Complexity

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of complexity.

Video playlists about Complexity

How does DNA work?

7 talks • 1h 57m
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.

Talks about Complexity

15:28

Riccardo Sabatini

How to read the genome and build a human being

Posted Apr 2016
14:41

Russ Altman

What really happens when you mix medications?

Posted Mar 2016
13:57

Harry Cliff

Have we reached the end of physics?

Posted Jan 2016
13:45

Nicolas Perony

Puppies! Now that I’ve got your attention, complexity theory

Posted Jan 2014
7:55

Eric Berlow and Sean Gourley

Mapping ideas worth spreading

Posted Sep 2013
14:10

James B. Glattfelder

Who controls the world?

Posted Feb 2013
10:02

Hannah Fry

Is life really that complex?

Posted Aug 2012
17:33

Geoffrey West

The surprising math of cities and corporations

Posted Jul 2011
15:22

Kevin Slavin

How algorithms shape our world

Posted Jul 2011
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Eric Berlow

Simplifying complexity

Posted Nov 2010
17:56

David McCandless

The beauty of data visualization

Posted Aug 2010
18:35

George Whitesides

Toward a science of simplicity

Posted Apr 2010
19:58

Stephen Wolfram

Computing a theory of all knowledge

Posted Apr 2010
19:31

Richard Preston

The mysterious lives of giant trees

Posted Dec 2008
16:22

Kwabena Boahen

A computer that works like the brain

Posted Jul 2008
19:34

Kevin Kelly

The next 5,000 days of the web

Posted Jul 2008
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