TEDtalks: 3511 Produkte
David Logan: Tribal leadership
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com At TEDxUSC, business professor David Logan talks about the five kinds of tribes that humans naturally form -- …
The neurons that shaped civilization | VS Ramachandran
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com Neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran outlines the fascinating functions of mirror neurons. Only recently disc…
Why Medicine Often Has Dangerous Side Effects for Women | Alyson McGregor | TED Talks
Ted Talk: For most of the past century, drugs approved and released to market have been tested only on male patients, leading to improper d…
Nina Tandon: Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine?
Ted Talk: Each of our bodies is utterly unique, which is a lovely thought until it comes to treating an illness -- when every body reacts d…
Shereen El Feki: Pop culture in the Arab world
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com At TEDGlobal University, Shereen El Feki shows how some Arab cultures are borrowing trademarks of Western pop …
Alan Siegel: Let's simplify legal jargon!
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com Tax forms, credit agreements, healthcare legislation: They're crammed with gobbledygook, says Alan Siegel, and…
The sound the universe makes | Janna Levin
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com We think of space as a silent place. But physicist Janna Levin says the universe has a soundtrack -- a sonic c…
Laurie Garrett: What can we learn from the 1918 flu?
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com In 2007, as the world worried about a possible avian flu epidemic, Laurie Garrett, author of "The Coming Plagu…
The politics of fiction | Elif Shafak
Ted Talk: Listening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel w…
Gordon Brown: Wiring a web for global good
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com TEDGlobal, July 21, 2009 We're at a unique moment in history, says UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown: we can use …
Bran Ferren: To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering
Ted Talk: When Bran Ferren was just 9, his parents took him to see the Pantheon in Rome — and it changed everything. In that moment, he beg…
Jonathan Drori: Why we're storing billions of seeds
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com In this brief talk from TED U 2009, Jonathan Drori encourages us to save biodiversity -- one seed at a time. R…
Boaz Almog "levitates" a superconductor
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com How can a super-thin, three-inch disk levitate something 70,000 times its own weight? In a riveting, futuristi…
Jay Walker: A library of human imagination
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com Jay Walker, curator of the Library of Human Imagination, conducts a surprising show-and-tell session highlight…
Liza Donnelly: Drawing upon humor for change
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly shares a portfolio of her wise and funny cartoons about modern life -- and…