TEDTalks - Season 8 / Year 2012

Season 8 / Year 2012
Network

DatesDec 1, 2011 - Jun 29, 2012
Episodes

Year 2012Episode 120 min
Paul Gilding: The Earth is full
Feb 29, 2012

Year 2012Episode 220 min
Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future
Feb 29, 2012

Year 2012Episode 320 min
Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly ... and cooperate
Mar 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 420 min
Susan Cain: The power of introverts
Mar 2, 2012

Year 2012Episode 520 min
Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice
Mar 5, 2012

Year 2012Episode 620 min
Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story
Mar 6, 2012

Year 2012Episode 720 min
James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate change
Mar 7, 2012

Year 2012Episode 820 min
Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government
Mar 8, 2012

Year 2012Episode 920 min
A TED speaker's worst nightmare
Mar 9, 2012

Year 2012Episode 1020 min
Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence
Mar 14, 2012

Year 2012Episode 1120 min
Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod
Mar 15, 2012

Year 2012Episode 1220 min
Brené Brown: Listening to shame
Mar 16, 2012

Year 2012Episode 1320 min
T. Boone Pickens: Let's transform energy -- with natural gas
Mar 19, 2012

Year 2012Episode 1420 min
Myshkin Ingawale: A blood test without bleeding
Mar 12, 2012

Year 2012Episode 1520 min
Taylor Wilson: Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor
Mar 22, 2012

Year 2012Episode 1620 min
Billy Collins: Everyday moments, caught in time
Mar 23, 2012

Year 2012Episode 1720 min
Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy
Mar 26, 2012

Year 2012Episode 1820 min
Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone
Mar 27, 2012

Year 2012Episode 1920 min
Leymah Gbowee: Unlock the intelligence, passion, greatness of girls
Mar 28, 2012

Year 2012Episode 2020 min
Ayah Bdeir: Building blocks that blink, beep and teach
Mar 29, 2012

Year 2012Episode 2120 min
Marco Tempest: A magical tale (with augmented reality)
Mar 30, 2012

Year 2012Episode 2220 min
Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone?
Apr 3, 2012

Year 2012Episode 2320 min
Chip Kidd: Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is.
Apr 4, 2012

Year 2012Episode 2420 min
Jack Choi: On the virtual dissection table
Apr 5, 2012

Year 2012Episode 2520 min
Lucy McRae: How can technology transform the human body?
Apr 6, 2012

Year 2012Episode 2620 min
Frank Warren: Half a million secrets
Apr 9, 2012

Year 2012Episode 2720 min
Abigail Washburn: Building US-China relations ... by banjo
Apr 13, 2012

Year 2012Episode 2820 min
Atul Gawande: How do we heal medicine?
Apr 16, 2012

Year 2012Episode 2920 min
Drew Curtis: How I beat a patent troll
Apr 17, 2012

Year 2012Episode 3020 min
Christina Warinner: Tracking ancient diseases using ... plaque
Apr 20, 2012

Year 2012Episode 3120 min
Brian Greene: Is our universe the only universe?
Apr 23, 2012

Year 2012Episode 3220 min
Eduardo Paes: The 4 commandments of cities
Apr 26, 2012

Year 2012Episode 3320 min
Nancy Lublin: Texting that saves lives
Apr 27, 2012

Year 2012Episode 3420 min
Liz Diller: A giant bubble for debate
Apr 30, 2012

Year 2012Episode 3520 min
Amory Lovins: A 40-year plan for energy
May 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 3620 min
Reuben Margolin: Sculpting waves in wood and time
May 2, 2012

Year 2012Episode 3720 min
Gary Kovacs: Tracking the trackers
May 3, 2012

Year 2012Episode 3820 min
Michael Tilson Thomas: Music and emotion through time
May 7, 2012

Year 2012Episode 3920 min
Joshua Foer: Feats of memory anyone can do
May 10, 2012

Year 2012Episode 4020 min
Renny Gleeson: 404, the story of a page not found
May 11, 2012

Year 2012Episode 4120 min
Tali Sharot: The optimism bias
May 14, 2012

Year 2012Episode 4220 min
Jean-Baptiste Michel: The mathematics of history
May 15, 2012

