ted talk

  1. Linda

    Promoted Be My Eyes - an app linking blind and sighted people

    Hans Jørgen Wiberg is a Danish furniture craftsman with deteriorating vision. He was working with an organization that helped blind and low vision people with basics like cooking, etc. One of his clients said he regularly Skyped with friends and family for help with things such as finding...
  2. Anaeika

    Artist Alex Grey discusses cosmic consciousness via his art

    In his Tedtalk, visionary artist Alex Grey describes how his artwork evolved alongside consciousness. I wanted to share this with ya’ll as he is one of my favorite artists and one of the more interesting ones in modern times. In fact, one of his painting portrays 9/11 before it happened...
  3. Laron

    My love letter to cosplay | Adam Savage, TED Talk

    TED Description: (13 minutes) "Adam Savage makes things and builds experiments, and he uses costumes to add humor, color and clarity to the stories he tells. Tracing his lifelong love of costumes — from a childhood space helmet made of an ice cream tub to a No-Face costume he wore to Comic-Con —...
  4. Laron

    How to grow a forest in your backyard | Shubhendu Sharma, TED Talk

    Description: (9 minutes) "Forests don't have to be far-flung nature reserves, isolated from human life. Instead, we can grow them right where we are -- even in cities. Eco-entrepreneur and TED Fellow Shubhendu Sharma grows ultra-dense, biodiverse mini-forests of native species in urban areas by...
  5. Laron

    Why I keep speaking up, even when people mock my accent | Safwat Saleem, TED Talk

    "What is normal anyway? We know reviewers will find spelling errors in your writing if they think you're black. We know that professors are less likely to help female... students. And we know that resumes with white sounding names get more callback that resemes with black sounding names. Why is...