when I was young there was an amazing publication called the whole earth catalog which was one of the Bibles of
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when I was young there was an amazing publication called the whole earth catalog which was one of the Bibles of
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford
when I was young there was an amazing publication called the whole earth catalog which was one of the Bibles of
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford
Notions Stewart and his team put out several issues of the whole earth catalog and then when it had run its
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford
and travel around the world: every education system on earth has the same hierarchy of subjects. Every one. Doesn't matter where you go.
Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED
At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities. At the bottom are the arts. Everywhere on earth. And in pretty much every system, too, there's a hierarchy within the arts.
Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED
Our education system has mined our minds in the way that we strip-mine the earth for a particular commodity. And for the future, it won't serve us.
Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED
There was a wonderful quote by Jonas Salk, who said, "If all the insects were to disappear from the Earth, within 50 years, all life on Earth would end.
Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED
"If all the insects were to disappear from the Earth, within 50 years, all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth,
Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED
within 50 years, all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within 50 years, all forms of life would flourish."
Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED
how we are stripping the ocean of the wild creatures that maintain Earth as a habitable planet. When I voiced concerns,
We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED
Elements of the universe are moving from one creature to another, keeping Earth's chemistry within safe operating space. I was told 50 years ago to be afraid of sharks.
We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED
new submarines that inspire action. In same week, Google launched the first 10 Hope Spots on Google Earth. In 2010, at a TED at Sea expedition to the Galapagos Islands,
We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED
where it's cold, it's dark, it's high pressure, but it's where most of life on Earth actually exists. The merger of new technology and ancient wisdom.
We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED
Armed with greater knowledge than has ever existed before, we are the luckiest people ever to have arrived on Earth. We can choose the future we want.
We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED
That's your North Star. That puts you ahead of 95 percent on Earth in terms of taking ownership of what you want to do with your own life.
5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED
childhood in the real world with real people. So what on earth do we do about the robot teachers and all of the other
How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED
A couple of examples. First of all, people noticed that the Earth was below, the sky above, and both the Sun and the Moon seemed to go around them.
Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones
Their guessed explanation was that the Earth must be the center of the universe. The prediction: everything should circle around the Earth.
Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones
was that the Earth must be the center of the universe. The prediction: everything should circle around the Earth. This was first really tested
Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones
He then used those moons to follow the path of Jupiter and found that Jupiter also was not going around the Earth but around the Sun.
Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones
And this led to the discarding of the theory that the Earth was the center of the universe. Another example: Sir Isaac Newton noticed that things fall to the Earth.
Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones
that the Earth was the center of the universe. Another example: Sir Isaac Newton noticed that things fall to the Earth. The guessed explanation was gravity,
Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones
The guessed explanation was gravity, the prediction that everything should fall to the Earth. But of course, not everything does fall to the Earth.
Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones
the prediction that everything should fall to the Earth. But of course, not everything does fall to the Earth. So did we discard gravity?
Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones
So did we discard gravity? No. We revised the theory and said, gravity pulls things to the Earth unless there is an equal and opposite force in the other direction.
Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones
and it will display it on a screen and then give you a selfie in space with the Earth photobombing you. (Laughter)
Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED
You see, two billion years ago, life on Earth was mostly single-celled until bacteria figured out a new trick, photosynthesis,
Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED
Now at the time, oxygen was poison. It shredded the delicate chemistry that nearly all life on Earth depended on, and the planet changed faster than life could keep up with.
Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED
Some scientists call what followed the first mass extinction event in Earth's history. But somewhere in that dying world, an extraordinary thing happened.
Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED
The smaller cell became what we now call the mitochondria, the little powerhouse inside almost every complex cell on earth. That merger created an energy surplus so vast,
Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED
It doesn't take much to notice what happened the last time a new apex intelligence arrived here on Earth. That intelligence was us.
Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED
It also happens to be where I practice law. The most powerful court on earth. Nine minds ready to attack --
What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED
The president dusts off a 1977 law and imposes tariffs on virtually every country on earth. No congressional vote --
What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED
Well, a computer simulation of a hurricane does not create real wind. computer simulation of a black hole doesn’t suck the Earth into its algorithmic singularity.
Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED
Now the seductive power of this vision -- of being at such a pivotal point in the history of life on Earth -- I suppose it's understandable.
Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED
you do it with your life. And our nation is the only place on Earth where the number of Jews after World War II
What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED
If getting married makes you happy, why is it that the happiest places on Earth feature the most people going solo?
Stop Telling Single People to Get Married | Peter McGraw | TED · TED
They care that I show up on time and that I'm a good teammate. It’s a weekly reminder that I exist on this Earth to do more than just produce economic value.
How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED
Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do. And what is it specifically about creative ventures
Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert
And it would come barreling down at her over the landscape. And she felt it coming, because it would shake the earth under her feet. She knew that she had only one thing to do at that point,
Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert
There would not be much motion to watch at first, since that is way before the dawn of complex life on Earth. If this were a 20-episode TV show,
What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED · TED
In 2024, the global extent of coral bleaching reached 53 countries and every ocean on Earth. By 2050, 90 percent of corals could be lost,
A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED
My faith tradition tells me that Noah was commanded to save the species of this Earth. I think we have a moral obligation as well.
Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED
are installed near the industrial clusters of Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. And actually, if you go on Google Earth and just look at a random spot somewhere in Pakistan, in these cities,
Solar Energy Is Even Cheaper Than You Think | Jenny Chase | TED · TED
attain the heavens even though we're bound to Earth the same applies to our own stories
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And this photo, taken in 2016, feels like one of those quiet moments where the Earth shifted beneath us, but not everyone noticed.
