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!
Why the universe seems so strange | Richard Dawkins
http://www.ted.com Biologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for “thinking the improbable” by looking at how the human frame of reference limits our understanding of the universe.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!
The paradox of choice | Barry Schwartz
http://www.ted.com Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz’s estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!
Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce | Malcolm Gladwell
http://www.ted.com Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry’s pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce — and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!
Eva Vertes: My dream about the future of medicine
http://www.ted.com Eva Vertes — only 19 when she gave this talk — discusses her journey toward studying medicine and her drive to understand the roots of cancer and Alzheimers.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!