Joe Kowan: How I beat stage fright - YouTube Joe Kowan: I have stage fright. I've always had stage fright, and not just a little bit, it's a big bit. And it didn't even matter until I was 27. That's when I started writing songs, and even t…
My glacier cave discoveries - Eddy Cartaya - YouTube So how many of you have ever been in a cave before? Okay, a few of you. When you think of a cave, most of you think of a tunnel going through solid rock, and in fact, that's how most cav…
Jason Pontin: Can technology solve our big ... So, we used to solve big problems. On July 21st, 1969, Buzz Aldrin climbed out of Apollo 11's lunar module and descended onto the Sea of Tranquility. Armstrong and Aldrin were alone, but their…
Adam Spencer: Why I fell in love with monster prime ... Ah yes, those university days, a heady mix of Ph.D-level pure mathematics and world debating championships, or, as I like to say, "Hello, ladies. Oh yeah." Didn't get much sexier than…
Frank Warren: Half a million secrets - YouTube Hi, my name is Frank, and I collect secrets. It all started with a crazy idea in November of 2004. I printed up 3,000 self-addressed postcards, just like this. They were blank on one side, and…
Kees Moeliker: How a dead duck changed my life ... This is the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, where I work as a curator. It's my job to make sure the collection stays okay, and that it grows, and basically it means I collect dead ani…
Eli Beer: The fastest ambulance? A motorcycle - YouTube This is an ambucycle. This is the fastest way to reach any medical emergency. It has everything an ambulance has except for a bed. You see the defibrillator. You see the equipment. We…
Kevin Breel: Confessions of a depressed comic ... For a long time in my life, I felt like I'd been living two different lives. There's the life that everyone sees, and then there's the life that only I see. And in the life that everyone se…
Hendrik Poinar: Bring back the woolly mammoth ... When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that he kept in the house. And they were remarkably well preserved, morphologically just p…
May El-Khalil: Making peace is a marathon - YouTube I come from Lebanon, and I believe that running can change the world. I know what I have just said is simply not obvious. You know, Lebanon as a country has been once destroyed by a long …
Judy MacDonald Johnston: Prepare for a good end ... What would be a good end of life? And I'm talking about the very end. I'm talking about dying. We all think a lot about how to live well. I'd like to talk about increasing our chances of …
Anas Aremeyaw Anas: How I named, shamed and ... I am sorry I cannot show you my face, because if I do, the bad guys will come for me. My journey started 14 years ago. I was a young reporter. I had just come out of college. Then I got a sco…
Sonia Shah: 3 reasons we still haven't gotten rid ... So over the long course of human history, the infectious disease that's killed more humans than any other is malaria. It's carried in the bites of infected mosquitos, and it's probably …
Roberto D'Angelo + Francesca Fedeli: In our baby ... Francesca Fedeli: Ciao. So he's Mario. He's our son. He was born two and a half years ago, and I had a pretty tough pregnancy because I had to stay still in a bed for, like, eight mo…
Tania Luna: How a penny made me feel like a ... I'm five years old, and I am very proud. My father has just built the best outhouse in our little village in Ukraine. Inside, it's a smelly, gaping hole in the ground, but outside, it's pearl…
Bastian Schaefer: A 3D-printed jumbo jet? - YouTube What do we know about the future? Difficult question, simple answer: nothing. We cannot predict the future. We only can create a vision of the future, how it might be, a vision which reve…
2ちゃんねるで世界最高のスリ師と話題になっていたので取り上げてみました。 Apollo Robbins: The art of misdirection - YouTube Do you think it's possible to control someone's attention? Even more than that, what about predicting human behavior?…
Jack Andraka: A promising test for pancreatic ... Have you ever experienced a moment in your life that was so painful and confusing that all you wanted to do was learn as much as you could to make sense of it all? When I was 13, a close fa…
Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and ... Everything I do, and everything I do professionally -- my life -- has been shaped by seven years of work as a young man in Africa. From 1971 to 1977 -- I look young, but I'm not — (Lau…
Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion - YouTube I have spent my entire life either at the schoolhouse, on the way to the schoolhouse, or talking about what happens in the schoolhouse. Both my parents were educators, my maternal grandpar…
Tali Sharot: The optimism bias - YouTube I'm going to talk to you about optimism -- or more precisely, the optimism bias. It's a cognitive illusion that we've been studying in my lab for the past few years, and 80 percent of us have it. It…
Jim Fallon: Exploring the mind of a killer - YouTube I'm a neuroscientist, a professor at the University of California. And over the past 35 years, I've studied behavior on the basis of everything from genes through neurotransmitters, dopa…
Ken Kamler: Medical miracle on Everest - YouTube OK. We've heard a lot of people speak at this conference about the power of the human mind. And what I'd like to do today is give you a vivid example of how that power can be unleashed when …
James Randi: Homeopathy, quackery and fraud ... Good morning. Happy to see so many fine folks out here and so many smiling faces. I have a very peculiar background, attitude and approach to the real world because I am a conjurer. Now, I pr…
Hans Rosling: The magic washing machine - YouTube I was only four years old when I saw my mother load a washing machine for the very first time in her life. That was a great day for my mother. My mother and father had been saving money for…
Andy Puddicombe: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes ... We live in an incredibly busy world. The pace of life is often frantic, our minds are always busy, and we're always doing something. So with that in mind, I'd like you just to take a …
TEDxToronto - Neil Pasricha "The 3 A's of Awesome ... So the Awesome story: It begins about 40 years ago, when my mom and my dad came to Canada. My mom left Nairobi, Kenya. My dad left a small village outside of Amritsar, India. A…
Aaron O'Connell: Making sense of a visible ... This is a representation of your brain, and your brain can be broken into two parts. There's the left half, which is the logical side, and then the right half, which is the intuitive. And …
Alberto Cairo: There are no scraps of men - YouTube I've been in Afghanistan for 21 years. I work for the Red Cross and I'm a physical therapist. My job is to make arms and legs -- well it's not completely true. We do more than that. We pr…
Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed ... Imagine a big explosion as you climb through 3,000 ft. Imagine a plane full of smoke. Imagine an engine going clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack. It sounds scary. Well I…
