30 October 2007
A history of electroshock therapy: Sherwin Nuland on TED.com
Sherwin Nuland, the surgeon and author, talks about the development of electroshock therapy as a cure for severe, life-threatening depression. Midway through, his story turns personal. It's a moving and deeply felt talk about relief, redemption, second chances. (Recorded February 2001 in Monterey, California. Duration: 22:30.)
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26 October 2007
How toddlers (and monkeys) make choices
What's the relationship between our happiness and the choices we make? TEDTalks from Barry Schwartz and Daniel Gilbert point out some paradoxes of this relationship, and the complex emotions involved in choice. Now, some new research from Yale sheds light on how toddlers and monkeys make choices. From the BPS Research Digest Blog:
Forty 4-year-olds used a scale of smiley faces to indicate how much they liked a range of animal stickers. For each child, the researchers identified three stickers which that child liked equally – let’s call these A, B, C. Each child then faced two choices – first to choose which of A or B they would like to take home. Afterwards, they then had to choose between sticker C and whichever sticker (A or B) they hadn’t selected before.
The surprising result was, faced with the second choice, the kids overwhelmingly picked sticker C -- though they'd liked all three stickers equally at first. The other surprising result was, the researchers got the same result with capuchin monkeys, who chose among three different-colored M&Ms.
For more on this study, read the journal abstract or a detailed post on the blog The Proper Study of Mankind.
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Cebus capucinus: Capuchin Monkeys Sharing
Source: Powell K: Economy of the Mind. PLoS Biol 1/3/2003: e77. Photo courtesy of Frans de Waal.
26 October 2007
Peak oil: Chevron CTO's best guess
News.com's blog reports on how much oil we have left, in the estimate of Chevron CTO Don Paul: About 1 trillion gallons that we can extract, and another trillion that, for now, we can't. In a hallway conversation with a News.com reporter, Chevron's Paul estimated that we will have consumed half of all the oil that ever existed -- 1.5 trillion gallons, out of 3 trillion -- by 2012. From the story:
Thus, peak oil--the theory that we're about to get into declining numbers on conventional oil--is probably real. However, Paul said, "I don't think it has to be the catastrophe that other people have predicted, because there are other ways to make fuel."
Watch TED.com in the coming weeks for more on alternative fuels, including Juan Enriquez's recent talk at TED's fall Salon, on new ways to grow energy -- related to his exciting work with Craig Venter at Synthetic Genomics.
Or take the point of view of TEDTalks favorite James Howard Kunstler. Near the end of Kunstler's talk on modern suburbia, he describes a post-peak-oil future that actually doesn't sound that bad: We'll work and eat locally. We'll rely on our neighbors. We'll ... walk.
25 October 2007
Building an economic market in Ethiopia: Eleni Gabre-Madhin on TED.com
Economist Eleni Gabre-Madhin outlines her ambitious vision to found the first commodities market in Ethiopia. Her plan would create wealth, minimize risk for farmers and turn the world's largest recipient of food aid into a regional food basket. "There is no place in the world and no time in history that small farmers have had to bear the burden of risk that African farmers bear today," she says. "But I'm not here to lament or wring my hands. I'm here to tell you that change is in the air." (Recorded June 2007 in Arusha, Tanzania. Duration: 20:46.)
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23 October 2007
The center of our minds: Vilayanur Ramachandran on TED.com
Brain researcher Vilayanur Ramachandran talks about how brain damage can reveal the connection between the internal structures of the brain and the corresponding functions of the mind. He discusses three specific syndromes: phantom limb pain, synesthesia (when people hear color or smell sounds), and the Capgras delusion, when brain-damaged people believe their closest friends and family have been replaced with imposters. (Recorded March 2007 in Monterey, California. Duration: 23:46.)
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18 October 2007
Our cell phones, ourselves: Jan Chipchase on TED.com
Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase investigates the ways we interact with technology -- a quest that has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our pockets. Along the way, he's made some unexpected discoveries: about the ways illiterate people use their mobile phones, the new roles the mobile can play in global commerce, and the deep emotional bonds we share with our phones. And he's got a surefire trick to keep you from misplacing your keys. (Recorded March 2007 in Monterey, California. Duration: 16:15.)
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17 October 2007
PopMech's 2007 Breakthrough Awards
Some familiar TED faces and themes turn up in Popular Mechanics' 2007 Breakthrough Awards, published in the magazine's November issue. Jeff Han's multitouch wall (watch his 2006 TEDTalk) and Hod Lipson's print-anything printer (related to his work on robots) are named as two of the awards' "8 Bold Ideas" for 2007.
