Mark Applebaum – American composer I thought if I skipped it might help my nerves, but I’m actually having a paradoxical reaction to that, so that was a bad idea.… Read More »Boredom – the Real Secret Behind Innovation: Mark Applebaum at TEDxStanford (Transcript)
Julie Lythcott-Haims – TRANSCRIPT This is a storytelling session, so I’m going to begin my talk with a story. Once upon a time, a child came upon a butterfly struggling… Read More »Julie Lythcott-Haims: Be Your Authentic Self TEDxStanford (Full Transcript)
Dan Klein – TRANSCRIPT You are all improvisors but none of you woke up this morning and found someone sitting there waiting to hand you your script for the day;… Read More »Going beyond “Hello”: Dan Klein at TEDxStanford (Full Transcript)
Baba Shiv – TRANSCRIPT I’m going to start on a slightly somber note. Two thousand and seven (2007), five years ago, my wife gets diagnosed with breast cancer. Stage IIB.… Read More »Sometimes It’s Good to Give Up the Driver’s Seat: Baba Shiv at TEDxStanford (Transcript)
Ken Taylor – TRANSCRIPT I’m going to start with a quote from a dead white guy, Plato. This is a quote in which he says, “The world’s not going to… Read More »Plato, Democracy and Me: Ken Taylor at TEDxStanford (Full Transcript)
Amy Collier – TRANSCRIPT If you read too many headlines today you might start to think education is catastrophically broken Fast company says: “We know our education system is broken.… Read More »The Brave New World of Online Learning: Amy Collier at TEDxStanford (Transcript)
Julia Landauer – TRANSCRIPT The most common question I’ve gotten since I started racing go-karts is what’s it like to be a woman race car driver? Specifically now, maybe, what… Read More »Can Nice Girls Win (Races)? Julia Landauer at TEDxStanford (Transcript)
Maya Adam – TRANSCRIPT I would like to tell you a long history of love. It is a love story between humans and food that feeds us. We are born… Read More »Why We Fight With Our Food: Maya Adam at TEDxStanford (Transcript)
Drew Endy – TRANSCRIPT In 1972, the musical group Funkadelic released one of my favorite songs, “Biological Speculation”. If you don’t know the song, I want to share it at… Read More »Drew Endy: Synthetic Biology – What Should We Be Vibrating About? at TEDxStanford (Transcript)
Brian Epstein – TRANSCRIPT Let me take you back to the autumn of 2008, when the global financial system almost collapsed. Back in March, Bear Stearns had gone bankrupt, but… Read More »The End of Social Science as We Know It: Brian Epstein at TEDxStanford (Transcript)