Brian Meece plays a mean ukulele and is CeO of RocketHub, one of the world’s top crowdfunding platforms for scientific and artistic projects – featured in The New York Times, Scientific American, NPR, and The Economist. Brian has lectured on crowdsourced funding at SXSW, Columbia University, NXNEi (Canada’s largest interactive conference), among other colleges, conferences […]
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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-glasses-help-us-see-andrew-bastawrous-and-clare-gilbert Today, glasses help millions of people with poor vision be able to see clearly. But how? Andrew Bastawrous and Clare Gilbert help unravel the answer by explaining refraction — the ability of a transparent medium, like glass, water, or the eye, to change the direction of light passing through it. Lesson […]
Over the last decade, humanitarian organizations have digitized many of their systems, from registering refugees with biometric IDs to transporting cargo via drones. This has helped deliver aid around the world, but it’s also brought new risks to the people it’s meant to protect. Tech and human rights ethicist Aarathi Krishnan points to the dangers […]
Discover how scientists are using crowdsourced DNA to find the causes of untreatable diseases, and developing new drug treatments for them. — When scientists don’t know the cause of a medical condition, developing a drug treatment takes significant trial and error, and lots of money— which is why we only have drugs for a small […]
Explore the technique known as the Socratic Method, which uses questions to examine a person’s values, principles, and beliefs. — Socrates, one of the founding fathers of Western philosophical thought, was on trial. Many believed he was an enemy of the state, accusing the philosopher of corrupting the youth and refusing to recognize their gods. […]
Explore the paradox of welfare programs, and learn how they inadvertently reinforce generational poverty, and what we can do to fix them. — Imagine that you’ve been unemployed for months. Government benefit programs have helped you cover your expenses, but you’re barely getting by. Finally, you receive a paycheck— but there’s a catch. Your new […]
Dr. Chris Barry is a transplant surgeon and researcher at the University of Rochester Medical Center. In this talk, Chris discusses the power of modern transplant surgery to touch people’s lives. He also talks about the obstacles that prevent our society from realizing its true potential to help others through organ donation. His talk resounds […]