Here, we take a closer look at the incredible place we call home, with a collection of speakers who celebrate the Earth’s natural beauty as it is now — or who are proposing (sometimes controversial) ways to keep it that way. In this session: Karen Bass has traveled the world to explore and capture footage […]
We asked: What do you love so far? And the TED audience answered … Editing: Mindy Ellliott
Photos: James Duncan Davidson Colin Robertson is a futurist and is not someone most people have heard of. And as he began his presentation, the crowd was treated to a TED speaker’s worst nightmare: The slides crashed and the Mac multi-colored pizza-wheel of death appeared. Then an error message appeared on screen. Then another, and […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Welcome to Autonomous Agile Aerial Robots i.e. flying robots that can move like anything. Vijay Kumar, a professor at University of Pennsylvania, makes robots related to unmanned airplanes. But those are big and heavy and aren’t autonomous — they need humans to pilot them. The robots he works with are tiny. […]
Recognizing the impact of the late Steve Jobs on the lives of essentially every person in the TED crowd, curator Chris Anderson introduces this ad, the original Apple “Think Different” ad, narrated by the company founder.
Photo: James Duncan Davidson “The electricity powering the lights in this theater was generated just moments ago,” says MIT professor, Donald Sadoway, now on stage at TED2012 to talk power. “The way things stand, electricity demand must be in balance with electricity supply.” The problem is: coal and nuclear plants can’t address demand fast enough. How […]
Marco Tempest, the magician who was a spectacular hit at TEDGlobal 2011, takes the stage to tell a story, with projections, pop-up books, magic gestures, to tell the story of Nicola Tesla. Photo: James Duncan Davidson Marco dons a hat, and Tesla’s face projects on his, as he continues the story. Photo: James Duncan Davidson […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson As it happens, the majority of anatomy classes don’t actually have access to dead bodies. This stark, somewhat gruesome topic is the focus of the next talk in The Lab, where Jack Choi is demonstrating a virtual dissection table developed to help students learn about anatomy and dissection without the need […]
Photos: James Duncan Davidson “Be nice to nerds…” As the opening slide from a TEDTalk, not too surprising. As the opening line from Regina Dugan, the director of DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), kind of ominous. But the projects she demonstrated are extraordinary, and how they get there, even more so. If you want […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson “Bye, Lisa, I’m off to the TED Conference!” That’s what Scooter announced just before being grabbed by a hook and pulled into a series of wonderful events. So, there was a delay, but he made it. And what he didn’t mention in the movie is: He was a speaker! On stage […]
Because experimentation and innovation form the stuff of TED… In this session: Who showed up? Scooter the Muppet! And he laid a smackdown on CGI upstarts: “Can Tactile Icons Survive in an Integer-Driven Environment?” >> Regina Dugan directs the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the DoD innovation engine responsible for creating and preventing strategic […]
Robert Fabricant of frog design shared these notes with us. And we say: wow! And: There’s more!
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/37646330%5D On the TED Fellows blog, Senior Fellow Jon Gosier writes: Tuesday morning at TED, Steve Bratt of the World Wide Web Foundation gave a great talk about building an index to measure how humanity uses the web. Not just to measure scale but interaction and user behavior. While he’s working on that, metaLayer […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidason Author and UVA psychology professor Jonathan Haidt kicks off his TED2012 talk with a provocative question: “how many of you think of yourselves as religious?” Some people raise their hands, but not so many. Another question: “Do you think of yourselves as spiritual in any shape or form?” The majority of people […]
We’ve been asking people in the crowd to share a TED moment, and this lovely video is the result … Editing: Mindy Ellliott
Photo: James Duncan Davidson How do we get good at anything? Doctor Atul Gawande opens his talk at TED2012 by asking that question. He writes as well as practices medicine, and constantly has to confront that question about everything in his life. But there’s a new crisis, the incredible cost of healthcare. The fight is framed as: […]