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How Ralph Langner Cracked Stuxnet
German security researcher Ralph Langner explains how he and his team cracked Stuxnet, the first true digital warhead of the 21st century.
Salman Khan Shows TED What's Better Than TED
"_Here I was, an analyst at a hedge fund. It was very strange for me to do something of social value._" It was the perfect TED line: self-effacing, modest, crowd-pleasing. But also so blatantly understated as to be absurdly funny. Salman Khan didn't...
This Guy Recorded His Child Constantly for a Year to Understand Word Learning (and Twitter)
Some parents keep track of their kids' growth by making pencil marks on a wall. Deb Roy does it using high-tech recording devices, computer synthesis, 3-D visualizations and a staff of researchers. Then he shows it all off in a TED talk.
Conservative Columnist Calls For Less Reason, More Touchy-Feely "Mindsight": David Brooks at TED
At TED last week, maestro Chris Anderson introduced conservative columnist David Brooks as “a truly brilliant synthesizer of knowledge,” and he proved it in his interesting (if largely unoriginal) tour of the intuitive mind, which he described as...
The Ads of TED: The Commercials that Captivated America's Intellectual Elite This Week (Video)
TED, America's ideas conference par excellence, is all about the "ideas worth spreading," but it's inevitable, hard as the organizers try: many of the blockbuster speeches that blow up the annual conference can feel like ads for the speakers themselves...
Ideas Want to Get Freaky Together: Video
The habit of exchange - of sharing things, of collaborating - is crucial to human progress. Yes, it's also the backbone of our distressed market capitalist economy. But without exchanging goods, services and ideas, we won't be able to pull out of our...
