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Andrea M. Henle: How CRISPR lets you edit DNA

From the smallest single-celled organism to the largest creatures on Earth, every living thing is defined by its genes. With recent advancements, scientists can change an organism's fundamental features in record time using gene editing tools such as CRISPR. But where did this medical marvel come from and how does it work? Andrea M. Henle examin...
https://www.ted.com/talks/andrea_m_henle_how_crispr_lets_you_edit_dna

Jennifer Doudna: How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA

Geneticist Jennifer Doudna co-invented a groundbreaking new technology for editing genes, called CRISPR-Cas9. The tool allows scientists to make precise edits to DNA strands, which could lead to treatments for genetic diseases ... but could also be used to create so-called "designer babies." Doudna reviews how CRISPR-Cas9 works -- and asks the s...
https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_doudna_how_crispr_lets_us_edit_our_dna

Mathias Jud: Art that lets you talk back to NSA spies

In 2013, the world learned that the NSA and its UK equivalent, GCHQ, routinely spied on the German government. Amid the outrage, artists Mathias Jud and Christoph Wachter thought: Well, if they're listening ... let's talk to them. With antennas mounted on the roof of the Swiss Embassy in Berlin's government district, they set up an open network ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/mathias_jud_art_that_lets_you_talk_back_to_nsa_spies

Neil Gershenfeld: Unleash your creativity in a Fab Lab

MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab -- a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools. It's a simple idea with powerful results.
https://www.ted.com/talks/neil_gershenfeld_unleash_your_creativity_in_a_fab_lab

Jack Choi: On the virtual dissection table

Onstage at TED2012, Jack Choi demonstrates a powerful tool for training medical students: a stretcher-sized multi-touch screen of the human body that lets you explore, dissect and understand the body's parts and systems.
https://www.ted.com/talks/jack_choi_on_the_virtual_dissection_table

Blaise Agüera y Arcas: How PhotoSynth can connect the world's images

Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled from the Web, Photosynth builds breathtaking dreamscapes and lets us navigate them.
https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosynth_can_connect_the_world_s_images

Greg Gage: This computer is learning to read your mind

Modern technology lets neuroscientists peer into the human brain, but can it also read minds? Armed with the device known as an electroencephalogram, or EEG, and some computing wizardry, our intrepid neuroscientists attempt to peer into a subject's thoughts.
https://www.ted.com/talks/greg_gage_this_computer_is_learning_to_read_your_mind

Bonnie Bassler: How bacteria "talk"

Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria "talk" to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning implications for medicine, industry -- and our understanding of ourselves.
https://www.ted.com/talks/bonnie_bassler_how_bacteria_talk

Cassie Flynn: A game that lets you decide how to tackle the climate crisis

If you were the most powerful person in your country, how would you tackle climate change? The UN is rolling out a massive global survey and idea search on climate issues in the form of an online game. In "Mission 1.5," you play head of state and choose the best path for your country to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement -- and help inform re...
https://www.ted.com/talks/cassie_flynn_a_game_that_lets_you_decide_how_to_tackle_the_climate_crisis

Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil: A rare galaxy that's challenging our understanding of the universe

What's it like to discover a galaxy -- and have it named after you? Astrophysicist and TED Fellow Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil lets us know in this quick talk about her team's surprising discovery of a mysterious new galaxy type.
https://www.ted.com/talks/burcin_mutlu_pakdil_a_rare_galaxy_that_s_challenging_our_understanding_of_the_universe

Let's Save Africa

About this ad: Meet Michael. He's the best at what he does - when top charities need an African child star for their ads, they call Michael. This sarcastic piece reminds us of how ridiculous stereotypes can be, and why we need to throw them out. SAIH is the solidarity organization of students and academics in Norway, focusing on education in de...
https://www.ted.com/watch/ads-worth-spreading/lets-save-africa

Romain Lacombe: A personal air-quality tracker that lets you know what you're breathing

How often do you think about the air you're breathing? Probably not enough, says entrepreneur and TED Fellow Romain Lacombe. He introduces Flow: a personal air-quality tracker that fits in your hand and monitors pollution levels in real time. See how this device could help you track and understand pollution street by street, hour by hour -- and ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/romain_lacombe_a_personal_air_quality_tracker_that_lets_you_know_what_you_re_breathing

Simon Anholt: Who would the rest of the world vote for in your country's election?

Wish you could vote in another country's election? Simon Anholt unveils the Global Vote, an online platform that lets anybody, anywhere in the world, "vote" in the election of any country on earth (with surprising results).
https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_anholt_who_would_the_rest_of_the_world_vote_for_in_your_country_s_election

Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction

Listening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel. Elif Shafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction can overcome identity politics.
https://www.ted.com/talks/elif_shafak_the_politics_of_fiction

Dan Gilbert: The surprising science of happiness

Dan Gilbert, author of "Stumbling on Happiness," challenges the idea that we'll be miserable if we don't get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don't go as planned.
https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_the_surprising_science_of_happiness

Playlist: How does DNA work? (7 talks)

Your DNA makes you, you -- but how does it work? These talks explore what we know about the genome, the unique genetic sequence that makes up life as we know it.
Curated by TED · 7 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/how_does_dna_work

Chinaka Hodge: What will you tell your daughters about 2016?

