Random Talks

Ken Okuyama has spent a lifetime fashioning exotic yet practical things of surpassing beauty. The prizewinning car designer has shaped models for Gene

Scott Bradlee is a New York City-based pianist, arranger, music director, and producer. His music, which seeks to blur the boundaries between genres,

“You can prove possible, but you can’t prove impossible” is Takayuki Ohira’s favorite saying. As a child, Takayuki built his own planetarium, and late

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-is-biod… Our planet’s diverse, thriving ecosystems may seem like permanent fixtures, but they’re

What people from different apparent culture have in common? How we are looking to build peace in the same way. In this poignant talk Rick Gunn shares

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/early-foren… In a CSI age, we take forensic science for granted. New York did not have a medical exa

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-would-… In the United States, it’s estimated that 30 percent of adults and 66 percent of adoles

Seen any logical, compelling and easily understandable PowerPoint or Keynote presentations lately? You probably have Garr Reynolds to thank. Garr̵

Quand un mentaliste nous demande de faire un choix, il nous demande de prendre une décision. Il lève ici un coin du voile sur la manière dont il influ

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-case-of… In the past decade, the US honeybee population has been decreasing at an alarming and u

Tracy McMillan is a television writer (Mad Men, United States of Tara) and relationship author who wrote the book Why You’re Not Married…Y

At the inaugural TEDx San Francisco, Chris Anderson, TED Curator, discusses the history of TED and the genesis of TEDx.

Black’s professional livelihood hangs by a string—and the young Japanese world yo-yo champion wouldn’t have it any other way. After being crowned the

Martynas Levickis & SinChronic repertoire always evolves from splendid baroque pieces to the hits of today’s pop music, aiming to target the cham

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-ancient… Thousands of years in the making, the Olympics began as part of a religious festival ho

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/jackie-jenk… Conflict and cultural clashes are a part of our global reality, but so is the universal