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Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours

2010-12-13T18:43:00.000-08:00

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Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in "monkeynomics" shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too.

Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from

2010-12-12T18:41:00.000-08:00

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People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the "liquid networks" of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high-velocity web.

Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation

2010-12-11T18:40:00.000-08:00

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Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories -- and maybe, a way forward.
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Eric Giler demos wireless electricity

2010-12-10T18:39:00.000-08:00

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Eric Giler wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power. Here, he covers what this sci-fi tech offers, and demos MIT's breakthrough version, WiTricity -- a near-to-market invention that may soon recharge your cell phone, car, pacemaker.
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Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions

2010-12-09T18:38:00.000-08:00

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Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can -- and should -- be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life.

Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover

2010-12-08T18:37:00.000-08:00

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Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.

Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself

2010-12-07T18:35:00.000-08:00

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After hitting on a brilliant new life plan, our first instinct is to tell someone, but Derek Sivers says it's better to keep goals secret. He presents research stretching as far back as the 1920s to show why people who talk about their ambitions may be less likely to achieve them.

The child-driven education

2010-12-06T18:34:00.000-08:00

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Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.

Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from

2010-12-05T18:34:00.000-08:00

Dan Buettner: How to live to be 100+

2010-12-04T18:32:00.000-08:00

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To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the world's "Blue Zones," communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. At TEDxTC, he shares the 9 common diet and lifestyle habits that keep them spry past age 100.

Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food

2010-12-03T18:32:00.000-08:00

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Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps

2010-12-02T18:31:00.000-08:00

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In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft.

Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero!

2010-12-01T18:31:00.000-08:00

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At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world

2010-11-30T18:30:00.000-08:00

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Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.

Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions - Sam Harris (2010)

2010-11-29T18:29:00.000-08:00

Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything - Stephen Wolfram (2010)

2010-11-28T18:29:00.000-08:00

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Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new search engine, Wolfram Alpha, has no lesser goal than to model and explain the physics underlying the universe.

Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover

2010-11-27T18:29:00.000-08:00

Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!

2010-11-26T18:27:00.000-08:00

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In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning -- creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish.

Craig Venter unveils "synthetic life"

2010-11-25T18:27:00.000-08:00

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Craig Venter and team make a historic announcement: they've created the first fully functioning, reproducing cell controlled by synthetic DNA. He explains how they did it and why the achievement marks the beginning of a new era for science.

Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex

2010-11-24T18:25:00.000-08:00

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At TEDGlobal 2010, author Matt Ridley shows how, throughout history, the engine of human progress has been the meeting and mating of ideas to make new ideas. It's not important how clever individuals are, he says; what really matters is how smart the collective brain is.

Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves

2010-11-23T18:25:00.000-08:00

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Tan Le's astonishing new computer interface reads its user's brainwaves, making it possible to control virtual objects, and even physical electronics, with mere thoughts (and a little concentration). She demos the headset, and talks about its far-reaching applications.

Hans Rosling on global population growth

2010-11-22T18:25:00.000-08:00

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The world's population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years -- and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth. This is the paradoxical answer that Hans Rosling unveils at TED@Cannes using colorful new data display technology (you'll see).

Sheena Iyengar on the art of choosing

2010-11-21T18:24:00.000-08:00

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Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices -- and how we feel about the choices we make. At TEDGlobal, she talks about both trivial choices (Coke v. Pepsi) and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking research that has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our decisions.

Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours

2010-11-20T18:24:00.000-08:00

Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself

2010-11-19T18:23:00.000-08:00

The beauty of data visualization

2010-11-18T18:23:00.000-08:00

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David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut -- and it may just change the way we see the world.

The child-driven education

2010-11-17T18:19:00.000-08:00

Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero!

2010-11-16T00:06:00.000-08:00

Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from

2010-11-15T18:18:00.000-08:00

Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything

2010-11-14T18:37:00.000-08:00

Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

2010-11-13T18:33:00.000-08:00

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At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.

Dan Buettner: How to live to be 100+

2010-11-12T07:19:00.000-08:00

Craig Venter unveils "synthetic life"

2010-11-11T23:49:00.000-08:00

Hans Rosling on global population growth

2010-11-10T22:50:00.000-08:00

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps

2010-11-09T00:12:00.000-08:00

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In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft.

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world

2010-11-08T23:58:00.000-08:00

Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions

2010-11-07T23:57:00.000-08:00

Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

2010-11-05T18:18:00.000-07:00

Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything

2010-11-04T23:52:00.000-07:00

Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover

2010-11-03T23:49:00.001-07:00

Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!

2010-11-02T23:47:00.000-07:00

Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex

2010-11-01T22:36:00.000-07:00

Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours

2010-10-31T21:40:00.000-07:00

Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves

2010-10-30T21:54:00.000-07:00

Sheena Iyengar on the art of choosing

2010-10-29T21:42:00.000-07:00

David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization

2010-10-28T21:36:00.000-07:00

Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself

2010-10-27T21:35:00.000-07:00

Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food

2010-10-26T00:51:00.000-07:00

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Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.