Beau Lotto's color games puzzle your vision, but they also spotlight what you can't normally see: how your brain works. This fun, first-hand look at your own versatile sense of sight reveals how evolution tints your perception of what's really out there.
"The Age of Stupid" premier, sponsored by MoveOn.org, Greenpeace, and Tck Tck Tck! is Monday night, September 21st!
http://www.ageofstupid.net/usa
Featuring Thom Yorke of Radiohead, Nobel Peace Prize recipient Kofi Anna, Moby, and host Gillian Anderson, plus other celebrity guests and climate experts.
Journalist Misha Glenny spent several years in a courageous investigation of organized crime networks worldwide, which have grown to an estimated 15% of the global economy. From the Russian mafia, to giant drug cartels, his sources include not just intelligence and law enforcement officials but criminal insiders.
Sensing the motives, beliefs, feelings of loved ones and strangers is a natural talent for humans. But how do we do it? Here, Rebecca Saxe shares fascinating lab work that uncovers how the brain thinks about other peoples' thoughts -- and judges their actions.
As we reboot the world's economy, Geoff Mulgan poses a question: Instead of sending bailout money to doomed old industries, why not use stimulus funds to bootstrap some new, socially responsible companies -- and make the world a little bit better?
The varieties of wheat, corn and rice we grow today may not thrive in a future threatened by climate change. Cary Fowler takes us inside a vast global seed bank, buried within a frozen mountain in Norway, that stores a diverse group of food-crop for whatever tomorrow may bring.
Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories -- and maybe, a way forward.
For five years, young Emmanuel Jal fought as a child soldier in the Sudan. Rescued by an aid worker, he's become an international hip-hop star and an activist for kids in war zones. In words and lyrics, he tells the story of his amazing life.
Too much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it -- inventing the portable Lifesaver filter, which can make the most revolting water drinkable in seconds. An amazing demo from TEDGlobal 2009.
View higher quality without subtitles at:
http://vimeo.com/5912986
Danny Zoukidis finds out that his girlfriend has been abducted by the evil Dr Skunky and he tries to save her with help from his mysterious friend...
A film made by the kids of the creativity group "Filming and Special Effects", at the summer camp Happy Children - Happy Youth (July 2009).
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