisticated educational tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the $40 video game controller inStarting 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 specifiIn 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 lifePsychologist 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-opeJonathan 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 fAt the EG conference in December 2007, artist Jonathan Harris discusses his latest projects, which involve collecting stories: his own, strangers', and sFeeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to difffer. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disiJose Antonio Abreu is the charismatic founder of a youth orchestra system that has transformed thousands of kids' lives in Venezuela. Here he shares 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. HiCustomers want to feel what they buy is authentic, but "Mass Customization" author Joseph Pine says selling authenticity is tough because, well, there'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 coArchitect Joshua Prince-Ramus takes the audience on dazzling, dizzying virtual tours of three recent projects: the Central Library in Seattle, the MuseuJosh Silver delivers his brilliantly simple solution for correcting vision at the lowest cost possible -- adjustable, liquid-filled lenses. At TEDGlobal 2009Scientific discoveries, futurist Juan Enriquez notes, demand a shift in code, and our ability to thrive depends on our mastery of that code. Here, he applieJuan Enriquez challenges our definition of bioenergy. Oil, coal, gas and other hydrocarbons are not chemical but biological products, based on plant mEven 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 Julia Sweeney <em>(God Said, "Ha!")</em> performs the first 15 minutes of her 2006 solo show <em>Letting Go of God.</em> When two young Mormon miKaki 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 NResearcher Kamal Meattle shows how an arrangement of three common houseplants, used in specific spots in a home or office building, can result in mPeople 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 helpWeeks 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 Biochemist Kary Mullis talks about the basis of modern science: the experiment. Sharing tales from the 17th century and from his own backyard-rocketry dayDrug-resistant bacteria kills, even in top hospitals. But now tough infections like staph and anthrax may be in for a surprise. Nobel-winning chemist KarIn this uplifting talk, Katherine Fulton sketches the new future of philanthropy -- one where collaboration and innovation allow regular people to do big 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-droppKeith 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 The Inventables guys, Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht, demo some amazing new materials and how we might use them. Look for squishy magnets, odor-detKenichi Ebina moves his body in a manner that appears to defy the limits imposed by the human skeleton. He combines breakdancing and hip-hop withTech enthusiast Kevin Kelly asks "What does technology want?" and discovers that its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like the evolutioAt 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 preKevin Surace suggests we rethink basic construction materials -- such as the familiar wallboard -- to reduce the huge carbon footprint generated by theIn this moving talk, documentary photographer Kristen Ashburn shares unforgettable images of the human impact of AIDS in Africa.Researcher Kwabena Boahen is looking for ways to mimic the brain's supercomputing powers in silicon -- because the messy, redundant processes insidLakshmi 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 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 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 t

General Motors veep Larry Burns previews cool next-gen car design: sleek, customizable (and computer-enhanced) vehicles that run clean on hydrogen -Larry Lessig, the Net's most celebrated lawyer, cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the "ASCAP cartel" in his argument for reviving our creaIn 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 bondIn 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 TPhysicist 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 thLike 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 maLewis 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 Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly 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, anLouise Fresco argues that a smart approach to large-scale, industrial farming and food production will feed our planet's incoming population of nine billiLouise Leakey asks, "Who are we?" The question takes her to the Rift Valley in Eastern Africa, where she digs for the evolutionary origins of humankinWhat's the science behind a sublime perfume? With charm and precision, biophysicist Luca Turin explains the molecular makeup -- and the art -- of a sMae 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 educaAuthor 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 In an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur-winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx -- and shows howTipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce -- and makes a larger argument about the nMargaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician -- celebrating thIn this short, image-packed talk, Marisa Fick-Jordan talks about how a village of traditional Zulu wire weavers built a worldwide market for their dazzlingIn 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; tMartin 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 beyondListen closely -- Marvin Minsky's arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety: wit, wisd"Bonk" author Mary Roach delves into obscure scientific research, some of it centuries old, to make 10 surprising claims about sexual climax, ranging fromIn this talk from TED University 2009, veteran rock climber Matthew Childs shares nine pointers for rock climbing. These handy tips bear on an effective lWhat 