February 26, 2013
291 Five Word TED Talks That Were Real Things And Not Twitter Jokes

  • Be an artist, right now!
  • Dare to educate Afghan girls
  • A country with no water
  • Let’s teach kids to code
  • A universal translator for surgeons
  • Ethical riddles in HIV research
  • Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease
  • What fear can teach us
  • Why bother leaving the house?
  • Pool medical patents, save lives
  • Why global jihad is losing
  • How to solve traffic jams
  • Your brain on video games
  • How to “sketch” with electronics
  • A child of the state
  • The strange politics of disgust
  • Actually, the world isn’t flat
  • Let’s pool our medical data
  • The secret lives of paintings
  • Weaving narratives in museum galleries
  • Terrorism is a failed brand
  • Are droids taking our jobs?
  • What is the Internet, really?
  • The global food waste scandal
  • Demand a more open-source government
  • The voices of China’s workers
  • Why eyewitnesses get it wrong
  • Energy from floating algae pods
  • Sculpted space, within and without
  • The rise of human-computer cooperation
  • The art of creating awe
  • Design for people, not awards
  • Can democracy exist without trust?
  • Is life really that complex?
  • The mad scientist of music
  • Your phone company is watching
  • Let’s crowdsource the world’s goals
  • Capturing memories in video art
  • How to fool a GPS
  • How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination
  • How to air-condition outdoor spaces
  • Lessons from death row inmates
  • Pop an ollie and innovate!
  • The shared wonder of film
  • Why is ‘x’ the unknown?
  • A reality check on renewables
  • The sea we’ve hardly seen
  • Music and emotion through time
  • A 40-year plan for energy
  • A giant bubble for debate
  • The 4 commandments of cities
  • The stories behind the bloodlines
  • How do we heal medicine?
  • On the virtual dissection table
  • Inventing is the easy part
  • Everyday moments, caught in time
  • A blood test without bleeding
  • A census of the ocean
  • Using tech to enable dreaming
  • Look up for a change
  • The true cost of oil
  • Let’s bridge the digital divide!
  • Treating cancer with electric fields
  • Why I chose a gun
  • The hidden world of box-packing
  • Women entrepreneurs, example not exception
  • A primer on 3D printing
  • Is there a real you?
  • How to make choosing easier
  • Three types of online attack
  • Thorium, an alternative nuclear fuel
  • The quest to understand consciousness
  • Medicine for the 99 percent
  • An unexpected place of healing
  • Put a value on nature!
  • The hidden light of Afghanistan
  • The world’s smallest 3D printer
  • The magnificence of spider silk
  • How to topple a dictator
  • A garden in my apartment
  • Meet Rezero, the dancing ballbot
  • How games make kids smarter
  • Conception to birth — visualized
  • The shared experience of absurdity
  • A map of the brain
  • Ancient wonders captured in 3D
  • The real reason for brains
  • A plane you can drive
  • Trust, morality — and oxytocin?
  • How economic inequality harms societies
  • A prosthetic arm that “feels”
  • How cyberattacks threaten real-world peace
  • Freeing energy from the grid
  • Learning from a barefoot movement
  • How to spot a liar
  • Finding life we can’t imagine
  • The generation that’s remaking China
  • Selling condoms in the Congo
  • Welcome to the genomic revolution
  • The art of wearable communication
  • Does democracy stifle economic growth?
  • Finding planets around other stars
  • The shareable future of cities
  • After your final status update
  • 5 ways to listen better
  • How algorithms shape our world
  • Fighting viruses, defending the net
  • See Yemen through my eyes
  • Let’s take back the Internet!
  • Don’t take consciousness for granted
  • The beautiful tricks of flowers
  • Cooking as never seen before
  • A civil response to violence
  • On being just crazy enough
  • A future beyond traffic gridlock
  • Haunting photos of polar ice
  • How I became 100 artists
  • The world’s first charter city?
  • Authentic creativity vs. karaoke culture
  • Faith versus tradition in Islam
  • How to tie your shoes
  • The mystery of chronic pain
  • A light switch for neurons
  • The hidden power of smiling
  • The hidden beauty of pollination
  • Architecture that senses and responds
  • Using nature to grow batteries
  • Are we ready for neo-evolution?
  • A radical experiment in empathy
  • “If I Could Be Anywhere”
  • Hands-on science with squishy circuits
  • It’s time to question bio-engineering
  • The sound the universe makes
  • The birth of a word
  • Inspiring a life of immersion
  • The linguistic genius of babies
  • Using nature’s genius in architecture
  • Hawa Abdi + Deqo Mohamed
  • The rise of personal robots
  • Are we born to run?
