Can your tongue inspire the creation of tasty, convenient nutrition?
How will we feed the 9½ billion people our world will someday hold? The chief scientific officer of PepsiCo says our future depends in part on producing healthy, …
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Mehmood Khan at TEDMED 2011 – Q and A
The PepsiCo chief scientist talks more about why healthy, sustainable processed food is essential to feeding the earth’s billions.
Can we speak the language of the brain?
Decoding sight: Neuroscientist Nirenberg is developing a non-surgical and vastly improved artificial retina strategy that deciphers neural cell codes, potentially reversing some types of blindness.
Sheila Nirenberg at TEDMED 2011 – Q and A
The neuroscientist talks about developing a revolutionary non-surgical artificial retina that translates the eye’s neural “code.”
What happens if the government shares health data openly?
Mostashari, National Coordinator for Health IT at the DHHS, and Chopra, the U.S. CTO, talk about how open access to electronic health data can reform physician pay and …
Aneesh Chopra and Farzad Mostashari at TEDMED 2011 – Q and A
The duo fields audience questions about the potential unintended consequences of collecting electronic health record data.
What happens when doctors become patients?
Healthcare is a business, but medicine will always be an art. Kamen, a physician, talks about what he learned, as both a patient and a doctor, when he …
Barton Kamen at TEDMED 2011 – Q and A
The pediatrician talks about how his own rare tumor changed his approach to medicine, and offers advice on how to be a good patient.
Nate Ball at TEDMED 2011 – Q and A
The overwhelming audience response to one of zaniest live presentations — and the only one involving beatboxing — at TEDMED2011.
Got a good beat?
Ball, an engineer and beatboxer, stretches the capabilities of his voice box under an extreme close-up from a laryngoscope, and shows via fMRI what musical improv does to …