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A robot that flies like a bird | Markus Fischer
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at F…
Shereen El Feki: Pop culture in the Arab world
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com At TEDGlobal University, Shereen El Feki shows how some Arab cultures are borrowing trademarks of Western pop …
Catherine Mohr: Surgery's past, present and robotic future
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com Surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past)…
Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it!
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com TED Fellow and urban designer Mitchell Joachim presents his vision for sustainable, organic architecture: eco-…
Boaz Almog "levitates" a superconductor
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com How can a super-thin, three-inch disk levitate something 70,000 times its own weight? In a riveting, futuristi…
How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham
Ted Talk: James Beacham looks for answers to the most important open questions of physics using the biggest science experiment ever mounted…
Robots that fly ... and cooperate | Vijay Kumar
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense ea…
Unveiling game-changing wearable tech | Pattie Maes
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearabl…
Natasha Tsakos' multimedia theatrical adventure
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com Natasha Tsakos presents part of her one-woman, multimedia show, "Upwake." As the character Zero, she blends dr…
Nate Silver: How does race affect votes?
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com Nate Silver has answers to controversial questions about race in politics: Did Obama's race hurt his votes in …
Jacek Utko: Can design save the newspaper?
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com Jacek Utko is a little-known newspaper designer whose redesigns not only win awards, but increase circulation …
Erica Frenkel: The universal anesthesia machine
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com What if you're in surgery and the power goes out? No lights, no oxygen -- and your anesthesia stops flowing. I…
The politics of fiction | Elif Shafak
Ted Talk: Listening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel w…
Playing the Cape Breton fiddle | Natalie MacMaster
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com Natalie MacMaster and her musical partner Donnell Leahy play several tunes from the Cape Breton tradition -- a…
Parag Khanna maps the future of countries
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com Many people think the lines on the map no longer matter, but Parag Khanna says they do. Using maps of the past…