Video: Who’s Your Favourite? at TED2012
Now showing onstage at TED, a video on the eternal question: “Who’s your favorite? Mom or dad?”
Climb the staircase to self-transcendence: Jonathan Haidt at TED2012
Photo: James Duncan Davidason Author and UVA psychology professor Jonathan Haidt kicks off his TED2012 talk with a provocative question: ...
Reason vs. compassion: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein and Steven Pinker at TED2012
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Steven Pinker is a linguist and psychologist. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a philosopher and novelist. The p...
Everything I need to know about comebacks, I learned from Tina Turner: Jimmy Guterman at TED2012
Image c/o Warner Brothers Pictures, 1985 Jimmy Guterman (curator of TEDxBoston) starts a short audience talk with what is unfortunately an e...
An introverted call to action: Susan Cain at TED2012
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Susan Cain, the author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, is an introv...
Doing archeology from space: Sarah Parcak at TED2012
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Space archeology pioneer and Egyptologist Sarah Parcak zooms out from the moment 90 years ago when Howard Carte...
Good morning, Twitter: #fivewordTEDtalks
[tweet https://twitter.com/vancon/status/174464122375774209%5D We woke up in love with this Twitter hashtag game: #fivewordTEDtalks [tweet h...
“A world without love is a deadly place”: Celebrating Valentine’s Day with the launch of TED Quotes
Everyone loves a good quote. They challenge us. They change us. They make us think and make us laugh. They are — in their most compres...
“I am an atheist, but a gentle one”: Alain de Botton on “religion for atheists”
As a companion to today’s TEDTalk from Alain de Botton, he sent us this FAQ, a brief introduction to the thinking behind Atheism 2.0: ...