Downloads: 46Added: 16 November 2011
Strapped to a jet-powered wing, Yves Rossy is the Jetman -- flying free, his body as the rudder, above the Swiss Alps and the Grand Canyon. After a powerful short film shows how it works, Rossy takes the TEDGlobal stage to share the experience and...
Downloads: 73Added: 15 November 2011
Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. (Some graphic images.)
Downloads: 118Added: 14 November 2011
In an exclusive unseen clip, Karl expands on his planned superhero activity.
Downloads: 91Added: 14 November 2011
Ricky, Stephen and Karl review what they've learnt.
Downloads: 66Added: 12 November 2011
Charlie Todd causes bizarre, hilarious, and unexpected public scenes: Seventy synchronized dancers in storefront windows, "ghostbusters" running through the New York Public Library, and the annual no-pants subway ride. At TEDxBloomington he shows...
Downloads: 67Added: 11 November 2011
How can we begin to understand the way the brain works? The same way we begin to understand a city: by making a map. In this visually stunning talk, Allan Jones shows how his team is mapping which genes are turned on in each tiny region, and how...
Downloads: 55Added: 10 November 2011
Ancient monuments give us clues to astonishing past civilizations -- but they're under threat from pollution, war, neglect. Ben Kacyra, who invented a groundbreaking 3D scanning system, is using his invention to scan and preserve the world's...
Downloads: 64Added: 09 November 2011
Artist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, Rao creates high-tech art installations -- a typewriter that sends emails, a camera that tracks you through the room...
Downloads: 76Added: 08 November 2011
In his lab, Martin Hanczyc makes "protocells," experimental blobs of chemicals that behave like living cells. His work demonstrates how life might have first occurred on Earth ... and perhaps elsewhere too.
Downloads: 104Added: 07 November 2011
In an exclusive unseen clip, Karl gives us his opinion on what size trees should be. Plus a sneak peak of next week's episode.
Downloads: 88Added: 07 November 2011
Karl learns the delicate art of Sumo Wrestling.
Downloads: 65Added: 05 November 2011
Using sleight-of-hand techniques and charming storytelling, illusionist Marco Tempest brings a jaunty stick figure to life onstage at TEDGlobal.
Downloads: 51Added: 04 November 2011
Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement. In this entertaining, data-rich talk he gives us a glimpse into how the brain creates the grace and agility of human...
Downloads: 71Added: 03 November 2011
A flying car -- it's an iconic image of the future. But after 100 years of flight and automotive engineering, no one has really cracked the problem. Pilot Anna Mracek Dietrich and her team flipped the question, asking: Why not build a plane that...
Downloads: 61Added: 02 November 2011
Where does morality come from -- physically, in the brain? In this talk neuroeconomist Paul Zak shows why he believes oxytocin (he calls it "the moral molecule") is responsible for trust, empathy, and other feelings that help build a stable society.
Downloads: 74Added: 01 November 2011
Quantum Levitation
Downloads: 50Added: 01 November 2011
After he ended up on a watch list by accident, Hasan Elahi was advised by his local FBI agents to let them know when he was traveling. He did that and more ... much more.
Downloads: 144Added: 30 October 2011
In an exclusive unseen clip, Karl learns to catch fish by hand. Plus a sneak peak of next week's episode.
Downloads: 95Added: 30 October 2011
Karl goes to Glee club and has a hair-raising aviation experience. Except he's got no hair.
Downloads: 50Added: 29 October 2011
With scissors and paper, artist Béatrice Coron creates intricate worlds, cities and countries, heavens and hells. Striding onstage in a glorious cape cut from Tyvek, she describes her creative process and the way her stories develop from snips and...