TEDTalks Videos

TEDTalks Videos

To grasp the essence of TED, check out some of the short 20-minute TEDTalks available on an array of topics at TED.com, or download them from iTunes. They might even spur you to do something big and wonderful yourself… After all, that’s the point.

The secret of TED is that it’s not about the talks. It’s about the people we can become when we are intimately exposed to world-class thinkers and ideas.

Join our Facebook group (search Facebook for TEDxAsheville) for weekly online discussion of Asheville’s favorite TEDTalks.

2010 Suggested TEDTalks

TED and How To Save Our Oceans

2009 Suggested Videos

Jill Bolte Taylor (brain scientist who observed herself having a massive stroke)

Wade Davis (endangered languages and cultures)

Tod Machover (music and technology)

Pamela Kurstin (theremin music)

Kenichi Ebina (don’t forget the ‘E’ in TED stands for ‘entertainment’)

Hans Rosling (statistics of the developing world)

Fairview’s own David Holt (Appalachian music and culture)

Paul Stamets) (six ways mushrooms can save the world

Mae Jemison (teaching arts and science together)

Posts

TED and How To Save Our Oceans

… some big ideas from TED presenters and others on saving our oceans. Continue reading →

 

Celebrating the 500th TEDTalk!

Today, TED.com releases its 500th TEDTalk: perennial favorite Hans Rosling’s latest data-bubble presentation from TED@State Continue reading →

 

TEDxAsheville By the Numbers: 15

At TED conferences each speaker is challenged to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Continue reading →

 

Evelyn Glennie shows how to listen; filmed Feb 2003

 

David Gallo shows underwater astonishments; filmed Mar 2007

 

Wade Davis on endangered cultures; filmed Feb 2003

 

Tod Machover and Dan Ellsey play new music; filmed Mar 2008