If you were moved and inspired by Amy Smith's TEDTalk on her developing-world technologies, check out PopMech's profile of the like-minded Ashok Gadgil and Christina Galitsky and the cookstove they developed for use in Darfur, or 2006 winner Jock Brandis and his portable peanut sheller. If Dean Kamen's robotic prosthetic arm TEDTalk interested you, dive into the video report on Johns Hopkins' project. It's a fascinating, well-reported awards package.
16 October 2007
Celebrate 10 years of Cassini-Huygens with new views of Saturn
The Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and its moons celebrates its diamond anniversary this week by releasing a new collection of images, movies and maps. If you could not get enough of Carolyn Porco's images from her talk at TED2007, head over to the CICLOPS site for new and just-posted archival images, as well as a new set of 9 holes -- the Outer Links -- for the Flash game Golf Sector 6.
Photo, released Oct 15, 2007: On the Final Frontier: Saturn sits nested in its rings of ice as Cassini once again plunges toward the graceful giant. Courtesy CICLOPS.
16 October 2007
The illustrated woman: Maira Kalman on TED.com
Author and illustrator Maira Kalman talks about her life and work -- from her New Yorker covers to her children's books to her newest book for grownups, The Principles of Uncertainty. And yes, in person, she is as wonderful, as wise, and as deliciously off-kilter as her work. (Recorded March 2007 in Monterey, California. Duration: 17:42.)
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13 October 2007
Will Wright will be named a BAFTA Fellow
Game designer Will Wright (watch his TEDTalk) will become a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) this month -- one of only 67 ever named, and the first video game designer, reports Variety. A few other BAFTA Fellows: Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Elizabeth Taylor ...
Since 2006, BAFTA -- essentially the UK equivalent of the American Oscars and Emmies combined -- has been honoring video games on an equal footing with film and television, even down to having a glossy award show. Becoming the "third arm" of BAFTA (which may explain Will's appearance in his TEDTalk) is a significant step for an expanding industry full of innovative minds. This year's nominated games can be seen on the BAFTA site; the awards will be given on October 23.
12 October 2007
"Gore gets it!"
Gore gets it! – the prize, and the crisis. Deeply rooted in science, Al Gore has established climate crisis as a moral and spiritual imperative. Now we must act with speed on an unprecedented scale. Speed and scale. -- John Doerr
I have seen the VP's passion since my early days photographing him in Washington DC. He was a different person on the campaign plane than the public saw, and now the world sees him for who he is. [Above is] my favorite photo taken of candidate Gore on the campaign in California, May 2000. -- Kevin Gilbert
My wife and I came to TED uncertain about Al Gore and not thrilled to hear him. He seemed fake to us in the national political election he had gone through. His presentation profoundly changed our view of him even more than his message. We bought the messages. We did not buy the message presenter. At TED, he gave a sense of his humor, three-dimensionality, commitment to the cause, ability to criticize himself. We left with a positive attitude toward him and a commitment to help. -- David and Heidi Hoffman
At TED2006, Al Gore brought alive a vital and little-understood subject with humble, direct, passionate facts that were a call to action far beyond his previous resume as a politician -- bravo to a great humanist leader who made us address our history! -- Randy Antik
At 60 years old, there are rare seminal moments that cut across the arc of your life that make you stand up and cheer with joy of a 3-year-old, the passion of a 16-year-old and the wisdom of a 60-year-old -- Al Gore did that at TED! -- Sandra Kulli
Thank you, bless you -- Al Gore; what greater giving, what better gift to the planet, than your new dawning of insights, intelligence and calm authority in advising the world -- finally -- to what future there might be...and what future we might create anew? -- Tim Girvin
Watching Al -- and Tipper -- Gore at TED was my privilege; working to reverse climate change is my responsibility. -- Stuart Gannes
Photo of Al Gore: @Kevin T. Gilbert
12 October 2007
TEDSalon speaker Michael Oppenheimer honored by Nobel
As a collaborator on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), professor Michael Oppenheimer is honored by the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the IPCC, and shared with Al Gore, for its work in understanding the climate change crisis and pointing the way forward to solving it.
At the 2007 TEDSalon, "Hot Science: Radical Ideas to Combat the Climate Crisis", Oppenheimer laid out the case that he has spent decades making: that "pervasive climate change is already under way" and "further warming is physically inevitable." His lifetime of work has allowed humanity to understand the scope of this problem. With the IPCC, he's been a lead author on several major assessments of the climate, including the upcoming Fourth Assessment Report due next month, assembling the research from more than 130 countries and thousands of studies into a window on our climate crisis.