The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED
On one papyrus, it was written that when the Sun god cried, his tears fell to Earth and became bees that made honey for the people.
Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED · TED
smiles that they would never even see. And turning the Earth’s literal most mundane object into a love letter. In Jackson, Tennessee, one of our longtime Giving Tuesday leaders, Allison,
How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED
in small elite summits. One of the cool new things about AI is our AI can talk to everybody on Earth, and we can learn the collective value preference of what everybody wants,
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025
um the use cases for AI every day are becoming more and more Earth changing and that will reduce waste that will
The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED
We can feed humanity within the environmental limits of the earth, but there's a very small margin of error.
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED
it down by the numbers. This is the land that we use on earth just to grow our crops, here in green.
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED
roughly a third of all the greenhouse gases on earth. In other words, we
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED
These strategies are not earth-shattering. They're things that
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED
We can eat within the environmental limits of the Earth. But, we need to get going.
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED
Peg, which is the stupidest game on earth, where you throw a knife at each other's feet.
How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED
pushing a packet of marigold seeds into the earth, like my mother did. Her hands, so holy.
“Marigolds,” a Poem About Wonder | Safiya Sinclair | TED · TED
i'll write a story right by writing it into tomorrow on this earth more than worth standing for
Amanda Gorman: Using your voice is a political choice | TED · TED
And it is possible. We have microbes on Earth that can handle a range of extreme conditions
How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED
to ever grow anything again. But that spring, there were new buds popping up from the earth. When I meet you, in that moment,
If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay
stoop by the mint bed, scoop a fistful of moist earth, then grope for a chair,
4 Powerful Poems about Parkinson's and Growing Older | Robin Morgan | TED Talks · TED
actually inevitable? If literally no one on Earth wanted this to happen, would the laws of physics push the AI out into society?
Why AI Is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation | Tristan Harris | TED · TED
that this good news is not uncomplicated. 100 years ago, there were less than two billion people on earth. Today there's almost eight billion and counting.
Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | TED · TED
My parents were really lucky. They met each other at the first Earth Summit in 1992, and they kept seeing each other at climate events for years to come
Your Inner Fire Is Your Greatest Strength | Xiye Bastida | TED · TED
I remember looking up at the sky and wondering: Was the Earth moving? Was the sun moving? Or was I moving? And I filled the rest of the time by reading books about fantasy lands.
Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED
It can't be the end of the story, because life hasn't died off the face of the earth. So I was curious:
The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn
if such wear and tear is inevitable, how on earth does Mother Nature make sure we can keep our chromosomes intact?
The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn
the famous 1952 primordial soup experiment, the one that showed us how life began on Earth. But with one tiny change.
The Thrill of Not Knowing All the Answers | Harini Bhat | TED · TED
Translation? Life on Earth may have started hundreds of millions of years earlier than we thought.
The Thrill of Not Knowing All the Answers | Harini Bhat | TED · TED
to allow us to experience things with emotion and feel the context of why we’re here on Earth. We saw that they even dive together,
A Whale’s-Eye-View of the Ocean | Eric Stackpole | TED · TED
And Google, you know, had and still has the most computers. CA: So Earth is building these giant computers that are going to basically, these giant brains,
How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED
From the very first microscopic organisms, life on Earth stretches back billions of years. Over that time, life evolved and diversified.
What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED
and these really are the very most appropriate metaphors that we have today. Since the beginning of life on Earth, we've been evolving, changing
What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED
He was disgusted when talking to me, as if he was saying to himself, "If this was the last girl on Earth, I wouldn't look at her!" What's the meaning of saying "menu" in Arabic?
Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language
or a 10,000-kilometer collider floating in space between the Earth and the Moon, we still find no new particles?
How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham
and because climate change meant that every centimeter of the Earth was altered by man, then nature was over.
Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it | Emma Marris
staring as Al Gore projected graphs that showed how quickly we were devouring the Earth. And how good we were at pretending otherwise.
Clover Hogan: What to do when climate change feels unstoppable | TED · TED
No coincidence that the president of the strongest nation on Earth is half-Kenyan, partly raised in Indonesia,
Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED
that soon there will be more of us than there are Americans. Already, we represent the fifth-largest nation on Earth. And in fact, in Canada's largest city, Toronto,
Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED
How do we reclaim our beautiful and complex systems of natural food, food given to us lovingly by Mother Earth according to her own rhythm, food prepared by our foremothers with joy
What foods did your ancestors love? Aparna Pallavi
An indigenous medicine woman once told me that love is to walk on Mother Earth as her most beloved child,
What foods did your ancestors love? Aparna Pallavi
inspired me to explode a chain of big footprints that traversed the Earth. The footprints would evoke extraterrestrials
A Firework Ladder to the Sky — and the Magic of Explosive Art | Cai Guo-Qiang | TED · TED
In the early '90s, I conceived a work titled Sky ladder, a ladder made of fireworks that would connect heaven and Earth. I made many failed attempts to realize the idea over 21 years.
A Firework Ladder to the Sky — and the Magic of Explosive Art | Cai Guo-Qiang | TED · TED
And the first words that I spoke were in Washington, D.C., on the 20th anniversary of Earth Day. And my family and friends had gathered there to hear me speak.
John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED
it was seven years and one day it took me to walk across the United States. And on Earth Day, 1990 -- the 20th anniversary of Earth Day -- that’s when I began to speak.
John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED
And on Earth Day, 1990 -- the 20th anniversary of Earth Day -- that’s when I began to speak. And that’s why I said, "Thank you for being here."
John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED