February 2006

Penelope Boston believes there’s life on Mars. Specifically, she thinks it’s underground. With this in mind, she spends lots of her time exploring caves on… Read More »Penny Boston may be a Martian

Evidently, one of the speakers at last year’s TED was a speaking parrot… which didn’t speak, as it had laryngitis. This year, Chris and crew… Read More »Neil Gershenfeld is not a grey parrot

Joe Derisi is an associate professor at UC San Francisco and a Macarthur grant recipient. He’s interested in viruses – specifically the detection of viruses.… Read More »Joe Derisi and virus detection

The morning’s session is entitled “Small Miracle” and promises a series of talks about innovation on microscale. We lead off with Ethel, an innovative string… Read More »Alan Russell – Regrowing by Thinking Small

My goal was to arrive at TED for Al Gore’s speech at 7pm – I beat the traffic and made it for the Children of… Read More »Al Gore. Quieter than the Children of Uganda