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Nathan Eagle: Global mobile workforce Channel: PopTech Length: 1113 Date: July 08, 2011 Nathan Eagle is harnessing mobile phone data in emerging markets. He’s launched txteagle, a program that enables the under-employed to earn money ...

Stephen Vitiello: Intimate Listening Channel: PopTech Length: 840 Date: June 16, 2011 From composing electronic music to scoring experimental videos to making larger-scale public installations that create immersive soundscapes, soun...

Kevin Dunbar on unexpected science Channel: PopTech Length: 1214 Date: June 09, 2011 Psychology professor Kevin Dunbar studies how scientists approach the unexpected and learn from mistakes. Over the course of a year, Dunbar’s team...

Reggie Watts: Humor in music Channel: PopTech Length: 937 Date: June 05, 2011 Reggie Watts is an entertainer who combines stream-of-consciousness improvisational comedy with music to create a wholly original experience. A Pop...

John Legend: Wake Up Channel: PopTech Length: 543 Date: June 03, 2011 Accompanied only by his piano, Grammy award-winning recording artist and philanthropist John Legend performs the soulful “Wake Up” and “Shine” fro...

OK Go’s Synchronized Sounds Channel: PopTech Length: 795 Date: June 02, 2011 OK Go’s eccentricities and music videos are undeniably captivating. But there’s no denying that they are incredible musicians too. OK Go took to th...

Eli Pariser on the Filter Bubble Channel: PopTech Length: 1077 Date: May 14, 2011 Eli Pariser explores how ideas move in the networked economy. As the board president of MoveOn.org, he pioneered many practices of online organizi...

Michael Blum: Failure and Resiliency Channel: PopTech Length: 0 Date: April 17, 2011 Tulane ecology professor Michael Blum has been at the front lines of the Gulf coast oil spill response and clean-up efforts. In his PopTech talk, ...

Ned Breslin: Fixing the Water Crisis Channel: PopTech Length: 1163 Date: March 28, 2011 “Is water still running?” is perhaps the most important question when considering water initiatives worldwide, concludes Water for People CEO Ned ...

Daryl Collins on $2 a day living Channel: PopTech Length: 993 Date: March 17, 2011 Daryl Collins asked families in developing countries who live on $2 a day to track their income and expenses in a financial diary. She learned that...

Nancy Duarte: Presentations that transform audiences Channel: PopTech Length: 124 Date: March 16, 2011 When speaking in front of an audience, even if you have something amazing to say, it’s crucial to have a well developed presentation. That’s where...

Susan Casey: In Awe of Waves Channel: PopTech Length: 1342 Date: March 15, 2011 Susan Casey wrote her latest book, The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean, after researching the beautiful, mysterious...

Dan Ariely: Adaptive Responses Channel: PopTech Length: 1261 Date: February 24, 2011 Adaptation is the basic idea that we get used to stuff and interpret signals. Behavioral economist Dan Ariely explores how these types of signals r...

Education Fellows - PopTech 2006 Channel: PopTech Length: 2609 Date: February 09, 2011 Five educators, demonstrating leadership in technology and education, were awarded Pop!Tech Fellowships presented by Sun Microsystems and Curriki,...

Heather Knight’s Robot Theater Channel: PopTech Length: 431 Date: January 26, 2011 Heather Knight knows robots. A PhD student at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute and co-founder of Syyn Labs, Knight staged a live robot theater...

Heather Knight’s Rube Goldberg infatuation Channel: PopTech Length: 132 Date: January 26, 2011 An element of chance and an air of tension draw Heather Knight and her colleagues at Syyn Labs to construct Rube Goldberg contraptions. PopTech fol...

Thompson & Cotton forgive Channel: PopTech Length: 1772 Date: January 20, 2011 The story of Jennifer Thompson and Ronald Cotton is one of liberation and forgiveness. In 1984, Thompson testified that Cotton raped her, for whic...

Patrick Meier & Josh Nesbit: The Haiti 4636 Story Channel: PopTech Length: 936 Date: January 13, 2011 To commemorate the first anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, today we’re releasing the PopTech 2010 talk from Patrick Meier, director of crisis m...

Kathryn Schulz: Being Wrong Channel: PopTech Length: 1230 Date: January 06, 2011 Kathryn Schulz is an expert on being wrong. The journalist and author of “Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margins of Error,” says we make mistakes a...

PopTech 2010 in Six Words Channel: PopTech Length: 0 Date: December 23, 2010 This video is a compilation of six-word tidbits that Larry Smith collected at the 2010 PopTech conference. Since 2006, Smith has undertaken the Si...

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