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Blaise Agüera y Arcas: Augmented-reality maps

In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft.
https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_augmented_reality_maps

Sebastian Seung | TED Speaker

Sebastian Seung is a leader in the new field of connectomics, currently the hottest space in neuroscience, which studies, in once-impossible detail, the wiring of the brain.
Computational neuroscientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sebastian_seung

Heidi Boisvert | TED Speaker

Heidi Boisvert harnesses the power of popular culture, emerging technology and neuroscience to ignite culture change.
Artist and creative technologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/heidi_boisvert

Robert Ballard: The astonishing hidden world of the deep ocean

Ocean explorer Robert Ballard takes us on a mindbending trip to hidden worlds underwater, where he and other researchers are finding unexpected life, resources, even new mountains. He makes a case for serious exploration and mapping. Google Ocean, anyone?
https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_ballard_the_astonishing_hidden_world_of_the_deep_ocean

Marco Tempest: The electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla

Combining projection mapping and a pop-up book, Marco Tempest tells the visually arresting story of Nikola Tesla -- called "the greatest geek who ever lived" -- from his triumphant invention of alternating current to his penniless last days.
https://www.ted.com/talks/marco_tempest_the_electric_rise_and_fall_of_nikola_tesla

Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome

Sebastian Seung is mapping a massively ambitious new model of the brain that focuses on the connections between each neuron. He calls it our "connectome," and it's as individual as our genome -- and understanding it could open a new way to understand our brains and our minds.
https://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_seung_i_am_my_connectome

Sarah Parcak | TED Speaker

Like a modern-day Indiana Jones, Sarah Parcak uses satellite images to locate lost ancient sites. The winner of the 2016 TED Prize, her wish is to protect the world’s shared cultural heritage.
Satellite archaeologist + TED Prize winner
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sarah_parcak

Neuroscience: Mapping and Manipulating the Brain

TED Studies, created in collaboration with Wiley, are curated video collections — supplemented by rich educational materials — for students, educators and self-guided learners. In Mapping and Manipulating the Brain, explore the human brain's 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections among them, and learn how neuroscientists are using an a...
https://www.ted.com/read/ted-studies/neuroscience

Mariano Sigman: Your words may predict your future mental health

Can the way you speak and write today predict your future mental state, even the onset of psychosis? In this fascinating talk, neuroscientist Mariano Sigman reflects on ancient Greece and the origins of introspection to investigate how our words hint at our inner lives and details a word-mapping algorithm that could predict the development of sc...
https://www.ted.com/talks/mariano_sigman_your_words_may_predict_your_future_mental_health

Introductory essay

Written by the educators who created Mapping and Manipulating the Brain, a brief look at the key facts, tough questions and big ideas in their field. Begin this TED Study with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. Here is this mass of jelly, three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can ...
https://www.ted.com/read/ted-studies/neuroscience/introductory-essay

Paola Antonelli: Design and the Elastic Mind

MOMA design curator Paola Antonelli previews the groundbreaking show Design and the Elastic Mind -- full of products and designs that reflect the way we think now.
https://www.ted.com/talks/paola_antonelli_design_and_the_elastic_mind

Activities

Deepen your understanding of Mapping and Manipulating the Brain with these carefully crafted educational exercises that let you get the most out of this TED Studies subject. Activity 1 In her 2012 TEDTalk "Beware neuro-bunk," Molly Crockett provides a clear-eyed appraisal of how marketers, the media, educators, policy makers and others have ofte...
https://www.ted.com/read/ted-studies/neuroscience/activities

Mary Lou Jepsen: How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains

In a series of mind-bending demos, inventor Mary Lou Jepsen shows how we can use red light to see and potentially stimulate what's inside our bodies and brains. Taking us to the edge of optical physics, Jepsen unveils new technologies that utilize light and sound to track tumors, measure neural activity and could possibly replace the MRI machine...
https://www.ted.com/talks/mary_lou_jepsen_how_we_can_use_light_to_see_deep_inside_our_bodies_and_brains

