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234 | My wish: The Charter for Compassion | Karen Armstrong | {0: 'Karen Armstrong'} | {0: ['religious scholar']} | {0: 'Karen Armstrong -- winner of the 2008 TED Prize -- is a provocative, original thinker on the role of religion in the modern world.'} | 1,809,846 | 2008-02-28 | 2008-03-19 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lv', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sq', 'sr', 'tr', 'ur', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 466 | 1,288 | ['TED Prize', 'collaboration', 'faith', 'global issues', 'religion'] | {130: 'We can be Buddhas', 91: "Invest in Africa's own solutions", 341: 'The moral roots of liberals and conservatives', 2011: 'Is religion good or bad? (This is a trick question)', 647: "Let's revive the Golden Rule", 1327: 'Atheism 2.0'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/karen_armstrong_my_wish_the_charter_for_compassion/ | People want to be religious, says scholar Karen Armstrong; we should help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help build a Charter for Compassion -- to restore the Golden Rule as the central global religious doctrine. | Well, this is such an honor. And it's wonderful to be in the presence of an organization that is really making a difference in the world. And I'm intensely grateful for the opportunity to speak to you today. And I'm also rather surprised, because when I look back on my life the last thing I ever wanted to do was write,... |
232 | My wish: Find the next Einstein in Africa | Neil Turok | {0: 'Neil Turok'} | {0: ['physicist', 'education activist']} | {0: "Neil Turok is working on a model of the universe that explains the big bang -- while, closer to home, he's founded a network of math and science academies across Africa."} | 612,464 | 2008-02-28 | 2008-03-20 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 70 | 1,490 | ['Africa', 'TED Prize', 'education', 'math', 'physics', 'science', 'technology'] | {156: 'How to educate leaders? Liberal arts', 59: 'My wish: Three actions for Africa', 233: 'My wish: Once Upon a School', 154: 'Why invest in Africa', 151: "Africa's cheetahs versus hippos", 6669: "How we can stop Africa's scientific brain drain"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/neil_turok_my_wish_find_the_next_einstein_in_africa/ | Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, physicist Neil Turok speaks out for talented young Africans starved of opportunity: by unlocking and nurturing the continent's creative potential, we can create a change in Africa's future. | It was an incredible surprise to me to find out that there was actually an organization that cared about both parts of my life. Because, basically, I work as a theoretical physicist. I develop and test models of the Big Bang, using observational data. And I've been moonlighting for the last five years helping with a pr... |
174 | My green agenda for architecture | Norman Foster | {0: 'Norman Foster'} | {0: ['architect']} | {0: 'Lord Norman Foster, winner of the 1999 Pritzker Prize, is perhaps the leading urban stylist of our age. His elegant, efficient buildings grace cities around the globe.'} | 870,918 | 2007-01-01 | 2008-03-24 | DLD 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'th', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 67 | 1,917 | ['architecture', 'cities', 'green', 'Best of the Web'] | {104: 'Cradle to cradle design', 49: "Behind the design of Seattle's library", 359: 'The Blur Building and other tech-empowered architecture', 1854: 'Architecture at home in its community', 31: 'How architecture can connect us', 2092: 'How to reinvent the apartment building'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/norman_foster_my_green_agenda_for_architecture/ | Architect Norman Foster discusses his own work to show how computers can help architects design buildings that are green, beautiful and "basically pollution-free." From the 2007 DLD Conference, Munich; www.dld-conference.com | As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. The green agenda is probably the most important agenda and issue of the day. And I'd like to share some experience over the last 40 years — we celebrate our fortieth anniversary this year — and to explo... |
236 | A look inside the brain in real time | Christopher deCharms | {0: 'Christopher deCharms'} | {0: ['brain researcher']} | {0: 'Christopher deCharms is working on a way to use fMRI scans to show brain activity -- in real time. '} | 1,940,902 | 2008-02-29 | 2008-03-24 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lt', 'my', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'uz', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 169 | 242 | ['biology', 'brain', 'business', 'demo', 'medicine', 'science', 'technology', 'visualizations'] | {184: '3 clues to understanding your brain', 320: 'A computer that works like the brain', 125: 'How brain science will change computing', 2077: 'A neural portrait of the human mind', 1671: 'A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really.', 2244: "How to control someone else's arm with your brain"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_decharms_a_look_inside_the_brain_in_real_time/ | Neuroscientist and inventor Christopher deCharms demonstrates a new way to use fMRI to show brain activity -- thoughts, emotions, pain -- while it is happening. In other words, you can actually see how you feel. | Hi. I'm going to ask you to raise your arms and wave back, just the way I am — kind of a royal wave. You can mimic what you can see. You can program the hundreds of muscles in your arm. Soon, you'll be able to look inside your brain and program, control the hundreds of brain areas that you see there. I'm going to tell ... |
237 | The call to learn | Clifford Stoll | {0: 'Clifford Stoll'} | {0: ['astronomer', 'educator', 'skeptic']} | {0: 'Astronomer Clifford Stoll helped to capture a notorious KGB hacker back in the infancy of the Internet. His agile mind continues to lead him down new paths -- from education and techno-skepticism to the making of zero-volume bottles.'} | 3,247,685 | 2006-02-28 | 2008-03-26 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'kk', 'ko', 'lv', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sl', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 255 | 1,077 | ['culture', 'education', 'science', 'technology', 'web'] | {66: 'Do schools kill creativity?', 90: 'Unleash your creativity in a Fab Lab', 199: 'A performance of "Mathemagic"', 23801: 'What is color?', 23976: 'Light waves, visible and invisible', 23807: 'How we see color'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/clifford_stoll_the_call_to_learn/ | Clifford Stoll captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides -- and even a science experiment. After all, by his own definition, he's a scientist: "Once I do something, I want to do something else." | I'm delighted to be here. I'm honored by the invitation, and thanks. I would love to talk about stuff that I'm interested in, but unfortunately, I suspect that what I'm interested in won't interest many other people. First off, my badge says I'm an astronomer. I would love to talk about my astronomy, but I suspect that... |
235 | The search for the true face of Leonardo | Siegfried Woldhek | {0: 'Siegfried Woldhek'} | {0: ['illustrator']} | {0: "Siegfried Woldhek knows faces -- he's drawn more than 1,100 of them. Using sophisticated image analysis and his own skills as an artist, he's come up with a fascinating discovery about Leonardo Da Vinci."} | 1,349,999 | 2008-02-29 | 2008-04-01 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'bo', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lt', 'lv', 'my', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 83 | 264 | ['art', 'demo', 'design', 'entertainment', 'history', 'technology'] | {400: 'Tidying up art', 32: 'Art with wire, sugar, chocolate and string', 267: 'Moving sculpture', 1588: 'The secret lives of paintings', 296: '"Mother of Pearl," "If I Had You"', 1325: 'The debut of the British Paraorchestra'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/siegfried_woldhek_the_search_for_the_true_face_of_leonardo/ | Mona Lisa is one of the best-known faces on the planet. But would you recognize an image of Leonardo da Vinci? Illustrator Siegfried Woldhek uses some thoughtful image-analysis techniques to find what he believes is the true face of Leonardo. | Good morning. Let's look for a minute at the greatest icon of all, Leonardo da Vinci. We're all familiar with his fantastic work — his drawings, his paintings, his inventions, his writings. But we do not know his face. Thousands of books have been written about him, but there's controversy, and it remains, about his lo... |
239 | Sputnik mania | David Hoffman | {0: 'David Hoffman'} | {0: ['filmmaker']} | {0: "In David Hoffman's long film career, he's made documentaries on everything from Amelia Earhardt to B.B. King, from double-dutch jump-roping to F-15 fighter pilots. Lately he's been fascinated with the early space program and our mania for all things Sputnik."} | 381,505 | 2007-03-03 | 2008-04-02 | TED2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lt', 'lv', 'my', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sr', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 42 | 230 | ['education', 'history', 'math', 'science', 'space', 'technology', 'war'] | {4: 'The real future of space exploration', 178: 'This is Saturn', 404: 'The design of the universe', 23955: 'Who won the space race?', 2650: "The world doesn't need more nuclear weapons", 344: 'How to survive a nuclear attack'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/david_hoffman_sputnik_mania/ | Filmmaker David Hoffman shares footage from his feature-length documentary Sputnik Mania, which shows how the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in 1957 led to both the space race and the arms race -- and jump-started science and math education around the world. | Fifty years ago in the old Soviet Union, a team of engineers was secretly moving a large object through a desolate countryside. With it, they were hoping to capture the minds of people everywhere by being the first to conquer outer space. The rocket was huge. And packed in its nose was a silver ball with two radios ins... |
241 | A new kind of music video | Jakob Trollback | {0: 'Jakob Trollback'} | {0: ['designer']} | {0: 'Jakob Trollback is a pioneering designer, whose work in video and motion graphics has helped define the industry -- always pushing the edges of technology and entertainment through design.'} | 539,054 | 2007-03-03 | 2008-04-03 | TED2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lt', 'my', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 70 | 240 | ['art', 'demo', 'design', 'entertainment', 'film', 'music', 'online video', 'visualizations', 'animation'] | {144: "The Web's secret stories", 14: 'Software (as) art', 356: "Things I've learned in my life so far", 196: 'The music wars', 2345: "Home is a song I've always remembered", 1912: 'How I beat stage fright'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/jakob_trollback_a_new_kind_of_music_video/ | What would a music video look like if it were directed by the music, purely as an expression of a great song, rather than driven by a filmmaker's concept? Designer Jakob Trollback shares the results of his experiment in the form. | I’m working a lot with motion and animation, and also I'm an old DJ and a musician. So, music videos are something that I always found interesting, but they always seem to be so reactive. So I was thinking, can you remove us as creators and try to make the music be the voice and have the animation following it? So with... |
242 | Questioning the universe | Stephen Hawking | {0: 'Stephen Hawking'} | {0: ['theoretical physicist']} | {0: "Stephen Hawking's scientific investigations shed light on the origins of the cosmos, the nature of time and the ultimate fate of the universe. His bestselling books for a general audience have given an appreciation of physics to millions."} | 12,954,031 | 2008-02-27 | 2008-04-04 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'ko', 'ku', 'lv', 'ml', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'th', 'tlh', 'tr', 'uk', 'uz', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 599 | 612 | ['String theory', 'evolution', 'math', 'physics', 'science', 'time', 'universe'] | {47: 'Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars', 253: "CERN's supercollider", 98: 'Why the universe seems so strange', 1386: 'Questions no one knows the answers to', 23422: 'What is the universe expanding into?', 33931: 'Three ways the universe could end '} | https://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_hawking_questioning_the_universe/ | In keeping with the theme of TED2008, professor Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe -- How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone? -- and discusses how we might go about answering them. | There is nothing bigger or older than the universe. The questions I would like to talk about are: one, where did we come from? How did the universe come into being? Are we alone in the universe? Is there alien life out there? What is the future of the human race? Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was es... |
243 | New thinking on 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'} | 2,187,523 | 2008-03-03 | 2008-04-08 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'fr-ca', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'kn', 'ko', 'lt', 'mn', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sr', 'sv', 'sw', 'ta', 'te', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'ur', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 672 | 1,674 | ['activism', 'climate change', 'global issues', 'science'] | {128: 'Salvation (and profit) in greentech', 192: 'A critical look at geoengineering against climate change', 74: 'The route to a sustainable future', 1380: 'Why I must speak out about climate change', 535: 'What comes after An Inconvenient Truth?', 2784: 'A climate solution where all sides can win'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/al_gore_new_thinking_on_the_climate_crisis/ | In this brand-new slideshow (premiering on TED.com), Al Gore presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists recently predicted. He challenges us to act. | I have given the slide show that I gave here two years ago about 2,000 times. I'm giving a short slide show this morning that I'm giving for the very first time, so — well it's — I don't want or need to raise the bar, I'm actually trying to lower the bar. Because I've cobbled this together to try to meet the challenge ... |
245 | Free or cheap Wii Remote hacks | Johnny Lee | {0: 'Johnny Lee'} | {0: ['human-computer interaction researcher']} | {0: 'Researcher Johnny Lee became a YouTube star with his demo of Wii Remote hacks -- bending the low-cost game piece to power an interactive whiteboard, a multitouch surface, a head-mounted display ...'} | 6,928,522 | 2008-02-28 | 2008-04-11 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ky', 'lv', 'mk', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 262 | 340 | ['business', 'demo', 'design', 'education', 'entertainment', 'gaming', 'hack', 'technology'] | {129: "How PhotoSynth can connect the world's images", 131: 'Rethink the desktop with BumpTop', 361: 'Are games better than life?', 48847: 'What streaming means for the future of entertainment', 49735: 'The transformative power of video games', 685: 'The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/johnny_lee_free_or_cheap_wii_remote_hacks/ | Building sophisticated educational tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the $40 video game controller into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. | So, as researchers, something that we often do is use immense resources to achieve certain capabilities, or achieve certain goals. And this is essential to the progress of science, or exploration of what is possible. But it creates this unfortunate situation where a tiny, tiny fraction of the world can actually partici... |
246 | Inventing instruments that unlock new music | Tod Machover | {0: 'Tod Machover', 1: 'Dan Ellsey'} | {0: ['composer', 'inventor'], 1: ['musician']} | {0: "At MIT's Media Lab, Tod Machover creates boundary-breaking new music, often using new instruments and music technologies he has invented.", 1: 'Dan Ellsey uses Hyperscore music software and a custom-tuned musical "hyperinstrument" to write, perform and conduct his music, and to help others learn how to compose.'} | 582,013 | 2008-03-03 | 2008-04-15 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 89 | 1,241 | ['creativity', 'demo', 'design', 'entertainment', 'health care', 'live music', 'music', 'technology', 'writing'] | {103: 'How to truly listen', 286: 'The transformative power of classical music', 218: 'The untouchable music of the theremin', 1526: 'The mad scientist of music', 1440: 'Music and emotion through time', 883: 'How architecture helped music evolve'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/tod_machover_dan_ellsey_inventing_instruments_that_unlock_new_music/ | Tod Machover of MIT's Media Lab is devoted to extending musical expression to everyone, from virtuosos to amateurs, and in the most diverse forms, from opera to video games. He and composer Dan Ellsey shed light on what's next. | The first idea I'd like to suggest is that we all love music a great deal. It means a lot to us. But music is even more powerful if you don't just listen to it, but you make it yourself. So, that's my first idea. And we all know about the Mozart effect — the idea that's been around for the last five to 10 years — that ... |
247 | The new open-source economics | Yochai Benkler | {0: 'Yochai Benkler'} | {0: ['legal expert']} | {0: 'Yochai Benkler has been called "the leading intellectual of the information age." He proposes that volunteer-based projects such as Wikipedia and Linux are the next stage of human organization and economic production.'} | 893,977 | 2005-07-07 | 2008-04-16 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 94 | 1,072 | ['Google', 'business', 'collaboration', 'economics', 'law', 'social change', 'technology', 'wikipedia'] | {63: 'The era of open innovation', 216: 'The new power of collaboration', 274: 'Institutions vs. collaboration', 1656: 'A new kind of job market', 1938: 'How data will transform business', 410: 'Life in Second Life'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/yochai_benkler_the_new_open_source_economics/ | Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization. | One of the problems of writing, and working, and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change. And so, to start helping that, I want to take us back to 1835. In 1835, James Gordon Bennett founded the first mass-circulation newspaper in New York City. And it cost about 500 dollars ... |
249 | World-class health care | Ernest Madu | {0: 'Ernest Madu'} | {0: ['cardiologist']} | {0: 'Ernest Madu founded the Heart Institute of the Caribbean, a revolutionary clinic for cardiovascular diseases in Kingston, Jamaica -- revolutionary for offering first-class health care in a developing nation. His next stop: Nigeria.'} | 429,128 | 2007-06-06 | 2008-04-17 | TEDGlobal 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 53 | 1,003 | ['Africa', 'activism', 'global issues', 'health', 'health care', 'heart health', 'public health', 'science', 'global development'] | {85: 'My wish: Rebuilding Rwanda', 268: 'A hospital tour in Nigeria', 156: 'How to educate leaders? Liberal arts', 1711: 'Health care should be a team sport', 24922: 'Why the hospital of the future will be your own home', 2076: 'What makes us get sick? Look upstream'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/ernest_madu_world_class_health_care/ | Dr. Ernest Madu runs the Heart Institute of the Caribbean in Kingston, Jamaica, where he proves that -- with careful design, smart technical choices, and a true desire to serve -- it's possible to offer world-class healthcare in the developing world. | It is interesting that in the United States, the most significant health-care budget goes to cardiovascular disease care, whether it's private or public. There's no comparison at all. In Africa — where it is a major killer — it is totally ignored. And that situation cannot be right. We must do something about it. A hea... |
250 | Where does creativity hide? | Amy Tan | {0: 'Amy Tan'} | {0: ['novelist']} | {0: "Amy Tan is the author of such beloved books as <em>The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife</em> and <em>The Hundred Secret Senses.</em>"} | 3,260,725 | 2008-02-02 | 2008-04-22 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'tl', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 158 | 1,372 | ['culture', 'entertainment', 'storytelling', 'writing'] | {204: 'Tales of passion', 182: 'The illustrated woman', 396: 'Fashion and creativity', 1126: 'On being wrong', 1983: 'Success, failure and the drive to keep creating', 917: 'The politics of fiction'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_tan_where_does_creativity_hide/ | Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, looking for hints of how hers evolved. | The Value of Nothing: Out of Nothing Comes Something. That was an essay I wrote when I was 11 years old and I got a B+. (Laughter) What I'm going to talk about: nothing out of something, and how we create. And I'm gonna try and do that within the 18-minute time span that we were told to stay within, and to follow the T... |
251 | Making sense of string theory | Brian Greene | {0: 'Brian Greene'} | {0: ['physicist']} | {0: 'Brian Greene is perhaps the best-known proponent of superstring theory, the idea that minuscule strands of energy vibrating in a higher dimensional space-time create every particle and force in the universe.'} | 6,251,793 | 2005-02-02 | 2008-04-22 | TED2005 | en | ['ar', 'az', 'bg', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'ko', 'lv', 'ml', 'mn', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sr', 'th', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 555 | 1,146 | ['String theory', 'physics', 'science', 'universe'] | {253: "CERN's supercollider", 326: 'Shedding light on dark matter', 371: 'An 8-dimensional model of the universe', 2396: 'Have we reached the end of physics?', 1853: 'Why our universe might exist on a knife-edge', 194: 'Beauty, truth and ... physics?'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/brian_greene_making_sense_of_string_theory/ | Physicist Brian Greene explains superstring theory, the idea that minscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe. | In the year 1919, a virtually unknown German mathematician, named Theodor Kaluza suggested a very bold and, in some ways, a very bizarre idea. He proposed that our universe might actually have more than the three dimensions that we are all aware of. That is in addition to left, right, back, forth and up, down, Kaluza p... |
254 | Wake up! It's They Might Be Giants! | They Might Be Giants | {0: ' They Might Be Giants'} | {0: ['band']} | {0: 'John Linnell and John Flansburgh are They Might Be Giants: multi-instrumental, tech-savvy and implacably prolific, they are the musicians of choice of geeks, tinkerers and curious kids of all ages.'} | 435,254 | 2007-03-03 | 2008-04-29 | TED2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'fr-ca', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 39 | 1,041 | ['entertainment', 'humor', 'music', 'live music', 'performance'] | {374: 'Aliens, love -- where are they?', 119: '"Black Men Ski"', 287: '"Clonie"', 416: 'A plea for bees', 2249: "The first 21 days of a bee's life", 1522: 'Every city needs healthy honey bees'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/they_might_be_giants_wake_up_it_s_they_might_be_giants/ | In a very, very early-morning set, They Might Be Giants rock TED2007, playing "Older," "Bee of the Bird of the Moth," "Asbury Park," "Fingertips," and "The Alphabet of Nations." Plus they take phone calls from the dead. | (Bass guitar) (Bass guitar and accordion) ♫ You're older than you've ever been ♫ ♫ and now you're even older ♫ ♫ and now you're even older ♫ ♫ and now you're even older. ♫ ♫ You're older than you've even been ♫ ♫ and now you're even older ♫ ♫ and now you're older still. ♫ ♫ Time ♫ ♫ is marching on ♫ ♫ and time ♫ ♫ is s... |
253 | CERN's supercollider | Brian Cox | {0: 'Brian Cox'} | {0: ['physicist']} | {0: "Physicist Brian Cox has two jobs: working with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and explaining big science to the general public. He's a professor at the University of Manchester."} | 4,109,646 | 2008-03-03 | 2008-04-29 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'az', 'bg', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'gl', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lt', 'lv', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'ry', 'sk', 'sl', 'sr', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 302 | 899 | ['String theory', 'big bang', 'education', 'physics', 'science', 'technology', 'quantum physics'] | {251: 'Making sense of string theory', 326: 'Shedding light on dark matter', 371: 'An 8-dimensional model of the universe', 23862: 'The beginning of the universe for beginners', 1853: 'Why our universe might exist on a knife-edge', 27790: "What's the smallest thing in the universe?"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/brian_cox_cern_s_supercollider/ | "Rock-star physicist" Brian Cox talks about his work on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Discussing the biggest of big science in an engaging, accessible way, Cox brings us along on a tour of the massive project. | This is the Large Hadron Collider. It's 27 kilometers in circumference. It's the biggest scientific experiment ever attempted. Over 10,000 physicists and engineers from 85 countries around the world have come together over several decades to build this machine. What we do is we accelerate protons — so, hydrogen nuclei ... |
255 | The thinking behind 50x15 | Hector Ruiz | {0: 'Hector Ruiz'} | {0: ['ceo']} | {0: "The executive chairman of AMD, Hector Ruiz is devoted to his company's 50x15 initiative, which seeks to give 50 percent of the world's population access to the internet by 2015."} | 341,962 | 2007-06-06 | 2008-05-01 | TEDGlobal 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 32 | 1,197 | ['Africa', 'education', 'global issues', 'philanthropy', 'technology'] | {288: 'One Laptop per Child, two years on', 79: 'How mobile phones can fight poverty', 59: 'My wish: Three actions for Africa', 892: 'Education innovation in the slums', 63: 'The era of open innovation', 1617: 'Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/hector_ruiz_the_thinking_behind_50x15/ | Hector Ruiz, the executive chair of AMD, wants to give Internet access to everyone. In this talk, he shares his extraordinary life story and describes AMD's 50x15 initiative that calls for connecting 50 percent of the world by 2015. | You know, one of the things that I'd like to say upfront is that I'm really here by accident. And what I mean — not at TED — that I'm — at this point in my life, truly my set of circumstances I would truly consider an accident. But what I'd like to talk to you about today is perhaps a way in which we could use technolo... |
258 | 6 ways mushrooms can save the world | Paul Stamets | {0: 'Paul Stamets'} | {0: ['mycologist']} | {0: 'Paul Stamets believes that mushrooms can save our lives, restore our ecosystems and transform other worlds.'} | 6,233,365 | 2008-03-03 | 2008-05-06 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sv', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 369 | 1,064 | ['biology', 'design', 'food', 'global issues', 'pollution', 'science', 'technology', 'fungi'] | {214: "A plant's-eye view", 198: 'The fractals at the heart of African designs', 18: "Biomimicry's surprising lessons from nature's engineers", 948: "The world's oldest living things", 1247: 'My mushroom burial suit', 44494: 'The secret language of trees'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world/ | Mycologist Paul Stamets lists 6 ways the mycelium fungus can help save the universe: cleaning polluted soil, making insecticides, treating smallpox and even flu viruses. | I love a challenge, and saving the Earth is probably a good one. We all know the Earth is in trouble. We have now entered in the 6X, the sixth major extinction on this planet. I often wondered, if there was a United Organization of Organisms — otherwise known as "Uh-Oh" — (Laughter) — and every organism had a right to ... |
259 | Can we domesticate germs? | Paul Ewald | {0: 'Paul Ewald'} | {0: ['evolutionary biologist']} | {0: "After years of studying illness from the germs' point of view, microbiologist Paul Ewald believes that Big Pharma is wrong about some very big issues. What's right? The leader in evolutionary medicine posits radical new approaches."} | 593,367 | 2007-03-03 | 2008-05-07 | TED2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 72 | 1,071 | ['bacteria', 'biology', 'disease', 'evolution', 'global issues', 'health', 'illness', 'medicine', 'microbiology', 'science'] | {499: 'The jungle search for viruses', 331: 'DNA folding, in detail', 261: 'A thought experiment on the intelligence of crows', 1819: '3 reasons we still haven’t gotten rid of malaria', 24006: 'The loathsome lethal mosquito', 1641: 'Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_ewald_can_we_domesticate_germs/ | Evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald drags us into the sewer to discuss germs. Why are some more harmful than others? How could we make the harmful ones benign? Searching for answers, he examines a disgusting, fascinating case: diarrhea. | What I'd like to do is just drag us all down into the gutter, and actually all the way down into the sewer because I want to talk about diarrhea. And in particular, I want to talk about the design of diarrhea. And when evolutionary biologists talk about design, they really mean design by natural selection. And that bri... |
260 | Juggling as art ... and science | Michael Moschen | {0: 'Michael Moschen'} | {0: ['juggler']} | {0: 'Quite simply, Michael Moschen has revolutionized juggling, refining it into an art and a bit of a science. With a few flying balls and well-chosen props he will completely re-wire your notions of the physically possible.'} | 1,071,182 | 2002-03-03 | 2008-05-08 | TED2002 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ko', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 83 | 2,222 | ['MacArthur grant', 'dance', 'entertainment', 'math', 'music', 'physics', 'sports'] | {162: 'My creations, a new form of life', 267: 'Moving sculpture', 24: 'A dance of "Symbiosis"', 230: '5 predictions, from 1984', 246: 'Inventing instruments that unlock new music', 23936: 'How to read music'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_moschen_juggling_as_art_and_science/ | Michael Moschen puts on a quietly mesmerizing show of juggling. Don't think juggling is an art? You might just change your mind after watching Moschen in motion. | I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was, a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things. One of the great things was that m... |
261 | A thought experiment on the intelligence of crows | Joshua Klein | {0: 'Joshua Klein'} | {0: ['hacker']} | {0: 'Joshua Klein is a fervent hacker of all things, including wet, pulpy systems like animals and people and the way they behave.'} | 2,674,588 | 2008-03-03 | 2008-05-13 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sr', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 308 | 606 | ['animals', 'design', 'hack', 'intelligence', 'interface design', 'technology'] | {259: 'Can we domesticate germs?', 258: '6 ways mushrooms can save the world', 162: 'My creations, a new form of life', 9951: "3 myths about the future of work (and why they're not true)", 7060: "Success stories from Kenya's first makerspace", 2243: 'What happens when our computers get smarter than we are?'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_klein_a_thought_experiment_on_the_intelligence_of_crows/ | Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he's come up with an elegant thought experiment: a machine that could form a new bond between animal and human. | How many of you have seen the Alfred Hitchcock film "The Birds"? Any of you get really freaked out by that? You might want to leave now. (Laughter) So this is a vending machine for crows. Over the past few days, many of you have been asking, "How did you come to this? How did you get started doing this?" It started, as... |
248 | How the news distorts our worldview | Alisa Miller | {0: 'Alisa Miller'} | {0: ['ceo', 'public radio international (pri)']} | {0: 'As the CEO of Public Radio International, Alisa Miller works to bring the most significant news stories to millions -- empowering Americans with the knowledge to make choices in an interconnected world.'} | 2,194,901 | 2008-03-03 | 2008-05-14 | TED2008 | en | ['af', 'am', 'ar', 'az', 'bg', 'bi', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'fr-ca', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'kk', 'ko', 'lt', 'mn', 'my', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 229 | 269 | ['Google', 'business', 'economics', 'entertainment', 'global issues', 'media', 'news'] | {92: "The best stats you've ever seen", 75: 'Why we should invest in a free press', 279: 'Turning powerful stats into art', 24078: 'How to choose your news', 45837: "How we're helping local reporters turn important stories into national news", 916: 'Listening to global voices'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/alisa_miller_how_the_news_distorts_our_worldview/ | Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, talks about why -- though we want to know more about the world than ever -- the media is actually showing us less. Eye-opening stats and graphs. | How does the news shape the way we see the world? Here's the world based on the way it looks — based on landmass. And here's how news shapes what Americans see. This map — (Applause) — this map shows the number of seconds that American network and cable news organizations dedicated to news stories, by country, in Febru... |
