Carolyn Porco: This is Saturn

Posted 12/10/2007 by

http://www.ted.com Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco shows images from the Cassini voyage to Saturn, focusing on its largest moon, Titan, and on frozen Enceladus, which seems to shoot jets of ice.

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Paul MacCready: Flying on solar wings

Posted 11/10/2007 by

http://www.ted.com Paul MacCready — aircraft designer, environmentalist, and lifelong lover of flight — talks about his long career.

Stephen Petranek: 10 ways the world could end

Posted 11/10/2007 by

http://www.ted.com How might the world end? Stephen Petranek lays out the challenges that face us in the drive to preserve the human race. Will we be wiped out by an asteroid? Eco-collapse? How about a particle collider gone wild?

John Maeda: Designing for simplicity

Posted 20/09/2007 by

http://www.ted.com The MIT Media Lab’s John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art, a place that can get very complicated. Here he talks about paring down to basics.

Zeresenay Alemseged: Finding the origins of humanity

Posted 18/09/2007 by

http://www.ted.com Paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged looks for the roots of humanity in Ethiopia’s badlands. Here he talks about finding the oldest skeleton of a humanoid child — and how Africa holds the clues to our humanity.

Deborah Scranton: Scenes from “The War Tapes”

Posted 18/09/2007 by

http://www.ted.com Filmmaker Deborah Scranton talks about and shows clips from her documentary The War Tapes, which puts cameras in the hands of soldiers fighting in Iraq.

Steven Pinker: What our language habits reveal

Posted 11/09/2007 by

http://www.ted.com In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds — and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize.

The surprising decline in violence | Steven Pinker

Posted 11/09/2007 by

http://www.ted.com Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species’ existence.

My creations, a new form of life | Theo Jansen

Posted 06/09/2007 by

http://www.ted.com Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to move — and even survive — on their own.

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