Posts Tagged ‘TED Talks’
The Evolutionary Origins Of Beauty [VIDEO]
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.
Read MoreBiohacking [VIDEO]
Biologist Ellen Jorgensen discusses Genspace, a nonprofit DIYbio lab in Brooklyn devoted to citizen science, where amateurs can go and tinker with biotechnology.
Read MoreChoreographed Presentations: Use Dance To Illustrate Complex Science
John Bohannon has a brilliant solution for explaining complex scientific processes: choreograph them. This performance originally took place at TEDxBrussels on November 22, 2011.
Read MoreRobotic Flight
Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot that flies like a seagull by, get this, flapping its wings. Amazing.
Read MoreFeature-Length Interactive Book: Our Choice by Al Gore
Mike Matas of Push Pop Press explains and demonstrates the interactive iBook his company designed for Al Gore’s book, Our Choice.
Read MoreAdam Ostrow: The Digital Afterlife
Mashable’s Adam Ostrow asks a big question: What happens to your online personality after you’ve died? Could it … live on?
Read MoreGroundviews: Citizen Journalism
TED 2011 Fellow Sanjana Hattotuwa describes Groundviews, a citizen journalism website that covers Sri Lankan issues that aren’t covered in mainstream media.
Read MoreDeb Roy Discusses Content Feedback Loops
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.”
Read MoreBraille Smart Phones
TED2011 Fellow Sumit Dagar talks through the innovative features of his braille phone.
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