TEDTalks - Season 8 / Year 2012

Season 8 / Year 2012

Episodes

Paul Gilding: The Earth is full

Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future

Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly ... and cooperate

Susan Cain: The power of introverts

Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice

Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story

James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate change

Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government

A TED speaker's worst nightmare

Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence

Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod

Brené Brown: Listening to shame

T. Boone Pickens: Let's transform energy -- with natural gas

Myshkin Ingawale: A blood test without bleeding

Taylor Wilson: Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor

Billy Collins: Everyday moments, caught in time

Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy

Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone

Leymah Gbowee: Unlock the intelligence, passion, greatness of girls

Ayah Bdeir: Building blocks that blink, beep and teach

Marco Tempest: A magical tale (with augmented reality)

Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone?

Chip Kidd: Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is.

Jack Choi: On the virtual dissection table

Lucy McRae: How can technology transform the human body?

Frank Warren: Half a million secrets

Abigail Washburn: Building US-China relations ... by banjo

Atul Gawande: How do we heal medicine?

Drew Curtis: How I beat a patent troll

Christina Warinner: Tracking ancient diseases using ... plaque

Brian Greene: Is our universe the only universe?

Eduardo Paes: The 4 commandments of cities

Nancy Lublin: Texting that saves lives

Liz Diller: A giant bubble for debate

Amory Lovins: A 40-year plan for energy

Reuben Margolin: Sculpting waves in wood and time

Gary Kovacs: Tracking the trackers

Michael Tilson Thomas: Music and emotion through time

Joshua Foer: Feats of memory anyone can do

Renny Gleeson: 404, the story of a page not found

Tali Sharot: The optimism bias

Jean-Baptiste Michel: The mathematics of history

David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence

Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain

JR: One year of turning the world inside out

Nathan Wolfe: What's left to explore?

Philippe Petit: The journey across the high wire

Reggie Watts disorients you in the most entertaining way

Quixotic Fusion: Dancing with light

Terry Moore: Why is 'x' the unknown?

Damian Palin: Mining minerals from seawater

John Hodgman: Design, explained.

John Hockenberry: We are all designers

Sarah Parcak: Archeology from space

Marco Tempest: The electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla

Peter Norvig: The 100,000-student classroom

Jared Ficklin: New ways to see music (with color! and fire!)

Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: Capturing memories in video art

Jon Ronson: Strange answers to the psychopath test

Thomas P. Campbell: Weaving narratives in museum galleries

Julie Burstein: 4 lessons in creativity

Steven Addis: A father-daughter bond, one photo at a time

Don Levy: A cinematic journey through visual effects

Cesar Kuriyama: One second every day

Wade Davis: Gorgeous photos of a backyard wilderness worth saving

Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes

Jonathan Trent: Energy from floating algae pods

Tristram Stuart: The global food waste scandal

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain

Julian Treasure: Why architects need to use their ears

Bandi Mbubi: Demand a fair trade cell phone

Ed Gavagan: A story about knots and surgeons

Andrew McAfee: Are droids taking our jobs?

Read Montague: What we're learning from 5,000 brains

Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government

John Lloyd: An animated tour of the invisible

Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe

Bahia Shehab: A thousand times no

Aris Venetikidis: Making sense of maps

Vicki Arroyo: Let's prepare for our new climate

Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are

Robert Gupta: Between music and medicine

Jason McCue: Terrorism is a failed brand

Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer course

Tim Leberecht: 3 ways to (usefully) lose control of your brand

John Maeda: How art, technology and design inform creative leaders

Ruby Wax: What's so funny about mental illness?

Melissa Marshall: Talk nerdy to me

Play Maurizio Seracini: The secret lives of paintings

Eddie Obeng: Smart failure for a fast-changing world

John Wilbanks: Let's pool our medical data

Beau Lotto + Amy O'Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included

Heather Brooke: My battle to expose government corruption

Ryan Merkley: Online video -- annotated, remixed and popped

Pankaj Ghemawat: Actually, the world isn't flat

Lemn Sissay: A child of the state

Marco Tempest: A cyber-magic card trick like no other

Rory Stewart: Why democracy matters

Sanjay Pradhan: How open data is changing international aid

Emma Teeling: The secret of the bat genome

Faith Jegede: What I've learned from my autistic brothers

Matt Killingsworth: Want to be happier? Stay in the moment

Jake Wood: A new mission for veterans -- disaster relief

Gary Greenberg: The beautiful nano details of our world

Jeff Hancock: The future of lying

Julie Burstein: 4 lessons in creativity

Arunachalam Muruganantham: How I started a sanitary napkin revolution!

Hannah Brencher: Love letters to strangers

Leah Buechley: How to

David Binder: The arts festival revolution

Daphne Bavelier: Your brain on video games

Amos Winter: The cheap all-terrain wheelchair

Sleepy Man Banjo Boys: Teen wonders play bluegrass

Candy Chang: Before I die I want to...

Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!

Jonas Eliasson: How to solve traffic jams

Janine Shepherd: A broken body isn't a broken person

Munir Virani: Why I love vultures

Paolo Cardini: Forget multitasking, try monotasking

Bobby Ghosh: Why global jihad is losing

Ludwick Marishane: A bath without water

Jeff Smith: Lessons in business ... from prison

Nina Tandon: Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine?

Lemon Andersen: Please don't take my Air Jordans

Ellen 't Hoen: Pool medical patents, save lives

Markham Nolan: How to separate fact and fiction online

Maz Jobrani: A Saudi, an Indian and an Iranian walk into a Qatari bar ...

Marcus Byrne: The dance of the dung beetle

Ben Saunders: Why bother leaving the house?

Robin Chase: Excuse me, may I rent your car?

Molly Crockett: Beware neuro-bunk

Steven Addis: A father-daughter bond, one photo at a time

Adam Davidson: What we learned from teetering on the fiscal cliff

Ronny Edry: Israel and Iran: A love story?

Chris Gerdes: The future race car — 150mph, and no driver

Margaret Heffernan: Dare to Disagree
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