Random Talks

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/would-you-o… Imagine if you could plug your brain into a machine that would bring you ultimate pleas

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-are-the… If insects suddenly morphed into large beings and decided to wage war on us, there’s no

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/the-power-o… The placebo effect is an unexplained phenomenon wherein drugs, treatments, and therapie

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-infinit… The ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter is always the same: 3.14159

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-different… In standard notation, rhythm is indicated on a musical bar line. But there are other wa

Ken Okuyama has spent a lifetime fashioning exotic yet practical things of surpassing beauty. The prizewinning car designer has shaped models for Gene

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

Jennifer Nacif tells us how to shift manipulation to motivation when it comes to communicating with our children. Jennifer plays the characters of fou

Seen any logical, compelling and easily understandable PowerPoint or Keynote presentations lately? You probably have Garr Reynolds to thank. Garr̵

BLACK – Yo-Yo Performer and Serial Dreamer BLACK is all about impossible dreams. After getting Gold Medal at the World Yo-Yo Contest in 2001 whi

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/could-we-a… There’s a lot of talk these days about when and how we might all move to Mars. Bu

View full lesson on ed.ted.com http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-s-invi… Gravity. The stars in day. Thoughts. The human genome. Time. Atoms. So muc

In school, the dominant way of conveying ideas is through words. Words can be great barriers to learning. Matthew Petersen shows and explains how we c

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-sol… In a dystopian world, your resistance group is humanity’s last hope. Unfortunately, you

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/one-of-the-… As simple as it seems, it’s often impossible to accurately translate the word you witho