http://www.ted.com http://i.ytimg.com/vi/IThAD5yKrgE/0.jpg Edith Widder: Glowing life in an underwater world www.ted.com Some 80 to 90 percent of undersea creatures make light -- and we know very little about how or why. Bioluminescence expert Edith Widder explores this glowing, sparkling, luminous world, sharing glorious images and insight into the unseen depths (and brights) of the ocean.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com http://www.youtube.com/v/IThAD5yKrgE?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IThAD5yKrgE&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2010-04-19T14:38:27.000Z 1040 Tech 4.936232 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/iG9CE55wbtY/0.jpg Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? www.ted.com Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http http://www.youtube.com/v/iG9CE55wbtY?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2007-01-07T04:46:23.000Z 1204 Education 4.9513226 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/nTFEUsudhfs/0.jpg Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education www.ted.com Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help. http://www.youtube.com/v/nTFEUsudhfs?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTFEUsudhfs&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2011-03-09T20:38:08.000Z 1227 Tech 4.9744067 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/B8ofWFx525s/0.jpg Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" www.ted.com As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy. Read our community Q&A with Eli (featuring 10 ways to turn off the filter bubble): on.ted.com http://www.youtube.com/v/B8ofWFx525s?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ofWFx525s&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2011-05-02T15:28:36.000Z 545 Tech 4.9606595 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/r9LelXa3U_I/0.jpg Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! www.ted.com In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning -- creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com http://www.youtube.com/v/r9LelXa3U_I?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LelXa3U_I&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2010-05-24T14:49:22.000Z 1257 Education 4.9517016 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/XI5frPV58tY/0.jpg Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world www.ted.com Mycologist Paul Stamets studies the mycelium -- and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the world. http://www.youtube.com/v/XI5frPV58tY?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5frPV58tY&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2008-05-08T20:17:31.000Z 1098 Tech 4.932569 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/dk60sYrU2RU/0.jpg Sugata Mitra's new experiments in self-teaching www.ted.com Indian education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com http://www.youtube.com/v/dk60sYrU2RU?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk60sYrU2RU&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2010-09-07T13:54:05.000Z 1046 Tech 4.9715266 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/r9LCwI5iErE/0.jpg Benjamin Zander: Classical music with shining eyes www.ted.com Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it -- and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections. http://www.youtube.com/v/r9LCwI5iErE?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LCwI5iErE&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2008-06-27T14:17:51.000Z 1244 Entertainment 4.958767 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/HNOnvp5t7Do/0.jpg Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks www.ted.com The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who's reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED's Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has accomplished -- and what drives him. The interview includes graphic footage of a recent US airstrike in Baghdad.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com http://www.youtube.com/v/HNOnvp5t7Do?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNOnvp5t7Do&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2010-07-19T15:56:06.000Z 1174 Tech 4.945346 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YtdE662eY_M/0.jpg Brian Greene: The universe on a string www.ted.com n clear, nontechnical language, string theorist Brian Greene explains how our understanding of the universe has evolved from Einstein's notions of gravity and space-time to superstring theory, where minuscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe. (This mind-bending theory may soon be put to the test at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.) http://www.youtube.com/v/YtdE662eY_M?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtdE662eY_M&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2008-04-23T14:30:24.000Z 1147 Tech 4.908703 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/0PAy1zBtTbw/0.jpg JR's TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out www.ted.com JR, a French street artist, uses his camera to show the world its true face. He makes his audacious TED Prize wish to use art to turn the world inside out. A funny, moving talk about art and who we are. Learn more at insideoutproject.net. http://www.youtube.com/v/0PAy1zBtTbw?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PAy1zBtTbw&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2011-03-05T01:36:07.000Z 1450 Nonprofit 4.931385 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3QZp6smeSQA/0.jpg Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture www.ted.com How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature. At TEDSalon in London, Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of nature that could transform architecture and society radical resource efficiency, closed loops, and drawing energy from the sun.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com http://www.youtube.com/v/3QZp6smeSQA?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QZp6smeSQA&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2011-02-10T16:36:37.000Z 1016 Tech 4.9772873 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/9RMx31GnNXY/0.jpg Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney www.ted.com Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com http://www.youtube.com/v/9RMx31GnNXY?