TED Talks - Travis Kalanick: Uber's Plan to get More People Into Fewer Cars

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Filmed February 2016

Uber didn't start out with grand ambitions to cut congestion and pollution. But as the company took off, co-founder Travis Kalanick wondered if there was a way to get people using Uber along the same routes to share rides, reducing costs and carbon footprint along the way. The result: uberPOOL, the company's carpooling service, which in its first eight months took 7.9 million miles off the roads and 1,400 metric tons of carbon dioxide out of the air in Los Angeles. Now, Kalanick says carpooling could work for commuters in the suburbs, too. "With the technology in our pockets today, and a little smart regulation," he says, "we can turn every car into a shared car, and we can reclaim our cities starting today."


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TED Talks - Meron Gribetz: A Glimpse of the Future Through an Augmented Reality Headset

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Filmed February 2016

What if technology could connect us more deeply with our surroundings instead of distracting us from the real world? With the Meta 2, an augmented reality headset that makes it possible for users to see, grab and move holograms just like physical objects, Meron Gribetz hopes to extend our senses through a more natural machine. Join Gribetz as he takes the TED stage to demonstrate the reality-shifting Meta 2 for the first time. (Featuring Q&A with TED Curator Chris Anderson).


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TED Talks - Caleb Harper: This Computer Will Grow Your Food in the Future

Filmed December 2015

What if we could grow delicious, nutrient-dense food, indoors anywhere in the world? Caleb Harper, director of the Open Agriculture Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, wants to change the food system by connecting growers with technology. Get to know Harper's "food computers" and catch a glimpse of what the future of farming might look like.


Filmed December 2015 at TEDGlobal>Geneva

TED Talks - Russ Altman: What Really Happens when You Mix Medications?

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Filmed November 2015

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If you take two different medications for two different reasons, here's a sobering thought: your doctor may not fully understand what happens when they're combined, because drug interactions are incredibly hard to study. In this fascinating and accessible talk, Russ Altman shows how doctors are studying unexpected drug interactions using a surprising resource: search engine queries.


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TED Talks - Mary Bassett: Why Your Doctor Should Care About Social Justice

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Filmed November 2015

In Zimbabwe in the 1980s, Mary Bassett witnessed the AIDS epidemic firsthand, and she helped set up a clinic to treat and educate local people about the deadly virus. But looking back, she regrets not sounding the alarm for the real problem: the structural inequities embedded in the world's political and economic organizations, inequities that make marginalized people more vulnerable. These same structural problems exist in the United States today, and as New York City's Health Commissioner, Bassett is using every chance she has to rally support for health equity and speak out against racism. "We don't have to have all the answers to call for change," she says. "We just need courage."


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TED Talks - Scott McCloud: The Visual Magic of Comics

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Filmed February 2005 

In this unmissable look at the magic of comics, Scott McCloud bends the presentation format into a cartoon-like experience, where colorful diversions whiz through childhood fascinations and imagined futures that our eyes can hear and touch.


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TED Talks - Jocelyne Bloch: The Brain May be Able to Repair Itself -- With Help

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December 2015

Through treating everything from strokes to car accident traumas, neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch knows the brain's inability to repair itself all too well. But now, she suggests, she and her colleagues may have found the key to neural repair: Doublecortin-positive cells. Similar to stem cells, they are extremely adaptable and, when extracted from a brain, cultured and then re-injected in a lesioned area of the same brain, they can help repair and rebuild it. "With a little help," Bloch says, "the brain may be able to help itself."


Filmed December 2015 at TEDGlobal>Geneva

TED Talks - David Anderson: Your Brain is More Than a Bag of Chemicals

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Published on Mar 12, 2013

Modern psychiatric drugs treat the chemistry of the whole brain, but neurobiologist David Anderson believes in a more nuanced view of how the brain functions. He illuminates new research that could lead to targeted psychiatric medications -- that work better and avoid side effects. How's he doing it? For a start, by making a bunch of fruit flies angry. (Filmed at TEDxCalTech.)


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TED Talks - Paul Cameron & Ann Morgan: Reinventing Reading & Book from Every Country

SSTattler: There is lots of YouTube about "books" in TED and I picked only two of many... but, #@!$, drop into your book shop or iBook or Amazon Kindle and read books...!!

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Reinventing Reading: Paul Cameron

Published on Dec 6, 2012

SSTattler: Mostly I use iBook for fiction but computer science I prefer the physical book i.e. it is usually a manual not a book...

Paul Cameron has always had a passion for technology and reading and finds it fascinating that we can now carry an entire library around in our pocket. Yet the reading experience has not evolved in more than 2000 years despite storytelling taking disruptive leaps forward with the introduction of film and video games. Booktrack is his answer to addressing the decline in reading and literacy rates that will help make reading relevant again to a new generation of readers. Prior to Booktrack, Paul flew with the Royal New Zealand Air Force in roles including fisheries and customs surveillance, search and rescue, and anti-terrorism. Paul then founded a new division of an electronics and software company that provides products and services to the global defense industry, before cofounding Booktrack.

