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I walk the Earth Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: November 05, 2008 For almost three decades, John Francis has been a planetwalker, traveling the globe by foot and sail with a message of environmental respect and r...

Products (and toys) from the future Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: October 30, 2008 The Inventables guys, Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht, demo some amazing new materials and how we might use them. Look for squishy magnets, odor-det...

Nature vs. humans, and what we can do about it Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: October 22, 2008 In 1998, aircraft designer Paul MacCready looks at a planet on which humans have utterly dominated nature, and talks about what we all can do to p...

Healing and other natural wonders Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: October 17, 2008 Dean Ornish talks about simple, low-tech and low-cost ways to take advantage of the body’s natural desire to heal itself.

A beautiful new theory of everything Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: October 14, 2008 Physicist and surfer Garrett Lisi presents a controversial new model of the universe that — just maybe -- answers all the big questions. ...

Politics and religion are technologies Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: October 01, 2008 Noah Feldman makes a searing case that both politics and religion — whatever their differences -- are similar technologies, designed...

Chalking it up to the blank slate Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: September 26, 2008 Steven Pinker’s book The Blank Slate argues that all humans are born with some innate traits. Here, Pinker talks about his thesis, and why some pe...

How ordinary people become monsters ... or heroes Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: September 23, 2008 Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib t...

Health, population and the human mind Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2008 Listen closely — Marvin Minsky’s arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with sub...

Reinventing the school lunch Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: September 16, 2008 Speaking at the 2007 EG conference, "renegade lunch lady" Ann Cooper talks about the coming revolution in the way kids eat at school — l...

Celebrating the camel Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: September 15, 2008 Keith Bellows gleefully outlines the engineering marvels of the camel, a vital creature he calls "the SUV of the desert." Though...

Celebrating the camel Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: September 15, 2008 Keith Bellows gleefully outlines the engineering marvels of the camel, a vital creature he calls "the SUV of the desert." Though he couldn’t bring...

The deep oceans: a ribbon of life Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: September 11, 2008 With vibrant video clips captured by submarines, David Gallo takes us to some of Earth’s darkest, most violent, toxic and beautiful habitats, the ...

How to survive a nuclear attack Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: September 09, 2008 The face of nuclear terror has changed since the Cold War, but disaster-medicine expert Irwin Redlener reminds us the threat is still real. He loo...

Helping humans and animals live together in Africa Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: September 08, 2008 The legendary chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall talks about TACARE and her other community projects, which help people in booming African towns l...

The search for dark energy and dark matter Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: August 26, 2008 Physicist Patricia Burchat sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe: dark matter and dark energy. Comprising 96% of the universe betwee...

"The Dog Song" Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: August 22, 2008 Animal fan Nellie McKay sings a sparkling tribute to her dear dog. She suggests we all do the same: "Just go right to the pound/ And find yourself ...

Idea + square = origami Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: July 31, 2008 Robert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami — using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs t...

Digging for humanity’s origins Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: July 23, 2008 Louise Leakey asks, "Who are we?" The question takes her to the Rift Valley in Eastern Africa, where she digs for the evolutionary origins of huma...

Your brain is badly wired — enjoy it! Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: July 22, 2008 Al Seckel, a cognitive neuroscientist, explores the perceptual illusions that fool our brains. Loads of eye tricks help him prove that not only ar...

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