Almost everything we own and use, at some point, travels to us by container ship, through a vast network of ocean routes and ports that most of us know almos...

As a physicist, Max Tegmark sees people as "food, rearranged." That makes his answer to complicated questions like "What is consciousness?" simple: It's just...

No stranger to what makes farming successful, Clara Coleman has a clear plan for a new collaborative farming model that responds to today's particular challe...

Man Ngai-shuen's daughter brags to her classmates that she has her own bed. This might seem an unusual thing to be proud of, but for this family of three, li...

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.

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Former senator (D-CO) and presidential candidate Gary Hart co-chaired The U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century, a body that before 9/11 ...

Clips from Dr Joe's Introductory Lecture of Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself. During this video, you will be inspired, while you laugh, and enjoy learnin...