TED & Talks

http://www.ted.com 2012 may be the year of 3D printing, when this three-decade-old technology finally becomes accessible and even commonplace. Lisa Harouni gives a useful introduction to this fascinating way of making things — including intricate objects once impossible to create. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED
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Stressed? Use This Breathing Technique to Improve Your Attention and Memory, New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Your state of mind affects how you breathe, and how you breathe determines your emotional state. Here is a breathing technique to restore calmness, concentration,
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Having trouble following traditional time management techniques? Hitesh Choudhary enlightens us on how modern time management is an unorthodox process. Instead of plain abstinence from distractions, or waking up early, one must utilize these distractions to one’s advantage. Time cannot be managed head on, one must manage the things that take up time instead. A
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New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- It’s easy to stumble down a rabbit hole when we consider the action beneficial like checking emails, stock prices, or sports scores.However, if these seemingly beneficial actions take the place of something else we intended to
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NOTE FROM TED: Please do not look to this talk for medical advice and consult a medical professional before adopting an intermittent fasting regiment. This talk only represents the speaker’s views on fasting, diet, and health. TEDx events are independently organized by volunteers. The guidelines we give organizers are described in more detail here: http://storage.ted.com/tedx/manuals/tedx_content_guidelines.pdf
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http://www.ted.com Is there something you’ve always meant to do, wanted to do, but just … haven’t? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference,
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That black hole photo: How event horizons bend time, space, and light New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Black holes are usually surrounded by disks of very, very bright, very hot material. And that’s how we find them. Black holes themselves give
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Grâce à son discours empli d’espoir, Cristina Pax-Rodriguez nous fait découvrir son trouble : le TDI ou trouble dissociatif de l’identité. En retraçant son histoire, les traumatismes qu’elle a vécu et les symptômes de cette maladie mentale, Cristina renouvelle notre vision du corps et de la personnalité. Un talk touchant et singulier. Cristina Pax-Rodriguez est
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What if death isn’t the end? NDEs may complicate what science teaches us about death and consciousness. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/c/bigthink Up Next ► Are near-death experiences real? Here’s what science has to say https://youtu.be/J5n2dzN1joU Thousands of people across the world and throughout the centuries have reported near-death experiences (NDEs). Most
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Where do atoms come from? Billions of years of cosmic fireworks Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Michelle Thaller’s “absolute favorite fact in the universe” is that we are made of dead stars. The Big Bang, when it went off, produced basically three elements:
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Until recently, my mother didn’t talk about her family’s experiences during La Violencia. This same unmentionable is the backdrop of Disney’s Encanto. My grandparents were in a politically mixed marriage and struggled to find safety as their country reached extreme polarization, where over 200,000 Colombians died and Bogota burned. Colombia is a dark mirror that
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Near death experiences change people’s lives – and not always for the better. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/c/bigthink Up Next ► Scientist defends near-death experiences https://youtu.be/pZHQXHYA6QI Most near-death experiencers say that they have trouble speaking about the experience because there just aren’t words to describe it. It’s like trying to draw an
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As a young girl, photojournalist Kitra Cahana dreamed about running away from home to live freely on the road. Now as an adult and self-proclaimed vagabond, she follows modern nomads into their homes — boxcars, bus stops, parking lots, rest stop bathrooms — giving a glimpse into a culture on the margins. TEDTalks is a
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Universal basic income: The plan to give $12,000 to every American adult New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- The Freedom Dividend is a universal basic income proposal initiated by 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang. Yang’s plan would give $1,000 a month, or
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Is the universe a hologram? The strange physics of black holes Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Big Think’s fifth most popular video of 2019 explains that, because energy cannot be destroyed, only transformed, some argue that information — arguably a form of energy
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Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Probably few organizations value self-motivation like the U.S. Marine Corps, so when their recruits began showing deficiencies, officers dug into the latest psychologist research. What they found is that one’s “locus of control” greatly determines the extent of
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Where are you from and how has it shaped you? New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink/youtube Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Creativity runs deep in Moby’s family. ———————————————————————————- Richard Melville Hall, a.k.a. Moby: Richard Melville Hall, a.k.a. Moby, is one of the most important dance music figures of the early ’90s, helping bring
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