In school, the way of conveying ideas is through words. A teacher walks up to the board writes words, says words, students receive books with words, and are expected to respond to questions with...
Good afternoon. When I first got to MIT in 1978 Michael Dertouzos, who's the head of the laboratory for computer science held a meeting. There was a several day retreat in Endicott House...
I'm so sorry guys. I have to -- find another -- I was supposed to give this talk on how to give the perfect TED Talk. And then they put me last. So everyone's already gone. And I´ve...
So there is a story about the composer Igor Stravinsky. Stravinsky was about to start a new ballet. But instead of starting completely from scratch, he pulled out some of his favorite classic...
Thank you guys so much. Also, I'd like to thank Shawn Roggenkamp for the slides and this photography, but you should know the good slides that she did, the bad photography is all me. So, a lot...
Some people call me crazy; I think I'm lucky. My passion drives me every day: I'm an ultra-distance trail runner. What's ultra-distance trail running? Ultra-distance: I run...
Once there was a Stone Age, a Bronze Age and now we are in the middle of the Plastic Age. Because every year we produce about 300,000,000 tons of plastic and fraction of that enters rivers, water ways...
Only 4% of women would call themselves beautiful and that’s a stunningly small statistic. So basically, if this entire room was somehow magically transformed into women that would mean then less than...
Are you guys ready? This is going to be really quick. Alright. I am going to tell you a story. It's a story about my day, but it might also be your day. I wake up, I grab my phone, I check...