The shared experience of absurdity – Charlie Todd
Charlie Todd causes bizarre, hilarious, and unexpected public scenes: Seventy synchronized dancers in storefront windows, “gho...
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Finding life we can’t imagine – Christoph Adami
How do we search for alien life if it’s nothing like the life that we know? Christoph Adami shows how he uses his research int...
Demand a fair trade cell phone – Bandi Mbubi
Your mobile phone, computer and game console have a bloody past — tied to tantalum mining, which funds the war in the Democratic Rep...
The strange politics of disgust – David Pizarro
What does a disgusting image have to do with how you vote? Equipped with surveys and experiments, psychologist David Pizarro demonst...
Freeing energy from the grid – Justin Hall-Tipping
What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the m...
The science behind a climate headline – Rachel Pike
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/rachel-pike-the-science-behind-a-climate-headline In 4 minutes, atmospheric chemist Rach...
How to look inside the brain – Carl Schoonover
There have been remarkable advances in understanding the brain, but how do you actually study the neurons inside it? Using gorgeous...
Inside the Egyptian revolution – Wael Ghonim
Wael Ghonim is the Google executive who helped jumpstart Egypt’s democratic revolution … with a Facebook page memorializ...
Welcome to the genomic revolution – Richard Resnick
In this accessible talk from TEDxBoston, Richard Resnick shows how cheap and fast genome sequencing is about to turn health care (an...
