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1 | Averting the climate crisis | Al Gore | {0: 'Al Gore'} | {0: ['climate advocate']} | {0: 'Nobel Laureate Al Gore focused the world’s attention on the global climate crisis. Now he’s showing us how we’re moving towards real solutions.\r\n'} | 3,523,392 | 2006-02-25 | 2006-06-27 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'fr-ca', 'gl', 'gu', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lt', 'lv', 'mk', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'sw', 'th', 'tl', 'tr', 'uk', 'ur', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 272 | 977 | ['alternative energy', 'cars', 'climate change', 'culture', 'environment', 'global issues', 'science', 'sustainability', 'technology'] | {243: 'New thinking on the climate crisis', 547: 'The business logic of sustainability', 2093: 'The state of the climate — and what we might do about it', 54715: 'How we can turn the tide on climate', 29968: 'The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it', 2339: "Climate change is happening... | https://www.ted.com/talks/al_gore_averting_the_climate_crisis/ | With the same humor and humanity he exuded in "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore spells out 15 ways that individuals can address climate change immediately, from buying a hybrid to inventing a new, hotter brand name for global warming. | Thank you so much, Chris. And it's truly a great honor to have the opportunity to come to this stage twice; I'm extremely grateful. I have been blown away by this conference, and I want to thank all of you for the many nice comments about what I had to say the other night. And I say that sincerely, partly because (Mock... |
92 | The best stats you've ever seen | Hans Rosling | {0: 'Hans Rosling'} | {0: ['global health expert; data visionary']} | {0: 'In Hans Rosling’s hands, data sings. Global trends in health and economics come to vivid life. And the big picture of global development -- with some surprisingly good news -- snaps into sharp focus.'} | 14,501,685 | 2006-02-22 | 2006-06-27 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'az', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'is', 'it', 'ja', 'kn', 'ko', 'ku', 'lv', 'mk', 'ml', 'mn', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sr', 'sv', 'sw', 'ta', 'te', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'ur', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 628 | 1,190 | ['Africa', 'Asia', 'Google', 'demo', 'economics', 'global issues', 'health', 'statistics', 'global development', 'visualizations', 'math'] | {2056: "Own your body's data", 2296: 'A visual history of human knowledge', 620: 'Let my dataset change your mindset', 2806: "Doesn't everyone deserve a chance at a good life?", 2560: 'How Africa can keep rising', 1418: "Let's put birth control back on the agenda"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen/ | You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world." | About 10 years ago, I took on the task to teach global development to Swedish undergraduate students. That was after having spent about 20 years, together with African institutions, studying hunger in Africa. So I was sort of expected to know a little about the world. And I started, in our medical university, Karolinsk... |
7 | Simplicity sells | David Pogue | {0: 'David Pogue'} | {0: ['technology columnist']} | {0: 'David Pogue is the personal technology columnist for the <em>New York Times</em> and a tech correspondent for CBS News. He\'s also one of the world\'s bestselling how-to authors, with titles in the For Dummies series and his own line of "Missing Manual" books. '} | 1,920,832 | 2006-02-24 | 2006-06-27 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 124 | 1,286 | ['computers', 'entertainment', 'interface design', 'media', 'music', 'performance', 'simplicity', 'software', 'technology'] | {1725: '10 top time-saving tech tips', 2274: 'The first secret of design is ... noticing', 172: 'Designing for simplicity', 2664: 'Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet', 2464: 'The mind behind Linux', 1347: 'The secret structure of great talks'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/david_pogue_simplicity_sells/ | New York Times columnist David Pogue takes aim at technology’s worst interface-design offenders, and provides encouraging examples of products that get it right. To funny things up, he bursts into song. | (Music: "The Sound of Silence," Simon & Garfunkel) Hello voice mail, my old friend. (Laughter) I've called for tech support again. I ignored my boss's warning. I called on a Monday morning. Now it's evening, and my dinner first grew cold, and then grew mold. I'm still on hold. I'm listening to the sounds of silence. I ... |
53 | Greening the ghetto | Majora Carter | {0: 'Majora Carter'} | {0: ['activist for environmental justice']} | {0: 'Majora Carter redefined the field of environmental equality, starting in the South Bronx at the turn of the century. Now she is leading the local economic development movement across the USA.'} | 2,664,069 | 2006-02-26 | 2006-06-27 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'kn', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sw', 'ta', 'te', 'th', 'tr', 'ur', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 219 | 1,116 | ['MacArthur grant', 'activism', 'business', 'cities', 'environment', 'green', 'inequality', 'politics', 'pollution'] | {1041: '3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship', 1892: 'A new vision for rebuilding Detroit', 2078: 'A park underneath the hustle and bustle of New York City', 2636: 'How an old loop of railroads is changing the face of a city', 12571: 'My $500 house in Detroit -- and the neighbors who helped me rebuild it', 3581: "A ... | https://www.ted.com/talks/majora_carter_greening_the_ghetto/ | In an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur-winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx -- and shows how minority neighborhoods suffer most from flawed urban policy. | If you're here today — and I'm very happy that you are — you've all heard about how sustainable development will save us from ourselves. However, when we're not at TED, we are often told that a real sustainability policy agenda is just not feasible, especially in large urban areas like New York City. And that's because... |
66 | Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson | {0: 'Sir Ken Robinson'} | {0: ['author', 'educator']} | {0: "Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. "} | 65,051,954 | 2006-02-25 | 2006-06-27 | TED2006 | en | ['af', 'ar', 'az', 'be', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et', 'eu', 'fa', 'fi', 'fil', 'fr', 'fr-ca', 'gl', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'inh', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'kn', 'ko', 'ku', 'lo', 'lt', 'lv', 'mfe', 'mk', 'mn', 'mr', 'nb', 'ne', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq'... | 4,931 | 1,164 | ['children', 'creativity', 'culture', 'dance', 'education', 'parenting', 'teaching'] | {865: 'Bring on the learning revolution!', 1738: "How to escape education's death valley", 2276: 'How to fix a broken school? Lead fearlessly, love hard', 2182: 'How to run a company with (almost) no rules', 2341: "Why some of us don't have one true calling", 9048: 'The search for "aha!" moments'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity/ | Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. | Good morning. How are you? (Audience) Good. It's been great, hasn't it? I've been blown away by the whole thing. In fact, I'm leaving. (Laughter) There have been three themes running through the conference, which are relevant to what I want to talk about. One is the extraordinary evidence of human creativity in all of ... |
49 | Behind the design of Seattle's library | Joshua Prince-Ramus | {0: 'Joshua Prince-Ramus'} | {0: ['architect']} | {0: 'Joshua Prince-Ramus is best known as architect of the Seattle Central Library, already being hailed as a masterpiece of contemporary culture. Prince-Ramus was the founding partner of OMA New York—the American affiliate of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in the Netherlands—and served as its Principal... | 1,208,138 | 2006-02-23 | 2006-07-10 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'uk', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 48 | 1,198 | ['architecture', 'collaboration', 'culture', 'design', 'library'] | {750: 'Building a theater that remakes itself', 2092: 'How to reinvent the apartment building', 2183: 'Why the buildings of the future will be shaped by ... you', 2220: 'How to revive a neighborhood: with imagination, beauty and art', 2375: 'Why great architecture should tell a story', 31821: 'Stunning buildings made f... | https://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_prince_ramus_behind_the_design_of_seattle_s_library/ | Architect Joshua Prince-Ramus takes the audience on dazzling, dizzying virtual tours of three recent projects: the Central Library in Seattle, the Museum Plaza in Louisville and the Charles Wyly Theater in Dallas. | I'm going to present three projects in rapid fire. I don't have much time to do it. And I want to reinforce three ideas with that rapid-fire presentation. The first is what I like to call a hyper-rational process. It's a process that takes rationality almost to an absurd level, and it transcends all the baggage that no... |
86 | Letting go of God | Julia Sweeney | {0: 'Julia Sweeney'} | {0: ['actor', 'comedian', 'playwright']} | {0: 'Julia Sweeney creates comedic works that tackle deep issues like cancer, family and faith.'} | 4,636,596 | 2006-02-24 | 2006-07-10 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lt', 'mr', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'uk', 'ur', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 980 | 992 | ['Christianity', 'God', 'atheism', 'comedy', 'culture', 'performance', 'religion', 'storytelling', 'humor'] | {22: 'Why people believe weird things', 94: "Let's teach religion -- all religion -- in schools", 856: 'It\'s time for "The Talk"', 71: 'A life of purpose', 2801: '12 truths I learned from life and writing', 31459: 'Embrace your raw, strange magic'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/julia_sweeney_letting_go_of_god/ | When two young Mormon missionaries knock on Julia Sweeney's door one day, it touches off a quest to completely rethink her own beliefs, in this excerpt from Sweeney's solo show "Letting Go of God." | On September 10, the morning of my seventh birthday, I came downstairs to the kitchen, where my mother was washing the dishes and my father was reading the paper or something, and I sort of presented myself to them in the doorway, and they said, "Hey, happy birthday!" And I said, "I'm seven." And my father smiled and s... |
94 | Let's teach religion -- all religion -- in schools | Dan Dennett | {0: 'Dan Dennett'} | {0: ['philosopher', 'cognitive scientist']} | {0: 'Dan Dennett thinks that human consciousness and free will are the result of physical processes.'} | 3,781,244 | 2006-02-02 | 2006-07-18 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'ko', 'lt', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sq', 'sr', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 919 | 1,485 | ['God', 'atheism', 'brain', 'cognitive science', 'consciousness', 'evolution', 'philosophy', 'religion'] | {71: 'A life of purpose', 2011: 'Is religion good or bad? (This is a trick question)', 234: 'My wish: The Charter for Compassion', 113: 'Militant atheism', 2643: "It's time to reclaim religion", 9125: 'My failed mission to find God -- and what I found instead'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_let_s_teach_religion_all_religion_in_schools/ | Philosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion -- all religion -- to be taught in schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon. Then he takes on The Purpose-Driven Life, disputing its claim that, to be moral, one must deny evolution. | It's wonderful to be back. I love this wonderful gathering. And you must be wondering, "What on earth? Have they put up the wrong slide?" No, no. Look at this magnificent beast, and ask the question: Who designed it? This is TED; this is Technology, Entertainment, Design, and there's a dairy cow. It's a quite wonderful... |
71 | A life of purpose | Rick Warren | {0: 'Rick Warren'} | {0: ['pastor', 'author']} | {0: 'Pastor Rick Warren is the author of <em>The Purpose-Driven Life,</em> which has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. His has become an immensely influential voice seeking to apply the values of his faith to issues such as global poverty, HIV/AIDS and injustice.'} | 3,998,282 | 2006-02-25 | 2006-07-18 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lv', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sq', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 930 | 1,262 | ['Christianity', 'God', 'culture', 'happiness', 'leadership', 'motivation', 'philanthropy', 'religion'] | {94: "Let's teach religion -- all religion -- in schools", 676: 'Lose your ego, find your compassion', 2011: 'Is religion good or bad? (This is a trick question)', 86: 'Letting go of God', 9125: 'My failed mission to find God -- and what I found instead', 2801: '12 truths I learned from life and writing'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/rick_warren_a_life_of_purpose/ | Pastor Rick Warren, author of "The Purpose-Driven Life," reflects on his own crisis of purpose in the wake of his book's wild success. He explains his belief that God's intention is for each of us to use our talents and influence to do good. | I'm often asked, "What surprised you about the book?" And I say, "That I got to write it." I would have never imagined that. Not in my wildest dreams did I think — I don't even consider myself to be an author. And I'm often asked, "Why do you think so many people have read this? This thing's selling still about a milli... |
55 | My wish: A global day of film | Jehane Noujaim | {0: 'Jehane Noujaim'} | {0: ['filmmaker']} | {0: 'TED Prize winner Jehane Noujaim is a gutsy filmmaker whose astonishing documentaries reveal the triumphs and hardships of courageous individuals. '} | 460,994 | 2006-02-26 | 2006-07-25 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 59 | 1,538 | ['TED Prize', 'culture', 'entertainment', 'film', 'global issues', 'peace', 'social change', 'storytelling', 'art', 'movies'] | {2228: 'How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine', 1476: 'The shared wonder of film', 800: 'We are the stories we tell ourselves', 2890: "What it's like to be a woman in Hollywood", 45233: 'How film transforms the way we see the world', 2694: "The data behind Hollywood's sexism"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/jehane_noujaim_my_wish_a_global_day_of_film/ | Jehane Noujaim unveils her 2006 TED Prize wish: to bring the world together for one day a year through the power of film. | I can't help but this wish: to think about when you're a little kid, and all your friends ask you, "If a genie could give you one wish in the world, what would it be?" And I always answered, "Well, I'd want the wish to have the wisdom to know exactly what to wish for." Well, then you'd be screwed, because you'd know wh... |
58 | My wish: Help me stop pandemics | Larry Brilliant | {0: 'Larry Brilliant'} | {0: ['epidemiologist', 'philanthropist']} | {0: "TED Prize winner Larry Brilliant has spent his career solving the world's biggest problems, from overseeing the last smallpox cases to saving millions from blindness."} | 1,265,297 | 2006-02-23 | 2006-07-25 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'fr-ca', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 84 | 1,550 | ['TED Prize', 'collaboration', 'disease', 'ebola', 'global issues', 'health', 'science', 'technology'] | {1153: "How we'll stop polio for good", 869: 'HIV and flu -- the vaccine strategy', 1905: "Demo: A needle-free vaccine patch that's safer and way cheaper", 62748: 'A global pandemic calls for global solutions', 61301: 'How we must respond to the coronavirus pandemic', 61303: 'The quest for the coronavirus vaccine'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/larry_brilliant_my_wish_help_me_stop_pandemics/ | 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 identify and contain pandemics before they spread. | I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I got to see the last case of killer smallpox in the world. I was in India this past year, and I may have seen the last cases of polio in the world. There's nothing that makes you feel more — the blessing and the honor of working in a program like that — than to know that something th... |
54 | My wish: A call for open-source architecture | Cameron Sinclair | {0: 'Cameron Sinclair'} | {0: ['co-founder', 'architecture for humanity']} | {0: "2006 TED Prize winner Cameron Sinclair is co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit that seeks architecture solutions to global crises -- and acts as a conduit between the design community and the world's humanitarian needs."} | 1,341,358 | 2006-02-26 | 2006-07-25 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lt', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sq', 'sr', 'th', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 81 | 1,414 | ['activism', 'architecture', 'collaboration', 'culture', 'design', 'disaster relief', 'global issues', 'invention', 'open-source', 'philanthropy'] | {1749: 'Architecture for the people by the people', 2183: 'Why the buildings of the future will be shaped by ... you', 31: 'How architecture can connect us', 6496: 'The next generation of African architects and designers', 9687: 'How architecture can create dignity for all', 2532: "Architecture that's built to heal"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/cameron_sinclair_my_wish_a_call_for_open_source_architecture/ | Accepting his 2006 TED Prize, Cameron Sinclair demonstrates how passionate designers and architects can respond to world housing crises. He unveils his TED Prize wish for a network to improve global living standards through collaborative design. | I'm going to take you on a journey very quickly. To explain the wish, I'm going to have to take you somewhere where many people haven't been, and that's around the world. When I was about 24 years old, Kate Stohr and myself started an organization to get architects and designers involved in humanitarian work, not only ... |
