February 2006

Ursus Wehrli is a Swiss comedian and the author of “Tidying Up Art”, an attempt to bring (Swiss?) rationality to modern art. He begins with… Read More »Ursus Wehrli tidies up art

Nat Irvin is a futurist, and the son of a baptist preacher. He wonders why we have such a hard time talking about race in… Read More »Nat Irvin and the Thrivals

Helen Fisher is an anthropologist who focuses on issues of gender, sex and romantic love. She and her team recently did MRI scans on people… Read More »Helen Fisher , scanning for love

Julia Sweeney is an actress who has a one-woman show, “Letting Go of God”. She gives us the first 18 minutes of the show, which,… Read More »Julia Sweeney is a reasonable woman

We’ve moved down the street to a beautiful movie theatre that’s able to – just barely – accomodate the whole of TED. (About half of… Read More »Jim Crupi – we are all soldiers

Tony Robbins is here to serve us, but he explains that it’s a challenge as his seminars are 50 hours long, and he’s got 17… Read More »Tony Robbins is an emotional guy