Photo of Michael Oppenheimer by Myrna Suarez, Condé Nast Portfolio
12 October 2007
More TEDsters on Al Gore's talk
Two days of sitting next to Al, with some intense ongoing conversation, proved to me that he was wholly focused on substance rather than form, and graced by a biting sense of humor, the real stuff of which leaders should be made! -- Janet M. Baker
Al Gore takes climate change personally -- at TED, Al Gore looked at me directly, shook my hand firmly, remembered my email, spoke to my points and then I realized that he had done this a hundred thousand times to get this message to the world. -- James Kocis
He may have lost a smaller battle, but because of it, has triumphed in a global one. Thank you Mr. Gore for shining a strong light through the collective haze. -- Robert Leslie
Gore, at TED06, humbly communicated his kicks and shocks as lessons. In mythology, the Fool immediately takes over and drives the horses straight for the precipice. Gore in an auspicious manner kept still, and in attempting to heal the earth of its toxicity resurrected himself. -- Dr. Denise Phillips-Kelly
I was deeply struck by how his resolute commitment to his message, over time, was beginning to be heard. -- Bruce Kelly
Al: I didn’t believe it before I heard your talk -- now I know it’s true. -- Bernice Cramer
12 October 2007
More reactions to Al Gore's talk
As congratulations for Al Gore, 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner, pour in from the TED community, we asked people who saw Gore's TED2006 presentations to talk about the impact his talks had on them. This is the second in the series.
When I facilitate a gathering of wild tiger experts next month in India, Al Gore's inspiration will be front and center. Thank you, Al, for waking me up! to the interconnectedness of our earth and its species. -- Susan W. Bird
After experiencing Al at TED, vowed to change my Republican ways, support Hillary for President (unless, of course, Al agrees to run!), shift my business to sourcing sustainability innovations for Fortune 500 companies and admit publicly that I am now a “Recovering Republican” for the rest of my life… -- Mark A. Kaiser
Like TEDster John Doerr said, "I am afraid that we're not going to make it," but if we do the world will be indebted to Al Gore, a man of gravitas who did the right thing at the right time and is so deserving of the Nobel Prize (and the presidency, carpe diem). -- Bruce Hoffman
Al Gore's brilliant and powerful talk hit me square in the jaw -- he moved me to tears and called me to action in defense of our home, our Earth. -- Ralph Farris
What most strikes me about Al's leadership is that he has spent his entire life working on climate change with passion, commitment, intelligence and a firm resolve that never waivered. He didn't do this work for an award, and it makes him all the more deserving as a hero who inspires us all to be better and do more. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Al Gore's talk at TED06 instantly gave me hope that the planetary climate crisis would finally become a front-and-center issue of public conversation and personal conscience. -- Tom Guarriello
12 October 2007
A life-changing presentation
Here is Jack Oswald's story of Al Gore's impact:
Prior to seeing Al Gore’s Climate Crisis presentation, I had always thought that he was a good person. He had always appeared bright, capable and well-meaning. On the night of the presentation, Al Gore was “on fire.” His true personality really came through, and I was truly wowed by the man and his passion for the issue he has been educating us all on. In addition, prior to his talk I had been peripherally aware of global warming and the looming climate crisis. However, I had had no idea how large a problem it was nor how immediate. I left that evening feeling a combination of scared yet moved.
The ultimate impact of that night is that shortly afterward I decided to make a major shift in my career. Until then I had been a high-tech entrepreneur, having worked on many different technologies from PC software to digital media and consumer electronics. For the past 18 months I have now shifted my focus completely toward clean energy endeavors that range from consumer conservation and efficiency to some breakthrough new sources of bio-fuel. In short, Al Gore’s talk changed my life in a dramatically positive way. His talk helped me focus my energy on combining all of the things I have wanted to do in my work: Combine exciting technologies, business building and doing something meaningful and socially beneficial. -- Jack Oswald
12 October 2007
TEDsters talk about Al Gore's impact
As congratulations for Al Gore, 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner, pour in from the TED community, we asked people who saw Gore's TED2006 presentations to talk about the impact his talks had on them. This is the first in a series, to be posted throughout the day.