Year 2012Episode 4320 min
David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence
May 16, 2012

Year 2012Episode 4420 min
Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain
May 17, 2012

Year 2012Episode 4520 min
JR: One year of turning the world inside out
May 18, 2012

Year 2012Episode 4620 min
Nathan Wolfe: What's left to explore?
May 21, 2012

Year 2012Episode 4720 min
Philippe Petit: The journey across the high wire
May 23, 2012

Year 2012Episode 4820 min
Reggie Watts disorients you in the most entertaining way
May 25, 2012

Year 2012Episode 4920 min
Quixotic Fusion: Dancing with light
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 5020 min
Terry Moore: Why is 'x' the unknown?
Jun 6, 2012

Year 2012Episode 5120 min
Damian Palin: Mining minerals from seawater
Jun 7, 2012

Year 2012Episode 5220 min
John Hodgman: Design, explained.
Jun 8, 2012

Year 2012Episode 5320 min
John Hockenberry: We are all designers
Jun 11, 2012

Year 2012Episode 5420 min
Sarah Parcak: Archeology from space
Jun 14, 2012

Year 2012Episode 5520 min
Marco Tempest: The electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla
Jun 20, 2012

Year 2012Episode 5620 min
Peter Norvig: The 100,000-student classroom
Jun 21, 2012

Year 2012Episode 5720 min
Jared Ficklin: New ways to see music (with color! and fire!)
Jul 13, 2012

Year 2012Episode 5820 min
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: Capturing memories in video art
Jul 15, 2012

Year 2012Episode 5920 min
Jon Ronson: Strange answers to the psychopath test
Aug 15, 2012

Year 2012Episode 6020 min
Thomas P. Campbell: Weaving narratives in museum galleries
Oct 5, 2012

Year 2012Episode 6120 min
Julie Burstein: 4 lessons in creativity
Nov 12, 2012

Year 2012Episode 6220 min
Steven Addis: A father-daughter bond, one photo at a time
Dec 19, 2012

Year 2012Episode 6320 min
Don Levy: A cinematic journey through visual effects
Jan 4, 2013

Year 2012Episode 6420 min
Cesar Kuriyama: One second every day
Feb 6, 2013

Year 2012Episode 6520 min
Wade Davis: Gorgeous photos of a backyard wilderness worth saving
Feb 26, 2013

Year 2012Episode 6620 min
Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes
May 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 6720 min
Jonathan Trent: Energy from floating algae pods
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 6820 min
Tristram Stuart: The global food waste scandal
May 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 6920 min
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain
Sep 17, 2012

Year 2012Episode 7020 min
Julian Treasure: Why architects need to use their ears
Sep 18, 2012

Year 2012Episode 7220 min
Bandi Mbubi: Demand a fair trade cell phone
Apr 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 7320 min
Ed Gavagan: A story about knots and surgeons
Sep 21, 2012

Year 2012Episode 7520 min
Andrew McAfee: Are droids taking our jobs?
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 7620 min
Read Montague: What we're learning from 5,000 brains
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 7720 min
Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 7820 min
John Lloyd: An animated tour of the invisible
Sep 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 7920 min
Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 8020 min
Bahia Shehab: A thousand times no
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 8120 min
Aris Venetikidis: Making sense of maps
Sep 29, 2012

Year 2012Episode 8220 min
Vicki Arroyo: Let's prepare for our new climate
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 8320 min
Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are
Jun 28, 2012

Year 2012Episode 8420 min
Robert Gupta: Between music and medicine
Oct 2, 2012

Year 2012Episode 8520 min
Jason McCue: Terrorism is a failed brand
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 8620 min
Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer course
Oct 4, 2012

Year 2012Episode 8820 min
Tim Leberecht: 3 ways to (usefully) lose control of your brand
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 8920 min
John Maeda: How art, technology and design inform creative leaders
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 9020 min
Ruby Wax: What's so funny about mental illness?
Oct 10, 2012

Year 2012Episode 9120 min
Melissa Marshall: Talk nerdy to me
Oct 11, 2012

Year 2012Episode 9220 min
Play Maurizio Seracini: The secret lives of paintings
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 9320 min
Eddie Obeng: Smart failure for a fast-changing world
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 9420 min
John Wilbanks: Let's pool our medical data
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 9520 min
Beau Lotto + Amy O'Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included
Oct 17, 2012

