Random Talks

To Takashi Ikegami, life is what you make it. Specifically, he and his Ikegami Lab cohorts are attempting to build viable synthetic life forms using c

Affordable renewable energy is still science fiction, right? Dead wrong, says Dr. Eric Martinot, and he should know. A former senior energy specialist

Dr. Jimmy Lin of Rare Genomics Institute invites his audience on a compelling and emotional journey into the lives of children living with rare diseas

Charlie Marcus is Professor of Physics at Harvard. His research focuses on fabrication of submicron electronic structures — semiconductor quantu

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-brillia… Some lucky animals are naturally endowed with bioluminescence, or the ability to create

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

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

Because we want to understand what genes are required for blood vessel development, Courtney Griffin studies certain enzymes that help turn genes on a

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-blood-p… If you lined up all the blood vessels in your body, they’d be 60 thousand miles long. A

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-science… One could say that snowflakes are simply frozen water — but if you compare a snowflake

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-does-ca… Cancer usually begins with one tumor in a specific area of the body. But if the tumor i

Plants are under constant environmental stress throughout the year, meaning that more intense sunlight or a rise in temperature due to global warming

View full lesson here: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/jon-bergman… Did you know that when you fall down, the earth falls up to meet you? Explore the

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/an-exercise… Why is that some experiences feel like they last forever, while others fly by? We tend

Art majors everywhere, take heart: John Maeda is lobbying to ensure your future by fusing art and design with science and infusing technology with sou

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-otherwo… About 60 percent of the ocean is a cold, dark region that spans down to 11,000 meters.