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, tThe founding mother of the blog revolution, Movable Type's Mena Trott, talks about the early days of blogging, when she realized that giving regular peopNeuroscientist 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 toMichael Milken talks about using your own particular set of skills to make real change in the world. In his case, the energetic mind that once created exotMichael Moschen puts on a quietly mesmerizing show of juggling. Don't think juggling is an art? You might just change your mind after watching MoscheWhat 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? AToo much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it -- inventing the portable Lifesaver filWhy do people see the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich or hear demonic lyrics in "Stairway to Heaven"? Using video and music, skeptic Michael SherSpeaking at a London girls' school, Michelle Obama makes a passionate, personal case for each student to take education seriously. It is this new, brilliaMihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting sMike Rowe, the host of "Dirty Jobs," tells some compelling (and horrifying) real-life job stories. Listen for his insights and observations about the natureFrom the TED archives: The legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser dives deep into a new painting inspired by Piero della Francesca. From here, hAt the 2008 EG Conference, artist Miru Kim talks about her work. Kim explores industrial ruins underneath New York and then photographs herself in tJournalist Misha Glenny spent several years in a courageous investigation of organized crime networks worldwide, which have grown to an estimated 15% oLooking 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 uniqArmed with a sense of humor and laypeople's terms, Nobel winner Murray Gell-Mann drops some knowledge on TEDsters about particle physics, asking quAfter speaking at TED2007 on elegance in physics, the amazing Murray Gell-Mann gives a quick overview of another passionate interest: finding theA unique ecosystem of plants, birds and monkeys thrives in the treetops of the rainforest. Nalini Nadkarni explores these canopy worlds -- and shares heCognitive researcher Nancy Etcoff looks at happiness -- the ways we try to achieve and increase it, the way it's untethered to our real circumstances, andNandan Nilekani, visionary CEO of outsourcing pioneer Infosys, explains four brands of ideas that will determine whether India can continue its recent Natalie MacMaster and her musical partner Donnell Leahy play several tunes from the Cape Breton tradition -- a sprightly, soulful style of folk fiddling. IViolinist Natalie MacMaster and TED Musical Director Thomas Dolby play Dolby's original song "Blue Is a River" in this ethereal duet -- with a little dancNate 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 thNathan Myhrvold talks about a few of his latest fascinations -- animal photography, archeology, BBQ and generally being an eccentric genius multimillioVirus hunter Nathan Wolfe is outwitting the next pandemic by staying two steps ahead: discovering deadly new viruses where they first emerge -- passinNathaniel Kahn shares clips from his documentary "My Architect," about his quest to understand his father, the legendary architect Louis Kahn. It's a fOne-of-a-kind R&B group Naturally 7 beatboxes an orchestra's worth of instruments to groove through their smooth single, "Fly Baby."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 simpAccepting his 2008 TED Prize, physicist Neil Turok speaks out for talented young Africans starved of opportunity: by unlocking and nurturing the continenSinger-songwriter Nellie McKay performs the semi-serious song "Clonie" -- about creating the ultimate companion.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 sAnimal 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 hounFilmmaker Newton Aduaka shows clips from his powerful, lyrical feature film "Ezra," about a child soldier in Sierra Leone.We know the negative images of Africa -- famine and disease, conflict and corruption. But, says Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, there's another, less-told story

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 TEDGloNicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Laboratory, describes how the One Laptop Per Child project will build and distribute the "$100 laptop."With surprising accuracy, Nicholas Negroponte predicts what will happen with CD-ROMs, web interfaces, service kiosks, the touchscreen interface of tNicholas 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 pTED follows Nicholas Negroponte to Colombia as he delivers laptops inside territory once controlled by guerrillas. His partner? Colombia's Defense DeOxford philosopher and transhumanist Nick Bostrom examines the future of humankind and asks whether we might alter the fundamental nature of humanInventor 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 iDesign 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 Nina Jablonski says that differing skin colors are simply our bodies' adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Charles Darwin disagreed Noah Feldman makes a searing case that both politics and religion -- whatever their differences -- are similar technologies, designed to efficiently coNora York gives a stunning performance of her song "What I Want," with Jamie Lawrence (keyboards), Steve Tarshis (guitar) and Arthur Kell (bass).Architect Norman Foster discusses his own work to show how computers can help architects design buildings that are green, beautiful and "basicallyIn 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, diNeurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnett syndrome -- when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations.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.