The NSA responds to Edward Snowden’s interview at TED
Rick Ledgett is the deputy director of the National Security Agency. He’s here to give a response to Edward Snowden’s onstage/vi...
The hierarchy in your brain: Ray Kurzweil at TED2014
Ray Kurzweil returns to the TED stage to explain his new (kind of old) theory of the mind. He first wrote his theory as a paper 50 years ago...
Everything I’ve learned I learned from clarinet practice: Seth Godin at TED2014
As a child, Seth Godin played the clarinet. Or — he tried .. sort of. At TED2014, he explains how he trudged through lessons, never tr...
How parasites turn our thinking sideways: Ed Yong at TED2014
Ed Yong begins by showing us beautiful images of animals gathering in large groups. And the reasons for them are fascinating and many. But Y...
What’s making athletes faster, better, stronger: David Epstein at TED2014
The Olympic motto is “Citius, Altius, Fortius,” or, in English, “Faster, higher, stronger.” And as sports science re...
In search for lost pants: Maira Kalman at TED2014
In the middle of a tense morning session – you know, just waiting for NSA deputy director Rick Ledgett to come online, ain’t no thing —...
Some hackers are bad. But a lot are good: Keren Elazari at TED2014
In 2010, the late security researcher — or as cybersecurity expert Keren Elazari would like you to call him, the late hacker — B...
Meet EDI the Robot: Marco Tempest at TED2014
Techno-illusionist and veteran speaker Marco Tempest returns to the TED stage with a new friend: EDI (pronounced “Eddie”) the ro...
Hacked: The speakers in session 8 of TED2014
What does a hacked future look like? What will our bodies — and minds — be capable as bioengineering becomes more and more ubiqu...