Random Talks

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

Michael Nielsen is one of the pioneers of quantum computation. Together with Ike Chuang of MIT, he wrote the standard text in the field, a text which

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/making-sens… Like many heroes of Greek myths, the philosopher Hippasus was rumored to have been mort

Actual Conditions in the Tsunami Damaged Coastal Regions of Miyagi Prefecture.

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/vermicompos… Nearly one third of our food ends up in the trash can. There is hope, however, in the f

Stand by for an animated exploration of the famous Fermi Paradox. Given the vast number of planets in the universe, many much older than Earth, why ha

Shiroh Tenge expects miracles—and achieves them. His Holotropic Network and associated holotropic centers and retreats, following the Maha Samadi trad

Imagine being paralyzed or in a vegetative state, powerless to move or even speak. Keio University researcher Junichi Ushiba may be the one to awaken

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-cold… If you stick water in the freezer, it will take a few hours to freeze into ice. How is

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-stress-… Our hard-wired stress response is designed to gives us the quick burst of heightened al

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-turing-… What is consciousness? Can an artificial machine really think? For many, these have bee

We humans are irrational beings, and how our brains work remains a massive mystery. Dr. Naotaka Fujii—who currently heads up the Laboratory for Adapti

Amy Robinson: Having fun, doing science Yesterday during the Tweetup I spoke to Amy Robinson and asked her what she wanted the audience to remember fr

Professor Anders Ynnerman received a Ph.D. in physics from Gothenburg University. During the early 90s he was doing research at Oxford University, UK,

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-did-tra… If you live in the United States, you may live in the Eastern Standard Time Zone. Or ma

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