Random Talks

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-evoluti… What makes a book a book? Is it just anything that stores and communicates information?

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-did-hit… Decades after the fall of the Third Reich, it feels impossible to understand how Adolf

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-history… If you have a tattoo, you’re part of a rich cultural history that dates back at least 8

Julien argues how we see the World through cultural glasses. By changing the glasses you can change the way you interpret the World. Julien is the fou

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Do you speak this language? Do you share the experience? The

Morinosuke Kawaguchi loves geeks. What’s more, he fashions solid notions for tweaking technology and other products from his close observations of Jap

Since he was a teenager, Eddie Ugata has been drawn to sixties American pop culture, collecting original comics, records, vintage guitars and clothes,

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-origin-… Check out PatrickJMT’s YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/patrick

When he was just 25, Yoshiharu Habu became the only player ever to simultaneously seize all seven titles of the ancient board game known as shogi. He’

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/history-vs-… After the French Revolution erupted in 1789, Europe was thrown into chaos. Neighboring

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/should-you-… Imagine a police lineup where ten witnesses are asked to identify a bank robber they gl

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-is-thi… On first glance, the painting “Las Meninas” (“The Maids of Honor”) might not seem terri

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/did-shakesp… Some people question whether Shakespeare really wrote the works that bear his name – or

The award winning ABC-Tokyo Ballet Company believes that artists should convey hope, light and a buoyant future through their performances, especially

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-we-… Ah, romantic love; beautiful and intoxicating, heart-breaking and soul-crushing…

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/mysteries-o… Stemming from the days of bubonic plague in Medieval Europe, quarantines were originall