Random Talks

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-science… Homer’s “Odyssey” recounts the adventures of the Greek hero Odysseus

Can Twitter predict heart disease? Day in and day out, we use social media, making it the center of our social lives, work lives, and private lives. L

In 2013, Dr. Sugata Mitra earned the first ever one million dollar TED Prize award for his project “School in the Cloud.” Two years later,

Crossing borders physically, emotionally, culturally, artistically — all these aspects were widely explored on the 23rd of November by an array

In a talk that garnered a tearful standing ovation, Matthew Williams demands equality and respect for individuals with intellectual disabilities, told

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-s-the-… If you’ve been to a restaurant in the last few years, you’ve likely seen the word

Sanah lost all of her hair to Alopecia in the 7th grade, after which she frequently struggled with wigs, self-harm and self hate. When she finally cam

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-make… As anyone who’s seen a mummy knows, ancient Egyptian priests went to a lot of trouble t

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/is-there-a-… Today, about a third of the world’s population is infected with a strange disease calle

SCOTT RICKARD Scott Rickard has degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and MA and PhD degrees in Applied and

Everyone has an opinion about sex work, but what does sex worker Toni Mac think? Toni takes us through four different legal models addressing the sex

Tia Johnston Brown is committed to inspiring young people to alter their lives and communities in a constructive way. After empowering youth in Africa

The late, great Isaac Asimov would love robotics pioneer Dr. Yoshiyuki Sankai. The good doctor, who grew up reading futuristic fare such as Asimov’s c

English with French subtitles Graduated from Rice University in the United States and from the Academy of Lausanne, Zhang Zhang shows us with enjoymen

Known in the music realm as Shing02, bilingual rapper Shingo Annen spent his childhood in Tanzania, London and Japan. At the age of 15, he moved to th

Masayo Takahashi is a researcher in the area of visual disorders. After carrying out a pioneering iPS cell clinical study in summer 2013, she was name