41 | One Laptop per Child | Nicholas Negroponte | {0: 'Nicholas Negroponte'} | {0: ['tech visionary']} | {0: "The founder of the MIT Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte pushed the edge of the information revolution as an inventor, thinker and angel investor. He's the driving force behind One Laptop per Child, building computers for children in the developing world. "} | 473,268 | 2006-02-23 | 2006-08-01 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lt', 'my', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 103 | 1,057 | ['children', 'design', 'education', 'entrepreneur', 'global issues', 'philanthropy', 'social change', 'technology'] | {2043: 'A 30-year history of the future', 255: 'The thinking behind 50x15', 1678: 'Build a School in the Cloud', 2182: 'How to run a company with (almost) no rules', 66: 'Do schools kill creativity?', 865: 'Bring on the learning revolution!'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_negroponte_one_laptop_per_child/ | Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Laboratory, describes how the One Laptop Per Child project will build and distribute the "$100 laptop." | I've been at MIT for 44 years. I went to TED I. There's only one other person here, I think, who did that. All the other TEDs — and I went to them all, under Ricky's regime — I talked about what the Media Lab was doing, which today has almost 500 people in it. And if you read the press, last week it actually said I qui... |
65 | The radical promise of the multi-touch interface | Jeff Han | {0: 'Jeff Han'} | {0: ['human-computer interface designer']} | {0: 'After years of research on touch-driven computer displays, Jeff Han has created a simple, multi-touch, multi-user screen interface that just might herald the end of the point-and-click era. '} | 4,796,806 | 2006-02-06 | 2006-08-01 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sq', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 242 | 527 | ['demo', 'design', 'interface design', 'technology'] | {685: 'The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology', 872: 'Pointing to the future of UI', 1984: 'The best computer interface? Maybe ... your hands', 2410: 'Shape-shifting tech will change work as we know it', 1705: 'The technology of touch', 40636: 'Everything around you can become a computer'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_han_the_radical_promise_of_the_multi_touch_interface/ | Jeff Han shows off a cheap, scalable multi-touch and pressure-sensitive computer screen interface that may spell the end of point-and-click. | I'm really excited to be here today. I'll show you some stuff that's just ready to come out of the lab, literally, and I'm really glad that you guys are going to be among the first to see it in person, because I really think this is going to really change the way we interact with machines from this point on. Now, this ... |
46 | Improvising on piano, aged 14 | Jennifer Lin | {0: 'Jennifer Lin'} | {0: ['pianist', 'composer']} | {0: 'Concert pianist and composer Jennifer Lin was only 14 when she performed at TED, drawing tears with her extraordinary improvisation.'} | 1,818,509 | 2004-02-26 | 2006-08-08 | TED2004 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lv', 'mn', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sr', 'th', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 316 | 1,445 | ['creativity', 'entertainment', 'music', 'performance', 'piano', 'wunderkind', 'live music'] | {2273: 'An 11-year-old prodigy performs old-school jazz', 2100: 'Why I take the piano on the road ... and in the air', 1298: 'There are no mistakes on the bandstand', 1446: 'Beethoven the businessman', 2764: 'Why should you listen to Vivaldi\'s "Four Seasons"?', 286: 'The transformative power of classical music'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_lin_improvising_on_piano_aged_14/ | Pianist and composer Jennifer Lin gives a magical performance, talks about the process of creativity and improvises a moving solo piece based on a random sequence of notes. | (Music) (Music ends) (Applause) Thank you! (Applause continues) Thank you very much. Like the speaker before me — I am a TED virgin, I guess. I'm also the first time here, and ... (Laughter) I don't know what to say! (Applause) I'm really happy that Mr. Anderson invited me. I'm really grateful that I get a chance to pl... |
45 | An 11-year-old's magical violin | Sirena Huang | {0: 'Sirena Huang'} | {0: ['violinist']} | {0: 'Sirena Huang started taking violin lessons at age 4 and made her professional solo debut at 9 with the Taiwan Symphony Orchestra. She has won top prizes in numerous international competitions, delighting audiences worldwide with her virtuosity and charm. '} | 3,207,121 | 2006-02-23 | 2006-08-08 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lv', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'th', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 339 | 1,481 | ['entertainment', 'music', 'performance', 'violin', 'wunderkind', 'youth', 'live music'] | {2273: 'An 11-year-old prodigy performs old-school jazz', 2242: 'The dancer, the singer, the cellist ... and a moment of creative magic', 1156: 'On violin and cello, "Passacaglia"', 1446: 'Beethoven the businessman', 286: 'The transformative power of classical music', 2764: 'Why should you listen to Vivaldi\'s "Four Se... | https://www.ted.com/talks/sirena_huang_an_11_year_old_s_magical_violin/ | Violinist Sirena Huang gives a technically brilliant and emotionally nuanced performance. In a charming interlude, the 11-year-old praises the timeless design of her instrument. | (Music) (Music ends) (Applause) (Applause ends) Hi, everyone. I'm Sirena. I'm 11 years old and from Connecticut. (Audience cheers) (Applause) Well, I'm not really sure why I'm here. (Laughter) I mean, what does this have to do with technology, entertainment and design? Well, I count my iPod, cellphone and computer as t... |
2 | Simple designs to save a life | Amy Smith | {0: 'Amy Smith'} | {0: ['inventor', 'engineer']} | {0: 'Amy Smith designs cheap, practical fixes for tough problems in developing countries. Among her many accomplishments, the MIT engineer received a MacArthur "genius" grant in 2004 and was the first woman to win the Lemelson-MIT Prize for turning her ideas into inventions.'} | 1,724,438 | 2006-02-24 | 2006-08-15 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'fr-ca', 'he', 'hr', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 101 | 906 | ['MacArthur grant', 'alternative energy', 'design', 'engineering', 'global issues', 'industrial design', 'invention', 'simplicity'] | {1561: 'Energy from floating algae pods', 1072: "Using nature's genius in architecture", 1184: 'Cooking as never seen before', 1406: 'Inventing is the easy part. Marketing takes work', 767: 'Innovating to zero!', 285: 'A mobile fridge for vaccines'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_smith_simple_designs_to_save_a_life/ | 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 solution: a tool for turning farm waste into clean-burning charcoal. | In terms of invention, I'd like to tell you the tale of one of my favorite projects. I think it's one of the most exciting that I'm working on, but I think it's also the simplest. It's a project that has the potential to make a huge impact around the world. It addresses one of the biggest health issues on the planet, t... |
27 | Organic design, inspired by nature | Ross Lovegrove | {0: 'Ross Lovegrove'} | {0: ['industrial designer']} | {0: 'Known as "Captain Organic," Ross Lovegrove embraces nature as the inspiration for his "fat-free" design. Each object he creates -- be it bottle, chair, staircase or car -- is reduced to its essential elements. His pieces offer minimal forms of maximum beauty.'} | 1,272,803 | 2005-02-25 | 2006-08-15 | TED2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 168 | 1,170 | ['DNA', 'biology', 'creativity', 'design', 'industrial design', 'invention', 'nature', 'product design', 'science and art'] | {2251: 'Magical houses, made of bamboo', 174: 'My green agenda for architecture', 614: 'Biomimicry in action', 430: 'Organic algorithms in architecture', 1015: 'Creative houses from reclaimed stuff', 2274: 'The first secret of design is ... noticing'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/ross_lovegrove_organic_design_inspired_by_nature/ | Designer Ross Lovegrove expounds his philosophy of "fat-free" design and offers insight into several of his extraordinary products, including the Ty Nant water bottle and the Go chair. | My name is Lovegrove. I only know nine Lovegroves, two of which are my parents. They are first cousins, and you know what happens when, you know — (Laughter) So there's a terribly weird freaky side to me, which I'm fighting with all the time. So to try and get through today, I've kind of disciplined myself with an 18-m... |
37 | The birth of Wikipedia | Jimmy Wales | {0: 'Jimmy Wales'} | {0: ['founder of wikipedia']} | {0: 'With a vision for a free online encyclopedia, Wales assembled legions of volunteer contributors, gave them tools for collaborating, and created the self-organizing, self-correcting, ever-expanding, multilingual encyclopedia of the future.'} | 1,388,802 | 2005-07-14 | 2006-08-21 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lt', 'lv', 'my', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'sv', 'tr', 'uk', 'ur', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 89 | 1,201 | ['business', 'collaboration', 'culture', 'invention', 'media', 'open-source', 'technology', 'wikipedia'] | {640: 'The Web as random acts of kindness', 362: 'The Web as a city', 1295: 'Massive-scale online collaboration', 1268: '6 ways to save the internet', 46600: 'Inside the bizarre world of internet trolls and propagandists', 2474: 'The surprising habits of original thinkers'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/jimmy_wales_the_birth_of_wikipedia/ | Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia. | Charles Van Doren, who was later a senior editor of Britannica, said the ideal encyclopedia should be radical — it should stop being safe. But if you know anything about the history of Britannica since 1962, it was anything but radical: still a very completely safe, stodgy type of encyclopedia. Wikipedia, on the other ... |
25 | The birth of the open-source learning revolution | Richard Baraniuk | {0: 'Richard Baraniuk'} | {0: ['education visionary']} | {0: 'Richard Baraniuk founded Connexions -- now called OpenStax -- a free, open-source, global clearinghouse of course materials. Students and educators tap into its vast store of texts on everything from engineering to ornithology to music, adapting the content as they see fit.'} | 1,137,837 | 2006-02-23 | 2006-08-21 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 109 | 1,114 | ['business', 'collaboration', 'culture', 'global issues', 'library', 'open-source', 'technology'] | {1913: 'Why massive open online courses (still) matter', 1531: "What we're learning from online education", 1570: 'The self-organizing computer course', 37: 'The birth of Wikipedia', 1377: 'The power of introverts', 1295: 'Massive-scale online collaboration'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_baraniuk_the_birth_of_the_open_source_learning_revolution/ | In 2006, open-learning visionary Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions (now called OpenStax), an open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely, anywhere in the world. | I'm Rich Baraniuk and what I'd like to talk a little bit about today are some ideas that I think have just tremendous resonance with all the things that have been talked about the last two days. So many different points of resonance that it's going to be difficult to bring them all up, but I'll try to do my best. Does ... |
87 | Nerdcore comedy | Ze Frank | {0: 'Ze Frank'} | {0: ['web humorist']} | {0: 'Ze Frank has been involved in online comedy, web toys and virtually shared experiences for the past 20 years as an influencer, performer, executive and mischief maker.'} | 7,049,090 | 2004-02-24 | 2006-08-25 | TED2004 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lt', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sl', 'sr', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 193 | 1,136 | ['collaboration', 'comedy', 'community', 'culture', 'dance', 'demo', 'entertainment', 'software', 'performance', 'humor'] | {148: 'The 4 a.m. mystery', 981: 'My web playroom', 2049: 'Are you human?', 2792: 'How to find a wonderful idea', 50574: 'The pride and power of representation in film', 396: 'Fashion and creativity'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/ze_frank_nerdcore_comedy/ | Performer and web toymaker Ze Frank delivers a hilarious nerdcore standup routine, then tells us what he's seriously passionate about: helping people create and interact using simple, addictive web tools. | You know, when Chris first approached me to speak at TED, I said no, because I felt like I wasn't going to be able to make that personal connection, you know, that I wanted to. It's such a large conference. But he explained to me that he was in a bind, and that he was having trouble finding the kind of sex appeal and s... |
21 | Meet the founder of the blog revolution | Mena Trott | {0: 'Mena Trott'} | {0: ['blogger; cofounder', 'six apart']} | {0: 'Mena Trott and her husband Ben founded Six Apart in a spare bedroom after the blogging software they developed grew beyond a hobby. With products Movable Type, TypePad, LiveJournal and Vox, the company has helped lead the "social media" revolution.'} | 565,712 | 2006-02-23 | 2006-08-25 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 52 | 1,006 | ['business', 'communication', 'community', 'culture', 'design', 'entertainment', 'software', 'storytelling'] | {144: "The Web's secret stories", 1282: 'The technology of storytelling', 1379: 'The clues to a great story', 87: 'Nerdcore comedy', 2302: 'When online shaming goes too far', 46600: 'Inside the bizarre world of internet trolls and propagandists'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/mena_trott_meet_the_founder_of_the_blog_revolution/ | 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 people the power to share our lives online is the key to building a friendlier, more connected world. | Over the past couple of days, as I've been preparing for my speech, I've become more and more nervous about what I'm going to say and about being on the same stage as all these fascinating people. Being on the same stage as Al Gore, who was the first person I ever voted for. And — (Laughter) So I was getting pretty ner... |
16 | Why we love, why we cheat | Helen Fisher | {0: 'Helen Fisher'} | {0: ['anthropologist', 'expert on love']} | {0: 'Anthropologist Helen Fisher studies gender differences and the evolution of human emotions. She’s best known as an expert on romantic love.'} | 11,430,399 | 2006-02-24 | 2006-09-06 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 605 | 1,407 | ['cognitive science', 'culture', 'evolution', 'gender', 'love', 'psychology', 'relationships', 'science'] | {307: 'The brain in love', 374: 'Aliens, love -- where are they?', 1669: 'The secret to desire in a long-term relationship', 2590: "Technology hasn't changed love. Here's why", 31375: '3 ways to build a happy marriage and avoid divorce', 2661: 'A better way to talk about love'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/helen_fisher_why_we_love_why_we_cheat/ | Anthropologist Helen Fisher takes on a tricky topic – love – and explains its evolution, its biochemical foundations and its social importance. She closes with a warning about the potential disaster inherent in antidepressant abuse. | I'd like to talk today about the two biggest social trends in the coming century, and perhaps in the next 10,000 years. But I want to start with my work on romantic love, because that's my most recent work. What I and my colleagues did was put 32 people, who were madly in love, into a functional MRI brain scanner. 17 w... |
64 | Happiness in body and soul | Eve Ensler | {0: 'Eve Ensler'} | {0: ['playwright', 'activist']} | {0: 'Eve Ensler created the groundbreaking "Vagina Monologues," whose success propelled her to found V-Day -- a movement to end violence against women and girls everywhere.'} | 1,329,537 | 2004-02-04 | 2006-09-06 | TED2004 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'sv', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 121 | 1,225 | ['culture', 'entertainment', 'gender', 'global issues', 'happiness', 'performance', 'storytelling', 'theater', 'women'] | {217: 'What security means to me', 751: 'Embrace your inner girl', 1753: "Violence against women -- it's a men's issue", 2175: 'My mother’s strange definition of empowerment', 2288: 'Meet the women fighting on the front lines of an American war', 2394: 'A hilarious celebration of lifelong female friendship'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/eve_ensler_happiness_in_body_and_soul/ | Eve Ensler, creator of "The Vagina Monologues," shares how a discussion about menopause with her friends led to talking about all sorts of sexual acts onstage, waging a global campaign to end violence toward women and finding her own happiness. | I bet you're worried. (Laughter) I was worried. That's why I began this piece. I was worried about vaginas. I was worried what we think about vaginas and even more worried that we don't think about them. I was worried about my own vagina. It needed a context, a culture, a community of other vaginas. There is so much da... |
98 | Why the universe seems so strange | Richard Dawkins | {0: 'Richard Dawkins'} | {0: ['evolutionary biologist']} | {0: 'Oxford professor Richard Dawkins has helped steer evolutionary science into the 21st century, and his concept of the "meme" contextualized the spread of ideas in the information age. In recent years, his devastating critique of religion has made him a leading figure in the New Atheism.'} | 4,032,164 | 2005-07-07 | 2006-09-12 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'az', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'ko', 'lt', 'lv', 'mr', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sr', 'sv', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 533 | 1,316 | ['astronomy', 'biology', 'cognitive science', 'cosmos', 'evolution', 'physics', 'psychology', 'science'] | {1276: 'Science versus wonder?', 1160: 'Making sense of a visible quantum object', 516: 'Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere', 2862: 'The fascinating physics of everyday life', 15555: 'How I made friends with reality', 49223: 'Are we living in a simulation?'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_dawkins_why_the_universe_seems_so_strange/ | Biologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for "thinking the improbable" by looking at how the human frame of reference limits our understanding of the universe. | My title: "Queerer than we can suppose: the strangeness of science." "Queerer than we can suppose" comes from J.B.S. Haldane, the famous biologist, who said, "Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I suspect that there are more things in heaven a... |
47 | Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars | David Deutsch | {0: 'David Deutsch'} | {0: ['physicist', 'author']} | {0: 'A pioneer in quantum computation and quantum information theory, David Deutsch now seeks to define the boundaries between the possible and the impossible.'} | 2,554,136 | 2005-07-14 | 2006-09-12 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'az', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sr', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 206 | 1,140 | ['climate change', 'cosmos', 'culture', 'environment', 'global issues', 'physics', 'science', 'technology', 'universe'] | {2237: 'How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe', 701: 'The hunt for a supermassive black hole', 1095: 'The sound the universe makes', 1386: 'Questions no one knows the answers to', 50792: 'After billions of years of monotony, the universe is waking up', 242: 'Questioning the universe'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/david_deutsch_chemical_scum_that_dream_of_distant_quasars/ | Legendary scientist David Deutsch puts theoretical physics on the back burner to discuss a more urgent matter: the survival of our species. The first step toward solving global warming, he says, is to admit that we have a problem. | We've been told to go out on a limb and say something surprising. So I'll try and do that, but I want to start with two things that everyone already knows. And the first one, in fact, is something that has been known for most of recorded history, and that is, that the planet Earth, or the solar system, or our environme... |
20 | Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce | Malcolm Gladwell | {0: 'Malcolm Gladwell'} | {0: ['writer']} | {0: "Detective of fads and emerging subcultures, chronicler of jobs-you-never-knew-existed, Malcolm Gladwell's work is toppling the popular understanding of bias, crime, food, marketing, race, consumers and intelligence."} | 8,677,098 | 2004-02-26 | 2006-09-19 | TED2004 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'fr-ca', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lt', 'mk', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sr', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 369 | 1,050 | ['business', 'choice', 'consumerism', 'culture', 'economics', 'food', 'marketing', 'media', 'storytelling'] | {93: 'The paradox of choice', 28: 'How to get your ideas to spread', 1831: 'The unheard story of David and Goliath', 1437: 'Perspective is everything', 1706: 'What makes us feel good about our work?', 2182: 'How to run a company with (almost) no rules'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_choice_happiness_and_spaghetti_sauce/ | "Tipping Point" author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce -- and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness. | I think I was supposed to talk about my new book, which is called "Blink," and it's about snap judgments and first impressions. And it comes out in January, and I hope you all buy it in triplicate. (Laughter) But I was thinking about this, and I realized that although my new book makes me happy, and I think would make ... |
29 | The freakonomics of crack dealing | Steven Levitt | {0: 'Steven Levitt'} | {0: ['economist']} | {0: "Steven Levitt's eye-opening <em>Freakonomics</em> took economic theory into the real world of suburban parenting and urban drug gangs, turning conventional wisdom upside-down."} | 4,140,957 | 2004-02-27 | 2006-09-19 | TED2004 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'tr', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 98 | 1,275 | ['business', 'cities', 'culture', 'economics', 'race', 'narcotics'] | {20: 'Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce', 2247: "How we're priming some kids for college — and others for prison", 1897: 'Does money make you mean?', 43333: 'The political power of being a good neighbor', 2261: 'How we cut youth violence in Boston by 79 percent', 2299: 'Everything you think you know about addiction... | https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_levitt_the_freakonomics_of_crack_dealing/ | "Freakonomics" author Steven Levitt presents new data on the finances of drug dealing. Contrary to popular myth, he says, being a street-corner crack dealer isn't lucrative: It pays below minimum wage. And your boss can kill you. | You'll be happy to know that I'll be talking not about my own tragedy, but other people's tragedy. It's a lot easier to be lighthearted about other people's tragedy than your own, and I want to keep it in the spirit of the conference. So, if you believe the media accounts, being a drug dealer in the height of the crack... |
97 | The surprising science of happiness | Dan Gilbert | {0: 'Dan Gilbert'} | {0: ['psychologist; happiness expert']} | {0: 'Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong -- a premise he supports with intriguing research, and explains in his accessible and unexpectedly funny book, <em>Stumbling on Happiness.</em>'} | 18,645,468 | 2004-02-02 | 2006-09-26 | TED2004 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'gl', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'is', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lt', 'lv', 'mk', 'mn', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 1,051 | 1,276 | ['brain', 'choice', 'culture', 'evolution', 'happiness', 'psychology', 'science'] | {944: 'The Happy Planet Index', 1880: 'Want to be happy? Be grateful', 2162: 'Happy maps', 191: 'The habits of happiness', 312: 'The new era of positive psychology', 787: 'Plug into your hard-wired happiness'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_the_surprising_science_of_happiness/ | Dan 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 system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don't go as planned. | When you have 21 minutes to speak, two million years seems like a really long time. But evolutionarily, two million years is nothing. And yet, in two million years, the human brain has nearly tripled in mass, going from the one-and-a-quarter-pound brain of our ancestor here, Habilis, to the almost three-pound meatloaf ... |
93 | The paradox of choice | Barry Schwartz | {0: 'Barry Schwartz'} | {0: ['psychologist']} | {0: "Barry Schwartz studies the link between economics and psychology, offering startling insights into modern life. Lately, working with Ken Sharpe, he's studying wisdom."} | 14,372,033 | 2005-07-15 | 2006-09-26 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'fr-ca', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'ko', 'ku', 'lt', 'lv', 'mk', 'mr', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sh', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 1,065 | 1,177 | ['business', 'choice', 'culture', 'decision-making', 'economics', 'happiness', 'personal growth', 'potential', 'psychology'] | {2023: 'How to make hard choices', 924: 'The art of choosing', 2044: 'Our unhealthy obsession with choice', 58010: 'How to make faster decisions', 10361: ' Do you really know why you do what you do?', 2799: 'Why you should define your fears instead of your goals'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_the_paradox_of_choice/ | Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied. | I'm going to talk to you about some stuff that's in this book of mine that I hope will resonate with other things you've already heard, and I'll try to make some connections myself, in case you miss them. But I want to start with what I call the "official dogma." The official dogma of what? The official dogma of all We... |
12 | Meet the future of cancer research | Eva Vertes | {0: 'Eva Vertes'} | {0: ['neuroscience and cancer researcher']} | {0: "Eva Vertes is a microbiology prodigy. Her discovery, at age 17, of a compound that stops fruit-fly brain cells from dying was regarded as a step toward curing Alzheimer's. Now she aims to find better ways to treat -- and avoid -- cancer."} | 1,141,552 | 2005-02-26 | 2006-10-02 | TED2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lv', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 227 | 1,129 | ['cancer', 'disease', 'health', 'science', 'technology', 'wunderkind'] | {2109: 'The future of early cancer detection?', 859: 'Can we eat to starve cancer?', 1498: "How I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's", 1229: 'Fighting a contagious cancer', 1343: 'Treating cancer with electric fields', 3231: 'We can hack our immune cells to fight cancer'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/eva_vertes_meet_the_future_of_cancer_research/ | 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 Alzheimer’s. | Thank you. It's really an honor and a privilege to be here spending my last day as a teenager. Today I want to talk to you about the future, but first I'm going to tell you a bit about the past. My story starts way before I was born. My grandmother was on a train to Auschwitz, the death camp. And she was going along th... |
39 | A roadmap to end aging | Aubrey de Grey | {0: 'Aubrey de Grey'} | {0: ['crusader against aging']} | {0: 'Aubrey de Grey, British researcher on aging, claims he has drawn a roadmap to defeat biological aging. He provocatively proposes that the first human beings who will live to 1,000 years old have already been born.'} | 4,357,286 | 2005-07-14 | 2006-10-02 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'ko', 'ms', 'my', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sq', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 624 | 1,365 | ['aging', 'biotech', 'disease', 'engineering', 'future', 'health care', 'science', 'technology'] | {252: 'Your genes are not your fate', 142: 'The potential of regenerative medicine', 12: 'Meet the future of cancer research', 515: 'To upgrade is human', 44: 'A philosophical quest for our biggest problems', 727: 'How to live to be 100+'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_a_roadmap_to_end_aging/ | Cambridge 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, all of which can be averted. | 18 minutes is an absolutely brutal time limit, so I'm going to dive straight in, right at the point where I get this thing to work. Here we go. I'm going to talk about five different things. I'm going to talk about why defeating aging is desirable. I'm going to talk about why we have to get our shit together, and actua... |
91 | Invest in Africa's own solutions | Jacqueline Novogratz | {0: 'Jacqueline Novogratz'} | {0: ['investor and advocate for moral leadership']} | {0: 'Jacqueline Novogratz works to enable human flourishing. Her organization, Acumen, invests in people, companies and ideas that see capital and networks as means, not ends, to solving the toughest issues of poverty.'} | 1,031,469 | 2005-07-01 | 2006-10-10 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sq', 'sr', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 60 | 773 | ['business', 'culture', 'entrepreneur', 'investment', 'microfinance', 'philanthropy', 'poverty', 'global development'] | {2213: 'In praise of macro -- yes, macro -- finance in Africa', 154: 'Why invest in Africa', 127: 'Want to help Africa? Do business here', 157: 'Patient capitalism', 644: 'A third way to think about aid', 847: 'Social experiments to fight poverty'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/jacqueline_novogratz_invest_in_africa_s_own_solutions/ | Jacqueline Novogratz applauds the world's heightened interest in Africa and poverty, but argues persuasively for a new approach. | I want to start with a story, a la Seth Godin, from when I was 12 years old. My uncle Ed gave me a beautiful blue sweater — at least I thought it was beautiful. And it had fuzzy zebras walking across the stomach, and Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru were kind of right across the chest, that were also fuzzy. And I wore ... |
79 | How mobile phones can fight poverty | Iqbal Quadir | {0: 'Iqbal Quadir'} | {0: ['founder', 'grameenphone']} | {0: 'Iqbal Quadir is an advocate of business as a humanitarian tool. With GrameenPhone, he brought the first commercial telecom services to poor areas of Bangladesh. His latest project will help rural entrepreneurs build power plants.'} | 593,410 | 2005-07-13 | 2006-10-10 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 77 | 952 | ['alternative energy', 'business', 'communication', 'culture', 'global issues', 'invention', 'investment', 'microfinance', 'poverty', 'technology', 'telecom', 'transportation', 'global development'] | {270: 'The "bottom billion"', 157: 'Patient capitalism', 288: 'One Laptop per Child, two years on', 2114: 'Should you donate differently?', 2105: 'The hidden force in global economics: sending money home', 1599: 'How open data is changing international aid'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/iqbal_quadir_how_mobile_phones_can_fight_poverty/ | 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 connecting 80 million rural Bangladeshi -- and to become a champion of bottom-up development. | I'll just take you to Bangladesh for a minute. Before I tell that story, we should ask ourselves the question: Why does poverty exist? I mean, there is plenty of knowledge and scientific breakthroughs. We all live in the same planet, but there's still a great deal of poverty in the world. And I think — so I want to thr... |
3 | How to rebuild a broken state | Ashraf Ghani | {0: 'Ashraf Ghani'} | {0: ['president-elect of afghanistan']} | {0: 'Ashraf Ghani, Afghanistan’s new president-elect, and his opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, will share power in a national unity government. He previously served as Finance Minister and as a chancellor of Kabul University.'} | 981,920 | 2005-07-12 | 2006-10-18 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'ps', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 75 | 1,125 | ['business', 'corruption', 'culture', 'economics', 'entrepreneur', 'global issues', 'investment', 'military', 'global development', 'poverty', 'politics', 'policy'] | {127: 'Want to help Africa? Do business here', 1929: 'We need money for aid. So let’s print it.', 584: 'New rules for rebuilding a broken nation', 270: 'The "bottom billion"', 152: 'Aid versus trade', 1321: 'In defense of dialogue'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/ashraf_ghani_how_to_rebuild_a_broken_state/ | Ashraf Ghani's passionate and powerful 10-minute talk, emphasizing the necessity of both economic investment and design ingenuity to rebuild broken states, is followed by a conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson on the future of Afghanistan. | A public, Dewey long ago observed, is constituted through discussion and debate. If we are to call the tyranny of assumptions into question, and avoid doxa, the realm of the unquestioned, then we must be willing to subject our own assumptions to debate and discussion. It is in this spirit that I join into a discussion ... |
75 | Why we should invest in a free press | Sasa Vucinic | {0: 'Sasa Vucinic'} | {0: ['nonprofit venture capitalist']} | {0: "Sasa Vucinic's Media Development Loan Fund applies venture-capital principles to create a sustainable free press in developing nations and countries emerging from repressive regimes."} | 658,021 | 2005-07-14 | 2006-10-18 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 43 | 1,080 | ['business', 'culture', 'global issues', 'investment', 'media', 'philanthropy'] | {91: "Invest in Africa's own solutions", 170: 'My journey into movies that matter', 23: 'Fight injustice with raw video', 983: 'Poverty, money -- and love', 803: "Let's simplify legal jargon!", 1949: 'My wish: To launch a new era of openness in business'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/sasa_vucinic_why_we_should_invest_in_a_free_press/ | A free press -- papers, magazines, radio, TV, blogs -- is the backbone of any true democracy (and a vital watchdog on business). Sasa Vucinic, a journalist from Belgrade, talks about his new fund, which supports media by selling "free press bonds." | Video: Narrator: An event seen from one point of view gives one impression. Seen from another point of view, it gives quite a different impression. But it's only when you get the whole picture you can fully understand what's going on. Sasha Vucinic: It's a great clip, isn't it? And I found that in 29 seconds, it tells ... |
