Diana Greene Foster: What happens when we deny people abortions?
How does getting an abortion — or not — influence a woman's life? Demographer Diana Greene Foster puts forward the results of The Turnaway Study, her landmark work following nearly 1,000 women through abortion or childbirth, presenting definitive data on the long-term physical, mental and economic impacts of the right to choose on pregnant peopl...
Annie Bosler and Don Greene: How to practice effectively...for just about anything
Mastering any physical skill takes practice. Practice is the repetition of an action with the goal of improvement, and it helps us perform with more ease, speed, and confidence. But what does practice actually do to make us better at things? Annie Bosler and Don Greene explain how practice affects the inner workings of our brains. [Directed by M...
Danny Hillis: Understanding cancer through proteomics
Danny Hills makes a case for the next frontier of cancer research: proteomics, the study of proteins in the body. As Hillis explains it, genomics shows us a list of the ingredients of the body -- while proteomics shows us what those ingredients produce. Understanding what's going on in your body at the protein level may lead to a new understandi...
Stewart Brand: The Long Now
Jake Barton: The museum of you
A third of the world watched live as the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001; a third more heard about it within 24 hours. (Do you remember where you were?) So exhibits at the soon-to-open 9/11 Memorial Museum will reflect the diversity of the world's experiences of that day. In a moving talk, designer Jake Barton gives a peek at ...
Stewart Brand and Chris Anderson: Mammoths resurrected, geoengineering and other thoughts from a futurist
Stewart Brand is a futurist, counterculturist and visionary with a very wide-ranging mind. In conversation with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Brand discusses ... just about everything: human nature, bringing back the wooly mammoth, geoengineering, rewilding and science as organized skepticism -- plus the story of an acid trip on a San Francisco ro...
Deanna Van Buren: What a world without prisons could look like
Deanna Van Buren designs restorative justice centers that, instead of taking the punitive approach used by a system focused on mass incarceration, treat crime as a breach of relationships and justice as a process where all stakeholders come together to repair that breach. With help and ideas from incarcerated men and women, Van Buren is creating...
Kevin Kelly: How technology evolves
Danny Green: Time Lapse To Fall
Written in September 2016, “Time Lapse To Fall,” was inspired by the imagery of the change in scenery from summer to fall. Summer is represented by the opening theme in Ab Major, whereas fall is represented in more introspective second theme, played in F minor. Pianist and composer Danny Green is joined by bassist Justin Grinnell, drummer Julie...
Danny Green: Katabasis
The word katabasis describes a storyline in which the protagonist journeys down to the underworld and emerges with heightened knowledge. The piece takes a similar journey, featuring a haunting melody played by cellist Erica Erenyi. Pianist and composer Danny Green is also joined by bassist Justin Grinnell, drummer Julien Cantelm, and violinist I...
Ines Irawati & Danny Green: When Opportunity Knocks
Pianist and composer Danny Green wrote "When Opportunity Knocks" as a special piece to be debuted at TEDxSanDiego with classical pianist Ines Irawati. Featuring two pianos, bass, drums, and strings, this work combines elements of jazz and classical music. Pianists Green and Irawati are joined by bassist Justin Grinnell, drummer Julien Cantelm, v...
Diana Green: Shifting Financial Gears
Green explores the opposing forces that influence our values about money, including now vs. later and wants vs. needs. Based in Grand Junction, Colorado, Diana is a CPA with more than 20 years of experience in personal finance. She founded the money management website Buck the Budget and is the author of Money for Teenagers.
Donna Korren: The Newest Workforce Disruptors are Over 50!
Did you know that some of the most successful companies have been started by people over 50? There is a growing wave of individuals in the 50+ demographic who are rejoining the workforce, establishing new businesses or pursuing second careers. This trend is transforming the workplace, leading the way for dynamic, inter-generational teams and...
Dawnn Karen: Styling from Inside Out™
Karin van der Tuin: Your DNA code in the cloud?