263 | What's wrong with what we eat | Mark Bittman | {0: 'Mark Bittman'} | {0: ['food writer']} | {0: 'Mark Bittman is a bestselling cookbook author, journalist and television personality. His friendly, informal approach to home cooking has shown millions that fancy execution is no substitute for flavor and soul.'} | 4,744,368 | 2007-12-12 | 2008-05-15 | EG 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lv', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sr', 'th', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 582 | 1,208 | ['environment', 'food', 'green', 'obesity', 'sustainability', 'Best of the Web'] | {348: "What's wrong with school lunches", 214: "A plant's-eye view", 10: "The killer American diet that's sweeping the planet", 1565: 'The global food waste scandal', 1304: 'Cooking as alchemy', 650: 'How food shapes our cities'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/mark_bittman_what_s_wrong_with_what_we_eat/ | In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what's wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it's putting the entire planet at risk. | I write about food. I write about cooking. I take it quite seriously, but I'm here to talk about something that's become very important to me in the last year or two. It is about food, but it's not about cooking, per se. I'm going to start with this picture of a beautiful cow. I'm not a vegetarian — this is the old Nix... |
264 | The astonishing hidden world of the deep ocean | Robert Ballard | {0: 'Robert Ballard'} | {0: ['oceanographer']} | {0: 'On more than 120 deep-sea expeditions, Robert Ballard has made many major natural discoveries, such as the deep-sea vents. Oh, and he found the Titanic.'} | 1,649,030 | 2008-02-29 | 2008-05-20 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sv', 'tr', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 197 | 1,099 | ['adventure', 'animals', 'biodiversity', 'education', 'exploration', 'fish', 'oceans', 'science', 'submarine'] | {178: 'This is Saturn', 89: 'Why did I ski to the North Pole?', 141: "Inside the world's deepest caves", 926: 'Wiring an interactive ocean', 343: 'Life in the deep oceans', 23912: 'How big is the ocean?'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_ballard_the_astonishing_hidden_world_of_the_deep_ocean/ | Ocean explorer Robert Ballard takes us on a mindbending trip to hidden worlds underwater, where he and other researchers are finding unexpected life, resources, even new mountains. He makes a case for serious exploration and mapping. Google Ocean, anyone? | The first question is this. Our country has two exploration programs. One is NASA, with a mission to explore the great beyond, to explore the heavens, which we all want to go to if we're lucky. And you can see we have Sputnik, and we have Saturn, and we have other manifestations of space exploration. Well, there's also... |
266 | Designing objects that tell stories | Yves Béhar | {0: 'Yves Béhar'} | {0: ['designer']} | {0: 'Yves Béhar is a designer, entrepreneur and avid surfer whose principles for good design have been deeply influential across the field.'} | 1,278,757 | 2008-02-29 | 2008-05-21 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lt', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 68 | 1,063 | ['business', 'computers', 'creativity', 'design', 'sex', 'society'] | {27: 'Organic design, inspired by nature', 49: "Behind the design of Seattle's library", 5: 'Great cars are great art', 431: 'Ways of seeing', 207: 'Treat design as art', 372: 'Design and the Elastic Mind'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/yves_behar_designing_objects_that_tell_stories/ | Designer Yves Béhar digs up his creative roots to discuss some of the iconic objects he's created (the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset). Then he turns to the witty, surprising, elegant objects he's working on now -- including the "$100 laptop." | Being a child, and sort of crawling around the house, I remember these Turkish carpets, and there were these scenes, these battle scenes, these love scenes. I mean, look, this animal is trying to fight back this spear from this soldier. And my mom took these pictures actually, last week, of our carpets, and I remember ... |
267 | Moving sculpture | Arthur Ganson | {0: 'Arthur Ganson'} | {0: ['sculptor']} | {0: "Arthur Ganson's kinetic metal sculptures mix high art with gearhead humor. He's also the inventor of the kids' construction toy Toobers & Zots."} | 937,775 | 2004-03-03 | 2008-05-27 | TED2002 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'th', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 79 | 944 | ['art', 'design', 'engineering', 'entertainment', 'humor', 'philosophy'] | {162: 'My creations, a new form of life', 32: 'Art with wire, sugar, chocolate and string', 144: "The Web's secret stories", 877: 'How to engineer a viral music video', 278: 'The birth of the computer', 2548: "The jobs we'll lose to machines -- and the ones we won't"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/arthur_ganson_moving_sculpture/ | Sculptor and engineer Arthur Ganson talks about his work -- kinetic art that explores deep philosophical ideas and is gee-whiz fun to look at. | A few words about how I got started, and it has a lot to do with happiness, actually. When I was a very young child, I was extremely introverted and very much to myself. And, kind of as a way of surviving, I would go into my own very personal space, and I would make things. I would make things for people as a way of, y... |
268 | A hospital tour in Nigeria | Seyi Oyesola | {0: 'Seyi Oyesola'} | {0: ['doctor']} | {0: 'Physician Seyi Oyesola co-developed the "Hospital in a Box" -- a pop-up, portable, solar-powered OR for off-grid medicine in Africa and elsewhere. But, he says, Africa needs more than new tools to heal itself.'} | 267,823 | 2007-06-06 | 2008-05-27 | TEDGlobal 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'gl', 'he', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 49 | 863 | ['activism', 'design', 'health', 'health care', 'invention', 'public health', 'technology'] | {185: 'A commodities exchange for Ethiopia', 156: 'How to educate leaders? Liberal arts', 220: 'A parable for Kenya', 249: 'World-class health care', 1421: 'How do we heal medicine?', 709: 'How low-cost eye care can be world-class'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/seyi_oyesola_a_hospital_tour_in_nigeria/ | Dr. Seyi Oyesola takes a searing look at health care in underdeveloped countries. His photo tour of a Nigerian teaching hospital -- all low-tech hacks and donated supplies -- drives home the challenge of doing basic health care there. | Just to put everything in context, and to kind of give you a background to where I'm coming from, so that a lot of the things I'm going to say, and the things I'm going to do — or things I'm going to tell you I've done — you will understand exactly why and how I got motivated to be where I am. I graduated high school i... |
270 | The "bottom billion" | Paul Collier | {0: 'Paul Collier'} | {0: ['economist']} | {0: 'Paul Collier’s book The Bottom Billion shows what is happening to the poorest people in the world, and offers ideas for opening up opportunities to all.'} | 1,498,090 | 2008-03-03 | 2008-05-28 | TED2008 | 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'] | 144 | 1,011 | ['Africa', 'activism', 'business', 'economics', 'global issues', 'politics', 'poverty', 'global development', 'inequality'] | {157: 'Patient capitalism', 140: 'New insights on poverty', 127: 'Want to help Africa? Do business here', 3: 'How to rebuild a broken state', 584: 'New rules for rebuilding a broken nation', 1765: 'Imagine a European democracy without borders'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_collier_the_bottom_billion/ | Around the world right now, one billion people are trapped in poor or failing countries. How can we help them? Economist Paul Collier lays out a bold, compassionate plan for closing the gap between rich and poor. | So, can we dare to be optimistic? Well, the thesis of "The Bottom Billion" is that a billion people have been stuck living in economies that have been stagnant for 40 years, and hence diverging from the rest of mankind. And so, the real question to pose is not, "Can we be optimistic?" It's, "How can we give credible ho... |
269 | Memes and "temes" | Susan Blackmore | {0: 'Susan Blackmore'} | {0: ['memeticist']} | {0: 'Susan Blackmore studies memes -- those self-replicating "life forms" that spread themselves via human consciousness. We\'re now headed, she believes, toward a new form of meme, spread by the technology we\'ve created.'} | 890,917 | 2008-02-29 | 2008-06-03 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 366 | 1,168 | ['brain', 'culture', 'design', 'evolution', 'meme', 'technology'] | {19: 'How technology evolves', 102: 'The illusion of consciousness', 214: "A plant's-eye view", 116: 'Dangerous memes', 351: 'Health and the human mind', 1346: 'Back to the future (of 1994)'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/susan_blackmore_memes_and_temes/ | Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to keep itself alive | Cultural evolution is a dangerous child for any species to let loose on its planet. By the time you realize what's happening, the child is a toddler, up and causing havoc, and it's too late to put it back. We humans are Earth's Pandoran species. We're the ones who let the second replicator out of its box, and we can't ... |
271 | Archeology, animal photography, BBQ ... | Nathan Myhrvold | {0: 'Nathan Myhrvold'} | {0: ['polymath']} | {0: "Nathan Myhrvold is a professional jack-of-all-trades. After leaving Microsoft in 1999, he's been a world barbecue champion, a wildlife photographer, a chef, a contributor to SETI, and a volcano explorer."} | 608,112 | 2007-03-03 | 2008-06-04 | TED2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 58 | 1,034 | ['animals', 'dinosaurs', 'entertainment', 'exploration', 'fish', 'humor', 'photography', 'archaeology'] | {237: 'The call to learn', 203: "We're worried about local warming ... in your lap", 181: 'Life at 30,000 feet', 428: 'Digging up dinosaurs', 1352: 'Where are the baby dinosaurs?', 1163: 'Building a dinosaur from a chicken'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/nathan_myhrvold_archeology_animal_photography_bbq/ | Nathan Myhrvold talks about a few of his latest fascinations -- animal photography, archeology, BBQ and generally being an eccentric genius multimillionaire. Listen for wild stories from the (somewhat raunchy) edge of the animal world. | So, I'm in Chile, in the Atacama desert, sitting in a hotel lobby, because that's the only place that I can get a Wi-Fi connection, and I have this picture up on my screen, and a woman comes up behind me. She says, "Oh, that's beautiful. What is it? Is that Jackson Pollock?" And unfortunately, I can be a little too hon... |
273 | The worldwide web of belief and ritual | 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.”'} | 1,867,266 | 2008-02-02 | 2008-06-10 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 183 | 1,152 | ['anthropology', 'beauty', 'culture', 'faith', 'global issues', 'photography', 'religion', 'indigenous peoples'] | {69: 'Dreams from endangered cultures', 40: 'The story of life in photographs', 34: 'Photos of endangered cultures', 1081: "Curating humanity's heritage", 363: 'Lessons from past presidents', 1076: 'Inspiring a life of immersion'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/wade_davis_the_worldwide_web_of_belief_and_ritual/ | Anthropologist Wade Davis muses on the worldwide web of belief and ritual that makes us human. He shares breathtaking photos and stories of the Elder Brothers, a group of Sierra Nevada indians whose spiritual practice holds the world in balance. | You know, culture was born of the imagination, and the imagination — the imagination as we know it — came into being when our species descended from our progenitor, Homo erectus, and, infused with consciousness, began a journey that would carry it to every corner of the habitable world. For a time, we shared the stage ... |
276 | The ancestor of language | Murray Gell-Mann | {0: 'Murray Gell-Mann'} | {0: ['physicist']} | {0: "Murray Gell-Mann brings visibility to a crucial aspect of our existence that we can't actually see: elemental particles. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics for introducing quarks, one of two fundamental ingredients for all matter in the universe."} | 953,706 | 2007-03-03 | 2008-06-11 | TED2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'fr-ca', 'ga', 'gl', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'kk', 'ko', 'ku', 'ky', 'la', 'lt', 'ltg', 'lv', 'mk', 'mr', 'ms', 'my', 'nb', 'ne', 'nl', 'nn', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'ta', ... | 80 | 135 | ['culture', 'global issues', 'history', 'language', 'physics'] | {161: 'The joy of lexicography', 164: 'What our language habits reveal', 194: 'Beauty, truth and ... physics?', 2359: "Deep under the Earth's surface, discovering beauty and science", 1889: 'My glacier cave discoveries', 1203: 'How language transformed humanity'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/murray_gell_mann_the_ancestor_of_language/ | After speaking at TED2007 on elegance in physics, the amazing Murray Gell-Mann gives a quick overview of another passionate interest: finding the common ancestry of our modern languages. | Well, I'm involved in other things, besides physics. In fact, mostly now in other things. One thing is distant relationships among human languages. And the professional, historical linguists in the U.S. and in Western Europe mostly try to stay away from any long-distance relationships, big groupings, groupings that go ... |
279 | Turning powerful stats into art | Chris Jordan | {0: 'Chris Jordan'} | {0: ['artist']} | {0: 'Chris Jordan runs the numbers on modern American life -- making large-format, long-zoom artwork from the most mindblowing data about our stuff.'} | 1,930,801 | 2008-02-02 | 2008-06-15 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lt', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sr', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 230 | 674 | ['art', 'beauty', 'business', 'culture', 'photography', 'plastic', 'statistics'] | {56: 'My wish: Manufactured landscapes and green education', 69: 'Dreams from endangered cultures', 248: 'How the news distorts our worldview', 55058: 'The past, present and future of nicotine addiction', 38913: 'What you should know about vaping and e-cigarettes', 2112: 'What do we do with all this big data?'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_jordan_turning_powerful_stats_into_art/ | Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics -- like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day. | My work is about the behaviors that we all engage in unconsciously, on a collective level. And what I mean by that, it's the behaviors that we're in denial about, and the ones that operate below the surface of our daily awareness. And as individuals, we all do these things, all the time, everyday. It's like when you're... |
278 | The birth of the computer | George Dyson | {0: 'George Dyson'} | {0: ['historian of science']} | {0: 'In telling stories of technologies and the individuals who created them, George Dyson takes a clear-eyed view of our scientific past -- while illuminating what lies ahead.'} | 977,503 | 2003-03-03 | 2008-06-15 | TED2003 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 88 | 1,038 | ['computers', 'engineering', 'history', 'library', 'military', 'science', 'software', 'technology'] | {319: 'The next 5,000 days of the web', 35: 'How we discovered DNA', 230: '5 predictions, from 1984', 1517: 'The greatest machine that never was', 2787: "Don't fear intelligent machines. Work with them", 2548: "The jobs we'll lose to machines -- and the ones we won't"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/george_dyson_the_birth_of_the_computer/ | Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer -- from its 17th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of some early computer engineers. | Last year, I told you the story, in seven minutes, of Project Orion, which was this very implausible technology that technically could have worked, but it had this one-year political window where it could have happened. So it didn't happen. It was a dream that did not happen. This year I'm going to tell you the story o... |
252 | Your genes are not your fate | 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."} | 1,738,412 | 2008-03-03 | 2008-06-16 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'az', 'bg', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'kk', 'ko', 'ku', 'lt', 'lv', 'mk', 'mn', 'mr', 'ms', 'my', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'ta', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'ur', 'uz', 'vi', 'zh-... | 106 | 192 | ['aging', 'genetics', 'health', 'health care', 'medicine', 'science'] | {377: 'Healing through diet', 39: 'A roadmap to end aging', 142: 'The potential of regenerative medicine', 1274: 'Experiments that hint of longer lives', 1267: 'A map of the brain', 1648: 'Could the sun be good for your heart?'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/dean_ornish_your_genes_are_not_your_fate/ | Dean Ornish shares new research that shows how adopting healthy lifestyle habits can affect a person at a genetic level. For instance, he says, when you live healthier, eat better, exercise, and love more, your brain cells actually increase. | One way to change our genes is to make new ones, as Craig Venter has so elegantly shown. Another is to change our lifestyles. And what we're learning is how powerful and dynamic these changes can be, that you don't have to wait very long to see the benefits. When you eat healthier, manage stress, exercise and love more... |
