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Cute, sexy, sweet and funny — an evolutionary riddle Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 16, 2009 Why are babies cute? Why is cake sweet? Philosopher Dan Dennett has answers you wouldn’t expect, as he shares evolution's counterintuitiv...

The next Web of open, linked data Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 13, 2009 20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbe...

Why play is vital — no matter your age Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 12, 2009 A pioneer in research on play, Dr. Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in ...

How my legs give me super-powers Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 11, 2009 Athlete, actor and activist Aimee Mullins talks about her prosthetic legs — she’s got a dozen amazing pairs -- and the superpowers they ...

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 10, 2009 This demo — from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It’s a wearable device with a pr...

3 ways that good design makes you happy Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 09, 2009 In this talk from 2003, design critic Don Norman turns his incisive eye toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion, as he looks at design that makes...

Striking chords to rock the jazz world Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 06, 2009 Eric Lewis, an astonishingly talented crossover jazz pianist — seen by many for the first time at TED2009 -- sets fire to the keys with ...

Celebrating work — all kinds of work Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 05, 2009 Mike Rowe, the host of "Dirty Jobs," tells some compelling (and horrifying) real-life job stories. Listen for his insights and observations about ...

Unveiling the beautiful, fragile world of rainforest treetop ecosystems Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 04, 2009 A unique ecosystem of plants, birds and monkeys thrives in the treetops of the rainforest. Nalini Nadkarni explores these canopy worlds &#8212...

A 20-year tale of hope: How we re-grew a rainforest Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 03, 2009 By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re-grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local ora...

Why didn’t girls play videogames? Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 02, 2009 A TED archive gem. At TED in 1998, Brenda Laurel asks: Why are all the top-selling videogames aimed at little boys? She spent two years researchin...

How Twitter’s spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: February 27, 2009 In the year leading up to this talk, the web tool Twitter exploded in size (up 10x during 2008 alone). Co-founder Evan Williams reveals that many ...

Making art of New York’s urban ruins Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: February 26, 2009 At the 2008 EG Conference, artist Miru Kim talks about her work. Kim explores industrial ruins underneath New York and then photographs herself in...

Exploring the reef’s Twilight Zone Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: February 25, 2009 In this illuminating talk, Richard Pyle shows us thriving life on the cliffs of coral reefs and groundbreaking diving technologies he has pioneere...

Sailing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: February 24, 2009 Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — an endless floating was...

Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin Button got his face Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: February 23, 2009 Ed Ulbrich, the digital-effects guru from Digital Domain, explains the Oscar-winning technology that allowed his team to digitally create the olde...

Why the search for alien intelligence matters (TED Prize winner!) Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: February 20, 2009 The SETI Institute’s Jill Tarter makes her TED Prize wish: to accelerate our search for cosmic company. Using a growing array of radio telescopes, ...

Here’s how to protect the blue heart of the planet (TED Prize winner!) Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: February 19, 2009 Legendary ocean researcher Sylvia Earle shares astonishing images of the ocean — and shocking stats about its rapid decline -- as she mak...

A musical sensation from Venezuela Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: February 18, 2009 The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra contains the best high school musicians from Venezuela’s life-changing music program, El Sistema. Led here by G...

Help me bring music to kids worldwide (TED Prize winner!) Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: February 18, 2009 Jose Antonio Abreu is the charismatic founder of a youth orchestra system that has transformed thousands of kids' lives in Venezuela.&...

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