Robert Full: How engineers learn from evolution
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Added June 20, 2008
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Frank Gehry: From 1990, defending a vision for architecture
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Added April 08, 2008
Speaking at TED in 1990, the not-yet-legendary architect Frank Gehry takes a whistlestop tour of his work to date, from his own Venice Beach house to the under-construction American Center in Paris. In this 50-minute slideshow (before TED's 18-minute limit), Gehry explains the site-specific natur...
TED Talks: libertar a música que nos vai na cabeça
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Added May 26, 2008
Tod Machover do MIT’s Media Lab inventou a tecnologia musical que está por trás do jogo Guitar Hero, e no TED2008 fala sobre o que virá a seguir. “Ouvejam” algumas interfaces novas para a música - para tocar, compor, ouvir, desfrutar.
Machover introduz Dan Ellsey, um compositor com pa...
David Macaulay: All roads lead to Rome Antics
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Added April 08, 2008
Despite a love and fascination for Rome dating to his days as an architecture student, David Macaulay found the path to his book Rome Antics took some unusual (and frustrating) turns. Through failed pop-up designs, scribbled out title possibilities, surreal sketchbook pages (think "Piranesi meets...
TED | Talks | Clifford Stoll
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Added March 27, 2008
I loved Stoll's book "The Cukoo's Egg" - awesome account of tracking a hacker.
TED Talks - Patient Capitalism
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Added January 17, 2008
Jacqueline Novogratz is pioneering new ways of tackling poverty. In her view, traditional charity rarely delivers lasting results. Her solution, outlined here through a series of revealing personal stories, is "patient capital": support for "bottom of the pyramid" businesses which the commercial ...
TED Talks - Amory Lovins on winning the oil endgame
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Added January 17, 2008
Energy guru Amory Lovins lays out his plan for weaning the US off oil and revitalizing the economy in the process. It's the subject of his book Winning the Oil Endgame, and he makes it sound fairly simple: On one hand, the deadly risks of continued dependency, and on the other, some win-win solut...
