http://www.ted.com Designer Ross Lovegrove expounds his philosophy of fat-free design and offers insight into several of his extraordinary products, including the Ty Nant water bottle and the Go chair. ... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!
Amy Smith: Simple designs that could save millions of childrens’ lives
http://www.ted.com Fumes from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in the developing world. MIT engineer Amy Smith details an exciting but simple solution: a tool for turning farm waste into clean-burning charcoal.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!
Mena Trott: How blogs are building a friendlier world
http://www.ted.com The founding mother of the blog revolution, Movable Type’s Mena Trott, talks about the early days of blogging, when she realized that giving regular people the power to share our lives online is the key to building a friendlier, more connected world.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!
Jimmy Wales: How a ragtag band created Wikipedia
http://www.ted.com Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled “a ragtag band of volunteers,” gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!
Nerdcore comedy | Ze Frank
Performer and web toymaker Ze Frank delivers a hilarious nerdcore standup routine, then tells us what he’s seriously passionate about: helping people create and interact using simple, addictive web tools.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!
Why we love, why we cheat | Helen Fisher
http://www.ted.com Anthropologist Helen Fisher takes on a tricky topic — love – and explains its evolution, its biochemical foundations and its social importance. She closes with a warning about the potential disaster inherent in antidepressant abuse.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!
Finding happiness in body and soul | Eve Ensler
http://www.ted.com Eve Ensler, creator of The Vagina Monologues, shares how a discussion about menopause with her friends led to talking about all sorts of sexual acts onstage, waging a global campaign to end violence toward women and finding her own happiness.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!
The freakonomics of McDonalds vs. drugs | Steven Levitt
http://www.ted.com Freakonomics author Steven Levitt presents new data on the finances of drug dealing. Contrary to popular myth, he says, being a street-corner crack dealer isnt lucrative: It pays below minimum wage. And your boss can kill you.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!
David Deutsch: Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars
http://www.ted.com Legendary scientist David Deutsch puts theoretical physics on the back burner to discuss a more urgent matter: the survival of our species. The first step toward solving global warming, he says, is to admit that we have a problem.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!