Where is home?: Pico Iyer at TEDGlobal 2013
Pico Iyer is a man without a land. He is 100 percent Indian in blood and ancestry, but he was born and grew up in England; he has lived the ...
Piano soul and swagger: Jamie Cullum at TEDGlobal 2013
Musical relief in this session comes courtesy of the British pop and jazz-pop singer-songwriter Jamie Cullum, supported by his brother Ben o...
How to print meat and leather: Andras Forgacs at TEDGlobal 2013
Andras Forgacs is trying to grow meat. This is a concept he had to be talked into. See, Forgacs and his father, Gabor, co-founded Organovo, ...
The power of poetry: Stephen Burt at TEDGlobal 2013
“I read poetry all the time, I write about poetry frequently, and I take poems apart to see how they work,” says Stephen Burt as...
People as paintings: Alexa Meade at TEDGlobal 2013
When you’re an artist, everything you see can seem like a canvas, a blank page with the potential for something beautiful. Alexa Meade...
Scientific research and … improv? Uri Alon at TEDGlobal 2013
“In the middle of my PhD, I was hopelessly stuck,” confesses scientist Uri Alon. “Every research direction I tried led to ...
Live with your head in the clouds: Gavin Pretor-Pinney at TEDGlobal 2013
Why do clouds get such a bad rap? In English, when someone’s sad or depressed, they’re “under a cloud.” When there&#...
Turn arithmetic into mathemagic: Arthur Benjamin at TEDGlobal 2013
Mathemagician Arthur Benjamin says that there are three reasons we learn math: calculation, application and inspiration. Yes, inspiration. M...
Video: Opening titles for Imagined Beauty, Session 10 of TEDGlobal 2013
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFAcd9Y2v6w&w=560&h=315] To a techno beat, this video introduction to “Imagined Beauty” cele...