| American History |
Title and Link |
Run Time |
| Anna Deavere Smith |
Four American characters |
0:23:05 |
| David Hoffman |
Catch Sputnik mania! |
0:03:50 |
| Irwin Redlener |
How to survive a nuclear attack |
0:25:18 |
| Doris Kearns Goodwin |
Learning from past presidents in moments of crisis |
0:18:48 |
| Jennifer 8. Lee |
Who was General Tso? and other mysteries of American Chinese food |
0:16:38 |
| Laurie Garrett |
Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu |
0:21:05 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| World History |
|
|
| Jared Diamond |
Why societies collapse |
0:18:21 |
| Siegfried Woldhek |
The true face of Leonardo Da Vinci? |
0:04:24 |
| Samantha Power |
Shaking hands with the devil |
0:23:09 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Geography |
|
|
| Hans Rosling |
Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you’ve ever seen |
0:19:50 |
| Dr. Dean Ornish |
The world now eats (and dies) like Americans |
0:03:18 |
| Wade Davis |
Cultures at the far edge of the world |
0:22:01 |
| Louise Fresco |
Louise Fresco on feeding the whole world |
0:18:00 |
| Nathan Wolfe |
Hunting the next killer virus |
0:12:20 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Language Arts |
|
|
| Erin McKean |
Redefining the dictionary |
0:15:50 |
| Lakshmi Pratury |
The lost art of letter-writing |
0:04:09 |
| Brewster Kahle |
A digital library, free to the world |
0:20:06 |
| C.K. Williams |
Poetry for all seasons of life |
0:23:17 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Education |
|
|
| Sir Ken Robinson |
Do schools kill creativity? |
0:19:24 |
| Richard Baraniuk |
Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learning |
0:18:34 |
| Alan Kay |
A powerful idea about teaching ideas |
0:20:37 |
| Stuart Brown |
Why play is vital — no matter your age |
0:26:42 |
| Mae Jemison |
Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together |
0:14:48 |
| Sugata Mitra |
Can kids teach themselves? |
0:20:59 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Art |
|
|
| Paola Antonelli |
Treating design as art |
0:18:17 |
| David Macaulay |
All roads lead to Rome Antics |
0:21:35 |
| Margaret Wertheim |
Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral |
0:15:33 |
| Ursus Wehrli |
Tidying up art |
0:15:57 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Music |
|
|
| Sirena Huang |
Dazzling set by 11-year-old violinist |
0:24:41 |
| Jennifer Lin |
Magical improv from 14-year-old pianist |
0:24:05 |
| Caroline Lavelle |
A cello performance that casts a spell |
0:07:39 |
| Pamelia Kurstin |
Theremin, the untouchable music |
0:19:11 |
| Benjamin Zander |
Classical music with shining eyes |
0:20:43 |
| James Burchfield |
Sound stylings by a human beatbox |
0:04:44 |
| Jose Antonio Abreu |
Help me bring music to kids worldwide (TED Prize winner!) |
0:16:58 |
| Eric Lewis |
Striking chords to rock the jazz world |
0:10:36 |
| Natalie MacMaster |
Playing the Cape Breton fiddle |
0:18:47 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Mathematics |
|
|
| Arthur Benjamin |
Lightning calculation and other “Mathemagic” |
0:15:14 |
| Greg Lynn |
How calculus is changing architecture |
0:18:54 |
| Steven Strogatz |
How things in nature tend to sync up |
0:21:58 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Biology |
|
|
| Aubrey de Grey |
Why we age and how we can avoid it |
0:22:45 |
| E.O. Wilson |
TED Prize wish: Help build the Encyclopedia of Life |
0:22:35 |
| Craig Venter |
A voyage of DNA, genes and the sea |
0:16:51 |
| James Watson |
The double helix and today’s DNA mysteries |
0:20:11 |
| Robert Full |
Secrets of movement, from geckos and roaches |
0:19:24 |
| Gregory Stock |
How biotech will drive our evolution |
0:17:51 |
| Bonnie Bassler |
Discovering bacteria’s amazing communication system |
0:18:14 |
| Peter Ward |
Earth’s mass extinctions |
0:19:41 |
| Barry Schuler |
An introduction to genomics |
0:21:26 |
| Kary Mullis |
Celebrating the scientific experiment |
0:29:32 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Physics |
|
|
| Murray Gell-Mann |
Beauty and truth in physics |
0:16:02 |
| Brian Cox |
An inside tour of the world’s biggest supercollider |
0:14:59 |
| Patricia Burchat |
The search for dark energy and dark matter |
0:16:09 |
| Brian Cox |
Brian Cox: What went wrong at the LHC |
0:03:29 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Health/Physical Education |
|
| Ben Saunders |
Three things to know before you ski to the North Pole |
0:18:03 |
| Mark Bittman |
What’s wrong with what we eat |
0:20:08 |
| Ann Cooper |
Reinventing the school lunch |
0:19:42 |
| John Wooden |
Coaching for people, not points |
0:17:36 |
| Matthew Childs |
Matthew Childs’ 9 life lessons from rock climbing |
0:04:48 |
| Dr. Dean Ornish |
Healing and other natural wonders |
0:16:49 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Civics/Government |
|
|
| Ashraf Ghani |
How to fix broken states |
0:18:45 |
| Sasa Vucinic |
Why a free press is the best investment |
0:18:00 |
| Jonathan Haidt |
The real difference between liberals and conservatives |
0:18:42 |
| Nate Silver |
Nate Silver: Does race affect votes? |
0:09:16 |
| Lee Smolin |
How science is like democracy |