4 | The real future of space exploration | Burt Rutan | {0: 'Burt Rutan'} | {0: ['aircraft engineer']} | {0: "In 2004, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan won the $10M Ansari X-Prize for <em>SpaceShipOne,</em> the first privately funded craft to enter space twice in a two-week period. He's now collaborating with Virgin Galactic to build the first rocketship for space tourism."} | 2,427,994 | 2006-02-24 | 2006-10-25 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'az', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hi', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'mk', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 196 | 1,177 | ['NASA', 'aircraft', 'business', 'design', 'engineering', 'entrepreneur', 'flight', 'industrial design', 'invention', 'rocket science'] | {141: "Inside the world's deepest caves", 264: 'The astonishing hidden world of the deep ocean', 335: 'Our next giant leap', 1402: 'From mach-20 glider to hummingbird drone', 429: 'My dream of a flying car', 292: "Stephen Hawking's zero g flight"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/burt_rutan_the_real_future_of_space_exploration/ | In this passionate talk, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan lambasts the US government-funded space program for stagnating and asks entrepreneurs to pick up where NASA has left off. | I want to start off by saying, Houston, we have a problem. We're entering a second generation of no progress in terms of human flight in space. In fact, we've regressed. We stand a very big chance of losing our ability to inspire our youth to go out and continue this very important thing that we as a species have alway... |
89 | Why did I ski to the North Pole? | Ben Saunders | {0: 'Ben Saunders'} | {0: ['polar explorer']} | {0: 'In 2004, Ben Saunders became the youngest person ever to ski solo to the North Pole. In 2013, he set out on another record-breaking expedition, this time to retrace Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the South Pole on foot.'} | 924,205 | 2005-02-24 | 2006-10-25 | TED2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lv', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 64 | 1,083 | ['climate change', 'culture', 'exploration', 'global issues', 'personal growth', 'potential', 'sports', 'technology', 'travel'] | {2292: 'The surprising thing I learned sailing solo around the world', 627: 'A leap from the edge of space', 2255: 'The joy of surfing in ice-cold water', 1631: 'Why bother leaving the house?', 586: 'My trek to the South Pole', 29160: 'The dangerous race for the South Pole'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/ben_saunders_why_did_i_ski_to_the_north_pole/ | Arctic explorer Ben Saunders recounts his harrowing solo ski trek to the North Pole, complete with engaging anecdotes, gorgeous photos and never-before-seen video. | This is me. My name is Ben Saunders. I specialize in dragging heavy things around cold places. On May 11th last year, I stood alone at the North geographic Pole. I was the only human being in an area one-and-a-half times the size of America, five-and-a-half thousand square miles. More than 2,000 people have climbed Eve... |
56 | My wish: Manufactured landscapes and green education | Edward Burtynsky | {0: 'Edward Burtynsky'} | {0: ['photographer']} | {0: "2005 TED Prize winner Edward Burtynsky has made it his life's work to document humanity's impact on the planet. His riveting photographs, as beautiful as they are horrifying, capture views of the Earth altered by mankind."} | 1,301,501 | 2005-02-17 | 2006-10-31 | TED2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'th', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 60 | 2,065 | ['TED Prize', 'art', 'cities', 'culture', 'design', 'environment', 'photography', 'pollution', 'social change'] | {279: 'Turning powerful stats into art', 84: 'My wish: Let my photographs bear witness', 40: 'The story of life in photographs', 634: '3 warp-speed architecture tales', 1236: "The generation that's remaking China", 1554: "The voices of China's workers"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/edward_burtynsky_my_wish_manufactured_landscapes_and_green_education/ | Accepting his 2005 TED Prize, photographer Edward Burtynsky makes a wish: that his images -- stunning landscapes that document humanity's impact on the world -- help persuade millions to join a global conversation on sustainability. | Walk around for four months with three wishes, and all the ideas will start to percolate up. I think everybody should do it — think that you've got three wishes. And what would you do? It's actually a great exercise to really drill down to the things that you feel are important, and really reflect on the world around u... |
57 | My wish: Three unusual medical inventions | Robert Fischell | {0: 'Robert Fischell'} | {0: ['biomedical inventor']} | {0: "Robert Fischell invented the rechargeable pacemaker, the implantable insulin pump, and devices that warn of epileptic seizures and heart attacks. Yet it's not just his inventive genius that makes him fascinating, but his determination to make the world a better place. "} | 521,529 | 2005-02-24 | 2006-10-31 | TED2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 33 | 1,609 | ['TED Prize', 'business', 'disease', 'health care', 'invention', 'medicine', 'science', 'technology'] | {82: 'Luke, a new prosthetic arm for soldiers', 142: 'The potential of regenerative medicine', 280: 'Robots inspired by cockroach ingenuity', 31377: 'A life-saving device that detects silent heart attacks', 24443: 'What happens during a heart attack?', 2555: 'A new way to heal hearts without surgery'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_fischell_my_wish_three_unusual_medical_inventions/ | Accepting his 2005 TED Prize, inventor Robert Fischell makes three wishes: redesigning a portable device that treats migraines, finding new cures for clinical depression and reforming the medical malpractice system. | I'm going to discuss with you three of my inventions that can have an effect on 10 to a 100 million people, which we will hope to see happen. We discussed, in the prior film, some of the old things that we did, like stents and insulin pumps for the diabetic. And I'd like to talk very briefly about three new inventions ... |
59 | My wish: Three actions for Africa | Bono | {0: ' Bono'} | {0: ['musician', 'activist']} | {0: 'Bono, the lead singer of U2, uses his celebrity to fight for social justice worldwide: to end hunger, poverty and disease, especially in Africa. His nonprofit ONE raises awareness via media, policy and calls to action.'} | 835,982 | 2005-02-24 | 2006-10-31 | TED2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'th', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 113 | 1,672 | ['AIDS', 'Africa', 'activism', 'entertainment', 'global issues', 'philanthropy', 'poverty', 'social change'] | {156: 'How to educate leaders? Liberal arts', 157: 'Patient capitalism', 127: 'Want to help Africa? Do business here', 330: 'How I became an activist', 154: 'Why invest in Africa', 232: 'My wish: Find the next Einstein in Africa'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/bono_my_wish_three_actions_for_africa/ | 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 emergency. | Well, as Alexander Graham Bell famously said on his first successful telephone call, "Hello, is that Domino's Pizza?" (Laughter) I just really want to thank you very much. As another famous man, Jerry Garcia, said, "What a strange, long trip." And he should have said, "What a strange, long trip it's about to become." A... |
22 | Why people believe weird things | Michael Shermer | {0: 'Michael Shermer'} | {0: ['skeptic']} | {0: "Michael Shermer debunks myths, superstitions and urban legends -- and explains why we believe them. Along with publishing Skeptic Magazine, he's author of Why People Believe Weird Things and The Mind of the Market."} | 7,386,359 | 2006-02-23 | 2006-11-08 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'az', 'bg', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'gu', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'ko', 'ku', 'lt', 'lv', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 530 | 805 | ['culture', 'entertainment', 'faith', 'illusion', 'religion', 'science'] | {666: 'A new way to explain explanation', 2178: '9 myths about psychology, debunked', 333: 'What we think we know', 426: 'Play! Experiment! Discover!', 1245: 'Open science now!', 11327: 'Need a new idea? Start at the edge of what is known'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shermer_why_people_believe_weird_things/ | Why do people see the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich or hear demonic lyrics in "Stairway to Heaven"? Using video and music, skeptic Michael Shermer shows how we convince ourselves to believe -- and overlook the facts. | I'm Michael Shermer, director of the Skeptics Society, publisher of "Skeptic" magazine. We investigate claims of the paranormal, pseudo-science, fringe groups and cults, and claims of all kinds between, science and pseudo-science and non-science and junk science, voodoo science, pathological science, bad science, non-s... |
67 | How juries are fooled by statistics | Peter Donnelly | {0: 'Peter Donnelly'} | {0: ['mathematician; statistician']} | {0: "Peter Donnelly is an expert in probability theory who applies statistical methods to genetic data -- spurring advances in disease treatment and insight on our evolution. He's also an expert on DNA analysis, and an advocate for sensible statistical analysis in the courtroom."} | 1,287,967 | 2005-07-14 | 2006-11-08 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 109 | 1,280 | ['culture', 'genetics', 'science', 'statistics', 'technology'] | {92: "The best stats you've ever seen", 22: 'Why people believe weird things', 143: 'Flip your thinking on AIDS in Africa', 2004: 'The hunt for "unexpected genetic heroes"', 408: 'The coming neurological epidemic', 571: "Learning from the gecko's tail"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_donnelly_how_juries_are_fooled_by_statistics/ | Oxford mathematician Peter Donnelly reveals the common mistakes humans make in interpreting statistics -- and the devastating impact these errors can have on the outcome of criminal trials. | As other speakers have said, it's a rather daunting experience — a particularly daunting experience — to be speaking in front of this audience. But unlike the other speakers, I'm not going to tell you about the mysteries of the universe, or the wonders of evolution, or the really clever, innovative ways people are atta... |
19 | How technology evolves | Kevin Kelly | {0: 'Kevin Kelly'} | {0: ['digital visionary']} | {0: 'There may be no one better to contemplate the meaning of cultural change than Kevin Kelly, whose life story reads like a treatise on the value and impacts of technology.'} | 2,060,305 | 2005-02-24 | 2006-11-14 | TED2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'fr-ca', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sq', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 160 | 1,200 | ['choice', 'culture', 'evolution', 'future', 'history', 'philosophy', 'science', 'technology'] | {319: 'The next 5,000 days of the web', 38: 'The accelerating power of technology', 190: 'The anthropology of mobile phones', 1131: 'Are we ready for neo-evolution?', 1346: 'Back to the future (of 1994)', 72: "Technology's long tail"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_how_technology_evolves/ | Tech enthusiast Kevin Kelly asks "What does technology want?" and discovers that its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like the evolution of life. | I don't know about you, but I haven't quite figured out exactly what technology means in my life. I've spent the past year thinking about what it really should be about. Should I be pro-technology? Should I embrace it full arms? Should I be wary? Like you, I'm very tempted by the latest thing. But at the other hand, a ... |
38 | The accelerating power of technology | Ray Kurzweil | {0: 'Ray Kurzweil'} | {0: ['inventor', 'futurist']} | {0: "Ray Kurzweil is an engineer who has radically advanced the fields of speech, text and audio technology. He's revered for his dizzying -- yet convincing -- writing on the advance of technology, the limits of biology and the future of the human species."} | 2,890,159 | 2005-02-24 | 2006-11-14 | TED2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'ur', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 247 | 1,376 | ['biotech', 'business', 'culture', 'future', 'invention', 'robots', 'science', 'technology'] | {19: 'How technology evolves', 129: "How PhotoSynth can connect the world's images", 351: 'Health and the human mind', 560: 'A university for the coming singularity', 1346: 'Back to the future (of 1994)', 72: "Technology's long tail"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/ray_kurzweil_the_accelerating_power_of_technology/ | Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness. | Well, it's great to be here. We've heard a lot about the promise of technology, and the peril. I've been quite interested in both. If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our projected needs for 2030. We can't do that today because solar panels are heav... |
23 | Fight injustice with raw video | Peter Gabriel | {0: 'Peter Gabriel'} | {0: ['musician', 'activist']} | {0: 'Peter Gabriel writes incredible songs but, as the co-founder of WITNESS and TheElders.org, is also a powerful human rights advocate.'} | 1,000,986 | 2006-02-23 | 2006-12-06 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sv', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 54 | 848 | ['activism', 'collaboration', 'culture', 'film', 'global issues', 'music', 'social change', 'storytelling', 'art'] | {75: 'Why we should invest in a free press', 170: 'My journey into movies that matter', 84: 'My wish: Let my photographs bear witness', 171: 'An Iraq war movie crowd-sourced from soldiers', 713: 'Photographing the hidden story', 615: 'The music of a war child'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_gabriel_fight_injustice_with_raw_video/ | Musician and activist Peter Gabriel shares his very personal motivation for standing up for human rights with the watchdog group WITNESS -- and tells stories of citizen journalists in action. | I love trees, and I'm very lucky, because we live near a wonderful arboretum, and Sundays, usually, I'd go there with my wife and now, with my four-year-old, and we'd climb in the trees, we'd play hide and seek. The second school I was at had big trees too, had a fantastic tulip tree, I think it was the biggest in the ... |
26 | If I controlled the Internet | Rives | {0: ' Rives'} | {0: ['performance poet', 'multimedia artist']} | {0: 'Performance artist and storyteller Rives has been called "the first 2.0 poet," using images, video and technology to bring his words to life. '} | 2,270,892 | 2006-11-30 | 2006-12-14 | TEDSalon 2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'fr-ca', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lt', 'my', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 99 | 247 | ['culture', 'entertainment', 'love', 'performance', 'philosophy', 'poetry'] | {148: 'The 4 a.m. mystery', 383: 'A story of mixed emoticons', 981: 'My web playroom', 2061: 'A Magna Carta for the web', 26913: 'The case for a decentralized internet', 1693: 'The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/rives_if_i_controlled_the_internet/ | How many poets could cram eBay, Friendster and Monster.com into 3-minute poem worthy of a standing ovation? Enjoy Rives' unique talent. | I wrote this poem after hearing a pretty well known actress tell a very well known interviewer on television, "I'm really getting into the Internet lately. I just wish it were more organized." So ... (Laughter) If I controlled the Internet, you could auction your broken heart on eBay. Take the money; go to Amazon; buy ... |
10 | The killer American diet that's sweeping the planet | Dean Ornish | {0: 'Dean Ornish'} | {0: ['physician', 'author']} | {0: "Dean Ornish is a clinical professor at UCSF and founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute. He's a leading expert on fighting illness -- particularly heart disease with dietary and lifestyle changes."} | 2,690,694 | 2006-02-23 | 2006-12-14 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'fr-ca', 'gl', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lv', 'mk', 'ms', 'my', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'uz', 'vi', 'zh', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 209 | 198 | ['culture', 'disease', 'food', 'global issues', 'health', 'health care', 'obesity', 'science'] | {263: "What's wrong with what we eat", 348: "What's wrong with school lunches", 248: 'How the news distorts our worldview', 377: 'Healing through diet', 24361: 'What is obesity?', 2194: 'How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/dean_ornish_the_killer_american_diet_that_s_sweeping_the_planet/ | Forget the latest disease in the news: Cardiovascular disease kills more people than everything else combined -- and it’s mostly preventable. Dr. Dean Ornish explains how changing our eating habits can save lives. | With all the legitimate concerns about AIDS and avian flu — and we'll hear about that from the brilliant Dr. Brilliant later today — I want to talk about the other pandemic, which is cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension — all of which are completely preventable for at least 95 percent of people just by changi... |
70 | 8 secrets of success | Richard St. John | {0: 'Richard St. John'} | {0: ['marketer', 'success analyst']} | {0: 'A self-described average guy who found success doing what he loved, Richard St. John spent more than a decade researching the lessons of success -- and distilling them into 8 words, 3 minutes and one successful book.'} | 14,580,918 | 2005-02-23 | 2006-12-14 | TED2005 | en | ['af', 'am', 'ar', 'arq', 'az', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et', 'eu', 'fa', 'fil', 'fr', 'fr-ca', 'gu', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'kk', 'km', 'ko', 'ku', 'lt', 'lv', 'mg', 'mk', 'ml', 'mn', 'mr', 'ms', 'my', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru',... | 642 | 210 | ['business', 'culture', 'entertainment', 'happiness', 'psychology', 'success', 'work'] | {66: 'Do schools kill creativity?', 202: '5 dangerous things you should let your kids do', 93: 'The paradox of choice', 1384: 'Why you will fail to have a great career', 2182: 'How to run a company with (almost) no rules', 2341: "Why some of us don't have one true calling"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_8_secrets_of_success/ | 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 unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success. | This is really a two-hour presentation I give to high school students, cut down to three minutes. And it all started one day on a plane, on my way to TED, seven years ago. And in the seat next to me was a high school student, a teenager, and she came from a really poor family. And she wanted to make something of her li... |
