pattie maes: unveiling game-changing wearable tech
Bookmarked 807 weeks ago
http:wwwtedcom this demo -- from pattie maes039 lab at mit spearheaded by pranav mistry -- was the buzz of ted it039s a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment imagine quotminority reportquot and then sometedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the ted conference where the world039s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes featured speakers have included al gore on climate change philippe starck on design jill bolte taylor on observing her own stroke nicholas negroponte on one laptop per child jane goodall on chimpanzees bill gates on malaria and mosquitoes and quotlostquot producer jj abrams on the allure of mystery ted stands for technology entertainment design and tedtalks cover these topics as well as science business development and the arts watch the top 10 tedtalks on tedcom at http:wwwtedcomindexphptalkstop10

luis von ahn: massive-scale online collaboration
Bookmarked 749 weeks ago
http:wwwtedcom after re-purposing captcha so each human-typed response helps digitize books luis von ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the internet for greater good at tedxcmu he shares how his ambitious new project duolingo will help millions learn a new language while translating the web quickly and accurately -- all for freetedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the ted conference where the world039s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes featured speakers have included al gore on climate change philippe starck on design jill bolte taylor on observing her own stroke nicholas negroponte on one laptop per child jane goodall on chimpanzees bill gates on malaria and mosquitoes pattie maes on the quotsixth sensequot wearable tech and quotlostquot producer jj abrams on the allure of mystery ted stands for technology entertainment design and tedtalks cover these topics as well as science business development and the arts closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on tedcom at http:wwwtedcomtranslate

ben goldacre: battling bad science
Bookmarked 759 weeks ago
http:wwwtedcom every day there are news reports of new health advice but how can you know if they039re right doctor and epidemiologist ben goldacre shows us at high speed the ways evidence can be distorted from the blindingly obvious nutrition claims to the very subtle tricks of the pharmaceutical industrytedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the ted conference where the world039s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes featured speakers have included al gore on climate change philippe starck on design jill bolte taylor on observing her own stroke nicholas negroponte on one laptop per child jane goodall on chimpanzees bill gates on malaria and mosquitoes pattie maes on the quotsixth sensequot wearable tech and quotlostquot producer jj abrams on the allure of mystery ted stands for technology entertainment design and tedtalks cover these topics as well as science business development and the arts closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on tedcom at http:wwwtedcomtranslate

reggie watts disorients you in the most entertaining way
Bookmarked 724 weeks ago
http:wwwtedcom reggie watts039 beats defy boxes unplug your logic board and watch as he blends poetry and crosses musical genres in this larger-than-life performancetedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the ted conference where the world039s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes featured speakers have included al gore on climate change philippe starck on design jill bolte taylor on observing her own stroke nicholas negroponte on one laptop per child jane goodall on chimpanzees bill gates on malaria and mosquitoes pattie maes on the quotsixth sensequot wearable tech and quotlostquot producer jj abrams on the allure of mystery ted stands for technology entertainment design and tedtalks cover these topics as well as science business development and the arts closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on tedcom at http:wwwtedcomtranslateif you have questions or comments about this or other ted videos please go to http:supporttedcom

daniel kahneman: the riddle of experience vs memory
Bookmarked 730 weeks ago
http:wwwtedcom using examples from vacations to colonoscopies nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics daniel kahneman reveals how our quotexperiencing selvesquot and our quotremembering selvesquot perceive happiness differently this new insight has profound implications for economics public policy -- and our own self-awarenesstedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the ted conference where the world039s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes featured speakers have included al gore on climate change philippe starck on design jill bolte taylor on observing her own stroke nicholas negroponte on one laptop per child jane goodall on chimpanzees bill gates on malaria and mosquitoes pattie maes on the quotsixth sensequot wearable tech and quotlostquot producer jj abrams on the allure of mystery ted stands for technology entertainment design and tedtalks cover these topics as well as science business development and the arts closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on tedcom at http:wwwtedcomtranslate watch a highlight reel of the top 10 tedtalks at http:wwwtedcomindexphptalkstop10

