February 2008

Chris Anderson knows better than to screw around with MacArthur “genius grant” winner Sue Goldie – she’s a third degree blackbelt in Tae Kwon Do.… Read More »TED2008: Sue Goldie and the cost of health

Chris Anderson – the other one, the guy who edits Wired Magazine and wrote The Long Tail – takes the stage with a misbehaving mini-blimp.… Read More »TED2008: Peter Schwartz – Everything’s gonna be alright

We’re not the only bloggers working here at blogger alley. There’s a team from Perceptive Pixel and from Autodesk, who’ve got a gorgeous multitouch display.… Read More »TED2008: Don’t be a turkey

Richard Preston, the author of the best-selling The Hot Zone, has a thing for redwood trees. It’s easy to understand the attraction. The sequoias found… Read More »TED2008: Richard Preston – Go Climb a Tree

Joshua Klein studies syntropic species – species that have adapted to coexist with humans. Ever since a cocktail party ten year ago, where a friend… Read More »TED2008: Very smart crows.

If Robert Ballard is intense, Paul Stamets is on fire with his passion for fungi. He strides onto stage and announces, “I love a challenge… Read More »TED2008: Paul Stamets: If all you have is a mushroom everything looks like a mycelium