A bit of TED history – the TED conference was held for the first time in 1984, hosted by Richard Saul Wurman. In 2002, the… Read More »TED2008: Reconcilliation

Thomas Krens, legendary art curator and President of the Guggenheim Foundation, invites us to consider some fundamental questions: Is beauty perfection? Is that conditional? What… Read More »TED2008: Thomas Krens and the remedy for boredom

The density of this year’s TED conference is amazing. I’m missing some of the short sessions, the three minute talks that come between the longer… Read More »TED2008: Beauty is survival, boredom is style

Doris Kearns Goodwin has spent her life looking into the lives of presidents who are no longer alive. This can be odd, as you find… Read More »TED2008: Doris Kearns Goodwin and the balanced life

Susan Blackmore is one of the major promoters of memetics, a field that’s misunderstood and sometimes disliked. Her talk is designed to defend the idea… Read More »TED2008: Memes and Temes

Paul Rothemund, a “molecular programmer”, wants us to think of biology the way we think about computers. “People argue vigorously about the definition of life.… Read More »TED 2008: Molecular programming and controlling our destiny