Stop the stigma of mental illness: Ruby Wax at TEDGlobal 2012
Ruby Wax bounds onto the stage with a beaming smile and a glint in her eye. Then she says firmly, “One in four people have mental illn...
Seeing mental illness: Elyn Saks at TEDGlobal2012
A professor with schizophrenia Elyn Saks has chronic schizophrenia, and she is a professor of law, psychology and psychiatry at USC. She mig...
Misbehaving Beautifully: Opening animation for TEDGlobal Session 6
Brief: An idea multiplies and becomes open when you play with it. Director’s statement: “I like to bring out the growth of inspi...
Digging deep into the brain: Read Montague at TEDGlobal2012
A reformed computational neuroscientist, professor Read Montague takes the stage and admits he’s nervous. Then he asks the audience to...
Misbehaving Beautifully: Session 6 at TEDGlobal 2012
Click to watch the session-opening animation We’re going through a revolution is neuroscience and psychology, gaining new insights int...
Listening to Picasso: Neil Harbisson at TEDGlobal2012
“I’ve never seen color and I don’t know what color looks like. I come from a grayscale world,” says artist Neil Harb...
Listening to China’s workers: Leslie T. Chang at TEDGlobal2012
Think about the things you use every day — and about the people who make them. Leslie Chang is a journalist who has spent years in Chi...
Experi-mentalism: Gerard Senehi at TEDGlobal 2012
Gerard Senehi is a performer of tiny miracles or, if you’re looking for a more formal job title, a mentalist. A mentalist is someone w...
Peeking behind the curtain at Anonymous: Gabriella Coleman at TEDGlobal 2012
Anthropologist and academic Gabriella Coleman starts her talk with a simple-sounding question: “Who is Anonymous?” She promptly ...