How healthy living nearly killed me – A.J. Jacobs
For a full year, A.J. Jacobs followed every piece of health advice he could — from applying sunscreen by the shot glass to wea...
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A prosthetic eye to treat blindness – Sheila Nirenberg
At TEDMED, Sheila Nirenberg shows a bold way to create sight in people with certain kinds of blindness: by hooking into the optic ne...
Put a value on nature! – Pavan Sukhdev
Every day, we use materials from the earth without thinking, for free. But what if we had to pay for their true value: would it make...
Praising slowness – Carl Honore
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/carl-honore-praises-slowness Journalist Carl Honoré believes the Western world’s e...
How I discovered DNA – James Watson
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/james-watson-on-how-he-discovered-dna Nobel laureate James Watson opens TED2005 with the...
Mysteries of vernacular: Sarcophagus – Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/mysteries-of-vernacular-sarcophagus-jessica-oreck-and-rachael-teel Dating back to the ea...
3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship – Majora Carter
The future of green is local — and entrepreneurial. In her talk, Majora Carter brings us the stories of three people who are s...
How to expose the corrupt – Peter Eigen
Some of the world’s most baffling social problems, says Peter Eigen, can be traced to systematic, pervasive government corrupt...
Technology’s epic story – Kevin Kelly
In this wide-ranging, thought-provoking talk, Kevin Kelly muses on what technology means in our lives — from its impact at the...
Inside the Egyptian revolution – Wael Ghonim
Wael Ghonim is the Google executive who helped jumpstart Egypt’s democratic revolution … with a Facebook page memorializ...