Restoring art to give a future to the past: Maurizio Seracini at TEDGlobal 2012
In 1975, Maurizio Seracini met an art professor who asked him if he could help find a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci — the mura...
Taking Another Look: Session 11 at TEDGlobal2012
Click to watch the session-opening animation. We all know that things aren’t always as they seem, and in this session we do a double t...
Announced at TEDGlobal 2012: A novel array for stem cell research
“We have something that will radically save the pharmaceutical industry,” says Susan Solomon in an interview on the social floor...
The glass is half empty and half full: TEDGlobal 2012 Day 3 recap
There are two ways to see a glass of water—some view it as half full, others refer to it as half empty. During the third day of TEDGlobal, t...
Speaking of the future: Keith Chen at TEDGlobal 2012
Keith Chen is a Yale economist who made a stir earlier this year with an intriguing working paper relating economics and language — a ...
A note of the east sounds in Edinburgh: Hannah Brock at TEDGlobal 2012
The daughter of a Chinese mother and British father, Hannah Brock started playing the drums at her school in Beijing at the age of 3. By 4, ...
Quantum locking: Boaz Almog at TEDGlobal 2012
After rescuing his equipment from UK customs, where it had been stuck for several days, Boaz Almog take the stage to demonstrate his remarka...
Photographing the speed of light: Ramesh Raskar at TEDGlobal 2012
MIT professor Ramesh Raskar starts his talk by showing the classic Doc Edgerton photograph of an apple being shot by a bullet. It demonstrat...
Process, a new role for the architect: Michael Hansmeyer at TEDGlobal 2012
Photo: James Duncan Davidson As an architect, Michael Hansmeyer asks, “What is the origin of the forms we design?” And he asks: ...