Subtitled Talks

Ed Viesturs is widely regarded as this country’s foremost high-altitude mountaineer. Viesturs grew up in the flatlands of Illinois, where the hi

Why are comments off? We’re definitely looking for feedback on this series demo! However, the interactive nature of the demo makes it difficult

Sasha Leahovcenco is a photographer. His commitment to the art of photography is the result of his life, of things he’s seen and heard, of place

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-compute… Is a universal translator possible in real life? We already have many programs that cla

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

Driven by surprising data and punctuated with the raw stories of real working mothers, Jessica Shortall makes the impassioned case that the reality of

Sanjoy Mahajan obtained his PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech in 1998, after an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Oxford and in physics f

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/who-is-sher… More than a century after first emerging into the fogbound, gaslit streets of Victorian

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-s-the-… If you’ve been to a restaurant in the last few years, you’ve likely seen the word

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-brass-i… What gives the trumpet its clarion ring and the tuba its gut shaking oompah-pah? And wh

Learn how linguistic discrimination is as bad as any other kind of discrimination, even though it may seem more socially acceptable. Carrie Gillon, li

TEDx Director talks about the TEDx format, its history and developments

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-science… What do macaroni salad and gasoline have in common? They are made of exactly the same s

Hans Aarsmans talk at TEDxAmsterdam was titled From pretty to ugly and back again; mysterious ways of beauty in photography and the audience judged it

English is big business and languages are dying as never before. Is there a connection? Is this another manifestation of McDonaldisation — the u

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-sol… You’re stranded in a rainforest, and you’ve eaten a poisonous mushroom. To save your li