3D animation can bring scientific hypotheses to life. Molecular biologist (and TED Fellow) Janet Iwasa introduces a new open-source animation…
13:00 minutes · Filmed Mar 2014 · Posted Aug 2014 · TED2014 Facebook’s Like and Share buttons are seen 22…
Humankind has been looking for the giant squid (Architeuthis) since we first started peering underwater. But the elusive deep-sea predator…
In this lovely, personal talk about the magic of books, Lisa Bu tells the story of how thoughtful reading helped…
Alexa Meade selects a topic and then paints it. Literally. She covers everything in a scene — people, chairs, food,…
Our brain is puzzling. It is curiously large given the size of our bodies, and uses a tremendous amount of…
When he was young, artist Shih Chieh Huang loved taking toys apart and browsing the aisles of night markets in…
09:21 minutes · Filmed Nov 2013 · Posted Jul 2014 · TEDxBeaconStreet 2013 Before any laparoscopic surgery, the surgeon has…
We often think of bias and prejudice as rooted in ignorance. But as psychologist Paul Bloom seeks to show, prejudice…
Chris Domas is a cybersecurity researcher, operating on what’s become a new front of war, “cyber.” In this engaging talk,…