Year 2012Episode 9620 min
Heather Brooke: My battle to expose government corruption
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 9720 min
Ryan Merkley: Online video -- annotated, remixed and popped
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 9820 min
Pankaj Ghemawat: Actually, the world isn't flat
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 10020 min
Lemn Sissay: A child of the state
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 10220 min
Marco Tempest: A cyber-magic card trick like no other
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 10320 min
Rory Stewart: Why democracy matters
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 10420 min
Sanjay Pradhan: How open data is changing international aid
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 10520 min
Emma Teeling: The secret of the bat genome
Oct 31, 2012

Year 2012Episode 10720 min
Faith Jegede: What I've learned from my autistic brothers
Apr 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 10820 min
Matt Killingsworth: Want to be happier? Stay in the moment
Nov 5, 2012

Year 2012Episode 10920 min
Jake Wood: A new mission for veterans -- disaster relief
Dec 1, 2011

Year 2012Episode 11020 min
Gary Greenberg: The beautiful nano details of our world
Nov 7, 2012

Year 2012Episode 11220 min
Jeff Hancock: The future of lying
Sep 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 11320 min
Julie Burstein: 4 lessons in creativity
Feb 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 11420 min
Arunachalam Muruganantham: How I started a sanitary napkin revolution!
May 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 11520 min
Hannah Brencher: Love letters to strangers
Nov 14, 2012

Year 2012Episode 11620 min
Leah Buechley: How to
Nov 15, 2012

Year 2012Episode 11720 min
David Binder: The arts festival revolution
Nov 16, 2012

Year 2012Episode 11820 min
Daphne Bavelier: Your brain on video games
Nov 19, 2012

Year 2012Episode 11920 min
Amos Winter: The cheap all-terrain wheelchair
Nov 20, 2012

Year 2012Episode 12020 min
Sleepy Man Banjo Boys: Teen wonders play bluegrass
Nov 21, 2012

Year 2012Episode 12220 min
Candy Chang: Before I die I want to...
Nov 23, 2012

Year 2012Episode 12320 min
Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!
Sep 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 12420 min
Jonas Eliasson: How to solve traffic jams
Sep 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 12520 min
Janine Shepherd: A broken body isn't a broken person
Nov 28, 2012

Year 2012Episode 12620 min
Munir Virani: Why I love vultures
Nov 29, 2012

Year 2012Episode 12720 min
Paolo Cardini: Forget multitasking, try monotasking
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 12820 min
Bobby Ghosh: Why global jihad is losing
Sep 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 12920 min
Ludwick Marishane: A bath without water
May 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 13020 min
Jeff Smith: Lessons in business ... from prison
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 13120 min
Nina Tandon: Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine?
Jun 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 13220 min
Lemon Andersen: Please don't take my Air Jordans
Dec 7, 2012

Year 2012Episode 13320 min
Ellen 't Hoen: Pool medical patents, save lives
Dec 10, 2012

Year 2012Episode 13420 min
Markham Nolan: How to separate fact and fiction online
Nov 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 13520 min
Maz Jobrani: A Saudi, an Indian and an Iranian walk into a Qatari bar ...
Apr 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 13620 min
Marcus Byrne: The dance of the dung beetle
Aug 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 13720 min
Ben Saunders: Why bother leaving the house?
Dec 14, 2012

Year 2012Episode 13820 min
Robin Chase: Excuse me, may I rent your car?
Jul 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 13920 min
Molly Crockett: Beware neuro-bunk
Nov 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 14020 min
Steven Addis: A father-daughter bond, one photo at a time
Feb 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 14120 min
Adam Davidson: What we learned from teetering on the fiscal cliff
Dec 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 14220 min
Ronny Edry: Israel and Iran: A love story?
Sep 1, 2012

Year 2012Episode 14320 min
Chris Gerdes: The future race car — 150mph, and no driver
Jul 11, 2012

Year 2012Episode 14420 min
Margaret Heffernan: Dare to Disagree
Jun 29, 2012
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