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Thelma Golden: How art gives shape to cultural change Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: April 16, 2010 Thelma Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, talks through three recent shows that explore how art examines and redefines culture. The "...

Jonathan Klein: Photos that changed the world Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: April 13, 2010 Photographs do more than document history — they make it. At TED University, Jonathan Klein of Getty Images shows some of the most iconi...

Michael Specter: The danger of science denial Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: April 12, 2010 Vaccine-autism claims, "Frankenfood" bans, the herbal cure craze: All point to the public’s growing fear (and, often, outright denial) of science ...

Jonathan Drori: Every pollen grain has a story Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: April 08, 2010 Pollen goes unnoticed by most of us, except when hay fever strikes. But microscopes reveal it comes in stunning colors and shapes — and ...

Dennis Hong: My seven species of robot Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: April 07, 2010 At TEDxNASA, Dennis Hong introduces seven award-winnning, all-terrain robots — like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gr...

Dean Kamen: The emotion behind invention Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: April 06, 2010 Soldiers who’ve lost limbs in service face a daily struggle unimaginable to most of us. At TEDMED, Dean Kamen talks about the profound people and ...

Elizabeth Pisani: Sex, drugs and HIV — let’s get rational Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: April 05, 2010 Armed with bracing logic, wit and her "public-health nerd" glasses, Elizabeth Pisani reveals the myriad of inconsistencies in today’s political sy...

Derek Sivers: How to start a movement Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: April 01, 2010 With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two.)

Kirk Citron: And now, the real news Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 31, 2010 How many of today’s headlines will matter in 100 years? 1000? Kirk Citron's "Long News" project collects stories that not only matter toda...

Shukla Bose: Teaching one child at a time Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 30, 2010 Educating the poor is more than just a numbers game, says Shukla Bose. She tells the story of her groundbreaking Parikrma Humanity Foundation, whi...

Alan Siegel: Let’s simplify legal jargon! Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 24, 2010 Tax forms, credit agreements, healthcare legislation: They’re crammed with gobbledygook, says Alan Siegel, and incomprehensibly long. He calls for...

Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 22, 2010 Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can — and s...

Ken Kamler: Medical miracle on Everest Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 18, 2010 When the worst disaster in the history of Mount Everest climbs occurred, Ken Kamler was the only doctor on the mountain. At TEDMED, he shares the ...

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 17, 2010 Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gam...

Eric Dishman: Take health care off the mainframe Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 16, 2010 At TEDMED, Eric Dishman makes a bold argument: The US health care system is like computing circa 1959, tethered to big, unwieldy central systems: ...

Mark Roth: Suspended animation is within our grasp Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 15, 2010 Mark Roth studies suspended animation: the art of shutting down life processes and then starting them up again. It’s wild stuff, but it's...

Eric Mead: The magic of the placebo Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 12, 2010 Sugar pills, injections of nothing — studies show that, more often than you’d expect, placebos really work. At TEDMED, magician Eric Mea...

Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 10, 2010 Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he c...

Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 08, 2010 At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" — for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available...

James Cameron: Before Avatar ... a curious boy Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 04, 2010 James Cameron’s big-budget (and even bigger-grossing) films create unreal worlds all their own. In this personal talk, he reveals his childhood fa...

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