280 | Robots inspired by cockroach ingenuity | Robert Full | {0: 'Robert Full'} | {0: ['biologist']} | {0: "Robert Full studies cockroach legs and gecko feet. His research is helping build tomorrow's robots, based on evolution's ancient engineering."} | 1,095,105 | 2002-02-02 | 2008-06-19 | TED2002 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lv', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 89 | 1,222 | ['animals', 'design', 'evolution', 'robots', 'science', 'technology', 'transportation'] | {82: 'Luke, a new prosthetic arm for soldiers', 165: 'Building "self-aware" robots', 18: "Biomimicry's surprising lessons from nature's engineers", 195: 'The sticky wonder of gecko feet', 2014: "The secrets of nature's grossest creatures, channeled into robots", 571: "Learning from the gecko's tail"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_full_robots_inspired_by_cockroach_ingenuity/ | Insects and animals have evolved some amazing skills -- but, as Robert Full notes, many animals are actually over-engineered. The trick is to copy only what's necessary. He shows how human engineers can learn from animals' tricks. | Welcome. If I could have the first slide, please? Contrary to calculations made by some engineers, bees can fly, dolphins can swim, and geckos can even climb up the smoothest surfaces. Now, what I want to do, in the short time I have, is to try to allow each of you to experience the thrill of revealing nature's design.... |
285 | A mobile fridge for vaccines | Adam Grosser | {0: 'Adam Grosser'} | {0: ['venture capitalist']} | {0: 'Adam Grosser is a general partner at Foundation Capital -- and a refrigeration visionary.'} | 975,371 | 2007-02-02 | 2008-06-23 | TED2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'gl', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lv', 'mg', 'mk', 'ms', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'ta', 'th', 'tl', 'tr', 'uk', 'uz', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'... | 143 | 211 | ['Vaccines', 'design', 'food', 'global issues', 'invention', 'medicine', 'technology'] | {82: 'Luke, a new prosthetic arm for soldiers', 74: 'The route to a sustainable future', 18: "Biomimicry's surprising lessons from nature's engineers", 767: 'Innovating to zero!', 2: 'Simple designs to save a life', 426: 'Play! Experiment! Discover!'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grosser_a_mobile_fridge_for_vaccines/ | Adam Grosser talks about a project to build a refrigerator that works without electricity -- to bring the vital tool to villages and clinics worldwide. Tweaking some old technology, he's come up with a system that works. | This is a work in process, based on some comments that were made at TED two years ago about the need for the storage of vaccine. (Video): [On this planet 1.6 billion people don't have access to electricity refrigeration or stored fuels this is a problem it impacts: the spread of disease the storage of food and medicine... |
30 | Surprising stats about child carseats | 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."} | 1,043,341 | 2005-07-12 | 2008-06-24 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'sv', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 141 | 1,138 | ['business', 'cars', 'culture', 'economics', 'parenting', 'statistics', 'transportation'] | {29: 'The freakonomics of crack dealing', 67: 'How juries are fooled by statistics', 22: 'Why people believe weird things', 1724: 'If cars could talk, accidents might be avoidable', 1506: 'The future race car -- 150mph, and no driver', 1109: "Google's driverless car"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_levitt_surprising_stats_about_child_carseats/ | Steven Levitt shares data that shows car seats are no more effective than seatbelts in protecting kids from dying in cars. However, during the question and answer session, he makes one crucial caveat. | Once upon a time, there was a dread disease that afflicted children. And in fact, among all the diseases that existed in this land, it was the worst. It killed the most children. And along came a brilliant inventor, a scientist, who came up with a partial cure for that disease. And it wasn't perfect. Many children stil... |
286 | The transformative power of classical music | Benjamin Zander | {0: 'Benjamin Zander'} | {0: ['conductor']} | {0: 'A leading interpreter of Mahler and Beethoven, Benjamin Zander is known for his charisma and unyielding energy -- and for his brilliant pre-concert talks.'} | 13,560,900 | 2008-02-02 | 2008-06-25 | TED2008 | en | ['af', 'ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fr', 'gl', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'is', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'ko', 'lt', 'lv', 'mk', 'my', 'nl', 'nn', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'uz', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 683 | 1,243 | ['conducting', 'creativity', 'culture', 'entertainment', 'live music', 'music', 'performance'] | {103: 'How to truly listen', 45: "An 11-year-old's magical violin", 46: 'Improvising on piano, aged 14', 28953: 'Music with a message should be accessible', 21804: 'How AI could compose a personalized soundtrack to your life', 1440: 'Music and emotion through time'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_the_transformative_power_of_classical_music/ | Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it -- and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections. | Probably a lot of you know the story of the two salesmen who went down to Africa in the 1900s. They were sent down to find if there was any opportunity for selling shoes, and they wrote telegrams back to Manchester. And one of them wrote, "Situation hopeless. Stop. They don't wear shoes." And the other one wrote, "Glor... |
288 | One Laptop per Child, two years on | 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. "} | 473,076 | 2007-12-12 | 2008-06-26 | EG 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lt', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 43 | 1,000 | ['activism', 'computers', 'design', 'technology', 'Best of the Web'] | {230: '5 predictions, from 1984', 266: 'Designing objects that tell stories', 228: 'A powerful idea about ideas', 2043: 'A 30-year history of the future', 172: 'Designing for simplicity', 255: 'The thinking behind 50x15'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_negroponte_one_laptop_per_child_two_years_on/ | Nicholas Negroponte talks about how One Laptop per Child is doing, two years in. Speaking at the EG conference while the first XO laptops roll off the production line, he recaps the controversies and recommits to the goals of this far-reaching project. | Most people don't know that when I went to high school in this country — I applied for university at a time when I was convinced I was going to be an artist and be a sculptor. And I came from a very privileged background. I was very lucky. My family was wealthy, and my father believed in one thing, and that was to give... |
287 | "Clonie" | Nellie McKay | {0: 'Nellie McKay'} | {0: ['singer/songwriter']} | {0: 'Nellie McKay sings, croons, raps, grooves and -- barks? -- to glowing critical acclaim.'} | 840,407 | 2008-02-29 | 2008-06-27 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lt', 'lv', 'mk', 'ms', 'my', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 44 | 140 | ['culture', 'entertainment', 'genetics', 'live music', 'piano', 'science', 'singer'] | {325: '"The Dog Song"', 296: '"Mother of Pearl," "If I Had You"', 119: '"Black Men Ski"', 80: 'The life code that will reshape the future', 1509: 'Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer', 30303: 'How CRISPR lets you edit DNA'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/nellie_mckay_clonie/ | Singer-songwriter Nellie McKay performs the semi-serious song "Clonie" -- about creating the ultimate companion. | But anyway, this is about the evils of science, so I think it’s perfect. ♫ My oh my, walking by, who’s the apple of my eye? ♫ ♫ Why, it's my very own Clonie. ♫ ♫ Oh, if I should stroll the hood, who knew I could look so good ♫ ♫ just talking on the phone to Clonie. ♫ ♫ We are pals, it's cool, 'cause we're not lonely, ♫... |
292 | Stephen Hawking's zero g flight | Peter Diamandis | {0: 'Peter Diamandis'} | {0: ['space activist']} | {0: 'Peter Diamandis runs the X Prize Foundation, which offers large cash incentive prizes to inventors who can solve grand challenges like space flight, low-cost mobile medical diagnostics and oil spill cleanup. He is the chair of Singularity University, which teaches executives and grad students about exponentially g... | 548,044 | 2008-02-02 | 2008-06-30 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lt', 'lv', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 42 | 241 | ['business', 'flight', 'science', 'space', 'technology', 'universe'] | {242: 'Questioning the universe', 178: 'This is Saturn', 4: 'The real future of space exploration', 1402: 'From mach-20 glider to hummingbird drone', 429: 'My dream of a flying car', 335: 'Our next giant leap'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_diamandis_stephen_hawking_s_zero_g_flight/ | X Prize founder Peter Diamandis talks about how he helped Stephen Hawking fulfill his dream of going to space -- by flying together into the upper atmosphere and experiencing weightlessness at zero g. | Those of you who know me know how passionate I am about opening the space frontier. So when I had the chance to give the world's expert in gravity the experience of zero gravity, it was incredible. And I want to tell you that story. I first met him through the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics. It's a competition we're holdi... |
297 | The story of a girl | Rick Smolan | {0: 'Rick Smolan'} | {0: ['photographer']} | {0: 'Rick Smolan is the co-founder of the America 24/7 and Day in the Life photography series -- and a natural storyteller in many media. His latest books are America at Home and Blue Planet Run.'} | 1,370,971 | 2007-12-12 | 2008-07-02 | EG 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'th', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 205 | 1,507 | ['art', 'children', 'family', 'global issues', 'media', 'photography', 'storytelling', 'Best of the Web'] | {34: 'Photos of endangered cultures', 279: 'Turning powerful stats into art', 324: 'How photography connects us', 1789: 'Where is home?', 2282: 'When to take a stand -- and when to let it go', 1369: 'The sibling bond'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/rick_smolan_the_story_of_a_girl/ | Photographer Rick Smolan tells the unforgettable story of a young Amerasian girl, a fateful photograph, and an adoption saga with a twist. | Some of you have heard the story before, but, in fact, there's somebody in the audience who's never heard this story in front of an audience before, so I'm a little more nervous than I normally am telling this story. I used to be a photographer for many years. In 1978, I was working for "TIME Magazine" and I was given ... |
298 | "Peace on Earth" | Raul Midon | {0: 'Raul Midon'} | {0: ['guitarist']} | {0: 'Guitarist and singer Raul Midon blends flamenco, jazz and R&B to create a category-defying sound. His life story is as inspiring as his musical vision.'} | 390,568 | 2007-03-03 | 2008-07-03 | TED2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'my', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 50 | 559 | ['entertainment', 'guitar', 'music', 'peace', 'singer', 'storytelling', 'performance', 'live music'] | {188: '"Tembererana"', 119: '"Black Men Ski"', 265: '"Kounandi"', 23927: 'Free falling in outer space', 1013: 'Women, wartime and the dream of peace', 1209: 'One day of peace'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/raul_midon_peace_on_earth/ | Guitarist and singer Raul Midon plays "Everybody" and "Peace on Earth" during his 2007 set at TED. | ♫ Picture yourself in a world where there's no one else, ♫ ♫ nobody anywhere. ♫ ♫ A moment ago, there were voices and faces to look upon, ♫ ♫ you can't see them anywhere. ♫ ♫ Nothing more to say ♫ ♫ and no one left to say it to, anyway. ♫ ♫ Oh, listen to what I say. ♫ ♫ Everybody can be somebody ♫ ♫ and everybody is fr... |
299 | A hero of the Congo forest | Corneille Ewango | {0: 'Corneille Ewango'} | {0: ['botanist and activist']} | {0: 'As a botanist at the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the Congo basin, Corneille Ewango has faced down poachers and soldiers who threaten this delicate and vital ecosystem.'} | 501,296 | 2007-06-06 | 2008-07-07 | TEDGlobal 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 41 | 1,098 | ['Africa', 'activism', 'animals', 'biodiversity', 'trees', 'war', 'ecology'] | {209: 'Rebuilding a neighborhood with beauty, dignity, hope', 53: 'Greening the ghetto', 153: 'How I built a windmill', 1874: 'Ecology from the air', 2075: "An engineer's vision for tiny forests, everywhere", 2546: 'How to grow a forest in your backyard'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/corneille_ewango_a_hero_of_the_congo_forest/ | Botanist Corneille Ewango talks about his work at the Okapi Faunal Reserve in the Congo Basin -- and his heroic work protecting it from poachers, miners and raging civil wars. | I don't speak English. I start speaking English, learning English, about a year ago. I speak French and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais. I'm born in the Western Congo, in an area around here, and then went to university in Kisangani. And after I finished, I went to this area, the Ituri Forest. But wha... |
300 | Animate characters by evolving them | Torsten Reil | {0: 'Torsten Reil'} | {0: ['animating neurobiologist']} | {0: 'By coding computer simulations with biologically modeled nervous systems, Torsten Reil and his company NaturalMotion breathe life into the animated characters inhabiting the most eye-poppingly realistic games and movies around.'} | 364,364 | 2003-03-03 | 2008-07-08 | TED2003 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 44 | 1,100 | ['animals', 'biomechanics', 'demo', 'design', 'entertainment', 'gaming', 'technology', 'virtual reality', 'animation'] | {280: 'Robots inspired by cockroach ingenuity', 162: 'My creations, a new form of life', 18: "Biomimicry's surprising lessons from nature's engineers", 469: 'How Benjamin Button got his face', 996: '7 ways games reward the brain', 361: 'Are games better than life?'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/torsten_reil_animate_characters_by_evolving_them/ | Torsten Reil talks about how the study of biology can help make natural-looking animated people -- by building a human from the inside out, with bones, muscles and a nervous system. He spoke at TED in 2003; see his work now in GTA4. | I'm going to talk about a technology that we're developing at Oxford now, that we think is going to change the way that computer games and Hollywood movies are being made. That technology is simulating humans. It's simulated humans with a simulated body and a simulated nervous system to control that body. Now, before I... |
282 | What happens when you lose everything | David Hoffman | {0: 'David Hoffman'} | {0: ['filmmaker']} | {0: "In David Hoffman's long film career, he's made documentaries on everything from Amelia Earhardt to B.B. King, from double-dutch jump-roping to F-15 fighter pilots. Lately he's been fascinated with the early space program and our mania for all things Sputnik."} | 1,172,146 | 2008-02-02 | 2008-07-09 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lt', 'lv', 'my', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'tr', 'ug', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 176 | 240 | ['culture', 'film', 'library', 'personal growth', 'storytelling', 'movies'] | {73: 'In praise of slowness', 201: 'The lost art of letter-writing', 349: 'Remember to say thank you', 403: "A tour of Nollywood, Nigeria's booming film industry", 1476: 'The shared wonder of film', 170: 'My journey into movies that matter'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/david_hoffman_what_happens_when_you_lose_everything/ | Nine days before TED2008, filmmaker David Hoffman lost almost everything he owned in a fire that destroyed his home, office and 30 years of passionate collecting. He looks back at a life that's been wiped clean in an instant -- and looks forward. | I had a fire nine days ago. My archive: 175 films, my 16-millimeter negative, all my books, my dad's books, my photographs. I'd collected — I was a collector, major, big-time. It's gone. I just looked at it, and I didn't know what to do. I mean, this was — was I my things? I always live in the present — I love the pres... |
274 | Institutions vs. collaboration | Clay Shirky | {0: 'Clay Shirky'} | {0: ['social media theorist']} | {0: 'Clay Shirky argues that the history of the modern world could be rendered as the history of ways of arguing, where changes in media change what sort of arguments are possible -- with deep social and political implications.'} | 1,330,540 | 2005-07-01 | 2008-07-10 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sr', 'tr', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 64 | 1,246 | ['business', 'cognitive science', 'collaboration', 'culture', 'social change', 'society', 'technology'] | {63: 'The era of open innovation', 216: 'The new power of collaboration', 247: 'The new open-source economics', 1532: '(Re)touching lives through photos', 1451: 'One year of turning the world inside out', 1085: 'My wish: Use art to turn the world inside out'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_institutions_vs_collaboration/ | In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning. | How do groups get anything done? Right? How do you organize a group of individuals so that the output of the group is something coherent and of lasting value, instead of just being chaos? And the economic framing of that problem is called coordination costs. And a coordination cost is essentially all of the financial o... |
296 | "Mother of Pearl," "If I Had You" | Nellie McKay | {0: 'Nellie McKay'} | {0: ['singer/songwriter']} | {0: 'Nellie McKay sings, croons, raps, grooves and -- barks? -- to glowing critical acclaim.'} | 1,391,252 | 2008-02-02 | 2008-07-11 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'my', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 61 | 334 | ['entertainment', 'humor', 'love', 'music', 'piano', 'women', 'live music', 'performance'] | {287: '"Clonie"', 325: '"The Dog Song"', 117: 'Cape Breton fiddling in reel time', 188: '"Tembererana"', 1325: 'The debut of the British Paraorchestra', 1162: 'We need a "moral operating system"'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/nellie_mckay_mother_of_pearl_if_i_had_you/ | The wonderful Nellie McKay sings "Mother of Pearl" (with the immortal first line "Feminists don't have a sense of humor") and "If I Had You" from her sparkling set at TED2008. | ♫ Feminists don't have a sense of humor. ♫ ♫ Feminists just want to be alone — boo hoo, hoo, hoo. ♫ ♫ Feminists spread vicious lies and rumors. ♫ ♫ They have a tumor on their funny bone. ♫ ♫ They say child molestation isn't funny — ha, ha, ha, ha. ♫ ♫ Rape and degradation's just a crime — lighten up, ladies. ♫ ♫ Rampan... |
306 | Let's look for life in the outer solar system | Freeman Dyson | {0: 'Freeman Dyson'} | {0: ['physicist']} | {0: "With Freeman Dyson's astonishing forecasts for the future, it was hard to tell where science ended and science fiction began. But far from being a wild-eyed visionary, Dyson was a clear and sober thinker -- and one not afraid of controversy or heresy. "} | 1,094,116 | 2003-02-02 | 2008-07-14 | TED2003 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 94 | 1,151 | ['Planets', 'astronomy', 'biotech', 'exploration', 'extraterrestrial life', 'physics', 'science', 'technology', 'universe', 'astrobiology'] | {141: "Inside the world's deepest caves", 404: 'The design of the universe', 42: 'Is this our final century?', 178: 'This is Saturn', 876: 'Why we need the explorers', 42247: 'There may be extraterrestrial life in our solar system'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/freeman_dyson_let_s_look_for_life_in_the_outer_solar_system/ | Physicist Freeman Dyson suggests that we start looking for life on the moons of Jupiter and out past Neptune, in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud. He talks about what such life would be like -- and how we might find it. | How will we be remembered in 200 years? I happen to live in a little town, Princeton, in New Jersey, which every year celebrates the great event in Princeton history: the Battle of Princeton, which was, in fact, a very important battle. It was the first battle that George Washington won, in fact, and was pretty much of... |
307 | The brain in love | 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.'} | 6,545,056 | 2008-02-02 | 2008-07-15 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'mr', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 308 | 956 | ['brain', 'cognitive science', 'culture', 'literature', 'love', 'poetry', 'psychology', 'relationships', 'science', 'technology'] | {16: 'Why we love, why we cheat', 97: 'The surprising science of happiness', 155: 'Telling stories from Africa', 2590: "Technology hasn't changed love. Here's why", 2661: 'A better way to talk about love', 2330: 'Falling in love is the easy part'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/helen_fisher_the_brain_in_love/ | Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love, Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of people in love -- and people who had just been dumped. | I and my colleagues Art Aron and Lucy Brown and others, have put 37 people who are madly in love into a functional MRI brain scanner. 17 who were happily in love, 15 who had just been dumped, and we're just starting our third experiment: studying people who report that they're still in love after 10 to 25 years of marr... |
308 | On technology and faith | Billy Graham | {0: 'Billy Graham'} | {0: ['preacher']} | {0: 'In his long career as a religious evangelist, the Rev. Billy Graham spoken to millions around the world and served as advisor to US presidents.'} | 3,072,855 | 1998-02-02 | 2008-07-16 | TED1998 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'hy', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lv', 'mk', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sw', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 807 | 1,580 | ['Christianity', 'God', 'death', 'faith', 'religion', 'technology'] | {71: 'A life of purpose', 112: 'Why would God create a tsunami?', 130: 'We can be Buddhas', 301: 'My year of living biblically', 1891: 'The 4 stories we tell ourselves about death', 1772: 'The doubt essential to faith'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/billy_graham_on_technology_and_faith/ | Speaking at TED in 1998, Rev. Billy Graham marvels at technology's power to improve lives and change the world -- but says the end of evil, suffering and death will come only after the world accepts Christ. A legendary talk from TED's archives. | As a clergyman, you can imagine how out of place I feel. I feel like a fish out of water, or maybe an owl out of the air. (Laughter) I was preaching in San Jose some time ago, and my friend Mark Kvamme, who helped introduce me to this conference, brought several CEOs and leaders of some of the companies here in the Sil... |
301 | My year of living biblically | A.J. Jacobs | {0: 'A.J. Jacobs'} | {0: ['author']} | {0: "Immersing himself in alternate lifestyles and hilarious experiments (usually with himself as the guinea pig), writer A.J. Jacobs tests the limits of behavior, customs, culture -- and reports back on the wisdom and practical knowledge he's gained."} | 2,932,359 | 2007-12-02 | 2008-07-17 | EG 2007 | en | ['ar', 'az', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lt', 'lv', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sl', 'sr', 'srp', 'sv', 'sw', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 611 | 1,060 | ['culture', 'entertainment', 'humanity', 'humor', 'religion', 'writing', 'comedy', 'Best of the Web'] | {86: 'Letting go of God', 374: 'Aliens, love -- where are they?', 148: 'The 4 a.m. mystery', 308: 'On technology and faith', 2011: 'Is religion good or bad? (This is a trick question)', 919: 'Superheroes inspired by Islam'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/a_j_jacobs_my_year_of_living_biblically/ | Author, philosopher, prankster and journalist A.J. Jacobs talks about the year he spent living biblically -- following the rules in the Bible as literally as possible. | I thought I'd tell you a little about what I like to write. And I like to immerse myself in my topics. I just like to dive right in and become sort of a human guinea pig. And I see my life as a series of experiments. So, I work for Esquire magazine, and a couple of years ago, I wrote an article called "My Outsourced Li... |
310 | Brain magic | Keith Barry | {0: 'Keith Barry'} | {0: ['magician']} | {0: 'Think of Keith Barry as a hacker of the human brain -- writing routines that exploit its bugs and loopholes, and offering a revealing look at the software between our ears.'} | 18,113,717 | 2004-02-02 | 2008-07-18 | TED2004 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'ml', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sr', 'th', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 687 | 1,189 | ['brain', 'entertainment', 'illusion', 'magic'] | {44912: 'Mentalism, mind reading and the art of getting inside your head', 1821: 'The art of misdirection', 2332: 'How to find work you love', 1479: 'Pop an ollie and innovate!', 2792: 'How to find a wonderful idea', 1347: 'The secret structure of great talks'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/keith_barry_brain_magic/ | First, Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies -- in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some jaw-dropping (and even a bit dangerous) feats of brain magic. | Brain magic. What's brain magic all about? Brain magic to me indicates that area of magic dealing with psychological and mind-reading effects. So unlike traditional magic, it uses the power of words, linguistic deception, non-verbal communication and various other techniques to create the illusion of a sixth sense. I'm... |
312 | The new era of positive psychology | Martin Seligman | {0: 'Martin Seligman'} | {0: ['psychologist']} | {0: 'Martin Seligman is the founder of positive psychology, a field of study that examines healthy states, such as happiness, strength of character and optimism.'} | 5,764,866 | 2004-02-02 | 2008-07-21 | TED2004 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'fr-ca', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'ko', 'lt', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 249 | 1,422 | ['brain', 'education', 'happiness', 'psychology', 'science', 'technology', 'personality', 'introvert', 'evolutionary psychology', 'emotions'] | {97: 'The surprising science of happiness', 93: 'The paradox of choice', 16: 'Why we love, why we cheat', 191: 'The habits of happiness', 2861: "There's more to life than being happy", 787: 'Plug into your hard-wired happiness'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/martin_seligman_the_new_era_of_positive_psychology/ | Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become? | When I was President of the American Psychological Association, they tried to media-train me. And an encounter I had with CNN summarizes what I'm going to be talking about today, which is the eleventh reason to be optimistic. The editor of Discover told us 10 of them; I'm going to give you the eleventh. So they came to... |
313 | The wonder of Zulu wire art | Marisa Fick-Jordan | {0: 'Marisa Fick-Jordan'} | {0: ['craft artist', 'product designer']} | {0: 'South African product designer Marisa Fick-Jordan works with Zulu wire artists to develop a sustainable, worldwide market for their bold and shimmering work.'} | 337,864 | 2007-06-06 | 2008-07-21 | TEDGlobal 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'kk', 'ko', 'ku', 'lv', 'ms', 'my', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'ta', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 16 | 153 | ['Africa', 'art', 'business', 'design'] | {127: 'Want to help Africa? Do business here', 64: 'Happiness in body and soul', 204: 'Tales of passion', 1692: 'Play with smart materials', 971: 'Are mushrooms the new plastic?', 1122: 'Open-sourced blueprints for civilization'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/marisa_fick_jordan_the_wonder_of_zulu_wire_art/ | In this short, image-packed talk, Marisa Fick-Jordan talks about how a village of traditional Zulu wire weavers built a worldwide market for their dazzling work. | The decorative use of wire in southern Africa dates back hundreds of years. But modernization actually brought communication and a whole new material, in the form of telephone wire. Rural to urban migration meant that newfound industrial materials started to replace hard-to-come-by natural grasses. So, here you can see... |
294 | On humanity | Chris Abani | {0: 'Chris Abani'} | {0: ['novelist', 'poet']} | {0: 'Imprisoned three times by the Nigerian government, Chris Abani turned his experience into poems that Harold Pinter called "the most naked, harrowing expression of prison life and political torture imaginable." His novels include <em>GraceLand</em> (2004) and <em>The Virgin of Flames</em> (2007).'} | 953,254 | 2008-02-02 | 2008-07-22 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'fr-ca', 'he', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lt', 'ml', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sh', 'sr', 'sv', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 145 | 974 | ['Africa', 'culture', 'entertainment', 'humanity', 'humor', 'literature', 'poetry', 'writing'] | {155: 'Telling stories from Africa', 64: 'Happiness in body and soul', 204: 'Tales of passion', 1136: 'The mothers who found forgiveness, friendship', 562: 'Odes to vice and consequences', 1013: 'Women, wartime and the dream of peace'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_abani_on_humanity/ | Chris Abani tells stories of people: People standing up to soldiers. People being compassionate. People being human and reclaiming their humanity. It's "ubuntu," he says: the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me. | My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us. Because I really believe that we're never more beaut... |
315 | A dig for humanity's origins | Louise Leakey | {0: 'Louise Leakey'} | {0: ['paleoanthropologist']} | {0: 'Louise Leakey hunts for hominid fossils in East Africa, in the family tradition.'} | 816,665 | 2008-02-02 | 2008-07-23 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 74 | 936 | ['Africa', 'ancient world', 'anthropology', 'apes', 'evolution', 'human origins', 'humanity', 'paleontology', 'science'] | {168: "The search for humanity's roots", 323: 'A family tree for humanity', 69: 'Dreams from endangered cultures', 35353: 'How a new species of ancestors is changing our theory of human evolution', 340: 'How humans and animals can live together', 607: 'I believe we evolved from aquatic apes'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/louise_leakey_a_dig_for_humanity_s_origins/ | Louise Leakey asks, "Who are we?" The question takes her to the Rift Valley in Eastern Africa, where she digs for the evolutionary origins of humankind -- and suggests a stunning new vision of our competing ancestors. | Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright-walking, big-brained, super-intelligent ape. This could be us. We belong to the family called the Hominidae. We are the species called Homo sapiens sapiens, and it's important to remember that, in terms of our place in the world today and our ... |
316 | The web as art | Jonathan Harris | {0: 'Jonathan Harris'} | {0: ['artist', 'storyteller', 'internet anthropologist']} | {0: "Artist and computer scientist Jonathan Harris makes online art that captures the world's expression -- and gives us a glimpse of the soul of the Internet."} | 912,154 | 2007-12-12 | 2008-07-24 | TED2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 83 | 1,229 | ['art', 'culture', 'entertainment', 'global issues', 'happiness', 'software', 'storytelling', 'web'] | {144: "The Web's secret stories", 162: 'My creations, a new form of life', 14: 'Software (as) art', 2160: 'Why you should care about whale poo', 29159: 'Inside the killer whale matriarchy', 2765: 'Why do whales sing?'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_harris_the_web_as_art/ | At the EG conference in December 2007, artist Jonathan Harris discusses his latest projects, which involve collecting stories: his own, strangers', and stories collected from the Internet, including his amazing "We Feel Fine." | So I'm going to talk today about collecting stories in some unconventional ways. This is a picture of me from a very awkward stage in my life. You might enjoy the awkwardly tight, cut-off pajama bottoms with balloons. Anyway, it was a time when I was mainly interested in collecting imaginary stories. So this is a pictu... |
318 | A tour of modern architecture | Reed Kroloff | {0: 'Reed Kroloff'} | {0: ['architecture critic']} | {0: 'With an outspoken approach to the problems of rebuilding cites and a fearless eye for design, Reed Kroloff is helping to change the urban landscape of cities from New York to New Orleans.'} | 318,905 | 2003-02-02 | 2008-07-28 | TED2003 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 36 | 921 | ['architecture', 'art', 'business', 'design', 'humor'] | {49: "Behind the design of Seattle's library", 8: 'A memorial at Ground Zero', 31: 'How architecture can connect us', 750: 'Building a theater that remakes itself', 13: 'A master architect asks, Now what?', 589: '17 words of architectural inspiration'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/reed_kroloff_a_tour_of_modern_architecture/ | Reed Kroloff gives us a new lens for judging new architecture: is it modern, or is it romantic? Look for glorious images from two leading practices -- and a blistering critique of the 9/11 planning process. | To be new at TED — it's like being the last high-school virgin. (Laughter) You know that all of the cool people are — they're doing it. And you're on the outside, you're at home. You're like the Raspyni Brothers, where you've got your balls in cold water. And — (Laughter) — you just play with your fingers all day. And ... |
319 | The next 5,000 days of the web | 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.'} | 1,765,754 | 2007-12-12 | 2008-07-28 | EG 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sv', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 242 | 1,174 | ['communication', 'complexity', 'future', 'technology', 'web', 'Best of the Web'] | {19: 'How technology evolves', 362: 'The Web as a city', 216: 'The new power of collaboration', 2061: 'A Magna Carta for the web', 1581: 'Online video -- annotated, remixed and popped', 783: 'Is Pivot a turning point for web exploration?'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web/ | At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what's coming in the next 5,000 days? | The Internet, the Web as we know it, the kind of Web — the things we're all talking about — is already less than 5,000 days old. So all of the things that we've seen come about, starting, say, with satellite images of the whole Earth, which we couldn't even imagine happening before, all these things rolling into our li... |
