Tristam Wyatt: The smelly mystery of the human pheromone
• https://www.ted.comDo our smells make us sexy? Popular science suggests yes -- pheromones send chemical signals about sex and attraction from our armpits to potential mates.
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Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
• https://www.ted.comSir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action
• https://www.ted.comSimon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership -- starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers ...
The mission to create a searchable database of Earth's surface
• https://www.ted.com, Will MarshallWhat if you could search the surface of the Earth the same way you search the internet?
The incredible potential of flexible soft robots
• TED.com by Giada GerboniRobots are designed for speed and precision -- but their rigidity has often limited how they're used. In this illuminating talk, biomedical engineer Giada Gerboni shares the latest developments in "soft robotics," an emerging field that aims to creat
What we'll learn about the brain in the next century
• TED.com by Sam RodriquesIn this imaginative talk, neuroengineer Sam Rodriques takes us on a thrilling tour of the next 100 years in brain science.
How to get empowered, not over powered by, AI
• TED.com by Max TegmarkMany artificial intelligence researchers expect AI to outsmart humans at all tasks and jobs within decades, enabling a future where we're restricted only by the laws of physics, not the limits of our intelligence.
how we can turn the cold of outer space into a renewable resource
• TED.comEvery summer when I was growing up, I would fly from my home in Canada to visit my grandparents, who lived in Mumbai, India
SpaceX plans to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes
• TED.com by Gwynne Shotwell:What's up at SpaceX? Engineer Gwynne Shotwell was employee number seven at Elon Musk's pioneering aerospace company and is now its president. In conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson, she discusses SpaceX's race to put people into orbit and th
How to use data to make a hit TV show
• TED.com by Sebastian WernickeDoes collecting more data lead to better decision-making? Competitive, data-savvy companies like Amazon, Google and Netflix have learned that data analysis alone doesn't always produce optimum results.
The secret to desire in a long-term relationship
• TED.comIn long-term relationships, we often expect our beloved to be both best friend and erotic partner. But as Esther Perel argues, good and committed sex draws on two conflicting needs: our need for security and our need for surprise. So how do you susta
Jessica Ladd The reporting system that sexual assault survivors want.
• TED.comWe don't have to live in a world where 99 percent of rapists get away with it, says TED Fellow Jessica Ladd. With Callisto, a new platform for college students to confidentially report sexual assault, Ladd is helping survivors get the support and jus
What young women believe about their own sexual pleasure
• TED.comWhy do girls feel empowered to engage in sexual activity but not to enjoy it? For three years, author Peggy Orenstein interviewed girls ages 15 to 20 about their attitudes toward and experiences of sex. She discusses the pleasure that's largely missi
The beautiful nano details of our world
• TED.com by Gary GreenbergWhen photographed under a 3D microscope, grains of sand appear like colorful pieces of candy and the stamens in a flower become like fantastical spires at an amusement park. Gary Greenberg reveals the thrilling details of the micro world.
Could this laser zap malaria?
• TED.com by Nathan MyhrvoldNathan Myhrvold and team's latest inventions -- as brilliant as they are bold -- remind us that the world needs wild creativity to tackle big problems like malaria.
How we look kilometers below the Antarctic ice sheet
• TED.com by Dustin SchroederAntarctica is a vast and dynamic place, but radar technologies -- from World War II-era film to state-of-the-art miniaturized sensors -- are enabling scientists to observe and understand changes beneath the continent's ice in unprecedented detail.
How augmented reality could change the future of surgery
• https://www.ted.com, Nadine Hachach-HaramIf you're undergoing surgery, you want the best surgical team to collaborate on your case, no matter where they are.
How your brain decides what is beautiful
• https://www.ted.com, Anjan ChatterjeeAnjan Chatterjee uses tools from evolutionary psychology and cognitive neuroscience to study one of nature's most captivating concepts: beauty.
How technology evolves
• https://www.ted.com, Kevin KellyTech enthusiast Kevin Kelly asks "What does technology want?" and discovers that its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like the evolution of life.
The accelerating power of technology
• https://www.ted.com, Ray KurzweilInventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness.
How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google manipulate our emotions
• https://www.ted.com, Scott GallowayThe combined market capitalization of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google is now equivalent to the GDP of India. How did these four companies come to infiltrate our lives so completely?
How the Panama Papers journalists broke the biggest leak in history
• https://www.ted.com, Gerard RyleGerard Ryle led the international team that divulged the Panama Papers, the 11.5 million leaked documents from 40 years of activity of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca that have offered an unprecedented glimpse into the scope and methods of th
The most popular talks of all time
• https://www.ted.comAre schools killing creativity? What makes a great leader? How can I find happiness? These 25 talks are the ones that you and your fellow TED fans just can't stop sharing.
What the discovery of gravitational waves means
• https://www.ted.com, Allan AdamsMore than a billion years ago, two black holes in a distant galaxy locked into a spiral, falling inexorably toward each other, and collided.
How LIGO discovered gravitational waves -- and what might be next
• https://www.ted.com, GABRIELA GONZÁLEZMore than 100 years after Albert Einstein predicted gravitational waves -- ripples in space-time caused by violent cosmic collisions -- LIGO scientists confirmed their existence using large, extremely precise detectors in Louisiana and Washington.
Why are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over Europe?
• https://www.ted.com, Genevieve von PetzingerWritten language, the hallmark of human civilization, didn't just suddenly appear one day. Thousands of years before the first fully developed writing systems, our ancestors scrawled geometric signs across the walls of the caves they sheltered in.
The future of news? Virtual reality
• https://www.ted.com, Nonny de la PeñaWhat if you could experience a story with your entire body, not just with your mind? Nonny de la Peña is working on a new form of journalism that combines traditional reporting with emerging virtual reality technology to put the audience inside the
Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future | Raffaello D'Andrea
• https://www.youtube.com, TEDWhen you hear the word "drone," you probably think of something either very useful or very scary. But could they have aesthetic value?
Will Marshall: Tiny satellites show us the Earth as it changes in near-real-time
• TEDSatellite imaging has revolutionized our knowledge of the Earth, with detailed images of nearly every street corner readily available online. But Planet Labs' Will Marshall says we can do better and go faster -- by getting smaller.
Natalie Panek: Let's clean up the space junk orbiting Earth
• TEDOur lives depend on a world we can't see: the satellite infrastructure we use every day for information, entertainment, communication and so much more.
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