On our reading list: Al Gore takes a look at The Future

Al Gore posits an intriguing question in his newest book, on shelves tomorrow, January 29: can we change the future? But this book isn’t about peering into a crystal ball.  In The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, Gore -- who’s spoken at TED multiple times -- breaks down the factors that are changing our world at an unprecedented pace...
Posted January 28, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/01/28/on-our-reading-list-al-gore-takes-a-look-at-the-future

Marco Tempest makes the early 1900s new again as he tells the story of Nikola Tesla

Illusionist Marco Tempest is known for making magic out of new technology, memorably using iPods culled from the TED audience for his talk about the beauty of deception. But for his newest TEDTalk, Tempest reaches to the past to create visual wizardry, telling the story of inventor Nikola Tesla using the principles of tanagra theatre. Hug...
Posted June 20, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/06/20/marco-tempest-makes-the-early-1900s-new-again-as-he-tells-the-story-of-nikola-tesla

The continued quest to map the brain, TED Oscar connections and a frog joke from Wil Wheaton

The TED community has been busy in the past week. Below, a few TEDsters with news to share. Mapping by the millions. Frustrated by the inability to test his theories given the current technology, Sebastian Seung embarked on what many of his colleagues considered career suicide: he built a game to map all the neural connections in the human ...
Posted January 15, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/01/15/ted-community-news-1-15-15

Wonder: Notes from Session 11 of TED2019

Session 11 of TED2019 amazed, enriched, inspired and dazzled -- diving deep into the creative process, exploring what it's like to be a living artwork and soaring into deep space. The event: Talks and performances from TED2019, Session 11: Wonder, hosted by TED's Helen Walters and Kelly Stoetzel When and where: Thursday, April 18, 2019...
Posted April 19, 2019
https://blog.ted.com/2019/04/19/wonder-notes-from-session-11-of-ted2019

Making space within and without: Antony Gormley at TEDGlobal2012

Born in London in 1950, Antony Gormley is one of Britain's most treasured artists. Winner of the Turner Prize, the South Bank Prize, the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture, he is an OBE, an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, an honorary doctor of the University of Cambridge and fellow of Trinity and Jesus Colleg...
Posted June 26, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/06/26/making-space-within-and-without-antony-gormley-at-tedglobal2012

Busting the myths of the brain with neuroscientist Chantel Prat (Transcript)

Re:Thinking with Adam Grant Busting the myths of the brain with neuroscientist Chantel Prat October 4, 2022 [00:00:00] Adam Grant: Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant. Welcome back to ReThinking, my podcast on the science of what makes us tick. I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people to explore n...
https://www.ted.com/podcasts/busting-the-myths-of-the-brain-transcript

When your culture problem is really a strategy problem (Transcript)

Fixable When your culture problem is really a strategy problem September 2, 2023 [00:00:00] Anne Morriss: This is Fixable. I'm Anne Morriss. I'm a company builder and leadership coach. [00:00:05] Frances Frei: And I'm Frances Frei. I'm a professor at the Harvard Business School, and I'm Anne's wife. [00:00:09] Anne Morriss: And on this show...
https://www.ted.com/podcasts/fixable/when-your-culture-problem-is-really-a-strategy-problem-transcript

Design Mind magazine highlights TEDGlobal 2012

The theme of TEDGlobal 2012 was “Radical Openness” -- a topic that caught the eye of Design Mind magazine. The publication, from longtime TEDGlobal supporter frog, has dedicated an entire issue to the conference. Including Q&As with speakers, behind-the-scenes looks at preparations for talks and an abundance of endeavors related to talks, we...
Posted November 19, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/11/19/design-mind-magazine-opts-to-highlight-tedglobal-2012

My 10 favorite TED photos, shot from the edge of the stage

I’ve been lucky enough to be one of TED’s photographers since 2009; I've spent most of my time during hundreds of talks standing, crouching or sitting on the floor at the front of the stage, getting as close as I can to make the perfect photograph of a speaker in motion from exactly the right place. One question I get asked all the time: Do I...
Posted March 13, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/03/13/10-best-photos-from-ted

