YouTube Description: How much do you know about the world? Hans Rosling, with his famous charts of global population, health and income data (and an extra-extra-long pointer), demonstrates that you... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 2 months 1 week ago • 365 views • 19:10

"The bubonic plague killed around 1/5 of the world’s population in the 14th century, and is still around today — but now it claims only a few thousand lives each year, so people aren't too worried... continue reading

posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 1 decade 3 months ago • 703 views • 4:13

The creator of the Tree of 40 Fruits does TED talks explaining how he went about making them. slightly more info at http://www.treeof40fruit.com/

posted by newtboy 1 decade 3 months 1 week ago • 475 views • 5:18

...and exercise is medicine.

posted by notarobot 1 decade 4 months 2 weeks ago • 813 views • 22:21

People can and do compartmentalize, but let's say, for argument's sake, that someone has a thorough socialistic understanding of value. As Rory Sutherland reminds us here, in order to advertise and sell... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 4 months ago • 236 views • 18:21

YouTube Description: Have you ever wondered: Am I a human being? Ze Frank suggests a series of simple questions that will determine this. Please relax and follow the prompts. Let's begin ...... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 4 months 1 week ago • 772 views • 4:35

Energy is neither created nor destroyed — and yet the global demand for it continues to increase. But where does energy come from, and where does it go? Joshua M. Sneideman examines the many ways in... continue reading

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 1 decade 4 months 4 weeks ago • 292 views • 4:44

Like an actor’s script, a sheet of music instructs a musician on what to play (the pitch) and when to play it (the rhythm). Sheet music may look complicated, but once you've gotten the hang of a few... continue reading

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 1 decade 5 months 1 week ago • 354 views • 5:24

YouTube Description: The secrets of nature's grossest creatures, cockroaches How can robots learn to stabilize on rough terrain, walk upside down, do gymnastic maneuvers in air and run into walls... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 5 months 2 weeks ago • 250 views • 5:09

YouTube Description: In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt legendarily spared the life of a black bear — and prompted a plush toy craze for so-called "teddy bears." Writer Jon Mooallem digs into this... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 6 months ago • 270 views • 14:17

You can't understand climate change in pieces, says climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. It's the whole, or it's nothing. In this illuminating talk, he explains how he studies the big picture of climate change... continue reading

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 1 decade 6 months 2 weeks ago • 284 views • 12:11

TED: When General Stanley McChrystal started fighting al Qaeda in 2003, information and secrets were the lifeblood of his operations. But as the unconventional battle waged on, he began to think that the... continue reading

posted by littledragon_79 1 decade 6 months 3 weeks ago • 312 views • 6:44

YT: Sampling isn't about "hijacking nostalgia wholesale," says Mark Ronson. It's about inserting yourself into the narrative of a song while also pushing that story forward. Watch the DJ scramble 15 TED... continue reading

posted by Zawash 1 decade 6 months 2 weeks ago • 748 views • 16:55

TED: Web cartoonist Randall Munroe answers simple what-if questions ("what if you hit a baseball moving at the speed of light?") using math, physics, logic and deadpan humor. In this charming talk, a reader’s... continue reading

posted by Zawash 1 decade 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,384 views • 9:29

YouTube Description: When you look at sporting achievements over the last decades, it seems like humans have gotten faster, better and stronger in nearly every way. Yet as David Epstein points out in... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 6 months 3 weeks ago • 437 views • 14:54

Seven years ago, Internet activist Aaron Swartz convinced Lawrence Lessig to take up the fight for political reform. A year after Swartz's tragic death, Lessig continues his campaign to free US politics... continue reading

posted by Grimm 1 decade 7 months 2 weeks ago • 359 views • 13:44

YT: We live in a world of unseeable beauty, so subtle and delicate that it is imperceptible to the human eye. To bring this invisible world to light, filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg bends the boundaries of... continue reading

posted by Zawash 1 decade 7 months 2 weeks ago • 551 views • 7:24

Yep. Just common sense.

posted by Gale Wallis (bareboards2) 1 decade 8 months 2 weeks ago • 351 views • 17:12