Heribert Watzke isn’t a real popular guy with the raw foods crowd, I suspect. He theorizes that humans aren’t omnivores, but coctivors – we are… Read More »TEDGlobal: Heribert Watzke – We cook therefore we are

Gero Miessenböck tells us he has a dopplegander – Dr. Gero from Dragonball Z. This sinister character has his skull removed and can control things… Read More »TEDGlobal: Gero Miessenböck wants to control our brains

Peter Eigen, the founder of Transparency International, warns us that our governance systems are failing us in the face of a globalized economy. We can… Read More »TEDGlobal: Peter Eigen and global transparency

Auret Van Heerden of the Fair Labor Association holds up a cellphone and tells us that the phone started its life with artisinal mines, run… Read More »TEDGlobal: Auret Van Heerden and bringing human rights into the global supply chain

Apologies for missing much of the morning. I gave a lecture in my friend Munro Price’s program at the Annenberg Summer program in Oxford. I’ll… Read More »TEDGlobal: Jessica Jackley’s new project, Profounder

David Bismark has a very clever idea for making elections more transparent and verifiable. He explains that elections are incredibly hard to carry out –… Read More »TEDGlobal: Transforming voting, and education