0:12:25 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Psychology |
|
|
| Michael Shermer |
Why people believe strange things |
0:13:25 |
| Vilayanur Ramachandran |
A journey to the center of your mind |
0:23:34 |
| Keith Barry |
Brain magic |
0:19:49 |
| Michael Merzenich |
Michael Merzenich on re-wiring the brain |
0:23:07 |
| Elizabeth Gilbert |
A different way to think about creative genius |
0:19:28 |
| Steven Pinker |
Chalking it up to the blank slate |
0:22:42 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Anthropology |
|
|
| Zeresenay Alemseged |
Finding the origins of humanity |
0:15:51 |
| Louise Leakey |
Digging for humanity’s origins |
0:15:36 |
| Spencer Wells |
Building a family tree for all humanity |
0:20:53 |
| Murray Gell-Mann |
Do all languages have a common ancestor? |
0:02:15 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Earth Science/Environment |
|
| Al Gore |
15 ways to avert a climate crisis |
0:16:17 |
| Juan Enriquez |
Why can’t we grow new energy? |
0:18:10 |
| Andy Hobsbawm |
Do the green thing |
0:03:22 |
| Willie Smits |
A 20-year tale of hope: How we re-grew a rainforest |
0:20:42 |
| Sylvia Earle |
Here’s how to protect the blue heart of the planet (TED Prize winner!) |
0:18:16 |
| Bill Gross |
Great ideas for finding new energy |
0:19:55 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Statistics |
|
|
| Peter Donnelly |
How juries are fooled by statistics |
0:21:20 |
| Bruce Bueno de Mesquita |
Three predictions on the future of Iran, and the math to back it up |
0:19:05 |
| Sean Gourley |
Sean Gourley on the mathematics of war |
0:07:19 |
|
|
|
| Economics |
|
|
| Benjamin Wallace |
Does happiness have a price tag? |
0:14:40 |
| Dan Ariely |
Why we think it’s OK to cheat and steal (sometimes) |
0:16:23 |
| Mike Rowe |
Celebrating work — all kinds of work |
0:20:02 |
| Barry Schwartz |
The real crisis? We stopped being wise |
0:20:45 |
| David S. Rose |
10 things to know before you pitch a VC for money |
0:14:39 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Family/Consumer Science |
|
| Peter Reinhart |
The art of baking bread |
0:15:34 |
| Joseph Pine |
What do consumers really want? |
0:14:19 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Technology/Computers in Education |
|
| Evan Williams |
How Twitter’s spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses |
0:08:00 |
| Erik Hersman |
Erik Hersman on reporting crisis via texting |
0:03:56 |
| Tim Berners-Lee |
The next Web of open, linked data |
0:16:23 |
| Brenda Laurel |
Why didn’t girls play videogames? |
0:13:08 |
| Juan Enriquez |
Beyond the crisis, mindboggling science and the arrival of Homo evolutis |
0:18:50 |
| David Merrill |
Siftables, the toy blocks that think |
0:07:09 |
| James Surowiecki |
The moment when social media became the news |
0:16:59 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Astronomy |
|
|
| Penelope Boston |
Life on Mars? Let’s look in the caves |
0:18:29 |
| Jill Tarter |
Why the search for alien intelligence matters (TED Prize winner!) |
0:21:23 |
| George Smoot |
The design of the universe |
0:19:00 |
| Charles Elachi |
The story of the Mars Rovers |
0:28:17 |
| Peter Diamandis |
Taking the next giant leap in space |
0:15:31 |
| Freeman Dyson |
Let’s look for life in the outer solar system |
0:19:11 |
![[Post to Twitter]](/wp_content/plugins/tweet_this/icons/tt_twitter_big3.png){kind=icon}
[...] Mummert has just today published an incredible post titled TED Talks Demystified For Teachers. In it, he highlights the videos that he thinks are particularly useful and divides them by subject [...]
admin
on June 3rd, 2009
[...] TED Talks Demystified for Teachers | The History Teacher’s Attichistoryteachersattic.com [...]
admin
on June 3rd, 2009
[...] This post was Twitted by sguilana – Real-url.org [...]
admin
on June 4th, 2009
[...] You Should Follow and Learn from on Twitter Matasano Chargen Blog Archive Typing The Letters A-E-S TED Talks Demystified for Teachers SMAP Epiphenom: Atheist nations are more peaceful Graph Editor Gizmodo – Stem Cell Contact [...]
admin
on June 4th, 2009
[...] This post was Twitted by uSchoolme – Real-url.org [...]
admin
on June 4th, 2009
[...] This post was Twitted by highpriestess – Real-url.org [...]
admin
on June 4th, 2009
[...] TED Talks Demystified for Teachers | The History Teacher’s Attic [...]
admin
on June 5th, 2009
[...] This post was Twitted by RhinoRuss – Real-url.org [...]
admin
on June 6th, 2009
[...] This post was Twitted by digizen – Real-url.org [...]
admin
on June 6th, 2009
[...] TED Talks Demystified for Teachers | The History Teacher’s Attic [...]
admin
on June 7th, 2009
[...] This post was Twitted by joevans – Real-url.org [...]
admin
on June 8th, 2009
[...] This post was Twitted by joevans – Real-url.org [...]
admin
on June 8th, 2009
[...] TED Talks Demystified for Teachers | The History Teacher#39;s Attic [...]
admin
on June 9th, 2009
[...] preview several of the talks on the list, organized them by traditional school discipline, and then blogged his list. (He notes that many of the talks are really [...]
admin
on June 10th, 2009
[...] TED Talks Demystified for Teachers | The History Teacher’s Attic [...]
admin
on June 11th, 2009