neil macgregor: 2600 years of history in one object
Bookmarked 738 weeks ago
http:wwwtedcom a clay cylinder covered in akkadian cuneiform script damaged and broken the cyrus cylinder is a powerful symbol of religious tolerance and multi-culturalism in this enthralling talk neil macgregor director of the british museum traces 2600 years of middle eastern history through this single objecttedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the ted conference where the world039s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes featured speakers have included al gore on climate change philippe starck on design jill bolte taylor on observing her own stroke nicholas negroponte on one laptop per child jane goodall on chimpanzees bill gates on malaria and mosquitoes pattie maes on the quotsixth sensequot wearable tech and quotlostquot producer jj abrams on the allure of mystery ted stands for technology entertainment design and tedtalks cover these topics as well as science business development and the arts closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on tedcom at http:wwwtedcomtranslateif you have questions or comments about this or other ted videos please go to http:supporttedcom

christopher quotmootquot poole: the case for anonymity online
Bookmarked 761 weeks ago
http:wwwtedcom the founder of 4chan a controversial uncensored online imageboard describes its subculture some of the internet quotmemesquot it has launched and the incident in which its users managed a very public precision hack of a mainstream media website the talk raises questions about the power -- and price -- of anonymitytedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the ted conference where the world039s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes featured speakers have included al gore on climate change philippe starck on design jill bolte taylor on observing her own stroke nicholas negroponte on one laptop per child jane goodall on chimpanzees bill gates on malaria and mosquitoes pattie maes on the quotsixth sensequot wearable tech and quotlostquot producer jj abrams on the allure of mystery ted stands for technology entertainment design and tedtalks cover these topics as well as science business development and the arts closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on tedcom at http:wwwtedcomtranslate watch a highlight reel of the top 10 tedtalks at http:wwwtedcomindexphptalkstop10

heribert watzke: the brain in your gut
Bookmarked 748 weeks ago
http:wwwtedcom did you know you have functioning neurons in your intestines -- about a hundred millions of them food scientist heribert watzke tells us about the quothidden brainquot in our gut and the surprising things it makes us feeltedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the ted conference where the world039s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes featured speakers have included al gore on climate change philippe starck on design jill bolte taylor on observing her own stroke nicholas negroponte on one laptop per child jane goodall on chimpanzees bill gates on malaria and mosquitoes pattie maes on the quotsixth sensequot wearable tech and quotlostquot producer jj abrams on the allure of mystery ted stands for technology entertainment design and tedtalks cover these topics as well as science business development and the arts closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on tedcom at http:wwwtedcomtranslate watch a highlight reel of the top 10 tedtalks at http:wwwtedcomindexphptalkstop10

tom chatfield: 7 ways video games engage the brain
Bookmarked 806 weeks ago
http:wwwtedcom as we bring gameplay into more aspects of our lives from socializing to exercising tom chatfield talks about one compelling aspect of videogaming: its measurability parceling out rewards at carefully calibrated percentages games collect reams of data about what humans truly find rewarding and precisely how hard we039re willing to work for a wintedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the ted conference where the world039s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes featured speakers have included al gore on climate change philippe starck on design jill bolte taylor on observing her own stroke nicholas negroponte on one laptop per child jane goodall on chimpanzees bill gates on malaria and mosquitoes pattie maes on the quotsixth sensequot wearable tech and quotlostquot producer jj abrams on the allure of mystery ted stands for technology entertainment design and tedtalks cover these topics as well as science business development and the arts closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on tedcom at http:wwwtedcomtranslate watch a highlight reel of the top 10 tedtalks at http:wwwtedcomindexphptalkstop10

justin hall-tipping: freeing energy from the grid
Bookmarked 755 weeks ago
http:wwwtedcom what would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes in this moving talk entrepreneur justin hall-tipping shows the materials that could make that possible and how questioning our notion of 039normal039 can lead to extraordinary breakthroughstedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the ted conference where the world039s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes featured speakers have included al gore on climate change philippe starck on design jill bolte taylor on observing her own stroke nicholas negroponte on one laptop per child jane goodall on chimpanzees bill gates on malaria and mosquitoes pattie maes on the quotsixth sensequot wearable tech and quotlostquot producer jj abrams on the allure of mystery ted stands for technology entertainment design and tedtalks cover these topics as well as science business development and the arts closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on tedcom at http:wwwtedcomtranslate

