Random Talks

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-grow… Can you grow a human bone outside the human body? The answer may soon be yes. Nina Tand

Dr. Mario Tokoro has long moved adeptly between the worlds of academia and industry. While an associate professor of computer science at Keio Universi

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-a-wound… Our skin is the largest organ in our bodies, with a surface area of about 20 square fee

Want to de-stress, lower your blood pressure and pulse, and even bolster your immune system’s ability to fight cancer? Yoshifumi Miyazaki’s suggestion

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-scho… How do schools of fish swim in harmony? How do the tiny cells in your brain give rise t

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-atoms-b… Atoms can (and do) bond constantly; it’s how they form molecules. Sometimes, in a

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/attack-of-t… As benign as it may look up close, the tiny seaweed Caulerpa taxifolia can wreak quite

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/the-surpris… It starts with a tickle in your throat that becomes a cough. Your muscles begin to ache

Huai-Chien (Bill) Chang has his head way above the clouds. A PhD student at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science, he helped launc

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/what-s-belo… It’s a well-known fact that the majority of an iceberg lies below the surface 

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-we-s… Your cell phone is mainly made of plastics and metals. It’s easy to appreciate the proc

Ken Mogi’s mission is to understand how qualia—the subjective sensory qualities that roam our consciousness, like the “redness” of red—arise from the

Shiho was involved in production activities at Central Saint Martins, Royal College of Arts, and IAMAS etc., and she chose the path of bio-technology

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-spee… The complex systems of high school dating and chemical reactions may have more in commo