  • Drawing on humor for change
  • Understanding the rise of China
  • Visualizing the medical data explosion
  • The economic injustice of plastic
  • Take “the Other” to lunch
  • We are all cyborgs now
  • The 3 A’s of awesome
  • 3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship
  • Life lessons from big cats
  • The case for collaborative consumption
  • Rufus Griscom + Alisa Volkman
  • How to learn? From mistakes
  • A vision for sustainable restaurants
  • Creative houses from reclaimed stuff
  • Protecting the brain against concussion
  • A Darwinian theory of beauty
  • America’s native prisoners of war
  • Sustainable seafood? Let’s get smart
  • Breakthrough designs for ultra-low-cost products
  • Tough truths about plastic pollution
  • The brain in your gut
  • The art of the eco-mindshift
  • The roots of plant intelligence
  • Are mushrooms the new plastic?
  • Mothers helping mothers fight HIV
  • Where good ideas come from
  • How social networks predict epidemics
  • Art of substance and absence
  • The world’s oldest living things
  • Keep your goals to yourself
  • The technology of the heart
  • The political chemistry of oil
  • Learning from Sherman the shark
  • Inside an Antarctic time machine
  • The beauty of data visualization
  • The case for same-sex marriage
  • The bio-future of joint replacement
  • Why the world needs WikiLeaks
  • Education innovation in the slums
  • Measuring what makes life worthwhile
  • How YouTube thinks about copyright
  • How architecture helped music evolve
  • Why we need the explorers
  • The case for anonymity online
  • Lessons from fashion’s free culture
  • Bring on the learning revolution!
  • Why I’m a weekday vegetarian
  • Why to believe in others
  • Math class needs a makeover
  • Glimpses of a pristine ocean
  • Could this laser zap malaria?
  • Love Is a Loaded Pistol
  • India’s hidden hotbeds of invention
  • How we wrecked the ocean
  • How great leaders inspire action
  • Social experiments to fight poverty
  • Toward a science of simplicity
  • Computing a theory of everything
  • Photos that changed the world
  • The danger of science denial
  • My seven species of robot
  • When games invade real life
  • How to start a movement
  • And now, the real news
  • How to combat modern slavery
  • Science can answer moral questions
  • Parrots, the universe and everything
  • The magic of the placebo
  • Plug into your hard-wired happiness
  • Physics is fun to imagine
  • The wireless future of medicine
  • The next age of government
  • Teach every child about food
  • How to expose the corrupt
  • The painter and the pendulum
  • The fringe benefits of failure
  • Really achieving your childhood dreams
  • The neurons that shaped civilization
  • The intricate economics of terrorism
  • The art of the interview
  • The fight against sex slavery
  • Dance to change the world
  • Learning from leadership’s “missing manual”
  • How the Internet enables intimacy
  • The year I was homeless
  • Lead like the great conductors
  • A brain in a supercomputer
  • How food shapes our cities
  • The power of time off
  • Let’s revive the Golden Rule
  • How I harnessed the wind
  • How the Net aids dictatorships
  • Making sound visible through cymatics
  • Hold your breath for micro-sculpture
  • Playing with space and light
  • Success is a continuous journey
  • Learning from the gecko’s tail
  • Odes to vice and consequences
  • The business logic of sustainability
  • Growing evidence of brain plasticity
  • The beautiful math of coral
  • High-altitude wind energy from kites!
  • How to grow fresh air
  • Play is more than fun
  • How to restore a rainforest
  • The El Sistema music revolution
  • The next species of human
  • Hypersonic sound and other inventions
  • Why we make bad decisions
  • The design of the universe
  • Tales of creativity and play
  • When social media became news
  • Expanding your circle of compassion
  • Compassion at the dinner table
  • The profound journey of compassion
  • The balancing act of compassion
  • A story of mixed emoticons
  • Flow, the secret to happiness
  • Are games better than life?
  • Shedding light on dark matter
  • My year of living biblically
  • A mobile fridge for vaccines
  • Turning powerful stats into art
  • Designing objects that tell stories
  • The news about the news
  • Making sense of string theory
  • The new power of collaboration
  • How electroshock therapy changed me
  • The anthropology of mobile phones
  • The surprising decline in violence
  • What our language habits reveal
  • How I built a windmill
  • Spore, birth of a game
  • The potential of regenerative medicine
  • The caves and the moon
  • How bad architecture wrecked cities
  • What separates us from chimpanzees?
  • The gentle genius of bonobos
  • The era of open innovation
  • Is this our final century?
  • The logic of non-zero-sum progress
  • The accelerating power of technology
  • Why people believe weird things
  • A roadmap to end aging
  • The surprising science of happiness
  • Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce
  • Happiness in body and soul
  • Improvising on piano, aged 14
  • A call for open-source architecture
  • Responding to Pastor Rick Warren
  • Stats that reshape your worldview

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