Animator Andrew Park illustrates Denis Dutton’s provocative theory on beauty — that art, music and other beautiful things, far from being simply “in the eye of the beholder,” are a core part of human nature with deep evolutionary origins.
Biologist Ellen Jorgensen discusses Genspace, a nonprofit DIYbio lab in Brooklyn devoted to citizen science, where amateurs can go and tinker with biotechnology.
John Bohannon has a brilliant solution for explaining complex scientific processes: choreograph them. This performance originally took place at TEDxBrussels on November 22, 2011.
TED 2011 Fellow Sanjana Hattotuwa describes Groundviews, a citizen journalism website that covers Sri Lankan issues that aren’t covered in mainstream media.
Deb Roy wired up his house with video cameras to catch every moment of his son’s life, then parsed 90K hours of video to watch “gaaaa” slowly turn into “water.”