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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