36 | The hidden world of shadow cities | Robert Neuwirth | {0: 'Robert Neuwirth'} | {0: ['author']} | {0: 'Robert Neuwirth’s writings on the street-level reality of the developing world have opened a new dialogue on development and economics.'} | 868,103 | 2005-07-14 | 2007-01-02 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 88 | 843 | ['business', 'cities', 'culture', 'entrepreneur', 'future', 'global issues', 'social change', 'poverty', 'policy', 'global development'] | {643: 'Photographs of secret sites', 1846: 'Ingenious homes in unexpected places', 2128: 'My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the process', 57144: 'What if the poor were part of city planning?', 1920: 'How architectural innovations migrate across borders', 1429: 'The 4 commandments of cities'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_neuwirth_the_hidden_world_of_shadow_cities/ | Robert Neuwirth, author of "Shadow Cities," finds the world's squatter sites -- where a billion people now make their homes -- to be thriving centers of ingenuity and innovation. He takes us on a tour. | Let me show you some images of what I consider to be the cities of tomorrow. So, that's Kibera, the largest squatter community in Nairobi. This is the squatter community in Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Bombay, India, what's called Mumbai these days. This is Hosinia, the largest and most urbanized favela in Rio de Jan... |
62 | Global priorities bigger than climate change | Bjorn Lomborg | {0: 'Bjorn Lomborg'} | {0: ['global prioritizer']} | {0: "Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg heads the Copenhagen Consensus, which has prioritized the world's greatest problems -- global warming, world poverty, disease -- based on how effective our solutions might be. It's a thought-provoking, even provocative list."} | 1,706,435 | 2005-02-02 | 2007-01-02 | TED2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'fr-ca', 'gl', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lv', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 529 | 1,001 | ['AIDS', 'Africa', 'business', 'choice', 'climate change', 'culture', 'disaster relief', 'economics', 'environment', 'future'] | {248: 'How the news distorts our worldview', 92: "The best stats you've ever seen", 143: 'Flip your thinking on AIDS in Africa', 85: 'My wish: Rebuilding Rwanda', 192: 'A critical look at geoengineering against climate change', 1746: 'The why and how of effective altruism'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/bjorn_lomborg_global_priorities_bigger_than_climate_change/ | Given $50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global warming? Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with surprising answers. | What I'd like to talk about is really the biggest problems in the world. I'm not going to talk about "The Skeptical Environmentalist" — probably that's also a good choice. (Laughter) But I am going talk about: what are the big problems in the world? And I must say, before I go on, I should ask every one of you to try a... |
69 | Dreams from endangered cultures | Wade Davis | {0: 'Wade Davis'} | {0: ['anthropologist', 'ethnobotanist']} | {0: 'A National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, Wade Davis has been described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.”'} | 4,091,467 | 2003-02-03 | 2007-01-09 | TED2003 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'bn', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'kn', 'ko', 'lt', 'lv', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'sw', 'ta', 'te', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'ur', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 398 | 1,321 | ['anthropology', 'culture', 'environment', 'film', 'global issues', 'language', 'photography', 'indigenous peoples'] | {273: 'The worldwide web of belief and ritual', 40: 'The story of life in photographs', 34: 'Photos of endangered cultures', 2141: "What the people of the Amazon know that you don't", 1729: 'The silent drama of photography', 299: 'A hero of the Congo forest'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/wade_davis_dreams_from_endangered_cultures/ | With stunning photos and stories, National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous cultures, which are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate. | You know, one of the intense pleasures of travel and one of the delights of ethnographic research is the opportunity to live amongst those who have not forgotten the old ways, who still feel their past in the wind, touch it in stones polished by rain, taste it in the bitter leaves of plants. Just to know that Jaguar sh... |
34 | Photos of endangered cultures | Phil Borges | {0: 'Phil Borges'} | {0: ['photographer']} | {0: "Dentist-turned-photographer Phil Borges documents the world's disappearing cultures, capturing portraits of exiled Tibetan monks and many of the world’s embattled tribal and indigenous cultures."} | 1,045,853 | 2006-02-23 | 2007-01-09 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 62 | 1,115 | ['activism', 'culture', 'design', 'film', 'global issues', 'photography', 'social change', 'storytelling', 'art', 'indigenous peoples'] | {2264: "Gorgeous portraits of the world's vanishing people", 2141: "What the people of the Amazon know that you don't", 1789: 'Where is home?', 1009: 'What a bike ride can teach you', 713: 'Photographing the hidden story', 23: 'Fight injustice with raw video'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/phil_borges_photos_of_endangered_cultures/ | Photographer Phil Borges shows rarely seen images of people from the mountains of Dharamsala, India, and the jungles of the Ecuadorean Amazon. In documenting these endangered cultures, he intends to help preserve them. | A fact came out of MIT, couple of years ago. Ken Hale, who's a linguist, said that of the 6,000 languages spoken on Earth right now, 3,000 aren't spoken by the children. So that in one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity. He went on to say that every two weeks, an elder goes to the grave carrying th... |
42 | Is this our final century? | Martin Rees | {0: 'Martin Rees'} | {0: ['astrophysicist']} | {0: "Lord Martin Rees, one of the world's most eminent astronomers, is an emeritus professor of cosmology and astrophysics at the University of Cambridge and the UK's Astronomer Royal. He is one of our key thinkers on the future of humanity in the cosmos."} | 2,939,152 | 2005-07-14 | 2007-01-17 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'az', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lv', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sr', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 207 | 1,046 | ['astronomy', 'climate change', 'complexity', 'cosmos', 'science', 'social change', 'technology', 'time', 'universe'] | {167: '10 ways the world could end', 68: 'Progress is not a zero-sum game', 365: 'Why do societies collapse?', 876: 'Why we need the explorers', 468: 'Join the SETI search', 23913: 'Is there a center of the universe?'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/martin_rees_is_this_our_final_century/ | Speaking as both an astronomer and "a concerned member of the human race," Sir Martin Rees examines our planet and its future from a cosmic perspective. He urges action to prevent dark consequences from our scientific and technological development. | If you take 10,000 people at random, 9,999 have something in common: their interests in business lie on or near the Earth's surface. The odd one out is an astronomer, and I am one of that strange breed. (Laughter) My talk will be in two parts. I'll talk first as an astronomer, and then as a worried member of the human ... |
68 | Progress is not a zero-sum game | Robert Wright | {0: 'Robert Wright'} | {0: ['journalist', 'philosopher']} | {0: 'The best-selling author of "Nonzero," "The Moral Animal" and "The Evolution of God," Robert Wright draws on his wide-ranging knowledge of science, religion, psychology, history and politics to figure out what makes humanity tick -- and what makes us moral. '} | 1,777,327 | 2006-02-02 | 2007-01-17 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'uk', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 140 | 1,151 | ['culture', 'global issues', 'war', 'collaboration', 'evolutionary psychology'] | {163: 'The surprising decline in violence', 42: 'Is this our final century?', 341: 'The moral roots of liberals and conservatives', 801: 'Science can answer moral questions', 1642: 'How common threats can make common (political) ground', 216: 'The new power of collaboration'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_wright_progress_is_not_a_zero_sum_game/ | Author Robert Wright explains "non-zero-sumness" -- the network of linked fortunes and cooperation that has guided our evolution to this point -- and how we can use it to help save humanity today. | I've got apparently 18 minutes to convince you that history has a direction, an arrow; that in some fundamental sense, it's good; that the arrow points to something positive. Now, when the TED people first approached me about giving this upbeat talk — (Laughter) — that was before the cartoon of Muhammad had triggered g... |
63 | The era of open innovation | Charles Leadbeater | {0: 'Charles Leadbeater'} | {0: ['innovation consultant']} | {0: 'A researcher at the London think tank Demos, Charles Leadbeater was early to notice the rise of "amateur innovation" -- great ideas from outside the traditional walls, from people who suddenly have the tools to collaborate, innovate and make their expertise known.'} | 1,730,835 | 2005-07-14 | 2007-01-31 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 100 | 1,141 | ['business', 'collaboration', 'culture', 'economics', 'innovation', 'invention', 'media', 'open-source', 'product design'] | {216: 'The new power of collaboration', 247: 'The new open-source economics', 274: 'Institutions vs. collaboration', 1492: 'Four principles for the open world', 1855: 'Government -- investor, risk-taker, innovator', 255: 'The thinking behind 50x15'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/charles_leadbeater_the_era_of_open_innovation/ | In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms that companies can't. | What I'm going to do, in the spirit of collaborative creativity, is simply repeat many of the points that the three people before me have already made, but do them — this is called "creative collaboration;" it's actually called "borrowing" — but do it through a particular perspective, and that is to ask about the role ... |
61 | How the "ghost map" helped end a killer disease | Steven Johnson | {0: 'Steven Johnson'} | {0: ['writer']} | {0: 'Steven Berlin Johnson examines the intersection of science, technology and personal experience.'} | 863,250 | 2006-11-30 | 2007-01-31 | TEDSalon 2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'fr-ca', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lv', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sl', 'th', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 52 | 603 | ['cities', 'culture', 'design', 'health', 'history', 'map', 'science', 'urban planning', 'disease'] | {58: 'My wish: Help me stop pandemics', 2150: "Social maps that reveal a city's intersections — and separations", 12346: 'The genius of the London Tube Map', 1582: 'Making sense of maps', 1865: 'How an obese town lost a million pounds', 1840: "Let's treat violence like a contagious disease"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_how_the_ghost_map_helped_end_a_killer_disease/ | Author Steven Johnson takes us on a 10-minute tour of The Ghost Map, his book about a cholera outbreak in 1854 London and the impact it had on science, cities and modern society. | If you haven't ordered yet, I generally find the rigatoni with the spicy tomato sauce goes best with diseases of the small intestine. (Laughter) So, sorry — it just feels like I should be doing stand-up up here because of the setting. No, what I want to do is take you back to 1854 in London for the next few minutes, an... |
60 | Four American characters | Anna Deavere Smith | {0: 'Anna Deavere Smith'} | {0: ['actor', 'playwright', 'social critic']} | {0: "Anna Deavere Smith's ground-breaking solo shows blur the lines between theater and journalism, using text from real-life encounters to create gripping portraits."} | 1,214,012 | 2005-02-25 | 2007-02-09 | TED2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 114 | 1,385 | ['MacArthur grant', 'United States', 'culture', 'entertainment', 'history', 'interview', 'performance', 'performance art', 'race', 'sports', 'storytelling', 'theater'] | {86: 'Letting go of God', 26: 'If I controlled the Internet', 374: 'Aliens, love -- where are they?', 1378: 'We need to talk about an injustice', 347: 'Once upon a time, my mother ...', 527: 'A one-woman global village'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/anna_deavere_smith_four_american_characters/ | Writer and actor Anna Deavere Smith gives life to author Studs Terkel, convict Paulette Jenkins, a Korean shopkeeper and a bull rider, excerpts from her solo show "On the Road: A Search for American Character." | So my grandfather told me when I was a little girl, "If you say a word often enough, it becomes you." And having grown up in a segregated city, Baltimore, Maryland, I sort of use that idea to go around America with a tape recorder — thank God for technology — to interview people, thinking that if I walked in their word... |
48 | Everyday inventions | Saul Griffith | {0: 'Saul Griffith'} | {0: ['inventor']} | {0: 'Inventor Saul Griffith looks for elegant ways to make real things, from low-cost eyeglasses to a kite that tows boats. His latest projects include open-source inventions and elegant new ways to generate power.'} | 583,922 | 2006-02-23 | 2007-02-19 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 28 | 869 | ['MacArthur grant', 'collaboration', 'design', 'innovation', 'invention', 'materials', 'open-source', 'product design', 'technology'] | {90: 'Unleash your creativity in a Fab Lab', 2: 'Simple designs to save a life', 266: 'Designing objects that tell stories', 1707: 'The emergence of "4D printing"', 843: 'Computing a theory of all knowledge', 1215: 'Can we make things that make themselves?'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/saul_griffith_everyday_inventions/ | Inventor and MacArthur fellow Saul Griffith shares some innovative ideas from his lab -- from "smart rope" to a house-sized kite for towing large loads. | So anyway, who am I? I usually say to people, when they say, "What do you do?" I say, "I do hardware," because it sort of conveniently encompasses everything I do. And I recently said that to a venture capitalist casually at some Valley event, to which he replied, "How quaint." (Laughter) And I sort of really was dumbs... |
90 | Unleash your creativity in a Fab Lab | Neil Gershenfeld | {0: 'Neil Gershenfeld'} | {0: ['physicist', 'personal fab pioneer']} | {0: 'As Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, Neil Gershenfeld explores the boundaries between the digital and physical worlds.'} | 875,953 | 2006-02-02 | 2007-02-19 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 65 | 1,038 | ['computers', 'culture', 'engineering', 'invention', 'materials', 'science', 'social change', 'technology', 'education', 'code'] | {2: 'Simple designs to save a life', 48: 'Everyday inventions', 288: 'One Laptop per Child, two years on', 1570: 'The self-organizing computer course', 872: 'Pointing to the future of UI', 339: 'The web is more than "better TV"'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/neil_gershenfeld_unleash_your_creativity_in_a_fab_lab/ | 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 simple idea with powerful results. | This meeting has really been about a digital revolution, but I'd like to argue that it's done; we won. We've had a digital revolution but we don't need to keep having it. And I'd like to look after that, to look what comes after the digital revolution. So, let me start projecting forward. These are some projects I'm in... |
73 | In praise of slowness | Carl Honoré | {0: 'Carl Honoré'} | {0: ['writer', 'thinker', 'activist']} | {0: 'Carl Honoré loves words: the way they appear on the page, the music they make when spoken and their power to change the world.'} | 3,051,168 | 2005-07-07 | 2007-02-28 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'fr-ca', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lv', 'my', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sr', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 255 | 1,155 | ['choice', 'culture', 'happiness', 'health', 'parenting', 'personal growth', 'potential', 'psychology', 'work-life balance'] | {93: 'The paradox of choice', 263: "What's wrong with what we eat", 201: 'The lost art of letter-writing', 1069: 'How to make work-life balance work', 1580: 'Smart failure for a fast-changing world', 1126: 'On being wrong'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/carl_honore_in_praise_of_slowness/ | Journalist Carl Honore believes the Western world's emphasis on speed erodes health, productivity and quality of life. But there's a backlash brewing, as everyday people start putting the brakes on their all-too-modern lives. | What I'd like to start off with is an observation, which is that if I've learned anything over the last year, it's that the supreme irony of publishing a book about slowness is that you have to go around promoting it really fast. I seem to spend most of my time these days zipping from city to city, studio to studio, in... |