With words like shards of glass, Chinaka Hodge cuts open 2016 and lets 12 months of violence, grief, fear, shame, courage and hope spill out in this original poem about a year none of us will soon forget.
https://www.ted.com/talks/chinaka_hodge_what_will_you_tell_your_daughters_about_2016

Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad: How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy

Have you ever actually read the terms and conditions for the apps you use? Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad and his team at the Norwegian Consumer Council have, and it took them nearly a day and a half to read the terms of all the apps on an average phone. In a talk about the alarming ways tech companies deceive their users, Myrstad shares insights abou...
https://www.ted.com/talks/finn_lutzow_holm_myrstad_how_tech_companies_deceive_you_into_giving_up_your_data_and_privacy

Jean-Baptiste Michel + Erez Lieberman Aiden: What we learned from 5 million books

Have you played with Google Labs' Ngram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words.
https://www.ted.com/talks/jean_baptiste_michel_erez_lieberman_aiden_what_we_learned_from_5_million_books

Sue Austin: Deep sea diving ... in a wheelchair

When Sue Austin got a power wheelchair, she felt a tremendous sense of freedom -- yet others looked at her as though she had lost something. In her art, she conveys the spirit of wonder she feels wheeling through the world. Includes thrilling footage of an underwater wheelchair that lets her explore ocean beds, drifting through schools of fish, ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/sue_austin_deep_sea_diving_in_a_wheelchair

Lucy McRae: How can technology transform the human body?

TED Fellow Lucy McRae is a body architect -- she imagines ways to merge biology and technology in our own bodies. In this visually stunning talk, she shows her work, from clothes that recreate the body's insides for a music video with pop-star Robyn, to a pill that, when swallowed, lets you sweat perfume.
https://www.ted.com/talks/lucy_mcrae_how_can_technology_transform_the_human_body

Esther Perel: The secret to desire in a long-term relationship

In long-term relationships, we often expect our beloved to be both best friend and erotic partner. But as Esther Perel argues, good and committed sex draws on two conflicting needs: our need for security and our need for surprise. So how do you sustain desire? With wit and eloquence, Perel lets us in on the mystery of erotic intelligence.
https://www.ted.com/talks/esther_perel_the_secret_to_desire_in_a_long_term_relationship

Takaharu Tezuka: The best kindergarten you’ve ever seen

At this school in Tokyo, five-year-olds cause traffic jams and windows are for Santa to climb into. Meet: the world's cutest kindergarten, designed by architect Takaharu Tezuka. In this charming talk, he walks us through a design process that really lets kids be kids.
https://www.ted.com/talks/takaharu_tezuka_the_best_kindergarten_you_ve_ever_seen

John Hunter: Teaching with the World Peace Game

John Hunter puts all the problems of the world on a 4'x5' plywood board -- and lets his 4th-graders solve them. At TED2011, he explains how his World Peace Game engages schoolkids, and why the complex lessons it teaches -- spontaneous, and always surprising -- go further than classroom lectures can.
https://www.ted.com/talks/john_hunter_teaching_with_the_world_peace_game

Jinha Lee: Reach into the computer and grab a pixel

The border between our physical world and the digital information surrounding us has been getting thinner and thinner. Designer and engineer Jinha Lee wants to dissolve it altogether. As he demonstrates in this short, gasp-inducing talk, his ideas include a pen that penetrates into a screen to draw 3D models and SpaceTop, a computer desktop prot...
https://www.ted.com/talks/jinha_lee_reach_into_the_computer_and_grab_a_pixel

Michael Porter: The case for letting business solve social problems

Why do we turn to nonprofits, NGOs and governments to solve society's biggest problems? Michael Porter admits he's biased, as a business school professor, but he wants you to hear his case for letting business try to solve massive problems like climate change and access to water. Why? Because when business solves a problem, it makes a profit -- ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_porter_the_case_for_letting_business_solve_social_problems

Robin Chase: Excuse me, may I rent your car?

A decade ago, Robin Chase founded Zipcar in the US, now the largest car-sharing company in the world. Now she's exploring the next level of car-sharing: Buzzcar, a French startup that lets people rent their own cars to others. The details are fascinating (how does insurance work, exactly?), and the larger vision (she calls it Peers, Inc.) points...
https://www.ted.com/talks/robin_chase_excuse_me_may_i_rent_your_car

Marcus Bullock: An app that helps incarcerated people stay connected to their families

Over his eight-year prison sentence, Marcus Bullock was sustained by his mother's love -- and by the daily letters and photos she sent of life on the outside. Years later, as an entrepreneur, Bullock asked himself: How can I make it easier for all families to stay connected during incarceration? Enter FlikShop: an app he developed that lets fami...
https://www.ted.com/talks/marcus_bullock_an_app_that_helps_incarcerated_people_stay_connected_to_their_families

Playlist: Biohacking: DIY science for everyone (7 talks)

Satisfy your curiosity on a cellular level with these talks that highlight the ways biology can be molded in the hands of the average, yet curious citizen.
Curated by TED · 7 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/biohacking_diy_science_for_everyone

Playlist: New tech, new ethics (9 talks)

With technical advancement comes great ethical responsibility. In these talks, amazing, life-altering feats of science make us ask: How could we mess this up?
Curated by TED · 9 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/new_tech_new_morals
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