marco tempest: the magic of truth and lies and ipods
Bookmarked 762 weeks ago
http:wwwtedcom using three ipods like magical props marco tempest spins a clever surprisingly heartfelt meditation on truth and lies art and emotiontedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the ted conference where the world039s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes featured speakers have included al gore on climate change philippe starck on design jill bolte taylor on observing her own stroke nicholas negroponte on one laptop per child jane goodall on chimpanzees bill gates on malaria and mosquitoes pattie maes on the quotsixth sensequot wearable tech and quotlostquot producer jj abrams on the allure of mystery ted stands for technology entertainment design and tedtalks cover these topics as well as science business development and the arts closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on tedcom at http:wwwtedcomtranslate

defend our freedom to share or why sopa is a bad idea
Bookmarked 743 weeks ago
http:wwwtedcom what does a bill like pipasopa mean to our shareable world at the ted offices clay shirky delivers a proper manifesto -- a call to defend our freedom to create discuss link and share rather than passively consumetedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the ted conference where the world039s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes featured speakers have included al gore on climate change philippe starck on design jill bolte taylor on observing her own stroke nicholas negroponte on one laptop per child jane goodall on chimpanzees bill gates on malaria and mosquitoes pattie maes on the quotsixth sensequot wearable tech and quotlostquot producer jj abrams on the allure of mystery ted stands for technology entertainment design and tedtalks cover these topics as well as science business development and the arts closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on tedcom at http:wwwtedcomtranslateif you have questions or comments about this or other ted videos please go to http:supporttedcom

jane mcgonigal: gaming can make a better world
Bookmarked 799 weeks ago
http:wwwtedcom games like world of warcraft give players the means to save worlds and incentive to learn the habits of heroes what if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems jane mcgonigal says we can and explains howtedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the ted conference where the world039s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes featured speakers have included al gore on climate change philippe starck on design jill bolte taylor on observing her own stroke nicholas negroponte on one laptop per child jane goodall on chimpanzees bill gates on malaria and mosquitoes pattie maes on the quotsixth sensequot wearable tech and quotlostquot producer jj abrams on the allure of mystery ted stands for technology entertainment design and tedtalks cover these topics as well as science business development and the arts closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on tedcom at http:wwwtedcomtranslate watch a highlight reel of the top 10 tedtalks at http:wwwtedcomindexphptalkstop10

philip zimbardo: the demise of guys
Bookmarked 767 weeks ago
http:wwwtedcom psychologist philip zimbardo asks quotwhy are boys strugglingquot he shares some stats lower graduation rates greater worries about intimacy and relationships and suggests a few reasons -- and he asks for your help watch his talk then take his short 10-question survey: http:ontedcompzsurveytedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the ted conference where the world039s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes featured speakers have included al gore on climate change philippe starck on design jill bolte taylor on observing her own stroke nicholas negroponte on one laptop per child jane goodall on chimpanzees bill gates on malaria and mosquitoes pattie maes on the quotsixth sensequot wearable tech and quotlostquot producer jj abrams on the allure of mystery ted stands for technology entertainment design and tedtalks cover these topics as well as science business development and the arts closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on tedcom at http:wwwtedcomtranslate

lucianne walkowicz: finding planets around other stars
Bookmarked 766 weeks ago
http:wwwtedcom how do we find planets -- even habitable planets -- around other stars by looking for tiny dimming as a planet passes in front of its sun ted fellow lucianne walkowicz and the kepler mission have found some 1200 potential new planetary systems with new techniques they may even find ones with the right conditions for lifetedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the ted conference where the world039s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes featured speakers have included al gore on climate change philippe starck on design jill bolte taylor on observing her own stroke nicholas negroponte on one laptop per child jane goodall on chimpanzees bill gates on malaria and mosquitoes pattie maes on the quotsixth sensequot wearable tech and quotlostquot producer jj abrams on the allure of mystery ted stands for technology entertainment design and tedtalks cover these topics as well as science business development and the arts closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on tedcom at http:wwwtedcomtranslate