www.ted.com Rockstar designer Stefan Sagmeister delivers a short, witty talk on life lessons, expressed through surprising modes of design (including [Read more…]
Steven Pinker: Chalking it up to the blank slate
October 7, 2008 by Leave a Comment
www.ted.com Steven Pinker’s book The Blank Slate argues that all humans are born with some innate traits. Here, Pinker talks [Read more…]
Laura Trice: The power of saying thank you
October 7, 2008 by Leave a Comment
www.ted.com In this deceptively simple 3-minute talk, Dr. Laura Trice muses on the power of the magic words “thank you” [Read more…]
Marvin Minsky: Health, population and the human mind
September 29, 2008 by Leave a Comment
www.ted.com Listen closely — Marvin Minsky’s arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed [Read more…]
Jonathan Drori: Why we don’t understand as much as we think
September 5, 2008 by Leave a Comment
www.ted.com Starting with four basic questions (that you may be surprised to find you can’t answer), Jonathan Drori looks at [Read more…]
John Walker: Re-creating great performances
August 26, 2008 by Leave a Comment
www.ted.com Imagine hearing great, departed pianists play again today, just as they would in person. John Q. Walker demonstrates how [Read more…]
Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5000 days of the web
July 29, 2008 by Leave a Comment
www.ted.com At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat The World Wide Web, as we know it, [Read more…]
AJ Jacobs: My year of living biblically
July 17, 2008 by Leave a Comment
www.ted.com Speaking at the most recent EG conference, author, philosopher, prankster and journalist AJ Jacobs talks about the year he [Read more…]
Billy Graham: Technology, faith and human shortcomings
July 16, 2008 by Leave a Comment
www.ted.com Speaking at TED in 1998, Rev. Billy Graham marvels at technology’s power to improve lives and change the world [Read more…]
