Posts Tagged ‘Science’
Jill Tarter: Why the search for alien intelligence matters (TED Prize winner!)
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Science, TED talks, life
The SETI Institute’s Jill Tarter makes her TED Prize wish: to accelerate our search for cosmic company. Using a growing array of radio telescopes, she and her team listen for patterns that may be a sign of intelligence elsewhere in the universe.
Link to this talk
David Merrill: Siftables, the toy blocks that think
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under 3D, Art, Computers, Conceptual, Design, Music, Science, TED talks, life, web
MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables - cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?
link to this TED talk / Devid Merrill’s Siftables project / Devid Merrill at MIT Media [...]
Steven Strogatz: How things in nature tend to sync up
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Conceptual, Science, TED talks, life
Mathematician Steven Strogatz shows how flocks of creatures (like birds, fireflies and fish) manage to synchronize and act as a unit — when no one’s giving orders. The powerful tendency extends into the realm of objects, too.
Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Science, TED talks
Armed with a sense of humor and laypeople’s terms, Nobel winner Murray Gell-Mann drops some knowledge on TEDsters about particle physics, asking questions like, Are elegant equations more likely to be right than inelegant ones?
Brian Greene: The universe on a string
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Conceptual, Science, TED talks, life
Physicist Brian Greene explains superstring theory, the idea that minscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe.
Superstring theory is an attempt to explain all of the particles and fundamental forces of nature in one theory by modelling them as vibrations of tiny supersymmetric strings. It is considered [...]
Paul Rothemund: The astonishing promise of DNA folding
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Science, TED talks, life
In 2007, Paul Rothemund gave TED a short summary of his specialty, DNA folding. Now he lays out in clear, adundant detail the immense promise of this field — to create tiny machines that assemble themselves.
The search for dark energy and dark matter
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Science, TED talks
Physicist Patricia Burchat sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe: dark matter and dark energy. Comprising 96% of the universe between them, they can’t be directly measured, but their influence is immense.
Using biology to make better animation - TED.COM
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under 3D, AI, TED talks
Torsten Reil talks about how the study of biology can help make natural-looking animated people — by building a human from the inside out, with bones, muscles and a nervous system. See his work now in GTA4.
Filmed Mar 2003; Posted on TED - Jul 2008
The Web’s secret stories - TED.COM
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Conceptual, TED talks
Jonathan Harris Artist and computer scientist talks about emotional
world of the Web by making online art that captures the world’s expression.
Mindnever Inspiration - TED.COM
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under 3D, Art, Computers, Conceptual, Photography, Science, TED talks
Arthur Ganson sculptor and engineer talks about his work, kinetic art
that explores deep philosophical ideas. Some great conceptual
thinking and thoughts implanted in machines. Truly Amazing.
George Dyson takes us back at birth of modern computer, also he
tries to redefine concept of life by talking about evolution of
Barricelli universe. Can you imagine what will computer look like
in [...]
