by Selva V Pasupathy, HSBC Technology & Services, Hyderabad.
I incidentally happened to visit a http://www.ted.com and I found that it was wonderful. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an invitation-only event where the world’s leading thinkers and doers gather to find inspiration. I viewed some of the video’s by Tony Robbins, which were really good. I hope someone benefits from these links.
- A 3-minute story of mixed emoticons
- A 4-minute medley on the music wars
- A beautiful new theory of everything
- A brief digression on matters of lost time
- A brief history of violence
- A cello performance that casts a spell
- A comic send-up of TED2006
- A different way to think about creative genius
- A digital library, free to the world
- A girl, a photograph, a homecoming
- A guided tour of the Ghost Map
- A happy song about global warming
- A hero of the Congo Basin forest
- A journey to the center of your mind
- A library of human imagination
- A life of fascinations
- A lyrical view of life on Earth
- A meditation on hope
- A mockingbird remix of TED2006
- A musical sensation from Venezuela
- A new vision for refrigeration
- A parable for Kenya
- A performance merging dance and biology
- A powerful idea about teaching ideas
- A secular, scientific rebuttal to Rick Warren
- A surprising idea for “solving” climate change
- A surprising look at celebrity
- A surprising parable of foie gras
- A vision for TED
- A voyage of DNA, genes and the sea
- Africa as an investment
- African fractals, in buildings and braids
- After the gold rush, there’s innovation ahead
- All roads lead to Rome Antics
- An atheist’s call to arms
- An inside tour of the world’s biggest supercollider
- An introduction to genomics
- Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes
- Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Man
- Architecture is a new way to connect to the world
- Architecture is a special effects machine
- Architecture, modern and romantic
- Are children’s carseats necessary?
- Art with wire, thread, sugar, chocolate
- Asking big questions about the universe
- Beauty and truth in physics
- Becoming Buddha — on the Web
- Beyond the crisis, mindboggling science and the arrival of Homo evolutis
- Brain magic
- Brain science is about to fundamentally change computing
- Breath, music, passion
- Bringing One Laptop per Child to Colombia: TED in the Field
- Bringing world-class health care to the poorest
- Building a commodities market in Ethiopia
- Building a family tree for all humanity
- Building a home for the Clock of the Long Now
- Building on the green agenda
- Building the Ground Zero viewing platform
- BumpTop desktop is a beautiful mess
- Can kids teach themselves?
- Can we domesticate germs?
- Can we know our own minds?
- Casting spells with DNA
- Catch Sputnik mania!
- Celebrating the camel
- Celebrating the scientific experiment
- Chalking it up to the blank slate
- Cheetahs vs. Hippos for Africa’s future
- Classical music with shining eyes
- Climbing the world’s biggest trees
- Close-up card magic
- Come play with Pleo the dinosaur
- Creating objects that tell stories
- Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote
- Creativity, fulfillment and flow
- Cultures at the far edge of the world
- Dazzling set by 11-year-old violinist
- Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you’ve ever seen
- Decoding the future with genomics
- Design and the elastic mind
- Design is in the details
- Design, discovery and humor
- Designing the Seattle Central Library
- Digging for humanity’s origins
- Do all languages have a common ancestor?
- Do schools kill creativity?
- Do the green thing
- Documenting our endangered cultures
- Does happiness have a price tag?
- Dog-friendly dog training
- Earth in its final century?
- Earth’s mass extinctions
- Educating a new generation of African leaders
- Entrepreneurs are the future of space flight
- Exploring the frontiers of happiness
- Exploring the ocean’s hidden worlds
- Fantastic voyage inside a cell
- Fashion, passion, and about a million other things
- Fiddling in reel time
- Fighting injustice with a videocamera
- Finding happiness in body and soul
- Finding the origins of humanity
- Fly me to the moons of Saturn
- Fly the seas on a submarine with wings
- Flying on solar wings
- Four American characters
- From 1984, 4 predictions about the future (3 of them correct)
- From 1990, defending a vision for architecture
- Getting cars off the road and data into the skies
- Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learning
- Great cars are Art
- Great design is serious (not solemn)
- Great ideas for finding new energy
- Greening the ghetto
- Habits of happiness
- Hardware solutions to everyday problems
- Healing and other natural wonders
- Health, population and the human mind
- Heartrending pictures of AIDS
- Help fight local warming
- Help me bring music to kids worldwide (TED Prize winner!)
