TED Talks
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- TEDTalks : Why newspapers still matter - John Markoff (2007) (Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:00:00 -0700)
At the EG conference, John Markoff talks about why newspapers still matter -- even in the days of RSS. He gives an inside look at editorial process at the New York Times, and talks about some of his tech stories that should have been front-page news. - TEDTalks : Sound stylings by a human beatbox - James Burchfield (2003) (Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:00:00 -0700)
Human beatbox James "AudioPoet" Burchfield performs an intricate three-minute breakdown -- sexy, propulsive hip-hop rhythms and turntable textures -- all using only his voice. - TEDTalks : What we can learn from past presidents - Doris Kearns Goodwin (2008) (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:00:00 -0700)
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can learn from American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson. Then she shares a moving memory of her own father, and of their shared love of baseball. - TEDTalks : The Web and the city - Steven Johnson (2003) (Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:00:00 -0700)
Outside.in's Steven Johnson says the Web is like a city: built by many people, completely controlled by no one, intricately interconnected and yet functioning as many independent parts. While disaster strikes in one place, elsewhere, life goes on. - TEDTalks : Will videogames become better than life? - David Perry (2006) (Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:00:00 -0700)
Game designer David Perry says tomorrow's videogames will be more than mere fun to the next generation of gamers. They'll be lush, complex, emotional experiences -- more involving and meaningful to some than real life. - TEDTalks : Use my photographs to stop the worldwide XDR-TB epidemic - James Nachtwey (2008) (Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:00:00 -0700)
Photojournalist James Nachtwey sees his TED Prize wish come true, as we share his powerful photographs of XDR-TB, a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis that's touching off a global medical crisis. Learn how to help at http://www.xdrtb.org - TEDTalks : Architecture is a special effects machine - Liz Diller (2007) (Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:00:00 -0700)
In this engrossing EG talk, architect Liz Diller shares her firm DS+R's more unusual work, including the Blur Building, whose walls are made of fog, and the revamped Alice Tully Hall, which is wrapped in glowing wooden skin. - TEDTalks : Politics and religion are technologies - Noah Feldman (2003) (Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:00:00 -0700)
Noah Feldman makes a searing case that both politics and religion -- whatever their differences -- are similar technologies, designed to efficiently connect and manage any group of people. - TEDTalks : Things I have learned in my life so far - Stefan Sagmeister (2008) (Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:00:00 -0700)
Rockstar designer Stefan Sagmeister delivers a short, witty talk on life lessons, expressed through surprising modes of design (including ... inflatable monkeys?). - TEDTalks : How robots will invade our lives - Rodney Brooks (2003) (Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:30:00 -0700)
In this prophetic talk from 2003, roboticist Rodney Brooks talks about how robots are going to work their way into our lives -- starting with toys and moving into household chores ... and beyond. - TEDTalks : Chalking it up to the blank slate - Steven Pinker (2003) (Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:00:00 -0700)
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 people found it incredibly upsetting. - TEDTalks : 10 things to know before you pitch a VC for money - David S. Rose (2007) (Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:00:00 -0700)
Thinking startup? David S. Rose's rapid-fire TED U talk on pitching to a venture capitalist tells you the 10 things you need to know about yourself -- and prove to a VC -- before you fire up your slideshow. - TEDTalks : Health, population and the human mind - Marvin Minsky (2003) (Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:12:00 -0700)
Listen closely -- Marvin Minsky's arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety: wit, wisdom and just an ounce of wily, is-he-joking? advice. - TEDTalks : Come play with Pleo the dinosaur - Caleb Chung (2007) (Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:00:00 -0700)
Pleo the robot dinosaur acts like a living pet -- exploring, cuddling, playing, reacting and learning. Inventor Caleb Chung talks about Pleo and his wild toy career at EG07, on the week that Pleo shipped to stores for the first time. - TEDTalks : The power of saying thank you - Laura Trice (2008) (Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:00:00 -0700)
In this deceptively simple 3-minute talk, Dr. Laura Trice muses on the power of the magic words "thank you" -- to deepen a friendship, to repair a bond, to make sure another person knows what they mean to you. Try it. - TEDTalks : Reinventing the school lunch - Ann Cooper (2007) (Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:00:00 -0700)
Speaking at the 2007 EG conference, "renegade lunch lady" Ann Cooper talks about the coming revolution in the way kids eat at school -- local, sustainable, seasonal and even educational food. - TEDTalks : Spinning a story of Mama - Carmen Agra Deedy (2005) (Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:00:00 -0700)
Storyteller Carmen Agra Deedy spins a funny, wise and luminous tale of parents and kids, starring her Cuban mother. Settle in and enjoy the ride -- Mama's driving! - TEDTalks : A digital library, free to the world - Brewster Kahle (2007) (Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:00:00 -0700)
Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library -- every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history ... It's all free to the public -- unless someone else gets to it first. - TEDTalks : Celebrating the camel - Keith Bellows (2002) (Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:00:00 -0700)
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 a live camel to TED, he gets his camera crew as close as humanly possible to a one-ton beast in full rut. - TEDTalks : How to survive a nuclear attack - Irwin Redlener (2008) (Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:00:00 -0700)
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 looks at some of history's farcical countermeasures and offers practical advice on how to survive an attack.
