User:Silence/TED

April 1998

 * Julie Taymor, theatre director - Theater and the imagination

Feb 2002

 * Robert Full, biologist - How engineers learn from evolution
 * Arthur Ganson, sculptor - Sculpture that's truly moving
 * Michael Moschen, juggler - Juggling rhythm and motion
 * Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist - An atheist's call to arms

Feb 2003

 * Torsten Reil, animator - Using biology to make better animation
 * George Dyson, science historian - The birth of the computer

Feb 2004

 * Matthieu Ricard, monk - Habits of happiness

Feb 2005

 * Brian Greene, theoretical physicist - The universe on a string
 * Thomas Barnett, geostrategist - The Pentagon's new map for war and peace
 * Edward Burtynsky, photographer - TED Prize wish: Share the story of Earth's manufactured landscapes

July 2005

 * Steven Levitt, economist - Are children's carseats necessary?
 * Yochai Benkler, copyright scholar - Open-source economics
 * Sir Martin Rees, cosmologist - Earth in its final century?
 * Charles Leadbeater, journalist - The rise of the amateur professional

Feb 2006

 * Tom Rielly, comedian - A comic send-up of TED2006
 * Stewart Brand, environmentalist - Why squatter cities are a good thing
 * Rick Warren, pastor - Living a life of purpose
 * Robert Wright, journalist - How cooperation (eventually) trumps conflict
 * Michael Shermer, skeptic - Why people believe strange things
 * Jehane Noujaim, film director - TEDPrize wish: Unite the world on Pangea Day

March 2007

 * Raul Midón, guitarist - "Everybody" and "Peace on Earth"
 * Adam Grosser, venture capitalist - A new vision for refrigeration
 * Murray Gell-Mann, physicist - Do all languages have a common ancestor?
 * Nathan Myhrvold, inventor - A life of fascinations
 * They Might Be Giants, rock band - Wake up! It's They Might Be Giants
 * Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, politician - How to help Africa? Do business there
 * Jan Chipchase, behavioral researcher - Our cell phones, ourselves

June 2007

 * Corneille Ewango, environmentalist - A hero of the Congo Basin forest
 * Seyi Oyesola, doctor - Health care off the grid
 * Héctor Ruiz, CEO - The power to connect the world
 * Ernest Madu, doctor - Bringing world-class health care to the poorest

Dec 2007

 * Rick Smolan, photographer - A girl, a photograph, a homecoming
 * Nicholas Negroponte, computer scientist - One Laptop per Child, two years on
 * Mark Bittman, food writer - What's wrong with what we eat

Feb 2008

 * David Hoffman, filmmaker - How would you feel if you lost everything?
 * Peter Diamandis, businessman - Stephen Hawking hits zero g
 * Sxip Shirey, composer - Breath, music, passion
 * Benjamin Zander, conductor - Classical music with shining eyes
 * Chris Jordon, artist - Picturing excess
 * Wade Davis, anthropologist - The worldwide web of belief and ritual
 * Susan Blackmore. psychologist - Memes and "temes"
 * Paul Collier, economist - 4 ways to improve the lives of the "bottom billion"
 * Yves Behar, industrial designer - Creating objects that tell stories
 * Robert Ballard, oceanographer - Exploring the ocean's hidden worlds
 * Alisa Miller, CEO - Why we know less than ever about the world
 * Joshua Klein, hacker - The amazing intelligence of crows
 * Paul Stamets, mycologist - 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
 * Brian Cox, physicist - What really goes on at the Large Hadron Collider
 * Amy Tan, novelist - Where does creativity hide?
 * Tod Machover, composer - Releasing the music in your head