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My Year Reading a Book from Every Country in the World

Published on Dec 21, 2015

SSTattler: Aghhh, I've got the "massive cultural blindspot" but how can I fix it...?

Ann Morgan considered herself well read — until she discovered the "massive cultural blindspot" in her bookshelf. Amid a multitude of English and American authors, there were very few works from authors beyond the English-speaking world. So she set an ambitious goal: to read one book from every country in the world over the course of a year. Now she's urging other Anglophiles to read translated works so that publishers will work harder to bring foreign literary gems back to their shores. Explore interactive maps of her reading journey here: go.ted.com/readtheworld.


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TED Talks - James Veitch: This is What Happens when you Reply to Spam Email

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Published on Jan 9, 2016

Suspicious emails: unclaimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safe deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. They pop up in our inboxes, and standard procedure is to delete on sight. But what happens when you reply? Follow along as writer and comedian James Veitch narrates a hilarious, weeks-long exchange with a spammer who offered to cut him in on a hot deal.


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TED Talks - David Bromwich: Global Warming -- Fact or Fiction?

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Published on Oct 25, 2013

TEDxColumbus - David Bromwich - Climatologist, Researcher, Professor...


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TED Talks - Roberto D'Angelo + Francesca Fedeli: In Our Baby's Illness, a Life Lesson

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Published on Jul 24, 2013

Roberto D'Angelo and Francesca Fedeli thought their baby boy Mario was healthy -- until at 10 days old, they discovered he'd had a perinatal stroke. With Mario unable to control the left side of his body, they grappled with tough questions: Would he be "normal?" Could he live a full life? The poignant story of parents facing their fears -- and how they turned them around.


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TED Talks - Joe Sabia: The Technology of Storytelling

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Uploaded on Nov 23, 2011

iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling: the pop-up book. Sabia shows how new technology has always helped us tell our own stories, from the walls of caves to his own onstage iPad.


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TED Talks - Sally Kohn: Let's Try Emotional Correctness

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Published on Dec 4, 2013

It's time for liberals and conservatives to put aside their political differences and really listen to each other, says political pundit Sally Kohn. In this optimistic talk, Kohn shares what she learned as a progressive lesbian talking head on Fox News. It's not about political correctness, she says, but rather, emotional correctness.


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TED Talks - Mac Barnett: Why a Good Book is a Secret Door

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 Published on Sep 17, 2014


Childhood is surreal. Why shouldn't children's books be? In this whimsical talk, award-winning author Mac Barnett speaks about writing that escapes the page, art as a doorway to wonder — and what real kids say to a fictional whale.


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TED Talks - Harald Haas: Forget Wi-Fi. Meet the new Li-Fi Internet

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Published on Dec 2, 2015

What if we could use existing technologies to provide Internet access to the more than 4 billion people living in places where the infrastructure can't support it? Using off-the-shelf LEDs and solar cells, Harald Haas and his team have pioneered a new technology that transmits data using light, and it may just be the key to bridging the digital divide. Take a look at what the future of the Internet could look like.


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TED Talks - Alanna Shaikh: How I'm Preparing to Get Alzheimer's

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Published on Jul 3, 2012

When faced with a parent suffering from Alzheimer's, most of us respond with denial ("It won't happen to me") or extreme efforts at prevention. But global health expert and TED Fellow Alanna Shaikh sees it differently. She's taking three concrete steps to prepare for the moment -- should it arrive -- when she herself gets Alzheimer's disease.


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TED Talks - Dr. John Krakauer: A Critical Window for Recovery After Stroke

Published on Apr 8, 2015

Dr. John Krakauer, a Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, co-founded the KATA project that combines concepts of neurology and neuroscience with interactive entertainment and motion capture technology to learn how lesions affect motor learning and to aid patients in recovering from brain injury.

Dr. John Krakauer is a Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, the Director of the Center for the Study of Motor Learning and Brain Repair, and the Director of Brain, Learning, Animation, and Movement Lab (BLAM) at Johns Hopkins. He received his undergraduate and master’s degree from Cambridge University and earned his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. His clinical and research expertise is in stroke, ischemic cerebrovascular disease, cerebral aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, and venous and sinus thrombosis. He co-founded the KATA project that combines concepts of neurology and neuroscience with interactive entertainment and motion capture technology to learn how lesions affect motor learning and to aid patients in recovering from brain injury.


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TED Talks - Melissa Fleming: The Story of Two Survivors

Published on Nov 3, 2015

Aboard an overloaded ship carrying more than 500 refugees, a young woman becomes an unlikely hero. This single, powerful story, told by Melissa Fleming of the UN's refugee agency, gives a human face to the sheer numbers of human beings trying to escape to better lives... as the refugee ships keep coming...


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TED Talks - Tony Fadell: The First Secret of Great Design

Published on Jun 3, 2015

TED Talks by Tony Fadell.  As human beings, we get used to "the way things are" really fast. But for designers, the way things are is an opportunity ... Could things be better? How? In this funny, breezy talk, the man behind the iPod and the Nest thermostat shares some of his tips for noticing — and driving — change.


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