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Qi Zhang’s electrifying organ performance Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 19, 2009 Organ virtuoso Qi Zhang plays her electric rendering of "Ridiculous Fellows" from Prokofiev’s "The Love for Three Oranges" orchestral suite. This e...

Catherine Mohr: Surgery’s past, present and robotic future Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 18, 2009 Surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demos some of the newest tool...

Diane Benscoter on how cults rewire the brain Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 17, 2009 Diane Benscoter spent five years as a "Moonie." She shares an insider’s perspective on the mind of a cult member, and proposes a...

Clay Shirky: How social media can make history Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 16, 2009 While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real ...

Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2 Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 15, 2009 Jane Poynter tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2 — an experience that provoked her to explore how we might ...

Richard St. John: "Success is a continuous journey" Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 12, 2009 In his typically candid style, Richard St. John reminds us that success is not a one-way street, but a constant journey. He uses the story of his ...

Robert Full: Learning from the gecko’s tail Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 11, 2009 Biologist Robert Full studies the amazing gecko, with its supersticky feet and tenacious climbing skill. But high-speed footage reveals that the g...

Nancy Etcoff on the surprising science of happiness Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 10, 2009 Cognitive researcher Nancy Etcoff looks at happiness — the ways we try to achieve and increase it, the way it’s untethered to our real c...

Kevin Surace invents eco-friendly drywall Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 09, 2009 Kevin Surace suggests we rethink basic construction materials — such as the familiar wallboard -- to reduce the huge carbon footprint gen...

Publisher Felix Dennis' odes to vice and consequences Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 05, 2009 Media big shot Felix Dennis roars his fiery, funny, sometimes racy original poetry, revisiting haunting memories and hard-won battle scars from a ...

Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 03, 2009 In this image-filled talk, Yann Arthus-Bertrand displays his three most recent projects on humanity and our habitat — stunning aeria...

Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularity Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 02, 2009 Ray Kurzweil’s latest graphs show that technology's breakneck advances will only accelerate — recession or not. He unveils his n...

Liz Coleman’s call to reinvent liberal arts education Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 01, 2009 Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasi...

Jonathan Drori: Why we’re storing billions of seeds Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: May 28, 2009 In this brief talk from TED U 2009, Jonathan Drori encourages us to save biodiversity — one seed at a time. Reminding us that plants sup...

Jay Walker on the world’s English mania Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: May 26, 2009 Jay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine-tingling audio of Chinese stude...

Yves Behar’s supercharged motorcycle design Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: May 22, 2009 Yves Behar and Forrest North unveil Mission One, a sleek, powerful electric motorcycle. They share slides from distant (yet similar) childhoods th...

Carolyn Porco: Could a Saturn moon harbor life? Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: May 21, 2009 Carolyn Porco shares exciting new findings from the Cassini spacecraft’s recent sweep of one of Saturn's moons, Enceladus. Samples gather...

Mary Roach: 10 things you didn’t know about orgasm Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: May 20, 2009 "Bonk" author Mary Roach delves into obscure scientific research, some of it centuries old, to make 10 surprising claims about s...

Ray Anderson on the business logic of sustainability Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: May 18, 2009 At his carpet company, Ray Anderson has increased sales and doubled profits while turning the traditional "take / make / waste" industrial system ...

Nandan Nilekani’s ideas for India's future Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: May 14, 2009 Nandan Nilekani, the visionary co-founder of outsourcing pioneer Infosys, explains four brands of ideas that will determine whether India can cont...

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