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 oVirtuoso Pamelia Kurstin performs and discusses her theremin, the not-just-for-sci-fi electronic instrument that is played without being touched. SongPaola Antonelli, design curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art, wants to spread her appreciation of design -- in all shapes and forms -- around thMOMA design curator Paola Antonelli previews the groundbreaking show "<a href="http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/">Design and the ElaMany 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 causPhysicist Patricia Burchat sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe: dark matter and dark energy. Comprising 96% of the universe between thPatrick Awuah makes the case that a liberal arts education is critical to forming true leaders.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 theShowing a series of inspiring, unusual and playful products, British branding and design guru Paul Bennett explains that design doesn't have to be aboAround 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, 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 ColEvolutionary biologist Paul Ewald drags us into the sewer to discuss germs. Why are some more harmful than others? How could we make the harmful oWhile on vacation in Asia in 2007, Paul Koontz got the rare chance to spend a few days in North Korea as a tourist. He brought along his kids and his caPaul MacCready -- aircraft designer, environmentalist, and lifelong lover of flight -- talks about his long career.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 preservPaul 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 twoHow 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,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-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 thiStrange landscapes, scorching heat and (sometimes) mad crocodiles await scientists seeking clues to evolution's genius. Paleontologist Paul Sereno talMycologist Paul Stamets lists 6 ways the mycelium fungus can help save the universe: cleaning polluted soil, making insecticides, treating smallpox aPaula 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 haSo 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 -- In this short, optimistic talk from TED2009, Pete Alcorn shares a vision of the world of two centuries from now -- when declining populations and growX Prize founder Peter Diamandis talks about how he helped Stephen Hawking fulfill his dream of going to space -- by flying together into the upper atPeter 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 dOxford mathematician Peter Donnelly reveals the common mistakes humans make in interpreting statistics -- and the devastating impact these errors canMusician and activist Peter Gabriel shares his very personal motivation for standing up for human rights with the watchdog group WITNESS -- and tells stoIn this absorbing look at emerging media and tech history, Peter Hirshberg shares some crucial lessons from Silicon Valley and explains why the web iBatch to batch, crust to crust ... In tribute to the beloved staple food, baking master Peter Reinhart reflects on the cordial couplings (wheat and yeast, staAsteroid strikes get all the coverage, but "Medea Hypothesis" author Peter Ward argues that most of Earth's mass extinctions were caused by lowly bactePhotographer Phil Borges shows rarely seen images of people from the mountains of Dharamsala, India, and the jungles of the Ecuadorean Amazon. InWhy build a virtual world? Philip Rosedale talks about the virtual society he founded, Second Life, and its underpinnings in human creativity. It's a placePhilip 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. TPsychologist Philip Zimbardo says happiness and success are rooted in a trait most of us disregard: the way we orient toward the past, present and futurDesigner Philippe Starck -- with no pretty slides to show -- spends 18 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question "Why design?" Listen carefully fTwo Pilobolus dancers perform "Symbiosis." Does it trace the birth of a relationship? Or the co-evolution of symbiotic species? Music: "God Music,"Organ virtuoso Qi Zhang plays her electric rendering of "Ridiculous Fellows" from Prokofiev's "The Love for Three Oranges" orchestral suite. This exIllustrious jugglers the Raspyni Brothers show off their uncanny balance, agility, coordination and willingness to sacrifice (others). Now, if you'll just stand Singer/guitarist Raul Midon performs "All the Answers" in a world premiere at TED2007, followed by the sprightly "Tembererana."Guitarist and singer Raul Midon plays "Everybody" and "Peace on Earth" during his 2007 set at TED.At his carpet company, Ray Anderson has increased sales and doubled profits while turning the traditional "take / make / waste" industrial system on it

Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the humaRay Kurzweil's latest graphs show that technology's breakneck advances will only accelerate -- recession or not. He unveils his new project, Singularity 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.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 uncReed 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 aIn this funny (and actually poignant) 3-minute talk, social strategist Renny Gleeson breaks down our always-on social world -- where the experience we're 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?" HeRice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, aRichard 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 exBiologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for "thinking the improbable" by looking at how the human frame of reference limits our understanding of the uRichard Dawkins urges all atheists to openly state their position -- and to fight the incursion of the church into politics and science. A fiery, funny, powerfuScience writer Richard Preston talks about some of the most enormous living beings on the planet, the giant trees of the US Pacific Northwest. Growing fIn this illuminating talk, Richard Pyle shows us thriving life on the cliffs of coral reefs and groundbreaking diving technologies he has pioneered to exploWhy 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 uIn 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' riPhotographer Rick Smolan tells the unforgettable story of a young Amerasian girl, a fateful photograph, and an adoption saga with a twist.Pastor Rick Warren, author of <em>The Purpose-Driven Life,</em> reflects on his own crisis of purpose in the wake of his book's wild success. He explainHow many poets could cram eBay, Friendster and Monster.com into 3-minute poem worthy of a standing ovation? Enjoy Rives' unique talent.Rives recaps the most memorable moments of TED2006 in the free-spirited rhyming verse of a fantastical mockingbird lullaby.