Al Gore's talk at TED 2006 was a turning point in my life. -- David S. Rose
I was actually crying for most of it; I could not believe I didn't know that our world was in jeopardy, I couldn't believe how much had already gone wrong without me knowing about it. -- Will Shipley
Al Gore’s talk at TED opened my eyes to what I needed to do for my grandchildren’s generation, and I now consider the impact we have on our earth in every venture we undertake. -- Howard L. Morgan
Gore's TED presentation on the climate crisis was at once riveting and inspiring -- his passion was so evident -- it prompted me to share the talk with our children, and our eldest, Charlie, now 11, has become a one-man global warming marketing machine. Charlie has created his own PowerPoint presentation, which he shares with virtually everyone he meets. -- Jeff Levy
Al Gore was the first to complement our work on Stormblade at his breakfast meeting, which was hugely encouraging and that really spurred me on to persevere, as a result of which we eventually got funding to continue the project which will in the end play a huge role in reducing global carbon emissions. -- Viktor A. Jovanovic
Al Gore's passion for spreading the word about man-made climate change is a signal that humanity still has a chance. -- Ann Willoughby
No one instance in my previous 53 years has clarified my thinking and simultaneously called me both to action and to an appreciation of the momentous importance of an issue like the TED night two years ago when Al Gore gave his Inconvenient Truth presentation. -- Jeff Studley
12 October 2007
Inspired by Al Gore: TEDTalks
The TEDTalks archive is rich in proof that Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore, speaking at TED and elsewhere, truly has the power to inspire action. Producer and activist Jeff Skoll heard one of Gore's PowerPoint lectures and started the ball rolling on An Inconvenient Truth -- a film and website that became an incredibly effective way to share the message on climate change.
John Doerr, the Silicon Valley financier, talks about a mind-changing conversation (like many of us had after An Inconvenient Truth) -- sitting with friends at a dinner party asking, "What can we do about what Al Gore has told us?" Doerr, it turns out, is doing quite a lot.
Speaker Tony Robbins was moved by the way Gore -- after the legendary disappointment of that 2000 presidential race -- rebounded and found his passion. Look for the moment when Gore and Robbins share a high-five down in the front row.
Majora Carter, meanwhile, offers new ways for Gore to share his passion -- by working with the thousands of people who are cleaning up the environment, starting in their own neighborhoods.
And after hearing Al Gore's first talk at TED, Jill Sobule sat backstage and learned a new song.
12 October 2007
Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize
This morning, Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007, "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change." Gore will be sharing his prize money with the Palo Alto-based Alliance for Climate Protection.
At TED2006, Gore delivered to a rapt audience the seminal slide show that would later that year form the core of his blockbuster documentary An Inconvenient Truth. He followed it up with a second talk at the end of the conference showing ways of turning climate concern into action.
Throughout the day we'll be offering tributes to the impact of that speech on those present at TED2006 -- and the way the impact has spread throughout the world.
11 October 2007
Robots that are "self-aware": Hod Lipson on TED.com
Engineer Hod Lipson demonstrates and talks about a few of his cool little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate. At the root of this uncanny demo is a deep inquiry into the nature of how living beings learn and evolve, and how we might harness these processes to make things that learn and evolve. (Recorded March 2007 in Monterey, California. Duration: 06:29.)
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09 October 2007
Saturn's mysterious black-and-white moon
Carolyn Porco's Saturn imaging team has found "tell-tale clues" to a centuries-old mystery surrounding Saturn's moon Iapetus -- why is it stark white on one side, coal black on the other? It's a striking oddity in a sky full of gray rocks. As the CICLOPS site reports, the white side of this moon is covered with brightly reflective ice, while sunlight has melted the ice on the dark-colored side, revealing the moon's surface. Watch Carolyn Porco's 2007 TEDTalk to learn more about this intriguing planet and its moons.
09 October 2007
Life at 30,000 feet: Richard Branson on TED.com
When Richard Branson was at school, his headmaster predicted he would wind up either a millionaire or in jail. Since then, he's done both. He talks to TED's Chris Anderson about the ups and the downs of his career, from his multibillionaire success to his multiple near-death experiences, from Virgin's line of spacecraft to the failure of the Virgin condom. He also reveals some of his (very surprising) motivations. (Recorded March 2007 in Monterey, California. Duration: 30:44.)
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08 October 2007
Speaker updates: Craig Venter, Jeff Han
Updates from TED speakers:
After a whirlwind of media speculation over the weekend following a story by The Guardian, biologist Craig Venter (watch his TED2005 speech) will announce today at the annual meeting of his institute in San Diego that his team has built a synthetic chromosome, using lab chemicals. "A giant leap forward in the development of designer genomes", writes the newspaper.
