Random Talks

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-your… Some people love the feeling of cracking their knuckles, while others cringe at the sou

David Neto talks about black holes and time travel at the 2015 TEDxOStateU event, April 10, 2015 on the Oklahoma State University campus. David Neto i

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-causes… During the 1600’s, the exotic tulip became a nationwide sensation; some single bulbs ev

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-does-i… About 60 million people around the globe have been forced to leave their homes to escap

The world is filled with words. There is not a single day that goes without words. Why don’t we listen to those words carefully and see how they look

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-we-h… Museums have been a part of human history for over 2,000 years — but they weren&#

Eli talks about autism and theory of mind.

Little girls grow up hearing both implicit and explicit messages suggesting that the most important attribute they can strive for is beauty. A media c

Noam Chomsky is a highly influential American linguist, philosopher and political activist. He is professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachuset

Carlos Miranda Levy knows disasters-and how to help people transcend their devastation with dignity, inclusion, and an equitable distribution of wealt

Self-driving cars are already cruising the streets today. And while these cars will ultimately be safer and cleaner than their manual counterparts, th

Hyeonseo Lee on “Awakening North Korea´s Valley of the Clueless” at TEDxBerlin (http://www.tedxberlin.de) Hyeonseo Lee is a North Korean d

A master of system design specializing in mechanics and natural language processing, Google’s Hideto Kazawa dove into the development of disaster reco

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-poetic-ex… Take a journey through Walt Whitman’s poem ‘A Noiseless Patient Spider̵

Biology dogma: DNA — mRNA — proteins. The biotech industry has made wonders for patients in the last 30 years making recombinant proteins,

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/forget-shop… Downloadable, printable clothing may be coming to a closet near you. What started as de