Two Americas collide in a mini-mart: Anand Giridharadas’s rousing talk at TED2015
Anand Giridharadas brings us to a Dallas mini-mart on the night of September 21, 2001. That night, a man named Mark Stroman walks into the ...
Is it really time to “colonize” Mars? Stephen Petranek speaks at TED2015
“We are going to Mars. Not just astronauts, but thousands of people are going to colonize Mars. Soon.”
Our night sky is teeming with exoplanets: Sara Seager on the hunt for another earth at TED2015
“Are we alone? Is there life out there?” asks Sara Seager on the stage in Session 4 of TED2015. “These questions have been around for thousa...
Out of this world: A recap of the stellar talks in Session 4 of TED2015
“When our ancestors looked up at the night sky, they saw tools for navigation. They saw myths, and they saw the heavens,” says J...
Machines that learn: A recap of Session 3 at TED2015
Chris Anderson introduces Session 3 with a compelling idea: “Most of the new things happening right now that feel like magic — whether...
Building an AI with the intelligence of a toddler: Fei-Fei Li at TED2015
A cat. A house. A plane. Most 3-year-old children can point at these and identify them by sight. Fei-Fei Li, the director of Stanford’s Arti...
What are we thinking? A recap of the mind-bending talks in session 2 of TED2015
In this session of TED2015, five speakers explored the bounds of perception — from how babies form expectations to how vision is hardly need...
How children learn so much from so little so quickly: Laura Schulz at TED2015
From small samples, says Laura Schulz, we make large conjectures about the world. “From a few bones, we infer the existence of dinosaurs; fr...
In place of a new TED Talk from Magic Leap, we bring you …
This morning, Chris Anderson announced that Rony Abovitz of the start-up Magic Leap, who’d planned to join us here at TED2015, has can...