TED Talks Kids and Family
163 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★ - 461 ratingsFun videos to inspire, intrigue and stir your imagination from some of the world's leading thinkers and doers onstage at the TED conference, TEDx events and partner events around the world. You can also download these and many other videos free on TED.com, with an interactive English transcript and subtitles in up to 80 languages. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.
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How to "sketch" with electronics | Leah Buechley
November 15, 2012 16:00 - 6 minutes VideoDesigning electronics is generally cumbersome and expensive -- or was, until Leah Buechley and her team at MIT developed tools to treat electronics just like paper and pen. In this talk from TEDYouth 2011, Buechley shows some of her charming designs, like a paper piano you can sketch and then play.
Love letters to strangers | Hannah Brencher
November 14, 2012 16:01 - 4 minutes - 37.1 MB VideoHannah Brencher's mother always wrote her letters. So when she felt herself bottom into depression after college, she did what felt natural -- she wrote love letters and left them for strangers to find. The act has become a global initiative, The World Needs More Love Letters, which rushes handwritten letters to those in need of a boost.
The secret of the bat genome | Emma Teeling
October 31, 2012 15:00 - 16 minutes - 127 MB VideoIn Western society, bats are often characterized as creepy, even evil. Zoologist Emma Teeling encourages us to rethink common attitudes toward bats, whose unique and fascinating biology gives us insight into our own genetic makeup.
A cyber-magic card trick like no other | Marco Tempest
October 26, 2012 15:00 - 6 minutes - 50.4 MB VideoThe suits, numbers and colors in a deck of cards correspond to the seasons, moon cycles and calendar. Marco Tempest straps on augmented reality goggles and does a card trick like you've never seen before, weaving a lyrical tale as he deals. (This version fixes a glitch in the original performance, but is otherwise exactly as seen live by the TEDGlobal audience, including the dazzling augmented reality effects.)
A child of the state | Lemn Sissay
October 24, 2012 15:00 - 15 minutes - 119 MB VideoLiterature has long been fascinated with fostered, adopted and orphaned children, from Moses to Cinderella to Oliver Twist to Harry Potter. So why do many parentless children feel compelled to hide their pasts? Poet and playwright Lemn Sissay tells his own moving story.
Science is for everyone, kids included | Beau Lotto + Amy O'Toole
October 17, 2012 15:13 - 15 minutes - 123 MB VideoWhat do science and play have in common? Neuroscientist Beau Lotto thinks all people (kids included) should participate in science and, through the process of discovery, change perceptions. He's seconded by 12-year-old Amy O'Toole, who, along with 25 of her classmates, published the first peer-reviewed article by schoolchildren, about the Blackawton bees project. It starts: "Once upon a time ... "
Science is for everyone, kids included | Amy O'Toole
October 17, 2012 15:13What do science and play have in common? Neuroscientist Beau Lotto thinks all people (kids included) should participate in science and, through the process of discovery, change perceptions. He's seconded by 12-year-old Amy O'Toole, who, along with 25 of her classmates, published the first peer-reviewed article by schoolchildren, about the Blackawton bees project. It starts: "Once upon a time ... "
The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain | Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
September 17, 2012 15:01 - 14 minutes - 112 MB VideoWhy do teenagers seem so much more impulsive, so much less self-aware than grown-ups? Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore compares the prefrontal cortex in adolescents to that of adults, to show us how typically "teenage" behavior is caused by the growing and developing brain.
Advice to a young scientist | E.O. Wilson
June 25, 2012 15:00 - 99.5 MB Video"The world needs you, badly," says legendary biologist E.O. Wilson in his letter to a young scientist. He gives advice collected from a lifetime of experience -- and reminds us that wonder and creativity are the center of the scientific life.
Tour the solar system from home | Jon Nguyen
June 23, 2012 14:04 - 7 minutes - 60.2 MB VideoWant to navigate the solar system without having to buy a spacecraft? Jon Nguyen demos NASA JPL's "Eyes on the Solar System" -- free-to-use software for exploring the planets, moons, asteroids, and spacecraft that rotate around our sun in real-time.
Pop an ollie and innovate! | Rodney Mullen
June 16, 2012 14:02 - 18 minutes - 144 MB VideoRodney Mullen is the godfather of street skating, and in this exuberant talk he shares his love of the open skateboarding community. He shows how the unique environments skaters play in drive the creation of new tricks -- fostering prolific ingenuity purely for passion's sake.
The journey across the high wire | Philippe Petit
May 23, 2012 15:02 - 19 minutes - 149 MB VideoEven a death-defying magician has to start somewhere. High-wire artist Philippe Petit takes you on an intimate journey from his first card trick at age 6 to his tightrope walk between the Twin Towers.
Unseen footage, untamed nature | Karen Bass
May 09, 2012 15:32 - 10 minutes - 81.1 MB VideoAt TED2012, filmmaker Karen Bass shares some of the astonishing nature footage she's shot for the BBC and National Geographic -- including brand-new, previously unseen footage of the tube-lipped nectar bat, who feeds in a rather unusual way ...