Seven years ago, Internet activist Aaron Swartz convinced Lawrence Lessig to take up the fight for political reform. A year after Swartz's tragic death, Lessig continues his campaign to free US politics from the stranglehold of corruption. In this fiery, deeply personal talk, he calls for all citizens to engage, and offers a heartfelt reminder t...

There is a corruption at the heart of American politics, caused by the dependence of Congressional candidates on funding from the tiniest percentage of citizens. That's the argument at the core of this blistering talk by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig. With rapid-fire visuals, he shows how the funding process weakens the Republic in the most fund...

Former "young Republican" Larry Lessig talks about what Democrats can learn about copyright from their opposite party, considered more conservative. A surprising lens on remix culture.

Lawrence Lessig, the Net’s most celebrated lawyer, cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the "ASCAP cartel" in his argument for reviving our creative culture.

The shape, contents and future of the universe are all intricately related. We know that it's mostly flat; we know that it's made up of baryonic matter (like stars and planets), but mostly dark matter and dark energy; and we know that it's expanding constantly, so that all stars will eventually burn out into a cold nothingness. Renée Hlozek expa...

What's a proven way to lower your energy costs? Would you believe: learning what your neighbor pays. Alex Laskey shows how a quirk of human behavior can make us all better, wiser energy users, with lower bills to prove it.

With the same humor and humanity he exuded in "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore spells out 15 ways that individuals can address climate change immediately, from buying a hybrid to inventing a new, hotter brand name for global warming.

A full third of the world's population -- 2.6 billion people -- play video games, plugging into massive networks of interaction that have opened up opportunities well beyond entertainment. In a talk about the future of the medium, entrepreneur Herman Narula makes the case for a new understanding of gaming -- one that includes the power to create...

One of our nation’s most provocative thinkers on American Democracy shares his views on the state of our democracy and the original ideals for our Republic. Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. More info at https://lessig.org

At the core of our constitution is the ideal of equality. Two centuries of compromise has let us forget that. If we’re to recover a representative democracy, we must defend again its simple ideal — that all citizens are equal.

We are heading the questions we – as pure individuals - can’t often answer. Climate change, social inequalities, jeopardized liberal democracy are just a few of them. Moreover, we live under pressure of ours or others‘ life expectations. Many people lose their inner peace and must fight for mental balance. That is a great challenge for our lives...

Cecilia Laschi shows the latest improvements in soft robotics and the great impact that they are having and will have in our society.

Ever stuck in a panicking crowd? What were you thinking? How can we draw from the behaviors of colonies of bacteria and herds of sheep? How can we streamline our movement and get safely out of the jamming crowd? Who are you gonna call to find it out? A physicist!

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We have allowed a radical inequality to evolve within our political system; we don’t see it, but we must repair it if we’re to have a democracy that might count. Professor Lawrence Lessig explains that our democracy is failing, not because there are too many Republicans in Congress, or too many Democrats, but because the basic commitment of a re...

The debate about aid efficiency (or lack thereof) has been brewing for years. Yet it is the drama and urgency of the Syrian refugee crisis and the incapability of Europe to respond that may have finally set things in motion. Liska’s talk sheds light on the DIY grassroots response to the European refugee crisis. Can the response of a new generati...

The arts and music create a community identity. Think Austin. And think Hilton Head Island SC. The growth and development of the arts can infuse a community with a creative mindset; get the community's youth involved in the arts and music; and embed a love of the arts in the lifeblood of a community. In a powerful talk infused with a musical per...

For thousands of years the ocean has been a flourishing beacon of biodiversity, the full breadth of which humanity has yet to explore. However, recently human behavior has begun to infringe upon the areas in which this sea life resides, causing the environment which supports these animals to collapse. In his talk Mason explores not only the effe...

Dovremmo preoccuparci per il fatto che i robot ci "ruberanno il lavoro" rendendo l'uomo inutile? Cecilia Laschi, Professore Ordinario di Bioingegneria Industriale all’Istituto di BioRobotica della Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa, crede di no e lo spiega con esempi concreti e sfruttando la sua esperienza nella ricerca e nell'imprenditoria in a...

Santi Lesca, Argentinian artist, musician and sound designer, shares a bit of his unique art, but also his genuine way of interacting with the audience at TEDxAveiro.

Dorothea Lasky touches our souls with her poetry reading. Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia University School of the Arts, and a co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney’s, 2013), Dorothea brings us into an emotional journey, enriched by her own thoughts and considerations.

Recently there has been a strong push for better treatment of produce animals. Jason's talk asks whether society is ready to pay the price for the better treatment and if the better treatment society is pushing for really increases the animal's standard of living.

Roboti mají před lidmi v ledasčem náskok, umělá intelligence nás válcuje na mnoha frontách. Je tu ale přeci jen jedna evoluční výhoda… Talk o závislostech digitálních i jiných a taky o tom, co nás činí lidmi.

Delaney Liskey was diagnosed with pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis (MS) when she was eleven years old — a rare form of a commonly diagnosed disease. Today, as a graduate student in the inaugural class of the Regenerative Sciences PhD Track at the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Delaney highly values the patient perspective ...

Why is a mothers’ role so central to each of us, even as adults? Rick Miller, LISCW has interviewed hundreds of mothers and sons of all ages, cultures, and ethnicities in his mission to help people repair or deepen this universal bond which has influenced their lives so deeply. In this Talk, Rick shares his perspective on relationships between a...

Tibor a kezdetektől részt vett közgazdász édesapja kutatásaiban, amely az önszabályozó társadalom lehetőségeit vizsgálta. 1979-ben készítette a koncepció első matematika modelljét, amit később tovább fejlesztett és apja halála után nevezett el Liska-modellnek.