
TED2015
Truth and Dare
March 16-20, 2015 Pacific Time (US & Canada; GMT -07:00)
For TED2015, we're on a quest to magnify both the world as it is and the world as it might be. We will seek to challenge and reshape our core beliefs about today's reality, but also to celebrate the thinkers, dreamers and mavericks who offer bold new alternatives. Welcome to ... Truth and Dare.
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Session 6: Radical Reframe
- "Free Fall"-Walk-in video
- Siddhartha Mukherjee0:06:03When he’s not ferreting out the links between stem cells and malignant blood disease, Siddhartha Mukherjee writes and lectures on the history (and future) of cancer.
- Maryn McKenna0:24:34Maryn McKenna recounts the often terrifying stories behind emerging drug-resistant diseases that medical science is barely keeping at bay.
- Pamela Ronald0:47:02Embracing both genetically improved seed and ecologically based farming methods to enhance sustainable agriculture, Pamela Ronald engineers rice for resistance to disease and tolerance of environmental stress.
- "Unicorn"1:06:59Short video interstitial
- Steven Wise1:08:32By challenging long-held legal notions of “personhood”, Steven Wise seeks to grant cognitively advanced animals access to a full spectrum of fundamental rights.
- "GoPro Trombone'1:25:26Short video interstitial
- Chuck Berry1:26:46Chuck Berry skydives, BASE jumps, wingsuits, hang-glides -- basically any way to get up into the sky, he'll do it, and film it