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Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing Energy from the Grid
What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that could make that possible, and how questioning our...
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Pamela Meyer: How to Spot a Liar
On any given day we’re lied to from 10 to 200 times, and the clues to detect those lie can be subtle and counter-intuitive. Pamela Meyer, author of Liespotting, shows the manners and “hotspots” used by...
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Kirby Ferguson: Embrace The Remix
Nothing is original, says Kirby Ferguson, creator of Everything is a Remix. From Bob Dylan to Steve Jobs, he says our most celebrated creators borrow, steal and transform. Filed under: TED Tagged: TED
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Jim Vieira: Stone Builders, Mound Builders and the Giants of Ancient America
Vieira’s research over the last 20 years has led him down a bizarre road of intrigue and mystery surrounding the races and built structures of Ancient America. Vieira has compiled thousands of accounts...
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Jeff Hancock: 3 types of (digital) lies
Who hasn’t sent a text message saying “I’m on my way” when it wasn’t true or fudged the truth a touch in their online dating profile? But Jeff Hancock doesn’t believe that the anonymity of the internet...
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Will our kids be a different species?
Throughout human evolution, multiple versions of humans co-existed. Could we be mid-upgrade now? At TEDxSummit, Juan Enriquez sweeps across time and space to bring us to the present moment — and shows...
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Andrew McAfee: Are droids taking our jobs?
Robots and algorithms are getting good at jobs like building cars, writing articles, translating — jobs that once required a human. So what will we humans do for work? Andrew McAfee walks through...
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Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see
Beau Lotto’s color games puzzle your vision, but they also spotlight what you can’t normally see: how your brain works. This fun, first-hand look at your own versatile sense of sight reveals how...
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Ben Goldacre: What doctors don’t know about the drugs they prescribe
When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world — except much of the time, negative or inconclusive findings go unreported, leaving doctors...
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Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching you!
What kind of data is your cell phone company collecting? Malte Spitz wasn’t too worried when he asked his operator in Germany to share information stored about him. Multiple unanswered requests and a...
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John Hodgman: Aliens, love — where are they?
Humorist John Hodgman rambles through a new story about aliens, physics, time, space and the way all of these somehow contribute to a sweet, perfect memory of falling in love. John Hodgman is a writer,...
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Is there an infinite Multiverse? Anything is possible!
Is there more than one universe? In this visually rich, action-packed talk, Brian Greene shows how the unanswered questions of physics (starting with a big one: What caused the Big Bang?) have led to...
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A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts
Can we use our brains to directly control machines — without requiring a body as the middleman? Miguel Nicolelis talks through an astonishing experiment, in which a clever monkey in the US learns to...
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Allan Savory: How to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change
Finally, here’s something that offers genuine hope for resolving climate change and desertification. It’s doable. It’s easy. It doesn’t take new technology. It works with nature, not against her. It...
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TED Conference Exposed As Scientology-Style Cult
TED Fellow Eddie Huang was kicked out of the organization for refusing to follow its cult-like orders. WARNING – explicit language. “I just went through a whole week of people telling me what to do,...
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Graham Hancock: The War on Consciousness
Graham Hancock’s TEDx talk censored by TED’s science board. “I am fighting these charges from TED’s Science Board which in my opinion are untrue and amount to nothing more than an ideologically driven...
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Rupert Sheldrake: The Science of Delusion
Along with Graham Hancock’s, TED also removed the recent talk by author and bio-chemist Rupert Sheldrake. In the bold debate about the nature of human consciousness, Rupert Sheldrake stands out for...
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Rick Hanauer: Rich People Don’t Create Jobs
This presentation by entrepreneur Rick Hanauer, is surrounded by controversy because after it was recorded, it was passed over for publication by TED. Stating that allegations of censorship are false,...
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Elizabeth Gilbert: Your Elusive Creative Genius
Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “have” a genius. It’s a...
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Boyan Slat: How the Oceans can Clean themselves
Boyan Slat age 19 combines environmentalism, creativity and technology to tackle global issues of sustainability. Currently working on oceanic plastic pollution, he believes current prevention measures...
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