TED Talks Daily (SD video) show

TED Talks Daily (SD video)

Summary: TED is a nonprofit devoted to ideas worth spreading. On this video feed, you'll find TED Talks to inspire, intrigue and stir the imagination from some of the world's leading thinkers and doers, speaking from the stage at TED conferences, TEDx events and partner events around the world. This podcast is also available in high-def video and audio-only formats.

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 TED: Michael Archer: How we'll resurrect the gastric brooding frog, the Tasmanian tiger - Michael Archer (2013) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:17:36

The gastric brooding frog lays its eggs just like any other frog -- then swallows them whole to incubate. That is, it did until it went extinct 30 years ago. Paleontologist Michael Archer makes a case to bring back the gastric brooding frog and the thylacine, commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger. (Filmed at TEDxDeExtinction.)

 TED: Bob Mankoff: Anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon - Bob Mankoff (2013) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:20:59

The New Yorker receives around 1,000 cartoons each week; it only publishes about 17 of them. In this hilarious, fast-paced, and insightful talk, the magazine's longstanding cartoon editor and self-proclaimed "humor analyst" Bob Mankoff dissects the comedy within just some of the "idea drawings" featured in the magazine, explaining what works, what doesn't, and why.

 TED: Peter Attia: Is the obesity crisis hiding a bigger problem? - Peter Attia (2013) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:15:58

As a young surgeon, Peter Attia felt contempt for a patient with diabetes. She was overweight, he thought, and thus responsible for the fact that she needed a foot amputation. But years later, Attia received an unpleasant medical surprise that led him to wonder: is our understanding of diabetes right? Could the precursors to diabetes cause obesity, and not the other way around? A look at how assumptions may be leading us to wage the wrong medical war.

 TED: Lesley Hazleton: The doubt essential to faith - Lesley Hazleton (2013) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:13:45

When Lesley Hazleton was writing a biography of Muhammad, she was struck by something: The night he received the revelation of the Koran, according to early accounts, his first reaction was doubt, awe, even fear. And yet this experience became the bedrock of his belief. Hazleton calls for a new appreciation of doubt and questioning as the foundation of faith -- and an end to fundamentalism of all kinds.

 TED: Camille Seaman: Photos from a storm chaser - Camille Seaman (2013) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:03:26

Photographer Camille Seaman has been chasing storms for 5 years. In this talk she shows stunning, surreal photos of the heavens in tumult.

 TED: Paul Pholeros: How to reduce poverty? Fix homes - Paul Pholeros (2013) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:17:39

In 1985, architect Paul Pholeros was challenged by the director of an Aboriginal-controlled health service to "stop people getting sick" in a small indigenous community in south Australia. The key insights: think beyond medicine and fix the local environment. In this sparky, interactive talk, Pholeros describes projects undertaken by Healthabitat, the organization he now runs to help reduce poverty--through practical design fixes--in Australia and beyond. (Filmed at TEDxSydney.)

 TED: Joseph Kim: The family I lost in North Korea. And the family I gained. - Joseph Kim (2013) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:21:23

A refugee now living in the US, Joseph Kim tells the story of his life in North Korea during the famine years. He's begun to create a new life -- but he still searches for the family he lost.

 TED: Juliana Rotich: Meet BRCK, Internet access built for Africa - Juliana Rotich (2013) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:09:33

Tech communities are booming all over Africa, says Nairobi-based Juliana Rotich, cofounder of the open-source software Ushahidi. But it remains challenging to get and stay connected in a region with frequent blackouts and spotty Internet hookups. So Rotich and friends developed BRCK, offering resilient connectivity for the developing world.

 TED: Didier Sornette: How we can predict the next financial crisis - Didier Sornette (2013) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:17:01

The 2007-2008 financial crisis, you might think, was an unpredictable one-time crash. But Didier Sornette and his Financial Crisis Observatory have plotted a set of early warning signs for unstable, growing systems, tracking the moment when any bubble is about to pop. (And he's seeing it happen again, right now.)

 TED: Manal al-Sharif: A Saudi woman who dared to drive - Manal al-Sharif (2013) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:14:16

There's no actual law against women driving in Saudi Arabia. But it's forbidden. Two years ago, Manal al-Sharif decided to encourage women to drive by doing so -- and filming herself for YouTube. Hear her story of what happened next.

 TED: Daniel Suarez: The kill decision shouldn't belong to a robot - Daniel Suarez (2013) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:13:20

As a novelist, Daniel Suarez spins dystopian tales of the future. But on the TEDGlobal stage, he talks us through a real-life scenario we all need to know more about: the rise of autonomous robotic weapons of war. Advanced drones, automated weapons and AI-powered intelligence-gathering tools, he suggests, could take the decision to make war out of the hands of humans.

 TED: George Papandreou: Imagine a European democracy without borders - George Papandreou (2013) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:20:06

Greece has been the poster child for European economic crisis, but former Prime Minister George Papandreou wonders if it's just a preview of what's to come. “Our democracies," he says, "are trapped by systems that are too big to fail, or more accurately, too big to control” -- while "politicians like me have lost the trust of their peoples." How to solve it? Have citizens re-engage more directly in a new democratic bargain.

 TED: Raffaello D'Andrea: The astounding athletic power of quadcopters - Raffaello D'Andrea (2013) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:16:08

In a robot lab at TEDGlobal, Raffaello D'Andrea demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that help them learn. In a series of nifty demos, D'Andrea show drones that play catch, balance and make decisions together -- and watch out for an I-want-this-now demo of Kinect-controlled quads.

 TED: Andrew McAfee: What will future jobs look like? - Andrew McAfee (2013) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:14:15

Economist Andrew McAfee suggests that, yes, probably, droids will take our jobs -- or at least the kinds of jobs we know now. In this far-seeing talk, he thinks through what future jobs might look like, and how to educate coming generations to hold them.

 TED: Martin Villeneuve: How I made an impossible film - Martin Villeneuve (2013) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:10:55

Filmmaker Martin Villeneuve talks about Mars et Avril, the Canadian sci-fi spectacular he made with virtually no money. In a charming talk, he explains the various ways he overcame financial and logistical constraints to produce his unique and inventive vision of the future.

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