TED Talks: Meg Jay
Clinical psychologist Meg Jay has a bold message for twentysomethings: Contrary to popular belief, your 20s are not a throwaway decade. In this provocative talk, Jay says that just because […]
TED Talks: Sergey Brin
It’s not a demo, more of a philosophical argument: Why did Sergey Brin and his team at Google want to build an eye-mounted camera/computer, codenamed Glass? Onstage at TED2013, Brin […]
TED Talks: Juan Enriquez
What if Andy Warhol had it wrong, and instead of being famous for 15 minutes, we’re only anonymous for that long? In this short talk, Juan Enriquez looks at the […]
TED Talks: Angela Duckworth
Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn’t the […]
TED Talks: Jay Silver
Why can’t two slices of pizza be used as a slide clicker? Why shouldn’t you make music with ketchup? In this charming talk, inventor Jay Silver talks about the urge […]
TED Talks: Andres Lozano
Deep brain stimulation is becoming very precise. This technique allows surgeons to place electrodes in almost any area of the brain, and turn them up or down — like a […]
TED Talks: Bill Gates
Until recently, many teachers only got one word of feedback a year: ‘satisfactory.’ And with no feedback, no coaching, there’s just no way to improve. Bill Gates suggests that even […]
TED Talks: Eric Dishman
When Eric Dishman was in college, doctors told him he had 2 to 3 years to live. That was a long time ago. One rectified diagnosis and a transplant later, […]
TED Talks: Sebastiao Salgado
Economics PhD Sebastiao Salgado only took up photography in his 30s, but the discipline became an obsession. His years-long projects beautifully capture the human side of a global story that […]
TED Talks: Laura Snyder
In 1812, four men at Cambridge University met for breakfast. What began as an impassioned meal grew into a new scientific revolution, in which these men who called themselves ‘natural […]