84 | My wish: Let my photographs bear witness | James Nachtwey | {0: 'James Nachtwey'} | {0: ['photojournalist']} | {0: 'Photojournalist James Nachtwey is considered by many to be the greatest war photographer of recent decades. He has covered conflicts and major social issues in more than 30 countries.'} | 1,656,033 | 2007-03-08 | 2007-04-03 | TED2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'uk', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 118 | 1,316 | ['activism', 'culture', 'global issues', 'media', 'photography', 'poverty', 'social change', 'storytelling', 'art', 'war'] | {56: 'My wish: Manufactured landscapes and green education', 69: 'Dreams from endangered cultures', 279: 'Turning powerful stats into art', 1651: 'What I saw in the war', 1003: 'The path to ending ethnic conflicts', 395: 'A complicated hero in the war on dictatorship'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/james_nachtwey_my_wish_let_my_photographs_bear_witness/ | 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 innovative, exciting uses of news photography in the digital era. | As someone who has spent his entire career trying to be invisible standing in front of an audience is a cross between an out-of-body experience and a deer caught in the headlights, so please forgive me for violating one of the TED commandments by relying on words on paper, and I only hope I'm not struck by lightning bo... |
83 | My wish: Build the Encyclopedia of Life | E.O. Wilson | {0: 'E.O. Wilson'} | {0: ['biologist']} | {0: 'Biologist E.O. Wilson explores the world of ants and other tiny creatures, and writes movingly about the way all creatures great and small are interdependent.'} | 1,607,366 | 2007-03-08 | 2007-04-03 | TED2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 90 | 1,355 | ['TED Prize', 'ants', 'biodiversity', 'biology', 'global issues', 'insects', 'nature', 'science', 'technology', 'ecology'] | {340: 'How humans and animals can live together', 40: 'The story of life in photographs', 299: 'A hero of the Congo forest', 2833: 'Meet the microscopic life in your home -- and on your face', 1131: 'Are we ready for neo-evolution?', 509: 'How bacteria "talk"'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/e_o_wilson_my_wish_build_the_encyclopedia_of_life/ | 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 encyclopedia of all the world's knowledge about life. | I have all my life wondered what "mind-boggling" meant. After two days here, I declare myself boggled, and enormously impressed, and feel that you are one of the great hopes — not just for American achievement in science and technology, but for the whole world. I've come, however, on a special mission on behalf of my c... |
85 | My wish: Rebuilding Rwanda | Bill Clinton | {0: 'Bill Clinton'} | {0: ['activist']} | {0: 'Through his William J. Clinton Foundation, former US President Bill Clinton has become a vital and innovative force for world change. He works in four critical areas: health, economic empowerment, citizen service, and reconciliation.'} | 936,832 | 2007-03-08 | 2007-04-03 | TED2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sq', 'ta', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 106 | 1,447 | ['Africa', 'TED Prize', 'business', 'culture', 'economics', 'global issues', 'health care', 'technology'] | {59: 'My wish: Three actions for Africa', 127: 'Want to help Africa? Do business here', 268: 'A hospital tour in Nigeria', 140: 'New insights on poverty', 249: 'World-class health care', 644: 'A third way to think about aid'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_clinton_my_wish_rebuilding_rwanda/ | Accepting the 2007 TED Prize, Bill Clinton asks for help in bringing health care to Rwanda -- and the rest of the world. | I thought in getting up to my TED wish I would try to begin by putting in perspective what I try to do and how it fits with what they try to do. We live in a world that everyone knows is interdependent, but insufficient in three major ways. It is, first of all, profoundly unequal: half the world's people still living o... |
9 | To invent is to give | Dean Kamen | {0: 'Dean Kamen'} | {0: ['inventor']} | {0: 'Dean Kamen landed in the limelight with the Segway, but he has been innovating since high school, with more than 150 patents under his belt. Recent projects include portable energy and water purification for the developing world, and a prosthetic arm for maimed soldiers.'} | 803,724 | 2002-02-02 | 2007-04-05 | TED2002 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 134 | 1,207 | ['business', 'cars', 'industrial design', 'innovation', 'invention', 'robots', 'science', 'social change', 'sustainability', 'technology', 'transportation'] | {2: 'Simple designs to save a life', 54: 'My wish: A call for open-source architecture', 90: 'Unleash your creativity in a Fab Lab', 1174: 'A future beyond traffic gridlock', 1886: 'Why buses represent democracy in action', 1704: 'A skateboard, with a boost'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/dean_kamen_to_invent_is_to_give/ | 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 developing countries). | As you pointed out, every time you come here, you learn something. This morning, the world's experts from I guess three or four different companies on building seats, I think concluded that ultimately, the solution is, people shouldn't sit down. I could have told them that. (Laughter) Yesterday, the automotive guys gav... |
77 | The shrimp with a kick! | Sheila Patek | {0: 'Sheila Patek'} | {0: ['biologist', 'biomechanics researcher']} | {0: "Biologist Sheila Patek is addicted to speed -- animal speed. She's measured the fastest animal movements in the world, made by snail-smashing mantis shrimp and the snapping mandibles of trap-jaw ants."} | 1,675,050 | 2004-02-25 | 2007-04-05 | TED2004 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 65 | 985 | ['biology', 'biomechanics', 'oceans', 'online video', 'science', 'technology'] | {126: 'Swim with the giant sunfish', 76: 'The gentle genius of bonobos', 145: 'The emergent genius of ant colonies', 280: 'Robots inspired by cockroach ingenuity', 1959: 'The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance', 195: 'The sticky wonder of gecko feet'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/sheila_patek_the_shrimp_with_a_kick/ | Biologist Sheila Patek talks about her work measuring the feeding strike of the mantis shrimp, one of the fastest movements in the animal world, using video cameras recording at 20,000 frames per second. | If you'd like to learn how to play the lobster, we have some here. And that's not a joke, we really do. So come up afterwards and I'll show you how to play a lobster. So, actually, I started working on what's called the mantis shrimp a few years ago because they make sound. This is a recording I made of a mantis shrimp... |
5 | Great cars are great art | Chris Bangle | {0: 'Chris Bangle'} | {0: ['car designer']} | {0: 'Car design is a ubiquitous but often overlooked art form. As chief of design for the BMW Group, Chris Bangle has overseen cars that have been seen the world over, including BMW 7 Series and the Z4 roadster.'} | 978,483 | 2002-02-02 | 2007-04-05 | TED2002 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sr', 'th', 'tr', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 81 | 1,204 | ['business', 'cars', 'design', 'industrial design', 'invention', 'technology', 'transportation', 'art'] | {4: 'The real future of space exploration', 266: 'Designing objects that tell stories', 27: 'Organic design, inspired by nature', 1506: 'The future race car -- 150mph, and no driver', 1724: 'If cars could talk, accidents might be avoidable', 1109: "Google's driverless car"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_bangle_great_cars_are_great_art/ | American designer Chris Bangle explains his philosophy that car design is an art form in its own right, with an entertaining -- and ultimately moving -- account of the BMW Group's Deep Blue project, intended to create the SUV of the future. | What I want to talk about is, as background, is the idea that cars are art. This is actually quite meaningful to me, because car designers tend to be a little bit low on the totem pole — we don't do coffee table books with just one lamp inside of it — and cars are thought so much as a product that it's a little bit dif... |
14 | Software (as) art | Golan Levin | {0: 'Golan Levin'} | {0: ['experimental audio-visual artist']} | {0: 'Half performance artist, half software engineer, Golan Levin manipulates the computer to create improvised soundscapes with dazzling corresponding visuals. He is at the forefront of defining new parameters for art.'} | 660,919 | 2004-02-27 | 2007-04-05 | TED2004 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 52 | 893 | ['art', 'entertainment', 'invention', 'music', 'performance', 'software', 'technology'] | {144: "The Web's secret stories", 241: 'A new kind of music video', 32: 'Art with wire, sugar, chocolate and string', 1571: 'How art, technology and design inform creative leaders', 606: 'Art that looks back at you', 1244: 'The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/golan_levin_software_as_art/ | Engineer and artist Golan Levin pushes the boundaries of what's possible with audiovisuals and technology. In an amazing TED display, he shows two programs he wrote to perform his original compositions. | Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you're a performance artist. (Laughter) I'm also a software engineer, and I make lots of different kinds of art with the computer. And I think the main thing that I'm interested in is trying to find a way of making the computer into a ... |
35 | How we discovered DNA | James Watson | {0: 'James Watson'} | {0: ['biologist', 'nobel laureate']} | {0: "Nobel laureate James Watson took part in one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century: the discovery of the structure of DNA. More than 50 years later, he continues to investigate biology's deepest secrets. "} | 1,920,813 | 2005-02-02 | 2007-04-05 | TED2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sq', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 129 | 1,211 | ['DNA', 'culture', 'genetics', 'history', 'invention', 'science', 'storytelling', 'technology'] | {83: 'My wish: Build the Encyclopedia of Life', 194: 'Beauty, truth and ... physics?', 147: 'Visualizing the wonder of a living cell', 1322: 'Animations of unseeable biology', 331: 'DNA folding, in detail', 39689: 'Can we cure genetic diseases by rewriting DNA?'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/james_watson_how_we_discovered_dna/ | Nobel laureate James Watson opens TED2005 with the frank and funny story of how he and his research partner, Francis Crick, discovered the structure of DNA. | Well, I thought there would be a podium, so I'm a bit scared. (Laughter) Chris asked me to tell again how we found the structure of DNA. And since, you know, I follow his orders, I'll do it. But it slightly bores me. (Laughter) And, you know, I wrote a book. So I'll say something — (Laughter) — I'll say a little about,... |
43 | Design is in the details | Paul Bennett | {0: 'Paul Bennett'} | {0: ['designer; creative director', 'ideo']} | {0: 'As a creative director at Ideo, Paul Bennett reminds us that design need not invoke grand gestures or sweeping statements to be successful, but instead can focus on the little things in life, the obvious, the overlooked.'} | 942,807 | 2005-07-14 | 2007-04-05 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 30 | 850 | ['business', 'design', 'industrial design', 'product design'] | {392: 'Tales of creativity and play', 266: 'Designing objects that tell stories', 172: 'Designing for simplicity', 646: 'Designers -- think big!', 207: 'Treat design as art', 122: 'Human-centered design'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_bennett_design_is_in_the_details/ | Showing a series of inspiring, unusual and playful products, British branding and design guru Paul Bennett explains that design doesn't have to be about grand gestures, but can solve small, universal and overlooked problems. | Hello. Actually, that's "hello" in Bauer Bodoni for the typographically hysterical amongst us. One of the threads that seems to have come through loud and clear in the last couple of days is this need to reconcile what the Big wants — the "Big" being the organization, the system, the country — and what the "Small" want... |
44 | A philosophical quest for our biggest problems | Nick Bostrom | {0: 'Nick Bostrom'} | {0: ['philosopher']} | {0: 'Nick Bostrom works on big questions: What should we do, as individuals and as a species, to optimize our long-term prospects?'} | 974,810 | 2005-07-14 | 2007-04-05 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'ko', 'mk', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'so', 'tr', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 138 | 1,012 | ['biotech', 'culture', 'future', 'global issues', 'happiness', 'philosophy', 'technology'] | {42: 'Is this our final century?', 19: 'How technology evolves', 68: 'Progress is not a zero-sum game', 39: 'A roadmap to end aging', 515: 'To upgrade is human', 801: 'Science can answer moral questions'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/nick_bostrom_a_philosophical_quest_for_our_biggest_problems/ | Oxford philosopher and transhumanist Nick Bostrom examines the future of humankind and asks whether we might alter the fundamental nature of humanity to solve our most intrinsic problems. | I want to talk today about — I've been asked to take the long view, and I'm going to tell you what I think are the three biggest problems for humanity from this long point of view. Some of these have already been touched upon by other speakers, which is encouraging. It seems that there's not just one person who thinks ... |
50 | Happiness by design | Stefan Sagmeister | {0: 'Stefan Sagmeister'} | {0: ['graphic designer']} | {0: 'Renowned for album covers, posters and his recent book of life lessons, designer Stefan Sagmeister invariably has a slightly different way of looking at things.'} | 2,199,376 | 2004-02-02 | 2007-04-05 | TED2004 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sq', 'sr', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 89 | 930 | ['art', 'design', 'happiness', 'typography', 'graphic design'] | {356: "Things I've learned in my life so far", 182: 'The illustrated woman', 172: 'Designing for simplicity', 1607: 'Want to be happier? Stay in the moment', 570: 'Happiness and its surprises', 1159: '7 rules for making more happiness'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/stefan_sagmeister_happiness_by_design/ | Graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister takes the audience on a whimsical journey through moments of his life that made him happy -- and notes how many of these moments have to do with good design. | About 15 years ago, I went to visit a friend in Hong Kong. And at the time I was very superstitious. So, upon landing — this was still at the old Hong Kong airport that's Kai Tak, when it was smack in the middle of the city — I thought, "If I see something good, I'm going to have a great time here in my two weeks. And ... |
80 | The life code that will reshape the future | Juan Enriquez | {0: 'Juan Enriquez'} | {0: ['author', 'academic', 'futurist']} | {0: 'Juan Enriquez thinks and writes about the profound changes that genomics and brain research will bring about in business, technology, politics and society.'} | 834,566 | 2003-02-02 | 2007-04-05 | TED2003 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 51 | 1,340 | ['DNA', 'biotech', 'business', 'culture', 'genetics', 'invention', 'science', 'technology'] | {227: 'On the verge of creating synthetic life', 35: 'How we discovered DNA', 331: 'DNA folding, in detail', 6: "Sampling the ocean's DNA", 437: 'Genomics 101', 863: 'Watch me unveil "synthetic life"'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_the_life_code_that_will_reshape_the_future/ | Scientific discoveries, futurist Juan Enriquez notes, demand a shift in code, and our ability to thrive depends on our mastery of that code. Here, he applies this notion to the field of genomics. | I'm supposed to scare you, because it's about fear, right? And you should be really afraid, but not for the reasons why you think you should be. You should be really afraid that — if we stick up the first slide on this thing — there we go — that you're missing out. Because if you spend this week thinking about Iraq and... |
18 | Biomimicry's surprising lessons from nature's engineers | Janine Benyus | {0: 'Janine Benyus'} | {0: ['science writer', 'innovation consultant', 'conservationist']} | {0: "A self-proclaimed nature nerd, Janine Benyus' concept of biomimicry has galvanized scientists, architects, designers and engineers into exploring new ways in which nature's successes can inspire humanity. "} | 2,419,765 | 2005-02-24 | 2007-04-05 | TED2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lv', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'tr', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 133 | 1,399 | ['DNA', 'animals', 'biology', 'biomimicry', 'design', 'environment', 'evolution', 'fish', 'science', 'technology'] | {280: 'Robots inspired by cockroach ingenuity', 198: 'The fractals at the heart of African designs', 258: '6 ways mushrooms can save the world', 614: 'Biomimicry in action', 1072: "Using nature's genius in architecture", 1561: 'Energy from floating algae pods'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_biomimicry_s_surprising_lessons_from_nature_s_engineers/ | In this inspiring talk about recent developments in biomimicry, Janine Benyus provides heartening examples of ways in which nature is already influencing the products and systems we build. | It is a thrill to be here at a conference that's devoted to "Inspired by Nature" — you can imagine. And I'm also thrilled to be in the foreplay section. Did you notice this section is foreplay? Because I get to talk about one of my favorite critters, which is the Western Grebe. You haven't lived until you've seen these... |