- Helping humans and animals live together in Africa
- Here’s how to protect the blue heart of the planet (TED Prize winner!)
- Hip-hop dance and a little magic
- How a ragtag band created Wikipedia
- How Benjamin Button got his face
- How blogs are building a friendlier world
- How calculus is changing architecture
- How cooperation (eventually) trumps conflict
- How could God have allowed the tsunami?
- How creativity is being strangled by the law
- How do ants know what to do?
- How does technology evolve? Like we did
- How engineers learn from evolution
- How great design makes ideas new
- How I built my family a windmill
- How I got my new hip
- How I’m trying to change the world now
- How juries are fooled by statistics
- How ordinary people become monsters … or heroes
- How robots will invade our lives
- How science is like democracy
- How technology’s accelerating power will transform us
- How things in nature tend to sync up
- How to fix broken states
- How to help Africa? Do business there
- How to listen to music with your whole body
- How to survive a nuclear attack
- How would you feel if you lost everything?
- Humanity’s biggest problems aren’t what you think they are
- Hunting the next killer virus
- I walk the Earth
- Idea + square = origami
- Inside the Google machine
- Inspired ideas for a sustainable future
- Institutions vs. collaboration
- Inventing the next amazing thing
- Investing in Africa’s own solutions
- Is 4 a.m. the new midnight?
- Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo
- Journey to the center of the Earth … and beyond!
- Juggling rhythm and motion
- Learning from past presidents in moments of crisis
- Learning the stories of Africa
- Let’s have a deeper discussion on aid
- Let’s look for life in the outer solar system
- Let’s take a new look at African aid
- Let’s take a nuclear-powered rocket to Saturn
- Leveraging big ideas to make change
- Life at 30,000 feet
- Life on Mars? Let’s look in the caves
- Lightning calculation and other “Mathemagic”
- Living a life of purpose
- Look! Up in the sky! It’s Virtual Earth!
- Looking inside the brain in real time
- Magical improv from 14-year-old pianist
- Making a computer that works like the brain
- Making movies that make change
- Measuring the fastest animal on earth
- Memes and “temes”
- My dream about the future of medicine
- My history of electroshock therapy
- My journey in design, from tofu to RISD
- My stroke of insight
- My year of living biblically
- Nature vs. humans, and what we can do about it
- New insights on poverty and life around the world
- New prosthetic arm for veterans
- New thinking on the climate crisis
- Nice building. Then what?
- On the verge of creating synthetic life
- One Laptop per Child, two years on
- Open-source economics
- Origami, blindfolded and to music
- Our cell phones, ourselves
- Our priorities for saving the world
- Photography connects us with the world
- Picturing excess
- Playing the Cape Breton fiddle
- Politics and religion are technologies
- Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web
- Presenting the Orb
- Products (and toys) from the future
- Rebuilding America, one slide show at a time
- Re-creating great performances
- Redefining the dictionary
- Reinventing the car
- Reinventing the school lunch
- Releasing the music in your head
- Rethinking the music video
- Rich hospital, poor hospital
- Robots that are “self-aware”
- Rolling along, helping students and the third world
- Running on high-tech legs
- Sailing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- Scenes from “The War Tapes”
- Sculpture that’s truly moving
- Second Life, where anything is possible
- Secrets of movement, from geckos and roaches
- Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes
- Security and insecurity
- Seeking salvation and profit in greentech
- Shaking hands with the devil
- Siftables, the toy blocks that think
- Simple designs that could save millions of childrens’ lives
- Simplicity patterns
- Sing a song of sustainable cities
- Sliced bread and other marketing delights
- Slowing down in a world built for speed
- Sound stylings by a human beatbox
- Spinning a story of Mama
- Stephen Hawking hits zero g
- Swim with giant sunfish in the open ocean
- Tackling poverty with “patient capital”
- Take a ride in the Skycar
- Taking the next giant leap in space
- Tales of passion
- Talking and squawking TED2006
- Technology, faith and human shortcomings
- Technology’s Long Tail
- TED Prize wish: Finding new cures for migraine, depression, malpractice
