- The virtual dissection table: Jack Choi at TED2012
As it happens, the majority of anatomy classes don’t actually have access to dead bodies. This stark, somewhat gruesome topic is the focus of the next talk in The Lab, where Jack Choi is demonstrating a virtual dissection table developed to help students learn about anatomy and dissection without the need to get wrist-deep in [...]
- The only way to learn to fly is to fly: Regina Dugan at TED2012
“Be nice to nerds…” As the opening slide from a TEDTalk, not too surprising. As the opening line from Regina Dugan, the director of DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), kind of ominous. But the projects she demonstrated are extraordinary, and how they get there, even more so. If you want to understand how, ask [...]
- Scooter at TED2012 (Yes, the Muppet!)
Photo: James Duncan Davidson “Bye, Lisa, I’m off to the TED Conference!” That’s what Scooter announced just before being grabbed by a hook and pulled into a series of wonderful events. So, there was a delay, but he made it. And what he didn’t mention in the movie is: He was a speaker! On stage [...]
- The Lab: Session 4 at TED2012
Because experimentation and innovation form the stuff of TED… In this session: How will we talk, work, live with robots? Henrik Scharfe and his robot double, Geminoid-DK, want to know. Regina Dugan directs the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the DoD innovation engine responsible for creating and preventing strategic surprise. Jack Choi is [...]
- Visualizing the full spectrum of TED2012: A TED Fellow maps the world’s reaction
On the TED Fellows blog, Senior Fellow Jon Gosier writes: Tuesday morning at TED, Steve Bratt of the World Wide Web Foundation gave a great talk about building an index to measure how humanity uses the web. Not just to measure scale but interaction and user behavior. While he’s working on that, metaLayer decided to [...]
- Climb the staircase to self-transcendence: Jonathan Haidt at TED2012
Photo: James Duncan Davidason Author and UVA psychology professor Jonathan Haidt kicks off his TED2012 talk with a provocative question: “how many of you think of yourselves as religious?” Some people raise their hands, but not so many. Another question: “Do you think of yourselves as spiritual in any shape or form?” The majority of people [...]
- How do we fix medicine? Atul Gawande at TED2012
Photo: James Duncan Davidson How do we get good at anything? Doctor Atul Gawande opens his talk at TED2012 by asking that question. He writes as well as practices medicine, and constantly has to confront that question about everything in his life. But there’s a new crisis, the incredible cost of healthcare. The fight is framed as: [...]
- How to spark inner creativity: Julie Burstein at TED2012
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Julie Burstein is waving a pot at us. She is a fan of pottery, it turns out, and she starts off her talk by describing the Raku tradition, generally found in Japanese tea ceremonies. What’s particularly wonderful about Raku, she says, is both the speed at which pots are made and [...]
- Reason vs. compassion: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein and Steven Pinker at TED2012
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Steven Pinker is a linguist and psychologist. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a philosopher and novelist. The pair are also married, and they have taken to the TED stage, in front of a dinner table with several luminaries, to have a very public argument, or, in their rather more academic terms, a Socratic [...]
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