40 | The story of life in photographs | Frans Lanting | {0: 'Frans Lanting'} | {0: ['nature photographer']} | {0: "Frans Lanting is one of the greatest nature photographers of our time. His work has been featured in National Geographic, Audubon andTime, as well as numerous award-winning books. Lanting's recent exhibition, The LIFE Project, offers a lyrical interpretation of the history of life on Earth."} | 2,100,951 | 2005-02-02 | 2007-04-05 | TED2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lv', 'ml', 'mr', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sr', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 154 | 977 | ['animals', 'art', 'design', 'evolution', 'fish', 'nature', 'photography', 'storytelling', 'global commons'] | {69: 'Dreams from endangered cultures', 324: 'How photography connects us', 147: 'Visualizing the wonder of a living cell', 573: 'Life in Biosphere 2', 440: "A theory of Earth's mass extinctions", 49433: 'This ancient rock is changing our theory on the origin of life'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/frans_lanting_the_story_of_life_in_photographs/ | In this stunning slideshow, celebrated nature photographer Frans Lanting presents The LIFE Project, a poetic collection of photographs that tell the story of our planet, from its eruptive beginnings to its present diversity. Soundtrack by Philip Glass. | Nature's my muse and it's been my passion. As a photographer for National Geographic, I've portrayed it for many. But five years ago, I went on a personal journey. I wanted to visualize the story of life. It's the hardest thing I've ever attempted, and there have been plenty of times when I felt like backing out. But t... |
81 | Singing "What I Want" | Nora York | {0: 'Nora York'} | {0: ['singer', 'performance artist']} | {0: '"Philosopher diva" Nora York is an adventurous singer-songwriter with a drive to explore the human condition.'} | 440,504 | 2006-12-14 | 2007-04-05 | TEDSalon 2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'my', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sr', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 44 | 276 | ['entertainment', 'live music', 'music', 'poetry', 'singer', 'performance'] | {158: '"Thula Mama"', 110: '"Kiteflyer\'s Hill"', 117: 'Cape Breton fiddling in reel time', 946: 'The technology of the heart', 42248: '"The Nutritionist"', 24072: 'How the heart actually pumps blood'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/nora_york_singing_what_i_want/ | Nora York gives a stunning performance of her song "What I Want," with Jamie Lawrence (keyboards), Steve Tarshis (guitar) and Arthur Kell (bass). | I'd like to begin this song I wrote about ceaseless yearning and never-ending want with a poem of popular Petrarchan paradoxes by Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder: "I find no peace, and all my war is done; I fear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice; I fly above the wind, and yet I cannot arise; And naught I have, and all th... |
78 | Visual illusions that show how we (mis)think | Al Seckel | {0: 'Al Seckel'} | {0: ['master of visual illusions']} | {0: 'Al Seckel explored how eye tricks can reveal the way the brain processes visual information -- or fails to do so. Among his other accomplishments: He co-created the Darwin Fish.'} | 2,475,216 | 2004-02-26 | 2007-04-05 | TED2004 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'mk', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sr', 'sv', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 95 | 873 | ['brain', 'cognitive science', 'culture', 'design', 'illusion', 'psychology'] | {32: 'Art with wire, sugar, chocolate and string', 22: 'Why people believe weird things', 310: 'Brain magic', 50: 'Happiness by design', 1607: 'Want to be happier? Stay in the moment', 211: "TED's nonprofit transition"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/al_seckel_visual_illusions_that_show_how_we_mis_think/ | Al Seckel, an expert on illusions, explores the perceptual illusions that fool our brains. He shares loads of cool tricks to prove that not only are we easily fooled, we kind of like it. | We're going to talk — my — a new lecture, just for TED — and I'm going show you some illusions that we've created for TED, and I'm going to try to relate this to happiness. What I was thinking about with happiness is, what gives happiness — or happiness, which I equate with joy in my particular area, and I think there'... |
76 | The gentle genius of bonobos | Susan Savage-Rumbaugh | {0: 'Susan Savage-Rumbaugh'} | {0: ['primate authority']} | {0: 'Susan Savage-Rumbaugh has made startling breakthroughs in her lifelong work with chimpanzees and bonobos, showing the animals to be adept in picking up language and other "intelligent" behaviors.'} | 2,785,153 | 2004-02-02 | 2007-04-05 | TED2004 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lv', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 346 | 1,045 | ['animals', 'apes', 'biology', 'culture', 'evolution', 'genetics', 'intelligence', 'language'] | {340: 'How humans and animals can live together', 77: 'The shrimp with a kick!', 145: 'The emergent genius of ant colonies', 1102: "Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans", 2539: 'Why I keep speaking up, even when people mock my accent', 11: 'What separates us from chimpanzees?'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/susan_savage_rumbaugh_the_gentle_genius_of_bonobos/ | Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology -- and how much by cultural exposure. | I work with a species called "Bonobo." And I'm happy most of the time, because I think this is the happiest species on the planet. It's kind of a well-kept secret. This species lives only in the Congo. And they're not in too many zoos, because of their sexual behavior. Their sexual behavior is too human-like for most o... |
74 | The route to a sustainable future | Alex Steffen | {0: 'Alex Steffen'} | {0: ['planetary futurist']} | {0: "Alex Steffen explores our planet's future, telling powerful, inspiring stories about the hard choices facing humanity ... and our opportunity to create a much better tomorrow."} | 1,746,570 | 2005-07-07 | 2007-04-05 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'mk', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 107 | 1,054 | ['alternative energy', 'business', 'cities', 'collaboration', 'culture', 'design', 'environment', 'global issues', 'invention', 'sustainability'] | {104: 'Cradle to cradle design', 18: "Biomimicry's surprising lessons from nature's engineers", 266: 'Designing objects that tell stories', 174: 'My green agenda for architecture', 1207: 'The shareable future of cities', 9: 'To invent is to give'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_steffen_the_route_to_a_sustainable_future/ | Worldchanging.com founder Alex Steffen argues that reducing humanity’s ecological footprint is incredibly vital now, as the western consumer lifestyle spreads to developing countries. | When I'm starting talks like this, I usually do a whole spiel about sustainability because a lot of people out there don't know what that is. This is a crowd that does know what it is, so I'll like just do like the 60-second crib-note version. Right? So just bear with me. We'll go real fast, you know? Fill in the blank... |
6 | Sampling the ocean's DNA | Craig Venter | {0: 'Craig Venter'} | {0: ['biologist', 'genetics pioneer']} | {0: "In 2001, Craig Venter made headlines for sequencing the human genome. In 2003, he started mapping the ocean's biodiversity. And now he's created the first synthetic lifeforms -- microorganisms that can produce alternative fuels."} | 637,249 | 2005-02-24 | 2007-04-05 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 35 | 1,011 | ['DNA', 'biotech', 'entrepreneur', 'genetics', 'invention', 'oceans', 'science', 'technology', 'ecology', 'biology', 'biodiversity'] | {227: 'On the verge of creating synthetic life', 323: 'A family tree for humanity', 331: 'DNA folding, in detail', 437: 'Genomics 101', 863: 'Watch me unveil "synthetic life"', 80: 'The life code that will reshape the future'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/craig_venter_sampling_the_ocean_s_dna/ | 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 in its quest to map the ocean's biodiversity. | At the break, I was asked by several people about my comments about the aging debate. And this will be my only comment on it. And that is, I understand that optimists greatly outlive pessimists. (Laughter) What I'm going to tell you about in my 18 minutes is how we're about to switch from reading the genetic code to th... |
32 | Art with wire, sugar, chocolate and string | Vik Muniz | {0: 'Vik Muniz'} | {0: ['artist']} | {0: "Vik Muniz delights in subverting a viewer's expectations. He uses unexpected materials to create portraits, landscapes and still lifes, which he then photographs."} | 1,377,588 | 2003-02-27 | 2007-04-05 | TED2003 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 88 | 891 | ['Brazil', 'art', 'creativity', 'design', 'illusion', 'animation'] | {162: 'My creations, a new form of life', 267: 'Moving sculpture', 78: 'Visual illusions that show how we (mis)think', 210: 'An unusual glimpse at celebrity', 436: 'Design and discovery', 1613: '4 lessons in creativity'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/vik_muniz_art_with_wire_sugar_chocolate_and_string/ | Vik Muniz makes art from pretty much anything, be it shredded paper, wire, clouds or diamonds. Here he describes the thinking behind his work and takes us on a tour of his incredible images. | I was asked to come here and speak about creation. And I only have 15 minutes, and I see they're counting already. And I can — in 15 minutes, I think I can touch only a very rather janitorial branch of creation, which I call "creativity." Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-... |
28 | How to get your ideas to spread | Seth Godin | {0: 'Seth Godin'} | {0: ['marketer and author']} | {0: 'Seth Godin is an entrepreneur and blogger who thinks about the marketing of ideas in the digital age. His newest interest: the tribes we lead.'} | 6,787,797 | 2003-02-27 | 2007-04-05 | TED2003 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sl', 'sr', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 237 | 1,021 | ['business', 'choice', 'culture', 'marketing', 'storytelling'] | {20: 'Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce', 72: "Technology's long tail", 266: 'Designing objects that tell stories', 27622: 'Confessions of a recovering micromanager', 2274: 'The first secret of design is ... noticing', 848: 'How great leaders inspire action'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/seth_godin_how_to_get_your_ideas_to_spread/ | In 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, when it comes to getting our attention, bad or bizarre ideas are more successful than boring ones. | I'm going to give you four specific examples, I'm going to cover at the end about how a company called Silk tripled their sales; how an artist named Jeff Koons went from being a nobody to making a whole bunch of money and having a lot of impact; to how Frank Gehry redefined what it meant to be an architect. And one of ... |
31 | How architecture can connect us | Thom Mayne | {0: 'Thom Mayne'} | {0: ['architect']} | {0: 'Founder of the influential studio Morphosis, and co-founder of the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne marries conceptual ideas with form, challenging the way we perceive structure, building and the environment.'} | 837,290 | 2005-02-25 | 2007-04-05 | TED2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 51 | 1,240 | ['architecture', 'cities', 'culture', 'design', 'invention'] | {27: 'Organic design, inspired by nature', 359: 'The Blur Building and other tech-empowered architecture', 54: 'My wish: A call for open-source architecture', 1854: 'Architecture at home in its community', 589: '17 words of architectural inspiration', 750: 'Building a theater that remakes itself'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/thom_mayne_how_architecture_can_connect_us/ | 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 are big ideas cast in material form. | I don't know your name. Audience Member: Howard. Howard. Thom Mayne: Howard? I'm sitting next to Howard. I don't know Howard, obviously, and he's going, I hope you're not next. (Laughter) Amazing. Amazing performance. I kind of erased everything in my brain to follow that. Let me start some place. I'm interested — I ki... |
11 | What separates us from chimpanzees? | Jane Goodall | {0: 'Jane Goodall'} | {0: ['primatologist', 'environmentalist']} | {0: 'Jane Goodall, dubbed by her biographer "the woman who redefined man," has changed our perceptions of primates, people, and the connection between the two. Over the past 45 years, Goodall herself has also evolved -- from steadfast scientist to passionate conservationist and humanitarian.'} | 2,066,221 | 2003-03-01 | 2007-04-05 | TED2003 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'sv', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 165 | 1,645 | ['Africa', 'animals', 'culture', 'environment', 'global issues', 'nature', 'primates', 'science'] | {76: 'The gentle genius of bonobos', 145: 'The emergent genius of ant colonies', 77: 'The shrimp with a kick!', 340: 'How humans and animals can live together', 168: "The search for humanity's roots", 2307: 'What explains the rise of humans?'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/jane_goodall_what_separates_us_from_chimpanzees/ | Jane Goodall hasn't found the missing link, but she's come closer than nearly anyone else. The primatologist says the only real difference between humans and chimps is our sophisticated language. She urges us to start using it to change the world. | Good morning everyone. First of all, it's been fantastic being here over these past few days. And secondly, I feel it's a great honor to kind of wind up this extraordinary gathering of people, these amazing talks that we've had. I feel that I've fitted in, in many ways, to some of the things that I've heard. I came dir... |
99 | Global warming's theme song, "Manhattan in January" | Jill Sobule | {0: 'Jill Sobule'} | {0: ['singer/songwriter']} | {0: "Jill Sobule isn't just another singer-songwriter with catchy tunes and smart lyrics, she's one of the more insightful satirists of our age. Each of her fanciful songs captures an issue or irony, an emotion or epiphany that helps us understand what it's like to live now."} | 720,170 | 2006-02-26 | 2007-04-06 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lt', 'lv', 'ms', 'my', 'ne', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'te', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 39 | 163 | ['climate change', 'environment', 'guitar', 'music', 'performance', 'vocals', 'live music'] | {222: 'The Jill and Julia Show', 119: '"Black Men Ski"', 1: 'Averting the climate crisis', 1073: "A whistleblower you haven't heard", 108: 'A mockingbird remix of TED2006', 49163: 'How one tree grows 40 different kinds of fruit'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_sobule_global_warming_s_theme_song_manhattan_in_january/ | A happy song about global warming, from Jill Sobule. | Okay. ♫ Strolling along in Central Park ♫ ♫ Everyone's out today ♫ ♫ The daisies and dogwoods are all in bloom ♫ ♫ Oh, what a glorious day ♫ ♫ For picnics and Frisbees and roller skaters, ♫ ♫ Friends and lovers and lonely sunbathers ♫ ♫ Everyone's out in merry Manhattan in January ♫ (Laughter) (Applause) ♫ I brought th... |
101 | Casting a spell on the cello | Caroline Lavelle | {0: 'Caroline Lavelle'} | {0: ['cellist; singer-songwriter']} | {0: 'Equally talented on cello and vocals, Caroline Lavelle has created a performance style all her own. Her expansive talents, channeling the best of both classical and contemporary influences, have earned her comparisons to both Kate Bush and Jacqueline du Pré. \r\n'} | 480,892 | 2005-02-02 | 2007-04-06 | TED2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'my', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sr', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 34 | 459 | ['cello', 'entertainment', 'music', 'performance', 'vocals', 'live music'] | {117: 'Cape Breton fiddling in reel time', 109: '"What You\'ve Got"', 218: 'The untouchable music of the theremin', 849: '"Love Is a Loaded Pistol"', 413: 'The joyful tradition of mountain music', 2010: 'How I started writing songs again'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/caroline_lavelle_casting_a_spell_on_the_cello/ | Caroline Lavelle plays the cello like a sorceress casting a spell, occasionally hiding behind her wild mane of blond hair as she sings of pastoral themes. She performs "Farther than the Sun," backed by Thomas Dolby on keyboards. | Thank you very much. Now, I've got a story for you. When I arrived off the plane, after a very long journey from the West of England, my computer, my beloved laptop, had gone mad, and had — oh! — a bit like that! — and the display on it — anyway, the whole thing had burst. And I went to the IT guys here and a gentleman... |
102 | The illusion of consciousness | Dan Dennett | {0: 'Dan Dennett'} | {0: ['philosopher', 'cognitive scientist']} | {0: 'Dan Dennett thinks that human consciousness and free will are the result of physical processes.'} | 3,978,946 | 2003-02-27 | 2007-04-06 | TED2003 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'ko', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sl', 'sr', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 535 | 1,308 | ['brain', 'consciousness', 'culture', 'entertainment', 'illusion', 'self', 'visualizations'] | {116: 'Dangerous memes', 125: 'How brain science will change computing', 229: 'My stroke of insight', 2045: 'How do you explain consciousness?', 1794: 'Our shared condition -- consciousness', 33799: 'What is consciousness?'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_the_illusion_of_consciousness/ | 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 actively fooling us. | So I'm going to speak about a problem that I have and that's that I'm a philosopher. (Laughter) When I go to a party and people ask me what do I do and I say, "I'm a professor," their eyes glaze over. When I go to an academic cocktail party and there are all the professors around, they ask me what field I'm in and I sa... |
