Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics
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http://www.ted.com Armed with a sense of humor and laypeople's terms, Nobel winner Murray Gell-Mann drops some knowledge on TEDsters about particle physics, asking questions like, Are elegant equations more likely to be right than inelegant ones? TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, wher... Read more
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- -: Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics
December 7, 2007 (over 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Armed with a sense of humor and laypeople's terms, Nobel winner Murray Gell-Mann drops some knowledge on TEDsters about particle physics, asking questions like, Are elegant equations more likely to be right than inelegant ones? TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best ta...
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- -: Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind
March 27, 2008 (about 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Clifford Stoll could talk about the atmosphere of Jupiter. Or hunting KGB hackers. Or Klein bottles, computers in classrooms, the future. But he's not going to. Which is fine, because it would be criminal to confine a man with interests as multifarious as Stoll's to give a tal...
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- -: Sugata Mitra's new experiments in self-teaching
September 7, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Indian education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to...
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- -: Laboratory Experiments with Reputation Mechanisms For...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks August 22, 2007 ABSTRACT Reputation mechanisms facilitate economic transactions with asymmetric information, such as buying a used car, using eBay or relying on web page links. In contrast to expensive legal proceedings to enforce contracts, reputation encourages voluntary coo...
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- -: The Evolution of Fairness - Michael Shermer
February 21, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/01/17/Michael_Shermer_Mind_of_the_Market Psychologist Michael Shermer argues that our concept of "fairness" in economics has evolved over time. ----- Michael Shermer discusses his newest book The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans,...
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- -: Greatest Experiments: Discovering Oxygen
July 3, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/05/01/George_Johnson-The_Ten_Most_Beautiful_Experiments New York Times science writer George Johnson names Antoine Lavoisier's discovery of oxygen as one of the "Ten Most Beautiful Experiments" in science history. ----- George Johnson, acclaimed New York ...
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- -: Creating Synthetic DNA - Drew Endy
December 10, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/11/17/Drew_Endy_and_Jim_Thomas_Debate_Synthetic_Biology Stanford biologist Drew Endy discusses exponential growth in the field of bioengineering. Endy explains how scientists are now able to synthesize strands of DNA in a process similar to how computer eng...
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- -: We're All Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely
January 13, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Dan Ariely, a professor of behavioral economics at Duke University, presents examples of cognitive illusions that help illustrate why humans make predictably irrational decisions. EG is the celebration of the American entertainment industry. Since 1984, Richard Saul Wurman has created extraordin...
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- -: Cooking with Liquid Nitrogen - Ferran Adria and Harold McGee
March 18, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/10/10/Ferran_Adria_A_Day_at_elBulli Chef Ferran Adria, head chef of elBulli, and Harold McGee, author of On Food and Cooking, describe how liquid nitrogen is used in restaurant kitchens to create innovative dishes like alcohol sorbets and frozen pistachio p...
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- -: Can Video Games Predict the Next Financial Crisis? - Tom Chatfield
February 11, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/12/Fun_Inc_Games_as_the_Business_of_the_21st_Century Fun Inc. author Tom Chatfield presents virtual gaming worlds as laboratories for experimenting with human behavioral tendencies. He argues that in-game economic behavior is a "very, very good model" fo...
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