Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services.
Researchers are on a mission to improve the efficiency of solar power. To transform sunlight into electricity, sunlight can be converted directly using a photovoltaic cell. Another way to achieve this is to use the heat from sunlight to boil water, and then drive a turbine with the steam created. In theory, a third way…
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Science writer, John Bohannon is a both a scientist and writer, and currently, runs the annual Dance Your Ph.D. contest. In this most unusual yet riveting TED-Talk, Bohannon proposes that the average presentation may be far more effectively communicated via the medium of dance than by means of a boring slide deck or power point….
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Inventor, Anna Mracek Dietrich is one of the creators behind the Transition; the “plane you can drive”. The Terrafugia Transition is a two-seat, single-engine airplane that functions like any other small airplane. Only, once on the ground, users can fold up the wings and drive it home. In this TED-Talk, Dietrich provides insight into the…
I enjoy guest lecturing at University. In fact, it is one of my most favourite things I do. I believe what I enjoy most is the optimism and energy of the students. They are far too young in their careers to have been tarnished by the pragmatism, and even cynicism, of “real life” – or…
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Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson takes to the TED stage and asks us to reconsider the way the international education system is currently structured. He highlights the fact that the current system came into being to meet the needs of industrialism, and as a result of this, it places academic ability on a pedestal while…
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Matt Ridley, author of the book The Rational Optimist sweeps the entire arc of human history to powerfully argue that “prosperity comes from everybody working for everybody else”. It’s our habit of trade, idea-sharing and specialization that has created the collective brain which set human living standards on a rising trend. In this TEDGlobal talk Ridley…