321 | The math and magic of origami | Robert Lang | {0: 'Robert Lang'} | {0: ['origamist']} | {0: 'Robert Lang merges mathematics with aesthetics to fold elegant modern origami. His scientific approach helps him make folds once thought impossible -- and has secured his place as one of the first great Western masters of the art. '} | 2,678,076 | 2008-02-02 | 2008-07-30 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'kn', 'ko', 'lv', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 70 | 953 | ['art', 'design', 'engineering', 'math', 'origami', 'space'] | {162: 'My creations, a new form of life', 267: 'Moving sculpture', 198: 'The fractals at the heart of African designs', 1519: 'Building unimaginable shapes', 23722: 'How folding paper can get you to the moon', 1431: 'How to use a paper towel'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_lang_the_math_and_magic_of_origami/ | Robert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami -- using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful. | My talk is "Flapping Birds and Space Telescopes." And you would think that should have nothing to do with one another, but I hope by the end of these 18 minutes, you'll see a little bit of a relation. It ties to origami. So let me start. What is origami? Most people think they know what origami is. It's this: flapping ... |
320 | A computer that works like the brain | Kwabena Boahen | {0: 'Kwabena Boahen'} | {0: ['bioengineer']} | {0: 'Kwabena Boahen wants to understand how brains work -- and to build a computer that works like the brain by reverse-engineering the nervous system. His group at Stanford is developing Neurogrid, a hardware platform that will emulate the cortex’s inner workings.'} | 722,764 | 2007-06-06 | 2008-07-30 | TEDGlobal 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 96 | 982 | ['brain', 'complexity', 'computers', 'design', 'engineering', 'science', 'technology', 'visualizations'] | {125: 'How brain science will change computing', 184: '3 clues to understanding your brain', 229: 'My stroke of insight', 49129: 'How close are we to uploading our minds?', 1879: 'What is so special about the human brain?', 967: 'I am my connectome'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/kwabena_boahen_a_computer_that_works_like_the_brain/ | Researcher Kwabena Boahen is looking for ways to mimic the brain's supercomputing powers in silicon -- because the messy, redundant processes inside our heads actually make for a small, light, superfast computer. | I got my first computer when I was a teenager growing up in Accra, and it was a really cool device. You could play games with it. You could program it in BASIC. And I was fascinated. So I went into the library to figure out how did this thing work. I read about how the CPU is constantly shuffling data back and forth be... |
322 | Watch me fold origami (blindfolded) | Bruno Bowden | {0: 'Bruno Bowden', 1: 'Rufus Cappadocia'} | {0: ['engineer and origamist'], 1: ['cellist']} | {0: 'An engineer with Google (he helped build Google Earth), Bruno Bowden is also an enthusiastic folder of paper.', 1: 'Globe-trotting, genre-hopping cellist Rufus Cappadocia plays the music of our sphere.'} | 428,206 | 2008-02-02 | 2008-08-01 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'az', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fil', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lv', 'ms', 'my', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 17 | 178 | ['cello', 'entertainment', 'music', 'origami', 'live music'] | {321: 'The math and magic of origami', 138: 'A string quartet plays "Blue Room"', 218: 'The untouchable music of the theremin', 23722: 'How folding paper can get you to the moon', 1431: 'How to use a paper towel', 1173: 'A cello with many voices'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/bruno_bowden_rufus_cappadocia_watch_me_fold_origami_blindfolded/ | After Robert Lang's talk on origami at TED2008, Bruno Bowden stepped onstage with a challenge -- he would fold one of Lang's astonishingly complicated origami figures, blindfolded, in under 2 minutes. He's accompanied by the cellist Rufus Cappadocia. | Hello everyone. And so the two of us are here to give you an example of creation. And I'm going to be folding one of Robert Lang's models. And this is the piece of paper it will be made from, and you can see all of the folds that are needed for it. And Rufus is going to be doing some improvisation on his custom, five-s... |
326 | Shedding light on dark matter | Patricia Burchat | {0: 'Patricia Burchat'} | {0: ['particle physicist']} | {0: "Patricia Burchat studies the structure and distribution of dark matter and dark energy. These mysterious ingredients can't be measured in conventional ways, yet form a quarter of the mass of our universe."} | 1,612,021 | 2008-02-02 | 2008-08-17 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'az', 'bg', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'th', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 280 | 969 | ['astronomy', 'big bang', 'dark matter', 'education', 'energy', 'physics', 'science', 'time', 'universe', 'telescopes'] | {47: 'Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars', 253: "CERN's supercollider", 42: 'Is this our final century?', 1936: 'What we can learn from galaxies far, far away', 404: 'The design of the universe', 20753: "A rare galaxy that's challenging our understanding of the universe"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_burchat_shedding_light_on_dark_matter/ | Physicist Patricia Burchat sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe: dark matter and dark energy. Comprising 96% of the universe between them, they can't be directly measured, but their influence is immense. | As a particle physicist, I study the elementary particles and how they interact on the most fundamental level. For most of my research career, I've been using accelerators, such as the electron accelerator at Stanford University, just up the road, to study things on the smallest scale. But more recently, I've been turn... |
323 | A family tree for humanity | Spencer Wells | {0: 'Spencer Wells'} | {0: ['genographer']} | {0: 'Spencer Wells studies human diversity -- the process by which humanity, which springs from a single common source, has become so astonishingly diverse and widespread.'} | 832,103 | 2007-06-06 | 2008-08-18 | TEDGlobal 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lt', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 93 | 1,253 | ['Africa', 'DNA', 'anthropology', 'culture', 'evolution', 'genetics', 'race', 'science', 'diversity', 'indigenous peoples'] | {69: 'Dreams from endangered cultures', 331: 'DNA folding, in detail', 168: "The search for humanity's roots", 1213: 'DNA clues to our inner neanderthal', 315: "A dig for humanity's origins", 1751: 'Bring back the woolly mammoth!'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/spencer_wells_a_family_tree_for_humanity/ | All humans share some common bits of DNA, passed down to us from our African ancestors. Geneticist Spencer Wells talks about how his Genographic Project will use this shared DNA to figure out how we are -- in all our diversity -- truly connected. | Jambo, bonjour, zdravstvujtye, dayo: these are a few of the languages that I've spoken little bits of over the course of the last six weeks, as I've been to 17 countries I think I'm up to, on this crazy tour I've been doing, checking out various aspects of the project that we're doing. And I'm going to tell you a littl... |
324 | How photography connects us | David Griffin | {0: 'David Griffin'} | {0: ['director of photography', 'national geographic']} | {0: 'As director of photography for National Geographic, David Griffin works with some of the most powerful photographs the world has ever seen.'} | 1,368,649 | 2008-02-02 | 2008-08-19 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lt', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 88 | 893 | ['animals', 'culture', 'design', 'entertainment', 'global issues', 'photography', 'storytelling'] | {40: 'The story of life in photographs', 69: 'Dreams from endangered cultures', 273: 'The worldwide web of belief and ritual', 2517: 'The passing of time, caught in a single photo', 1353: 'Impossible photography', 54358: 'Does photographing a moment steal the experience from you?'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/david_griffin_how_photography_connects_us/ | The photo director for National Geographic, David Griffin knows the power of photography to connect us to our world. In a talk filled with glorious images, he talks about how we all use photos to tell our stories. | Let's just start by looking at some great photographs. This is an icon of National Geographic, an Afghan refugee taken by Steve McCurry. But the Harvard Lampoon is about to come out with a parody of National Geographic, and I shudder to think what they're going to do to this photograph. Oh, the wrath of Photoshop. This... |
327 | Close-up card magic with a twist | Lennart Green | {0: 'Lennart Green'} | {0: ['close-up card magician']} | {0: 'Cards that fly all over the table, spill onto the floor, and disappear beneath a laser beam. Welcome to the chaotic and flabbergasting magical world of Lennart Green, grand master of close-up card trickery.'} | 5,550,176 | 2005-02-02 | 2008-08-20 | TED2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sv', 'tr', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 114 | 1,868 | ['entertainment', 'humor', 'illusion', 'magic'] | {310: 'Brain magic', 78: 'Visual illusions that show how we (mis)think', 22: 'Why people believe weird things', 2206: 'A magical search for a coincidence', 24048: 'How many ways can you arrange a deck of cards?', 1602: 'A cyber-magic card trick like no other'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/lennart_green_close_up_card_magic_with_a_twist/ | Like your uncle at a family party, the rumpled Swedish doctor Lennart Green says, "Pick a card, any card." But what he does with those cards is pure magic -- flabbergasting, lightning-fast, how-does-he-do-it? magic. | My favorite topic is shortcuts. The master of shortcuts — it's, of course, nature. But I will demonstrate different ways to get rid of difficulties and go to the point, to find an answer probably much quicker than Arthur did. So, first, we violate the common sense, the logic. All of you, if you hold your hand like this... |
328 | Dog-friendly dog training | Ian Dunbar | {0: 'Ian Dunbar'} | {0: ['animal behaviorist']} | {0: "Veterinarian, dog trainer and animal behaviorist Ian Dunbar understands our pets' point of view. By training dog owners in proper conduct (as much as he trains the dogs themselves), he hopes to encourage better relationships with dogs -- not to mention their friends and children, too."} | 1,225,692 | 2007-12-03 | 2008-08-21 | EG 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'mk', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 150 | 886 | ['animals', 'brain', 'children', 'psychology', 'Best of the Web'] | {2031: 'Two poems about what dogs think (probably)', 2066: 'Depressed dogs, cats with OCD — what animal madness means for us humans', 325: '"The Dog Song"', 24167: 'How do dogs "see" with their noses?', 37122: 'A brief history of dogs', 23841: 'The difference between classical and operant conditioning'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/ian_dunbar_dog_friendly_dog_training/ | Speaking at the 2007 EG conference, trainer Ian Dunbar asks us to see the world through the eyes of our beloved dogs. By knowing our pets' perspective, we can build their love and trust. It's a message that resonates well beyond the animal world. | Dogs have interests. They have interest sniffing each other, chasing squirrels. And if we don't make that a reward in training, that will be a distraction. It's always sort of struck me as really a scary thought that if you see a dog in a park, and the owner is calling it, and the owner says, you know, "Puppy, come her... |
325 | "The Dog Song" | Nellie McKay | {0: 'Nellie McKay'} | {0: ['singer/songwriter']} | {0: 'Nellie McKay sings, croons, raps, grooves and -- barks? -- to glowing critical acclaim.'} | 797,975 | 2008-02-02 | 2008-08-22 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'my', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sq', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 51 | 213 | ['animals', 'entertainment', 'live music', 'music', 'piano'] | {296: '"Mother of Pearl," "If I Had You"', 287: '"Clonie"', 119: '"Black Men Ski"', 2031: 'Two poems about what dogs think (probably)', 328: 'Dog-friendly dog training', 24167: 'How do dogs "see" with their noses?'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/nellie_mckay_the_dog_song/ | Animal fan Nellie McKay sings a sparkling tribute to her dear dog. She suggests we all do the same: "Just go right to the pound/ And find yourself a hound/ And make that doggie proud/ 'cause that's what it's all about." | I’d like to dedicate this next song to Carmelo, who was put to sleep a couple of days ago, because he got too old. But apparently he was a very nice dog and he always let the cat sleep in the dog bed. ♫ (Dog panting noise) Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh. ♫ ♫ I'm just a'walking my dog, singing my song,... |
329 | Great piano performances, recreated | John Q. Walker | {0: 'John Q. Walker'} | {0: ['musician and inventor']} | {0: 'Software entrepreneur John Q. Walker uses computers to bring piano legends back to life -- digitally reconstructing their performances from audio tracks and playing them on real instruments, live.'} | 374,415 | 2007-12-12 | 2008-08-26 | EG 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 57 | 821 | ['entertainment', 'live music', 'music', 'performance', 'piano', 'technology', 'Best of the Web'] | {286: 'The transformative power of classical music', 246: 'Inventing instruments that unlock new music', 14: 'Software (as) art', 1808: 'In the key of genius', 218: 'The untouchable music of the theremin', 23936: 'How to read music'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/john_q_walker_great_piano_performances_recreated/ | Imagine hearing great, departed pianists play again today, just as they would in person. John Q. Walker demonstrates how recordings can be analyzed for precise keystrokes and pedal motions, then played back on computer-controlled grand pianos. | Ninety-nine percent of us have the dream of listeners. Not being the musicians — the listeners, right? And we crave one thing, even though we kind of don't know it all the time. We crave to be in the room with the musician the day it was recorded, the day it was played. And we go to live concerts, and we get that as mu... |
175 | Kids can teach themselves | Sugata Mitra | {0: 'Sugata Mitra'} | {0: ['education researcher']} | {0: 'Educational researcher Sugata Mitra is the winner of the 2013 TED Prize. His wish: Build a School in the Cloud, where children can explore and learn from one another.'} | 1,797,841 | 2007-02-02 | 2008-08-27 | LIFT 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lt', 'my', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sr', 'tr', 'ur', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 182 | 1,259 | ['children', 'cities', 'culture', 'education', 'global issues', 'teaching', 'Best of the Web'] | {1678: 'Build a School in the Cloud', 66: 'Do schools kill creativity?', 949: 'The child-driven education', 892: 'Education innovation in the slums', 809: 'Teaching one child at a time', 423: 'Taking OLPC to Colombia'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_kids_can_teach_themselves/ | Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own -- and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves? | I have a tough job to do. You know, when I looked at the profile of the audience here, with their connotations and design, in all its forms, and with so much and so many people working on collaborative and networks, and so on, that I wanted to tell you, I wanted to build an argument for primary education in a very spec... |
330 | How I became an activist | Ory Okolloh | {0: 'Ory Okolloh'} | {0: ['blogger and activist']} | {0: "Ory Okolloh maintains the blog Mzalendo, providing an unprecedented look at the doings of Kenya's parliament -- information once unavailable to Kenyan citizens."} | 402,405 | 2007-06-06 | 2008-08-28 | TEDGlobal 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 92 | 998 | ['Africa', 'activism', 'global issues', 'identity', 'media', 'technology'] | {127: 'Want to help Africa? Do business here', 185: 'A commodities exchange for Ethiopia', 156: 'How to educate leaders? Liberal arts', 59: 'My wish: Three actions for Africa', 232: 'My wish: Find the next Einstein in Africa', 152: 'Aid versus trade'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/ory_okolloh_how_i_became_an_activist/ | Ory Okolloh tells the story of her life and her family -- and how she came to do her heroic work reporting on the doings of Kenya's parliament. | So what's image got do with it? And I must say, I think Emeka is trying to send a lot of subliminal messages, because I'm going to keep harping on some of the issues that have come up. But I'm going to try and do something different, and try and just close the loop with some of my personal stories, and try and put a fa... |
