Britta Riley wanted to grow her own food (in her tiny apartment). So she and her friends developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles -- researching, testing and tweaking the system... continue reading

posted by Gale Wallis (bareboards2) 1 decade 2 years 12 months ago • 1,457 views • 7:53

From YT: "Amy Purdy has been through hardships that most of us will never face -- or can even fathom. But what makes her story so incredible is not that fact that she lived a "normal" childhood and... continue reading

posted by Lann (Lann) 1 decade 2 years 12 months ago • 2,839 views • 9:37

"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,... continue reading

posted by ant 1 decade 4 years 3 weeks ago • 1,476 views

From TED: Master storyteller Malcolm Gladwell tells the tale of the Norden bombsight, a groundbreaking piece of World War II technology with a deeply unexpected result.

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 1 decade 3 years 1 month ago • 6,432 views • 15:01

TED: We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are... continue reading

posted by littledragon_79 1 decade 3 years 1 month ago • 1,768 views • 16:55

From TED: Artist Nathalie Miebach takes weather data from massive storms and turns it into complex sculptures that embody the forces of nature and time. These sculptures then become musical scores for... continue reading

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 1 decade 3 years 1 month ago • 978 views • 4:19

"Surgeon and engineer Todd Kuiken is building a prosthetic arm that connects with the human nervous system -- improving motion, control and even feeling. Onstage, patient Amanda Kitts helps demonstrate... continue reading

posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 1 decade 3 years 1 month ago • 801 views

YT: Phil Plait is an astronomer, author, and science advocate. His blog, Bad Astronomy, is hosted by Discover Magazine, and he writes about news and current issues facing science. A common topic is astronomical... continue reading

posted by critical_d 1 decade 3 years 1 month 1 week ago • 1,065 views • 14:12

"Here's a powerful provocation from artist Jae Rhim Lee. Can we commit our bodies to a cleaner, greener Earth, even after death? Naturally -- using a special burial suit seeded with pollution-gobbling... continue reading

posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 1 decade 3 years 1 month 1 week ago • 1,131 views • 7:31

From TED: On any given day we're lied to from 10 to 200 times, and the clues to detect those lie can be subtle and counter-intuitive. Pamela Meyer, author of Liespotting, shows the manners and "hotspots"... continue reading

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 1 decade 3 years 1 month 1 week ago • 5,379 views • 18:51

I found out about this guy from watching "2012: Time For Change". Listen to him, he has ideas. Good ideas. This was filmed on 11/30/09. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Lietaer

posted by laura 1 decade 3 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 1,397 views • 18:46

"Every day there are news reports of new health advice, but how can you know if they're right? Doctor and epidemiologist Ben Goldacre shows us, at high speed, the ways evidence can be distorted, from the... continue reading

posted by Hybrid 1 decade 3 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 3,718 views • 14:20

TED: HIV is a serious problem in the DR Congo, and aid agencies have flooded the country with free and cheap condoms. But few people are using them. Why? "Reformed marketer" Amy Lockwood offers a surprising... continue reading

posted by DerHasisttot 1 decade 3 years 2 months ago • 1,150 views • 4:17

Richard Resnick shows how cheap and fast genome sequencing is about to turn health care (and insurance, and politics) upside down.

posted by Fade 1 decade 3 years 2 months 1 week ago • 1,090 views • 11:03

[yt] Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University. His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics, and quantum cosmology.... continue reading

posted by Kulpims T'dna (kulpims) 1 decade 3 years 7 months ago • 1,730 views • 15:42

Sean Carroll talks about cosmology and the arrow of time at TEDx Caltech.

posted by Ornthoron 1 decade 3 years 9 months ago • 1,596 views • 16:06

An in depth view on one of the world's greatest physicists, Richard Feynman. The speech done by Zvi Bern (UCLA, Theoretical Elementary Particle Professor; I'm not entirely sure that is who Zvi Bern is--there... continue reading

posted by kceaton1 1 decade 3 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 4,234 views • 9:31

Ted: MIT researcher Skylar Tibbits works on self-assembly -- the idea that instead of building something (a chair, a skyscraper), we can create materials that build themselves, much the way a strand of... continue reading

posted by critical_d 1 decade 3 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 2,359 views • 6:05