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Schnapsidee des Jahrzehnts: "Human Engineering" gegen den Klimawandel

Liebe Leser, das Video ist zwar schon 5 Jahre alt, aber ich habe es erst jetzt gesehen. Angesichts des Größenwahns, der daraus spricht, ist der Titel der dümmsten

The human skills we need in an unpredictable world | Margaret Heffernan

The more we rely on technology to make us efficient, the fewer skills we have to confront the unexpected, says writer and entrepreneur Margaret Heffernan. She shares

How language shapes the way we think !

There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world -- and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive

Germany: Low Crime, Clean Prisons, Lessons for America!

Germany has a much lower crime rate and fewer people in prison than the United States. How does Germany do that? Is it because their prisons are different than ours?

Beyond the singularity: The search for extraterrestrial technologies

A recipient of Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner's $100 million Breakthrough Listen Initiative grant, astrophysicist and Director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center,

Have you ever imagined how interstellar travel could work?

Meet a true explorer who might lead humanity to make interstellar travel a reality by developing the world’s first antimatter rocket. Through his fascinating speech

What if we replaced politicians with randomly selected people?

If you think democracy is broken, here's an idea: let's replace politicians with randomly selected people. Author and activist Brett Hennig presents a compelling

How college loans exploit students for profit !

"Once upon a time in America," says professor Sajay Samuel, "going to college did not mean graduating with debt." Today, higher education has

How To Multiply Your Time !

Everything you know about time-management is wrong. In this challenging and counter-intuitive video, Self-Discipline Strategist and New York Times bestselling author

Making Batteries Better!

Jeff Dahn has won countless award for his work on batteries. His talk highlights some of his research experience. Dahn has received National and International awards

Beautiful minds are free from fear: Robert Grant at TEDxOrangeCoast !

Robert E. Grant is sharing what makes beautiful mind: any moment free from fear is an opportunity to taste immortality and new possibilities.

Four billion years of evolution in six minutes !

Did humans evolve from monkeys or from fish? In this enlightening talk, ichthyologist and TED Fellow Prosanta Chakrabarty dispels some hardwired myths about evolution,

How to get empowered, not overpowered, by AI

Many artificial intelligence researchers expect AI to outsmart humans at all tasks and jobs within decades, enabling a future where we're restricted only by the

Breathe to Heal !

With anxiety, stress, and sleep dysfunction skyrocketing around the globe, it's time we look at the unspoken reasons why. These debilitating challenges can be

True Artificial Intelligence will change everything !

Artificial Intelligence Scientist. Scientific Director of the Swiss AI Lab, IDSIA, DTI, SUPSI; Prof. of AI, Faculty of Informatics, USI, Lugano; Co-founder &

What if 3D printing was 100x faster?

What we think of as 3D printing, says Joseph DeSimone, is really just 2D printing over and over ... slowly. Onstage at TED2015, he unveils a bold new technique —

What we'll learn about the brain in the next century !

In this imaginative talk, neuroengineer Sam Rodriques takes us on a thrilling tour of the next 100 years in neuroscience. He envisions strange (and sometimes

Mammoths resurrected and other thoughts from a futurist !

Stewart Brand is a futurist, counterculturist and visionary with a very wide-ranging mind. In conversation with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Brand discusses ... just

Want to get great at something? Get a coach !

How do we improve in the face of complexity? Atul Gawande has studied this question with a surgeon's precision. He shares what he's found to be the key: having a

Why I Don’t Use A Smart Phone | Ann Makosinski | TEDxTeen

Ann Makosinski is an 18 year-old student, innovator and entrepreneur. Her first toy was a box of transistors. From there, her interest in science and creating arose.