9 classic movies about memory manipulation, and how they inspired real neuroscience
Total Recall, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Inception. In today’s talk, MIT neuroscientists Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu admit that the...
TED Weekends reveals sleight of mind
[ted id=310] Hypnosis is a source of both debate and fear. It’s an intimidating thought that the subconscious mind can listen and react to o...
Julie Taymor and other creative minds share how they work
Julie Taymor, the director behind Frida, Across the Universe and the Broadway reimagining of The Lion King, creates productions that tickle ...
An in-office TED all about fiction
Reading fiction is an escape, something transportative that pulls you out of everyday life. But don’t we also read fiction to learn more abo...
Gardening tips from TED-Ed and some green-thumbed TED speakers
For many, the summer means a different kind of work — gardening. Whether you have twenty acres of lush meadow, a rooftop oasis in the ...
Marco Tempest to work with Baxter the Robot
Illusionist Marco Tempest (watch his cyber card trick and his electric take on Nikola Tesla) has a new assistant — Baxter the Robot. T...
Sonic insanity: 10 TED videos all about beatboxing
[ted id=1792] Today’s incredible talk contains insane beats, bizarre sound effects, voiceovers in the style of multiple eras and instruments...
Carl Kasell’s dramatic LOLCats reading on TED Radio Hour, visualized
Carl Kasell of NPR hosts the show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me. And in the video above, he uses his classic radio voice to narrate L...
Eric Whitacre conducts a virtual choir of nearly 6,000
There are thousands of faces in the skyscraper windows in this anime-inspired 3D music video. Each face is a webcam capture of a singer R...