Random Talks

Tim Morely thinks that every student should learn Esperanto. In this unexpected and persuasive talk, he makes the case that this constructed language

Self-driving cars are already cruising the streets today. And while these cars will ultimately be safer and cleaner than their manual counterparts, th

Bria Davis discusses representation in comic books and movies and how this representation is integral for learning. Bria is a fourth year student stud

Cristina Domenech es escritora y filósofa, coordina talleres de escritura y lectura para niños, adultos, y presidiarios del Centro de Estudiantes Rodo

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: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/this-is-spa… In ancient Greece, violent internal conflict between border neighbors and war with fore

Sorry, this entry is only available in Japanese. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may c

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?

Naohiko Umewaka’s family lineage in the art of Noh dates back six hundred years. His greatgrandfather, Umewaka Minoru, is credited with saving Noh the

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

In 2008, lacquer artist and Living National Treasure Kazumi Murose began to focus on preserving intangibly important Japanese culture and heritage thr

Music + language (songs) activate our brains, hearts and souls. By using songs, we can learn foreign languages and saved dying tongues. This TEDxSanta

If politics and the economy are the world’s day, then the Internet and its subculture are its night. In the latest issue of Planets Critic Magazine, p

Next-generation Japanese didgeridoo performer SMILY first heard the otherworldly tones of the quintessential Australian wind instrument while studying

Known in the music realm as Shing02, bilingual rapper Shingo Annen spent his childhood in Tanzania, London and Japan. At the age of 15, he moved to th

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’