3 ways to spot a bad statistic | Mona Chalabi
24 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes it's hard to know what statistics are worthy of trust. But we shouldn't count out stats al...
Inside America's dead shopping malls | Dan Bell
17 Mar 2017
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What happens when a mall falls into ruin? Filmmaker Dan Bell guides us through abandoned monoliths o...
"Turceasca" | Silk Road Ensemble
17 Mar 2017
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Grammy-winning Silk Road Ensemble display their eclectic convergence of violin, clarinet, bass, drum...
Adventures of an asteroid hunter | Carrie Nugent
14 Mar 2017
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TED Fellow Carrie Nugent is an asteroid hunter -- part of a group of scientists working to discover ...
How I'm fighting bias in algorithms | Joy Buolamwini
09 Mar 2017
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MIT grad student Joy Buolamwini was working with facial analysis software when she noticed a problem...
A scientific approach to the paranormal | Carrie Poppy
03 Mar 2017
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What's haunting Carrie Poppy? Is it ghosts or something worse? In this talk, the investigative journ...
"Rollercoaster" | Sara Ramirez
03 Mar 2017
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Singer, songwriter and actress Sara Ramirez is a woman of many talents. Joined by Michael Pemberton ...
Smelfies, and other experiments in synthetic biology | Ani Liu
27 Feb 2017
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What if you could take a smell selfie, a smelfie? What if you had a lipstick that caused plants to g...
A robot that eats pollution | Jonathan Rossiter
22 Feb 2017
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Meet the "Row-bot," a robot that cleans up pollution and generates the electricity needed to power i...
An electrifying acoustic guitar performance | Rodrigo y Gabriela
14 Feb 2017
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Guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela combine furiously fast riffs and dazzling rhythms to create a style th...
New nanotech to detect cancer early | Joshua Smith
08 Feb 2017
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What if every home had an early-warning cancer detection system? Researcher Joshua Smith is developi...
The incredible inventions of intuitive AI | Maurice Conti
06 Feb 2017
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What do you get when you give a design tool a digital nervous system? Computers that improve our abi...
What time is it on Mars? | Nagin Cox
03 Feb 2017
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Nagin Cox is a first-generation Martian. As a spacecraft engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laborator...
How to get better at the things you care about | Eduardo Briceño
01 Feb 2017
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Working hard but not improving? You're not alone. Eduardo Briceño reveals a simple way to think abo...
Why you should love statistics | Alan Smith
31 Jan 2017
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Think you're good at guessing stats? Guess again. Whether we consider ourselves math people or not, ...
A young scientist's quest for clean water | Deepika Kurup
27 Jan 2017
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Deepika Kurup has been determined to solve the global water crisis since she was 14 years old, after...
The ethical dilemma of designer babies | Paul Knoepfler
23 Jan 2017
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Creating genetically modified people is no longer a science fiction fantasy; it's a likely future sc...
How online abuse of women has spiraled out of control | Ashley Judd
18 Jan 2017
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Enough with online hate speech, sexual harassment and threats of violence against women and marginal...
What happens when you have a disease doctors can't diagnose | Jennifer Brea
17 Jan 2017
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Five years ago, TED Fellow Jennifer Brea became progressively ill with myalgic encephalomyelitis, co...
To solve old problems, study new species | Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado
12 Jan 2017
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Nature is wonderfully abundant, diverse and mysterious -- but biological research today tends to foc...
Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet | Dan Bricklin
11 Jan 2017
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Dan Bricklin changed the world forever when he codeveloped VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadshee...
The next step in nanotechnology | George Tulevski
10 Jan 2017
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Nearly every other year the transistors that power silicon computer chip shrink in size by half and ...
Are you a giver or a taker? | Adam Grant
03 Jan 2017
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In every workplace, there are three basic kinds of people: givers, takers and matchers. Organization...