Mysteries of the unseen world: Louie Schwartzberg at TED2014
Louie Schwartzberg is fascinated with exposing the world’s wonders through photography. Three years ago, his talk, “Nature. Beauty. Gratitu...
Taking pictures of the entire planet, every day: Will Marshall at TED2014
“We’re on spaceship Earth,” begins Will Marshall during Session 9 of TED2014. “It’s fragile and finite —...
Deep and faint in the night sky: Andrew Connolly at TED2014
Astronomer Andrew Connolly begins by telling us that in 1781, English composer, technologist and composer Sir William Herschel noticed some...
Be color brave, not color blind: Mellody Hobson speaks at TED2014
In 2006, Harold Ford called his friend Mellody Hobson, to tell her that he was running for US Senate in Tennessee and that he needed some na...
Using serious math to answer weird questions: Randall Munroe at TED2014
Cartoonist (and former NASA roboticist) Randall Munroe illustrates the questions that keep you (or at least him) up at night. Whether that’s...
What we can learn from the Anternet: Deborah Gordon at TED2014
“I study ants in the desert, in the tropical forest and in my kitchen,” says Deborah Gordon. An ecologist, she researches the be...
Lighting up the world of fireflies: Sara Lewis at TED2014
Sara Lewis has managed to put herself in the center of a world of wonder by becoming a world expert on fireflies. Her obsession began in gra...
Signals: The speakers in session 9 of TED2014
Communication is fundamental to how we relate and interact. But we receive signals from everywhere — other living creatures, the ecosy...
When school’s out, reading scores go down. Can we fight summer learning loss?
By Janet Lee In Geoffrey Canada’s impassioned TED Talk last year, he urged the American education system to update its business model to int...