- TED Prize wish: Help build the Encyclopedia of Life
- TED Prize wish: Help stop the next pandemic
- TED Prize wish: Join my call to action on Africa
- TED Prize wish: Let’s build a health care system in Rwanda
- TED Prize wish: Open-source architecture to house the world
- TED Prize wish: Share a vital story with the world
- TED Prize wish: Share the story of Earth’s manufactured landscapes
- TED Prize wish: Unite the world on Pangea Day, a global day of film
- Telling stories of our shared humanity
- The “shadow cities” of the future
- The amazing intelligence of crows
- The art of baking bread
- The art of collecting stories
- The art of creating creatures
- The astonishing promise of DNA folding
- The beckoning promise of personal fabrication
- The birth of the computer
- The brain in love
- The case for informed optimism
- The coming neurological epidemic
- The deep oceans: a ribbon of life
- The design of the universe
- The double helix and today’s DNA mysteries
- The future of design is human-centered
- The illustrated woman
- The Jill and Julia Show
- The joy of rockets
- The lost art of letter-writing
- The making of an African activist
- The moment when social media became the news
- The mystery box
- The omnivore’s next dilemma
- The paradox of choice
- The Pentagon’s new map for war and peace
- The playful search for beauty
- The power and beauty of organic design
- The power of glamour
- The power of saying thank you
- The power of the mobile phone to end poverty
- The power to connect the world
- The powerful link between creativity and play
- The real crisis? We stopped being wise
- The real difference between liberals and conservatives
- The rise of the amateur professional
- The science of love, and the future of women
- The science of scent
- The search for dark energy and dark matter
- The stories and song of Appalachia
- The story of a passionate life
- The story of Ezra, a child soldier
- The story of the Mars Rovers
- The stuff of thought
- The tragedy of suburbia
- The true face of Leonardo Da Vinci?
- The truly soft side of software
- The universe is queerer than we can suppose
- The universe on a string
- The vision behind One Laptop Per Child
- The Web and the city
- The Web and TV, a sibling rivalry
- The Web’s secret stories
- The wisdom of designing Cradle to Cradle
- The wonders of Zulu wire art
- The world now eats (and dies) like Americans
- The worldwide web of belief and ritual
- Theremin, the untouchable music
- Things I have learned in my life so far
- Three things to know before you ski to the North Pole
- Tidying up art
- Tools for building a better world
- Tourist snapshots from North Korea
- Toys that make worlds
- Treating design as art
- Understanding comics
- Underwater astonishments
- Unveiling the genius of multi-touch interface design
- Use my photographs to stop the worldwide XDR-TB epidemic
- Using biology to make better animation
- Wake up! It’s They Might Be Giants
- Way-new collaboration
- Ways of seeing
- We must win the oil endgame
- Welcome to Nollywood
- Welcome to Vaudeville 2.0
- What can fossils teach us?
- What do consumers really want?
- What do we really know about the spread of AIDS?
- What I’m worried about, what I’m excited about
- What is our place in the cosmos?
- What makes a building unique?
- What positive psychology can help you become
- What separates us from the apes?
- What we can learn from spaghetti sauce
- What’s so funny about the Web?
- What’s wrong with what we eat
- When it comes to tech, simplicity sells
- Where does creativity hide?
- Where have the bees gone?
- Who was General Tso? and other mysteries of American Chinese food
- Why a free press is the best investment
- Why are we happy? Why aren’t we happy?
- Why aren’t we all Good Samaritans?
- Why can’t we grow new body parts?
- Why can’t we grow new energy?
- Why design?
- Why do crack dealers still live with their moms?
- Why newspapers still matter (and why tech news belongs on the front page)
- Why people believe strange things
- Why societies collapse
- Why squatter cities are a good thing
- Why the search for alien intelligence matters (TED Prize winner!)
- Why we age and how we can avoid it
- Why we do what we do, and how we can do it better
- Why we don’t understand as much as we think we do
- Why we know less than ever about the world
- Will videogames become better than life?
- WorldWide Telescope
- Yes, design can make you happy
- Your brain is badly wired — enjoy it!
- Your genes are not your fate
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