TED and TEDX Talks

How researchers use pattern recognition and reverse engineering (and pull a few all-nighters) to understand a chunk of binary code whose purpose and contents they don’t know.

Have you ever felt like you’re talking, but nobody is listening?

Both a musician and a computer scientist, Ge Wang turns ordinary MacBooks and iPhones into complex instruments.

"I thought it would be a safe way to do something positive," he says. Instead, he was arrested, and so began his ongoing journey into a world in which peaceful protest is branded as terrorism.

In this very funny talk, Young breaks down society’s habit of turning disabled people into "inspiration porn."

"We’re all going to die — and poems can help us live with that."

What you do or don’t do really matters.

Tempest shows off the robot’s sensing technology, safety features and strength, and makes the case for a closer human-robot relationship. (Okay, there’s a little magic, too.)

Sarah Jones changes personas with the simplest of wardrobe swaps. In a laugh-out-loud performance, she invites 11 "friends" from the future on stage–from a fast-talking Latina to an outspoken police officer–to ask them the questions all of us want answered.

What goes into a climate model? Gavin Schmidt looks at how we use past and present data to model potential futures.