Kareem Abdul Jabar is someone you expect to see on a basketball court, not on the TED stage. He’s introduced with a montage of his… Read More »Seven feet, two inches deep

Jeff Han and Phillip Davidson showed off a remarkable “multitouch” computer interface at last year’s conference. They’ve been very busy in the subsequent year, expanding… Read More »Multitouch goes widescreen

Jonathan Widom is one of the scholars who’s make a remarkable discovery about information encoded within DNA. There is, he tells us, an additional layer… Read More »Second-order information encoded in DNA

Murray Gell-Mann has quite a resumé. He discovered/predicted the quark, won the Nobel Prize, founded the Santa Fe institute, and has made amazing advances in… Read More »Murray Gell-Mann is a beautiful guy