TEDTalks - Season 7 / Year 2011
Season 7 / Year 2011
Episodes
Wadah Khanfar: A historic moment in the Arab world
JR's TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out
Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution
Bill Gates: How state budgets are breaking US schools
Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney
Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education
Deb Roy: The birth of a word
Lisa Gansky: The future of business is the mesh
David Brooks: The social animal
Janna Levin: The sound the universe makes
Mark Bezos: A life lesson from a volunteer firefighter
Sarah Kay: If I should have a daughter
Isabel Behncke: Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans
Eythor Bender demos human exoskeletons
Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon
Handspring Puppet Co.: The genius puppetry behind War Horse
Sebastian Thrun: Google's driverless car
Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong
AnnMarie Thomas: Hands-on science with squishy circuits
Stanley McChrystal: Listen, learn ... then lead
Morgan Spurlock: The greatest TED Talk ever sold
Mick Ebeling: The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist
David Christian: Big history
Roger Ebert: Remaking my voice
Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization
Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong
John Hunter on the World Peace Game
Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed
Harvey Fineberg: Are we ready for neo-evolution?
Angela Belcher: Using nature to grow batteries
Mike Matas: A next-generation digital book
Carlo Ratti: Architecture that senses and responds
Suzanne Lee: Grow your own clothes
Louie Schwartzberg: The hidden beauty of pollination
Paul Nicklen: Tales of ice-bound wonderlands
Fiorenzo Omenetto: Silk, the ancient material of the future
Ron Gutman: The hidden power of smiling
Amit Sood: Building a museum of museums on the web
Ed Boyden: A light switch for neurons
Thomas Heatherwick: Building the Seed Cathedral
Elliot Krane: The mystery of chronic pain
Edith Widder: The weird, wonderful world of bioluminescence
Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity
Bruce Aylward: How we'll stop polio for good
Mustafa Akyol: Faith versus tradition in Islam
Dennis Hong: Making a car for blind drivers
Stefan Sagmeister: 7 rules for making more happiness
Aaron O'Connell: Making sense of a visible quantum object
Jessi Arrington: Wearing nothing new
Ron Gutman: The hidden power of smiling
Rob Harmon: How the market can keep streams flowing
Damon Horowitz calls for a moral operating system
Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken
Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously
Paul Romer: The world's first charter city
Alice Dreger: Is anatomy destiny
JD Schramm: Break the silence for suicide survivors
Rory Stewart: Time to end the war in Afghanistan
Lesley Hazleton: On reading the Koran
Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world
Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work
Annie Murphy Paul: What we learn before we're born
Rebecca MacKinnon: Let's take back the Internet
Danielle De Niese: A flirtatious aria
Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
Hasan Elahi: FBI, here I am!
Justin Hall Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid
Allan Jones: A map of the brain
Elizabeth Murchison: Fighting a contagious cancer
Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives
Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science
Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains
Jae Rim Lee: My mushroom burial suit
Jarreth Merz: Filming democracy in Ghana
Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement
Charles Hazlewood: Trusting the ensemble
Alison Gopnik: What do babies think?
Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net
Abrham Verghese: A doctor's touch
Ben Kacyra: Ancient wonders captured in 3D
Anna Mracek Dietrich: A plane you can drive
Harald Haas: Wireless data from a light bulb
Homaro Cantu + Ben Roche: Cooking as alchemy
Shawn Achor: The Happy Secret to Better Work
Skylar Tibbits: Can we make things that make themselves?
Daniel Goldstein: The battle between your present and future self
Avi Rubin: All your devices can be hacked
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