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RMx31GnNXY&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2011-03-08T16:45:50.000Z 1045 Tech 4.9722223 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/2NENlXsW4pM/0.jpg Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2000 voices strong www.ted.com In a moving and madly viral video last year, composer Eric Whitacre led a virtual choir of singers from around the world. He talks through the creative challenges of making music powered by YouTube, and unveils the first 2 minutes of his new work, "Sleep," with a video choir of 2052. The full piece premieres April 7 (yes, on YouTube!).TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http http://www.youtube.com/v/2NENlXsW4pM?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NENlXsW4pM&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2011-04-04T14:09:29.000Z 875 Music 4.9541893 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/B9bDZ5-zPtY/0.jpg William Li: Can we eat to starve cancer? www.ted.com William Li presents a new way to think about cancer treatment angiogenesis, targeting the blood vessels that feed a tumor. The crucial first (and best) step: Eating cancer-fighting foods that beat cancer at its own game.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com http://www.youtube.com/v/B9bDZ5-zPtY?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9bDZ5-zPtY&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2010-05-17T15:22:12.000Z 1451 Tech 4.969381 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/0QVXdEOiCw8/0.jpg Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken www.ted.com Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he's taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits — including teeth, tails, and even hands — to make a "Chickenosaurus".TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http http://www.youtube.com/v/0QVXdEOiCw8?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QVXdEOiCw8&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2011-06-07T19:34:33.000Z 997 Tech 4.957863 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/9X68dm92HVI/0.jpg Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our decisions? www.ted.com Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we're not as rational as we think when we make decisions.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com http://www.youtube.com/v/9X68dm92HVI?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X68dm92HVI&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2009-05-19T15:24:24.000Z 1047 Tech 4.9407406 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_6uKZWnJLCM/0.jpg Brian Cox: What really goes on at the Large Hadron Collider www.ted.com "Rock star physicist" Brian Cox talks about his work on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Discussing the biggest of big science in an engaging, accessible way, Cox brings us along on a tour of the massive complex and describes his part in it -- and the vital role it's going to play in understanding our universe. http://www.youtube.com/v/_6uKZWnJLCM?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6uKZWnJLCM&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2008-04-29T18:48:15.000Z 986 Tech 4.905781 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/MtSE4rglxbY/0.jpg Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success www.ted.com Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure -- and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com http://www.youtube.com/v/MtSE4rglxbY?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtSE4rglxbY&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2009-07-28T18:40:07.000Z 1012 People 4.9160795 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Rl2LwnaUA-k/0.jpg Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind www.ted.com Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http http://www.youtube.com/v/Rl2LwnaUA-k?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl2LwnaUA-k&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2007-10-23T14:52:17.000Z 1531 Tech 4.944934 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/LIckScLypGA/0.jpg The LXD: In the Internet age, dance evolves ... www.ted.com The LXD (the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers) electrify the TED2010 stage with an emerging global street-dance culture, revved up by the Internet. In a preview of Jon Chus upcoming Web series, this astonishing troupe show off their superpowers.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com http://www.youtube.com/v/LIckScLypGA?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIckScLypGA&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2010-03-05T16:17:43.000Z 1050 Entertainment 4.9105678 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/IRVdiHu1VCc/0.jpg Mike Rowe celebrates dirty jobs www.ted.com Mike Rowe the host of "Dirty Jobs," tells some compelling (and horrifying) real-life job stories. Listen for his insights and observations about the nature of hard work, and how its been unjustifiably degraded in society today.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http http://www.youtube.com/v/IRVdiHu1VCc?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRVdiHu1VCc&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2009-03-05T19:33:00.000Z 1203 Entertainment 4.9377904 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/rrkrvAUbU9Y/0.jpg Daniel Pink on the surprising science of motivation www.ted.com Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories -- and maybe, a way forward.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com http://www.youtube.com/v/rrkrvAUbU9Y?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2009-08-25T21:20:26.000Z 1117 Howto 4.8990674 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/BZoKfap4g4w/0.jpg Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine www.ted.com What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up when economic growth and electricity turn a boring wash day into an intellectual day of reading. TODAY From 11:30am-1:30pm EDT, Hans Rosling will be answering questions in TED Conversations. Pop over! http://www.youtube.com/v/BZoKfap4g4w?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoKfap4g4w&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2011-03-21T18:37:31.000Z 556 Tech 4.9445086 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/0af00UcTO-c/0.jpg Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from www.ted.com People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the "liquid networks" of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high-velocity web.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com http://www.youtube.com/v/0af00UcTO-c?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0af00UcTO-c&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2010-09-21T13:23:30.000Z 1097 Tech 4.943073