Downloads: 96Added: 25 October 2011
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 too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan,...
Downloads: 79Added: 22 October 2011
In an exclusive unseen clip, Karl pontificates on whether he could take over from Sir David Attenborough. Plus a sneak peak of next week's episode.
Downloads: 83Added: 22 October 2011
Karl visits Jessica the Hippo and makes a King his dinner as he heads to Uganda.
Downloads: 59Added: 22 October 2011
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 a string quartet to play.
Downloads: 78Added: 21 October 2011
Physiatrist 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 this next-gen robotic arm.
Downloads: 79Added: 20 October 2011
What does it feel like to fly over planet earth (Time-lapse International Space Station)
Downloads: 95Added: 20 October 2011
In an exclusive unseen clip, Karl gives us his thoughts on his experience building an igloo. Plus a sneak peak of next week's episode.
Downloads: 81Added: 20 October 2011
Dog Sledding in Alaska, a visit to the North Pole and Deep Sea fishing. It's fair to say Karl doesn't like it much.
Downloads: 77Added: 20 October 2011
In an exclusive unseen clip, Karl ruminates on the effect of his makeover. Plus get a sneak peak of Episode 4.
Downloads: 74Added: 20 October 2011
It's the classic thing to do before you die. But before he gets to the Dolphins in Australia, Ricky and Stephen have arranged a stopover in Thailand.
Downloads: 70Added: 20 October 2011
More and more, nations are waging attacks with cyber weapons -- silent strikes on another country's computer systems that leave behind no trace. (Think of the Stuxnet worm.) At TEDxParis, Guy-Philippe Goldstein shows how cyberattacks can leap...
Downloads: 63Added: 19 October 2011
What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that could make that possible, and how questioning our notion of 'normal' can lead to extraordinary...
Downloads: 71Added: 18 October 2011
In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men -- many of them illiterate -- to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It's called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy,...
Downloads: 69Added: 15 October 2011
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 mushrooms. Yes, this just might be the...
Downloads: 94Added: 14 October 2011
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" used by those trained to recognize deception -- and...
Downloads: 75Added: 13 October 2011
Imagine it's late 1990, and you've just met a nice young man named Tim Berners-Lee, who starts telling you about his proposed system called the World Wide Web. Ian Ritchie was there. And ... he didn't buy it. A short story about information,...
Downloads: 87Added: 12 October 2011
A story, a work of art, a face, a designed object -- how do we tell that something is beautiful? And why does it matter so much to us? Designer Richard Seymour explores our response to beauty and the surprising power of objects that exhibit it.
Downloads: 77Added: 11 October 2011
"Babies and young children are like the R&D division of the human species," says psychologist Alison Gopnik. Her research explores the sophisticated intelligence-gathering and decision-making that babies are really doing when they play.
Downloads: 71Added: 08 October 2011
Conductor Charles Hazlewood talks about the role of trust in musical leadership -- then shows how it works, as he conducts the Scottish Ensemble onstage. He also shares clips from two musical projects: the opera "U-Carmen eKhayelitsha" and the...
Downloads: 76Added: 07 October 2011
Less than 10% of plastic trash is recycled -- compared to almost 90% of metals -- because of the massively complicated problem of finding and sorting the different kinds. Frustrated by this waste, Mike Biddle has developed a cheap and incredibly...