Why you think you're right, even when you're wrong

Are you a soldier or a scout? Your answer to this question, says decision-making expert Julia Galef, could determine how clearly you see the world. Imagine for a moment you're a soldier in the heat of battle -- perhaps a Roman foot soldier, medieval archer or Zulu warrior. Regardless of your time and place, some things are probably constant. Yo...
Posted March 9, 2017
https://ideas.ted.com/why-you-think-youre-right-even-when-youre-wrong

Am I Normal? How many friends do I need? (Transcript)

Monday, October 18, 2021 Mona Chalabi: It's been about two months since I left New York for London. I'm still settling into my new flat here, putting up curtains, choosing a couch, all that. I arrived excited to be out of my tiny apartment. And now that COVID restrictions had lifted, I was excited to see people too. I'd been away from my London...
https://www.ted.com/podcasts/am-i-normal-how-many-friends-do-i-need-transcript

5 reasons it might be OK to be optimistic about our oceans

Climate change, coral bleaching, ocean acidification, overfishing ... it can be easy to feel depressed about the ocean. But when you look at the big picture of ocean health, some good news emerges. Marine conservation researcher Ben Halpern calls himself an “ocean optimist.” But getting there wasn’t easy -- it’s taken more than eight years of r...
Posted July 14, 2016
https://ideas.ted.com/5-reasons-it-might-be-ok-to-be-optimistic-about-our-oceans

You've given me my body back: A Q&A with Hugh Herr

Bionics designer Hugh Herr spoke today on the TED stage about a future in which disability is a mere memory – a future he believes is both imminent and imperative. With pant legs cropped to reveal his own two bionic legs (“I made sure to shave today,” he joked), he explained the fascinating details of his work in the Biomechatronics Group at...
Posted March 19, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/03/19/youve-given-me-my-body-back-a-qa-with-hugh-herr

How to build resilience through architecture (w/ Alyssa-Amor Gibbons) (Transcript)

How to Be a Better Human How to build resilience through architecture (w/ Alyssa-Amor Gibbons) April 22, 2024 [00:00:00] Chris Duffy: You are listening to How to Be A Better Human. I'm your host, Chris Duffy. Architecture is an art form that to me, often is invisible, but when I do start to pay attention to it, when I start to really see it, I ...
https://www.ted.com/podcasts/how-to-be-a-better-human/how-to-build-resilience-through-architecture-w-alyssa-amor-gibbons-transcript

Imagination is not a luxury: Fellows Friday with Gabriella Gomez-Mont

Gabriella Gomez-Mont founded cultural salon Tóxico Cultura to build bridges between the arts within Mexico City. Today, she's transforming Tóxico into an international platform for synthesizing art with a wider range of disciplines, creating new "blueprints for reality." You’ve said that being a TED Fellow messed with your mind. Why? Tóxic...
Posted May 4, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/05/04/imagination-is-not-a-luxury-fellows-friday-with-gabriella-gomez-mont

Facing a tough decision? Borrow from psychology, business and the military to see past your blind spots

Here's a crash course in 3 proven ways -- scenario planning, premortems and red-teaming -- to help you spot hidden opportunities and pitfalls (and maybe even predict the future). Writer Steven Johnson explains. In the mid-1970s, environmental activist Paul Hawken was working with a nonprofit that taught intensive gardening techniques to people ...
Posted September 28, 2018
https://ideas.ted.com/facing-a-tough-decision-borrow-from-psychology-business-and-the-military-to-see-past-your-blind-spots

Unlocking the Mysteries of our Brain | David Eagleman (Transcript)

The TED Interview Unlocking the Mysteries of our Brain | David Eagleman June 16, 2022 [00:00:00] Chris Anderson: Hello there. This is Chris Anderson, welcoming you to The TED Interview. Now then, uh, this is a, a special episode that was recorded live at the TED Conference featuring one of the most amazing minds there is out there: David Eaglem...
https://www.ted.com/podcasts/ted-interview/unlocking-the-mysteries-of-our-brain-eagleman-transcript
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