What Star Trek can teach scientists: Chris Reddy @ TEDxWoodsHole. Johnny Lee demos Wii Remote hacks. Copyright Math: the best TED Talk you'll watch all year. This may just be the best TED Talk video I've seen: listen.com/Rhapsody founder and extremely funny person (and soon-to-be debut science fiction author) Rob Reid examines the math behind the claims made by the copyright lobby and explains the mindbending awesomeness of the sums used to justify SOPA, PIPA, ACTA and the like.
Here's Ars Technica's Ken Fisher discussing Reid's philosophy: Reid’s goal was to capture and represent some of the rhetoric from that past decade and a half in a way that would fill the hall with laughter, even if some of it came at the expense of some clearly ridiculous industry arguments. “Everyone can laugh at silly infographics,” Reid opined while silently crushing the serious journalism dreams of hacks everywhere. “And who doesn't want to deface a Leave-it-to-Beaver-like Christmas scene with pirate-and-Santa graffiti?” The brilliance of Reid’s talk is that he thoroughly skewers the content industry’s dubious appeal to quantitative reasoning. Report this ad. TED Talks joins Netflix's stable of streaming content. TED. TED-Ed YouTube channel launched: educating the world one video at a time. The non-profit foundation behind the enlightening TED conferences has launched a YouTube education channel called TED-Ed.
Consisting of animated videos less than 10 minutes long, the channel is an "invitation to teachers around the world to submit their best lessons. " After an entry has been accepted, staff will work with the teacher involved to compress and refine the information. Once the educator records the lesson in its final form and uploads it to TED's servers, it's assigned an animator who gets to work on making an engaging yet informative clip.
Each lesson includes captions for the hard of hearing and an Interactive Transcript that lets you click on text to jump to the relevant point in the video. "Right now there's a gifted educator somewhere out there delivering the life-changing lesson. At launch, the channel consists of seven lessons on subjects ranging from Alien Life to Symbiosis, and that count will increase with time. TED: Ideas worth spreading. About TED. TED is a global community, welcoming people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world.
We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and, ultimately, the world. On TED.com, we're building a clearinghouse of free knowledge from the world's most inspired thinkers — and a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other, both online and at TED and TEDx events around the world, all year long. In fact, everything we do — from our TED Talks videos to the projects sparked by the TED Prize, from the global TEDx community to the TED-Ed lesson series — is driven by this goal: How can we best spread great ideas? TED is owned by a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation. Our agenda is to make great ideas accessible and spark conversation. TEDx: Independently organized TED events. TEDxBerkeley 2012.
Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney.