Posts tagged with ‘ted’

Fascinating TED Talk by Liu Bolin ‘The Invisible Man’

Bonnie Bassler | How Bacteria “Talk”

Bonnie Bassler studies how bacteria can communicate with one another, through chemical signals, to act as a unit. Her work could pave the way for new, more potent medicine.

“You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.” - Bonnie Bassler

Lawrence Lessig on fixing America’s broken political system. There is also the companion TEDBook Lesterland: The Corruption of Congress and How to End It.

TED video of the day: Timelapse of Liu Bolin “disappearing”

Liu Bolin is a Chinese artist who gained worldwide fame a couple years ago with a series of photographs where he was painted to almost perfectly match his background environment. At this year’s TED conference, Liu demonstrated his visual trickery.

TED talk of the day: Amanda Palmer “The art of asking”

The most beautiful talk about music and personal connections you’ll hear this year

TED animation of the day: Gerald Carr talks about life as a NASA astronaut

Gerald P. Carr talks about his life as a NASA astronaut, including his time commanding Skylab in the 70s.

TED talk of the day: The Greatest Machine That Never Was

Recently discovered TEDTalks available on PodCast through iTunes and downloaded a few to watch.  This one sparked my interest and I’m glad I watched it.  It originally aired in July 2012, but the project to build the entirely mechanical machine described in the video is underway.  I just thought it was cool and that the community at IHC would enjoy it.

From the description: Computer science began in the ’30s … the 1830s. John Graham-Cumming tells the story of Charles Babbage’s mechanical, steam-powered “analytical engine” and how Ada Lovelace, mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron, saw beyond its simple computational abilities to imagine the future of computers. (Filmed at TEDxImperialCollege.)

What’s invisible? More in this world than you know.

Gravity. The stars in day. Thoughts. The human genome. Time. Atoms. So much of what really matters in the world is impossible to see. A stunning animation of John Lloyd’s classic TEDTalk from 2009, which will make you question what you actually know.

TED video of the day: Would you weigh less if you jumped in an elevator?

Would you weigh less if you jumped in an elevator? Gravity, the normal force, and Newton’s Second Law of Motion, explained in a lovely animation from TED.

TED talk of the day: Lessons learned from the Yakuza

Investigative Journalist and author Jake Adelstein shares his eye-opening and often eyebrow-raising insights as he leads us through his experiences with both the Yakuza and the police while reporting on crime in Japan for the last nineteen years.

TED talk of the day: Augmented reality card magic

The suits, numbers and colors in a deck of cards correspond to the seasons, moon cycles and calendar. Marco Tempest straps on augmented reality goggles and does a card trick like you’ve never seen before, weaving a lyrical tale as he deals.

TED Ed of the day: “How to Diagnose a Zombie”

Zombies eat brains. They are also, like all of us, driven by brain functions. What is happening in their brains to make them act as they do? In this intriguing dialogue, Tim Verstynen & Brad Voytek apply the various human medical possibilities that make zombies…zombies.

The Onion does TED talks: “Compost-Fueled Cars: Wouldn’t That Be Great?”

In the first in The Onion’s new TED talk lampooning series, “Onion Talks”, some guy goes on and on about how cool it would be to some day power cars with garbage.

Mark your calendars: Onion Talks is coming this Wednesday

This is a real thing, and it’s coming next week. Onion Talks will be parodying some of the smarminess and smug self-importance that sometimes creeps into TED talks. I can’t wait so much.

TED talk of the day: “How the internet will one day transform government”

The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub — so why can’t governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, to be not just transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their citizens.