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The art of baking bread Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: January 14, 2009 Batch to batch, crust to crust ... In tribute to the beloved staple food, baking master Peter Reinhart reflects on the cordial couplings (wheat an...

Life on Mars? Let’s look in the caves Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 18, 2008 So the Mars Rovers didn’t scoop up any alien lifeforms. Scientist Penelope Boston thinks there's a good chance — a 25 to 50 perc...

Jay Walker’s library of human imagination Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 15, 2008 Jay Walker, curator of the Library of Human Imagination, conducts a surprising show-and-tell session highlighting a few of the intriguing artifact...

Second Life, where anything is possible Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 03, 2008 Why build a virtual world? Philip Rosedale talks about the virtual society he founded, Second Life, and its underpinnings in human creativity. It’...

Building a home for the Clock of the Long Now Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: November 17, 2008 Stewart Brand works on the Clock of the Long Now, a timepiece that counts down the next 10,000 years. It’s a beautiful project that asks us to thi...

The story of the Mars Rovers Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: November 12, 2008 At Serious Play 2008, Charles Elachi shares stories from NASA’s legendary Jet Propulsion Lab — including tales and video from the Mars R...

Why societies collapse Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: October 27, 2008 Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks ab...

Why newspapers still matter (and why tech news belongs on the front page) Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: October 09, 2008 At the EG conference, John Markoff talks about why newspapers still matter — even in the days of RSS. He gives an inside look at editori...

The Web and the city Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: October 08, 2008 Outside.in’s Steven Johnson says the Web is like a city: built by many people, completely controlled by no one, intricately interconnected and yet...

Will videogames become better than life? Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: October 06, 2008 Game designer David Perry says tomorrow’s videogames will be more than mere fun to the next generation of gamers. They'll be lush, comple...

How robots will invade our lives Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: September 29, 2008 In this prophetic talk from 2003, roboticist Rodney Brooks talks about how robots are going to work their way into our lives — starting ...

The Web and TV, a sibling rivalry Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: September 04, 2008 In this absorbing look at emerging media and tech history, Peter Hirshberg shares some crucial lessons from Silicon Valley and explains why the we...

Taking the next giant leap in space Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: September 03, 2008 Peter Diamandis says it’s our moral imperative to keep exploring space — and he talks about how, with the X Prize and other incentives, ...

The astonishing promise of DNA folding Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: September 02, 2008 In 2007, Paul Rothemund gave TED a short summary of his specialty, DNA folding. Now he lays out in clear, abundant detail the immense promise of t...

Re-creating great performances Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: August 26, 2008 Imagine hearing great, departed pianists play again today, just as they would in person. John Q. Walker demonstrates how recordings can be analyze...

Making a computer that works like the brain Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: July 30, 2008 Researcher Kwabena Boahen is looking for ways to mimic the brain’s supercomputing powers in silicon — because the messy, redundant proce...

Architecture, modern and romantic Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: July 28, 2008 Reed Kroloff gives us a new lens for judging new architecture: is it modern, or is it romantic? Look for glorious images from two leading practice...

What positive psychology can help you become Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: July 21, 2008 Martin Seligman talks about psychology — as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it mo...

Technology, faith and human shortcomings Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: July 16, 2008 Speaking at TED in 1998, Rev. Billy Graham marvels at technology’s power to improve lives and change the world — but says the end of evi...

Let’s look for life in the outer solar system Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: July 14, 2008 Physicist Freeman Dyson suggests that we start looking for life on the moons of Jupiter and out past Neptune, in the Kuiper belt and the Oort clou...

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