103 | How to truly listen | Evelyn Glennie | {0: 'Evelyn Glennie'} | {0: ['musician']} | {0: 'Percussionist and composer Dame Evelyn Glennie lost nearly all of her hearing by age 12. Rather than isolating her, it has given her a unique connection to her music.'} | 5,955,653 | 2003-02-02 | 2007-04-06 | TED2003 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 321 | 1,929 | ['creativity', 'entertainment', 'live music', 'music', 'performance'] | {286: 'The transformative power of classical music', 246: 'Inventing instruments that unlock new music', 218: 'The untouchable music of the theremin', 660: 'The 4 ways sound affects us', 2357: 'The enchanting music of sign language', 2351: 'The unexpected beauty of everyday sounds'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/evelyn_glennie_how_to_truly_listen/ | In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums. | I'm not quite sure whether I really want to see a snare drum at nine o'clock or so in the morning. (Laughter) But anyway, it's just great to see such a full theater, and really, I must thank Herbie Hancock and his colleagues for such a great presentation. (Applause) One of the interesting things, of course, is the comb... |
104 | Cradle to cradle design | William McDonough | {0: 'William McDonough'} | {0: ['architect']} | {0: "Architect William McDonough believes green design can prevent environmental disaster and drive economic growth. He champions “cradle to cradle” design, which considers a product's full life cycle -- from creation with sustainable materials to a recycled afterlife. "} | 1,896,812 | 2005-02-02 | 2007-04-06 | TED2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'mk', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 235 | 1,205 | ['architecture', 'business', 'china', 'cities', 'culture', 'design', 'environment', 'global issues', 'sustainability', 'technology'] | {74: 'The route to a sustainable future', 359: 'The Blur Building and other tech-empowered architecture', 174: 'My green agenda for architecture', 1072: "Using nature's genius in architecture", 2128: 'My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the process', 56: 'My wish: Manufactured landscapes and green edu... | https://www.ted.com/talks/william_mcdonough_cradle_to_cradle_design/ | Green-minded architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "all children, all species, for all time." | In 1962, with Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," I think for people like me in the world of the making of things, the canary in the mine wasn't singing. And so the question that we might not have birds became kind of fundamental to those of us wandering around looking for the meadowlarks that seemed to have all disappear... |
108 | A mockingbird remix of TED2006 | Rives | {0: ' Rives'} | {0: ['performance poet', 'multimedia artist']} | {0: 'Performance artist and storyteller Rives has been called "the first 2.0 poet," using images, video and technology to bring his words to life. '} | 823,273 | 2006-02-02 | 2007-04-09 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sl', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 58 | 251 | ['entertainment', 'memory', 'performance', 'poetry', 'spoken word', 'storytelling'] | {148: 'The 4 a.m. mystery', 2281: 'A powerful poem about what it feels like to be transgender', 2049: 'Are you human?', 981: 'My web playroom', 2054: 'Why I live in mortal dread of public speaking', 413: 'The joyful tradition of mountain music'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/rives_a_mockingbird_remix_of_ted2006/ | Rives recaps the most memorable moments of TED2006 in the free-spirited rhyming verse of a fantastical mockingbird lullaby. | Mockingbirds are badass. (Laughter) They are. Mockingbirds — that's Mimus polyglottos — are the emcees of the animal kingdom. They listen and mimic and remix what they like. They rock the mic outside my window every morning. I can hear them sing the sounds of the car alarms like they were songs of spring. I mean, if yo... |
105 | The electricity metaphor for the web's future | Jeff Bezos | {0: 'Jeff Bezos'} | {0: ['online commerce pioneer']} | {0: 'As founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos defined online shopping and rewrote the rules of commerce, ushering in a new era in business. <em>Time</em> magazine named him Man of the Year in 1999.'} | 1,709,903 | 2003-02-02 | 2007-04-09 | TED2003 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 62 | 1,031 | ['business', 'entrepreneur', 'history', 'innovation', 'invention', 'technology', 'web', 'electricity'] | {319: 'The next 5,000 days of the web', 118: 'The genesis of Google', 362: 'The Web as a city', 619: 'A demo of wireless electricity', 566: 'A plug for smart power outlets', 26: 'If I controlled the Internet'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_bezos_the_electricity_metaphor_for_the_web_s_future/ | 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 industry. | When you think about resilience and technology it's actually much easier. You're going to see some other speakers today, I already know, who are going to talk about breaking-bones stuff, and, of course, with technology it never is. So it's very easy, comparatively speaking, to be resilient. I think that, if we look at ... |
109 | "What You've Got" | Eddi Reader | {0: 'Eddi Reader', 1: 'Thomas Dolby'} | {0: ['singer/songwriter'], 1: ['electronic music pioneer']} | {0: 'In her warm, glorious voice, Eddi Reader sings thoughtful songs about love, longing and introspection.', 1: 'Thomas Dolby has spent his career at the intersection of music and technology. He was an early star on MTV, then moved to Silicon Valley, then went back on the road with his album, "A Map of the Floating Ci... | 519,326 | 2003-02-02 | 2007-04-14 | TED2003 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'my', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 51 | 312 | ['composing', 'entertainment', 'guitar', 'music', 'performance art', 'piano', 'potential', 'vocals', 'performance', 'live music'] | {110: '"Kiteflyer\'s Hill"', 81: 'Singing "What I Want"', 186: '"M\'Bifo"', 24238: 'The benefits of good posture', 2111: 'My father, locked in his body but soaring free', 17238: "How we'll become cyborgs and extend human potential"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/eddi_reader_what_you_ve_got/ | 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 to make a difference. With Thomas Dolby on piano. | This song is one of Thomas' favorites, called "What You Do with What You've Got." ♫ You must know someone like him ♫ ♫ He was tall and strong and lean ♫ ♫ With a body like a greyhound ♫ ♫ and a mind so sharp and keen ♫ ♫ But his heart, just like laurel ♫ ♫ grew twisted around itself ♫ ♫ Till almost everything he did ♫ ... |
110 | "Kiteflyer's Hill" | Eddi Reader | {0: 'Eddi Reader', 1: 'Thomas Dolby'} | {0: ['singer/songwriter'], 1: ['electronic music pioneer']} | {0: 'In her warm, glorious voice, Eddi Reader sings thoughtful songs about love, longing and introspection.', 1: 'Thomas Dolby has spent his career at the intersection of music and technology. He was an early star on MTV, then moved to Silicon Valley, then went back on the road with his album, "A Map of the Floating Ci... | 577,966 | 2003-02-02 | 2007-04-14 | TED2003 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lv', 'my', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 75 | 378 | ['composing', 'entertainment', 'guitar', 'memory', 'music', 'performance', 'piano', 'live music'] | {109: '"What You\'ve Got"', 101: 'Casting a spell on the cello', 117: 'Cape Breton fiddling in reel time', 22799: '"Afterneath" / "Killing Me"', 2010: 'How I started writing songs again', 981: 'My web playroom'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/eddi_reader_kiteflyer_s_hill/ | Singer/songwriter Eddi Reader performs "Kiteflyer's Hill," a tender look back at a lost love. With Thomas Dolby on piano. | This is about a place in London called Kiteflyer's Hill where I used to go and spend hours going "When is he coming back? When is he coming back?" So this is another one dedicated to that guy ... who I've got over. But this is "Kiteflyer's Hill." It's a beautiful song written by a guy called Martin Evan, actually, for ... |
114 | A comic sendup of TED2006 | Tom Rielly | {0: 'Tom Rielly'} | {0: ['satirist']} | {0: 'Traditionally, Tom Rielly closes the TED Conference with a merciless 18-minute monologue, skewering all the speakers with his deadpan delivery, spot-on satire and boundary-less performance (complete with PowerPoint, pratfalls and partial nudity).\r\n'} | 695,092 | 2006-02-02 | 2007-04-16 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ko', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 50 | 1,195 | ['comedy', 'culture', 'performance', 'humor'] | {108: 'A mockingbird remix of TED2006', 87: 'Nerdcore comedy', 99: 'Global warming\'s theme song, "Manhattan in January"', 436: 'Design and discovery', 1989: 'What does the future hold? 11 characters offer quirky answers', 172: 'Designing for simplicity'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_rielly_a_comic_sendup_of_ted2006/ | 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 mention, one too many times, that they work at Harvard. Watch for a special moment between Tom and Al Gore. | I just want to say, over the last few years I've been — had the opportunity to do this closing conference. And I've had some incredible warm-up acts. About eight years ago, Billy Graham opened for me. And I thought that there was — (Laughter) I thought that there was absolutely no way in hell to top that. But I just wa... |
113 | Militant atheism | Richard Dawkins | {0: 'Richard Dawkins'} | {0: ['evolutionary biologist']} | {0: 'Oxford professor Richard Dawkins has helped steer evolutionary science into the 21st century, and his concept of the "meme" contextualized the spread of ideas in the information age. In recent years, his devastating critique of religion has made him a leading figure in the New Atheism.'} | 5,788,514 | 2002-02-02 | 2007-04-16 | TED2002 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'ko', 'lt', 'lv', 'ml', 'mn', 'mr', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'tr', 'uk', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 6,449 | 1,750 | ['God', 'atheism', 'culture', 'religion', 'science'] | {86: 'Letting go of God', 94: "Let's teach religion -- all religion -- in schools", 22: 'Why people believe weird things', 2643: "It's time to reclaim religion", 9125: 'My failed mission to find God -- and what I found instead', 71: 'A life of purpose'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_dawkins_militant_atheism/ | Richard Dawkins urges all atheists to openly state their position -- and to fight the incursion of the church into politics and science. A fiery, funny, powerful talk. | That splendid music, the coming-in music, "The Elephant March" from "Aida," is the music I've chosen for my funeral. (Laughter) And you can see why. It's triumphal. I won't feel anything, but if I could, I would feel triumphal at having lived at all, and at having lived on this splendid planet, and having been given th... |
115 | "La Vie en Rose" | Rachelle Garniez | {0: 'Rachelle Garniez', 1: 'Thomas Dolby'} | {0: ['musician'], 1: ['electronic music pioneer']} | {0: 'Mischievous and deeply original, accordionist Rachelle Garniez plays her own witty songs and gives a beautiful swing to the classics.', 1: 'Thomas Dolby has spent his career at the intersection of music and technology. He was an early star on MTV, then moved to Silicon Valley, then went back on the road with his a... | 478,074 | 2004-02-02 | 2007-04-16 | TED2004 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'fr-ca', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lv', 'my', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sq', 'sr', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 39 | 201 | ['entertainment', 'live music', 'music', 'performance'] | {108: 'A mockingbird remix of TED2006', 87: 'Nerdcore comedy', 99: 'Global warming\'s theme song, "Manhattan in January"', 22703: '"You Never Can Tell" / "Over the Mountain, Across the Sea"', 81: 'Singing "What I Want"', 2345: "Home is a song I've always remembered"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/rachelle_garniez_la_vie_en_rose/ | Featuring the vocals and mischievous bell-playing of accordionist and singer Rachelle Garniez, the TED House Band -- led by Thomas Dolby on keyboard -- delivers this delightful rendition of the Edith Piaf standard "La Vie en Rose." | Thomas Dolby: For pure pleasure please welcome the lovely, the delectable, and the bilingual Rachelle Garniez. (Applause) (Bells) (Trumpet) Rachelle Garniez: ♫ Quand il me prend dans ses bras ♫ ♫ Il me parle tout bas, ♫ ♫ Je vois la vie en rose. ♫ ♫ Il me dit des mots d'amour, ♫ ♫ Des mots de tous les jours, ♫ ♫ Et ca ... |
112 | Why would God create a tsunami? | Tom Honey | {0: 'Tom Honey'} | {0: ['priest']} | {0: "The Vicar of St David's Church, Exeter, in the UK, is unafraid to take on some of religion's tougher issues."} | 686,498 | 2005-02-02 | 2007-04-16 | TED2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 601 | 1,172 | ['God', 'culture', 'disaster relief', 'global issues', 'natural disaster', 'philosophy', 'religion'] | {234: 'My wish: The Charter for Compassion', 308: 'On technology and faith', 71: 'A life of purpose', 673: 'The balancing act of compassion', 676: 'Lose your ego, find your compassion', 52402: 'The myth of Loki and the master builder'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_honey_why_would_god_create_a_tsunami/ | 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?" Here is his answer. | I am a vicar in the Church of England. I've been a priest in the Church for 20 years. For most of that time, I've been struggling and grappling with questions about the nature of God. Who is God? And I'm very aware that when you say the word "God," many people will turn off immediately. And most people, both within and... |
72 | Technology's long tail | Chris Anderson | {0: 'Chris Anderson'} | {0: ['drone maker']} | {0: 'Chris Anderson is an authority on emerging technologies and the cultures that surround them.'} | 1,058,574 | 2004-02-02 | 2007-04-27 | TED2004 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 42 | 858 | ['business', 'culture', 'economics', 'entertainment', 'marketing', 'technology'] | {319: 'The next 5,000 days of the web', 118: 'The genesis of Google', 216: 'The new power of collaboration', 38: 'The accelerating power of technology', 1375: 'Abundance is our future', 19: 'How technology evolves'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_anderson_technology_s_long_tail/ | Chris Anderson, then the editor of Wired, explores the four key stages of any viable technology: setting the right price, gaining market share, displacing an established technology and, finally, becoming ubiquitous. | I'd like to speak about technology trends, which is something that many of you follow — but we also follow, for related reasons. Obviously, being a technology magazine, technology trends are something that we write about and need to know about. But also it's part of being any monthly magazine — you live in the future. ... |
117 | Cape Breton fiddling in reel time | Natalie MacMaster | {0: 'Natalie MacMaster', 1: 'Thomas Dolby'} | {0: ['fiddler'], 1: ['electronic music pioneer']} | {0: 'Natalie MacMaster is a star of Cape Breton fiddling, a Canadian tradition with Scottish roots. Her energetic style and virtuoso talent has brought her star billing on the international folk circuit.', 1: 'Thomas Dolby has spent his career at the intersection of music and technology. He was an early star on MTV, th... | 835,896 | 2002-02-02 | 2007-05-01 | TED2002 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lv', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sq', 'sr', 'th', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 69 | 311 | ['entertainment', 'history', 'music', 'performance', 'violin', 'live music'] | {45: "An 11-year-old's magical violin", 296: '"Mother of Pearl," "If I Had You"', 138: 'A string quartet plays "Blue Room"', 2424: 'The boiling river of the Amazon', 2814: "What rivers can tell us about the earth's history", 2064: 'How I brought a river, and my city, back to life'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/natalie_macmaster_cape_breton_fiddling_in_reel_time/ | Violinist Natalie MacMaster and TED Musical Director Thomas Dolby play Dolby's original song "Blue Is a River" in this ethereal duet -- with a little dancing. | ♫ Like the heather ♫ ♫ on the hillside ♫ ♫ as they drove us ♫ ♫ from the Highlands ♫ ♫ Like the ice flow ♫ ♫ from the Arctic ♫ ♫ where we landed ♫ ♫ in Newfoundland ♫ ♫ There's a color ♫ ♫ to my sorrow ♫ ♫ There's a name for ♫ ♫ all this sadness ♫ ♫ Like the ocean ♫ ♫ in between us ♫ ♫ I am blue ♫ ♫ Blue is a river ♫ ♫... |
118 | The genesis of Google | Sergey Brin | {0: 'Sergey Brin', 1: 'Larry Page'} | {0: ['computer scientist', 'entrepreneur and philanthropist'], 1: ['ceo of google']} | {0: 'Sergey Brin is half of the team that founded Google.', 1: 'Larry Page is the CEO and cofounder of Google, making him one of the ruling minds of the web. '} | 1,832,547 | 2004-02-02 | 2007-05-03 | TED2004 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'fr-ca', 'he', 'hr', 'hy', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lv', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sq', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 63 | 1,233 | ['Google', 'business', 'collaboration', 'culture', 'design', 'technology', 'web'] | {319: 'The next 5,000 days of the web', 1109: "Google's driverless car", 1113: 'Everyday compassion at Google', 362: 'The Web as a city', 1091: 'Beware online "filter bubbles"', 1953: "Where's Google going next?"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/sergey_brin_larry_page_the_genesis_of_google/ | Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin offer a peek inside the Google machine, sharing tidbits about international search patterns, the philanthropic Google Foundation, and the company's dedication to innovation and employee happiness. | Sergey Brin: I want to discuss a question I know that's been pressing on many of your minds. We spoke to you last several years ago. And before I get started today, since many of you are wondering, I just wanted to get it out of the way. The answer is boxers. Now I hope all of you feel better. Do you know what this mig... |
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