Why an enlightened design integrates illumination
Mariana Figueiro, Light and Health Program Director at the Lighting Research Center (LRC) and Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, reveals surprising facts about the effects of light – …
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A brass-roots cultural movement
Inspector Gadje, an Oakland based dance orchestra that plays Roma brass music from the Balkans, performs an upbeat and infectious brand of music.
This is what imagination sounds like
NANDA, a high-energy troupe of comic actors, literally turns everything upside down – including themselves – with a mishmash of traditional theater, vaudeville, kung-faux fighting, circus, dance, juggling …
Can an “orchestra” of scientists find the hidden music in your DNA?
ENCODE Program Officer Mike Pazin will shed light on how collaboration can help unlock more DNA secrets.
Innovating From the Outside In
What creates a culture of health? How can companies integrate good healthcare and wellness programs without stressing employees? Watch this discussion on varied and multi-disciplinary approaches to best …
If there is no cure, can we opt for a rescue?
Peter Aguero and Sara Peters live with a menacing presence in their marriage: Sara’s epilepsy. One day, they’d had enough, and confronted the disease head-on. Hear the harrowing …
Can cool jazz raise your temperature?
From many voices, one intriguing ensemble: Howard University’s Afro Blue jazz ensemble singers blend styles into an acapella jazz tapestry at TEDMED 2013.
Isaac Kohane – Q&A at TEDMED 2013
Biomedical informaticist, physician, and i2b2 founder Isaac Kohane answers questions about his plans on how to study the genetic basis of disease.
How can every clinical visit be used to advance medical science?
From TEDMED 2013: Biomedical informaticist, physician, and i2b2 founder Isaac Kohane wants to turn hospital data systems into “living laboratories” to study the genetic basis of disease.
Can a poet and a loving community make cancer a thing of beauty?
From TEDMED 2013: Artist, open-source engineer, TED fellow and 2013 Eisenhower fellow Salvatore Iaconesi shares the beauty and power he discovered in collaboration.