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How juries are fooled by statistics Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: July 22, 2008 Oxford mathematician Peter Donnelly reveals the common mistakes humans make in interpreting statistics — and the devastating impact these...

18 minutes with an agile mind Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: July 02, 2008 Clifford Stoll captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides — and even a science experi...

New thinking on the climate crisis Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: July 01, 2008 In this brand-new slideshow (premiering on TED.com), Al Gore presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists r...

Stephen Hawking hits zero g Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: July 01, 2008 X Prize founder Peter Diamandis talks about how he helped Stephen Hawking fulfill his dream of going to space — by flying together into t...

Your genes are not your fate Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Dean Ornish shares new research that shows how adopting healthy lifestyle habits can affect a person at a genetic level. For instance, he says, wh...

A journey to the center of your mind Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delu...

How I got my new hip Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 When Allison Hunt found out that she needed a new hip — and that Canada’s national health care system would require her to spend nearly 2...

The world now eats (and dies) like Americans Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Stop wringing your hands over AIDS, cancer and the avian flu. Cardiovascular disease kills more people than everything else combined — a...

How technology’s accelerating power will transform us Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the hum...

Why we age and how we can avoid it Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease — and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways...

Unveiling the genius of multi-touch interface design Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Jeff Han shows off a cheap, scalable multi-touch and pressure-sensitive computer screen interface that may spell the end of point-and-click.

Can we know our own minds? Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Philosopher Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don’t we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are...

How does technology evolve? Like we did Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Tech enthusiast Kevin Kelly asks "What does technology want?" and discovers that its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like the evolu...

Why people believe strange things Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Why do people see the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich or hear demonic lyrics in "Stairway to Heaven"? Using video and music, skeptic Michael Sher...

Secrets of movement, from geckos and roaches Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Biologist Robert Full shares slo-mo video of some captivating critters. Take a closer look at the spiny legs that allow cockroaches to scuttle acro...

The science of love, and the future of women Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Anthropologist Helen Fisher takes on a tricky topic — love –- and explains its evolution, its biochemical foundations and its social imp...

Finding the origins of humanity Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged looks for the roots of humanity in Ethiopia’s badlands. Here he talks about finding the oldest skeleton of ...

The amazing intelligence of crows Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of...

Memes and "temes" Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawne...

How engineers learn from evolution Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Insects and animals have evolved some amazing skills — but, as Robert Full notes, many animals are actually over-engineered. The trick i...

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