Random Talks

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/why-neutrin… Elementary particles are the smallest known building blocks in the universe—and the neu

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-smart-a… Dolphins are one of the smartest animal species on Earth. In fact, their encephalizatio

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-menstru… Made in partnership with the Always #LikeAGirl campaign. At this moment, three hundred

Can certain neurological conditions make us forget how to move? In this talk Dr. Farias explains how is possible to awaken silent neural pathways in t

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

According to a former Tokyo English Life Line colleague, Kathleen Pike has the “sigh factor” when she walks in, people sigh in admiration.

Click here for view full lesson. We hear about calories all the time: How many calories are in this cookie? How many are burned by doing 100 jumping j

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-brass-i… What gives the trumpet its clarion ring and the tuba its gut shaking oompah-pah? And wh

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/is-there-a-… It’s been a long road to the discovery that Earth is not the center of the Solar

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/do-you-spea… The cotton-top tamarin is a very vocal monkey — the species communicates using a

When Masahiko Inami decides to get reflective, he just disappears. That’s because the Keio Media Design professor is the inventor of the Optical Camou

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-x-rays-… Originally discovered by accident, X-rays are now used about 100 million times a year i

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/dead-stuff-… When you picture the lowest levels of the food chain, you might imagine herbivores happ

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-memorie… Think back to a really vivid memory. Got it? Now try to remember what you had for lunch

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