334 | A talking, squawking parrot | Einstein the Parrot | {0: 'Einstein the Parrot'} | {0: ['african grey parrot']} | {0: 'Einstein, the African grey parrot, has a vocabulary of more than 200 words and sounds; she can perform nearly half on cue. '} | 3,052,771 | 2006-02-02 | 2008-08-29 | TED2006 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'my', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sv', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 102 | 348 | ['animals', 'education', 'entertainment', 'performance'] | {206: 'Underwater astonishments', 76: 'The gentle genius of bonobos', 77: 'The shrimp with a kick!', 2770: 'On tennis, love and motherhood', 31630: 'A powerful way to unleash your natural creativity', 477: 'Learning from dirty jobs'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/einstein_the_parrot_a_talking_squawking_parrot/ | This whimsical wrap-up of TED2006 -- presented by Einstein, the African grey parrot, and her trainer, Stephanie White -- simply tickles. Watch for the moment when Einstein has a moment with Al Gore. | Stephanie White: I'm going to let her introduce herself to everybody. Can you tell everybody your name? Einstein: Einstein. SW: This is Einstein. Can you tell everyone "hi"? E: Hello. SW: That's nice. Can you be polite? E: Hi, sweetheart. SW: Much better. Well, Einstein is very honored to be here at TED 2006, amongst a... |
331 | DNA folding, in detail | Paul Rothemund | {0: 'Paul Rothemund'} | {0: ['dna origamist']} | {0: 'Paul Rothemund folds DNA into shapes and patterns. Which is a simple enough thing to say, but the process he has developed has vast implications for computing and manufacturing -- allowing us to create things we can now only dream of.'} | 760,069 | 2008-02-02 | 2008-09-02 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 55 | 984 | ['DNA', 'MacArthur grant', 'creativity', 'nanoscale', 'physics', 'science', 'technology'] | {147: 'Visualizing the wonder of a living cell', 35: 'How we discovered DNA', 227: 'On the verge of creating synthetic life', 183: 'Playing with DNA that self-assembles', 1322: 'Animations of unseeable biology', 2570: 'The era of personal DNA testing is here'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_rothemund_dna_folding_in_detail/ | In 2007, Paul Rothemund gave TED a short summary of his specialty, DNA folding. Now he lays out in clear, abundant detail the immense promise of this field -- to create tiny machines that assemble themselves. | So, people argue vigorously about the definition of life. They ask if it should have reproduction in it, or metabolism, or evolution. And I don't know the answer to that, so I'm not going to tell you. I will say that life involves computation. So this is a computer program. Booted up in a cell, the program would execut... |
335 | Our next giant leap | Peter Diamandis | {0: 'Peter Diamandis'} | {0: ['space activist']} | {0: 'Peter Diamandis runs the X Prize Foundation, which offers large cash incentive prizes to inventors who can solve grand challenges like space flight, low-cost mobile medical diagnostics and oil spill cleanup. He is the chair of Singularity University, which teaches executives and grad students about exponentially g... | 577,143 | 2005-07-07 | 2008-09-03 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 92 | 931 | ['business', 'design', 'exploration', 'science', 'space', 'technology'] | {4: 'The real future of space exploration', 178: 'This is Saturn', 141: "Inside the world's deepest caves", 1835: 'Can technology solve our big problems?', 292: "Stephen Hawking's zero g flight", 1488: 'Tour the solar system from home'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_diamandis_our_next_giant_leap/ | Peter Diamandis says it's our moral imperative to keep exploring space -- and he talks about how, with the X Prize and other incentives, we're going to do just that. | My mission in life since I was a kid was, and is, to take the rest of you into space. It's during our lifetime that we're going to take the Earth, take the people of Earth and transition off, permanently. And that's exciting. In fact, I think it is a moral imperative that we open the space frontier. You know, it's the ... |
339 | The web is more than "better TV" | Peter Hirshberg | {0: 'Peter Hirshberg'} | {0: ['entrepreneur', 'marketer']} | {0: 'A Silicon Valley executive, entrepreneur and marketing specialist, Peter Hirshberg might just be the definitive voice on how new technology affects business and culture.'} | 284,657 | 2007-12-12 | 2008-09-04 | EG 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ko', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 62 | 1,899 | ['business', 'history', 'media', 'technology', 'telecom', 'television', 'Best of the Web'] | {19: 'How technology evolves', 362: 'The Web as a city', 72: "Technology's long tail", 2043: 'A 30-year history of the future', 1152: 'Visualizing ourselves ... with crowd-sourced data', 230: '5 predictions, from 1984'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_hirshberg_the_web_is_more_than_better_tv/ | In this absorbing look at emerging media and tech history, Peter Hirshberg shares some crucial lessons from Silicon Valley and explains why the web is so much more than "better TV." | Well, good morning. You know, the computer and television both recently turned 60, and today I'd like to talk about their relationship. Despite their middle age, if you've been following the themes of this conference or the entertainment industry, it's pretty clear that one has been picking on the other. So it's about ... |
333 | What we think we know | Jonathan Drori | {0: 'Jonathan Drori'} | {0: ['educator']} | {0: "Jonathan Drori commissioned the BBC's very first websites, one highlight in a long career devoted to online culture and educational media -- and understanding how we learn."} | 1,145,602 | 2007-02-02 | 2008-09-05 | TED2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 152 | 748 | ['education', 'illusion', 'media', 'science', 'technology'] | {22: 'Why people believe weird things', 78: 'Visual illusions that show how we (mis)think', 143: 'Flip your thinking on AIDS in Africa', 1827: 'The pursuit of ignorance', 1580: 'Smart failure for a fast-changing world', 2032: 'Why we should trust scientists'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_drori_what_we_think_we_know/ | Starting with four basic questions (that you may be surprised to find you can't answer), Jonathan Drori looks at the gaps in our knowledge -- and specifically, what we don't about science that we might think we do. | I'm going to try and explain why it is that perhaps we don't understand as much as we think we do. I'd like to begin with four questions. This is not some sort of cultural thing for the time of year. That's an in-joke, by the way. But these four questions, actually, are ones that people who even know quite a lot about ... |
340 | How humans and animals can live together | 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.'} | 967,104 | 2007-06-06 | 2008-09-08 | TEDGlobal 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 75 | 1,426 | ['Africa', 'animals', 'biodiversity', 'environment', 'global issues', 'pollution', 'primates', 'science'] | {76: 'The gentle genius of bonobos', 145: 'The emergent genius of ant colonies', 126: 'Swim with the giant sunfish', 11: 'What separates us from chimpanzees?', 168: "The search for humanity's roots", 315: "A dig for humanity's origins"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/jane_goodall_how_humans_and_animals_can_live_together/ | The legendary chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall talks about TACARE and her other community projects, which help people in booming African towns live side-by-side with threatened animals. | Good afternoon, good evening, whatever. We can go, jambo, guten Abend, bonsoir, but we can also ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. That is the call that chimpanzees make before they go to sleep in the evening. You hear it going from one side of the valley to the other, from one group of nests to the next. And... |
344 | How to survive a nuclear attack | Irwin Redlener | {0: 'Irwin Redlener'} | {0: ['physician', 'disaster-preparedness activist']} | {0: "Dr. Irwin Redlener spends his days imagining the worst: He studies how humanity might survive natural or human-made disasters of unthinkable severity. He's been an outspoken critic of half-formed government recovery plans (especially after Katrina)."} | 785,071 | 2008-02-29 | 2008-09-09 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'mn', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sv', 'tr', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 86 | 1,518 | ['global issues', 'history', 'medicine', 'technology', 'war'] | {167: '10 ways the world could end', 33: "Let's rethink America's military strategy", 54: 'My wish: A call for open-source architecture', 2650: "The world doesn't need more nuclear weapons", 52463: '3 questions we should ask about nuclear weapons', 881: 'Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy?'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/irwin_redlener_how_to_survive_a_nuclear_attack/ | The face of nuclear terror has changed since the Cold War, but disaster-medicine expert Irwin Redlener reminds us the threat is still real. He looks at some of history's farcical countermeasures and offers practical advice on how to survive an attack. | So, a big question that we're facing now and have been for quite a number of years now: are we at risk of a nuclear attack? Now, there's a bigger question that's probably actually more important than that, is the notion of permanently eliminating the possibility of a nuclear attack, eliminating the threat altogether. A... |
346 | A free digital library | Brewster Kahle | {0: 'Brewster Kahle'} | {0: ['digital librarian']} | {0: 'Brewster Kahle is an inventor, philanthropist and digital librarian. His Internet Archive offers 85 billion pieces of deep Web geology -- a fascinating look at the formation of the Internet over the years, and a challenge to those who would keep knowledge buried.'} | 527,871 | 2007-12-12 | 2008-09-10 | EG 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lt', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 57 | 1,206 | ['design', 'entertainment', 'film', 'history', 'library', 'media', 'music', 'technology', 'web', 'books', 'Best of the Web'] | {319: 'The next 5,000 days of the web', 339: 'The web is more than "better TV"', 216: 'The new power of collaboration', 24414: "What's the fastest way to alphabetize your bookshelf?", 57918: 'Why books are here to stay', 27750: "A librarian's case against overdue book fines"} | https://www.ted.com/talks/brewster_kahle_a_free_digital_library/ | Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library -- every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history ... It's all free to the public -- unless someone else gets to it first. | We really need to put the best we have to offer within reach of our children. If we don't do that, we're going to get the generation we deserve. They're going to learn from whatever it is they have around them. And we, as now the elite, parents, librarians, professionals, whatever it is, a bunch of our activities are, ... |
343 | Life in the deep oceans | David Gallo | {0: 'David Gallo'} | {0: ['oceanographer']} | {0: 'A pioneer in ocean exploration, David Gallo is an enthusiastic ambassador between the sea and those of us on dry land.'} | 1,128,685 | 1998-02-28 | 2008-09-11 | TED1998 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sr', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 76 | 800 | ['animals', 'geology', 'life', 'oceans', 'science', 'submarine', 'technology', 'marine biology'] | {40: 'The story of life in photographs', 77: 'The shrimp with a kick!', 261: 'A thought experiment on the intelligence of crows', 264: 'The astonishing hidden world of the deep ocean', 1387: 'Deep ocean mysteries and wonders', 1372: 'A census of the ocean'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/david_gallo_life_in_the_deep_oceans/ | With vibrant video clips captured by submarines, David Gallo takes us to some of Earth's darkest, most violent, toxic and beautiful habitats, the valleys and volcanic ridges of the oceans' depths, where life is bizarre, resilient and shockingly abundant. | (Applause) David Gallo: This is Bill Lange. I'm Dave Gallo. And we're going to tell you some stories from the sea here in video. We've got some of the most incredible video of Titanic that's ever been seen, and we're not going to show you any of it. (Laughter) The truth of the matter is that the Titanic — even though i... |
347 | Once upon a time, my mother ... | Carmen Agra Deedy | {0: 'Carmen Agra Deedy'} | {0: ['storyteller']} | {0: "Carmen Agra Deedy's luminous, funny, digressive tales of childhood and adulthood bring out the starry-eyed listener in us all."} | 888,638 | 2005-02-02 | 2008-09-12 | TED2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hi', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lv', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 73 | 1,414 | ['children', 'entertainment', 'memory', 'storytelling'] | {60: 'Four American characters', 26: 'If I controlled the Internet', 86: 'Letting go of God', 1048: "The 3 A's of awesome", 30: 'Surprising stats about child carseats', 1715: 'In search of the man who broke my neck'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/carmen_agra_deedy_once_upon_a_time_my_mother/ | Storyteller Carmen Agra Deedy spins a funny, wise and luminous tale of parents and kids, starring her Cuban mother. Settle in and enjoy the ride -- Mama's driving! | When I knew I was going to come to speak to you, I thought, "I gotta call my mother." I have a little Cuban mother — she's about that big. Four feet. Nothing larger than the sum of her figurative parts. You still with me? (Laughter) I called her up. "Hello, how're you doing, baby?" "Hey, ma, I got to talk to you." "You... |
345 | The camel's hump | Keith Bellows | {0: 'Keith Bellows'} | {0: ['traveler']} | {0: 'On the heels of a long and bruising camel ride, Keith Bellows became fascinated with the "SUV of the sand," and with the many thorny aspects of their personalities (and mating habits) most of us would rather not dwell upon.'} | 216,356 | 2002-02-02 | 2008-09-15 | TED2002 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 12 | 966 | ['animals', 'energy', 'entertainment', 'global issues', 'sex', 'transportation'] | {69: 'Dreams from endangered cultures', 324: 'How photography connects us', 273: 'The worldwide web of belief and ritual', 2455: 'You have no idea where camels really come from', 31814: 'What sticky sea creatures can teach us about making glue', 8787: 'Photos of Africa, taken from a flying lawn chair'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/keith_bellows_the_camel_s_hump/ | Keith Bellows gleefully outlines the engineering marvels of the camel, a vital creature he calls "the SUV of the desert." Though he couldn't bring a live camel to TED, he gets his camera crew as close as humanly possible to a one-ton beast in full rut. | [SHIT] This is arguably the back end of the design of animals. (Laughter) But the reason I put this up here is because when I was in Africa last year, my wife and I were driving around, we had this wonderful guide, who showed us something that surprised both of us, and it was very revealing in terms of the fascination ... |
348 | What's wrong with school lunches | Ann Cooper | {0: 'Ann Cooper'} | {0: ['lunch lady']} | {0: 'Ann Cooper cares -- a lot -- what kids eat for lunch. As the head of nutrition for Berkeley, California, schools, she serves organic, regionally sourced and sustainable meals to lots of lucky children.'} | 1,540,996 | 2007-12-12 | 2008-09-16 | EG 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ku', 'lv', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sl', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 236 | 1,182 | ['children', 'economics', 'education', 'food', 'global issues', 'green', 'Best of the Web'] | {263: "What's wrong with what we eat", 214: "A plant's-eye view", 406: 'A foie gras parable', 2659: 'Want kids to learn well? Feed them well', 1530: 'A teacher growing green in the South Bronx', 765: 'Teach every child about food'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/ann_cooper_what_s_wrong_with_school_lunches/ | Speaking at the 2007 EG conference, "renegade lunch lady" Ann Cooper talks about the coming revolution in the way kids eat at school -- local, sustainable, seasonal and even educational food. | My thing with school lunch is, it's a social justice issue. I'm the Director of Nutrition Services for the Berkeley Unified School District. I have 90 employees and 17 locations, 9,600 kids. I'm doing 7,100 meals a day and I've been doing it for two years, trying to change how we feed kids in America. And that's what I... |
