TED -- Technology, Entertainment, and Design
This page provides a number of links to selected presentations posted on the TED site that we have found interesting, amusing, informative, and/or jaw-dropping. So, naturally, they have been posted on this site as examples of -- in TED's words -- "Ideas Worth Sharing".Referenced by this site on: 2009 Apr 10
Posted by TED: 2009 April
Latest find: Bonnie Bassler's lab at Princeton is discovering how bacteria "talk" to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. This research has stunning implications for medicine, industry -- and our understanding of ourselves.
Referenced by this site on: 2009 Mar 31
Posted by TED: 2007 April
Janine Benyus inspires us with biomimicry. A self-proclaimed nature nerd, Janine Benyus is the author of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, a book that has galvanized scientists, architects, designers and engineers into exploring new ways in which nature's successes can inspire humanity. This talk provides heartening examples of ways in which nature is already influencing the products and systems we build.
Referenced by this site on: 2009 Mar 21
Posted by TED: 2009 March
Tim Berners-Lee describes a Web of open, linked data. 20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.
Referenced by this site on: 2009 Mar 07
Posted by TED: 2009 March
Willie Smits regrows a rain forest. By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re-grow a clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans -- and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile ecosystems.
Updated: 2009 Apr 10