The dance of the dung beetle – Marcus Byrne
A dung beetle has a brain the size of a grain of rice, and yet shows a tremendous amount of intelligence when it comes to rolling it...
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The game layer on top of the world – Seth Priebatsch
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-game-layer-on-top-of-the-world-seth-priebatsch By now, we’re used to letting F...
What we’re learning from 5,000 brains – Read Montague
Mice, bugs and hamsters are no longer the only way to study the brain. Functional MRI (fMRI) allows scientists to map brain activity...
The business logic of sustainability – Ray Anderson
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-business-logic-of-sustainability-ray-anderson At his carpet company, Ray Anderson ha...
A girl who demanded school – Kakenya Ntaiya
Kakenya Ntaiya made a deal with her father: She would undergo the traditional Maasai rite of passage of female circumcision if he wo...
We need a “moral operating system” – Damon Horowitz
Damon Horowitz reviews the enormous new powers that technology gives us: to know more — and more about each other — than...
A doctor’s touch – Abraham Verghese
Modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool: human touch. Physician and writer Abraham Verghese describes...
Toward a science of simplicity – George Whitesides
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/toward-a-science-of-simplicity-george-whitesides Simplicity: We know it when we see it &...
Greening the ghetto – Majora Carter
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/majora-carter-greening-the-ghetto In an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur-winning acti...
Before I die I want to… – Candy Chang
In her New Orleans neighborhood, artist and TED Fellow Candy Chang turned an abandoned house into a giant chalkboard asking a fill-i...