TED Talks

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7:39

Irina Kareva

Math can help uncover cancer's secrets

Posted Apr 2018 Rated Informative, Fascinating

16:08

Vittorio Loreto

Need a new idea? Start at the edge of what is known

Posted Mar 2018 Rated Informative, Fascinating

13:41

Mohamad Jebara

This company pays kids to do their math homework

Posted Feb 2018 Rated Ingenious, Fascinating

11:45

Mona Chalabi

3 ways to spot a bad statistic

Posted Mar 2017 Rated Informative, Persuasive

12:49

Alan Smith

Why you should love statistics

Posted Jan 2017 Rated Informative, Fascinating

12:00

Dan Bricklin

Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet

Posted Jan 2017 Rated Inspiring, Informative

17:04

Roger Antonsen

Math is the hidden secret to understanding the world

Posted Nov 2016 Rated Fascinating, Inspiring

4:29

Rainn Wilson

Ideas worth dating

Posted Oct 2016 Rated Funny, Ingenious

16:23

Cédric Villani

What's so sexy about math?

Posted Jun 2016 Rated Fascinating, Inspiring

23:03

Jim Simons

The mathematician who cracked Wall Street

Posted Sep 2015 Rated Inspiring, Informative

12:08

Rajiv Maheswaran

The math behind basketball's wildest moves

Posted Jul 2015 Rated Fascinating, Informative

4:19

Jedidah Isler

How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe

Posted Apr 2015 Rated Informative, Fascinating

9:41

Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón

Math is forever

Posted Apr 2015 Rated Funny, Informative

13:58

Harry Baker

A love poem for lonely prime numbers

Posted Mar 2015 Rated Beautiful, Funny

17:02

Hannah Fry

The mathematics of love

Posted Feb 2015 Rated Funny, Informative

9:29

Randall Munroe

Comics that ask "what if?"

Posted May 2014 Rated Funny, Informative

12:10

Gavin Schmidt

The emergent patterns of climate change

Posted May 2014 Rated Informative, Persuasive

11:48

Alex Wissner-Gross

A new equation for intelligence

Posted Feb 2014 Rated Fascinating, Informative

6:24

Arthur Benjamin

The magic of Fibonacci numbers

Posted Nov 2013 Rated Fascinating, Informative

17:17

Adam Spencer

Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers

Posted Sep 2013 Rated Funny, Fascinating

12:34

Laura Snyder

The Philosophical Breakfast Club

Posted Apr 2013 Rated Informative, Fascinating

15:10

Freeman Hrabowski

4 pillars of college success in science

Posted Apr 2013 Rated Inspiring, Informative

6:04

Max Little

A test for Parkinson's with a phone call

Posted Aug 2012 Rated Ingenious, Informative

10:02

Hannah Fry

Is life really that complex?

Posted Aug 2012 Rated Informative, Fascinating

11:07

Michael Hansmeyer

Building unimaginable shapes

Posted Jul 2012 Rated Beautiful, Fascinating

14:56

E.O. Wilson

Advice to a young scientist

Posted Jun 2012 Rated Inspiring, Persuasive

3:57

Terry Moore

Why is 'x' the unknown?

Posted Jun 2012 Rated Informative, Funny

18:40

Seth Shostak

ET is (probably) out there — get ready

Posted Jun 2012 Rated Inspiring, Informative

18:35

David MacKay

A reality check on renewables

Posted May 2012 Rated Informative, Persuasive

4:26

Jean-Baptiste Michel

The mathematics of history

Posted May 2012 Rated Informative, Fascinating

21:47

Brian Greene

Is our universe the only universe?

Posted Apr 2012 Rated Fascinating, Informative

7:31

Adam Savage

How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries

Posted Mar 2012 Rated Inspiring, Informative

12:07

Chris Anderson

Questions no one knows the answers to

Posted Mar 2012 Rated Fascinating, Inspiring

19:10

Danny Hillis

Back to the future (of 1994)

Posted Feb 2012 Rated Fascinating, Informative

9:43

Scott Rickard

The beautiful math behind the world's ugliest music

Posted Jan 2012 Rated Fascinating, Informative

19:59

Daniel Wolpert

The real reason for brains

Posted Nov 2011 Rated Fascinating, Informative

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