Elon Musk will take us to Mars – will it be home? | Reinier Zeldenrust | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool
If we are to believe Elon Musk (and we all want to), we will move to Mars en masse in the next 10 years . But it’s not a very hospitable place – it’s cold enough for air to freeze and you won’t be able to grow potatoes under a sunroof (like Matt Damon does
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Identity and Autonomy: The Future of Autonomous Transportation | Matthew Morris | TEDxFurmanU
Autonomous transportation is just a few years from reality. In his talk, Matthew Morris explores how a future of autonomous machinery will impact our own identities and values. Matthew Morris is a Trade & Investment Associate for the United Kingdom’s Department for International Trade. In his current role he promotes increased trade relations between the
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The Third Evolution | François-Xavier Désert | TEDxSurreyUniversity
If we observe the evolution of the Universe with modern telescopes and the evolution of life, we have yet to understand what happens to Homo Sapiens. I think this is no less than a third evolution. It is based on ideas spreading between brains, like genes spreading within adapted populations in the second evolution. Darwinian
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Try This At Home! | Benjamin Cieslinski | TEDxTAMUQatar
Mr. Cieslinski’s talk will be about his inspiration to study science, and where he sees inspiration in students today! Benjamin Cieslinski is the manager of the Outreach Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar, where he spends his days creating fun and exciting ways to fascinate students with science and engineering. He also works as
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Artificial Super Intelligence | Max Howell | TEDxSavannah
Max Howell draws back the curtain on the reality that artificial super intelligence will be here sooner than we think, and shares his approach to thinking about how it might impact our future. Max Howell has a master’s degree in chemistry, but after a year in the profession, abandoned it upon realizing chemistry is “super
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Biological Spareparts for the Human Body | Liesbet Geris | TEDxMechelen
Liesbet Geris is Research Professor in Biomechanics and Computational Tissue Engineering at the universities of Liège and Leuven in Belgium. Her research focusses on the multi-scale and multi- physics modeling of biological processes. Together with her team and their clinical and industrial collaborators, she uses these models to investigate the etiology of non-healing fractures, to
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Growing Money in the Desert | Ricco Garcia | TEDxUTAustin
Beyond the roads and buildings are the Texan grasslands, invaded by all sorts of worthless, woody plants of no value. Or so you think! Author and attorney, Ricco Garcia is here to enlighten you on a new perspective of the Texan landscape. Born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley, Ricco M. Garcia is an
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The Future of Life | Juan Enriquez | TEDxNatick
Juan Enriquez, a TED All-Star, futurist, author, venture investor and business leader, thinks and writes about the profound changes that genomics and other life sciences will bring in business, technology, politics and society. A broad thinker who studies the intersections of these fields, Enriquez has a talent for bridging disciplines to build a coherent look
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Toilet revolution | Harald Gründl | TEDxDornbirn
The Blue Diversion Toilet was developed mainly because the problem with nitrogen in the waters is growing in Europe. Harald Gründl has been researching urine separation with EOOS since 2009 in collaboration with the Swiss Water Research Institute of the ETH Domain EWEAG with funds from the Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation. Today he is talking about
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How to re-wire Photosynthesis | Dr Jenny Zhang | TEDxLiverpool
Beating nature at photosynthesis has been a noble and ambitious goal of scientists for the past century. The dream is to develop artificial photosynthesis as a means of providing sustainable and clean energy to the world. So far, progress in solar hydrogen production has been promising, but what about for more complex fuels? Instead of
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