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 morningRives -- star of the Bravo special "Ironic Iconic America" -- tells a typographical fairy tale that's short and bittersweet.Rob Forbes, the founder of Design Within Reach, shows a gallery of snapshots that inform his way of seeing the world. Charming juxtapositions, found arOcean explorer Robert Ballard takes us on a mindbending trip to hidden worlds underwater, where he and other researchers are finding unexpected lAccepting his 2005 TED Prize, inventor Robert Fischell makes three wishes: redesigning a portable device that treats migraines, finding new cures for 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 meshInsects and animals have evolved some amazing skills -- but, as Robert Full notes, many animals are actually over-engineered. The trick is to copy onBiologist Robert Full studies the amazing gecko, with its supersticky feet and tenacious climbing skill. But high-speed footage reveals that the gecko's taiRobert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami -- using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautifRobert Neuwirth, author of <i>Shadow Cities</i>, finds the world's squatter sites -- where a billion people now make their homes -- to be thriving centersAuthor Robert Wright explains "non-zero-sumness" -- the network of linked fortunes and cooperation that has guided our evolution to this point -- and hRobin Chase founded Zipcar, the world's biggest car-sharing business. That was one of her smaller ideas. Here she travels much farther, contemplating 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 movRokia Traore sings the moving "M'Bifo," accompanied on the n'goni, a lute-like Malian stringed instrument with a soulful timbre. A quietly mesmerizing Singer-songwriter Rokia Traore performs "Kounandi," a breathtaking song that blends Malian instruments with a modern, heartfelt vocal. Note: This songI 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 Designer Ross Lovegrove expounds his philosophy of "fat-free" design and offers insight into several of his extraordinary products, including the Ty NanEducator Roy Gould and researcher Curtis Wong show a sneak preview of Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope, which compiles images from telescopes and sSamantha 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 diIn this hilariously lively performance, actress Sarah Jones channels an opinionated elderly Jewish woman, a fast-talking Dominican college student anA free press -- papers, magazines, radio, TV, blogs -- is the backbone of any true democracy (and a vital watchdog on business). Sasa Vucinic, a journaInventor and MacArthur fellow Saul Griffith shares some innovative ideas from his lab -- from "smart rope" to a house-sized kite for towing large loads.In this brief talk, Saul Griffith unveils the invention his new company Makani Power has been working on: giant kite turbines that create surprising amoIn this unmissable look at the magic of comics, Scott McCloud bends the presentation format into a cartoon-like experience, where colorful diversions 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 ofGoogle co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin offer a peek inside the Google machine, sharing tidbits about international search patterns, the philaIn 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, wheSeth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and vDr. Seyi Oyesola takes a searing look at health care in underdeveloped countries. His photo tour of a Nigerian teaching hospital -- all low-tech hacks aForget 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 toBiologist Sheila Patek talks about her work measuring the feeding strike of the mantis shrimp, one of the fastest movements in the animal world, usinSurgeon and author Sherwin Nuland discusses the development of electroshock therapy as a cure for severe, life-threatening depression -- including hisSurgeon 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<i>Mona Lisa</i> is one of the best-known faces on the planet. But would you recognize an image of Leonardo da Vinci? Illustrator Siegfried Woldhek uSir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativitySpeaking as both an astronomer and "a concerned member of the human race," Sir Martin Rees examines our planet and its future from a cosmic perspeViolinist Sirena Huang gives a technically brilliant and emotionally nuanced performance. In a charming interlude, the 11-year-old praises the timeless dTED 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

All humans share some common bits of DNA, passed down to us from our African ancestors. Geneticist Spencer Wells talks about how his Genographic ProjGraphic designer Stefan Sagmeister takes the audience on a whimsical journey through moments of his life that made him happy -- and notes how manRockstar designer Stefan Sagmeister delivers a short, witty talk on life lessons, expressed through surprising modes of design (including ... inflatable Every seven years, designer Stefan Sagmeister closes his New York studio for a yearlong sabbatical to rejuvenate and refresh their creative outlook. He In keeping with the theme of TED2008, professor Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe -- How did the universe begin? How diMicrosoft's Stephen Lawler gives a whirlwind tour of Virtual Earth, moving up, down and through its hyper-real cityscapes with dazzlingly fluidity, a remaHow 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 asMoneyman Steve Jurvetson takes TEDsters inside his awesome hobby -- launching model rockets -- by sharing some gorgeous photos, his infectious gleAt his day job, Steve Truglia flips cars, walks through fire and falls out of buildings -- pushing technology to make stunts bigger, safer, more awesome.Author Steven Johnson takes us on a 10-minute tour of <i>The Ghost Map</i>, his book about a cholera outbreak in 1854 London and the impact it had 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 functi<i>Freakonomics</i> author Steven Levitt presents new data on the finances of drug dealing. Contrary to popular myth, he says, being a street-corner crSteven 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, heIn an exclusive preview of his book <i>The Stuff of Thought</i>, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -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 IrSteven 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 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 giWhat happens when a black man visits Aspen? Singer/songwriter Stew and his band are about to let you know.