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Lectures in the Global Issues category
Dimitar Sasselov: Found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets
Release Date: Jul 13, 2010 Category: Global Issues Lectures Astronomer Dimitar Sasselov and his colleagues search for Earth-like planets that may, someday, help us answer centuries-old questions about the origin and existence of biological life elsewhere (and on Earth).... |
Matt Ridley : When ideas have sex
Release Date: Jul 11, 2010 Category: Global Issues Lectures At TEDGlobal 2010, author Matt Ridley shows how, throughout history, the engine of human progress has been the meeting and mating of ideas to make new ideas. It's not important how clever individuals are, he sa... |
Debunking 2012 Myths with NASA's David Morrison
Release Date: Jun 20, 2010 Category: Global Issues Lectures For years, NASA's David Morrison has been an active critic of fears that the world will end in 2012... and of imaginative con artists who use mass media to frighten people for profit. In this entertaining lectu... |
Charles Leadbeater : Education innovation in the slums
Release Date: Jun 15, 2010 Category: Global Issues Lectures Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education -- and found them in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where some of the world's poorest kids are finding transformative new ways to learn. And this... |
Stephen Palumbi : Following the mercury trail
Release Date: Jun 04, 2010 Category: Global Issues Lectures There's a tight and surprising link between the ocean's health and ours, says marine biologist Stephen Palumbi. He shows how toxins at the bottom of the ocean food chain find their way into our bodies, with a s... |
Michael Sandel : The lost art of democratic debate
Release Date: Jun 02, 2010 Category: Global Issues Lectures Democracy thrives on civil debate, Michael Sandel says -- but we're shamefully out of practice. He leads a fun refresher, with TEDsters sparring over a recent Supreme Court case (PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin) whose... |
Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization
Release Date: Apr 28, 2010 Category: Global Issues Lectures Civilizations always end, says David Eagleman, leaving "nothing but ruins and scattered genetics." It takes luck and technology to survive. We may be particularly lucky to have the Internet to help ma... |
Elizabeth Pisani : Sex, drugs and HIV -- let's get rational
Release Date: Apr 09, 2010 Category: Global Issues Lectures Armed with bracing logic, wit and her "public-health nerd" glasses, Elizabeth Pisani reveals the myriad of inconsistencies in today's political systems that prevent our dollars from effectively fighti... |
Can the Distant Past Teach Us About Modern Crisis?
Release Date: Feb 12, 2010 Category: Global Issues Lectures Are we the first civilization to live through climate change? How have past societies engineered sustainable solutions to a shifting world? Archeologist Sander van der Leeuw explains how long-lost history can p... |
Sendhil Mullainathan : Solving social problems with a nudge
Release Date: Feb 07, 2010 Category: Global Issues Lectures MacArthur winner Sendhil Mullainathan uses the lens of behavioral economics to study a tricky set of social problems -- those we know how to solve, but don't. We know how to reduce child deaths due to diarrhea,... |