Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he's come up with an elegant machine that may form a new bond between animal and huma...
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Duración: 9.78 Calificación: 4.9480767
www.paikia.com Jeff Han is a research scientist for NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Here, he demonstrates—for the first time publicly—his intuitive, "interface-free," touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuit...
Autor: lmf2046 Reproduciones 338227
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www.ted.com Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Confere...
Autor: TEDtalksDirector Reproduciones 1432610
Duración: 20.07 Calificación: 4.9385176
www.ted.com The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who's reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED's Chris Anderson about how the site operat...
Autor: TEDtalksDirector Reproduciones 29019
Duración: 19.57 Calificación: 4.968912
www.ted.com Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories -- and maybe, ...
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Duración: 18.62 Calificación: 4.8577604
www.ted.com Tony Robbins discusses the "invisible forces" that motivate everyone's actions -- and high-fives Al Gore in the front row.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's lead...
Autor: TEDtalksDirector Reproduciones 2220186
Duración: 22.52 Calificación: 4.7143316
www.ted.com Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.TEDTalks is a daily video podcas...
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Duración: 20.37 Calificación: 4.7225647
www.ted.com With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling uses an amazing new presentation tool, Gapminder, to debunk several myths about world development. Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's Karolin...
Autor: TEDtalksDirector Reproduciones 318041
Duración: 20.58 Calificación: 4.930589
www.ted.com Larry Lessig, the Nets most celebrated lawyer, cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the "ASCAP cartel" in his argument for reviving our creative culture.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances fro...
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Duración: 19.12 Calificación: 4.900629
www.ted.com Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce -- and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and p...
Autor: TEDtalksDirector Reproduciones 268457
Duración: 18.27 Calificación: 4.8202715
Are Video Games Art? Game innovator Kellee Santiago insists that games are more than entertainment. As a student in the MFA Interactive Media program at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, Kellees research focused on game ...
Autor: TEDxTalks Reproduciones 61585
Duración: 15.63 Calificación: 4.7272725
www.ted.com "Bonk" author Mary Roach delves into obscure scientific research, some of it centuries old, to make 10 surprising claims about sexual climax, ranging from the bizarre to the hilarious. (This talk is aimed at adults. Viewer discretion advi...
Autor: TEDtalksDirector Reproduciones 352042
Duración: 17.2 Calificación: 4.7815967
www.ted.com Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that well be miserable if we dont get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things dont go as planned.TEDTalks is a daily vide...
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Duración: 22.02 Calificación: 4.8933825
www.ted.com Legendary skeptic James Randi takes a fatal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills onstage, kicking off a searing 18-minute indictment of irrational beliefs. He throws out a challenge to the world's psychics Prove what you do is real, and I'l...
Autor: TEDtalksDirector Reproduciones 76515
Duración: 17.85 Calificación: 4.9068666
www.ted.com Biologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for "thinking the improbable" by looking at how the human frame of reference limits our understanding of the universe.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED...
Autor: TEDtalksDirector Reproduciones 363616
Duración: 22.7 Calificación: 4.8197803
www.ted.com In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances ...
Autor: TEDtalksDirector Reproduciones 249826
Duración: 34.1 Calificación: 4.889605
www.ted.com Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider real value -- and hi...
Autor: TEDtalksDirector Reproduciones 65754
Duración: 19.2 Calificación: 4.8676925
www.ted.com Incredible footage! Ueli Gegenschatz -- the guy inside the "squirrel suit" -- explains the hows and whys of wingsuit flying at 100+ MPH (Yes, it feels just like those flying dreams ...)TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks a...
Autor: TEDtalksDirector Reproduciones 94965
Duración: 13.3 Calificación: 4.8183484
www.ted.com Clay Shirky looks at "cognitive surplus" -- the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. While we're busy editing Wikipedia, posting to Ushahidi (and yes, making LOLcats), we're building a better, more cooperative world.TEDT...
Autor: TEDtalksDirector Reproduciones 26074
Duración: 13.63 Calificación: 4.8011475
www.ted.com In a brilliantly tongue-in-cheek analysis, Sebastian Wernicke turns the tools of statistical analysis on TEDTalks, to come up with a metric for creating "the optimum TEDTalk" based on user ratings. How do you rate it?TEDTalks is a daily v...
Autor: TEDtalksDirector Reproduciones 67136
Duración: 6.5 Calificación: 4.863685
www.ted.com Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow."
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Duración: 18.93 Calificación: 4.819307
www.ted.com "Eat, Pray, Love" Author Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, perso...
Autor: TEDtalksDirector Reproduciones 415595
Duración: 19.48 Calificación: 4.582338
www.ted.com At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goa...
Autor: TEDtalksDirector Reproduciones 114747
Duración: 29.55 Calificación: 4.279617
www.ted.com Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.TEDTalks...
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Duración: 20.53 Calificación: 4.67104
www.ted.com Philosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion -- all religion -- to be taught in schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon. Then he takes on The Purpose-Driven Life, disputing its claim that, to be moral, one must deny...
Autor: TEDtalksDirector Reproduciones 222085
Duración: 25.52 Calificación: 4.824367