341 | The moral roots of liberals and conservatives | Jonathan Haidt | {0: 'Jonathan Haidt'} | {0: ['social psychologist']} | {0: 'Jonathan Haidt studies how -- and why -- we evolved to be moral and political creatures.'} | 3,687,861 | 2008-03-01 | 2008-09-17 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'ko', 'mk', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sr', 'th', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 1,004 | 1,122 | ['brain', 'culture', 'evolution', 'global issues', 'morality', 'politics', 'psychology', 'evolutionary psychology'] | {68: 'Progress is not a zero-sum game', 163: 'The surprising decline in violence', 97: 'The surprising science of happiness', 2669: 'How to have better political conversations', 2625: 'Can a divided America heal?', 2716: 'Political common ground in a polarized United States'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_the_moral_roots_of_liberals_and_conservatives/ | Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most. | Suppose that two American friends are traveling together in Italy. They go to see Michelangelo's "David," and when they finally come face-to-face with the statue, they both freeze dead in their tracks. The first guy — we'll call him Adam — is transfixed by the beauty of the perfect human form. The second guy — we'll ca... |
217 | What security means to me | 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.'} | 1,262,685 | 2005-07-07 | 2008-09-18 | TEDGlobal 2005 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sq', 'sr', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 102 | 825 | ['activism', 'culture', 'global issues', 'spoken word', 'technology', 'violence', 'war', 'women'] | {64: 'Happiness in body and soul', 22704: 'Did the global response to 9/11 make us safer?', 1513: "A Navy Admiral's thoughts on global security", 1078: 'On being a woman and a diplomat', 1076: 'Inspiring a life of immersion', 1136: 'The mothers who found forgiveness, friendship'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/eve_ensler_what_security_means_to_me/ | Playwright Eve Ensler explores our modern craving for security -- and why it makes us less secure. Listen for inspiring, heartbreaking stories of women making change. | I think it'll be a relief to some people and a disappointment to others that I'm not going to talk about vaginas today. I began "The Vagina Monologues" because I was worried about vaginas. I'm very worried today about this notion, this world, this prevailing kind of force of security. I see this word, hear this word, f... |
353 | How to pitch to a VC | David S. Rose | {0: 'David S. Rose'} | {0: ['angel investor']} | {0: '"The Pitch Coach" David S. Rose is an expert on the business pitch. As an entrepreneur, he has raised millions for his own companies. As an investor, he has funded millions more.'} | 1,320,693 | 2007-03-01 | 2008-09-19 | TED2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'th', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 107 | 879 | ['business', 'invention', 'investment', 'presentation', 'technology'] | {70: '8 secrets of success', 28: 'How to get your ideas to spread', 72: "Technology's long tail", 2182: 'How to run a company with (almost) no rules', 27622: 'Confessions of a recovering micromanager', 848: 'How great leaders inspire action'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/david_s_rose_how_to_pitch_to_a_vc/ | Thinking startup? David S. Rose's rapid-fire TED U talk on pitching to a venture capitalist tells you the 10 things you need to know about yourself -- and prove to a VC -- before you fire up your slideshow. | Good morning. My name is David Rose. I am a serial entrepreneur turned serial investor. And by the use of pitching PowerPoints to VCs, I have personally raised tens of millions of dollars from VCs through PowerPoint pitches. And turning to the other side of the equation, I've personally supervised the investment of ten... |
351 | Health and the human mind | Marvin Minsky | {0: 'Marvin Minsky'} | {0: ['ai pioneer']} | {0: 'Marvin Minsky is one of the great pioneers of artificial intelligence -- and using computing metaphors to understand the human mind. His contributions to mathematics, robotics and computational linguistics are legendary and far-reaching.'} | 610,254 | 2003-02-02 | 2008-09-22 | TED2003 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'gl', 'he', 'hr', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 55 | 813 | ['brain', 'health', 'humanity', 'humor', 'science', 'technology', 'psychology', 'evolutionary psychology'] | {125: 'How brain science will change computing', 320: 'A computer that works like the brain', 229: 'My stroke of insight', 515: 'To upgrade is human', 44: 'A philosophical quest for our biggest problems', 1580: 'Smart failure for a fast-changing world'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/marvin_minsky_health_and_the_human_mind/ | Listen closely -- Marvin Minsky's arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety: wit, wisdom and just an ounce of wily, is-he-joking? advice. | If you ask people about what part of psychology do they think is hard, and you say, "Well, what about thinking and emotions?" Most people will say, "Emotions are terribly hard. They're incredibly complex. They can't — I have no idea of how they work. But thinking is really very straightforward: it's just sort of some k... |
272 | The psychology of evil | Philip Zimbardo | {0: 'Philip Zimbardo'} | {0: ['psychologist']} | {0: 'Philip Zimbardo was the leader of the notorious 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment -- and an expert witness at Abu Ghraib. His book The Lucifer Effect explores the nature of evil; now, in his new work, he studies the nature of heroism.'} | 7,152,998 | 2008-02-02 | 2008-09-23 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'gl', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'ko', 'lt', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sq', 'sr', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 457 | 1,396 | ['children', 'crime', 'culture', 'education', 'evil', 'global issues', 'peace', 'prison', 'psychology'] | {163: 'The surprising decline in violence', 97: 'The surprising science of happiness', 68: 'Progress is not a zero-sum game', 13585: 'How to stop screwing yourself over', 2537: "Why you think you're right -- even if you're wrong", 2207: 'What I learned as a kid in jail'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_the_psychology_of_evil/ | Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials. Then he talks about the flip side: how easy it is to be a hero, and how we can rise to the challenge. | Philosophers, dramatists, theologians have grappled with this question for centuries: what makes people go wrong? Interestingly, I asked this question when I was a little kid. I grew up in the South Bronx, inner-city ghetto in New York, and I was surrounded by evil, as all kids are who grew up in an inner city. And I h... |
349 | Remember to say thank you | Laura Trice | {0: 'Laura Trice'} | {0: ['counselor', 'coach and baker']} | {0: 'Laura Trice is a counselor, life coach -- and purveyor of wholesome junk food.'} | 2,500,944 | 2008-02-02 | 2008-09-24 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'az', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'kk', 'ko', 'ku', 'lt', 'lv', 'mk', 'mr', 'ms', 'my', 'nb', 'ne', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'tg', 'th', 'tr', 'tt', 'uk', 'ur', 'uz', 'vi', 'zh-... | 197 | 209 | ['communication', 'culture', 'happiness', 'parenting'] | {73: 'In praise of slowness', 201: 'The lost art of letter-writing', 70: '8 secrets of success', 1136: 'The mothers who found forgiveness, friendship', 1675: 'Agile programming -- for your family', 1974: 'For parents, happiness is a very high bar'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/laura_trice_remember_to_say_thank_you/ | In this deceptively simple 3-minute talk, Dr. Laura Trice muses on the power of the magic words "thank you" -- to deepen a friendship, to repair a bond, to make sure another person knows what they mean to you. Try it. | Hi. I'm here to talk to you about the importance of praise, admiration and thank you, and having it be specific and genuine. And the way I got interested in this was, I noticed in myself, when I was growing up, and until about a few years ago, that I would want to say thank you to someone, I would want to praise them, ... |
350 | Playtime with Pleo, your robotic dinosaur friend | Caleb Chung | {0: 'Caleb Chung'} | {0: ['toy designer']} | {0: "Caleb Chung dreams up toys that interact with children. He's the inventor of Furby, a talking (and listening) robotic furball that sold some 50 million units in the late '90s. His newest plaything: Pleo the adorable robot dinosaur."} | 463,552 | 2007-12-12 | 2008-09-25 | EG 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 40 | 1,107 | ['children', 'design', 'dinosaurs', 'entertainment', 'happiness', 'invention', 'play', 'technology', 'toy', 'Best of the Web'] | {280: 'Robots inspired by cockroach ingenuity', 146: 'Spore, birth of a game', 288: 'One Laptop per Child, two years on', 1743: 'Hack a banana, make a keyboard!', 428: 'Digging up dinosaurs', 271: 'Archeology, animal photography, BBQ ...'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/caleb_chung_playtime_with_pleo_your_robotic_dinosaur_friend/ | Pleo the robot dinosaur acts like a living pet -- exploring, cuddling, playing, reacting and learning. Inventor Caleb Chung talks about Pleo and his wild toy career at EG07, on the week that Pleo shipped to stores for the first time. | I'm a, or was, or kind of am a toy designer. And before I was a toy designer, oh, I was a mime, a street mime, actually. And then I was an entertainer, I guess. And before that, I was a silversmith, and before that, I was — I was out of the house at about 15 and a half, and I never wound up going into college. I didn't... |
354 | Human nature and the blank slate | Steven Pinker | {0: 'Steven Pinker'} | {0: ['psychologist']} | {0: 'Steven Pinker is a professor of cognitive science (the study of the human mind) who writes about language, mind and human nature. '} | 1,468,699 | 2003-02-28 | 2008-09-26 | TED2003 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'ko', 'lv', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sr', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 299 | 1,362 | ['brain', 'children', 'culture', 'language', 'philosophy', 'psychology', 'science', 'books'] | {163: 'The surprising decline in violence', 97: 'The surprising science of happiness', 68: 'Progress is not a zero-sum game', 1653: 'Be an artist, right now!', 455: 'Using design to make ideas new', 1198: 'The origins of pleasure'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_human_nature_and_the_blank_slate/ | Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate argues that all humans are born with some innate traits. Here, Pinker talks about his thesis, and why some people found it incredibly upsetting. | A year ago, I spoke to you about a book that I was just in the process of completing, that has come out in the interim, and I would like to talk to you today about some of the controversies that that book inspired. The book is called "The Blank Slate," based on the popular idea that the human mind is a blank slate, and... |
355 | Robots will invade our lives | Rodney Brooks | {0: 'Rodney Brooks'} | {0: ['roboticist']} | {0: 'Rodney Brooks builds robots based on biological principles of movement and reasoning. The goal: a robot who can figure things out.'} | 692,492 | 2003-02-02 | 2008-09-29 | TED2003 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 85 | 1,127 | ['AI', 'design', 'humanity', 'intelligence', 'robots', 'technology'] | {195: 'The sticky wonder of gecko feet', 165: 'Building "self-aware" robots', 162: 'My creations, a new form of life', 1709: 'A mini robot -- powered by your phone', 1070: 'The rise of personal robots', 1376: 'Robots that fly ... and cooperate'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/rodney_brooks_robots_will_invade_our_lives/ | In this prophetic talk from 2003, roboticist Rodney Brooks talks about how robots are going to work their way into our lives -- starting with toys and moving into household chores ... and beyond. | What I want to tell you about today is how I see robots invading our lives at multiple levels, over multiple timescales. And when I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere. Assuming — despite all the dire predictions from many people about our future — ... |
356 | Things I've learned in my life so far | 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.'} | 1,010,862 | 2008-02-02 | 2008-09-30 | TED2008 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lt', 'mk', 'my', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'th', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 49 | 285 | ['art', 'design', 'education', 'happiness', 'humor', 'work'] | {172: 'Designing for simplicity', 197: 'Design and destiny', 182: 'The illustrated woman', 50: 'Happiness by design', 649: 'The power of time off', 501: 'Can design save newspapers?'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/stefan_sagmeister_things_i_ve_learned_in_my_life_so_far/ | Rockstar designer Stefan Sagmeister delivers a short, witty talk on life lessons, expressed through surprising modes of design (including ... inflatable monkeys?). | I was here about four years ago, talking about the relationship of design and happiness. At the very end of it, I showed a list under that title. I learned very few things in addition since (Laughter) — but made a whole number of them into projects since. These are inflatable monkeys in every city in Scotland: "Everybo... |
358 | Politics and religion are technologies | Noah Feldman | {0: 'Noah Feldman'} | {0: ['constitutional law scholar']} | {0: 'Noah Feldman studies the intersection of religion, politics and law.'} | 444,557 | 2003-02-02 | 2008-10-01 | TED2003 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'kk', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 173 | 907 | ['culture', 'democracy', 'global issues', 'politics', 'religion', 'social change', 'society', 'war'] | {234: 'My wish: The Charter for Compassion', 116: 'Dangerous memes', 19: 'How technology evolves', 1189: 'A global culture to fight extremism', 1155: 'Faith versus tradition in Islam', 1595: 'Why democracy matters'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/noah_feldman_politics_and_religion_are_technologies/ | Noah Feldman makes a searing case that both politics and religion -- whatever their differences -- are similar technologies, designed to efficiently connect and manage any group of people. | I want to argue to you that in fact, politics and religion, which are the two primary factors — not the sole, but overwhelmingly, the primary factors — which are driving towards a war which looks extremely likely — bordering on the inevitable at this point, whether one is in favor of that or not — that politics and rel... |
359 | The Blur Building and other tech-empowered architecture | Liz Diller | {0: 'Liz Diller'} | {0: ['designer']} | {0: 'Liz Diller and her maverick firm DS+R bring a groundbreaking approach to big and small projects in architecture, urban design and art -- playing with new materials, tampering with space and spectacle in ways that make you look twice.'} | 779,329 | 2007-12-12 | 2008-10-02 | EG 2007 | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 54 | 1,164 | ['architecture', 'art', 'cities', 'design', 'theater', 'Best of the Web'] | {49: "Behind the design of Seattle's library", 31: 'How architecture can connect us', 219: 'Building uniqueness', 750: 'Building a theater that remakes itself', 231: 'My days as a young rebel', 1147: 'Building the Seed Cathedral'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/liz_diller_the_blur_building_and_other_tech_empowered_architecture/ | In this engrossing EG talk, architect Liz Diller shares her firm DS+R's more unusual work, including the Blur Building, whose walls are made of fog, and the revamped Alice Tully Hall, which is wrapped in glowing wooden skin. | Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses. Our work is across media. The work comes in all shapes and sizes. It's small and large. This is an ashtray, a water glass. From urban planning and master planning... |
360 | Moving photos of extreme drug-resistant TB | 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.'} | 472,870 | 2008-10-03 | 2008-10-03 | TED Prize Wish | en | ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'pt-br', 'ro', 'ru', 'sl', 'th', 'tr', 'vi', 'zh-cn', 'zh-tw'] | 33 | 352 | ['TED Prize', 'communication', 'design', 'media', 'photography', 'technology', 'art'] | {84: 'My wish: Let my photographs bear witness', 381: 'The face of AIDS in Africa', 171: 'An Iraq war movie crowd-sourced from soldiers', 44879: "What makes TB the world's most infectious killer?", 826: 'Photos that changed the world', 324: 'How photography connects us'} | https://www.ted.com/talks/james_nachtwey_moving_photos_of_extreme_drug_resistant_tb/ | An ancient disease is taking on a deadly new form. James Nachtwey share his powerful photographs of XDR-TB, a newly drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis that has developed due to misused and inadequate medical treatments -- and that might be touching off a global medical crisis. | I was a student in the '60s, a time of social upheaval and questioning, and — on a personal level — an awakening sense of idealism. The war in Vietnam was raging, the Civil Rights movement was under way and pictures had a powerful influence on me. Our political and military leaders were telling us one thing and photogr... |
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