Tagged: ted

The Infinite Hotel Paradox [TED-ED]

The Infinite Hotel, a thought experiment created by German mathematician David Hilbert, is a hotel with an infinite number of rooms. Easy to comprehend, right? Wrong. What if it’s completely booked but one person...

Exploring other dimensions

Exploring other dimensions

Imagine a two-dimensional world — you, your friends, everything is 2D. In his 1884 novella, Edwin Abbott invented this world and called it Flatland. Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan take the premise of Flatland...

Let’s teach kids to code [TED talk]

Let’s teach kids to code [TED talk]

Coding isn’t just for computer whizzes, says Mitch Resnick of MIT Media Lab — it’s for everyone. In a fun, demo-filled talk Resnick outlines the benefits of teaching kids to code, so they can...

A cyber-magic card [TED Talk]

A cyber-magic card [TED Talk]

The 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...

Pursuing your geeky project [TEDx Talk]

Pursuing your geeky project [TEDx Talk]

Since Emil Johansson was eleven years old he has been passionate about J.R.R. Tolkien’s works. Today this young creative is also a photographer and engineering student, but still he has found the time to...

What is the Internet, really? [TED Talk]

What is the Internet, really? [TED Talk]

When a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline, journalist Andrew Blum started wondering what the Internet was really made of. So he set out to go see it — the underwater...

Behind the Great Firewall of China [TED Talk]

Behind the Great Firewall of China [TED Talk]

Michael Anti (aka Jing Zhao) has been blogging from China for 12 years. Despite the control the central government has over the Internet — “All the servers are in Beijing” — he says that...

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