Mr Venter's autobiography, "A Life Decoded: My Genome, My Life" is scheduled to be published in two weeks.
At TED2006 computer scientist Jeff Han demonstrated his prototype of a revolutionary multitouch screen (watch video). At TED2007 he brought along a larger, wall-size version that TEDsters could try out. The interactive media wall, built by Han's company Perceptive Pixel, will be sold by Nieman Marcus in the US. Price tag: $100,000 USD.
05 October 2007
Data at play: Some cool visualization tools
On Guardian Unlimited, Charles Arthur offers a neat roundup of new ways to see all kinds of data with fresh eyes. On the list: Jonathan Harris' "We Feel Fine" project (watch his TEDTalk) and, of course, Hans Rosling's Gapminder tools (watch his TEDTalks from 2006 and 2007).
The story is part of Guardian Unlimited's Free Our Data campaign, an effort to press the UK government to release mapping and demographic data about the UK and its citizens, collected by government entities -- who currently charge for access to it.
05 October 2007
"Rock star" Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala named to World Bank
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (watch her TEDTalks from TED2007 and TEDGlobal07), the crusading economist and former Finance Minister of Nigeria, has been appointed a Managing Director of the World Bank.
Dr. Okonjo-Iweala will oversee the World Bank’s work in Africa, South Asia, and Europe and Central Asia. "Her commitment to the developing world is unparalleled," said Robert Zoellick, the president of the World Bank. She's been working with the Stolen Assets Recovery (StAR) initiative to help poor countries reclaim assets lost to corruption, and with Bono's DATA organization on historic debt-relief programs. Bono said of her last week, "She's the kind of leader we all want to work for." (And as Portfolio.com commented, she's as much a rock star as that Irish gentleman.)
04 October 2007
Dance and magic: Kenichi Ebina on TED.com
Dancer Kenichi Ebina moves his body in a manner that appears to defy the limits imposed by the human skeleton. He combines breakdancing and hip-hop with mime using movements that are simultaneously precise and fluid. (Recorded March 2007 in Monterey, California. Duration: 03:44.)
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02 October 2007
Flying to the moons of Saturn: Carolyn Porco on TED.com
Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco says, "I'm going to take you on a journey." And does she ever. Showing breathtaking images from the Cassini voyage to Saturn, she focuses on Saturn's intriguing largest moon, Titan, with its deserts, mudflats and puzzling lakes, and on frozen Enceladus, which seems to shoot jets of ice. Could one of these places harbor water -- or life? (Recorded March 2007 in Monterey, California. Duration: 17:21.)
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01 October 2007
Gossamer Condor: The Movie
Paul MacCready's first try for the Kremer Prize for human-powered flight, in 1976, was his Gossamer Condor, a Mylar-covered aircraft powered by a very, very tenacious bicyclist.
Filmmaker Ben Shedd followed MacCready's team as they designed and built this elegant plane. Shedd's resulting documentary, The Flight of the Gossamer Condor, won an Academy Award in 1978. Now, on the 30th anniversary of the prize-winning flight, the film has been remastered and released on DVD. In 1979, the LA Times called this film "uplifting, cheering and amusing." On its re-release this year, Joe Morgenstern at the Wall Street Journal writes: "its essential brilliance lies in the inventiveness of MacCready and his team, in their eagerness to learn from successive failures, and in the broad-winged Condor itself, a thing of fragile beauty but a timeless monument to the man who made the dream a reality."
Another impetus for re-releasing the film: It's set to become part of Project Lead the Way's curriculum for high school engineering students -- so MacCready's creativity and passion can inspire another generation of young engineers, builders, makers and flyers.
01 October 2007
How to blog a conference
Live-blog heroes Ethan Zuckerman and Bruno Giussani, veterans of TED and other conferences around the world, have worked together to share what they know in the six-page, illustrated guidebook "Tips for Conference Bloggers."
It's full of ideas for how to prepare, manage your time and your gear, organize your fellow bloggers into a news-gathering team, and make time for social hour.
Even if you don't blog, it's worth reading before your next conference, for tips on getting the most out of your time in the audience.
01 October 2007
Gore's call for a carbon/jobs Marshall plan
Al Gore (TED2006 speech) at last week's Clinton Global Initiative:
"The key to fighting global poverty is to have the wealthy nations and the developing nations join together to reduce global warming ... What we need is a global Marshall plan to make the creation of jobs around the reduction of carbon the central principle for how we develop this." (From the FT)
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