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"La Vie en Rose" Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Featuring the vocals and mischievous bell-playing of accordionist and singer Rachelle Garniez, the TED House Band — led by Thomas Dolby ...

A cello performance that casts a spell Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Caroline Lavelle plays the cello like a sorceress casting a spell, occasionally hiding behind her wild mane of blond hair as she sings of pastoral...

When it comes to tech, simplicity sells Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 New York Times columnist David Pogue takes aim at technology’s worst interface-design offenders, and provides encouraging examples of products tha...

A happy song about global warming Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 A happy song about global warming, from Jill Sobule.

Lightning calculation and other "Mathemagic" Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 In a lively show, mathemagician Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares, solves another massive mental equation ...

Theremin, the untouchable music Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Virtuoso Pamelia Kurstin performs and discusses her theremin, the not-just-for-sci-fi electronic instrument that is played without being touched. ...

Welcome to Vaudeville 2.0 Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Illustrious jugglers the Raspyni Brothers show off their uncanny balance, agility, coordination and willingness to sacrifice (others). Now, if you...

Building on the green agenda Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Architect Norman Foster discusses his own work to show how computers can help architects design buildings that are green, beautiful and "basically...

"All the Answers" and "Tembererana" Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Singer/guitarist Raúl Midón performs “All the Answers” in a world premiere at TED2007, followed by the sprightly "Tembererana."

Wake up! It’s They Might Be Giants Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 In a very, very early-morning set, They Might Be Giants rock the final day of TED2007.

The beckoning promise of personal fabrication Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab — a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog ...

Redefining the dictionary Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Is the beloved paper dictionary doomed to extinction? In this infectiously exuberant talk, leading lexicographer Erin McKean looks at the many way...

Why design? Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Designer Philippe Starck — with no pretty slides to show -- spends 18 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question "Why design?" L...

How to listen to music with your whole body Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound w...

"What You Do With What You’ve Got" Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Singer/songwriter Eddi Reader performs "What You Do With What You’ve Got," a meditation on a very TED theme: how to use your gifts and talents to m...

From 1990, defending a vision for architecture Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Before he was a legend, architect Frank Gehry takes a whistlestop tour of his early work, from his house in Venice Beach to the American Center in...

What makes a building unique? Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Looking back over his long career, architect Moshe Safdie delves into four of his design projects and explains how he labored to make each one tru...

Habits of happiness Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Biochemist turned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard says we can train our minds in habits of well-bein...

The future of design is human-centered Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 IDEO’s David Kelley says that product design has become much less about the hardware and more about the user experience. He shows video of this new...

What’s so funny about the Web? Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Performer and web toymaker Ze Frank delivers a hilarious nerdcore standup routine, then tells us what he’s seriously passionate about: helping peo...

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