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 aStewart 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 abouThe man who helped usher in the environmental movement in the 1960s and '70s has been rethinking his positions on cities, nuclear power, genetic modA pioneer in research on play, Dr. Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in chilSpeaking 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 -- andSusan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawnedSavage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how muComposer Sxip Shirey makes music from the simple, dramatic act of breathing -- alone and together. Open your ears to a passionate 3 minutes.Legendary ocean researcher Sylvia Earle shares astonishing images of the ocean -- and shocking stats about its rapid decline -- as she makes her TED PrizTaryn Simon exhibits her startling take on photography -- to reveal worlds and people we would never see otherwise. She shares two projects: one documeArtist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed In a very, very early-morning set, They Might Be Giants rock the final day of TED2007.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 aIn this bracingly honest talk, international security strategist Thomas Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering U.S. military that is bothFeaturing the vocals and mischievous bell-playing of accordionist and singer Rachelle Garniez, the TED House Band -- led by Thomas Dolby on keyboard --Marine biologist Tierney Thys asks us to step into the water to visit the world of the <i>Mola mola</i>, or giant ocean sunfish. Basking, eating jellyfish 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 wAt the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play -- with many examplTim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects -- even as pressing questions like clean water access show it hProductivity guru Tim Ferriss' fun, encouraging anecdotes show how one simple question -- "What's the worst that could happen?" -- is all you need to lTod Machover of MIT's Media Lab is devoted to extending musical expression to everyone, from virtuosos to amateurs, and in the most diverse forms,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 mTom Shannon shows off his gravity-defying, otherworldly sculpture -- made of simple, earthly materials -- that floats and spins like planets on magnets aInformation designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talTony Robbins discusses the "invisible forces" that motivate everyone's actions -- and high-fives Al Gore in the front row.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 boWingsuit jumping is the leading edge of extreme sports -- an exhilarating feat of almost unbelievable daring, where skydivers soar through canyons aUrsus Wehrli shares his vision for a cleaner, more organized, tidier form of art -- by deconstructing the paintings of modern masters into their componenVik Muniz makes art from pretty much anything, be it shredded paper, wire, clouds or diamonds. Here he describes the thinking behind his work and takeVilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusIn a timely talk, cultural critic Virginia Postrel muses on the true meaning, and the powerful uses, of glamour -- which she defines as any calculated, cVishal Vaid and his band explore a traditional South Asian musical form in this mesmerizing improv performance. Sit back and let his music transport yoSouth African singer-songwriter Vusi Mahlasela dedicates his song, "Thula Mama," to all women -- and especially his grandmother.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 multilingWith stunning photos and stories, National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous cultures, whAnthropologist Wade Davis muses on the worldwide web of belief and ritual that makes us human. He shares breathtaking photos and stories of the ElderIn a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterWillard 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 seWhen he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working from

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, Green-minded architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "all children, By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re-grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans -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 In this image-filled talk, Yann Arthus-Bertrand displays his three most recent projects on humanity and our habitat -- stunning aerial photographs in Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization.Investor and prankster Yossi Vardi delivers a careful lecture on the dangers of blogging. Specifically, for men.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 toYves Behar and Forrest North unveil Mission One, a sleek, powerful electric motorcycle. They share slides from distant (yet similar) childhoods that shoPerformer and web toymaker Ze Frank delivers a hilarious nerdcore standup routine, then tells us what he's seriously passionate about: helping people cPaleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged looks for the roots of humanity in Ethiopia's badlands. Here he talks about finding the oldest skeleteon of a

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