The Technology, Entertainment, Design conference has a wealth of great talks on it’s website, and I hope to highlight some of the most fascinating of them in the coming months (though really, most all of them are mind-bendingly interesting).
The talks are short, sweet and extremely educational. My first pick is this talk by Robert Ballard. [...]
Category Archives: Science
TED talks: Robert Ballard
May 27, 2008 – 5:15 pm
Space Shuttle: Old but still cool.
March 28, 2008 – 6:32 pm
It is easy to forget just how awesome the Space Shuttle is now that it is such an aging part of the space program. This video follows a Shuttle launch and then shows the view from one of the solid booster rockets from separation all the way back down [...]
DNA Through the Eyes of a Coder
March 25, 2008 – 4:13 pm
Ben Hubert has a really awesome explanation of how DNA works over at his homepage, written from the perspective of a programmer. Even if programming is something you know very little about, the way he explains and talks about DNA is probably the most down-to-earth and interesting article I’ve ever read on the subject and [...]
Google Charts the Cosmos, Adding Traffic Info Soon.
March 14, 2008 – 1:55 pm
Google maps has unveiled a great new Google maps-like online app, dubbed “Google Sky”. Check it out Here. as you might expect, it allows you to explore things in the other direction, namely looking UP at the stars instead of down at satellite pictures of your neighbors house. (So what if their pool [...]
