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. Yes, this is the guy who found the Titanic after making a deal with the US Navy to first look for a couple cold-war era subs that had sunk. Among the tasty nuggets of information he tosses out almost as throw aways: roughly half of the US territory is underwater and we have better maps of Mars than we do of the ocean.