A guided tour of the Ghost Map Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Author Steven Johnson takes us on a 10-minute tour of The Ghost Map, his book about a cholera outbreak in 1854 London and the impact it had on sci...

Technology’s Long Tail Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Chris Anderson, the editor of WIRED, explores the four key stages of any viable technology: setting the right price, gaining market share, displac...

Humanity’s biggest problems aren't what you think they are Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Oxford philosopher and transhumanist Nick Bostrom examines the future of humankind and asks whether we might alter the fundamental nature of humani...

How cooperation (eventually) trumps conflict Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Author Robert Wright explains "non-zero-sumness" — the network of linked fortunes and cooperation that has guided our evolution to this p...

From 1984, 4 predictions about the future (3 of them correct) Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 With surprising accuracy, Nicholas Negroponte predicts what will happen with CD-ROMs, web interfaces, service kiosks, the touchscreen interface of...

A new vision for refrigeration Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Adam Grosser talks about a project to build a refrigerator that works without electricity — to bring the vital tool to villages and c...

Rolling along, helping students and the third world Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Inventor Dean Kamen lays out his argument for the Segway and offers a peek into his next big ideas (portable energy and water purification for deve...

15 ways to avert a climate crisis Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 With the same humor and humanity he exuded in An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore spells out 15 ways that individuals can address climate change immedi...

The wisdom of designing Cradle to Cradle Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Green-minded architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "all chil...

How I built my family a windmill Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working f...

15 ways to avert a climate crisis Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: January 07, 2008 With the same humor and humanity he exuded in An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore spells out 15 ways that individuals can address climate change immedia...